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	USS Essex (1799) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first USS Essex of the United States Navy was a sailing frigate that participated in the Quasi-War with France and in the War of 1812, wherein she was captured by the British (1814).
		Essex sailed in South Atlantic waters and along the coast of Brazil until January 1813 when Captain Porter undertook the decimation of English whale fisheries in the Pacific.
		Essex was repaired by the British and taken into the Royal Navy as HMS Essex, and in 1833 served as a prison ship at Kingston, Jamaica.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Essex_(1799) (681 words)

	HMS Essex -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The second Essex was a 70-gun (Click link for more info and facts about third-rate) third-rate launched in 1679, rebuilt 1700 and 1740, and wrecked at the (Click link for more info and facts about battle of Quiberon Bay) battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759, an 80-year-old ship by then.
		The fourth (Click link for more info and facts about Essex) Essex was the American (Click link for more info and facts about sailing frigate) sailing frigate (Click link for more info and facts about USS Essex) USS Essex captured in 1814, used as a prison in 1823, and sold 1837.
		The fifth Essex was an armoured (A large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer) cruiser launched in 1901 and sold 1921.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/HM/HMS_Essex2.htm (227 words)

	March 1, 1996 -AIDS
		Essex, who was trained in both veterinary medicine and virology, spent much of the 1970s studying how viruses cause cancer and immune suppression in cats.
		Essex and his colleagues began studying the ability of the various strains to infect cells of the reproductive tracts.
		Essex speculates that in the case of HIV strains C and E, the infected Langerhans cells may be releasing the virus into other fluids before they arrive at the lymph nodes.
	focus.hms.harvard.edu /1996/Mar15_1996/AIDS.html (1369 words)

	HMS Beagle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10 gun (A penal institution (especially on board a ship)) brig of the (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Navy) Royal Navy, named after the (A small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound) Beagle breed of dog.
		She was (Click link for more info and facts about launched) launched on 11 May 1820 from the (Click link for more info and facts about Woolwich Dockyard) Woolwich Dockyard on the (The longest river in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea) River Thames, at a cost of £7,803.
		On the second survey voyage the young naturalist (English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)) Charles Darwin was on board, and his work would eventually make the Beagle one of the most famous ships in history.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hm/hms_beagle2.htm (1422 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Essex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Built by the citizens of Essex County, Massachusetts, who presented her to the U.S. government, USS Essex was commissioned under command of Captain Edward Preble.
		On October 28, 1812, Essex left the Delaware River to rendezvous with USS Constitution and Hornet for a cruise into the South Pacific.
		Essex lost 58 killed, 31 drowned, and 70 wounded; British losses were 5 dead and 10 wounded.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_032400_ussessex1.htm (463 words)

	Battle of Lowestoft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Lowestoft, 13 June 1665, showing HMS Royal Charles and the Eendracht by Hendrik van Minderhout, painted c.
		During the turn HMS Great Charity became isolated and was boarded and captured by captain Jan de Haen, the later admiral, who immediately returned with his prize to the Netherlands, an obviously unsound practice that would be forbidden after this battle.
		Notable English captains present at the battle included Captain of the Fleet William Penn in HMS Royal Charles, ex-buccaneer Christopher Myngs and George Ayscue.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Lowestoft (1745 words)

	POLAR/ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At the end of 1886 he joined HMS ROVER and was rated by her captain as an "intelligent and capable young officer of temperate habits".
		H.M.S. HMS Queen was built at Devonport Dockyard and laid down on the 12th march 1901,launched on the 8th march 1902 and finally completed 1904.
		HMS Queen served with the Mediterranean Fleet until 1907 and was transferred to the Atlantic Fleet 1908.
	www.historikorders.com /polar.htm (14834 words)

	USS Essex (1799) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Congress was dismasted only a few days out, and Essex was obliged to continue her voyage alone, making her mark as the first U.S. man-of-war to double the (A province of western South Africa) Cape of Good Hope, both in March and in August 1800 prior to successfully completing her convoy mission in November.
		Captain (Click link for more info and facts about William Bainbridge) William Bainbridge commanded Essex on her second cruise, whereon she sailed to the Mediterranean with the squadron of Commodore (Click link for more info and facts about Richard Dale) Richard Dale.
		On 11 July near (A group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort) Bermuda she fell in with seven British transports and by moonlight cut out and seized one of them.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/US/USS_Essex_(1799)2.htm (568 words)

	HMS Essex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first Essex was a 60-gun ship launched in 1653 and captured inthe Four Days' Battle of 1666.
		The second Essex was a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1679, rebuilt 1700 and 1740, and wrecked at the battle of QuiberonBay in 1759, an 80-year-old ship by then.
		The fourth Essex was the American sailingfrigate USS Essex captured in 1814, used as a prison in 1823, and sold 1837.
	www.therfcc.org /hms-essex-326788.html (126 words)

