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	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.
		Ships at sea heard a broadcast that included Fessenden playing O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible.
		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)

	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: 2007-09-08)
		Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of Virginia, issued an emancipation proclamation in November 1775, promising freedom to runaway slaves who fought for the British.
		However, a series of popular revolts beginning in August of 1774 compelled the newly appointed Royal officials in Massachusetts to resign or to seek refuge in Boston.
		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.
	american-revolutionary-war.iqnaut.net (5146 words)

	Vancouver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, both the island and the city (and its U.S. counterpart) are named after Royal Navy Captain George Vancouver of Great Britain, who explored the region in 1792.
		Another famous Edwardian building in the city is the current Vancouver Art Gallery building, designed by Francis Mawson Rattenbury who also designed the provincial Legislature and the original and highly decorative Hotel Vancouver (torn down after WWII as a condition of the completion of the new Hotel Vancouver a block away).
		Topping the list of tallest buildings in Vancouver as of June 2006 is One Wall Centre at 150 m and 48 storeys, followed closely by the Shaw Tower at 149 m and 41 storeys.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vancouver (5681 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 Telegraph Office -- for Telegraph Key Collectors and Historians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		List of Semi-Automatic Key (bug) Manufacturers: Did you know there were 60 plus makers of bugs in the U.S. alone?
		Jame's Doty's list of Telegraph companies: A comprehensive list from the very beginning of the telegraph business.
		The Bottom of the Ocean Is "Main Street" to Him: A cable ship captain recalls thirty years of repairing cables in the North Atlantic -- a fascinating story, c.
	www.telegraph-office.com /tel_off-page.html (2958 words)

	Ed Rogers Rare & Out of Print Books - Rare Paleontology Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		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)

	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)

	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)

	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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