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	The Ultimate HMS Challenger - American History Information Guide and Reference
		The third Challenger was a 28-gun 6th rate launched in 1826 and wrecked off Chile in 1835.
		The fourth Challenger was to have been an 18-gun corvette of 810 tons; the ship was ordered from Chatham Dockyard in 1845, but cancelled in 1848.
		The fifth Challenger was a screw corvette launched in 1858, converted to a survey ship in 1872 in preparation for her famous voyage, hulked in 1880, and sold in 1921.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/HMS_Challenger (212 words)

	HMS Challenger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The second Challenger was an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1813 and later used as a store hulk before being sold in 1824.
		The third Challenger was a 28-gun 6th rate launched in 1826 and wrecked off Chile in 1835.
		The fifth Challenger was a screw corvette launched in 1858, converted to a survey ship in 1872 in preparation for her famous voyage, hulked in 1880, and sold in 1921.
	en.encyclopediahome.com /wiki/HMS_Challenger (342 words)

	Background to Marine Science
		Challenger was a steam corvette that set sail on December 21, 1872.
		In 1951a new HMS Challenger II began a two-year voyage.
		The HMS Challenger was the first purely scientific expedition (1872-1880).
	www.utdallas.edu /~msweet/oc-unit1.html (2417 words)

	Portsmouth, England
		Over the years Portsmouth's fortification was increased by numerous monarchs including King Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth I, although most of these have now fallen into disrepair or been converted into tourist attractions.
		On December 21, 1872 the Challenger expedition was launched from Portsmouth.
		Most of Portsmouth's tourist attractions are related to it's naval history, among these are the D-Day museum[?] (which holds the Overlord Embroidery[?]), the HMS Victory which has been restored in the Dockyard, the remains of the Mary Rose raised from the sea-bed in recent years and the HMS Warrior[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/po/Portsmouth,_England.html (1879 words)

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		Aboard HMS Egeria in Nov. 1904 in the Nanaimo area.
		He was a man of 6 foot plus, and the son of Sir George Nares of the Challenger Oceanographic Expedition of 1872-76.
		He was elected President of the International Hydrographic Bureau, Monaco, the following year and served on the Directing Committee until his death in office in Monaco in 1957, except for the period 1940 to 1945 when perforce he returned to the British Admiralty.
	www.canfoh.org /People/N.htm (439 words)

	DATASTREME OCEAN SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
		The Challenger Expedition of 1872-76 was the first expedition dedicated entirely to marine science, as conceived by Charles Wyville Thompson, and funded and supported by the Royal Society.
		HMS Challenger sailed on 21 December 1872 for a 4-year voyage around the world to cover 127,000 km (79,300 miles)—a distance more than three times the diameter of the Earth.
		In 1951, the HMS Challenger II undertook a 2-year survey of precise deep-sea measurements of the world’s ocean.
	www.aos.wisc.edu /~hopkins/oceans/spr_04/supl07.html (1650 words)

	HMS Challenger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Eight ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Challenger, most famously the survey vessel Challenger that carried the Challenger expedition from 1872 to 1876.
		Under the command of Charles Fremantle, it was responsible for the annexure of the colony of Western Australia in 1828.
		The sixth Challenger was a 2nd class cruiser in service from 1902 to 1920.
	hms-challenger.iqnaut.net (229 words)

	April 4 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Originally called Criss Cross (1931), the game, which was based on the crossword puzzle and anagrams, was redesigned, renamed as Scrabble, and marketed by James Brunot in 1948.
		Challenger joined the NASA fleet of reusable winged spaceships and flew nine successful Space Shuttle missions.
		But on 28 Jan 1986, its tenth launch, the Challenger and its crew of seven were lost 73 seconds after launch when a booster failure resulted in the breakup of the vehicle.
	www.todayinsci.com /4/4_04.htm (3542 words)

	DS Ocean Supplemental Information
		From 1831 to 1836, the HMS Beagle undertook a voyage to study natural science; Charles Darwin sailed as a naturalist.
		HMS Challenger sailed on 21 December 1872 for a 4-year voyage around the world to cover 127,000 km (79,300 miles)--a distance more than three times the diameter of the Earth.
		In 1931, the Atlantis was the first ship built specifically for oceanographic research, and did seminal work on confirming the existence of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
	www.aos.wisc.edu /~hopkins/oceans/spr_06/DSOs06supl07.html (1645 words)

