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	Sir Philip Sidney - Works, Influence (An Apology for Poetry), Significance (Apology), On Method (Apology)
		Philip was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford.
		The most famous story about Sir Philip (intended as an illustration of his noble character) is that, while dying, he gave his water-bottle to another wounded soldier, saying, "Thy need is greater than mine".
		The essence of his defense is that poetry, by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical focus of philosophy, is more effective than either history or philosophy in rousing its readers to virtue.
	encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/20631/Sir-Philip-Sidney.html (1933 words)

	Sir Philip Vian - External references
		Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Vian (1894-1968) GCB KBE DSO was a British naval officer best known for the incident early in 1940 when a force under his command released captured British merchant sailors from the German supply ship Altmark in Jøssingfjord, Norway.
		From late 1941 onwards Vian served in the Mediterranean, in particular leading cruiser squadrons and other naval forces based in Malta and Alexandria, which caused great losses to Italian merchant shipping, ensured the supply of Malta and fight a number of successful engagements with the Italian Navy.
		In 1944, Vian was the commander of the main British naval force supporting the D-Day landings in Normandy.
	encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/20632/Sir-Philip-Vian.html (513 words)

	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum
		Vian was educated at the Royal Naval Colleges at Osborne and Dartmouth.
		Soon after this, Vian temporarily transferred to HMS Alfridi and took part in the Norwegian campaign during April to June 1940, and was involved in many actions including the evacuation at Namsos, during which his ship was sunk, and was Mentioned in Despatches for his part in the action.
		Vian returned to the UK and took command of the Eastern Task Force in January 1944, in preparation for the invasion of Normandy.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_philip_vian.htm (1379 words)

	WW2DB: Philip Vian
		Aboard Alfridi, Vian commanded the flotilla to evacuate Allied troops at Namsos, Norway in Apr 1940, which led to the sinking of Alfridi.
		In early Mar 1942, Vian's flagship HMS Naiad was sunk while escorting a small force from Malta; Vian survived the sinking and transferred his flag to HMS Cleopatra.
		In Jun 1944, Vian was the commander of three British naval forces supporting the Normandy landings with his flag aboard HMS Scylla.
	ww2db.com /person_bio.php?person_id=414 (1179 words)

	Admiral Sir Philip S. Vian
		While Vian was unhappy, he would have loved to remain aboard LN as the two were soon transferred to the Mediterranean to fight the Turks.
		Vian was told to be more careful in future, but his Commander in Chief wrote that he had liked the manner of the confession.
		Vian then returned to England and was told by the Naval Secretary to the First Lord, responsible for captains’ appointments, that he was lucky to have been promoted so soon, and that in about two years Vian might be offered command of a small vessel.
	www.mikecampbell.net /vian.htm (2118 words)

	The Remarkable Mr Clarke
		He sent a signal instructing Vian to board the Altmark - a good example of one of his notorious personal interventions – and the incident was a rare national morale boosting success in the middle of the phoney war.
		They appear to have accepted the C in C’s conclusion that Vian was principally to blame and rejected the B of I’s finding and the mild rebuke they had proposed.
		Vian, despite their Lordships’severe displeasure, despite having clearly disobeyed orders and despite having undoubtedly been the direct cause of the accident went completely and entirely unscathed.
	www.marshalclarke.com /AdmiralMarshalClarke.html (1361 words)

	Malta Marine Foundation ~ SOUTHWOLD
		The convoy was under the command of Admiral Philip Vian.
		When these were sighted later on in the morning of 22 March, Vian knew immediately that he was not only heavily outnumbered but also outgunned since Iachino had the 15 inch guns of Littorio, and the 8 inch guns of the cruisers against his 6 inch and the 4 inch guns on his destroyers.
		This time Admiral Vian closed the range to under 10000 yards and emerging out of the smoke-screen succeeded in hitting the Littorio with a salvo which started a fire on the battleship.
	www.marinefoundation.org /wreckshmssouthwold.htm (960 words)

	Vice-Admiral Sir Hector MacLean - Telegraph
		Alerted by his C-in-C, Captain Philip Vian chased the Altmark through the islands and fjords until they reached Jossingfjord at night.
		Cossack achieved headlines around the world, but had to be docked to repair her damage; although MacLean had saved her propeller and the underwater hull from the ice and rocks, both her side and stem plates needed repair.
		Vian therefore had to transfer to another destroyer and, to his consternation, lost MacLean, who was mentioned in dispatches and given another appointment.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/24/db2403.xml (703 words)

