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  HMS Spartan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The third Spartan was a 26-gun sixth-rate launched in 1841 and sold in 1862.
The fourth Spartan was a wooden screw sloop launched in 1868 and sold in 1882.
The fifth Spartan was a 2nd class cruiser launched in 1891, sent to harbour service in 1907, renamed Defiance in 1921, and sold 1931.
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 Spartan Helmet -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
They were formed in 1951 by ex-players of Edinburgh University F.C. and the original intention was to field a team of graduates of the University, however they have players from elsewhere as well.
Spartan hegemony ended when Thebes defeated them in 371 BC at the Battle of Leuctra.
Original text was: The Spartan Alphabet is a simplified form the common Latin alphabet used by those certain in their convinction that the Bush Administration is an alien conspiracy, whose purpose is to weaken the world's population through the slow erosion of our amassed supply of Giblet-based atmospheric weapons.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/139/spartan-helmet.html   (565 words)

  
 Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, Olga Alexandrovna and her siblings were not accustomed to a lavish early lifestyle, as modest, Spartan living and the strictest of discipline was required by their tutors, governess', and parents.
Shortly after the brief German occupation of the Crimea, the loyalist White Army temporarily restored the area to an intermediate level of safety, allowing the Grand Duchess and her family to escape.
George V of England sent the warship HMS Marlborough to retrieve his aunt, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and the Grand Duchess' from the unstable Crimea.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grand_Duchess_Olga_Alexandrovna_of_Russia   (4216 words)

  
 Untitled Document
HMS Orlando was anchored in Tunis Bay 3rd November 1864.
Night of 15th February he was involved in a fight with Robert Dewhurst (sailor from HMS Britannia).
He was a Lieutenant (HMS Active) at the destruction of a Turkish squadron in the Dardanelles in 1807; served on HMS Spartan, in boat actions in the Adriatic, and at the reduction of Zante and neighbouring islands.
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 ME6- Posting of Countries - Alternate History Discussion Board
HMS Conqueror, now free from her duties at South Georgia, was ordered to begin patrols to the west of the Falklands.
HMS Conqueror, in the meantime, had taken up its patrol station to the west of the Falkland Islands on 1st April.
Thankfully HMS Engadine, the helicopter support ship, was able to take eight of the homeless Harriers, whilst four of the fleet support ships, those having large helicopter support facilities, took one of the remaining four Harriers each.
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 Hissem_Thornton-Heyshams
HMS AGAMEMONON was used, along with the American USS NIAGARA, in the first attempts to lay a Transatlantic cable, unsuccessfully in 1857, and successfully in 1858.
The sloop HMS Linnet joined the British West Africa Squadron during the 1850s and was engaged in anti-slavery patrols.
From 1864 to 1868 the FAWN was apparently operating in the northern Atlantic, on the Newfoundland Station.
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 Bermuda's History from 1700 to 1899
The Bermuda-built small warship HMS Pickle of the Royal Navy played a unique role in the Battle of Trafalgar in which the Royal Navy, with 448 dead and 1,241 wounded, soundly defeated the French.
Three years after she achieved her claim to fame at the Battle of Trafalgar, the Bermuda-built cedar schooner HMS Pickle struck a shoal when entering the Spanish port of Cadiz and was lost.
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.
www.bermuda-online.org /history1700-1899.htm   (6944 words)

  
 Vignettes
HMS ALBEMARLE, overloaded with massive two ton shells, sailed for the Dardanelles, only to meet a ferocious storm, which burst the shells from their mountings, to kill and maim men and almost destroy the ship.
It was a lovely summer's evening as the brand new destroyer HMS Onslaught steamed through the night of May 30 towards the scene of action.
I stayed with her for a short time during the war and remember she was a stickler for a clean and tidy house.
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 Royal Navy Corvettes
HMS Zinnia sunk by U-boat on 23rd August 1941
HMS Godetia lost in collision with SS Marsa on 6th September 1940
HMS Rose lost in collision with frigate Manners on 26th October 1944
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /corvettes.htm   (1364 words)

  
 Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping News ARCHIVE
The HMS Bounty arrived in Marquette on Thursday to the applause of a crowd of appreciative watchers.
The HMS Bounty will be arriving in Marquette on Thursday and will be open for guided tours Friday from noon to 8 p.m., and on Saturday from 11 a.m.
The CandO carferry SPARTAN, in a heavy fog while inbound from Kewaunee on the morning of August 12, 1976, struck rocks at the entrance to the Ludington harbor.
www.boatnerd.com /news/archive/8-04.htm   (15777 words)

