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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 grand colonial mansion that once stood proudly on the land before it was demolished to make way for Berjaya Times Square, housed officers from the Japanese Army when Japan controlled Malaya during the Second World War.
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.
The first party of that force, consisting of Capt. John Davis and five Chinese agents, had been landed in Malaya on 24 May 1943, by submarine.
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.
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.
In Malaysia, the word was used to refer to various general strikes in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, such as the All-Malaya Hartal of 1947 and the Penang Hartal of 1967.
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.
She escorted a convoy of 10 troop transports crossing the Tasman Sea with HMS Pyramus to Albany, Western Australia in November.
In August, 1942, the Isuzu was reassigned to the Indian Ocean theatre, patrolling between Singapore, Mergui, Burma, Sabang Harbor, Sumatra and Penang, Malaya; however, on 24 August 1942, Isuzu was reassigned back to Makassar.
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Sendai was engaged in escorting transports carrying Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita and the Japanese 25th Army to invade Malaya.
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.
In 1957 Alston won the Men's Doubles at the prestigious All-England Championships with Malaya's Johnny Heah and remains the only American to share this title.
The erection of a religious higher education institution by the Malays were started since before the independence of Malaya.
Volunteering for the British army in 1943, Ashworth was commissioned from the IMA and served as a captain in the Devonshire Regiment and Gloucestershire Regiment during World War II in India, Burma and Malaya (Mentioned in Despatches).
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.
The name "Malaya" is derived from the name of a river of a similar name found in Sumatra.
Riau, though part of Dutch and Indonesian territory, was economically under the influence of neighbouring Malaya.
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.
Barrett-Lennard's father, Sir Fiennes Cecil Arthur Barrett-Lennard (1880–1963), was a British soldier, who fought in the Boer War and in East Africa in the First World War, and became a judge in Malaya, then Johore and Kedah, and finally Chief Justice of Jamaica.
The Sonneratia are called 'berembang' in Malaya, 'mangrove apple' in English, and 'Mangrovenapfel', "Pagatpat" in the Philippines, particularly in the Bataan and Pampanga region or 'Holzapfelmangrove' in German.
At the behest of Tsuji Masanobu, the Japanese High Command's Chief of Planning and Operations, Sook Ching was extended to the rest of Malaya, particularly Penang.
Married in 1935 to Janet Cuthbertson Saxton, Utz then began to diversify into tin mining in Malaya and Thailand as well as becoming managing director of several businesses and helping found International Pacific Corporation Ltd.
The airport is a former RAF Station, RAF Kota Bharu being a former British military airfield that has the dubious honour of being the landing site of the Japanese invasion of Malaya during World War II.
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.
In 1871 Speedy sailed to the Straits Settlements in Malaya and became superintendent of police on the island of Penang.
Ships permanently moored by Victoria Embankment include HMS President, HMS Wellington and PS Tattershall Castle.
Sanders' Victoria Cross was won while commanding the HMS Prize during the First World War.