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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 (3793 words)

	Radio
		The word appears in a 1907 article by Lee de Forest, was adopted by the United States Navy in 1912 and became common by the time of the first commercial broadcasts in the United States in the 1920s.
		Soon, the U.S. Navy experimented with satellite navigation, culminating in the invention and launch of the GPS constellation in 1987.
		One of the most memorable uses of marine telegraphy was during the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, including communications between operators on the sinking ship and nearby vessels, and communications to shore stations listing the survivors.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/radio.html (4616 words)

	bibliography
		Webber, Bert, Battleship Oregon : Bulldog of the Navy.
		U.S. Department of the Navy, Appendix to the Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation.
		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: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		He was given two ships, the Resolution and the Adventure, which he stocked with proper food stores, including lemons, enough to last for two years and which he knew would prevent scurvy.
		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)

	Maritime Heritage Network - Stories
		We’ve selected a brief list of those stories, generously supplied by HistoryLink, the first and largest encyclopedia of community history created expressly for the Internet.
		The coast and inland waters were explored by the Spanish in the 16th century and the British in 18th century.
		The British Royal Navy and the US Army faced each other during a boundary dispute between Britain and the U.S. in 1859.
	www.maritimeheritage.net /stories (1178 words)

	Heraldry Books
		Advertisement sheet & folding list of the Knights of the Garter.
		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)

	Wing Commander CIC
		It will also include improvements to the Simulator and more missions will be tracked in the Scoreboard.
		All fourteen ships will now be selectable in the sim at all times.
		The second, and even bigger, change is the addition of further explanatory captions during the battle.
	www.wcnews.com (2232 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)

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