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	uboat.net - Allied Warships - MS Trawlers
		HMS Alcmaria (FY 1525) (To the Royal Norwegian Navy in October 1940.
		HMS Loch Eribol (FY 704) (lost 12 Oct, 1945)
		HMS Lucienne Jeanne (FY 1769) (lost 24 Oct, 1941)
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		Comet Cursor was a vicious piece of spyware that ostensibly changed the look and feel of one's mouse's cursor but behind...
		Comet West formally designated C/1975 V1, 1976 VI, and 1975n, was a spectacular comet, sometimes considered to quali...
		A Sungrazing comet is a comet that passes extremely close to the Sun at perihelion - sometimes within a few thousand k...
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	HMS Comet - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The fourth Comet was a 10-gun brig-sloop in India in 1758.
		The eleventh Comet was the Thunderer (1831) renamed in 1869.
		The fourteenth Comet was a destroyer launched in 1910 and sunk by an Austrian submarine in 1918.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/HMS_Comet (325 words)

	Anthony Pettit — Prints, Engravings and Lithographs
		This rare two-colour large folio size original lithograph 70 x 52 cm depicts the sailing vessel in a hurracane off Bermuda on her voyage from New York to San Francisco in October 1852, E C Gardner Commander.The artist was Charles Parsons and the Publisher N Currier of 152 Nassau Street, New York.
		The dramatic image shows the Comet caught up in the ferocity having lost her fore topmast and royal mast.After the storm, repairs were made and the ship made an excellent run around Cape Horn to San Francisco in 79 days.
		Edmund Gilling Hallewell (1822 – 1869), who was well known as ‘Lieut: and Adjt XX Regt.,’ was commissioned in 1839, in the 20th or East Devons.
	www.anthonypettit.com /prints.html (2629 words)

	A Brief History of the Royal Navy \| Online Information Bank \| Research Collections \| Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth ...
		In 1822, the first steam vessels, HMSs Comet and Monkey, were brought into use for towing ships of the line out of harbour when the wind was unfavorable.
		In 1912, the Royal Naval Air Service was formed, and in 1918, HMS Argus was the first ship built to enable aircraft to take off and land with an unobstructed deck over the whole length of the ship.
		In 1923, HMS Hermes was the first designated aircraft carrier to built and the Fleet Air Arm came into existence a year later.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_naval_history.htm (1074 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		HMS Sybille a British cruiser struck a reef near Lamberts Bay on January 17 1901.
		HMS Nymph a British sloop caught fire, foundered and sank in Road Town's harbour in 1783.
		HMS Comus ran aground and sunk in fog near Cape Race in 1816.
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	Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on The Sailing Navy Gallery \| Your Visit \| Royal Naval Museum at Portsmouth Historic ...
		HMS Penelope was the first conversion of sailing warship to steam, started in 1842 and completed conversion in June 1843.
		HMS Amphion was the first steam frigate, launched 14 January 1846 and HMS Agamemnon was the first full-scale steam designed battleship, launched 22 May 1852.
		The origins of the naval hand salute is unclear but it is thought to have originated from the days when an inferior always uncovered their head to a superior.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /visit_see_sailfaq.htm (1377 words)

	Canadian Military Heritage
		In military circles there was initial scepticism that these small steamships could constitute a serious threat.
		The admirals of the Royal Navy were particularly doubtful about the innovation, but in 1822 they were convinced by the arguments of the famous inventor Marc Isambard Brunel and ordered construction of the first Royal Navy steamship, the HMS Comet.
		Like all boats of its type, it was a small sailing ship, in the centre of which was an engine and a tall chimney stack, and it was propelled by paddle wheels on either side of the ship.
	www.cmhg.gc.ca /cmh/en/page_456.asp (299 words)

