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59 unusual facts about Maritime


Alain Blondel

Alain Blondel (born 7 December 1962 in Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime) is a retired French decathlete.

Angliers

Angliers, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime department of France

Antoinette de Maignelais

On this occasion the king presented Antoinette with the isles of Oleron, Marennes, and Arvert as a marriage portion, with a pension of 2,000 livres a year for life.

Autigny

Autigny, Seine-Maritime, a commune in the Seine-Maritime department, France

Battle of Hastenbeck

General Chevert was ordered to flank the Hanoverian position with four brigades containing troops from Picardy, la Marine, Navarre and Eu.

Battle of Valmont

The Battle of Valmont is the name given to two connected actions which took place between 9 and 11 March 1416 in the area of the towns of Valmont and Harfleur in Normandy.

The French withdrew to Valmont for the night, rather than stay in the field, and this allowed Dorset to lead his men off under the cover of darkness to take shelter in woods at Les Loges.

Brightlingsea

Brightlingsea was for many years twinned with French oyster fishery port Marennes, Charente-Maritime, but the relationship fell into disuse.

Canal de Marans à la Rochelle

The Canal de Marans à la Rochelle, also called Canal de Marans, Canal de Rompsay or Canal de La Rochelle depending on the location, is a French canal in the Charente-Maritime department connecting the city of La Rochelle with the town of Marans.

Champagnac, Charente-Maritime

Régis Messac, author, (Champagnac, 2 August 1893 - near Gross-Rosen or Dora, around 1945) was born in the Champagnac schoolhouse where his maternal grandparents, Jean Gabillaud and his wife Justine taught.

Charente-Maritime

Just outside the city is a factory for the French engineering giant Alstom, where the TGV, the cars for the Paris and other metros are manufactured.

Château d'Eu

The Château d'Eu is a former royal residence in the town of Eu, in the Seine-Maritime department of France, in Normandy.

Gare d'Eu-la Mouillette

The gare d'Eu-la-Mouillette (Eu-la Mouillette Station) is a railway station located in the commune of Eu in the Seine-Maritime department, France.

Gare de Montérolier-Buchy

The Gare de Montérolier-Buchy (Montérolier-Buchy station) is a railway station located in the commune of Montérolier in the Seine-Maritime department, France and near Buchy.

Gare de Serqueux

The Gare de Serqueux (Serqueux station) is a railway station located in the commune of Serqueux in the Seine-Maritime department, France.

Gare du Tréport-Mers

Until 2 October 1938, Le Tréport-Mers was also connected to Dieppe by the Eu - Dieppe line; part of this closed line, between Saint-Quentin-au-Bosc and Eu, has since become a footpath, the chemin vert du Petit Caux (Petit Caux greenway).

Gilbert Primrose

His first charge was at Mirambeau, from which he was transferred in 1603 to the church of Bordeaux.

GR 21

It passes through various seaside resorts and fishing villages, including the port of Dieppe and finishes at the resort of Le Tréport, close to the historic town of Eu.

Guillaume de Felice

He became a pastor at the Reformed Church of Bolbec, in Normandy Seine-Maritime, then a professor of theology in Montauban, occupying the chair 'de morale et d'éloquence sacrée' (of morality and holy speech).

Hamelin de Warenne, Earl of Surrey

He also possessed the third penny (entitlement to one third of the fines levied in the county courts) of County Surrey and held the castles of Mortemer and Bellencombre in Normandy.

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville

Jean Baptiste Le Moyne was the son of Charles le Moyne, born in Longueil, near Dieppe, and Catherine Primot (known as Catherine Thierry too), born in Rouen, both cities in the Province of Normandy.

Joseph Rouletabille

The book reveals that Rouletabille is the nickname of 18-year-old journalist Joseph Josephin, who was raised in a religious orphanage in Eu, a small town near Fécamp.

La Vergne

La Vergne, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département in France

Les Loges, Seine-Maritime

William the Conqueror’s granddaughter, the Empress Matilda gave this area to a Nicolas Estouteville in the twelfth century, to thank him for his support and loyalty.

At the end of the nineteenth century, the Grimaldi family (of Monaco), who also bear the name of Estouteville, used the manorhouse as a residence resort.