	Obituary: Vice Admiral Sir David Brown \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		He was once called aboard HMS Vanguard, Britain's last battleship and the flagship of Admiral Sir Philip Vian, the C-in-C, Home Fleet.
		Vian was furious because Brown's ship had failed to dip its colours in salute to him as it entered harbour.
		After being bawled out at considerable volume, Brown was cool enough to tell Vian that, as a ship's captain, he was entitled to be piped aboard the flagship - and had therefore not been properly saluted either.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1535902,00.html (865 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - The Navy's HERE. Rescue of 300 British POW's From Altmark. February 1940.
		He replied that Altmark had been searched three times since she entered Norwegian waters, and no prisoners had been discovered, he added his orders were to resist any entry by force, and, as we could see, his torpedo tubes were at that time trained on Cossack.
		If she fires upon you, you should not reply unless attack is serious, in which case you should defend yourself using no more force than is necessary and cease fire when she desists.
		Philip Vian went on to become: Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Philip Vian.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/Rescueof300BritishPOWsFro.html (1475 words)

	Vian Family Genealogy Forum
		Re: Vians in Oregon - Beverly Harmon 5/06/01
		Re: vians from nebraska - margee peterson 10/25/04
		Re: Vians in Oklahoma - shirley houchin 9/23/03
	genforum.genealogy.com /vian (950 words)

	Dec06
		Philip Vian, WinScribe’s International Sales and Marketing Director, explains: “Our integration with the new Philips SpeechMike range not only offers our customers the benefit of a more versatile solution, it is also reflective of WinScribe’s advantage of being able to operate on a wide range of hardware, making the WinScribe/Philips partnership a winning combination.”
		For more than 50 years Philips Dictation Systems has been the principal force in delivering dictation and speech technologies to users around the world.
		With its headquarters and production centre located in Vienna, Austria, Philips Dictation Systems is the world’s market leader in professional analogue and digital dictation solutions, with a global market share of 25%.
	www.winscribe.com /about_winscribe/news/2005/Dec06.asp (589 words)

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		On the evening of 14 Jun, Admiral Vian learned that a strong element of the Italian battlefleet, with two 15-inch battleships (Vittorio Veneto and Littorio), two heavy (Goriza, Trento) and two light cruisers (Giuseppe Garibaldi and Aosta), plus ten destroyers, had sailed south from Taranto.
		Vian’s covering force could not possibly confront such a powerful task group and early on 15 Jun the convoy reversed course back for Egypt.
		On the evening of 15 Jun, Admiral Vian made the final decision to withdraw the convoy to Alexandria, citing low anti-aircraft ammunition levels in all the escorts as his reason.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/june/16Jun.txt (4012 words)

	Armchair General Magazine: Interactive Military History
		A Royal Navy destroyer flotilla, commanded by Captain Philip Vian, skipper of the HMS Cossack, was operating in the general area and was ordered to locate the Altmark.
		Vian used his destroyer flotilla to barricade the mouth of the fjord, then, along with another destroyer, HMS Intrepid, the Cossack attempted to enter the fjord but was intercepted by two Norwegian gunboats.
		When Vian’s signal detailing the standoff reached the Admiralty, Churchill immediately went to the War Room.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /articles.php?p=2812&page=1 (1220 words)

	vian - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	www.onelook.com /?w=vian&ls=a (101 words)

	Air Fronts: Theaters of Operation - MTO - HMSO: The Air Battle of Malta - 7. Onslaught on the Convoys
		The February convoy having failed even to reach the vicinity of the island, great store was set upon the convoy which sailed in March.
		Often called the " Vian convoy ", as a tribute to the seamanship of Rear-Admiral Sir Philip Vian, who brought it safely within sight of land after averting destruction by overwhelming Italian forces, it was planned as a combined operation.
		The land forces in North Africa staged feint attacks to divert the enemy's attention from the convoy on its passage west from Egypt.
	ww2airfronts.org /Theaters/mto/hmso-malta/pages/hmso-malta7.html (1975 words)

	Vian Family Crest
		In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
		In the Vian coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
		We encourage you to study the Vian genealogy to find out if you descend from someone who bore a particular family crest.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/vian-family-crest.htm (595 words)

	Aircraft Carrier, Glory, Formidable, Illustrious, Core, Santee, Bogue, Card
		Rear-Adm Vian commanded the support carriers with light carrier "Unicorn", escort carriers "Attacker", Battler", "Hunter" and "Stalker", three cruisers and destroyers.
		Most of the troops were carried to Salerno via Sicily in the landing ships and craft, and, early on the 9th, without any preliminary air or naval bombardment, landed in the face of strong German resistance.
		Rear-Adm Sir Philip Vian took command of the BPF carriers and led "Indomitable" and "Illustrious" on an attack against Belawan Deli, northern Sumatra in mid-month.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsCarriers3.htm (5668 words)

	Lieutenant-Commander Innes Hamilton obituary - Times Online
		Maori’s next major action was as part of the pursuit of the Bismarck, after the German battleship’s steering gear had been wrecked by an attack by Swordfish torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier Ark Royal on the evening of May June 26, 1941.
		Maori was one of five destroyers of the 4th Flotilla under the command of the dashing Captain Philip Vian, which intercepted Bismarck, aiming to try to slow her down with torpedoes, should the Swordfish attacks prove abortive.
		Vian soon realised that the Bismarck had taken a serious hit from the Swordfish, and he closed in with his destroyers with a view to slowing her down further.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/comment/obituaries/article876253.ece (1509 words)

