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  MALAYSIAN EMBASSY IN SEOUL(주한 말레이시아 대사관) history
Singapore, however, was excluded and considered to be a separate case on the grounds of its economy, racial structure, and strategic importance, and was to remain a British colony.
Prior to the publication of the proposals, London had despatched special envoy Sir Harold MacMichael to call upon the Malay Sultans to obtain their agreement for the British Crown to implement the legislation of a new constitution.
Tunku visited London in the same month, and reached agreement in principle with the British Government on the idea of Malaysia and the proposed merger with Singapore as a first move within the wider framework.
www.malaysia.or.kr /history.htm   (15338 words)

  
  J&G History of British Warships | Reports on Ships and Battle honours
Having served on HMS Birmingham for two and a half years and then briefly on HMS Sheffield, or old shiny as she was efectionately known, I would like give a brief bit about this grand old ship.
HMS Sheffield was one of ten Town class light cruisers that were being built rapidly, in anticipation of the forthcoming hostility with Germany.
HMS Sheffield was to become a special ship due to her affiliation with the city of Sheffield.All her fittings that would have normally been made of brass were made of stainless steel (hence her nickname 'old shiny') a corrosion resistant shiny steel with a high
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  HMS London Information
The fifth London was a 6-gun busse purchased in 1756 and wrecked 1758.
The sixth London was a 6-gun busse purchased in 1759 and in the records until 1764.
The ninth London was a Formidable-class battleship launched in 1899, converted to a minelayer in May 1918, and sold in 1920.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/HMS_London   (281 words)

  
 About HMSC
In 1636 one writer compared its sound in a church to 'a ray of sunshine piercing the shadows'.
The sackbut is the direct forerunner of the modern trombone - indeed the Italians already called it trombone, or 'large trumpet' - but perfectly matches the vocal timbre of the cornett, thanks to its relatively narrow bore and shallow mouthpiece.
The group’s illustrious sounding name is taken from Matthew Locke’s “five-part tthings for His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts” that were probably played during the coronation celebrations for King Charles II in 1661.
www.hmsc.co.uk /abouthmsc.html   (532 words)

  
 HMS Mayflower ship model plans and drawings.
She was commissioned and financed on that occasion by the City of London.
A Mayflower of Leigh appears in the London port books of 1606, taking on a cargo of cloth for Middelburg in Holland; her master was Robert Bonner of Leigh.
On January 28, 1620, Jones brought the Mayflower in to London and landed a cargo of 113 1/4 tons of French wine in eight lots, the biggest 30 1/4 tons, the smallest 8 tons.
www.bestscalemodels.com /hmsmayflower.html   (1294 words)

  
 Biographical Notes 1
After serving on different ships, he was sent on HMS Reliance to New South Wales, where he and his friend George Bass explored the coast south of Botany Bay.
After a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was promoted to a lieutenancy, he surveyed in February 1798 the Furneaux Islands north of Tasmania and went with Bass in September on the 25 ton sloop Norfolk to prove by circumnavigation that Van Diemen's Land was an island.
surgeon on H.M.S. Reliance on which Flinders first came to Australia, born at Aswarby, Lincolnshire, and trained as a surgeon, was deeply interested in zoology and botany, being the first person to describe taxonomically the wombat and white albatross.
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 HMS London, British heavy cruiser, WW2
HMS LONDON remained on Station until January 1946 when she returned to UK.
Whilst in action against Chinese Communist shore batteries with HM Sloop BLACK SWAN the ship was hit by 23 shells which caused major damage.
HMS LONDON returned to UK on 18th June 1949 and arrived in Chatham on 8th September.
www.naval-history.net /xGM-Chrono-06CA-London.htm   (2158 words)

  
 London England
The Virginia Company of London was a joint-stock company set up by a group of merchants and wealthy gentry for the purpose of financing and establishing a colony in America, with the aim of making a profit.
The mayor and sheriffs of London.: Action by William Mayhewe, drover, for the price of sheep.
[In Latin] Henry Shirley alias Gilmet of London.
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 Loss of HMS Glorious
ON THE AFTERNOON of Saturday the eighth of June, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent were intercepted in the Norwegian Sea by the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.
D/NHB/10/2/7A Directorate of Naval Staff Duties, Ministry of Defense, London, 19 August, 1991, with details of enemy reports made by HMS Glorious, and a copy of Gneisenau's plot of the action.
3 Survivors taking passage in HMS Veteran reported that the German ships were disposed on on each quarter with the largest ship to starboard apparently a Hipper class cruiser "…with a cut-away bow and clinker screen." Both Gneisenau and Hipper had clipper bows and funnel cowls at the time.
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 Captains
Detained in London against his will by the King, he was not allowed to return to Yorkshire until late in 1535 and about a year after his arrival in the north for the rising known as the Pilgrimage of Grace.
He received her at the Tower gates on her arrival at London on 3 August 1553 and was restored to his office of Constable and created Lord Chamberlain of her household.
He proceeded to London with the new queen, and was rewarded by the posts of Vice-Chamberlain of the Royal Household, Captain of the Guard, and a seat on the privy council on 31 July 1553, the offices vacated by the attainder of Sir John Gates.
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 Treasure Ships Around The World   (Site not responding. Last check: )
HMS SUSSEX - On December 27, 1693, a mighty fleet of 166 merchant vessels and more than 40 men-of-war gathered off Portsmouth.
At their head was the pride of the Royal Navy: HMS Sussex, an 80-gun ship of the line launched just eight months earlier, to destroy the forces of Britain's enemy, those of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
The Lloyd's of London insurance payout was the largest ever at the time.
www.treasurelore.com /florida/treasure_ships.htm   (2456 words)

