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  Cyane
A detachment of Marines and sailors from Cyane landed and took possession of the town, raising the American flag.
Between 9 October 1851 and 24 June 1852 Cyane sailed in the Home Squadron, rejoining it 10 October 1852 to cruise constantly on the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean from Nova Scotia to Aspinwall for the protection of the lives and property of American citizens.
In August 1858 Cyane stood out for the Pacific, and except for necessary overhauls, was constantly employed on the coasts of North and South America until decommissioned and placed in ordinary at Mare Island Navy Yard 20 September 1871.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/c16/cyane-ii.htm   (429 words)

  
 USS Cyane
Cyane cruised off the west coast of Africa from 1819-20 and in the West Indies from 1820-21 protecting the Liberian colony and suppressing piracy and the slave trade.
CYANE took part in the operations off Copenhagen in September 1807 and after the capitulation of the Danish navy she was employed in the blockade of Zealand.
CYANE arrived in the North River on 10 April and anchored near the USS CONSTELLATION.
members.cox.net /shipkiller/data/frigate/cyane_frigate.html   (2104 words)

  
 cyanesechronicles
I was amazed and uplifted by "Cyane's" spirit of fairness - to all - and loyalty to her Amazon Nation.
Somehow, "Cyane" was able to forgive "Xena", once again honoring the code she lived and lead by.
Through her brief, but poignant, life, "Cyane" showed "Xena" what her existence on this earth could be like when based on other peoples' needs instead of just her own selfish ones.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Mansion/4434/cyanesechronicles.html   (418 words)

  
 Cyane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The first Cyane, a frigate, was built in 1796 at Frinsbury, England, for the Royal Navy.
She was adjudicated by a prize court and purchased by the Navy.
Cyane cruised off the west coast of Africa from 1819-20 and in the West Indies from 1820-21 protecting the Liberian colony and suppressing piracy and the slave trade.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/frigates/cyane1.htm   (131 words)

  
 After the Game's End
Cyane was a charming and witty companion, and her reticence to talk about her past only intrigued the Regent.
Cyane made it clear that she wasn't blaming Xena, that she admired the Warrior Princess for having the courage to do what she did, and that she knew of the times that Xena and Gabrielle had helped the Amazons, and was grateful to her.
Cyane was helpless to resist, her hands reaching up on their own accord, her fingers running through the long gold curls, pulling her closer to take those sculpted lips with her own.
www.xenafan.com /fiction/content5/velvet_gameend.html   (15169 words)

  
 Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Cyane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
First assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron, the second USS Cyane was dispatched to the Pacific Squadron in 1841, a period of strained relations between the United States, Mexico, and Great Britain.
In company with USS Warren, Cyane attempted to enforce a blockade along 2,500 miles of Mexican coastline, seizing 30 Mexican vessels and taking part in the capture of Mazatlán on November 11 with USS Congress and Independence.
From 1852 to 1857, Cyane was assigned to the Home Squadron and cruised between Nova Scotia and Panama.
college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_024500_usscyane.htm   (215 words)

  
 CYANE : Naiad nymph of Syracuse in Sicily ; Greek mythology : KYANE
KYANE (or Cyane) was the Naiad Nymph of a spring in the Sicilian town of Syrakousa.
CY′ANE (Kuanê), a Sicilian nymph and playmate of Proserpina, who was changed through grief at the loss of Proserpina into a well.
But Cyane, heartbroken at the rape of Proserpine and at her pool’s outrage, in silence carried in her heart a wound beyond consoling, and in endless tears she wasted away.
www.theoi.com /Nymphe/NympheKyane.html   (639 words)

  
 USS Cyane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Two United States Navy ships have been named Cyane, a Latin word for the blue-green color cyan.
The first Cyane was originally the 28-gun British frigate HMS Cyane, captured by the Constitution in 1815 and taken into the US Navy, where she served until 1835.
The second Cyane was a 22-gun sloop-of-war, launched in 1837, commissioned 1838 and a key player in the Mexican-American War, finally being decommissioned in 1871 and sold 1887.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Cyane   (140 words)

  
 Cyane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, Cyane was a nymph who tried to prevent Hades from abducting Persephone.
In the television show Xena:Warrior Princess, Cyane is the name adopted by all queens of the Northern Amazons.
The current Queen Cyane was previously named Eris.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cyane   (98 words)

  
 Xena: Lifeblood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The new Cyane, who took the tribal name after Yakut was killed in a war against the Samite Nomads, tells Xena she knew they were coming, as Yakut foretold it.
Cyane takes Gabrielle off to be given her re-coronation so Eve can be part of the Amazon nation, while Yakut's voice lures Xena into a yurt, where Xena finds the robes of a shamaness.
Cyane admits she is shamed because Yakut took an arrow for her and died in her place.
www.hostultra.com /~kszonew/xwo/season5/5016.htm   (1172 words)

