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	HMS Good Hope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Good Hope, 35, was captured by the French in May 1665.
		The second Good Hope, 6, was a flyboat captured from the Dutch in 1665 and sold in 1667.
		The third Good Hope was an armoured cruiser launched in 1901 and sunk in 1914 at the Battle of Coronel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Good_Hope (189 words)

	HMS Good Hope (1901) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Good Hope was a 14,100-ton Drake-class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy; she was originally planned to be named Africa, but was renamed before she was launched.
		Laid down on 11th September 1899 and launched on 21 February 1901, with her heaviest gun being of 9.2 inch calibre, she became the flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron, Atlantic Fleet, in 1906, and in 1908 became the flagship of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron.
		She was sunk along with HMS Monmouth by the German armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau under Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee with the loss of her entire complement of 900 hands in the Battle of Coronel, on 1 November 1914, off the Chilean coast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Good_Hope_(1901) (512 words)

	HMS Good Hope
		HMS Good Hope along with HMS Drake, HMS King Alfred and HMS Leviathan made up the Drake Class of armoured cruisers.
		HMS Good Hope became the flagship to the 1st cruiser squadron, Atlantic Fleet 1906 and in 1908 became the flagship to the 2nd cruiser squadron.
		She went into the reserve fleet in 1913 but on the outbreak of world war one joined the 6th cruiser squadron, she became the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock but was sunk during the Battle of Coronel 1st November 1914 by the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_good_hope.htm (572 words)

	HMS Kent
		HMS Kent, armoured cruiser of the Monmouth Class, launched 6th March 1901 and served in the China Station 1906 -1913.
		At the outbreak of World War One she was sent to the Falklands and took part in the Battle of the Falklands, 8th December 1914, sinking the German light cruiser, Nurnberg.
		HMS Kent returned in May 1915 and was sent to Vladivostok in January 1919 to support American and Japanese operations against the Bolshevik Red Army.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_kent.htm (576 words)

	The Gray Monk: Lost at Coronel 1914
		This time it is the Armoured Cruiser, HMS Good Hope, flagship of the South Atlantic squadron under Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock.
		Built in 1901 as one of a "Class" of four known as the "Drake" Class, they were obsolete when the First World War erupted in August 1914.
		This is what happened to Good Hope and her consort Monmouth when Cradock attempted to engage the more powerful ships of Graf von Spee's East Asiatic Squadron off the Coronel Coast of South America on 1st November 1914 in a rising gale and heavy seas.
	graymonk.mu.nu /archives/2006/02/lost_at_coronel.html (608 words)

	Roll of Honour - Hampshire - Yateley
		Died 1/11/1914 on HMS Good Hope in the Battle of Coronel, Chile.
		One of Good Hope's major defects was that it couldn't use its main 6in guns in heavy seas and had to rely on just 2 9.2in guns.
		HMS Invincible was an Invincible-class battlecruiser built Newcastle 1908; the ship took part in the Battle of Falklands that revenged the loss of HMS Good Hope on 7/12/1914.
	www.roll-of-honour.com /Hampshire/Yateley.html (2518 words)

	Drake Class Armoured Cruisers
		HMS Drake had been involved in escort duties when she was torpedoed The captain.
		This vessel’s original name was “Africa,” but it was changed to “Good Hope” before launching, in honour of the Cape Colony government, who had decided to present the Imperial government with a sum equivalent to the interest on her capital value.
		HMS Good Hope before she was sunk by the German fleet off the coast of Chile on 1st November 1914.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /drake_class.htm (1460 words)

	VERYAN MEN WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR I
		HMS Monmouth had been launched on 21 February 1901, and was completed in November 1903.
		In August 1914, on the outbreak of war, HMS Monmouth became part of the 5th Cruiser Squadron, which was immediately despatched to Pernambuco in the eastern part of South America.
		The squadron, of which the flagship was HMS Good Hope, a Drake class cruiser of 14,000 tons, was sent to protect British and allied shipping from large German ships which were known to be in that general area.
	webhome.idirect.com /~djtrounce/VerWarMem.html (8342 words)

