• (film), a 1930 German film Scapa Flow (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse Scapa Flow (British horse), dam of Pharos Scapa (disambiguation) Scuttling...
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    Scapa Flow (1924–1928) was an American Thoroughbred race horse, a son of Man o' War. He first came to prominence in 1926 after winning the 43rd running...
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    were full brothers by leading sire Phalaris out of the great broodmare Scapa Flow. Fairway was the more successful racehorse, whose wins included the St...
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    American Flag Gusto Gun Boat Crusader Crossbow II Royal Crusader Mars Scapa Flow Clyde Van Dusen Hard Tack Seabiscuit Sea Sovereign Sea Swallow Battleship...
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    Kingshill (2012), p. 388 Mack & Mack (2010), p. 57 "The kelp industry", Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme, archived from the original on 17 October...
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  • and had great success in each location. Nasrullah was a big, handsome bay horse with a white star, bred in Ireland by his owner the Aga Khan. He was sired...
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    cliff top at Yesnaby as part of the defences of the Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow. The battery was manned by the Royal Navy and some traces of the wartime...
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    They were by the successful sire, Phalaris, their dam the staying mare, Scapa Flow by Chaucer. Pharos's maximum distance was approximately 1¼ miles and Fairway...
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    American Flag Gusto Gun Boat Crusader Crossbow II Royal Crusader Mars Scapa Flow Clyde Van Dusen Hard Tack Seabiscuit Sea Sovereign Sea Swallow Battleship...
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  • American Flag Gusto Gun Boat Crusader Crossbow II Royal Crusader Mars Scapa Flow Clyde Van Dusen Hard Tack Seabiscuit Battleship Floating Isle Navigate...
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  • and his great-grandsire Pharos were sired by Phalaris out of the mare Scapa Flow. He was also inbred 4 x 4 to Swynford, who appeared twice in the fourth...
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    Beesly, Room 40 p. 295. Marder, Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, vol.5 p. 172. Marder, Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, vol.5 p. 174. Gröner, Kriegsschiffe, vol.2 p...
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    directions for the southern and northern Orkney Islands; the southern one, Scapa Flow, is a large, calm and immediately ocean-accessible natural harbour. Kirkwall...
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  • success as a sire of winners. Nikoli was a "strong, most attractive" bay horse with no white markings bred in Ireland by the McGrath Trust Co. at the Brownstown...
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    track conditions. He is considered by many experts to be one of the best horses ever. He was the best Italian two-year-old of 1954, when his three wins...
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    Cocked Hat Cresta Run Man o' War American Flag Gun Boat Crusader Mars Scapa Flow Clyde Van Dusen Hard Tack Battleship Fleet Flag Blockade Ship Executive...
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  • on the track at age four, when he won nine races and was voted Canadian Horse of the Year. Retired to stand at stud at Windfields Farm in Oshawa, Ontario...
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  • 1971) was an American Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse who was the 1957 Horse of the Year. This following a three-year-old campaign that included wins...
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  • written title. The islands cluster round the huge deep-water anchorage of Scapa Flow like a protecting hand, and in both World War I and World War II, the...
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    thoroughbred racehorse, best remembered for a 1955 match race against Swaps, the horse that had defeated him in the Kentucky Derby. Nashua's sire was the European...
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    Baghdad Note, a winner of the Melbourne Cup. horse during his racing career although like all grey horses, his coat lightened as he aged. Abernant was...
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  • Shergar (category European Thoroughbred Horse of the Year)
    stated they stole the horse. The IRA has never admitted any role in the theft. The Aga Khan, Shergar's owner, sent the horse for training in Britain...
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    to the east of Scapa Flow and is linked by causeway to South Ronaldsay, which hosts cultural events such as the Festival of the Horse and the Boys' Ploughing...
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    Scotland just before World War II. After defending the naval base of Scapa Flow against air attack in the early part of the war, the regiment went to...
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    the time. The play was set inside a Royal Navy research station near Scapa Flow. The play was not popular with everyone, and not everyone saw the humor...
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  • seven other winners including the three-time American Champion Steeplechase Horse Neji. Frank Bonsal, a former jockey in steeplechase racing, conditioned...
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    Oak at Scapa Flow. Shortly afterward, bomb damage that she had received from a heavy air raid by Kampfgeschwader 26[citation needed] at Scapa Flow on 16...
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    August 1939 Belfast was transferred to the 18th Cruiser Squadron. Based at Scapa Flow in the Orkney islands, 18th Cruiser Squadron was part of the British effort...
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    generally based elsewhere in Britain. Orkney was the site of a naval base at Scapa Flow, which played a major role in World War I. After the Armistice in 1918...
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  • Scapa Flow and later in the Burma campaign. United Kingdom portal List of Territorial Force horse artillery batteries 1908 III Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery...
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