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10 unusual facts about Mariners


Charles H. Campbell

He also served as the secretary of the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, trustee of Detroit's famed Mariners' Church, treasurer and director of the River Rouge Improvement Co., and a member of the board of trustees of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Michigan.

Joseph Judge

His papers concerning this topic were donated to the Mariners' Museum in Virginia.

Mariners' Church

The completion of the Erie Canal increased shipping traffic in the area, and the seamen, Anderson felt, were in need of spiritual support and care.

The church is referenced in Gordon Lightfoot's song The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald with the lyrics "In a musty old hall in Detroit, they prayed in the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral. The church bell chimed 'til it rang 29 times for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald."

The church grounds contain a bronze sculpture of George Washington wearing the apron of a master mason by Donald De Lue.

Mariners' Museum

The museum was founded in 1930 by Archer Milton Huntington, son of Collis P. Huntington, a railroad builder who brought the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to Warwick County, Virginia, and who founded the City of Newport News, its coal export facilities, and Newport News Shipbuilding in the late 19th century.

The famous Lions Bridge, a dam that provides a breathtaking view of the James River, remains a highlight for visitors—a perfect family gathering place to enjoy the Museum Park.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Lightfoot refers to Mariners' Church of Detroit as "The Maritime Sailors' Cathedral" in the lyrics.

Virginia State Route 312

The west leg of the intersection is Avenue of the Arts, which leads to Christopher Newport University, the Ferguson Center for the Arts, the Peninsula Fine Arts Center, the Mariners' Museum, and Lake Maury.

Willem F. J. Mörzer Bruyns

In 1995 he was Huntington Fellow at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, and from 2005-2007 Sackler Research Fellow in the History of Astronomy and Navigational Sciences at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich in London.


1935–36 Port Vale F.C. season

Before the match the teams paid their respects to the recently deceased George V with Abide with Me, during which the "Mariners" wore overcoats as the Vale players shivered – this was the excuse used to justify their conceding four first half goals.

2011 A-League Grand Final

Roar captain, Matt McKay's lobbed pass to Jean Carlos Solórzano, whose first time chest control gave him space he needed to find a pass to Thomas Broich who set up Henrique to side-foot the ball into the Mariners' goal.

Ambrose Cowley

In his diary he reported the discovery of the mythical Pepys Island, allegedly situated north of the Falkland Islands, prompting a number of mariners to look in vain for the nonexistent land.

Balgownie Rangers FC

Justin Pasfield (G) - Played in 2004, currently playing the A-League with Central Coast Mariners

Battle of Samugarh

The battle of Samugarh massively exposed the fratricidal culture and nature of the Mughal Empire well beyond the its realms, from Venice to Lisbon the European mariners began to realize the great weaknesses and flaws of the Mughal and Muslim rulers of South Asia in general.

Brad Adam

A repeated situation is one where Adam and his camera crew are alone in a location, such as behind the center-field wall, where he begins his monologue with a variant of "Here I am, all alone in center field here at Safeco Field where the Mariners have lost again."

Brandon Maurer

In spring training in 2013, Maurer competed with Erasmo Ramírez, Jeremy Bonderman, and Blake Beavan for one of the final two spots in the Mariners' five-man starting rotation, behind Félix Hernández, Hisashi Iwakuma, and Joe Saunders.

Charlton Jimerson

With the trade of Sebastien Boucher and a player to be named later or cash to the Baltimore Orioles for pitcher John Parrish on August 9, 2007, the Mariners optioned Charlton Jimerson to Triple-A Tacoma.

Cliff Lee

On December 16, 2009, the Phillies traded Lee to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for J. C. Ramírez, Phillippe Aumont and Tyson Gillies.

Colorado Silver Bullets

Among their opponents were the Navy Mariners, an all-star team of players stationed at United States Navy bases, and the Hollywood Star Sox, a team of actors and other entertainment industry professionals captained by Jonathan Silverman.

Dead reckoning

Before the 18th-century development of the marine chronometer by John Harrison and the lunar distance method, dead reckoning was the primary method of determining longitude available to mariners such as Christopher Columbus and John Cabot on their trans-Atlantic voyages.

Draug-class destroyer

The class was named after the Draugr - a sinister, malevolent being of Nordic origin and often connected with mariners and the sea.

Félix Hernández

Hernández is also the Seattle Mariners Ambassador for the Pepsi Refresh Project, raising money for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Gambrel

1) Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and English mariners and traders had visited or settled in to the area of southeast Asia now called Indonesia prior to permanent European settlement in America.

Glenallen Hill

Hill was also infamous for his defensive escapades, which were once described by then-Mariners pitching coach Bryan Price as "akin to watching a gaffed haddock surface for air." He has also been referred to as The Juggler because he would struggle to hold onto a ball when he caught one.

Jeff Andrews

Following his tenure in the Mariners minor league system, Andrews spent two seasons as the minor league pitching coordinator for the San Diego Padres.

