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    The Old Bahama Channel (Spanish: Canal Viejo de Bahama) is a strait of the Caribbean region, between Cuba and the Bahamas. The strait/channel is located...
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  • Strait – between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick/Nova Scotia Old Bahama Channel – between Cuba and the Bahamas Ombai Strait – Alor Archipelago, Indonesia...
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  • extension of Straits of Florida, not to Old Bahama Channel, as here assumed. 1589 unknown Old Bahama Channel The 120-ton Espíritu Santo under Miguel Baltasar...
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    to the east by the Old Bahama Channel. Geography of this location can be described as follows: Both the Little and the Great Bahama Banks have their edges...
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    the south end of the island is visible from ships transiting the Old Bahama Channel. Most of the inhabitants on the island are direct descendants of the...
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  • Ocampo sailed along the northern coast of the island through the Old Bahama Channel and around the western point, Cape San Antonio. The voyage took eight...
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  • by the Atlantic Ocean, specifically by the Nicholas Channel (Sabana segment) and Old Bahama Channel (Camagüey segment). The archipelago is positioned on...
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    Asterion got underway for the British West Indies and, going via the Old Bahama Channel, followed the convoy route to Trinidad and Tobago, patrolling to the...
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    the Mona Passage Mayagüez Bay Samaná Bay Scottish Bay Mona Canyon Old Bahama Channel http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2007/05/ Archived 2017-04-05 at the Wayback...
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    of Grand Bahama of the northwest part of The Bahamas. In 1955, Wallace Groves, a Virginian financier with lumber interests in Grand Bahama, was granted...
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    north by the Straits of Florida, on the northeast by Nicholas Channel and the Old Bahama Channel. The southern part is bounded by the Windward Passage and...
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    from Havana. He made his base on Tortuga. In an engagement in the Old Bahama Channel he defeated three armed ships that attempted to capture him and killed...
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    accessible only to small boats except for one deep water channel, the Old Bahama Channel which is only some 10 miles wide at its narrowest. Although...
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    40-foot (12 m) vessel on the Great Bahama Bank, seven Cubans from a makeshift vessel sinking in the Old Bahama Channel and 111 Haitians in a 30-foot (9...
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  • further spreading the wreck on the sea floor.[circular reference] 1622 Old Bahama Channel unknown unknown Two Spanish merchant carracks (naos in Spanish) left...
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    Cabo San Antonio off La Tabla off Costa de Matanzas, Cuba in the Old Bahama Channel off Punta Maternillos, Cuba off Punta Lucretia, Cuba off Cape Maisí...
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  • is bordered by the Old Bahama Channel and The Bahamas to 20 miles. At the northwest end is Cayo Paredon Grande, which has an old lighthouse. Cayo Megano...
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    from there, around Puerto Rico through the Windward Passage up the Old Bahama Channel skirting the eastern fringe of the Florida Strait and then along the...
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  • Caribbean. After several years of convoy duty she was wrecked in the Old Bahama Channel, near Cuba, on 24 July 1762. Winfield 2007, p.171 Winfield, Rif (2007)...
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  • make a profit. Alonso Valiente is also one of the discoverers of the Old Bahama Channel. Valiente also participated in the conquest of Chametla in Nueva Galicia...
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    Captain John Edward Walcott, on patrol to hunt for pirates in the Old Bahama Channel and off Cuba. After two months of unsuccessful searching in creeks...
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    Camaguey Airfield, Cuba in April 1942, from which it patrolled the Old Bahama Channel until August 1943, except for a brief period in May 1942. On 22 April...
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  • with the invasion fleet capturing four Spanish naval vessels at the Old Bahama Channel on 2 June. The siege of Havana began on 6 June, with the city being...
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  • employed in anti-slave trade patrol until it struck a reef in the Old Bahama Channel. USS San Jacinto  United States Navy 1 January 1865 A steam frigate...
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    disabled small craft. On 6 August 1960 she assisted the P/C Snow in the Old Bahama Channel. From 28 to 29 April 1961 she escorted the NASA Saturn barge Palaemon...
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    to London. Wilkes proceeded in San Jacinto to a narrow part of the Old Bahama Channel, some 230 miles east of Havana, and waited there to waylay Trent....
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    during the clash. Avellaneda's fleet pursued the English as far as the Old Bahama Channel. On 22 May, returning to Havana, they captured John Crosse’s pinnace...
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    Upon having reached Matanzas; Prudence and Lion continued up the Old Bahama Channel toward England with their prizes. The next day Centaur, Pegasus, Hopewell...
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  • November was driven onto a reef near Cay Verde on the north side of the Old Bahama Channel. The ship was lost and 70 of the Africans drowned. It was reported...
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    past Cuba, he intercepted and captured two small galleons in the Old Bahama Channel on 28 August that conveyed the new Spanish governor of Florida, Pedro...
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