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	Mid-Victorian RN vessel HMS Narcissus
		The Narcissus, 28, screw frigate, Capt. J.O. Hopkins, flagship of Rear Admiral F.A. Campbell, commanding the detached squadron, and the Topaz, 31, screw frigate, Capt. E.
		The vessels consisted of the Narcissus, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Frederick Campbell, the Immortalité, the Doris, the Topaze, the Valorous, and the Aurora.
		The vessels composing the squadron are the screw frigate Narcissus, 28, Capt. N.
	www.pdavis.nl /ShowShip.php?id=91 (6001 words)

	Biography - Stephen Decatur
		Recaptured the USS Philadelphia from the Tripolitans, in the harbor of Tripoli, and destroyed her, 16 February 1804.
		War of 1812, distinguished for the capture of the HMS Macedonian 25 October 1812; commanded the USS United States at this time.
		In the spring of 1814 commanded the President and a squadron of three vessels, in the West Indies and flew the pennant of Commodore.
	www.history.navy.mil /bios/decatur.htm (254 words)

	Pitcairn Islands Study Center
		HMS GORGON Captain Edwards, Lieutenant Larkin, and the ten accused mutineers who had survived the wreck of the Pandora sailed on this 44-gun frigate from Cape Town on April 6, 1792, and arrived at Spithead on June 19.
		HMS NARCISSUS Captain Edwards was the object of a mutiny on this ship in 1782.
		HMS RESOLUTION (schooner) Two-masted schooner, 30 feet long with a beam of 9 feet 6 inches, built on Tahiti by the loyalists and some of the mutineers who had stayed on the island when Christian sailed away on the Bounty.
	library.puc.edu /pitcairn/bounty/pandora-encyclopedia.shtml (4346 words)

	HMS Narcissus Information
		The second Narcissus was a 32-gun fifth-rate launched in 1801, a convict ship after 1823, and sold 1837.
		The fourth Narcissus was an armoured cruiser launched in 1886 and sold in 1946.
		The fifth Narcissus was a Acacia-class sloop in use from 1915 to 1922.
	www.bookrags.com /HMS_Narcissus (193 words)

	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum
		The recommendations of the committee after extensive research and the successful firing of a torpedo in a specially designed tube was to have great impact on the future of naval weaponry.
		He was appointed as Executive Officer for HMS Raleigh, a new frigate built in iron and sheathed in wood.
		In 1893, he was appointed to HMS Sans Pareil and witnessed the collision of HMSs Camperdown and Victoria, which led to the sinking of the Camperdown with severe loss of life, including Admiral Sir George Tryon.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_arthur_wilson.htm (1038 words)

	Focus August 15, 1997
		Since then, HMS researchers, and researchers around the world, have been using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the brain as it performs tasks involved in vision, memory, and learning.
		HPHC and HMS were a natural choice for one of the partnership grants because of their history of collaboration: In 1992, the two cofounded the HMS Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at HPHC under the chairmanship of professor Thomas Inui.
		Every summer, a group of HMS faculty members explains the latest research in neuroscience to Boston and Cambridge high school and middle school science teachers and helps them adopt HMS's problem-based learning in their own classrooms.
	focus.hms.harvard.edu /1997/August25_1997/index.html (7128 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Narcissus
		Narcissus, freedman and secretary to the Roman emperor Claudius
		HMS Narcissus, a name borne by six ships of the Royal Navy
		Narcissus, a lifeboat appearing in the Aliens series of films.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Narcissus (215 words)

	Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth City Centre (HMS Shah)
		HMS Shah was an unarmoured iron hulled frigate.
		HMS Shah took Sir Garnet Wolseley to take over from Lord Chelmsford in the Zulu War landing at Durban on 4th July 1879.
		In 1892 HMS Shah was de-commissioned and in May that year she was towed by HMS Narcissus from Portsmouth to Bermuda.
	www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk /city-centre/shah.htm (670 words)