	The Royal Navy 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Whilst many Royal Navy ships were named after places, HMS Exmouth was, in fact, named after the famous Royal Navy Commander, Lord Exmouth, formerly Sir Edward Pellew, who was famed for his actions in the Napoleonic wars.
		He also commanded the second-rate HMS London, which acted as his flagship in the Mediterranean in 1815 (a second-rate ship would be a three deck ship of 90 guns, 170 feet on the gun deck and having an individual figure-head).
		HMS Exmouth undertook a major conversion between April 1966 and July 1968.
	freepages.family.rootsweb.com /~brycefamily/exmouth.htm (853 words)

	RMS Olympic - History 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMS Essex, a Royal Navy cruiser, escorted her on the final stretch of the journey.
		On 8th August, Olympic left bound for England (without passengers or mail); HMS Essex escorted her as far as Sable Island, but allowed her to continue unaccompanied from that point - with a cruising speed of 23 knots, Olympic was more than able to outrun hostile warships.
		HMS Audacious had been part of a squadron that conducted exercises in the mined area.
	www.free.hostultra.com /~olympic/history4.html (1958 words)

	Sidney Ernest King
		George is in the process of creating a web-site for the HMS Impregnable Association.
		HMS Impregnable was a Boys' training ship stuck in the middle of Pompey (Portsmouth) harbour; hard knocks were learned.
		HMS Victory was the Royal Naval Barracks and was/is used for transit purposes and the mustering of ships' companies when being drawn together prior to commissioning.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /derek2000/tree/gp/sk1894.htm (764 words)

	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum
		In September 1743 Rodney was appointed to HMS Sheerness, and in October 1744 transferred to HMS Ludlow Castle, serving in the North Sea.
		In February 1757, he was moved to HMS Dublin, and in the autumn of that year was part of Hawke’s fleet which was involved in the abortive attack on the Basque Roads.
		Rodney, with HMS Achilles as his flagship, was immediately appointed to command a squadron, which on the 6th July bombarded Le Havre, destroying the stores and flat bottomed boats prepared for the contemplated invasion of England.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_george_rodney.htm (1083 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Darwin's Beagle ship 'found'
		A team led by Dr Robert Prescott of the University of St Andrews has located what they believe are the remains of HMS Beagle beneath an Essex marsh.
		Sophisticated radar technology was used to detect signs of wood and metal that may belong to the bottom of HMS Beagle, on which Darwin gathered the natural specimens he used to develop his theory of evolution.
		The correspondence between the coastguard controller-general and his officers pointed to a particular spot on the shore where it was deemed HMS Beagle should be berthed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/science/nature/3490564.stm (635 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Beagle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMS Beagle was originally launched as one of 115 Cherokee-class 10-gun brigs built by the Royal Navy between 1807 and 1830 and used in a variety of roles including surveying and antislaver patrols.
		Her first major voyage was from May 1826 to October 1830 with HMS Adventure, to chart the straits and passages of the southern tip of South America; it was during this voyage that the Beagle Channel, skirting the southern edge of Tierra del Fuego, was explored and named.
		Her crew named a number of geographical features, including Port Darwin (for their former shipmate) and the Flinders River, after the indomitable surveyor of HMS Investigator.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_010300_hmsbeagle.htm (971 words)

	Register of Essex-related Dead of World War II (ROERDOWW2)
		Essex-related includes anyone who died 'in' the county area just defined, or who is buried in or commemorated in Essex, as well as those who were born in, lived in, educated in or employed in the county.
		It also includes all personnel of the Essex Regiment (including those battalions and Essex Yeomanry forces which 'converted' to anti-aircraft or artillery units prior to or during the war) and those whose unit (including vessels) was based in/operating from Essex at the time of death.
		Essex Public Library Service also has copies at many of its branch libraries in the county, and these may be borrowed elsewhere in the UK via the Interloan scheme.
	www.goring1941.freeserve.co.uk /reg01.html (1907 words)

	Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Look at the missile deck on the bow and you'll see one missile about to be loaded into the canister and another one in the canister but the missile hatch is still open.
		HMS Furious, Aircraft Carrier 1918 - A carrier with an island in the middle of the flight deck.
		HMS Ark Royal, #2, #3, #4 by Dave Humphreys of North Wales, UK.
	www.steelnavy.com /gallery_aircraft_carriers.htm (3070 words)

	The Mariners' Museum : Birth of the U.S. Navy
		The cruise of the Essex under the command of David Porter was a textbook example of the role a warship could play in crippling the maritime commerce of its enemy.
		Departing Philadelphia in December 1812, Captain Porter set the Essex for a rendezvous with Captain William Bainbridge and the Constitution in the Cape Verde Islands.
		USS Essex battles the HMS Phoebe and Cherub at Valparaiso, Chile.
	www.mariner.org /usnavy/09/09b.htm (2008 words)

	History News Network
		HISTORIANS BELIEVE they have found the wreck of HMS Beagle, the ship on which Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe more than 170 years ago and whose namesake is to make another journey of discovery in space.
		Robert Prescott, of the University of St Andrews, has traced the last known sighting of the brig to 1870, when it was being used as a watch ship patrolling against smugglers on the Essex marshes.
		It was then sold by the Admiralty in Essex for pounds 525.
	hnn.us /comments/12918.html (316 words)