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		HMS Glorious, now in company with the destroyers HMS Walker & Walpole arrive in the Clyde after nightfall 1940 - HMS Furious, after refueling at Tromsø, is transiting the most narrow party of Grotsund fjord when she is surprised by a single Fw-200 of I/KG 40 which drops two 250 kg bombs.
		HMS Regent was reported overdue at Beirut on 1 May 1943.
		They suggest that the second submarine may have been HMS Turbulent, prevented from taking part in the exercise by the incident which forced it to return to port for repair.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/april/18Apr.txt (3549 words)

	Portsmouth - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		On December 21, 1872 a major scientific expedition, the Challenger expedition, was launched from Portsmouth.
		In 2005, Portsmouth was a focus for Sea Britain, a series of events to mark the bicentenary of Lord Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.
		Among the attractions are the D-Day museum (which holds the Overlord embroidery) and, in the dockyard, HMS Victory, the remains of the Mary Rose raised from the sea-bed in recent years, HMS Warrior and the Royal Naval Museum.
	arikah.com /encyclopedia/Portsmouth (3445 words)

	December 7 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo was a French vertebrate paleontologist who stated Dollo's Law of Irreversibility whereby in evolution an organism never returns exactly to its former state such that complex structures, once lost, are not regained in their original form.
		In maneuvering Challenger to a landing at Taurus-Littrow, located on the southeast edge of Mare Serenitatis, Cernan and Schmitt activated a base of operations from which they completed three highly successful excursions to the nearby craters and the Taurus mountains, making the Moon their home for over three days.
		The Challenger was a corvette class ship, a military vessel that traveled under sail but had auxiliary steam power.
	www.todayinsci.com /12/12_07.htm (3633 words)

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		This device was also used on HMS PORCUPINE in water depths up to 3200 meters in 1862.
		Gibbs and colleagues on the HMS HYDRA during the 1868 Indian Ocean expedition commanded by Captain Peter F. Shortland.
		It is probable that this instrument was created in the early Twentieth Century by Friedrich Bergius, a 1931 Nobel Prize winner, for study of high pressure chemical reactions.
	www.photolib.noaa.gov /ships/shind31.htm (2260 words)

	Sonjia Leyva - Leture Notes: Exploring the Oceans
		During his voyages, he and his crew took samples of marine life, land plants and animals, the ocean floor, and geologic formations and recorded all of the information in logbooks.
		HMS Challenger (1951) - Discovered the deepest part of the ocean's deepest trenches.
		Glomar Challenger (1968) - First deep-sea drilling vessel - led to the JOIDES Resolution and eventually the Deep Sea Drilling Program.
	www.calstatela.edu /faculty/sleyva/lectures/Introduction/history_Oceanography.htm (220 words)

	Challenger Medal (1895)
		My intention is to provide anyone who seeks it, useful information regarding the medal commemorating the 1872-76 worldwide voyage of HMS Challenger, which (in hindsight) celebrates the beginning of the modern science of oceanography.
		He was Chief Scientist for the dredging voyages of HMS Porcupine and Lightning, and authored The Depths of the Sea in 1873, which summarized the findings of these voyages and presented a case for a global oceanographic voyage of exploration.
		The Marine Biological Station at Millport was established on the Isle of Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde, in the spring of 1885.
	www.19thcenturyscience.org /HMSC/Chall-Medal/ChallengerMedal.html (4176 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole's TreadHead Tuesday - British Chieftain and Challenger MBT - Dec 7th, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Challenger 1 is a development of the Centurion - Chieftain line which was modified to produce the Shir/Iran 2, originally planned for service with the Iranian forces.
		Although the hull and automotive parts of the Challenger 2 are based upon that of its predecessor Challenger 1, the new tank incorporates over 150 improvements which have achieved substantially increased reliability and ease of maintenance.
		Mr Tusa said the Challenger 2 had an environmental control system which was an improvement on Challenger 1 but he said it was unable to cope with the sweltering heat of the desert.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1295972/posts (7170 words)

