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	Naval Art Prints of HMS Revenge by Ivan Berryman
		In November 1916 she became the flagship of Admiral Madden (second in command of the Grand Fleet) After the first world war she was sent to The Mediterranean station in 1920 and was stationed with HMS Ramillies at Ismid in June 1920during the Brief war between Greece and Turkey.
		HMS Furious with HMS Revenge by Ivan Berryman.
		The R-Class battleship HMS Revenge slips majestically past the carrier HMS Furious as she lies at anchor as three of her Fairey IIIFs fly overhead on a routine training sortie.
	www.ivanberryman.com /hms_revenge_naval_art_prints_and_naval_paintings.htm (1571 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > HMS Enterprise
		The first HMS Enterprise (1705)[?], 24, a sixth-rate, was known as l'Entreprise before her capture from the French by HMS Triton in May 1705.
		The third HMS Enterprize (1743)[?], 8, was a barca longa[?] captured from Spain in 1743 in the Mediterranean and rated as a sloop by the Royal Navy.
		In 1803, another Enterprize-class frigate, HMS Resource[?] (built at Rotherhithe in 1778) was renamed Enterprize, and joined her sister ship at the Tower as another receiving ship to accommodate men taken up by another press at the end of the Peace of Amiens and the outbreak of the Napoleonic War[?].
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/hm/HMS_Enterprise (2375 words)

	Loony Lenny Online: Gibraltar for Kids
		Isa Ibn al Hassan is appointed Governor of Gibraltar by the authorities in Fez.
		Queen Isabella I decrees Gibraltar to be a Crown property - The Guzmans (Dukes of Medina Sidonia) agree and cede it to her.
		In November, the Governor of Gibraltar, Henry Nugent, is mortally wounded at San Pablo Battery (North Bastion).
	www.gibconnect.com /~loonylenny/timeline/timeline.htm (2089 words)

	The History of HMS Bristol
		HMS Bristol fought in the West Indies and helped relieve Gibraltar before chasing the French across the Indian Ocean.
		Contact was made with the German fleet while HMS Bristol was closed down for maintenance, and the ship was two hours late in joining the chase.
		She could be the last HMS Bristol - the Admiralty says that no ship is being built or planned that is suitable to carry the name of the city.
	weldgen.tripod.com /bristol-history-com/id67.html (854 words)

	HMS Enterprise
		The first HMS Enterprise (1705)[?], 24, a sixth-rate, was known as l'Entreprise before her capture from the French by HMS Triton in May 1705.
		The third HMS Enterprize (1743)[?], 8, was a barca longa[?] captured from Spain in 1743 in the Mediterranean and rated as a sloop by the Royal Navy.
		In 1803, another Enterprize-class frigate, HMS Resource[?] (built at Rotherhithe in 1778) was renamed Enterprize, and joined her sister ship at the Tower as another receiving ship to accommodate men taken up by another press at the end of the Peace of Amiens and the outbreak of the Napoleonic War[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMS_Enterprize.html (2350 words)

	Bermuda's History from 1700 to 1899
		Colonel Arnold devised the early massive building and engineering program for HM Dockyard, that led to Bermuda being referred to later as the "Gibraltar of the West." His obvious accomplishments, skills and obvious leadership qualities in Bermuda were such that he was marked for prompt promotion and increased military responsibilities.
		Construction of HM Dockyard in Bermuda was expedited.
		H.M.S. Vixen displaced 1,230 tons and was built by Lungley Shipyard, Deptford, England, in 1864, and launched in 1867.
	www.bermuda-online.org /history1700-1899.htm (9848 words)

	Articles - HMS Gibraltar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was the first command of John Byng, who was afterwards to be court-martialled and executed in the opening stages of the Seven Years´ War.
		* The third ´´Gibraltar´´ was an American 14-gun brig captured in 1779, then in turn captured by the Spanish in 1781 and renamed ´´Salvador´´, then recaptured by HMS ´´Anson´´ in 1800.
		* The fourth ´´Gibraltar´´ was the 80-gun Spanish ´´FÃ©nix´´ captured at the battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1780, used as a powder hulk in 1813 and broken up in 1836.
	www.kimia-sains.com /articles/HMS_Gibraltar (221 words)

