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1806 in New Zealand

17 June – The Venus, Captain Samuel Chace, is taken piratically at Port Dalrymple (Launceston) and sails for New Zealand.

A Salty Dog

Having an ostensibly nautical theme, as indicated by its cover (a pastiche of the famous Player's Navy Cut cigarette pack), interspersed with straight rock, blues and pop items A Salty Dog showed a slight change of direction from its predecessors, being thematically less obscure.

Abdul Awal Mintoo

He then obtained a diploma in 1968 in Nautical Science from Mercantile Marine Academy in Chittagong then known as Pakistan Marine Academy.

Abraham Samuel

In 1698, early in the career of John Cruger (the elder), the Mayor of New York from 1739 till his death in 1744), while he was "a mere youth" he was appointed as Supercargo under Captain (see Captain (nautical)) Appel of the Prophet Daniel, to buy slaves for what was by then a regular "slaver" (slave ship) out of New York.

Aldeia do Mato

The Recreational and Leisure Nautical Park attracts tourists from within the country, owing to biodiversity (that includes various species of wild pine, eucalyptus, strawberry tree, heather, olive trees), water sports (swimming, sailing, kayaking, canoeing, windsurfing), and recent developments that have attracted new tourists, including hiking trails, motocrossing, repelling and other trips orientated towards the more adventurous;

Almyra, Arkansas

Almyra Municipal Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) west of the central business district of Almyra.

American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac

Authorized by Congress in 1849, the American Nautical Almanac Office was founded and attached to the Department of the Navy with Charles Henry Davis as the first superintendent.

Between 1855 and 1881 it had two parts, the first for the meridian of Greenwich contained data on the Sun, Moon, lunar distances, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, which was published separately as The American Nautical Almanac.

Billee Taylor

Billee Taylor, or The Reward of Virtue is "a nautical comedy opera" by Edward Solomon, with a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens.

Birdsville

The town is situated near a billabong on which a pontoon was built to facilitate swimming and non-powered boating activities, and which has recently become home to a stray Freshwater Crocodile.

California Maritime Academy

The California Nautical School was established in 1929, when California State Assembly Bill No. 253 was signed into law by Governor C. C. Young.

Canton–Plymouth Mettetal Airport

The airport lies two nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the central business district of Plymouth, in Wayne County.

Carroll County, Tennessee

The Carroll County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in located four nautical miles (4.6 mi, 7.4 km) northwest of the central business district of Huntingdon, Tennessee.

Copycat Building

Bands that have played the warehouse include: Grimes, Fat Day, Lightning Bolt (Rhode Island), Black Forest/Black Sea (Rhode Island), Japanther (Brooklyn, NY), Wolf Eyes (Ann Arbor), Gravenhurst (England), Robotnicka (France), The Death Set, Matt + Kim, Nautical Almanac, Long Live Death, The USAISAMONSTER, Need New Body, Landed, Rapdragons, Dan Deacon, Dead Mellotron, Yukon, Muscle Brain.

Den Haan Rotterdam B.V.

The part of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute that approved and certified the nautical lights, compasses and instruments in Rotterdam closed in 1988.

EBJ

Esbjerg Airport (IATA code: EBJ), a small airport located 5 nautical miles northeast of Esbjerg, Denmark

Fat Worm of Error

They have released a split cassette with Deerhoof on Deathbomb Arc and appear on a compilation mastered by Hans Grusel with Sun City Girls, Caroliner, Nautical Almanac, Metalux, Wolf Eyes, Mono Pause, Hans Grüsel's Krankenkabinet, Tarantism, Tom Recchion, Sixes, Bran(...)Pos, Masonic Youth, Pod Blotz, Smegma, Panicsville, and others on Resipiscent.

Fort Perch Rock

The nights were called "Nautical" and were featured in the Guardian newspaper and named NME club of the week for the 1 September 2006 show, which featured British Sea Power and the Tiny Dancers.

Fubuki-class destroyer

After the end of World War I, the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff issued requirements for a destroyer with a maximum speed of 39 knots, range of 4000 nautical miles at 14 knots, and armed with large numbers of the recently developed Type 8 torpedoes.

George Otto Noville

The Noville Peninsula ( 71°56′S 98°35′W), a high ice-covered peninsula about 30 nautical miles (60 km) long, between Peale and Murphy Inlets on the north side of Thurston Island was named for Noville.

Goat locker

Official Naval and Nautical China was produced for the U.S. Navy by leading china manufacturers such as Tepco, Shenango, Buffalo, Sterling and Homer Laughlin from the early 1930s through WWII, and was used up until the 1960s until supplies ran out.

Gustav Pietsch

He arrived on 10 January 1939 and founded the village of Neve Yam, where he continued to work as a nautical and fishery instructor.

History of Rijeka

In 1846 Vincenzo de Domini (1816 - 1903) become professor at the local nautical school.