	HMAS (ex HMS) PIONEER - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		HMS PIONEER was commissioned by the Royal Navy on 10 July 1900.
		The East African coastline was for the purposes of operations, divided into three sections and PIONEER was allotted in charge of the northern most area from north of Tanga past the island of Zanzibar to a point just south of Dar-es-Salaam, with the armed steamer DUPLEX and the whaler PICKLE.
		On 13 June she and HMS CHALLENGER bombarded Tanga and the following month once more on patrol in the south, she took part in the attack on Dar-es-Salaam with VENGEANCE and HYACINTH.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/pioneer.html (2096 words)

	HAS - Glossary
		Challenger was named after an American Naval research ship that sailed the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the 1870's.
		Because of this powerful personal vision, Conrad is regarded as one of the masters of the English novel-indeed as one of the first modern novelists in the English language and on a par with his American contemporary and collaborator (on The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903)) Ford Maddox Ford.
		His first, in 1769, was funded by King George III during which Cook and his crew of the H.M. Bark Endeavour observed the transit of Venus across the Sun's disk and explored the South Seas.
	aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov /HAS/cirr/glossary.cfm (10636 words)

	Maritime Disasters of WWII 1939, 1940, 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At that moment she was on a secret mission, transporting King Håkon of Norway, the Crown Prince, 56 staff members and Government officials and the national gold reserves, from Tromsó to the safety of the British Isles, there to spend the next five years in exile.
		The 11,636 ton Dutch passenger liner was taken over for service as a troop transport and while engaged in the evacuation of British and New Zealand troops from Crete, she was attacked for the second time by German aircraft of Luftwaffe JG-77 and sank with the loss of 193 men.
		Severely damaged by salvos from the battleships HMS King George V, HMS Rodney, and by torpedoes from the cruiser HMS Dorsetshire, she was finally scuttled by her crew.
	members.iinet.net.au /~gduncan/maritime-1.html (7551 words)

	Britannia Royal Yacht Model — Premier Ship Models
		The HMS Surprise model and cross-section model arrived last night and are absolutely beautiful....!
		During her first season, she placed first in twenty races - nine more than her nearest challenger - and over her entire racing career, which lasted off and on until 1935, she won 231 first prizes in 635 starts.
		In 1921, she was re-rigged for racing, and there followed several modifications until a more streamlined Bermuda rig replaced her gaff rig in 1931.
	www.premiershipmodels.com /index.php/fuseaction/shop.product/categoryid/2/productid/117 (718 words)

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		Heavy cruiser USS Chicago is torpedoed in a nighttime air strike from a Betty probably belonging to the 701st Air Group.
		By midnight USS Louisville is towing her south 1943 - Auxiliary AA ship HMS Pozarica is damaged by an Italian air-launched torpedo, but manages to make port at Bougie in tow of minesweeper Cadmus.
		However, during salvage operations at Bougie on 13 February, she capsized and was written off 1943 - U-466 had to abort patrol due to serious technical problems 1943 - At 0547, U-255 reported one Myronich-class freighter (2274 GRT) sunk with one torpedo in the Barents Sea.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/january/29Jan.txt (1053 words)

	Historic Maps of Bahrain 1817-1970 ARCHIVE EDITIONS
		Further surveys were made in 1872-4 by the Royal Navy schooner Constance, by the Royal Indian Marine ship Investigator in 1901-2, by HMS Redbreast in 1904-5, and by HMS Ormonde in 1932.
		The Land Registration Department of the Bahrain Government was started in 1925-6 and during the first 6 years of its existence was occupied in making a detailed survey of the villages and cultivated areas of Bahrain, mainly to establish ownership of property, and in making surveys and maps of Manama, Muharraq, Hedd, and East Rafaa.
		In AH 1357 (March 1938-February 1939) the Land Registration Department completed the survey of the whole of Rafaa, started the survey of Sitra Island, surveyed the main island of the Hawar group and produced a map of that island, and resurveyed Manama Town and suburbs.
	www.archiveeditions.co.uk /Leafcopy\675lflt.htm (1881 words)