	Armoured Cruisers - WW1 Naval Combat
		HMS Endymion like most of the Edgar class started the war as part of the 10th Cruiser Squadron which was tasked with enforcing the northern blockade on Germany.
		HMS Drake, Good Hope, King Alfred, Leviathan Laid down 1899, completed 1902-1903.
		She was one of the many armoured cruisers sunk during the war with many of the rest relegated to secondary tasks by the end, the type being superseded by the battlecruiser.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /armoured.htm (341 words)

	Good Hope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Good Hope is the name of one place in the United States:
		HMS Good Hope, including HMS Good Hope (1901)
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Good_Hope (93 words)

	History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - Ascension Island
		However the discovery was not publicised and it was Alfonso de Albuquerque, in charge of four vessels on their way to India, who rediscovered the island in 1503 and named it Ascension, after Ascension Day, the day on which it was sighted.
		The death of Napoleon in 1821 did not affect the situation on Ascension as it was by now used as a supply depot for ships of the West Africa Squadron engaged in the suppression of the slave trade.
		In 1901 the Eastern Telegraph Company contracted the same company to manufacture and lay cables from St Vincent to Madeira, 1130 nm, and from there a 1375 nm cable to Porthcurno.
	www.atlantic-cable.com /CableCos/Ascension (1721 words)

	HMS Monmouth - The Coronel Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The County (or Monmouth) class were built to increase the size of the fleet in response to other countries stepping up their warship production.
		HMS Monmouth was initially commissioned into the home fleet but later transferred.
		Sunk by gunfire on 1st November 1914 by the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau off the Chilean Coast during the battle of Coronel, the entire crew was lost.
	www.coronel.org.uk /monmouth.php (105 words)

	John Vaughan & HMAS Sydney- Part 1
		At the St Nazaire Ship Yard, under the 1901 Programme the Arquebus Class Destroyer Mousquet is launched on 7 August 1902 and her sister ship the Pistolet is launched on 29 May 1903.
		Nervous captains of British merchantmen must have felt a degree of comfort and security to see her steam towards them, until her true colours were seen as the ensign of the Kaiser’s Navy and a shot across the bows was swiftly followed by the signal to “Heave to at once”.
		the Leipzig is sunk by HMS Glasgow and Cornwall and HMS Kent sinks the Nurnburg.
	homepages.tesco.net /~pandin/page23.html (3416 words)

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	www.loc.gov /nls/catalogs/youngreaders/1996-1997/nonfict.txt (20678 words)

	HMS Good Hope - The Coronel Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		They: were good steamers and very economical in service.
		HMS Good Hope was originally to be named HMS Africa.
		She became the flagship of Rear Admiral Cradock of the South American station during August: 1914.
	www.coronel.org.uk /goodhope.php (92 words)

	The Gray Monk: February 2006 Archives
		I watched the Clive James late night chat show last night with mounting hope that, at long last, the trend to pander to the sensibilities of a fanatical few among the Muslim community could be at, at least, the beginning of the end.
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		I rather hope and think the latter, that we are in the process even now of evolving a higher species who may take us that one step closer to God than we are now.
	graymonk.mu.nu /archives/2006/02 (16484 words)

	Book Report
		Sadly not to good for this underrated novel, in dusty and creased dustwrapper.
		A good copy with articles by various experts on different aspects of Italian art in the 20th century, plus biographers of all the artists represented and a select bibliography.
		Paperback book, in very good condition, a little rubbing and a small crease to front cover and a single crease to rear cover, some slight browning.
	www.krokodile.co.uk /list/b.htm (9578 words)

	The Gray Monk: Interesting things Archives
		Duntulm provided a good spot for a good walk and a light lunch, while we enjoyed the breeze off the sea, the sound of the sea and the birds.
		As an idea of size, her second mast from the bow is the main mast and this is 240 feet in height, and the yard on which the lower of the two square sails is set is made of iron and weighs 7 tons.
		After reading through all this I hope you are still able to enjoy your piece of chocolate now and then and perhaps will from now on also appreciate the work of countless scientists, engineers and manufacturers who put so much effort into turning the bitter tasting cocoa bean into this heavenly product...
	www.graymonk.mu.nu /archives/interesting_things (15258 words)

	NAUTICAL NONFICTION BOOKLIST
		Green, Alfred J. Jottings from a Cruise, 1944, 1947 The captain's diary of an ill-fated voyage aboard the four masted barque Mertola from Wales to the Cape of Good Hope, across to South America and shipwrecked in the North Atlantic.
		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)