	HMS Gibraltar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Gibraltar was a 20-gun sixth-rate built in 1711, rebuilt 1727, and sold 1748.
		The fourth Gibraltar was the 80-gun Spanish Fénix captured at the battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1780, used as a powder hulk in 1813 and broken up in 1836.
		The fifth Gibraltar was a 101-gun screw first-rate launched in 1860, on loan as a training ship in 1872, renamed Grampian in 1889, and sold 1899.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Gibraltar (281 words)

	Booklist (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sloop-of-war, one of the escorts with HMS Hyperion for the transports that sail from Gibraltar to Cozar Island.
		In close combat against HMS Achates, she is forced to strike when a boarding party destroys her main mast and a British two-decker is approaching.
		HMS Achates and Agamemnon were built in a shipyard on the river.
	hornpipermark.00freehost.com /Bolitho_index.htm (11347 words)

	HMS Gibraltar - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The third Gibraltar was an American 14-gun brig captured in 1779, then in turn captured by the Spanish in 1781 and renamed Salvador, then recaptured by HMS Anson in 1800.
		The fourth Gibraltar was the 80-gun Spanish Fenix captured in 1780, used as a powder hulk in 1813 and broken up in 1836.
		The sixth Gibraltar was a 1st class cruiser launched in 1892, made into a depot ship in 1912, and sold 1923.
	www.music.us /education/H/HMS-Gibraltar.htm (418 words)

	Royal Navy: History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The First HMS Nottingham (1703-16) was a fourth rate cruiser of 924 tons, 365 men and 60 guns.
		The Fourth HMS Nottingham (1796-99) was a 67-ton river barge.
		A light `Town Class' cruiser of 5,440 tons, 430 feet in length and a complement of 401 men, she had 2 inch thick armour plating and was armed with 9 six-inch guns, one thirteen-pound anti-aircraft gun and 2 twenty-one inch torpedo tubes.
	www.royal-marines.mod.uk /static/pages/1608.html (454 words)

	G A A (Jim) Hooper's family history - Person Page 34
		HMS Suffolk returned.to Port Royal in June and remained there until the end of November when she set sail for England.
		HMS Sterling Castle sailed to Blackstakes on 7 September 1755, to.the Nore on 30 September, and went to sea at the end of November, returning to the Downes at the end of December.
		HMS Lyon was at Spithead by the end of September, and to sea at the end of the next month.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~linleymh/Jim-p/p34.htm (6645 words)

	History : HMS Nottingham : Type 42 Destroyers : Surface Fleet : Operations and Support : Royal Navy
		The First HMS Nottingham (1703-16) was a fourth rate cruiser of 924 tons, 365 men and 60 guns.
		The Fourth HMS Nottingham (1796-99) was a 67-ton river barge.
		A light `Town Class' cruiser of 5,440 tons, 430 feet in length and a complement of 401 men, she had 2 inch thick armour plating and was armed with 9 six-inch guns, one thirteen-pound anti-aircraft gun and 2 twenty-one inch torpedo tubes.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server.php?show=nav.1697 (489 words)

	GANT One Name Study :: Famous and Infamous
		James Gant appears on the appropriate muster roll of the HMS Bellerophon for the Battle of the Nile.
		HMS Bellerophon was a 74 gun 3rd Rate was commanded by the Irish Captain Henry D'Esterre Darby, who was wounded early in the action.
		At Trafalgar she was the fifth in Admiral Collingwood's Southern division and thus was heavily engaged, battling the French L'Aigle to a bloody standstill at the cost of her captain John Cooke dead, 26 other crew killed and 123 wounded.
	www.gant-name.org.uk /famous.html (903 words)

	Busk's Navies of the World - 1859 - Britain (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMS Waterloo was renamed Conqueror after the original Conqueror was wrecked at the end of 1861.
		The damage to the upperworks of HMS Agamemnon and the French steam battleship Ville de Paris at Sevastopol in particular had convinced many that guns on the upper deck were very vulnerable to shell fire and should be reduced.
		An early screw sloop was HMS Cruizer of 160' long on deck, 1073 tons displacement and armed with 17 32-pr guns.
	thomo.coldie.net /hole_html/britain_1859.html (5301 words)