	Flower Class Corvettes
		We are hoping to release a selection of naval prints by Ivan Berryman showing a variety of corvettes in action, the first of which is HMS Celandine escorting Atlantic Convoy.
		HMS Amethyst about to return fire while a Sunderland of 88 Squadron makes a hurried departure, 23rd of April 1949.
		HMS Hood Opens Fire Upon the Bismarck by Ivan Berryman.
	www.naval-art.com /corvettes.htm (1044 words)

	Humour
		HMS Relentless, HMS Repulse, HMS Resolution; fine names, names to gladden the heart of every true Brit and dismay any foreigners with a grasp of English.
		My first assumption was that these names had been chosen by some fresh faced innocent unaware of their connotations, but a careful reading of the index suggested that the choice of such names was deliberate and malicious.
		But it is hard not to imagine the crew of HMS Narcissus leaning over the side to admire their reflections in the water, or the crew of HMS Spanker being accosted by leather-clad masochists in dockside bars.
	www.mtyc.org.uk /Pages/miscellany_humour.htm (1365 words)

	Issue 40
		Now aged 76, he was at the time of his last visit, a crew member of the Corvette ship, HMS Narcissus, which was adopted by the people of Denton, during the war.
		The townspeople sent food parcels and messages of support to the crew at a very difficult time.
		HMS Narcissus to Councillor Mike Craven, Chairman of the District Assembly, in the presence of the Mayor, Councillor Stephen Poole, members of the Royal Naval Association, and of our society.
	members.aol.com /dentonhistorysoc/Pages/i_40.htm (724 words)

	Australian Naval Personalities: Lives from the Australian Dictionary of Biography - Papers in Australian Maritime ...
		In 1896 he was promoted first lieutenant of the armoured cruiser HMS Narcissus, and in China in 1898-99 served in administrative posts; he was thanked by the Austrian and German Commanders-in-Chief for his services during the Boxer Rebellion.
		His father could only afford to send him to HMS Worcester, the training ship for officers of the merchant navy; he soon transferred to the Royal Naval Reserve and was rated a midshipman on 17 December 1886.
		Serving in HMS Porpoise in 1897, he commanded the British Consulate at Apia, Samoa, during a rebel attack, and in subsequent uprisings raised and commanded a native force, dubbed 'Gaunt's Brigade', and was mentioned in dispatches.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/maritimepapers/piama17/gaunt.html (798 words)

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		HMS Shah was soon replaced in the British Pacific Squadron.
		In May 1892, HMS Narcissus towed HMS Shah, from Portsmouth to Bermuda after she was dismantled, and everything except the lower masts taken out of her.
		The Shah was taken in tow at Spithead on the 10th May and arrived at Bermuda on the 31st of that month.
	members.lycos.co.uk /Juan39/BATTLE_OF_PACOCHA.html (3085 words)

	Convoy ON 202 / ONS 18 Reports - warsailors.com
		HMS Escapade detected a pair of submarines approaching the convoy, neutralised the asdic contact with a quick counter-attack and then proceeded to put down and hunt, most efficiently, the second of the pair whom she had first detected on the radar.
		There was a certain amount of telescoping of the columns which had to be cleared up before an alteration of course could be made and whilst this was being done the fog shut down thicker than ever, and effectually prevented any attempt to turn the convoys to the proper course.
		At 23.36, HMS Icarus detected a submarine and chased it to the westward until it dived, resuming station at 23.49.
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/on202report.html (9540 words)

	Admiral W. O. Story
		Afterwards he was in command of H.M.S. Hearty of the North Sea Fisheries Service, from which he was promoted to the rank: of post captain in 1901.
		He was given command consecutively of the British cruisers Narcissus, Grafton and Cumberland.
		While he was in command of H.M.S. Cumberland, Captain Story received the Legion of Honour, Third Class, from the President of the French Republic and the Naval Order of Merit from the King of Spain.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/wostory.htm (576 words)

