named Adventure. A thirteenth was planned but never completed: Adventure (1594) was a 26-gun galley launched in 1594 and broken up 1645. HMS Adventure (1646)...
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HMS Adventure, pennant number M23, was an Adventure-class minelaying cruiser of the Royal Navy built in the 1920s that saw service during the Second World...
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Cithara – alleged source of a distress signal in The Adventures of Tintin story The Shooting Star HMS Cutlass – name given to four ships of the Royal Navy...
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ordered Captains Gordon and Brand of HMS Pearl and HMS Lyme to travel overland to Bath. Lieutenant Robert Maynard of HMS Pearl was given command of two commandeered...
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HMS Resolution (pennant number: 09) was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in December...
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Sunk Torpedoed SS Empire Adventure was a 5,787-ton steamship built in 1920 as the Eastney. She was sold to France in 1924 and renamed Germaine L D. In...
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their own deity. However, after Cook and the crews of both ships, HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, left the islands, the festival season had ended and the...
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Billy Budd (redirect from HMS Bellipotent)
masterpiece when a hastily transcribed version was finally published in 1924, it quickly took its place as a classic second only to Moby-Dick among Melville's...
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located or attempted to locate the following vessels and historical artifacts: HMS Actaeon USS Akron CSS Alabama Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky, a Russian...
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RMS Olympic (redirect from HMS Olympic)
distress signals from the battleship HMS Audacious, which had struck a mine off Tory Island and was taking on water. HMS Liverpool was in the company of Audacious...
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Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet (category UK MPs 1924–1929)
while still serving on HMS Iron Duke, the first edition of his System of National Finance appeared. Through further editions in 1924 and 1936, it remained...
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of California, Davis Aggie Stadium (disambiguation) Aggie, nickname for HMS Agamemnon, a battleship in the Royal Navy launched in 1906 Cyclone Aggie...
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Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. He is best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The reasons...
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returned to sea in January 1928 as commanding officer of the minelayer HMS Adventure. He then became deputy Director of Plans at the Admiralty in December...
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HMS Terror was an Erebus-class monitor built for the Royal Navy during the First World War in Belfast. Completed in 1916, she was assigned to the Dover...
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(Greenlandic Inuit) of Cape York 1819: Royal Navy expedition aboard HMS Hecla and HMS Griper led by William Edward Parry in search of the Northwest Passage...
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Quest (ship) (redirect from HMS Quest)
variously rated at 209 and 214 gross register tons, possibly due to the 1924 refit described below. Quest was built in 1917 in Risør, Norway, originally...
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1926 he served aboard HMS Ramillies and was promoted to Lieutenant in 1925. In 1927 he served aboard the minelayer HMS Adventure. From 1928 to 1930, Carlill...
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first developed by the Schütte-Lanz company.[citation needed] On 15 April 1924, the N-1 was carried away from its base at Ciampino aerodrome by a violent...
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Geographical Society their Hans Egede Medal in 1924. He was made honorary doctor at the University of Copenhagen in 1924, and the University of St Andrews in 1927...
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HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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/ 49.250°S 69.583°E / -49.250; 69.583) 1772–1775 – James Cook – sails HMS Resolution crossing Antarctic Circle in January 1773 and December 1773. On...
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Virginia Woolf (redirect from Street Haunting: A London Adventure)
entourage (with Virginia as "Prince Mendax") and received a tour of the HMS Dreadnought by Virginia's cousin Commander Fisher, who was not aware of the...
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with her wishes, she was buried at sea off the coast of Portsmouth from HMS Wakeful on 25 February 1960; Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated...
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Cambridge University Press. p. 871. Doyle, A. C. (1924). "Recollections of a Student". Memories and Adventures. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 19. OCLC 1367896...
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expedition to the Northwest Passage, but was instead named as captain of HMS Erebus under Sir John Franklin. Franklin's lost expedition became trapped...
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while many of the stories in Gold from Crete (1971) follow the destroyer HMS Apache. The last of the stories in Gold from Crete is If Hitler Had Invaded...
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HMS New Zealand was one of three Indefatigable-class battlecruisers. Launched in 1911, the ship was funded by the government of New Zealand as a gift...
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Billy Budd (film) (category 1960s adventure drama films)
Billy Budd is a 1962 British historical drama-adventure film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov. Adapted from Louis O. Coxe and Robert...
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Royal Navy and saw active service in the rank of an Able Seaman on board HMS Britomart, which fought as an escort ship on several Russian convoys during...
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