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		HMS Bristol fought in the West Indies and helped relieve Gibraltar before chasing the French across the Indian Ocean.
		Contact was made with the German fleet while HMS Bristol was closed down for maintenance, and the ship was two hours late in joining the chase.
		She could be the last HMS Bristol - the Admiralty says that no ship is being built or planned that is suitable to carry the name of the city.
	bristolhistory.com /bristol-at-sea---hms-bristol.html (911 words)

	A History of Ships Named Enterprise
		Light cruisers HMS Enterprise and HMS Glasgow intercepted a squadron of 10 German destroyers sent to escort a German blockade runner into France.
		HMS Enterprise is assigned to Task Force 122 Western Naval Forces, under the command of Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk.
		HMS Repulse was sunk 10 December 1941 by Japanese torpedo bombers near Singapore.
	starchive.cs.umanitoba.ca /?SNE (6524 words)

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		The master & 12 crewmembers from the Clonlara were picked up by corvette HMS Campion and landed at Gibraltar on 24 August.
		The master, three crewmembers and four gunners from the Empire Oak were picked up by corvette HMS Campanula, later transferred to destroyer HMS Velox and landed at Gibraltar on 25 August.
		At 1723 a second torpedo struck HMS Bickerton & sank her.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/august/22Aug.txt (2431 words)

	British Light Infantry Regiments
		The regiment was in the disastrous attempt on Quebec, made by General Hill and Sir Hovenden Walker, in 1711, when through ignorance of the navigation, several thousand seamen and soldiers were lost in fruitless efforts to ascend the St. Lawrence.
		The 29th left Gibraltar in October, 1745, for Louisburg in Cape Breton where it remained until 1749, when it left for Chebuctoo Harbour, Nova Scotia and was employed in clearing the site of the present city of Halifax.
		The regiment was sent to Gibraltar, and afterwards to America, in 1746, to assist the New Englanders in their enterprise against the French settlement of Cape Breton, but after the peace was withdrawn from Louisburg to Nova Scotia, and there served many years.
	www.lightinfantry.org.uk /regiments/Canada/can_infantry.htm (6960 words)

	Timeline Great Britain 1711-1799
		1711 Dec 31, Duke of Marlborough was fired as English army commander.
		1711 English ships captured the Spanish galleon San Joaquin, part of a fleet returning to Spain from Portobelo under Don Miguel Augustin de Villanueva, who was mortally wounded.
		He was the British naval officer who was the victim of two mutinies, the most famous on the HMS Bounty which was taken over by Fletcher Christian in 1789.
	www.timelines.ws /countries/GB_C_1711_1799.HTML (14459 words)

	Timeline Great Britain 1711-1799
		1711 Dec 31, Duke of Marlborough was fired as English army commander.
		1711 English ships captured the Spanish galleon San Joaquin, part of a fleet returning to Spain from Portobelo under Don Miguel Augustin de Villanueva, who was mortally wounded.
		He was the British naval officer who was the victim of two mutinies, the most famous on the HMS Bounty which was taken over by Fletcher Christian in 1789.
	timelines.ws /countries/GB_C_1711_1799.HTML (14459 words)

	HMSWishart
		Launched in 1919, H.M.S. Wishart (left) was in the Atlantic Fleet from May 1920 to July 1923 when she transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet.
		In 1987, H.M.S. Wishart was honoured by the issue of a postage stamp featuring her heraldic badge (above).
		The others were the cruiser H.M.S. Charybdis, the destroyer H.M.S. Antelope, and the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Eagle.
	www.wishart.org /hmswishart.html (1066 words)

	isom
		The Pedestal Convoy - HMS Indomitable by Anthony Saunders.
		Ascot was founded in 1711 by Queen Anne, who noticed a natural clearing near to the village of East Cote, now called Ascot, whilst out riding on the edge of Windsor Great Park.
		An enthusiastic patron of the relatively new sport, the Queen ordered a course to be laid out for horses to gallop at full stretch and thus the Royal Racecourse was born.
	www.sportsgallery.co.uk /isom.htm (1084 words)

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		The Phoenicians left the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar (Pillars of Hercules), sailing into the Atlantic Ocean, reaching all the way north to the Scilly Isles (Tin Islands) in the English Channel, and to the coast of the island nation of Great Britain (Albion).
		Travelling to the south-west from the Straits of Gibraltar, the Phoenicians opened the island of Madeira and the Canary Islands to trade.
		The results of his observations, were assembled and became the basis of his widely known book, "The Origin of the Species", published in 1859.
	www.oceansatlas.org /unatlas/about/research/background/understandingtheocean.html (13876 words)

