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HMS Actaeon or HMS Acteon, one of several warships of the Royal Navy by that name
The earliest known botanical collection of B. sphaerocarpa occurred in December 1801, during the visit of HMS Investigator to King George Sound.
Shortly afterwards he was given command of the landing force aboard HMS Bulolo of the Eastern Fleet in 1945.
--1846?--> in honour of the crew of HMS Birkenhead; nearby Seton Lake was named in honour of one of its crew who was his school-friend.
The team increased the annual output of Old Blue (and later other females) by removing the first clutch over every year and placing the eggs in the nest of the Chatham race of the Tomtit, a technique known as cross-fostering.
Chatham Central High School is a public high school located in Bear Creek, North Carolina with a student population of around 450 students.
The complex includes the Bigham House (former home of Thomas Bigham), originally built in 1844, and renovated for use as a community clubhouse, known as Chatham Hall.
Chatham was regranted in 1770 by his nephew, Governor John Wentworth, to a group including Samuel Langdon, president of Harvard College and creator of the "Blanchard Map" of the North Country.
The best known of the class was HMS Beagle, converted in 1825 into a three-masted exploration vessel for its first survey voyage, then considerably modified for the second voyage with Charles Darwin on board as a gentleman naturalist.
On 14 October 1939, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings within the natural harbour of Scapa Flow in a nighttime attack by the German U-boat U-47 under the command of Günther Prien.
The first 6 ships were ordered from commercial yards (Money Wigram & Son, C J Mare & Co and J Scott Russell), with fitting out to be done in the Royal Dockyards at Chatham (first pair) and Woolwich (last 4).
Vittorio Cuniberti, an Italian military officer who envisioned the concept of the all big gun battleship, best exemplified by HMS Dreadnought.
An unusual feature is the periscope from the submarine HMS Excalibur.
He was posted to HMS Duke of Wellington on 2 December HMS Raven on 9 December and back to Duke of Wellington I on 26 March 1901.
In conjunction with Cockham Wood Fort it took on the role of defending Chatham Dockyard from seaborne attack, a role which had been performed by Upnor Castle for the previous hundred years.
On the morning of 1 September 1809, HMS Nassau was escorting a convoy of East Indiamen in the English Channel when she sighted a strange sail.
Pennell was promoted to Commander and assigned to HMS Queen Mary in the summer of 1914, and died 31 May 1916 in the Battle of Jutland, when the ship was sunk by the German ships SMS Seydlitz and SMS Derfflinger.
This prefix is derived from HMS (Her/His Majesty's Ship), the prefix used by the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, and can be equally applied to warships and shore bases (as Australia follows the British tradition of referring to naval establishments as ships or stone frigates).
Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Devonport (formerly HMS Drake), is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Portsmouth).
The town virtually closed down for the funeral as a mark of respect, and bands and pipers from HMS Emerald, the Gordon Highlanders and that of Rear Admiral McLeod, the commanding officer of Haulbowline Naval Base.
HMS Goliath (submarine) is the name of a fictional Royal Navy submarine in the radio series Deep Trouble.
HMS Duke of Wellington, a 131 gun first-rate ship of the line also named after the first Duke of Wellington
HMS K5 was lost with all hands in January 1921, also due to problems with the air intakes that ventilate the boiler rooms.
M27 next saw service, along with five other monitors (M23, M25, M31, M33 and HMS Humber), which were sent to Murmansk in May 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force.
M33 next saw service, along with five other monitors (M23, M25, M27, M31 and HMS Humber), which were sent to Murmansk in 1919 to relieve the North Russian Expeditionary Force.
She was used for harbour service from 1819, renamed HMS Veteran (fireship) in 1839 and broken up in 1852.
HMS Sultan is the Marine Engineering training establishment and school of aircraft handling at Gosport, and is also home to the Defence College of Electro-Mechanical Engineering.
She was renamed HMS Duke of Wellington a month after being launched as a screw propelled ship in 1852.
HMS Iron Duke named after Wellington, is the name of three ships in the Royal Navy, one of which is still in active service (a frigate)
It serves principally students from the south side of the Miramichi River, from the smaller communities of Chatham, Loggieville, Chatham Head, Nelson, Barnaby River, and Napan.
She escorted a convoy of 10 troop transports crossing the Tasman Sea with HMS Pyramus to Albany, Western Australia in November.
Captain John Quilliam RN (born Marown, Isle of Man 29 September 1771 - died Michael, Isle of Man 10 October 1829) was a Royal Navy officer and the First Lieutenant on HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.
After a year spent in such diverse places as the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, the Aboriginal settlement of Kowanyama in Australia, the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, and the Inuit settlement of Kimmirut in Baffin Island, Canada, he enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a master's degree in Geography and wrote a thesis titled "The Biogeography of Striated Caracaras (Phalcoboenus australis)".
Chatham Historic Dockyard: Alive or Mothballed (1984) with Kit Martin, Save Britain's Heritage, ISBN 0-905978-19-6, ISBN 978-0-905978-19-2.
Wales during war, the HMS Monmouth, and the role of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers in recent wars are also covered.
This was an effort by a small group of people from HMS Egeria.
On 22/23 April 1918 at Zeebrugge, Belgium, Sergeant Finch was second in command of the pom-poms and Lewis gun in the foretop of HMS Vindictive.
Served with Edward "Teddy" Evans on HMS Talbot.
Born in Chatham, Paul Blomfield was educated at the Abbeydale Boys' Grammar School in Sheffield and Tadcaster Grammar School.
There followed several postings to naval units: commander of 813 Naval Air Squadron on HMS Eagle; commander of HMS Diligence (a base at Hythe, Hampshire); senior officer of the 104th Minesweeping Squadron in the Far East.
On their southward course they encountered the Grand Caymans, where the Morning Star ran aground and, as the survivors were being rescued by the Good Fortune, the pirates were sighted and pursued by HMS Hector and HMS Adventure.
In the attacks on Canton from 24 May to 1 June, he was in command of his regiment, and was present also at the demonstration before Nanking, and at the signing of the Treaty of Nanking on board HMS Cornwallis.
Dropping by Van Dieman's Land to resupply, the Allegiance discovered William Bligh, late of the HMS Bounty, exiled there after being deposed in a military coup, and have since borne him to Sydney.
The well known van der Westhuizen street in the Cape is named after the van der Westhuizen family (Other significant streetnames also exist in the Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng ('Transvaal'), Chatham in the United Kingdom and in Alberta Canada).
Ships permanently moored by Victoria Embankment include HMS President, HMS Wellington and PS Tattershall Castle.
The state highway passes Martinsville High School and reduces to two lanes at Fairy Street before reaching Chatham Road adjacent to Hooker Field, home of the Martinsville Mustangs of minor league baseball.
This problem proved fatal for Battleaxe, when she was unable to manoeuvre quickly enough to prevent herself being rammed by the frigate HMS Ursa in the Clyde in 1962.
Sanders' Victoria Cross was won while commanding the HMS Prize during the First World War.