  
 Bibliography
BLAKE, P. "Report on the Cruise of HMS 'Larne' in 1839." In Historical Records of Australia (Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament), Series 1, XX: 12-28, 654-73.
The Journal of Lieutenant William Bradley RN of HMS 'Sirius', 1786-1792.
Proceedings of the HMS 'Dart' in the Marshall Group and Pleasant Island, 26 August 1884.
www.micsem.org /pubs/articles/historical/forships/bib.htm   (5171 words)

  
 Significant ships in South Australia's maritime history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The blue ensign of the Colony of South Australia was lowered and the white ensign of the Royal Navy hoisted, thus she became HMS Protector of the China Station.
Similarly, a returning surgeon-superintendent kept an abstract log in 1877 which ignores the loss of the rudder off Kangaroo Island and the perilous voyage through Backstairs Passage during the return to Adelaide for repair, and the birth in mid-ocean of a son to the captain's wife.
Although conditions on most vessels operating during this period were spartan, particularly in second or third (steerage) class, and safety regulations governing shipping generally rather limited, there was evidently a great demand for passages between ports not only outside but within the colony as well.
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 Anecdotage.com - History anecdotes. Anecdotes From Yeats to Gates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Spartan king Leonidas defiantly and gallantly resisted the advance of the hu...
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jack...
In 1868, impeachment proccedings were initiated against President Andrew Johnson...
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 Proceedings: Svinth 2003, GSJSA
While Plutarch wrote that Kyniska personally drove the winning chariot, most other ancient sources suggest that she was the owner of those horses rather than their driver.
And in 1868, two women named Marie P. and Aimée R. dueled over which would get to marry a young man from Bordeaux.
They fought as well or better than male soldiers, and were said by Richard Burton to be better soldiers than their incompetent male leadership deserved.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The amount of sailings was doubled in 1868 in exchange for an extension to the existing contract now to run until 1876 this was formulated in an attempt to ward off increasing competition.
An adverse effect for Union was that it now found itself with a surplus of ships, to alleviate the problem Union decided to operate a Southampton - Port Elizabeth service and in the November Syria made the first sailing.
Due to the Company's expenditure in anticipation of being awarded the Zanzibar contract unfettered Union posted a loss 73/74 of £8, 000 and therefore no dividend was paid Nyanza was purchased from P & O as she was surplus to requirement by the latter and had been laid up in Southampton since 1870.
www.merchantnavyofficers.com /unioncastle.html   (3750 words)

  
 VENTURA COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM ventura.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
HMS ALERT (1793)-British 16 gun sloop, 1/8”, plank on exposed frame
HMS VICTORY (1765) - British 102 gun ship of the line.
HMS MARS (1793) - British 74 gun ship of the line, 1/4", plank on frame, Dockyard type model- Adm Hood's ship at Trafalgar.
www.naut-res-guild.org /mis/ventura.html   (1737 words)

  
 Anchor Line
1939 converted to Armed Merchant Cruiser, renamed HMS Scotstoun, 1940 torpedoed and sunk off Inishtrahull; loss of 6 lives.
Oct 1868 foundered in Atlantic; loss of 78 lives.
17 Mar 1891 sank in collision with HMS ANSON at Gibraltar; loss of 562 lives; refloated, laid up 1891 and scrapped 1900.
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 Pohnpei Ships
British man-of-war HMS LARNE, Cmdr P.L. Blake, put in at Pohnpei on Jan 17 to investigate the atrocities committed by the crew of the Lambton after the burning of the whaleship Falcon.
British warship HMS VESTAL, on a run from Port Jackson to Hongkong, put in at Ngatik on Dec 12.
Whaleship RAINBOW of NB,.Capt H.M. Plasket, in at Pohnpei in late Jan. Sailed on Feb 15.
www.micsem.org /pubs/articles/historical/forships/pohnpei.htm   (19115 words)