	The Royal Navy Clearance Divers
		Lt Cdr Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb was one of those involved in clearance operations in Italy having seen success against the limpet mines placed on ships in Gibraltar harbour by Italian charioteers operating from a ship interned across the bay in Algeceiras harbour.
		The AEDU was formed in 1942 under the command of the first RN Superintendent of Diving, a submarine officer from HMS Dolphin, Lt Cdr (later Capt) W O Shelford.
		With the end of the war, Vernon(D) at Brixham was closed on 1 Oct 1945 and the ‘P’ Parties moved their headquarters to HMS Vernon but only for a short period.
	www.hardeodcafe.com /RNCDEOD.htm (1910 words)

	HMS Gibraltar - HMSGibraltar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Gibraltar, after the colony of Gibraltar.
		The first Gibraltar was a 20-gun sixth-rate built in 1711, rebuilt 1727, and sold 1748.
		It was the first command of John Byng, who was afterwards to be court-martialled and executed in the opening stages of the Seven Years' War.
	www.kopete.org /HMS-Gibraltar.html (70 words)

	The Enterprise - TrekUnited Forum
		Light cruisers HMS Enterprise and HMS Glasgow intercepted a squadron of 10 German destroyers sent to escort a German blockade runner into France.
		HMS Enterprise is assigned to Task Force 122 Western Naval Forces, under the command of Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk.
		HMS Repulse was sunk 10 December 1941 by Japanese torpedo bombers near Singapore.
	www.trekunited.com /community/?showtopic=9860 (4198 words)

	Ships of the 18th Cent. Royal Navy D (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1711, with the BEDFORD GALLEY and the EXPERIMENT, he escorted a convoy to Lisbon, accompanying Sir Hovenden WALKER, and his unfortunate expedition against Quebec, a hundred leagues to the westward of Scilly before parting company.
		HM Armed Schooner Diana -- rated 6 guns & 10 swivels, 30 men.
		On 4th February he sailed from Plymouth to escort the SEAHORSE, which was carrying the astronomers who were now too late to observe the transit of Venus from their original destination, several leagues to the westward, to see them safely on their way to the southern hemisphere.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /18d.HTM (4339 words)

	Thurston's World - Interesting Foreign Places (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gibraltar, the strait, once connected Europe and Africa as a fragile isthmus.
		The "Rock of Gibraltar", 1396 feet high and called Calpe by ancient Greeks, is the northern "Pillar of Hercules." The rock borders the strait, a narrows that is eight miles wide at its narrowest.
		Gibraltar was named for the Moslem General Geb-el-Tarik who led an army across the strait from Africa in 711, and then conquered Visigothic Spain.
	www.healdthurston.com /ForeignPlaces.htm (15019 words)

	NAUTICAL NONFICTION BOOKLIST
		Bligh, William The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty, 1792 William Bligh's account of the fatal voyage of the Bounty, and his subsequent 3,600 mile trip to Timor in an open boat.
		Heaps, Leo The Log of the Centurion, 1973 Based on the original papers of Captain Philip Saumarez on board HMS Centurion, Lord Anson's flagship during his circumnavigation, this book is a factual account of the events described in the novels Manilla Galleon and Golden Ocean (among others).
		Pope writes his account of the 1797 mutiny on the HMS Hermoine with insight into the personalities involved, a seaman's knowledge of ships and sailing and a novelist's skills at narrative and plot.
	euler.sfasu.edu /booklists/nautnonf.html (17129 words)

	Military History Department
		The Saldanha seafarers had sole rights to the lucrative fishing until 1711, and established small huts for the storage of their nets.
		Plans for development, however, were soon stunted by his death a year later; and the 1713 smallpox epidemic, which wiped out the local Khoi tribes, brought trade in the Saldanha area to a standstill.
		As fate would have it, the lack of water and the return of the Cape to the Dutch in 1801 put an end to this idea; which was also not resusitated after the Second British Occupation in 1806.
	academic.sun.ac.za /mil/mil_history/saldanha.htm (3168 words)

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