	History of Nova Scotia, Index of Dates, 1813.
		June 6th: "Arrived [at Halifax] HMS Shannon Capt Broke with the US Frigate Chesapeake Capt Lawrence her prize." (John Liddell.) Though in my larger history I shall give details, here is a short contemporary synopsis, John Liddell: "On the 1st Int.
		Meanwhile, in Europe: During forty days in May and June, the British troops drove the French armies over the Pyrenees and out of Spain; Napoleon's back was broken by the military and diplomatic actions of Wellington and Castlereagh.
		October 2nd: "Sailed HMS Success, Joy, [32 Guns, though apparently she was en flute], Nemesis [28 guns] with the 2nd Batt.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/Dates/1813.htm (1653 words)

	Flower Class Corvettes from HMS Mallow to HMS Primula
		My father Stanley Gregory served on HMS Marigold and was one of those lost when she was sunk by aircraft off the coast of Algiers on the 9th of Dec. 1942.
		I am researching HMS Pennywort and I am looking for information, photos of the ship and her crew.
		FRANK FARROW: (coder telegraphist) served on HMS Mallow in late 1942 and subsequently of her as Nada in 1944.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /corvettesm2p.htm (1416 words)

	Re: HMS GRIVE/ Hon l.j.o lambart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		She was built as the yacht NARCISSUS in 1905, tonnage 687 or 816 according to source!
		Many of the crew were merchant navy serving as naval auxiliaries and are commemorated on the Liverpol Memorial to merchant navy personnel serving in the Royal Navy.
		: : : : : HMS Grive alias ex HMS NARCISSUS was a Fleet Air Arm tender yacht : : : : : she was already used in the WW1 and sank or damaged an U boat : : : : : In Dunkirk, she sank with most hands but very near the shore.
	www.ukdiving.co.uk /forum_archive/wreckforum/messages/1244.html (1069 words)

	[No title]
		Written as a collaboration between HMS medical students and faculty, the book represents a departure from the common practice of aiming medical textbooks broadly at anyone who might buy them, whether a novice, a resident, or an experienced physician who wants updates on a field long practiced.
		The follow-up volume is a thorough how-to manual for the psychiatrist who has testified and found it not so bad after all, and for all who might consider serving as expert witnesses voluntarily.
		The term narcissism derives from Greek mythology: unable to return the love of the nymph Echo, the beautiful Narcissus is forced to stare at his own image in a fountain.
	focus.hms.harvard.edu /1998/Feb6_1998/books.html (2027 words)

	Adventure on Board the 24-gun frigate, Tall Ship HMS Rose
		Apparently, what HMS Rose lacked in modern armament, her Captain and crew made up for in brazen daring.
		Not surprisingly, it was Conrad who best described such a scene; as he wrote in The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': "A multitude of stars coming out into the clear night peopled the emptiness of the sky.
		Note: The HMS Rose was the tall ship seen in the film Master and Commander.
	www.angelfire.com /de/YumCha/TallShip.html (3051 words)

	Convoy HX 254 Page 4 - warsailors.com
		The convoy was being escorted and screened by HMS Montgomery (S.O.) and HMS Chelsea on the port and starboard bows respectively, with HMCS Lachine and HMCS Cobalt on the port and starboard quarters.
		At 201230, HMS Narcissus reported picking up 37 survivors ex Santos in position 47 10N 53 40W (Previously sighted and reported by aircraft.
		The flag Officer Newfoundland ordered her to be towed to Bay Bulls as her cargo consisted of benzine which was reported to be still venting freely.
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/hx252page4.html (2343 words)

	Orlando Class
		During 1897-1900 the old 25 calibre 9.2 ins guns were replaced by 30 calibre guns and the old 6 ins pieces converted to quick-firers.
		HMS Narcissus became a gunnery training ship with a special armament and her guns were stored for use in case of war.
		Most likely this photo was taken by a member of the crew of this ship, transferred from HMS Northampton.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /orlando_class.htm (698 words)