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		I hope to install a favourite links page shortly, with links to pedigree dog sites, to favourite authors, to family members and favourite artists.
	www.mike-herwin.com (1048 words)

	Ellerman - George Smith & Sons / City Line
		By 1852 voyages were being made to Valparaiso and the West Indies, Australia and New Zealand and later between India, New York and the UK.
		In 1901 the company was sold to J. Ellerman and became Ellerman's City Line.
		1901 taken over by JRE, 1914 taken over by Admiralty and converted to dummy of battleship HMS ST VINCENT, 1919 reverted to JRE (Bucknall Line), 1924 scrapped.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/ellerman4.htm (1363 words)

	CHRISTOPHER A LONG - Michel Vlasto In WWl
		The call-up came in the customary terse form: a telegram ordered him to report to Devonport and HMS Canopus – in which he saw action in the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands in 1914.
		At HMS Bighi, Malta, he met his future wife, Chrissy Mitchell Croil, then a Royal Navy V.A.D. HMS Canopus in 1914 or 1915.
		She was presumably moving north, along with her hospital ships, to support the impending attack on the Turkish batteries in the Dardanelles and the massive allied invasion of Gallipoli on the opposite shore.
	www.christopherlong.co.uk /per/vlasto.wwl.html (2181 words)

	Shackleton news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Good progress continues to be made towards creating a new membership for younger people.
		Whilst in HMS Wakeful he was wounded when she rammed a German submarine in August 1918.
		Here too are the details of Shackleton's upbringing in Kildare; his time in the Merchant Navy; his 1901 voyage on the Discovery with Scott; his 1907 Nimrod expedition; his marriage and love affairs; his life as a public figure and politician; and the haunting story of his final, fatal expedition on the Quest.
	www.jamescairdsociety.com /latest.php (8316 words)

	Ringmer War Memorial. Herbert Allcorn
		By 16th August Good Hope had been ordered south towards Panama under Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock’s flag and she was later joined by other units on 14th September.
		She was more of a hindrance than a help as she was too slow to keep up with the other ships in the event of a chase.
		His medals were sent to his widow who was pregnant with their son at the time of her husband’s death.
	www.ringmer.info /rhsg/warmem/herbertallcorn.htm (1020 words)

	Cody -Diary
		Good results with a flight of one pilot, two lifters and one carrier - a weight of 140lbs was sent up 300ft.
		In same letter he mentions his improvements on a quick firing small arm, which he hoped would be of use to either the Army or Navy.
		The boat was making a good speed, 6 or 8 miles an hour, when half way across the wind fell with the kite pointing away from the line he was travelling.
	www.smaga.de /ecrono.htm (6199 words)

	Alan Williams Family History - pafg97 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		He died on 1 Nov 1914 in HMS Good Hope (Battle Of Coronal).
		He was counted in a census in 1901 in Woodmill.
		She was counted in a census in 1901 in 176 Castle Road.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /alan.williams23/pafg97.htm (230 words)

	Judson and the Empire
		This information he put to good use in his first naval story, Judson and the Empire, and in it, the conversation in the Naval Club is very similar in tone to what the real `rag` must have been.
		Mohawk’s station was “Cape of Good Hope and West Africa”, so perhaps Kipling was lucky that he was unable to accept Captain Bayly’s invitation of a cruise - West Africa was still `the White Man’s grave`.
		That seems to have been his last seagoing appointment, and in 1901 he was with the Coastguard (which the Navy ran in those days), and seems to have retired shortly afterwards.
	www.kipling.org.uk /naval3.htm (1587 words)

	History of Diego Garcia
		She was carrying 5,644 tons of ammunition and blew up after being struck by a single torpedo with the loss of all 69 crewmen and six passengers.
		The British government designates the lagoon and east arm of the atoll as a 'Ramsar Site' (conservation of wetlands), because it is 'a particularly good example of a relatively unpolluted coral reef system in a near-natural state, of special value for maintaining the genetic and ecological diversity of the region, especially its marine life.
		US Air Force personnel, force to live in the tent city that comprises Camp Justice, hope that MP Brake's attention will get the place shut down soon, "so we can live in trailers or something," a resident who requested his name be withheld has said.
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/realhistory.html (10565 words)

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