	Chapter 7 - In the Minds of Men, Fifth Edition
		This was done in a routine manner to the mud samples on board the HMS Challenger, but a chemist on the expedition, who seems to have been more committed to his chemistry than to biology, pointed out that the protoplasmic matter recognized as B.
		HMS Challenger during her voyage of exploration 1873-76.
		Halley's comet revisited our solar system in 1986 and there was great hope that a close fly-by of a space craft might detect organic matter or even obtain an uncontaminated sample (McNaughton and Pillinger 1980).
	www.creationism.org /books/TaylorInMindsMen/TaylorIMMg07.htm (8266 words)

	On this day in British Military History - Infantrymen's Military-Forum.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He took Comet in to attack a string of dhows blocking the Tigris.
		Some 200 knights were killed or captured, but the English army chose to retire with their captives, rather than tackle the French infantry which had taken no significant part in the fighting.
		HMS Ajax, which had served with distinction the previous year at the River Plate against the German "pocket battleship" Graf Spee, encountered three Italian destroyers in a night action in the Mediterranean.
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	John Herschel Summary
		Amongst his other observations during this time was that of the return of Comet Halley.
		However, in addition to his astronomical work, this voyage to a far corner of the British empire also gave John an escape from the pressures under which he found himself in London, where he was one of the most sought after of all British men of science.
		When HMS Beagle called at Cape Town, Captain Robert FitzRoy and the young naturalist Charles Darwin visited the eminent Herschel on 3 June 1836.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Herschel (2529 words)

	This Day In Military History... [Archive] - Page 6 - Armchair General Forums
		The 9 transports were covered by a naval force including 3 battleships, HMS Nelson, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Rodney, one aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal, 5 cruisers and 18 destroyers.
		The troops were supported by a naval flotilla of river gunboats and steamers, including HMS Comet, commanded by Lieutenant-Commander Cookson.
		He took HMS Comet in to attack a string of dhows blocking the Tigris.
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	VITAL STATISTICS VOLUME 26-E: Cathedral of St John the Baptist (St Johns Anglican Cathedral)
		Emma was the daughter of George Marshall and Ann Earle; she and George Lewis moved to Boston MA 1848; from Edward Chafe, George Lewis was originally from England
		Her siblings included Rev. William Bullock, later Dean of Halifax and married Oct. 8, 1823 at Trinity Bay and the Frederick Bullock, listed in the next marriage to Eliza McKie.
		Frederick Bullock was the son of James and Louisa Bullock, and brother to Catherine Esther Bullock (See previous marriage and Note) and to the Rev Wm Bullock.
	ngb.chebucto.org /Vstats/vstats-mar-3-vol26e-sjc.shtml (942 words)

	SHIPWRECKS ON THE AUSTRALIA RUN
		As a subsidiary naval vessel she was known as HMS Bark Endevour, as distinct from another vessel of the same name already in service.
		HMS Brisk searched the Chatham Islands for two boats containing Captain Yule and most of the passengers and crew but no trace of them was ever found.
		Several ships were chartered to rescue the men on St. Paul, and after receiving a severe battering from the weather when approaching the island HMS Malacca finally completed loading on 5 September 1871, then set a course for Western Australia, arriving at King George Sound nine days later.
	oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /austrun-wrecks.html (19872 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaediat
		Its action depends on the diminution of the effect of gravitation on the surface of the water as compared with its effect on the earth, owing to the mass of water (of less density) which replaces earth (of greater density); which is duly registered.
		Bathybius was a name given by Huxley to a supposed organism found in some preserved examples of deep-sea ooze obtained by Captain Dayman in 1857, while dredging in HMS Cyclops, in connection with the laying of the Atlantic cable.
		Its orbit was calculated at 6 years and 38 weeks and the comet was seen again in 1832, 1839, 1846 and 1852.
	david-pye.com /probert/A2.php (11429 words)

	Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy, T. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		BU 1822) 1813 Capt. Philip PIPON, Falmouth for Brazil.
		NIGER and TAGUS made St. Antonio in the Cape Verde Is. on the morning of 5 January 1814 for the purpose of correcting longitude before the ships of their convoy bound for Maranham parted company.
		1818 Capt. N.J. WILLOUGHBY, 9/18, Leeward Is. 1822 Capt. G.H. GUION, Mediterranean.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /T.HTM (20325 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most paleontologists now believe that the extinction of the dinosaurs was hastened by an asteroid or comet slamming into the earth.
		Coinciding with the extinction of the dinosaurs, clay samples from 65 million years ago show a spike in this element: [BL] Iridium ?Iridium, rare to the earth's crust but relatively abundant in asteroids and comets, is found in anomalously high concentrations in the clay layer that marks the end of the Cretaceous.
		Comet Halley Comet Hyakutake Comet Swift-Tuttle Comet Hale-Bopp ?The impacts created atmospheric plumes many thousands of kilometers high that showed hot "bubbles" of gas with large dark "scars" covering the planet's sky.
	www.s95162438.onlinehome.us /dloads/Bucket_Full_of_Science.pxt (9232 words)

	Powell's Books - Rare & Collectible
		Narrative of an Expedition to the Polar Sea in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, and 1823.
		She followed her husband, a customs officer, to India in 1822, where she developed a love and exuberance for India which was at times a source of offense and gossip for other English ladies.
		Fanny's journalistic two-volume account of her life there, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque, is an encyclopedia of Hindu culture, language, and costume, the latter reproduced in many hand-colored plates.
	www.powells.com /rarebooks/rareNotes0604.html (1315 words)

	Overview of Belizean History
		In the year 1822, the English ship "Comet", Captain Merrill sailing to England, was wrecked on Ambergris Key on August 16.
		There is a possibility that this vessel at San Andres could be the "Comet".
		The only ship identified by name was the "HMS Triumvirate" lost at St. George's Caye which was carrying a large amount of silver specie.
	ambergriscaye.com /fieldguide/history2.html (7867 words)

	Austrailain history
		April 22nd Two vessels, "H.M.S. Calcutta" and the chartered transport "Ocean", sailed from England and arrived at Sullivan Cove, near the present resort on the 7th October 1803.
		On board the vessels were fifty marines, civil and military establishments, about 300 convicts, some of their wives and children, and forty eight free settlers including children.
		September Captain William Lonsdale arrives on "HMS Rattlesnake" as the first administrator and the police magistrate of Port Phillip.
	www.featherstone-society.com /history/australian_history.htm (6699 words)

	Significant Dates in the History of Hawaii
		Captain James Cook and the crews of the HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery sight O‘ahu, Kaua‘i, and Ni‘ihau on January 18.
		Kalanimoku, the prime minister under Kamehameha I, II, and III, dies in Kailua-Kona February 8.
		The first Catholic mass of record in Hawai‘i is celebrated July 14 in Honolulu.
	www.hawaiianhistory.org /ref/chron.html (5001 words)

	BSHM: Gazetteer -- S
		It was last used in Aug 1815 and was dismantled in 1822.
		She had her own telescope, she discovered 8 comets, including the 1795 comet later recognised as periodic with period 3.3 years and now named Encke's Comet in honour of Encke's 1818 determination of its orbit; and she catalogued 2500 nebulae.
		It was demolished in 1822 and only the gateposts remain.
	www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk /bshm/zingaz/S.html (6389 words)

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		For his victory over HMS Cyane and Levant during the War of 1812 while commanding Constitution, Congress voted him a gold medal and a sword.
		Her run of 30 days for this part of the passage was a record at the time.
		This log was kept by a young man named George E. Peer, a passenger on the Ringleader and probably a relative of an owner, since he has tremendous access to the officers and their colleagues on other ships.
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	G.W. Blunt White Library: Microfilm List
		Charles W. Morgan, Bills: 1827-1830; 1822; 1820; 1833-1835; 1837; Bills of Lading: 1836; 1837; Accounts: 1837; 1840; 1843; Misc.
		HMS VICTORY, DEVASTATION, BACCHANTE, and SUTLEJ, Journal by W. Renwick.
		HMS MINOTAUR: Jan. 10-Nov. 23, 1887; HMS NORTHUMBERLAND: 1887-1888; HMS HIMALAYA: Apr. 1-June 14, 1888; HMS RALEIGH: June 18-Dec. 31, 1888.
	www.mysticseaport.org /library/catfind/micro.cfm (5804 words)