Louis III, Cardinal of Guise

Louis de Lorraine known as the Cardinal de Guise (22 January 1575 – 21 June 1621, Saintes) was the third son of Henry I, Duke of Guise and Catherine of Cleves.

Marans, Charente-Maritime

By the 11th century, a small market town had gathered around the castle and the priory of Saint-Etienne, depending on the Maillezais Cathedral.

Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament

Shortly after this she was ordered to the monastery of Saintes, where she remained for 18 months.

Marsilly, Charente-Maritime

Between 1932 and 1936, the well-known writer Georges Simenon and his wife Régine lived at La Richardière, a 16th-century manor house in Marsilly.

Mélanie de Salignac

Mélanie de Salignac (Marennes, Charente-Maritime, 19 January 1744 –1766) was a young French woman whose achievements in the face of her disability - blindness - were mentioned in the accounts of Diderot.

Mirambeau

Mirambeau, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département

Mortemer, Seine-Maritime

This village is possibly the source of the medieval family name of Mortimer.

He claims that Roger of Mortemer was the brother of "William, later to be Earl of Surrey".

But possibly Robert missed out a generation, as he did in dealing with the family history of the Montgomerys.

Normannognathus

In 1993 Jean-Jacques Lepage on the Normandy coast at the Cap de la Hève, near Ecqueville, Octeville-sur-Mer, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, found a ten centimetres long fossil of a petrosaur in a marine claystone layer.

Pérignac

Pérignac, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the department of Charente-Maritime

Philippe Berre

In 2010, he impersonated an official of the French ministry of Agriculture sent to Charron, Charente-Maritime in order to assist with relief efforts after the Xynthia windstorm.

Pierrecourt

Pierrecourt, Seine-Maritime, a commune in the French region of Haute-Normandie

Rachid Chékhémani

Rachid Chékhémani (born 1 October 1973 in Barentin, Seine-Maritime) is a French long-distance runner.

Ranulph de Mortimer

His father assumed the name Mortemer after taking possession of the castle and village of Mortemer in the Pays de Bray, called sometimes Mortemer sur Eaulne or en Brai.

Réaux

Réaux, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime departement in France

Richard Olivier de Longueil

Richard Olivier de Longueil was born in Lisieux on December 18, 1406, the son of Guillaume III de Longueil, sieur of Eu, and his second wife, Catherine de Bourguenole.

Robert Persons

He was in close contact with Henry I, Duke of Guise, and through the Duke founded a school for English boys at Eu, on the coast to the north-east.

Rochefort, Charente-Maritime

The Young Girls of Rochefort film directed by Jacques Demy with Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, and Gene Kelly with music composed by Michel Legrand

L'Hermione, a replica of a 1779 frigate being built in the town

Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rochelle and Saintes

This diocese before the French Revolution, aside from Maillezais, included the present arrondissements of Marennes, Rochefort, La Rochelle, and a part of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.

Rouen Museum

Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum of Rouen, a museum dedicated to the history of the port of Rouen

Rouville

Rouville, Seine-Maritime, a commune in the Seine-Maritime department, France

Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment

Somewhere between August 23 and September 6, 1757, the regiment joined the Army of Saxony, led by Soubise, in the area of Erfurt and Eisenach.

Rudolph of France

Herbert and Arnulf I of Flanders joined him this time and they took Eu, but were ambushed near Fauquembergues and the king was wounded, the Count of Ponthieu killed, and many Normans left dead on the field.

Ry, Seine-Maritime

The village of Yonville in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is traditionally held to have been based on Ry.

Saint-Sornin, Charente-Maritime

There is a small campsite just outside the village on the road to Brue.

Salisbury Cathedral Choir

In 2009 the boys and men of Salisbury Cathedral Choir made their first visit to Salisbury’s twinned city of Saintes, France.

Seguin II of Gascony

(died 846), called Mostelanicus, was the Count of Bordeaux and Saintes from 840 and Duke of Gascony from 845.

Ternant

Ternant, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the department of Charente-Maritime

Toussaint

Toussaint, Seine-Maritime, a commune in the arrondissement of Le Havre in the Seine-Maritime département of France

Vergilius of Salzburg

After spending two years at Cressy, near Compiègne, he went to Bavaria, at the invitation of Duke Odilo, where he founded the monastery of Chiemsee, and within a year or two was made Abbot of St. Peter's at Salzburg.

