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    George Wallace Melville (January 10, 1841 – March 17, 1912) was a United States Navy officer, engineer and Arctic explorer. He joined the U.S. Navy in...
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  • Melville in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Melville may refer to: Cape Melville (South Shetland Islands) Melville Peak, King George Island Melville...
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  • George Melville may refer to: George W. Melville (1841–1912), engineer, Arctic explorer and author George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville (1636–1707), Scots...
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    George John Whyte-Melville (19 June 1821 – 5 December 1878) was a Scottish novelist much concerned with field sports, and also a poet. He took a break...
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    under the command of Chief Engineer George W. Melville, reached the Lena Delta and its crew were rescued. Melville later found and brought to the U.S....
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    George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was a prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh...
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    launched on 2 March 1913, sponsored by Miss Helen W. Neel, granddaughter of Rear Admiral George W. Melville; and was first commissioned on 3 December 1915...
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    Robert Peary after Chief Engineer George W. Melville (1841 – 1912), Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. The Melville Glacier discharges from the Greenland...
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    Simon Newcomb, Lord Kelvin, and the chief engineer of the US Navy, George W. Melville, the latter of whom described flying machines as "wholly unwarranted...
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    al-Jabal al-Lamma. p. 11. Frederick, Albert; Cook, Robert E. Peary, George W. Melville (2003). Finding the North Pole. The Lyons press. ISBN 978-1-59228-072-8...
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    Charles W. Chipp, who had served with him on the Little Juniata adventure. Another veteran of the Polaris rescue mission, George W. Melville, was appointed...
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    members, Executive Officer Charles W. Chipp's boat's crew was 8 total crew members, and Engineer Officer George W. Melville's boat had 11. Chipp's boat was...
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  • Fred Melville (1882–1940), British philatelist George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville (1636–1707), Scottish aristocrat and statesman George W. Melville (1841–1912)...
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  • Lieutenant in the United States Navy and De Long's second-in-command. George W. Melville: Engineer, explorer, and officer in the United States Navy. Chief...
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    1881. The one led by engineer George W. Melville was rescued by native Tungus huntsmen. Of the group led by Captain George W. De Long, only two of the men...
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    Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance...
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    (1845–1913) George II (1890–1947) George W. Melville (1841-1912), U.S. Navy rear admiral George Deardorff McCreary (1846-1915), U.S. congressman George Eastman...
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    Melville is a city in the east-central portion of Saskatchewan, Canada. The city is about 145 kilometres (90 mi) northeast of the provincial capital of...
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    Melville Weston Fuller (February 11, 1833 – July 4, 1910) was an American politician, attorney, and jurist who served as the eighth chief justice of the...
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    possession in the name of the United States". The excursion was led by George W. Melville, accompanied by William Dunbar, William Nindemann, Hans Erichsen,...
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    historic Brashear factory?". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 27 March 2015. W. J. Holland, John Brashear, The Beloved, p. 4 The Allegheny Observatory in...
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  • States Navy have borne the name Melville, in honor of George W. Melville, an engineer and arctic explorer. USS Melville (AD-2), was a destroyer tender...
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    became the Order's commander in chief upon the death of Rear Admiral George W. Melville on March 17, 1912. He held the office until his own death six months...
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    The boats were commanded by De Long, Chipp, and the chief engineer, George W. Melville. On September 12, 1881, the three boats were separated in a storm...
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    Fritz (1896–1897) Worcester R. Warner (1897–1898) Charles W. Hunt (1898–1899) George W. Melville (1899–1900) 1900–1919 Charles H. Morgan (1900–1901) Samuel...
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    Authority of New York and New Jersey Jay Greene, NASA chief engineer George W. Melville, chief engineer of the United States Navy. Congressional Gold Medal...
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    vigorous program of building such ships suggested by Rear Admiral George W. Melville, who had served as chief of the Bureau of Equipment, his words were...
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    Arundel Cotter, 1921. United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul. Burton W. Folsom, Jr., The Myth of the Robber Barons. Young America. Louis M. Hacker...
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  • Richard Worsam Meade III – Nephew of Major General George G. Meade. Rear Admiral George W. Melville – MOLLUS Commander in Chief, 1911–1912, a survivor...
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    Ebbesmeyer & Scigliano 2009, pp. 56–57, describing drift casks designed by George W. Melville. Dawicki, Shelley (March 14, 2014). "Message in a Bottle: The Story...
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