  
 Spartan -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Sparta didn't annex Athens but established an oligarchy.
Other topics related to Spartan: Spartan 3
Categories similar to Spartan: Spatial Light Modulator
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 Junkie XL ringtone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In Robocode of the nds-3 reconnection, weakess aminoacids raided his house in response to complaints by the Camerarium Worms-abenheim Handeuleum Lukamba (OMNII), an o405 usenet by Tipper Micropolitan.
He re-enact in 1855 and ribbed at Moscow, on the 18th of March 1868.
Phthisis he remains an active itslf, invited to crosstown around the expand for sympetalous philosophical congresses, and self-determining ceaselessly.
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 CVCO - Overbooked: Historical Fiction Stars
Aboard the HMS Beagle, 15-year-old Syms Covington enters the service of Charles Darwin, shooting and collecting hundreds of specimens for his "gent", specimens that become fundamental to the formation of Darwin's theory of evolution.
PW The author of the much praised God's Snake takes readers to Greece in the 1950's, and into the spartan military world that has shaped a 13-year-old girl, as she moves fearfully yet with intelligence and nerve toward womanhood.
Madrid, 1868: Don Jaime, a fencing master and man of honor, is approached by a beautiful and mysterious woman who asks him to teach her the secret of the unstoppable thrust.
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 Family Album and Genealogy of Eva Mary Berriman (nee Keay)
Jessie LAWSON in 1868, ch John William, Robert, Mary Jane who all died Scotland except Robert (unknown)
He married Esther MILLER (b.1850 Tintwistle; d.1898), ch Sarah (1868; d.Texas), John (1871).
By the 1850s, the majority of those forced into the workhouse were not the work-shy, but the old, the infirm, the orphaned, unmarried mothers, and the physically or mentally ill. Entering its harsh regime and spartan conditions was considered the ultimate degradation.
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 Migrant Ships Arriving In South Australia 1836-60
BUFFALO H.M.S Holdfast Bay 28 12 1836 Portsmouth 27 07 1836 Hindmarsh John..
Hart John 07 07 1838 R 200 Passengers ALLIGATOR H.M.S Port Adelaide..
SPARTAN Port Adelaide 12 08 1845 London 18 04 1845 Henry William 13 08 1845 R...
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 Peabody Museum of Salem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
I'm researching the events surrounding the HMS Astrea, a twenty gun Spanish warship captured by the British (Admiral Vernon, of the Blue)at "Porto Bello" in 1739 during the war of "Jenkins Ear" to her demise 1744...
My ancestors came over from Ireland in 1868 and I believe this may be the right "Columbia" ship they came over on.
She was built in 1898 and sailed for the Prince Lines during the period of the great migration to the U.S.A. From: George Kovacich
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 The History of 8 Families
In a collision with the battleship HMS Revenge in the Firth of Forth Sea off Scotland the S.S. Campania sank on November 5, 1918.
McGreal emigrants from Ireland aboard 'Spartan' June 1847 from Liverpool to N.Y. John McGreal, 1827--, farmer.
Deed search for the McGrail / Bryne family on Drumrewy, at the Registry of Deeds, Henrietta St., Dublin, I. During the famine of 1890 a John McGrail from Drumkeeran was entrusted with the carting of the seed supplies to Inishmagrath and Ballinaglera.
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 The Vanguard, June
Fifty-six years later it was found (May 19, 1998) by a team led by oceanographer Robert Ballard, who has also found the HMS Titanic and the German Bismarck.
The capital was removed to Atlanta in 1868.
Santa Isabel (Mission Santa Isabelle de Utinahica) was different — a spartan, tenuous foothold in the vast interior — linked to the coast 100 miles away by river and overland Indian trails.
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 G.W. Blunt White Library: Microfilm List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
SAVANETTA (Bark), Abstract Log: Dec. 19, 1867-Oct. 29, 1868, Thomas Kneebone, master.
HMS VICTORY, DEVASTATION, BACCHANTE, and SUTLEJ, Journal by W. Renwick.
HMS MINOTAUR: Jan. 10-Nov. 23, 1887; HMS NORTHUMBERLAND: 1887-1888; HMS HIMALAYA: Apr. 1-June 14, 1888; HMS RALEIGH: June 18-Dec. 31, 1888.
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 History
The health and economic difficulties facing both groups are substantial (for instance, life expectancy of Aboriginal people is often 20 years shorter than the wider white Australian population) and yet the history of this group of people has been brutally ripped from history and even the memory of the world.
The Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation was originally a central part of the Great Sioux Reservation, which was established on April 29, 1868 by the treaty of Fort Laramie (15 Stat 635, 1868).
Some of the men on the Empire Windrush started to panic and a few were already crying because they thought that the ship would take them back to their home country.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A Fine Old Model of a British Naval 100 Gunner A Beautiful Model of an unrigged 100 Gunner Ship of the Line as was HMS Victory.In a large glazed case.
A Finest Italian 18th Century 'Folding' Flintlock Blunderbuss Circa 1750 A beautiful carved burr walnut stock, and very fancy Roccoco brass mounts with very fine engraving, a portrait bust relief placque is set on the trigger guard and an elliptical, steel, long Blunderbuss barrel.
A short sword from the era of the Spartan Wars.
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