  
 HMS Ark Royal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Ark Royal is a name that has been borne by five ships in the British Royal Navy.
Built in Blyth, Northumberland, she was launched in 1914, she served in the Dardanelles Campaign and throughout World War I.
She was renamed HMS Pegasus in 1934, to free the name Ark Royal for a new ship, and was broken up in 1950.
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At 1636, a torpedo hit MS Almkerk on the starboard side and a minute later a second hit on the portside.
HMS Campobello was beyond salvage and her crew (35 men) was taken off.
The next day, the vessel was towed to Oran by tug HMS Restive, then to Mers el Kebir, where she was beached & later declared a total loss after the vessel broke in two.
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 Bristol - 1700 Onwards   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1720, he returned to London, but his successor, George Phenney, was a failure and the islanders asked that he return, this he did in 1729 along with his son and daughter.
One of the first bequests outside of London, for the establishment of a parish church was made in 1699 by Miss Mary Gray, of Temple parish, who was left £50 for the purchase of land, the proceeds of which were to be used for the education of seven poor orphans.
London residents took to sending "News Letters" that often gave eyewitness accounts of what was happening in the capital.
www.brisray.com /bristol/bhist6.htm   (10353 words)

  
 HMS London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The eighth London was a 6-gun busse purchased in 1756 and wrecked 1758.
The ninth London was a 6-gun busse purchased in 1759 and in the records until 1764.
The twelth London was a Formidable-class battleship launched in 1899, converted to a minelayer in May 1918, and sold in 1920.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_London   (381 words)

  
 Military Zone - British Council
The first HMS Ark Royal, a 38-gun ship, was built in the dockyards of London in 1587.
The fourth HMS Ark Royal, launched in May 1950, was an Audacious-class fleet aircraft carrier.
The fifth HMS Ark Royal is an Invincible-class aircraft carrier.
www.learnenglish.org.uk /militaryenglish/magazine/people.asp?person=84   (439 words)

  
 HMS Ark Royal Information
HMS Ark Royal is a name that has been borne by five ships in the British Royal Navy.
Built in Blyth, Northumberland, she was launched in 1914, she served in the Dardanelles Campaign and throughout World War I.
She was renamed HMS Pegasus in 1934, to free the name Ark Royal for a new ship, and was broken up in 1950.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal   (298 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Historical research by the Zeeuws Archief showed that De Ruyter's name in 1635 was "Trouwhand", and that he wasn't named "De Ruyter" until 1636, only adopting himself this name in April 1637.
In the summer of 1636 he remarried, this time to a daughter of a wealthy burgher named Neeltje Engels, who would give him four children.
The Medway raid was a costly and embarrassing defeat for the English, resulting in the loss of the English flagship HMS Royal Charles and bringing the Dutch close to London and the war to its end.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Michiel_Adriaenszoon_de_Ruyter   (2311 words)

  
 Darwin Online Bibliography of works cited   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological changes which have affected their area, especially during the epoch of the Northern Drift.
The zoology of the voyage of HMS Erebus and Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843.
Stanbury, D. A narrative of the voyage of HMS Beagle being passages from the 'Narrative' written by Captain FitzRoy selected and edited by David Stanbury.
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 George Peabody (1795-1869) - Educational Philanthropist George Peabody (1795-1869)-1 of 4
GP remained in London the rest of his life (1837-69), 32 years, except for three U.S. visits: 1-Sept. 15, 1856 to Aug. 19, 1857; 2-May 1, 1866 to May 1, 1867; and 3-June 8 to Sept. 29, 1869.
In London, Sept.-Dec. 1954, we registered as student researchers at the Univ. of London and rented an inexpensive "bed-sitter" through student housing.
HMS Monarch was chosen as funeral ship partly because of the public attention it would draw and partly to honor his philanthropy in the U.S. and especially in London.
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 History of Tobago   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Spaniards from Trinidad attacked Dutch settlers in Tobago in 1636.
In 1698 HMS Speedwell with soldiers on board was hastily dispatched from Barbados to suppress pirates who had established themselves on the island.
On hearing that preparations were being made for a settlement under the supervision of the Duke of Courland to be held by Sir William Waller, the British Government issued orders to stop all vessels leaving for Tobago.
www.knowthecaribbean.com /trinidad/tobagohistory.htm   (1918 words)

