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  HMS Vanguard
The first HMS Vanguard, 32, was a galleon launched in 1586 from Woolwich and was key in the action against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
The fourth HMS Vanguard was a third-rate, launched in 1748, that took part in the capture of Louisbourg in 1758 under Admiral Edward Boscawen, and later in the capture of Quebec in 1759 under Admiral Charles Saunders[?].
Vanguard was renamed Ajax in 1867, to allow her former name to be given to an ironclad battleship then being laid down in the ways.
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 hms vanguard
The tenth HMS Vanguard (S28) of the British Royal Navy is the lead boat of her class of Trident ballistic missile-capable submarines.
HMS Vanguard was a modified King George V class battleship of the Royal Navy.
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 HMS Vanguard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The second Vanguard was a 56-gun second-rate launched in 1631, active in the Anglo-Dutch Wars, and scuttled in 1667.
The third Vanguard was a 90-gun three-decker second-rate launched in 1678 and wrecked in 1703.
The seventh Vanguard was an ironclad battleship of 1869, wrecked in a collision in 1875.
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 HMS Discovery - Crew of - by Lafayette
The ship, HMS Boadicea, was the flagship of the Cape Squadron, and in her he served as midshipman for two years.
At the end of 1886 he joined HMS Rover and was rated by her captain as an "intelligent and capable young officer of temperate habits".
HMS Minerva towed her from Portsmouth to Gibraltar, HMS Vindictive took her on to Aden and from there HMS Fox towed her to an area 120 miles off the east coast of Socotra where she was left on her own for the final leg.
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 HMS Vanguard - The History of the Vanguards of the Royal Navy from 1586
HMS Vanguard - The History of the Vanguards of the Royal Navy from 1586
The Tenth Vanguard 1992 - Currently in use
The History of the Vanguards of the Royal Navy
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HMS Orlando was anchored in Tunis Bay 3rd November 1864.
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.
The coffin was carried by the crewmen of the Vanguard.
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HMS Vanoc discovered her during an overcast night that would have kept U-100 safe from lookouts 1941 - U-99 scuttled at 0343 SE of Iceland, in approximate position 61N, 12W, after being depth charged by destroyer HMS Walker.
Corvette HMS Anemone tried to sink the ship with 4in gunfire and a depth charge, but the ship remained afloat and was later finished off by U-91.
Corvette HMS Anemone was ordered to find the lifeboats, after corvette HMS Pennywort had come across them and could not pick up the men because she already had 108 survivors on board.
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 Busk's Navies of the World - 1859 - Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
HMS Waterloo was renamed Conqueror after the original Conqueror was wrecked at the end of 1861.
The damage to the upperworks of HMS Agamemnon and the French steam battleship Ville de Paris at Sevastopol in particular had convinced many that guns on the upper deck were very vulnerable to shell fire and should be reduced.
An early screw sloop was HMS Cruizer of 160' long on deck, 1073 tons displacement and armed with 17 32-pr guns.
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 stlawrence
McSweeney was brought to Malta on HMS Childers in February for his Court Martial on the 25th and 27th February 1837, on board HMS Revenge, which was moored in Grand Harbour.
The Court heard how McSweeney joined HMS Rodney when she was first commissioned in 1835, and that he was quartered at the after main deck Quarter, under the charge of Lieutenant Payne.
HMS Rodney was being refitted in Port Mahon, Minorca, when ordered to proceed to Malta for the express purpose of McSweeney’s execution.
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Killed in a collision with HMS Ardent and TB84, 18th April 1906, aged 36 years.
Serving on HMS Britannia when it was torpedoed by a German submarine on 9th November 1918.
Action May 1812 (HMS Northumberland) drove on shore and destroyed, near the entrance of Lorient, two French frigates (Arienne and Andromaque), and the brig Mamelouck.
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 USS Cyane
She was captured with HMS Levant 20 February 1815 by Constitution after a 40-minute night engagement off Madeira.
Enclosed you will receive the minutes of the action, and a list of the killed and wounded on board this ship; also enclosed you will receive for your information, a statement of the actual force of the enemy, and the number killed and wounded on board their ships, as near as could be ascertained.
In February 1808 she sailed for the Mediterranean where her boats captured eight merchantmen before, on 22 May, Capt. STAINES captured the last Spanish vessel to be taken before Spain threw in her lot against the French.
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 H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Crew Information - Remembering Hood - Excerpt from "Flagship Hood, ...
Special thanks to H.M.S. Hood Association President Ted Briggs for allowing us to post his half of the book "Flagship Hood." He co-authored the book with the late Alan Coles in 1985.