	WarData.net War of 1812 Timeline
		The American forces garrisoning the island, not having been informed of their country's declaration of war, are forced to surrender to British forces.
		Capture of HMS Caledonia and the destruction of HMS Detroit
		Americans sieze the HMS Caledonia and burn the HMS Detroit after it runs aground.
	www.wardata.net /wardata_war_of_1812_timeline.htm (1110 words)

	Narcissus at AllExperts
		*Narcissus''', an electronic music composer from Uruguay Other uses of the name include:
		The Nigger of the 'Narcissus*', an 1897 novel by Joseph Conrad
		Narcissus, a song by Alanis Morissette from her third studio album Under Rug Swept
	en.allexperts.com /e/n/na/narcissus.htm (240 words)

	The Battle of the River Plate (1956) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		HMS Jamaica as HMS Exeter group cast members
		HMS Sheffield (as HMS Ajax) group cast members
		Goofs: Continuity: After HMS Cumberland had joined Ajax and Achilles replacing Exeter, the three ships portrayed in following scenes were still the same three initial cruisers, with HMS Jamaica playing a role of HMS Exeter.
	www.imdb.com /Details?0048990 (682 words)

	Re: HMS GRIVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Grive was launched in Dec 1904 as Narcissus.
		: : : : HMS Grive alias ex HMS NARCISSUS was a Fleet Air Arm tender yacht : : : : she was already used in the WW1 and sank or damaged an U boat : : : : In Dunkirk, she sank with most hands but very near the shore.
		TXS : : : : J.COULON : Grive was launched in Dec 1904 as Narcissus.
	www.ukdiving.co.uk /forum_archive/wreckforum/messages/42.html (960 words)

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		English merchantmen which are clearly armed may be attacked by submarines without warning 1939 - US freighter SS Wacosta bound from Glasgow, Scotland to New York City is stopped by a German U-boat and detained while the Germans search the ship and examine her papers.
		Elsewhere in southern Italy, Royal Navy warships landed British troops at Taranto - the Italian garrison met them with cheers 1943 - Midget submarine "Welman 10" which was being operated by SOE sank alongside depot ship HMS Forth and sank.
		The US delegates are Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid and Lieutenant General John R. Hodge 1946 - Sloop HMS Snipe commissioned 1952 - By the USSR Council of Ministers' decree two groups of specialists were formed for designing and building a nuclear-powered submarine.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/september/09Sep.txt (625 words)

	[No title]
		After taking off the remaining crew, destroyers HMS Jervis and HMS Nubian sink her with torpedoes.
		All 49 of the U-Boat crew are lost 1945 - U-326 sailed from Bergen on her final patrol 1945 - U-234 & U-1301 had a collision off Kristiansand.
		Teme was engaged in escorting convoy BTC-11 in the Channel off Falmouth when she was struck by a torpedo that blew off 60 feet of her stern.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/march/29Mar.txt (240 words)

	HMS NARCISSUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Unfortunately, HMS NARCISSUS does not yet have any current members.
		You may like to try a new search or be the first person to register with this unit.
		You can search for more HMS NARCISSUS Units, Photos and Messages here.
	www.comradesandcolleagues.com /ROYAL_NAVY/HMS_NARCISSUS.asp (125 words)

	EDWIN P. WIGGIN
		These survivors were then rescued by the HMS Harvester only to be struck again by two torpedoes from another German submarine, the Eckhardt.
		Although we do not whether Edwin was killed aboard the Gorgas or the Harvester, we can assume that he died with Kings Point honor.
		Only twelve men survived the whole ordeal, being rescued by the French corvette Aconit and HMS Narcissus.
	members.tripod.com /KP142/e_wiggin.htm (267 words)

	The Alien Universe Timeline
		Kane is assigned to the UK/EU colonial transport HMS Sabretooth as First Officer.
		Parker and Lambert are killed by the Alien whilst evacuating the Nostromo.
		Ripley rigs the ship to self-destruct and escapes on the shuttlecraft Narcissus with the ship’s cat Mr Jones.
	time.absoluteavp.com /time1.html (1709 words)

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