  
 Whoosh! Episode Guide: AMAZON HIGH General
Cyane is rather desperate to be accepted in her high school - she is going out for cheerleader and is trying very hard to be in the right group.
Cyane is of course very confused - she thinks she may have been kidnapped by cultists but when she and her young friend meet up with a saber tooth tiger, she knows she is in the past.
Cyane, although wishing to go home, fits rather well into the tribe - there are the requisite scenes where Cyane shows her friend how to chew bubble gum, introduces her to lipstick and saves her friend from the tiger with modern pepper spray.
www.whoosh.org /epguide/ahigh.html   (3310 words)

  
 Round Killing Thing review: Kindred Spirits
Cyane listens with copious eyerolls and blatant dislike for our duo, especially when Eris reveals that she's asked Gabby to stay as their permanent queen.
Cyane stands before the Amazons, giving a speech about how important their traditions are and that they should all feel proud today for carrying them out.
Cyane says that all she wanted was to keep them strong and their heritage alive, and apologizes to Gabrielle, asking for permission to leave.
www.jetwolf.com /hof/xena/kindred.html   (4497 words)

  
 Amazon Liberties -- by Skylark and Cath Bard
She looked relieved, until Cyane reminded us both that the traditional punishment for this offense was banishment for the female, and death for the male.
I might defeat Cyane and end her chances of assuming leadership, but she was the only other person who could lead the tribe at this point, young as they were.
Cyane explained that she discovered we were being followed and had left the trail, then eluded her pursuer.
www.amazontrails.com /xena/amazonliberties.htm   (20249 words)

  
 "Dogs In Clover" ep 4
Cyane glares at Gabrielle for a few seconds, then bows her head in a ritual gesture of submission which in this context seems very close to sarcasm.
CYANE We can't have a man staying in the village, married to the Queen or not.
She sees she is getting nowhere with Cyane and turns to Gabrielle, who refuses to look at her and is instead fussing with the RING on her finger.
www.snarkykitty.com /jffg/dharma/dic4.html   (3270 words)

  
 Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Cyane   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Originally named Columbine, HMS Cyane was one of two frigates taken by the USS Constitution in a single action while covering a convoy en route from Gibraltar to England in company with HMS Levant.
On the afternoon of February 20, 1815, while off Madeira, Cyane sighted a ship on the horizon and sailed towards her until failure of the unknown ship to answer recognition signals persuaded Captain Gordon Falcon to rejoin Levant.
Although Levant was recaptured by HMS Acasta on March 11, Cyane returned to the United States and was purchased by the U.S. Navy.
college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_024400_hmscyane.htm   (253 words)

  
 Paul Schwartz | Music | Aria 3
The king of Hades kidnapped the girl from the field she played in, and he took her, unwillingly, to the Underworld.
Cyane, a water nymph who pitied Proserpine, tried to block Pluto's entrance to the Underworld, but he used his powers to make a hole in the earth and descend to his realm despite her.
Cyane was so sad for Proserpine and so hurt that the glade around her stream had been violated that she cried herself away and dissolved into her own pool.
www.paulschwartz.com /aria3_c_cyane.html   (122 words)

  
 USS Constitution, capture of Cyane and Levant
Cyane and Levant took care not to engage the American singly, but before the day was over both struck their colors and surrendered to the American.
We ranged up on the larboard quarter, within hail, and was about to give her our starboard broadside when she struck her colours, fired a lee gun, and yielded.
The Cyane when she struck had five feet water in the hold and otherwise very much cut up, her masts tottering and nothing but the smoothness of the sea preventing them from going over the side.
www.history.navy.mil /docs/war1812/const7.htm   (1041 words)

  
 Random House Academic Resources | The Darkest Jungle by Todd Balf
Only in recent weeks had the Cyane received the okay to return to duty and with the order a different, more restorative kind of attention.
The Cyane was said to be headed south on Home Squadron business, but where exactly, nobody knew.
According to the secretary of the Navy's orders, the Cyane was to sail first for Cartagena, at the northern tip of South America in present-day Colombia, then on to Caledonia Bay, where Lieutenant Strain would lead a "speedy" overland crossing of the isthmus in an attempt to map and survey the route.
www.randomhouse.com /acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780739303535&view=excerpt   (2481 words)

  
 Hitherby Dragons: Aegisthus (IV/IV)
Cyane weeps, and as she cries, she loses substance, until the spring and nymph alike are nothing but her tears.
Then she reaches up a finger to touch the surface of the water; and Cyane sets her hand upon it; and for a time, the two of them are still.
Cyane wraps her jacket around Pelopia's wounds; and slowly, the bleeding stops.
rebecca.hitherby.com /archives/000154.php   (1722 words)

  
 Frigate Cyane
The Royal Navy frigate, HMS Cyane, is one of only two wooden vessels known to have been built by John Bass, the Lympstone shipbuilder (the other being the Royal Navy gunbrig HMS Urgent).
This Cyane saw service in the West Indies until "...she was captured on 12 May 1805 by the French HORTENSE and HERMIONE and recaptured off Torbago on 5 October 1805 by Capt. George TOBIN in PRINCESS CHARLOTTE,38, and renamed CERF because a new 22-gun CYANE was in service".
There are a considerable number of accounts on the WWW which make reference to the ship HMS Cyane, in connection with her capture, 20 February 1815, along with HMS Levant by the USS Constitution during the War of 1812 (actually just after peace had been agreed because of the slowness of communications at the time!).
www.parkhouse.org.uk /surnames/cyane.htm   (524 words)

