Dunnose is a cape on the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. The headland is visible from well out to sea, and is used in navigation. It has twice been...
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Dunnose may refer to Dunnose Head, West Falkland, a small settlement Dunnose, Isle of Wight, a headland used in navigation This disambiguation page lists...
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Dunnose Head may refer to Dunnose Head, West Falkland, a small settlement Dunnose, Isle of Wight, a headland used in navigation This disambiguation page...
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The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ WYTE) is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, 2 to 5 miles (3 to 8 kilometres) off the coast...
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Shanklin (category Beaches of the Isle of Wight)
resort town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England, located on Sandown Bay. Shanklin is the southernmost of three settlements which occupy the...
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"Account of the Measurement of an Arc of the Meridian from Dunnose, Isle of Wight, to Clifton in Yorkshire". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal...
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St Paul's Church, Gatten, Shanklin (category Church of England church buildings on the Isle of Wight)
a parish church in the Church of England located in Shanklin, Isle of Wight. It is an ecclesiastical parish taken out of Sandown in 1876. (fn. 17) The...
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HMS Eurydice (1843) (category Corvettes of the Royal Navy)
said to haunt Dunnose, a cape on the Isle of Wight that lies west of Shanklin, close to the village of Luccombe at the southwesterly end of Sandown Bay...
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John Lockhart-Ross (category Royal Navy personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
rejoined the Tartar and on 15 April, off Dunnose, Isle of Wight, he captured the 26-gun Duc d'Aiguillon of St. Malo with 254 men; and on 2 November the 36-gun...
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HMS Lady Nelson (1798) (category Exploration ships of the United Kingdom)
and ten crew. Lady Nelson departed from Dunnose, Isle of Wight, at 6 pm on 18 March.The convoy consisted of East Indiamen, heading for the East, and...
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William Mudge (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
'Account of the Trigonometrical Survey made in 1797, 1798, and 1799.' 'Account of the Measurement of an Arc of the Meridian from Dunnose, Isle of Wight, to...
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Thomas Frederick Colby (category Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society)
made at Dunnose, Isle of Wight in the summer of 1802. In December 1803, when on duty at Liskeard, Colby met with an accident through the bursting of a pistol...
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HMS Forward (1805) (category War of 1812 ships of the United Kingdom)
six or seven leagues off Dunnose, Isle of Wight when she sighted and gave chase to a French privateer lugger. After a chase of half-an-hour and some firing...
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Liberty (1784 ship) (category Age of Sail merchant ships of England)
to the West Indies on a voyage for the EIC. Liberty sailed from Dunnose, Isle of Wight, on 25 May, and arrived at Barbados on 25 July. She was at St Eustatia...
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This is part of the list of United Kingdom locations: a gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's locality and geographical...
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The list of shipwrecks in November 1828 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during November 1828. "Ship News". Caledonian Mercury...
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The list of shipwrecks in June 1879 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during June 1879. "Latest Shipping Intelligence". The Times...
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The Battle of Bonchurch took place in late July 1545 at Bonchurch on the Isle of Wight. No source gives the precise date, although 21 July is possible...
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SM UB-81 (category World War I submarines of Germany)
a mine on the night of 2 December 1917 in the English Channel to the southeast of the Isle of Wight off Dunnose Head. The crew of 34, commanded by Oberleutnant...
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Nettlestone Point Horestone Point Node's Point Bembridge Point Foreland Dunnose Woody Point Binnel Point St. Catherine's Point* Atherfield Point Hanover...
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The list of shipwrecks in May 1862 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during May 1862. "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury...
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and Fifty Years of The Original Isle of Wight Ferries. Richard Danielson. p. 15. ISBN 9780951315552. "Princess Elizabeth". Association of Dunkirk Little...
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Steel Bay (category Bays of the Isle of Wight)
Steel Bay is a bay on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, England. It lies to the east of the village of Bonchurch. It faces south-east towards the...
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Middlesbrough. 19 January 1881. p. 4. Larn, Richard (1992). The Shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly. Nairn: Thomas & Lochar. ISBN 0-946537-84-4. "Casualties &c"...
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HMS Cormorant (1804) (category Age of Sail merchant ships of England)
The French privateer lugger Revanche, of Cherbourg, had captured Hope, Blake, master, off Dunnose, Isle of Wight, that day as Hope was returning to London...
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The list of shipwrecks in February 1869 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during February 1869. "Shipping Intelligence". Daily...
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The list of shipwrecks in December 1851 includes ships sunk, foundered, wrecked, grounded, or otherwise lost during December 1851. There are several coastal...
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The list of shipwrecks in November 1857 includes ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost during November 1857. "Mercantile Ship News". The Standard. No. 10364...
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HMS Mistletoe (1809) (category Schooners of the Royal Navy)
smugglers. She was under the command of Lieutenant Wade Blake. He was ordered to cruise between Beachy Head and the Isle of Wight. On 14 December 1816, HMS Algerine...
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retriangulation, eleven Principal Triangulation stations, ranging from Dunnose on the Isle of Wight to Great Whernside in Yorkshire, were chosen and pillars erected...
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