	Antarctic History
		Another notable exception was the scientific voyage of the HMS Challenger.
		The Discovery II was built to replace the aging original, and between the years 1931- 1933 became the fourth ship to circumnavigate the continent, 100 years after John Biscoe's Tula.
		In 1931, 26 countries agreed to a regulatory convention which entered into force in 1936.
	www.mastromedia.com /antarctica/history/history.htm (14180 words)

	Norwegian Homefleet - Ships starting with K
		According to Jürgen Rohwer, she was damaged at Bergen by a limpet mine on Sept. 11-1944, aimed at the floating dock at Bergenske Mek.
		Located by aircraft from HMS Victorious on June 4-1941 and when HMS Nelson and cruiser HMS Neptune intercepted her, it was decided to scuttle and she was set on fire.
		She was shelled by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Esperance Bay, and finally torpedoed and sunk by HMS Neptune, 43 29N 24 04W.
	www.warsailors.com /homefleet/shipsk.html (9846 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - August 30, 1939 - Part 2
		But in 1931 Secretary of State Henry Stimson ends this practice, saying, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." The fact that the Japanese do not engage in gentlemanly behavior in China does not impress him.
		The battlecruiser HMS New Zealand, for example, dies a premature death in 1922, a victim of the 1921 Washington Naval Treaty.
		All that is really required to maintain national power in the face of unruly Chinese students, rapacious Arab brigands, boisterous strikers, or angry African natives is a cruiser, a few soldiers or Marines, the slap of a few gleaming rifle butts on the pier, or a machine-gun deployed outside a courthouse or factory.
	www.usswashington.com /dl30au39b.htm (11992 words)

	History of David Brown in Huddersfield
		Following Percy Brown's death in 1931, Frank became Chairman and his 28 year old son David, Managing Director.
		By 1983, some fifteen years after providing the gearbox for the conversion of HMS Exmouth, the first major warship to use gas turbine propulsion, a total of 120 gearboxes had been delivered or were on order for 64 warships in 9 Navies.
		The David Brown family interest in the Group was sold to the current management with the exception of plants in the Southern Hemisphere in 1990.
	www.davidbrown.com /history.php (675 words)

	Earth's meteoric veil (1)
		He also mentions that gaseous matter is constantly being added to the atmosphere (through the vaporization of meteoric dust) – and this is the mechanism Ranyard invokes to explain the suggested link (see next section).
		It is interesting to note that the discovery that dust particles recovered from the seafloor during the expedition of the HMS Challenger from 1872 to 1876 were extraterrestrial in origin was the first recognition that, in addition to being bombarded with meteorite-sized objects, the earth also accumulates substantial amounts of submillimetre-sized particles (micrometeorites).
		The Theosophical Path, Sept. 1931, 231-2, July 1933, 46-9; The Theosophical Forum, Feb. 1940, 136-8, Jan. 1947, 23-4; Alan J. Stover, ‘Cycles of earth history and the ice ages’, Theosophical University Studies, 1945, 22-3.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dp5/dust1.htm (5993 words)

	BRITS AT THEIR BEST: British Inventions Ingenious Timeline 19th Century 1855 - Copyright 2006 David Abbott and ...
		Bentham tackles this challenge with Hooker's son, Joseph, and spends 27 years in the Psyche-like task of researching, examining, and dividing species into orders or families.
		Bottle-nosed dolphins were known even by the Ancient Greeks, but much else was not known until HMS Challenger explores all the world's oceans, charts all the great basins and currents, and discovers 4,717 new marine species.
		The Royal Society and the British Admiralty launch HMS Challenger in a long and spectacular exploration of all the world's oceans.
	www.britsattheirbest.com /ingenious/ii_19th_century_1855.htm (4016 words)

	Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 - S
		Settled permanently at Warsash, near Southampton, where he gave many years' service as a churchwarden, and from where he sailed his small boat in the Solent.
		HMS Volage mined by the Albanians (Corfu Channel disaster)
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	www.unithistories.com /officers/RN_officersS.html (534 words)

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