Wedge sole

In France, the wedge sole is a speciality of the fishing ports of Cotinière, on the île d'Oléron, and Royan, in Charente-Maritime.

William VI, Duke of Aquitaine

He was freed in 1036, after nearly three years imprisonment, only by ceding the cities of Saintes and Bordeaux.


AAST

Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, a maritime academy that has its main campus located in Alexandria, Egypt

Abdul Razak Bin Haji Mohd Yusof

# Counter Maritime Interdiction Course, organized by the Naval Special Warfare - 1st Unit, United States Navy SEALS,

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions (APMSS) of Poole, Dorset, England is a British company established in 2008.

Australian Sailing Museum

It has maritime artworks, lifelike wax figures of sailing icons (a saluting Dennis Conner, John Cox Stevens, Sir Thomas Lipton & more), while the main exhibition area is circled with pennants from clubs around the world.

Bryza

PZL M28B Bryza - a Polish STOL light maritime patrol, cargo and passenger plane

Coat of arms

-- Systemic bias/biased perspective --> An example in recent use is the logo of Mitsubishi corporation which started as a shipping and maritime enterprise and whose emblem is based on a water chestnut derived from its maritime history with a military naval influence.

Conway Publishing

Whilst still committed to producing specialist maritime books, Conway have broadened their catalogue to incorporate general, military and aviation history, exploration, as well as railway and scale modeling (with Hornby and Airfix), amongst other related topics.

D. M. Schurman

'Introduction' by John Hattendorf and D. M. Schurman' in Julian S. Corbett, Maritime Operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05.

Disabled Motoring UK

On the 4th of June 2011 the trike set off from Greenwich and headed south to Newhaven, cross the Channel to Dieppe and followed the original route.

Discoveries

Portuguese discoveries, Intensive maritime exploration by the Portuguese during the 15th and 16th centuries

Durdent

Le Mesnil-Durdent, a commune in the Seine-Maritime département, France

Edmund Mortimer McDonald

In 1863, he founded the Halifax Citizen with William Garvie; the paper favoured a maritime union but opposed Confederation.

Flare

Maritime flares and other pyrotechnics are often used by Ultras at football & and other sporting events to increase atmosphere, even though it is illegal to do so in most countries.

Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic

Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic (FMFLANT) is an American maritime landing force that is spread across the Atlantic Ocean and reports to the United States Atlantic Command.

Georges Diebolt

He treated with equal eclecticism religious subjects such as Saint John the Evangelist (placed on the first story of the tower of Saint-Jacques in Paris during its 1852 restoration) and modern themes, such as the 1854 Maritime Victory on the pont d'Austerlitz.

Giacinto Auriti

He graduated in Rome, where he taught maritime, international, private and comparative law.

Gocha Vetriakov

A native of Tbilisi and of Russian ethnic descent, Gocha Vetriakov graduated from the Vladivostok maritime college in Russia and then joined the ranks of the Coast Guard of Georgia.

Helier

Churches dedicated to Helier can be found in Rennes, St. Hellier, Beuzeville (Eure), Amécourt (Eure), Barentin (Seine-Maritime), Monhoudou (Sarthe).

Hervey Benham

His daughter, Jane Benham, played a significant role in the maritime educational East Coast Sail Trust, in which Hervey was also involved, and in the preservation of Thames sailing barges.

Heyerdahl Award

The Thor Heyerdahl International Maritime Environmental Award was established in 1999 by the explorer and scientist Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) and the Norwegian Shipowners' Association.

Human rights in Finland

Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said the Netherlands had applied to the UN's Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, which resolves maritime disputes between states.

International Christian Maritime Association

The International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA) is an ecumenical association of 28 Christian organisations, representing different churches and Christian communities.

Inveraray

The Inverarary Maritime Heritage Museum is based on the iron sailing ship Arctic Penguin, moored at the pier, along with the Clyde puffers VIC 72, Eilean Eisdeal, renamed Vital Spark, and VIC27 Auld Reekie, renamed Maggie.