	Various Mortlock 2
		Dr Clark-Kennedy’s son Alec (Alexander Charles), served in the Navy during the war and was lucky to escape from the sinking of HMS Mashona after the Bismark chase - the loss of life was much increased by the deliberate refusal of the Irish government to allow lifesaving from their shores.
		On 4th April a comet was remarked; so also was malicious damage to several ropes in the rigging.
		Mortlock offered a hundred dollars reward for information or for catching anyone in the act; no information resulted, but neither was there further damage, as the bait was clearly sufficient to make the miscreant think he would be given away if he tried anything like that again.
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	HMS [Ship]
		Completed : 23 May 1822 ; Disposal date or year § : 1868
		1822 First steamship ordered by Admiralty, as advised by Marc Isambard Brunel
		4 Mar 1856 The Comet steam tug, towed the new steam gun boat Opossum from Northam to Portsmouth on Saturday to be fitted 1860 Portsmouth
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~pbtyc/18-1900/C/01049.html (51 words)

	Victoria Cross Research Page - C
		On 11th October 1855 in the Sea of Azov, Crimea,, Commander Commerell of HMS Weser, with the Quartermaster* and a seaman, went to destroy a large quantity of forage on the shore of the Putrid Sea.
		On 28th September 1915 during the advance on Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, HMS Comet commanded by Lieutenant Commander Cookson, and other armed vessels, were ordered, if possible, to destroy an obstruction which had been placed across the river by the Turks.
		ML254 was full of wounded and in a sinking condition, but Lieutenant Crutchley kept her afloat until HMS Warwick came to the rescue.
	www.victoriacross.co.uk /descrip_c.html (17775 words)

	HAS - Glossary
		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.
		In August 1831, Darwin was invited to sail, as an unpaid naturalist, on HMS Beagle.
	aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov /HAS/cirr/glossary.cfm (10682 words)

	Index Ka
		When Kokoiki was viewed by the kahunas, Hawaii's mystic seers, it was prophesied that a great leader was about to be born who would defeat all his rivals and reign supreme over all the islands.
		Their bodies were placed in splendid coffins, put aboard the HMS Blonde, and returned to their homeland, arriving in May 1825.
		On June 18, 1822, near the island of Chios, he blew up the Turkish admiral's flagship and so harassed the Turkish fleet that it retreated to the Dardanelles.
	www.rulers.org /indexk1.html (15914 words)

	Infantrymen's Military-Forum.com - On this day in British Military History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Four Tribal class destroyers - HM Ships Cossack, Ashanti, Maori and Sikh - sank all five ships in an escorted German convoy in the North Sea.
		1939: The battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at anchor in Scapa Flow by an audacious U-boat attack that penetrated the defences of the anchorage.
		Fleet Air Arm Skua and Swordfish aircraft from HMS Furious raided the German base facilities at Tromso.
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	5 April History: This Date
		Darwin, the privileged and well-connected son of a successful English doctor, had been interested in botany and natural sciences since his boyhood, despite the discouragement of his early teachers.
		By the time Darwin returned, he had developed an outstanding reputation as a field researcher and scientific writer, based on his many papers and letters dispatched from South America and the Galapagos Islands, which were read at meetings of prominent scientific societies in London.
		In 1845 Bertrand conjectured that there is at least one prime between n and 2n-2 for every n > 3, which was proved by Chebyshev [16 May 1821 – 08 Dec 1894] in 1850.
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