	Mutiny on the HMS Bounty: Bligh, Christian, Pitcairn, Norfolk
		The Bibliography of HMS Bounty, William Bligh and Pitcairn Island
		The wreck of HMS Pandora (1791) is a major project undertaken by the Queensland Museum.
		HMS Pandora is best known as the frigate which the British Admiralty sent to the South Pacific to bring to justice the men who commandeered the Bounty.
	www.lareau.org /bounty.html (1889 words)

	HMS Ajax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1982 HMS Euryalus and sister ship HMS Leander were diverted from NATO Exercise "Northern Wedding" to go to the aid of the Portuguese Fish Factory Ship "Ave Maria".
		HMS Euryalus paid off at Portsmouth Dockyard along with her sister ship HMS Arethusa in May 1989.
		HMS Euryalus arrived at Barrow-in-Furness on the 26th September 1990.
	www.leanders.plus.com /batch1/euryalus.htm (287 words)

	Hissem_In America
		On 28 April Captain John Alread, Commander of H.M.S. ESSEX {also called the ESSEX-PRIZE] having heard of the pirates' exploits came ashore and informed H. Francis Nicholson H.M. Governor General of Virginia and Captain Passenger of H.M.S. SHOREHAM that there was a Pirate in Lyn-Haven Bay.
		She was joined by HMS HENRY PRIZE, but by 1692 she needed to be careened and cleaned, and in 1693 was deemed unfit.
		HMS DOVER PRIZE arrived to replace HMS HENRY PRIZE, the man-of-war commanded by an ex pirate, Thomas Pound.
	balder.prohosting.com /shissem/Hissem_In_America.html (5059 words)

	HMS Beagle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		James Emery, a lieutenant in HMS Beagle, ran a race against an anonymous...
		A team of maritime archaeologists believe they have uncovered the remains of HMS Beagle, the 10-gun ship Charles Darwin served on as a naturalist.
		El HMS Beagle fue un navío de la Marina Real Británica famoso por su segundo viaje en el que Charles Darwin adquirió los datos y observaciones necesarias para elaborar su Teoría de la evolución basada en la selección natural.
	enciclopedia.cc /HMS_Beagle (554 words)

	HMS Beagle (probably) found at the bottom of a marsh in Essex. \| Samizdata.net
		HMS Beagle (probably) found at the bottom of a marsh in Essex.
		As an Essex girl, I'd rather like to keep it in Essex, if indeed it proves to be HMS Beagle.
		Perhaps Essex's tawdry image could be turned around with the help of interesting and valuable finds such as these - maybe we could open up a new museum somewhere in the middle of the county.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/005573.html (1006 words)

	CNN.com - Remains of Darwin's ship may lie under Essex mud - Feb. 16, 2004
		A group of marine archaeologists may have solved one of the world's most enduring maritime mysteries -- the final resting place of HMS Beagle in which Charles Darwin developed his landmark theory of evolution.
		So far all that has been seen is a radar image of the outline of a hull under some four meters (12 feet) of mud in the marshes of Essex, east of London, with further research needed to verify that it is indeed the Beagle.
		The book, which postulated the theory that species evolved to suit their environments, caused an outcry in religious circles that reverberates to this day.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/science/02/16/science.beagle.reut (508 words)

	HMS Essex - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		HMS Essex - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about HMS Essex contains research on
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/HMS_Essex (202 words)

	DAVID FARRAGUT STYLES, FASHION AND RESEARCH CENTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the War_of_1812, when only 12 years old, he was given command of a prize_ship taken by USS ''Essex'' and brought her safely to port.
		He was wounded and captured during the cruise of the ''Essex'' by HMS ''Phoebe'' in Valparaiso Bay, Chile, on March_28, 1814, but was exchanged in April 1815.
		Through the years that followed, in one assignment after another, he showed the high ability and devotion to duty that would allow him to make a great contribution to the Union victory in the Civil War and to write a famous page in the history of the United States Navy.
	www.cashorclothes.com /David_Farragut (684 words)

	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum
		On board HMS Essex, under a new Captain, Sir John Norris, Palliser was present at the action at Toulon on 11 February 1744.
		In March 1753, he was transferred to HMS Seahorse for revenue protection duties, guarding against smuggling from France and Holland.
		On his return to Britain, Palliser was appointed to HMS Eagle and undertook a passage to Ushant, where he captured several vessels and 217 prisoners.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_hugh_palliser.htm (1715 words)

	Legion of Frontiersmen (NZ Command)
		After nine months on the HMS ROVER, Scott went on to spend the winter of 1887-8 at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich and in March 1888 he was awarded first-class certificates in pilotage, torpedoes and gunnery, coming in with the highest marks in his class in his year of seamanship.
		He was serving on HMS CRESCENT, which was the flagship on the North America station, at the time of his appointment.
		HMS MINERVA towed her from Portsmouth to Gibraltar, HMS VINDICTIVE took her on to Aden and from there HMS FOX towed her to an area 120 miles off the east coast of Socotra where she was left on her own for the final leg.
	frontiersmen.homestead.com /scott.html (16998 words)

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