  
 Cyane:Queen of the Amazons
Cyane is the queen of the Siberian amazons.
A powerful person, Cyane defeated both Xena(in a physical battle) and Alti(in a spiritual battle) She was trusting of Xena and even offered to let her join the tribe, after the initation ceremonys, of course.
Alti wanted Cyane's blood, and after she drank it she kept Cyane's soul, and the souls of all the amazons in the land of the dead.
www.angelfire.com /la/cyane/cyane.html   (346 words)

  
 Cyane | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
In Greek mythology, Cyane was a nymph who tried to prevent Hades from abducting Persephone.
Upon failure, she dissolved away in tears and melted into her pool.In the television show, Cyane is the name adopted by all queens of the Northern Amazons.
The current Queen Cyane was thought to be previously named Eris but the character would have to have aged 25 years if that were to be true.There also have been two ships named the USS Cyane.
www.babylon.com /definition/Cyane   (96 words)

  
 1809 - Cyane and Cérès
In this smart affair, the Cyane received 23 shot in the hull, had her masts, yards, rigging, and sails a good deal cut, and lost one seaman and one boy killed, one master's mate (David Jones) mortally, and six seamen slightly wounded.
On the same afternoon, observing a flag of truce on a battery near Point Messino, Captain Staines detached the boats to the spot ; and, after spiking four 36-pounders on the battery and destroying the carriages, the boats took off 15 deserters.
p.m., finding that the Cyane and Espoir lay becalmed in the offing, and considering the gun-boats in the bight of the bay was no obstacle, the French commodore weighed and put to sea with the Cérès, Fama, and 20 gun-boats, bound to Naples.
www.pbenyon.plus.com /Naval_History/Vol_V/P_175.html   (408 words)

  
 Mouse walks out.... (conc)
Cyane jumps up ontop of the pool table and starts break dancing, totally interupting the game.
He glances at Cyane signing at the top pf her lungs on the pool table.
Cyane is walking on a deserted island in the dark, the mist is blowing all around.
www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/gpfault/1998/id99.htm   (3710 words)

  
 Ruby E
Cyane, known as WPC-105, was built in 1934 at the Lake Union and Dry Dock Machine Works in Seattle Washington.
The addition of the Cyane and other ships of her class, helped put pressure on the smugglers making it harder to sell their liquor and avoid prosecution.
Cyane was not needed for its original purpose.
www.cawreckdivers.org /Wrecks/RubyE.htm   (1323 words)

  
 Area 52: Into The Light 14
Cyane had hoped that the strange warrior woman would respond to overtures of friendship and an offer of an alliance with the Amazons.
She watched helplessly as Cyane walked arm-in-arm with the dark-haired woman under the bright green-yellow boughs of the forest in springtime.
Cyane had believed that the woman was considering the possibility of a life among the Amazons.
stargateslash.com /aso/otwist/light14.php   (20275 words)

  
 Mexican-American War in Baja California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A boarding party from the Cyane seized the brig Condor in the port of Guaymas, but, when they found the ship to be unusable, they burned it.
On November 13, the Cyane followed, but not before putting in at San Jose del Cabo at the Baja California's southern tip where Dupont found the inhabitants to be hospitable.
Upon meeting the Cyane at San Jose, on June 20, Montgomery, on board the Portsmouth, became aware that Mazatlan was open to commerce.
members.cox.net /ramero/mexwar.htm   (5502 words)

  
 Journal of San Diego History
The Cyane's connection with San Diego is, of course, well known.
Chapman was being watched by those aboard the Cyane, anchored not far away, and aboard the steam tug Anashe, at a nearby wharf.
At any rate, the good old Cyane could add to her San Diego flag-raising incident the credit for taking part in the only "action" against the Confederate Navy in California waters.
www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/61april/vessel.htm   (1040 words)

  
 Young Hercules Rumors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
An older incarnation of Cyane (played by a different actress, hey it has been at least 15 years) is also rumored to be in the episode.
As Cyane is a common name for an Amazon queen it is possible that there is a character named Cyane but having nothing to do with the Cyane of Young Hercules, and rumors just got started because of it.
That would be cool because if she is from the same tribe as Cyane and Lilith it would leave the door open for them to appear in future Xena episodes.
members.aol.com /dpratt1000/YH/yhrumors.html   (1040 words)

  
 Coast Guard Cutter Cyane
The cutter Cyane was named for the fresh water nymph (naiad) in Greek mythology who opposed Hades when he raped Persephone.
In 1943, the Cyane's crew published some articles and poetry written by the crew in a publication entitled Cyanthology.
The Cyane was decommissioned on 1 August 1950 and placed in storage at the Coast Guard Moorings in Kennydale, Washington.
www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/Cyane_1934.html   (951 words)

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