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 HMS Spartan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The second Spartan was to have been a 46-gun fifth-rate; ordered from Plymouth Dockyard in 1824, the ship was cancelled in 1831.
The third Spartan was a 26-gun sixth-rate launched in 1841 and sold in 1862.
The sixth Spartan was a cruiser launched in 1942 and sunk in 1944 by a HS-293 guided bomb.
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 HMS Spartan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The second Spartan was to have been a 46-gun fifth-rate ; orderedfrom Plymouth Dockyard in 1824, the ship was cancelled in 1831.
The fourth Spartan was a wooden screw sloop launchedin 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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 Naval and Maritime Museums: Great Britain
The HMS Plymouth is a Type 12 Rothesay class frigate and the HMS Onyx is an Oberon class submarine.
HMS Mary Rose (1510), restoration project of a 16th century ship.
HMS Unicorn (1824), a 46-gun frigate docked at the Victoria Dock.
www.bruzelius.info /Nautica/Museums/mmeugb.html   (861 words)

  
 Spartans -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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/spartans.html   (563 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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 Q&C Militaria
During the battle of El-Teb he was on HMS Sphinx and does not appear to be entitled to the El-Teb clasp (though he is wearing 2 clasps on his painting).
In March 1915 HMS Swiftsure served at Gallipoli, on 18 March 1915 she was involved in bombarding the Turkish mobile guns on the Dardanelles coast.
HMS Maidstone was a submarine depot ship and finished her life as a prison for IRA terrorists in Belfast.
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 ME6- Posting of Countries - Alternate History Discussion Board
The civil war against President Balmaceda in 1891 is won by presidential forces, due to the increased public support because of the stronger economy, and Balmaceda's decision to strengthen democracy instead of establishing a dictatorship.
HMS Conqueror, now free from her duties at South Georgia, was ordered to begin patrols to the west of the Falklands.
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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 Juno Beach Centre - Major-General J.H. Roberts
From his post of command aboard HMS Calpe, Roberts had only a vague idea of how the operation was unfolding.
It is only when troops were recalled towards their transport fleet that Roberts clearly realized how desperate the situation was: almost no objective had been achieved and two brigades out of three had been decimated.
In March 1943, Major-General Roberts was severely criticized for his tactical weaknesses during Spartan, a large-scale exercise in preparation for D-Day.
www.junobeach.org /e/3/can-pep-can-roberts-ep.htm   (323 words)

  
 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   (6977 words)

  
 HMS Apollo Aeolus Andromache Brilliant Indefatigable Intrepid Iphigenia Latona Melampus Naiad Pique Rainbow Retribution ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
HMS Apollo Aeolus Andromache Brilliant Indefatigable Intrepid Iphigenia Latona Melampus Naiad Pique Rainbow Retribution Sappho Scylla Sirius Spartan Sybille Terpsichore Thetis Tribune
HMS Naiad after conversion to a minelayer complete with mine rails visible in the stern.
The class were in the process of being scrapped when the war started but seven of the class were converted to minelayers and carried up to 150 mines at the cost of having their gun armament reduced.
www.worldwar1.co.uk /light-cruiser/hms-apollo.html   (527 words)

  
 Light Cruisers - WW1 Naval Combat
HMS Royalist and her sisters had a mixed armament of 6in and 4in guns.
HMS Chester was one of two light cruisers ordered for Greece but taken over by the British in 1915.
Although the shell was lighter it was easier for the gun crews to handle and so had a higher rate of fire as well as a being lighter mount, the gun also being used as the secondary armament of the large light cruiser Furious and the famous Hood.
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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.
In the 1891 census of Hammersmith, London as Ellen A. Heysham [Haysham in Ancestry.com], aged 50.
In 1891 Charles, a scholar, aged 12, was a boarder, living in Waterford Lodge at a school in Richmond, Surrey.
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 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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 Zeebrugge Items
In 1921-23 he was assigned to the command of a light cruiser, HMS Carysfoot, and served with the Atlantic Fleet.
During this period, in 1926 he commanded HMS Benbow and in 1928 he was in command of HMS Marlborough.
HMS Vindictive was fitted, along the port side, with a high false deck from where the 18 brows, or gangways that would carry the stormers and demolition men across to shore.
www.victoriacross.co.uk /zeebrugge%20items.html   (7258 words)

  
 aeolus
HMS Brilliant crew members with Henry Albert Harper holding a banjo.
Photo taken by a crew member of HMS Quail, which was 'hulked in' at Halifax for one month.
HMS Quail arrived at Charlottetown in July / August 1900 with HMS Crescent and HMS Tribune.
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /aeolus.htm   (1024 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Submarine HMS Sidon sanl after a torpedo explosion in the forward torpedo compartment while in Portland harbour, killing 13.
Submarine HMS Sidon sank after a torpedo explosion in the forward torpedo compartment while in Portland harbour, killing 13.
Submarine HMS Sidon sank after a torpedo explosion in the forward torpedo compartment in Portland harbour, killing 13.
www.angelfire.com /mp/memorials/Portscem.htm   (4029 words)

  
 anton_d_mos - pafg04 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
John was born on 9 Jul 1891 in, Camelford Disrict, Cornwall, United Knigdom.
The background of the link with Torquay stems from the exploits of Lieut.Thomas Howard Molyneux and crew members of HMS Spartan who risked deathfrom marauding tribesmen 132 years ago on a hazardous expedition in theships' boat to examine the course of the River Jordan and to measure thedepth of the Dead Sea.
The Spartan was then commanded by Capt, T.M.C. Symons who later becameAdmiral Sir Thomas Symons and served as Admiral Superintendent ofDevonport dockyard and evidently regarded the boat as his own property.
www.mos.infoman.org.uk /mos/anton/pafg04.htm   (934 words)