  
 HMS Ark Royal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
HMS Ark Royal (R07) in Greenwich dock, London]] HMS Ark Royal is a name that has been borne by five ships in the British Royal Navy.
The third Ark Royal (91) saw action in World War II and was sunk by a U-boat in 1941.
Whilst serving in the Mediterranean She was called upon to search for Bismarck in the Atlantic.
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 bfparker's Xanga Site
Peabody heard that she was a widow, after the lapse of years and the attendant incumbrances which it had brought to her, he came back and again addressed her while she was obliged to work for a living, keeping a boarding house.
Carson had the old world idea, of those who are strictly brought up, that there was a great deal of deceitfulness in riches, and the story goes that she spent all night in prayer to know whether or not she ought to accept Mr.
GP in London from 1837 as head of George Peabody & Co., was a rising broker-banker dealing with American securities In 1838, when he was age 42, he met, fell in love with, and was engaged to Esther Elizabeth Hoppin (1819-1905).
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 HMS Ark Royal at AllExperts
HMS Ark Royal is a name that has been borne by five ships in the British Royal Navy.
Built in Blyth, Northumberland, she was launched in 1914, she served in the Dardanelles Campaign and throughout World War I.
She was renamed HMS Pegasus in 1934, to free the name Ark Royal for a new ship, and was broken up in 1950.
en.allexperts.com /e/h/hm/hms_ark_royal.htm   (338 words)

  
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He went to London in 1715 and became Clerk of the Cheque at Greenwich Hospital from 1736 to 1776.
Later he served in HMS Amazon 1799-1801 and was in the Battle of Copenhagen 02/04/1801.
He was a midshipman aboard HMS Theseus from 1801 to 1805.
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 George Peabody (1795-1869) : Thursday, April 28, 2005 - Posts   (Site not responding. Last check: )
They were taken aback that an American in their midst would give for such a cause in such a large amount, to a city and country not his own.
Sir James Emerson Tennent sent GP London press notices and added: "But the press is only a faint echo of the voice of Society which is so forcible in praise of an act so utterly beyond all precedent.
J.S. Morgan attended London's ancient Guildhall, 3:00 P.M. on July 10, 1862, when GP was given the Freedom of the City of London.
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 Biografies - Page 3 - Bits and Bytes Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In London, he actively opposed the proposed Stamp Act, despite accusations by opponents in America that he had been complicit in its creation.
The discovery that it was he who had illegally distributed the letters meant the end of his political career in London, and the end of hopes for a peaceful solution to the escalating trans-Atlantic dispute.
Initial estimates are that the bones are about 200 years old and were buried at the time Franklin was living in the house, which was his home from 1757 to 1762, and from 1764 to 1775.
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 anglican
Slany's association with the Newfoundland Company and Leat's presence in London in January of 1622 further suggest that he served as a minister in the Cupids Cove settlement, originally begun by John Guy, although a preaching presence at Bristol's Hope settlement or in Vaughan's settlements at Trepassy and Renews cannot be ruled out.
It is clear from Bradford's context that he refers to the intended exile of the London Congregationalist leadership to the Magdalen Islands, an undertaking which ended in abject failure and which eventually reconciled the Separatist congregation with their leadership, not in Newfoundland or the Magdalen Islands but in Holland.
But the brief stay of London Congregationalists and the brief preaching activity of Hugh Peters, Thomas Welde, George Downing, and Richard Blinman in Newfoundland demonstrate that the presence of Congregationalists and Puritans in Newfoundland from 1597 to 1659 appears to have been occasional and without any firm institutional footing.
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 Puritan World : Timeline Part 1
The Royalist forces gain ground in the north and west, although repeated attempts by the King to advance on London prove to be abortive.
As time passes and Parliament refuses to accept the army's peace proposals, their discontent becomes more radical and is coupled with a growing desire to dispose of the King altogether.
During the fighting in London a fire begins that consumes much of the city, to the detriment of both sides.
www.clockworksky.net /puritan_world/ah_pw_tl_01.html   (5694 words)

  
 Twisted History, One Day at a Time - 8 September 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: )
One reader challenged yesterday's item about the first submarine attack, noting that the attack was against the HMS Eagle instead of the HMS Asia.
The old and sick were slaughtered, children and women were sold as slaves, men were sent to be killed in the arena, and 11,000 died of starvation while this disposition was being arranged.
More specifically, the Puritan parents of New Towne (later Cambridge) hoped to "save their children from an illiterate ministry." It was the first institution of higher learning established in North America, and was originally founded to train future ministers.
www.twistedhistory.com /issues/september/0908.html   (1267 words)

  
 ART / 4 / 2DAY
With him she divided her time between a London studio, the Sussex farmhouse Charleston, and a small farm building called La Bergère outside Cassis.
The tenor of Vanessa Bell's art was altered by the tragic loss of her son Julian in the Spanish Civil War.
This is an oil sketch for the portion of the mural celebrating the power of the Stuart monarchy and the reign of James I, Charles' deceased father.
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