During sixteen months in the whitened sepulchre of HMS Ganges, the boys' training ship at Shotley Gate, Ipswich, I had hardly dared to hope that I would be sent to the ship of my dreams at the end of my 'apprenticeship ashore'.
It soon became obvious that the Strasbourg, now joined by six more destroyers from Oran, was the only big fish to have eluded the trap, and the Hood parted company from the two older battleships and surged ahead of Force H in pursuit.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She was converted to screw propulsion in 1846 and broken up in 1864.
The fourth Ajax was launched in 1835 as the sixth HMS Vanguard and was renamed Ajax in 1867.
The fifth Ajax, launched in 1880, was the lead ship of her class of ironclad battleships.
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 Malta Family History
On 20th October the 85th regiment embarked for England, on board HMS Kent and HMS Madagascar after having served in the Mediterranean area for over ten years, of which nine were spent in the Malta Garrison.
HMS Barham entered the Quarantine Harbour on the 21st November 1831, and brought to Malta the famous Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, who was a literary lion in his own lifetime.
Shortly afterwards a 21-gun salute was fired by each of the warships at anchor in Grand Harbour, HMS Princess Charlotte, HMS Asia, HMS Vanguard, HMS Bellerophon, HMS Minden, HMS Barham, HMS Carysfort and HMS Wolverine, whilst their crews in blue jackets and white trousers manned the yards.
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 Antarctic Explorers: Robert F. Scott
Con was 18 when the Royal Navy's Training Squadron, to which the HMS ROVER belonged, was cruising in the Caribbean.
After nine months on the HMS ROVER, Scott went on to spend the winter of 1887-8 at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich and in March 1888 he was awarded first-class certificates in pilotage, torpedoes and gunnery, coming in with the highest marks in his class in his year of seamanship.
He was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant and at the end of 1888, he was instructed to join the cruiser HMS AMPHION stationed near Vancouver, Canada.
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 Imperial Battleships
The 17,250-ton Dreadnought armored cruiser HMS INVINCIBLE is completed at Sir W. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd's shipyard and commissioned in the Royal Navy.
The Vanguard Force is sighted by a PBY "Catalina" patrol plane based in the Santa Cruz Islands.
The Vanguard Force is attacked by dive-bombers and torpedo planes from ENTERPRISE and HORNET (CV-8).
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 Qing Decline 1799-1875 by Sanderson Beck
When Cao Zhenyong died in 1835 at the age of eighty, he was succeeded as head of the secretariat and council by the bureaucratic Muchanga (1782-1856), who was corrupt and drained the treasury down to eight million taels by 1850.
The captain of the Royal Saxon was one, and in November 1839 he tried to trade with the Chinese at the Bogue and was attacked by the HMS Volage.
Yijing tried to attack Ningbo in March 1842 at the tiger-hour on the tiger-day in the tiger-month during the tiger-year; but the vanguard was left to 700 aborigines from Sichuan armed with knives, and they were slaughtered by English guns.
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 Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
HMS Vanguard (1748), HMS Vanguard (1787), HMS Vanguard (1835), etc.
Vanguard was Nelson's flagship at the Nile (not "Vanguard (1787)...")
Note the separation of submarine as a separate link; this is not required, but does allow the reader to look up the general term directly instead of being plunged into the technical discussion of a ship class.
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 Capt Fredrick Lewis Maitland
From Cape Francois had been taken by HMS Edinburgh retaken by a French privateer and bound for Port au Prince loaded with sugar and indigo Sent a PO and 8 seamen on board to take charge of her and brought the French prisoners on board.
At 3 the sloop put before the wind and the chace fired several shott at her At 5 fired a shott at the sloop.
HMS Burford made the signal for Court Martial.
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 The April Vanguard, our endeavor to explore history, my friend
April 10, 1835: On this date history records the birth of Ferdinand Hilgard in Speyer, Germany.
Born in Georgia, Lamar immigrated to Texas in 1835, joining the fight for independence.
After the conflict, Lamar became attorney general, secretary of war, vice-president and, finally, president of the Republic of Texas in 1838.
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 Plate (AAA5278) - National Maritime Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the centre is the Nelson family coat of arms, with augmentation of the word 'TRAFALGAR', crests and Earl's coronet.
'VANGUARD' is inscribed on a ribbon above 'PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT' below.
The maker's mark is printed and impressed on the base.
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 HMS AJAX COMMISION III Former Ships Of The Name
Converted to steam-Baltic operations in the Russian War.
This famous name was also adopted, in 1949, by the town of AJAX, Ontario, to commemorate the men who fought in HMS AJAX at the Baffle of the River Plate.
The streets of the town are named after the men who lost their lives in this baffle.
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 Bull 21 Misc
HMS Defence was designed by Sir Thomas Slade and built in Devonport in 1763.
