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	Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first reformation and major expansion of the Navy Royal, as it was then known, occurred in the 16th century during the reign of Henry VIII whose ships, Henri Grâce a Dieu ("Great Harry") and Mary Rose, engaged the French navy in the battle of the Solent in 1545.
		Royal Navy was a force designed for the Cold War — with its three ASW aircraft carriers and a force of small frigates and destroyers, its purpose was to search for and destroy Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic.
		The Royal Navy is established under the royal prerogative and the head of the Royal Navy, known as the Lord High Admiral, and overall head of the Armed Forces, is the British Sovereign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_navy (3812 words)

	Cyndi's List - Ships & Passenger Lists
		This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of Boston, Massachusetts from 1820-1943.
		This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of New York from 1851-1891 and 1935-1938.
		This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1883-1945.
	www.cyndislist.com /ships.htm (5816 words)

	American Revolutionary War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of Virginia, issued an emancipation proclamation in November 1775, promising freedom to runaway slaves who fought for the British.
		On September 5, 1781, French naval forces defeated the British Royal Navy at the Battle of the Chesapeake, cutting off Cornwallis's supplies and transport.
		The last surviving veteran may have been Daniel F. Bakeman (died 1869), who was placed on the pension rolls by an act of U.S. Congress and is listed as the last survivor of the conflict by the United States Department of Veterans' Affairs.
	american-revolutionary-war.iqnaut.net (5146 words)

	bibliography
		Webber, Bert, Battleship Oregon : Bulldog of the Navy.
		Payne, William C., The Cruise of the U.S.S. Dixie; or On Board with the Maryland Boys in the Spanish-American War, A Narrative.
		U.S. Naval Institute, "Historic Naval Ships Association of North America", (pamphlet that is a reprint of an article from the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings), Annapolis: 1978.
	www.spanamwar.com /biblio.htm (4914 words)

	Ed Rogers Rare & Out of Print Books - Rare Paleontology Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		During his return trip to England in 1771, Cook was the first ship commander to prevent the outbreak of scurvy, by serving his crew fruit and sauerkraut to prevent the disease.
		England, at war with Spain in 1739, equipped eight ships under the command of George Anson to harass the Spaniards on the western coast of South America, for the purpose of cutting off Spanish supplies of wealth from the Pacific area.
		Contains: Listings of new minerals, and fossils donated to Cabinet of Natural History; Beck's study on the minerals of New York, Hall's study of new fossils described from New York and Morgan's important study of artifacts from the Seneca Indians of western New York.
	www.geology-books.com /newcatalog.html (16914 words)

	Heraldry Books
		HUMPHERY-SMITH, C. A Catalogue of sources for the study of the Visitations of the Heralds in the 16th & 17th centuries with referenced lists of names.
		The list of Charles Blount, Baron Mountjoy's illegitimate children is as usual cut out at p.493.
		An anthology of the texts of Royal Letters Patent granted to the College of Arms during 500 years illustrating much of the work, fees, dress, appointments, Visitations, etc. of the Heralds and the College as a whole.
	www.heraldrytoday.co.uk /heraldry_books.htm (8178 words)

	The Maritime Heritage Project: Gold Rush Books, 19th Century Reading, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Mark Twain
		In 1850 Santiago Socia found the bow of a ship projecting from the desert and in 1933, Myrtle and Louis Botts found an ancient vessel near Aqua Caliente, only to claim that an earthquake buried their find.
		The wrecks are organized by date and by location, and includes ocean and bay steamers, as well as other ships that wrecked between the years 1500 and 1957.
		The list includes the number of passengers and sometimes the number of crew, but not their names.
	www.maritimeheritage.org /books.htm (3630 words)

	The American Civil War Homepage
		Ships of the Confederate Navy (from the Naval Historical Center)
		Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebllion
		List of the Prisoners of the CSS Atlanta, Captured on June 17, 1863
	www.oars.utk.edu /civil-war/warweb.html (4235 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Australia
		cabinet: Parliament nominates and selects, from among its members, a list of candidates to serve as government ministers; from this list, the governor general swears in the final selections for the Cabinet
		total: 52 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 1,531,461 GRT/1,999,409 DWT
		Australian Army, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Australian Air Force, new Special Operations Command (announced in December 2002)
	www.brainyatlas.com /geos/as.html (1079 words)

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