Joe Saunders

As the only active major league player at the time from Virginia Tech, Saunders received special dispensation to wear a Virginia Tech cap during the April 20, 2007, game against the Seattle Mariners to honor the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre.

Landing craft tank

She was decommissioned in 1948, and presented to the Master Mariners' Club of Liverpool to be used as their club ship and renamed Landfall.

Loren Graham

Loren Graham and his wife Patricia, a prominent historian of education and a former dean at Harvard University, many years ago purchased a lighthouse on a remote island in Lake Superior and spend their summers there writing, studying nature, and serving as Coast Guard auxiliarists who have participated in many rescue operations of stranded and wrecked mariners.

Lydd Ranges

The Danger area extends out to sea and mariners sailing to and from Rye Harbour must pass south of the Stephenson Shoal to avoid it.

Maikel Cleto

On December 11, 2008 Cleto was traded to the Mariners with Aaron Heilman, Endy Chávez, Jason Vargas, Mike Carp and Ezequiel Carrera in exchange for J. J. Putz, Jeremy Reed and Sean Green.

Maine Mariners

The Mariners are the only franchise in league history to win the Calder Cup title in their first two seasons (1977–78, 1978–79) and at the time were the only team to ever capture the Calder Cup during their inaugural season.

After five seasons in Portland, the Maine Mariners franchise was moved to Providence, Rhode Island following the 1991–92 season and renamed the Providence Bruins.

Marino Sanuto the Elder

Here the shore-lines of the countries well known to Italian mariners, from Flanders to Azov, are well laid down; the Caspian and the north German and Scandinavian coasts appear with an evident, though far slighter, relation to practical knowledge; and some idea is shown of the great continental rivers of the north, such as the Don, Volga, Vistula, Oxus and Syr Daria.

Mateo

Julio Mateo, American baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners.

Mike Blowers

During the pre-game broadcast of a September 27, 2009 bout between the Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays, Blowers predicted Matt Tuiasosopo's first career home run.

Milele

Some of these include Lake Avenue Church, Faith Community Church, Mariners Church, Bel'Air Presbyterian Church, La Canada Presbyterian Church, Cottonwood Christian Center, First Church of the Nazarene, Pasadena, Azusa Pacific University, Claremont School of Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Biola University.

North Carr Lightship

The purpose of the vessel was to warn mariners by sight, light or sound of the dangers of the North Carr rocks which are situated 1.7 miles off Fife Ness at the turning point for vessels entering the Forth from the North and bound for the Tay.

Panny Nikas

Nikas made his first team debut for the Central Coast Mariners coming on as a substitute for Nicky Travis in a 2-0 home defeat to the Wellington Phoenix on 31 December 2009.

Ramón Vázquez

After his third error of the game allowed the Seattle to take a 10–9 lead in the top of the 9th, Vázquez doubled to right-center field off Mariners closer J. J. Putz, just out of Ichiro's reach, to drive in 2 runs as the Rangers won the game 11–10.

Rick Rizzs

"Swing and a drive, deep to right field, HOLY SMOKES, this one is way out of here! Hit into the Hit-it-Here Café, beyond the windows, into somebody's soup! Oh my goodness!"- used for Mike Carp's game-winning home run off of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim relief pitcher Hisanori Takahashi in the bottom of the eighth inning on August 29, 2011, as the Mariners won this game by a final of 5-3.

His tenure with the Mariners was only interrupted by a two-year stint from 1992 to 1994 providing game coverage of the Detroit Tigers, teaming with Bob Rathbun on WJR.

Rob Murphy

Murphy also pitched for the Mariners, Cardinals, Yankees, Dodgers and Marlins, retiring at the end of the 1995 season.

Roger Matakamikamica

He later played rugby union for the Fraser Coast Mariners in the Sunshine Coast Rugby Union competition.

Spert Island

Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Sir Thomas Spert, Controller of the King's Ships in the time of Henry VIII, founder and first Master of the Mariners of England, which later became the Corporation of Trinity House.

Taylor Bills

He is played for the Arizona League Mariners and winning ABC's reality show True Beauty.

Vasco Mariners

Vasco Mariners, also known as Vasco Da Gama FC, are a Bermudian football team currently playing in the Corona League, the third tier of the Bermudian Football League.

Vilsandi

Vilsandi has produced 16 ship captains or Master Mariners, some of whom were related to Peeter All (1829-1898), a noted resident of the nearby island of Loonalaid.

William A. Newell

He is probably best known for, and was most proud of, the Newell Act, which created the United States Life-Saving Service (a Federal agency that grew out of private and local humanitarian efforts to save the lives of shipwrecked mariners and passengers; which ultimately merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard in 1915).

Yang Hyeon-Jong

Yang started for South Korea in the semifinal game against Canada, facing future Mariners' pitching prospect Phillippe Aumont, and hurled three innings of two-hit, one-run ball with two strikeouts to help lead South Korea to a 6–1 victory.