HMS "Zealous made the signal for 16 sail of the line east and the Admiral [Nelson] made the signal to prepare for battle at 4" [pm].
Sands, HMS DEFENCE" is engraved; around is the inscription "Almighty God has blessed His Majesty's arms" and "Victory of the Nile August 1, 1798." The medal is protected by an openable glass case (like a waistcoat watch) which is enclosed in a padded crimson leather hinged case.
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 Franklin Parker Publications : Weblog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For patriotic causes he gave to the Lexington Monument in what is now Peabody, Massachusetts, $300 (1835); the Bunker Hill Memorial, Boston, Massachusetts, $500 (June 3, 1845); and the Washington Monument, Washington, D. C., $1,000 (July 4, 1854).
Next came the 5-transatlantic crossing of HMS Monarch and the USS Plymouth (December 21, 1869 to January 25, 1870) from Spithead near Portsmouth, past Ushant, France, to Madeira Island off Portugal, to Bermuda, and north to Portland, Maine, chosen by the British Admiralty because of its deeper harbor.
HMS Monarch's captain then requested, on behalf of Queen Victoria, 8-that the coffin remain aboard the Monarch in Portland harbor for two days (January 27-28, 1870).as a final mark of respect.
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 OSPREY ROUNDUP
New Vanguard 87, Bell UH-1 Huey "Slicks" 1962-75, by Chris Bishop, illustrated by Mike Badrocke, ISBN 1-84176-632-1.
The comprehensive text is accompanied by a good set of photographs, and the plates show seven different sets of markings as well as the trademark New Vanguard cutaway.
New Vanguard 88, British Battlecruisers 1939-45, by Angus Konstam, illustrated by Tony Bryan, ISBN 1-84176-633-X. Who hasn't heard of the sinking of HMS Repulse by Japanese aircraft and the destruction of Hood by a magazine explosion in combat with the Bismarck?
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 1707 (1707 resources) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On one such voyage, Charles Darwin traveled around the world on the HMS Beagle, making scientific observations which later influenced his development of the theory of evolution.
Also during that war, HM submarines Splendid and Turbulent launched a number of Tomahawk cruise missiles on a variety of targets in Iraq.
The Royal Navy is established under the royal prerogative, and the head of the Royal Navy, known as the Lord High Admiral, is the Queen (who is overall head of the UK Armed Forces).
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 Display of Malta Stamps and Postal History to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Malta Study Circle
An 1835 letter from the captain of an American brig at Malta was forwarded three times, first by MacDowall, ships'chandlers, who sent it by post to a London agent who passed it on to a Liverpool agent, Thos Cardwell, for transmission to Plymouth Massachusetts.
Malta was a major British naval and military base and a port of call for troops in transit to and from the East and naval vessels on duty in the Mediterranean.
An 1838 letter from a Royal Marine on board HMS Asia, written on illustrated notepaper showing the Naval Hospital, Malta, has the needle marks where the one penny for payment was sewn onto the letter.
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 Isle of Man Family History Society Journal Vol 2 No 1 Jan 1980
When Mrs Audrey Kinnish Hunt, visited the homecomers' Centre at the Sea Terminal this summer she gave me for use in our Journal a photostat copy of the diary kept by her ancestor, William Kinnish, during his voyage to Australia between Jany, 6 and June 10 1839.
She has sent us the off-spin of her precious time spent in.the Record office in London, in the form of this list of seamen on H M. ships between 1790 and 1794, recorded as born in the Isle of Man, with their ratings, ships and date of muster.
HMS Bellerophon of Napoleonic fame began wages and victualling at Chatham on July 17 1790.
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 Parnassus Records - LP catalog Select P291 OLD - used and rare classical vinyl, jazz and non-classical vinyl, lp ...
HM 592 S "Ballades, Rondeaux, & Virelais: Musiques des XIV & XV Siecles." ANCIENT INST.
HMS 30694 S Lully: Amadis--Suite; Purcell: King Arthur--Suite.
HMS 30695 S J.C. Bach: Sinfonia Concertante in A (MAIER, MAY); Sinfonia, Op.
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 George Peabody (1795-1869)
It was his Princeton of the West." Philip Lindsley in 1835 first called Nashville the "Athens of the West." (Conkin, p.
Philip Lindsley was succeeded as University of Nashville president in 1850 by his physician son, Dr. John Berrien Lindsley (1822-97), chancellor during 1850-72, who was succeeded in turn by Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith (1824-93) as chancellor during 1872-75.
A contemporary news account described the petty jealousy: "When the mighty men of Boston knew that England's..."Monarch" was bringing the body of the great philanthropist to his last resting place, they called a meeting and decided with what fitting honors and glories it would be received....
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