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    HMS Icarus was a Mariner-class composite screw gunvessel of 8 guns, and the third Royal Navy vessel to carry the name. She was launched in 1885 at Devonport...
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  • ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Icarus, after the Icarus of Greek mythology. HMS Icarus (1814), an 18-gun brig-sloop launched in 1814...
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    commander on 22 March 1858. He became commanding officer of the sloop HMS Icarus on the North America and West Indies Station in November 1859. In 1860...
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  • John Wilson (Royal Navy officer) (category 1885 deaths)
     5905. "PAD6296 (HMS Icarus screw composite gun vessel of 8 guns and 850 H.P. was to have been launched at Devonport Yard 11 July 1885)". National Maritime...
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    HMS Phaeton was a second class cruiser of the Leander class which served with the Royal Navy. Paid off in 1903, she then did harbour service until 1913...
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    HMS Sultan was a broadside ironclad of the Royal Navy of the Victorian era, who carried her main armament in a central box battery. She was named for...
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  • completed 29 August 1918. HMS St Bees, tug for British Admiralty, launched 5 September 1918, completed 24 October 1918. SS War Icarus, G-type cargo ship for...
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  • SV Ursula (category 1885 ships)
    barque. She was built by the company of Hermann Friedrich Ulrichs [de] in 1885 and owned by D. H. Wätjen und Co. [de] with hometown Bremen. On 30 October...
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    Ingalls: 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1887 Captain Goodall: 1884 Captain Leland: 1885 Captain James Carroll: 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888 Captain Ackerly:...
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    The seventh HMS Enterprise of the Royal Navy was an armoured sloop launched in 1864 at Deptford Dockyard. Originally laid down as a wooden screw sloop...
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  • North Western Railway from 1885 to 1906. She was built by Harland and Wolff for the London and North Western Railway in 1885 and put on the Holyhead –...
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    She decommissioned at Norfolk, Virginia on May 23. Recommissioned April 4, 1885, Pensacola, under the command of then Captain George Dewey, operated in European...
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    GameSpy remarked that the 1986 video game Kid Icarus follows a trajectory similar to its namesake, Icarus, who had escaped imprisonment when his father...
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    (March 1883) St. Thomas Cardiff (February 1884) Odessa Antwerp (May 1885) Quebec (June 1885) Newp.News. (?) Liverpool (May 1886) Montreal Norfolk Liverpool...
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    Cockchafer (1881) Starling (1882) Stork (1882) Raven (1882) Albacore class HMS Albacore HMS Mistletoe HMS Watchful Bramble class Rattler (1886) Wasp (1886) Lizard (1886)...
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  • in 1918 by Harland & Wolff, served Booth Line for war efforts under War Icarus, sold in 1919 to American Atlantic Transport Line under Mesaba, transferred...
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    HMS Lily was an Arab-class composite gunvessel built for the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1874, saw service in Chinese and North American waters, and...
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    ordered by the Admiralty in 1880. The class comprised HMS Leander, HMS Phaeton, HMS Amphion, and HMS Arethusa. "A new and better policy of unarmoured construction...
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    shogunate then. 1866 HSBC established a Japanese branch in Yokohama. 1867. The Icarus affair, an incident involving the murder of two British sailors in Nagasaki...
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    3 km/h), although Icarus and Melita recorded 12.5 knots. All the ships of the class were built as barque-rigged vessels, except Icarus, which had no main...
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    at Samoa" (PDF). The New York Times. 30 March 1889. "SMS Adler (Gunboat, 1885-1889)". Naval Historical Center. Archived from the original on 14 January...
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    Biplane No. 2 (not a Voisin as sometimes reported) took a pig later named Icarus II aloft on November 4, 1909, as a joke to prove the adage that pigs could...
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    distinguish between asteroidal and cometary sources of interplanetary dust", Icarus, 77 (2): 287–310, Bibcode:1989Icar...77..287F, doi:10.1016/0019-1035(89)90091-2...
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    The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke Herbert James Draper: The Lament for Icarus William Dyce: Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of 5 October 1858 Augustus...
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    and Foreign Shipping, from 1871 to 1885. Her ship master was Edward Fryer (1876-1884) and Albert C. Malcolm (1885); her owners were the N. Y. Pilot Association;...
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    risqué. Examples of his written works include: The Fighting of the Future, Icarus, A Jaunt on a Junk, A Ballad of Hadji, and A Staff Officer's Scrapbook....
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    Beattie. "Collaroy paddle-steamer; 356t. [1853-1884] four-masted barkentine [1885-1889]". Retrieved 31 March 2018. Francis Hixson. "Wreck report for Collaroy...
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    Opium Seizure". Record-Union. December 31, 1885. p. 2. "Wharf and Wave". San Francisco Chronicle. August 13, 1885. p. 5. "Wharf and Wave". San Francisco Chronicle...
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    and Alexander Bruce 1876–77. John Howard Barrett commanded her 1882–83 and 1885–86. Barrett had previously been Master of Outalpa and St Vincent, and later...
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    painted a number of marine subjects, including Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c. 1568); the original is now recognised as lost, and the painting in the...
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