Isla Aves

During a visit to Venezuela, Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, in June 2006, stated that Aves Island belongs to Venezuela, ending the territorial claim but not a maritime claim.

Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency

In addition to its railway construction projects, JRTT has also sponsored maritime research, including the latest ship used as the JR Miyajima Ferry.

MCL Mapúa-PTC College of Maritime Education and Training

April 10, 2008 marked a momentous event for Malayan Colleges Laguna, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mapua Institute of Technology, and Philippine Transmarine Carriers, Inc., one of the country’s largest crew management companies, as they launched the Mapúa-PTC College of Maritime Education and Training.

Michel Lafourcade

Educated at the high school Pierre Loti of Rochefort, then graduated from the school of meteorology of Saint-Cyr-l'École.

Mount Chōkai

Three ships have been named after Mount Chōkai: Chōkai, an early steam gunboat, and the cruiser Chōkai (sunk in 1944), which were both in the Japanese Imperial Navy, and the JDS Chōkai, a Kongō class guided missile destroyer currently in service in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

MV Cape Pine

Cape Pine is still afloat, having been sold to the Maritime Heritage Society in Vancouver, and is in operation as a private pleasure boat and charter boat out of Pender Harbour, British Columbia, Canada.

Naming of military air bases

However, in maintaining the maritime link, all Royal Navy air stations are additionally named in the same manner as the Navy's ships - in Yeoviltons' instance, it is also called HMS Heron.

Netherlands Marine Corps

The Seabased Support Group (SSG) fields 98 men and coordinates maritime operational logistic support for Marine units embarked on one the Rotterdam-class amphibious transport docks.

Northwest Seaport

The Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Center is a nonprofit organization in Seattle, Washington dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Puget Sound and Northwest Coast maritime heritage, expressed through educational programs and experiences available to the public.

Notow

Dutch maritime maps from the last part of the 16th and the 17th century also locate Notow at Avaldsnes.

Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network

In a hypothesis developed by Wilhelm Solheim, the Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network (NMTCN) is a trade and communication network that first appeared in the Asia-Pacific region during its Neolithic age, or beginning roughly around 5000 BC.

Penly Nuclear Power Plant

It lies on the border of two French municipalities: Penly and Saint-Martin-en-Campagne in the département of Seine-Maritime, Normandy, on the English Channel coast.

Pierre Bellocq

Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926 in Bedenac, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb".

Piper guineense

Though known in Europe during the Middle Ages (it was a common spice in Rouen and Dieppe in 14th Century France), these days, its use is marginalized to West and Central Africa.

Point Lynas Lighthouse

The Lighthouse is considered to be important for its association with Jesse Hartley, the engineer responsible for the world's first great floating-dock system at Liverpool

Pont de Brotonne

Its construction was financed by the General council of Seine-Maritime for the purpose of opening up the Pays de Caux and assuring a connection between the commune of Yvetot and the A13 autoroute by way of the forêt de Brotonne (Brotonne forest), from which the bridge gets its name.

Rauma, Finland

Granted town privileges on May 17, 1442 (then under the rule of Sweden), Rauma is known for its paper and maritime industry, high quality lace (since the 18th century) and the old wooden architecture of its centre (Old Rauma, Vanha Rauma), which is a Unesco world heritage site.

Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II

:Directorate-General of Customs and Indirect Taxes - Used seven F406s for maritime patrol activities.

Richborough Castle

Standing as it did between the port and the province, passage through the arch signified formal entry into Britannia (cf the similarly maritime arch at Ancona).

SS City of Launceston

Since 1997 she has been the subject of archaeological studies under the direction of Heritage Victoria's Maritime Heritage Unit.

SS George Calvert

American Mariner, Maritime Commission hull number 20, launched in 1941 as SS George Calvert, but renamed almost immediately.

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Two Annual General Meetings (2012 and 2013) of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) have endorsed RMT support for TUSC candidates and the RMT is formally represented on the TUSC steering committee.

Ulane Bonnel

Following their marriage, Bonnel went to France with her husband, who had a distinguished career in the French Navy, rising to be chief of the maritime health service (chef du service santé des gens de mer) in 1969-72 and an internationally recognized biologist associated with the World Health Organization.