Italian cruiser Cesare Rossarol

The sinking of the Cesare Rossarol two nautical miles off the coast of Lisignano left ninety-three petty officers and marines dead, including seven officers and the captain and was one of the largest losses of life for the Italian navy during the war.

Jacques Sternberg

An anarchist at heart, he rejected organized regatta and racing - Not unlike Bernard Moitessier, the famous ocean vagabond - and wrote a biting satire of yachtsmen, sponsors and yacht clubs, in his erotic-nautical novel Le navigateur published at the peak of Eric Tabarly's success.

James Hackman Tachie-Menson

Captain Tachie-Menson served in the British Merchant Navy from 1951 to 1960, on board various ships in the fleet of the Liverpool-based shipping company, Elder Dempster Lines, while simultaneously pursuing prescribed courses and maritime studies at the Liverpool Nautical College (now Maritime Academy at Liverpool John Moores University).

Lautoka

Captain William Bligh spotted and roughly charted the coasts of Lautoka while making his epic voyage to Timor, in the wake of the Mutiny on the Bounty in which he and a few sailors loyal to him were thrown overboard and cast adrift on a life boat.

Liljequist

Liljequist Heights, heights about 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Grunehogna Peaks, in the Ahlmann Ridge of Queen Maud Land

NT Card

"NT Card" is a brand name for a memory card which is used by C-Map / Jeppesen company for their line of electronic nautical charts.

Oldenburg

The Jade University of Applied Sciences (Jade-Hochschule) The former Fachhochschule Oldenburg (until 1999) was founded in 1971, a merger of the previous engineering academy with the nautical college in Elsfleth.

Paracas Bay

The bay appears as the gateway to Paracas National Reserve, its warmer shallow waters foster wildlife and many nautical sports, and its calm shoreline protects the municipality of Paracas and the various cottages and hotels that have sprung up in the last few years.

Purser

The development of the warrant officer system began in 1040 when five English ports began furnishing warships to King Edward the Confessor in exchange for certain privileges, they also furnished crews whose officers were the Master, Boatswain, Carpenter and Cook.

Russ George

In July 2012, George and collaborators in the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation conducted an iron fertilization experiment spreading 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean from a fishing boat in an eddy 200 nautical miles west of the islands of Haida Gwaii.

Schanz Glacier

Schanz Glacier is a glacier 8 nautical miles (15 km) long in the Heritage Range, draining south between Soholt Peaks and Collier Hills to enter Union Glacier.

Sharpe's Trafalgar

Sharpe's Trafalgar is a nautical adventure that finds ensign Richard Sharpe in the middle of one of history's most historically significant naval engagements: the battle at Cape Trafalgar off the west coast of Spain, in 1805.

Sleek Spur

The spur is 8 nautical miles (15 km) southwest of Cape Parr where the confluent Nursery, Jorda, and Starshot Glaciers enter Ross Ice Shelf.

Speed sailing

Rob Munro remains the current world speedsailing record holder for kitesurfing over the nautical mile.

Zara Davis holds the outright nautical mile record for a woman.

Throughout 1970s, the speed sailing 500 meter and Nautical Mile records were dominated by large multihulls, as typified by the Crossbow and Crossbow II of Timothy Colman.

SS Antilles

The Flandre or the Antilles appeared as stock footage in the 1964 Perry Mason episode Nautical Knot, set near Acapulco, Mexico.

The Bolitho novels

The Bolitho novels are a series of nautical war novels written by Douglas Reeman (using the pseudonym Alexander Kent).

The Ryans and the Pittmans

It is based on a traditional English capstan shanty, "Spanish Ladies", which describes headlands sighted on a sailor's homeward voyage through the English Channel.

The Steeple

It rises on the east side of Depot Glacier, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) south of the head of Hope Bay, at the northeast end of Antarctic Peninsula.

Thomas Seton

In April 2008, the British Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, placed a temporary export bar on ‘a rare likeness of Alexander Dalrymple', by John Thomas Seton. Dalrymple was the first Hydrographer to the Admiralty, who ‘through his pioneering work on nautical charts, is a pivotal figure in the development of the global maritime industry as well as of the British Empire’.

Thomas William Bowlby

Lord Elgin and Baron Gros were his fellow passengers in the steamship SS Malabar, which sank in Galle harbor on 22 May 1860 after being beached in a severe storm; his report of the shipwreck was considered one of his best pieces of work.

Timeline of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season

AST (1800 UTC) – Tropical Depression Four forms 225 nautical miles (260 miles, 415 km) south-southeast of Praia, Cape Verde.

Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania

Skyhaven Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) south of the central business district of Tunkhannock.

Vanessa O'Brien

Vanessa O'Brien continued to ski the last degree (60 nautical miles or 111 km) to the North Pole after being dropped off by the Russian staff at Barneo at 89 degrees North.


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