  
 HMS Spartan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The second Spartan was to have been a 46-gun ordered from Plymouth Dockyard in 1824 the ship was cancelled in 1831.
It was originally recorded in the old FFRR standard, and for its time has quite sumptuous mono sound, although some might find the voices placed a bit too much to the fore.
William Schwenck Gilbert/Arthur Seymour Sullivan: HMS Pinafore/Trial By Jury
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 The Human Extreme :: Astrobiology Magazine ::
The Spartans promised to help, but they explained that because of a religious festival their army could not march before the next full Moon -- six days away.
Boeckh relied on a reference from Greek scholar Plutarch that equated the Spartan month of Karneios with Metageitnion, the second month of the Athenian year.
Although the Spartan and Athenian calendars were similar in that they were both lunisolar -- following the lunar cycle, but making adjustments to stay in step with the solar year -- they were not identical.
astrobio.net /news/article1086.html<http://www.astrobio.net/news/spi...   (653 words)

  
 Significant ships in South Australia's maritime history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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.
The self-propelled grab hopper dredger Tridacna was built of iron in 1891 by J.W.Sutton and Co. of Brisbane for the Queensland Government at a cost of 7300.
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.
www.picknowl.com.au /homepages/malcolm/shippass.htm   (11889 words)

  
 Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping News ARCHIVE
The tanker was built in 1915 at Chatham, England by Chatham Dock Yard Ltd. as a.) H.M.S. Renamed b.) PULOE BRANI in 1922, brought to the Lakes and renamed c.) B B MC COLL in 1927, and d.) A J PATMORE in 1929.
One of the blades ripped a hole two feet long by three inches wide which caused the 41 to take on water, but pumps were able to keep her afloat.
SPARTAN came out to free her but also became mired in the ice.
www.boatnerd.com /news/archive/2-05.htm   (12487 words)

  
 Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He was posted to HMS Bellerophon in 1878 and for the next seven years saw sea duty in the East Indies.
He took an active role in the Malayan Campaign in 1876 whilst his ship patrolled the Straits of Malacca and, in February of that year, he was gazetted as aide-de-camp to Captain Buller who commanded the Navy's operations against the Malay pirates.
It was on marriage to May, as she was known, that Lieutenant Mansfield Smith, RN (retired) began the long process of becoming Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming.
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 CHAPTER 1 Ngaruawahia - Sea Voyage - Arrival at Maadi | NZETC
On the morning of 9 January HMS Ramillies, escorting the Empress of Canada, left the convoy to disembark the General and his ADMS, who were to continue their journey to Egypt from Sydney by air.
The sighting of Cocos Island at mid-morning on 25 January brought all on board to thoughts of leave at their next port of call, Colombo, and on being informed that mail would be sent from there, bachelor and benedict alike turned to writing letters.
As though to relieve the tedium of those hot and humid days, HMS Ramillies staged a live shoot and practice smoke- screen and the flash of her guns through the smoke haze proved an impressive spectacle.
www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-WH2DiCa-c1.html   (5833 words)

  
 Colonial Wargames - Victorian Artillery Data - Later Breech Loading Artillery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Used aboard HMS Thunderer, HMS Devastation, HMS Barfleur, and HMS Centurion, and as the secondary armament of HMS Sans Pareil.
Used aboard HMS Thunderer and as the secondary armament of HMS Victoria.
Used aboard HMS Bellerophon and the Royal Navy's Gunnery School gunboats HMS Bustard, HMS Bonetta, HMS Pike, and HMS Snap.
www.colonialwargames.org.uk /Miscellany/Weapons/Artillery/LBL.htm   (865 words)

  
 Proceedings: Svinth 2003, GSJSA
Also, stories about Amazon mastectomies are likely owed to Hellenistic stage tradition rather than actual practice: Hellenistic actors traditionally bared their right breasts to show that they were playing unmarried females.
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.
To prevent hair pulling, the women cut their hair short, and to keep everything “decent,” the women wore tights.
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 mudge island real estate mudge island homes nanaimo real estate: Nanaimo homes
Captain Richards, RN, was given the task of establishing the exact location of the 49th parallel, and surveying around the waters of Vancouver Island.
David Roberts and Joseph Chapple set out in a boat from Mudge to attempt a rescue, and although their efforts were hampered by strong winds and high seas, they were able to bring the three men safely to shore.
In the 1891 census, David Roberts was listed as a 45 year-old farmer on Mudge Island, living with his wife, Mary Isabella (aged 29) and four children: Llewellyn, 7; John D, 5; Edward N, 3; and Ivor P, 1.
www.mudgeisland.com   (3638 words)

  
 Maritime Museums in Britain and Ireland - Vessels
HMS Victory is still in commission as a flagship in Portsmouth, and is open to the public at defined times.
HMS Caroline is still in commission at Belfast and is rarely open to the public.
HMS Caroline; Light cruiser, fought at Jutland; 1914 CC NMV
www.cus.cam.ac.uk /~mhe1000/vessels.htm   (4379 words)

  
 Family Album and Genealogy of Eva Mary Berriman (nee Keay)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
1891 census: widow Esther is a loan office proprietoress (broker); John - loan office clerk; Sarah - dressmaker.
Herbert SHEPHERD 1891 Holborn, ch Gordon Herbert, Lucy, Lizzie Jane, Minnie Clara, Henrietta Mabel.
DONOHUE (corrected from DONOHOE) is on MC of Daniel Donohue and Isabella Oliver and BCs of their children, but later the name appears as DONOGHUE eg on MC of Harriet and in 1891, 1901 census returns.
www.users.bigpond.com /berrime   (5966 words)

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