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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1845   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
May 20 - The HMS Erebus and Terror with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
1845 is also the name of a song on One Minute Silence's album Buy Now...
www.hallencyclopedia.com /1845   (692 words)

  
 HMS Conway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The front piece is "HMS Conway in the glory of her last year in the Menai Strait".
The early history of H.M.S. Nile, up to the time she became the third replacement 'HMS Conway' on 23rd June 1876, is to be found in some detail in the book.
Announced the transfer of HMS Nile to the Mersey and her re-naming as HMS Conway.
www.hmsconway.org /bibliography.html   (5329 words)

  
 PORT JACKSON (SYDNEY HARBOUR) - SHIPWRECKS
She was refloated with the assistance of HMS Fly and sailed for port Macquarie on 3 Ocrober 1826.
A pinnace from HM Penguin, screw steamer, was lost near Dawes Point, Sydney Harbour, 9 July 1914.
Refloated withh assistance from HMS Tamar, but found to be unseaworthy, and purchased by the colonial authorities and converted to a prison hulk for convicts awaiting transportation to Norfolk island, Moreton Bay and other penal settlements.
oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /portjackson-wrecks.html   (9355 words)

  
 Hordern House
[BARROW, Sir John] The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty; its cause and consequences.
GRAHAM, Maria, compiler Voyage of HMS Blonde to the Sandwich Islands...
MACGILLIVRAY, John Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake...
www.polybiblio.com /hordern   (1685 words)

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