	World War 2 Timelines 1939-1945 - Mediterranean 1942 - Worldwar-2.net
		This protected itself with a smokescreen, but the cruiser HMS Cleopatra was damaged.
		Admiral Philip Vian, commanding the British escorts, now sent his destroyers in a torpedo attack on the Italian battleship Littorio.
		However, by now it was getting dark and so Admiral Iachino turned away from the British convoy and sailed for home.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-at-sea/mediterranean/mediterranean-index-1942.htm (1084 words)

	The HMS Cossack Association - History
		East Coast and Norwegian convoy escort duties became her first principal wartime tasks, and it was during one of these to Bergen that a collision occurred with the SS BORTHWICK and, sadly, 5 of her ship's company were killed.
		It needed the immediate intervention of a Minister, ready to take responsibility, because the landslide of the nations of Europe had not yet begun, and the significance of Norwegian neutrality could only be fully appreciated in London.
		On the 26th, Cossack was escorting a convoy when Captain Vian received orders to leave the convoy and take four other destroyers, the Sikh, Zulu and Maori and the Polish ship Piorun, to relieve other destroyers which were escorting the Home Fleet battleships King George V and Rodney.
	www.hmscossack.org /history.htm (2918 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association—Battle Cruiser Hood: I was there! Where? The autobiography of crewman Alec Kelloway
		Captain Philip Vian who had previously taken Cossack into a fjord and rescued the British Merchant Sailors imprisoned on the German supply ship Altmark relieved our commander.
		Our Captain had not heard of a temporary rate, it was explained to him that the temporary rate was a war time measure and I could be reverted to Ist Class if the war ended before my permanent rate came through.
		Captain Vian on hearing this said ‘That’s pretty disgusting, request granted.’ I was rated up.
	www.hmshood.com /crew/biography/kellaway/chapter4.html (2482 words)

	Fleet Air Arm Service Records: Flag Officer Index
		This position was first held in 1944 by RA Sir Philip Vian.
		The post became the 1st Aircraft Carrier squadron - British Pacific Fleet in February 1945, and was sub-sumed by the FLag Officer Air Far East in 1947.
		RA Sir Philip Vian KCB KBE DSO** Feb 1945 - May 1945
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /RollofHonour/Admirals/Flag_officer_index.html (551 words)

	Rimmington Vian : Hand finished glassware
		The creative partnership of RIMMINGTON VIAN was formed in 1990 by Kevin Rimmington and Philip Vian.
		We also offer a bespoke service, specialising in designing short runs, including producing artwork, sourcing shapes, packaging, labelling etc.
		Please contact Kevin or Philip who will be pleased to discuss your requirements.
	www.rimmingtonvian.co.uk (81 words)

	The Sami and World War II
		Another event that prompted the German invasion was the interception of the Altmark by HMS Cossack, a British destroyer commanded by Captain Philip Vian.
		On direct orders of Winston Churchill, Captain Vian informed the Norwegians that he was stopping the Altmark, boarded the prison ship in Jøssing Fjord and released the prisoners and returned them to Britain.
		This was a crucial event, which convinced Hitler that while Norway was powerless to act when either power breached international law in Norwegian waters, if it were occupied by the British and more specifically, the British Royal Navy, this would mean trouble for Germany.
	www.utexas.edu /courses/sami/dieda/hist/wwii.htm (4371 words)

	Rear-Admiral Anthony Davies obituary - Times Online
		He joined the Tribal-class destroyer flotilla leader Cossack in early 1940 as the flotilla gunnery officer under the formidable Captain (afterwards Admiral Sir Philip) Vian and took part in April in the Second Battle of Narvik.
		That battle was a bright spot in an otherwise disastrous campaign to counter the German occupation of Norway.
		In the spring of 1941, Vian’s group of four Tribals and the Polish destroyer Piorun were detached from convoy escort and ordered to carry out a night attack, which was beaten off, on the crippled battleship Bismarck.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/comment/obituaries/article865740.ece (1144 words)

	Sir Philip Sidney Biography (1554–86) Online Encyclopedia Article About Sir Philip Sidney Biography (1554–86)
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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/043/Sir-Philip-Sidney.html (232 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003f Surface vessels (1940-1944) > Aircraft Carriers (Steam Powered) > ...
		After dockyard work on the problems the ship sailed on 19 November 1944 for the Far East to join the British Pacific Fleet as flagship of Rear-Admiral Philip Vian (former captain of Cossack) who commanded the carrier group of the BPF.
		The ship remained in Pacific waters after the end of the conflict, becoming the flagship of Sir Philip Vian when he took over as Vice-Admiral BPF for a period.
		She returned to the United Kingdom in time for the Victory Parade.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/photolibrary/index.php?cat=1290 (627 words)

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