John Willis & Sons of London, also called the Jock Willis Shipping Line, was a nineteenth-century London-based ship-owning firm. It owned a number of clippers...
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Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the...
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being sold as surplus to requirements. She was purchased by shipping line owner Jock Willis who changed her name to The Tweed and converted her to entirely...
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Bounty John "White Hat" Willis: son of John "Jock" Willis (known as Old Stormy Willis), founder of Jock Willis Shipping Line (a company that owned, among...
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Jock Willis Shipping Line. She was a fast sailer, being the second ship home in the 1858-59 tea season.: 103–104 She was a favourite of John Willis senior...
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John T. Willis (born 1933), Old Testament scholar John 'Jock' Willis (1791–1862), ship captain and founder of the Jock Willis Shipping Line, also known...
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1868 he received his master's certificate at South Shields. In 1881 Jock Willis made him master of the old ship Coldstream, and in 1885 he was appointed...
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whilst on passage from Barry to Bahia loaded with coal. Jock Willis & Sons operated a shipping line which specialised in fast sailing cargo ships, including...
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Belfast News-Letter. No. 44384. Belfast. 18 February 1869. "Seymour". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 3 October 2024. "The Fylde". Preston...
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(October 31, 2005). "Knicks Legend Earl the Pearl Monroe Ups the Ante on Jock Food". Nymag.com. Retrieved October 4, 2011. "Maya Monroe, Daughter of New...
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Holmes Samuel Hartt Pook William Jardine Donald McKay John (or "Jock") "White Hat" Willis Marryat is generally considered by maritime historians to be a...
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Finance – Nicola Willis Minister of Foreign Affairs – Winston Peters Gerry Brownlee Christopher Luxon Winston Peters Chris Bishop Nicola Willis Labour – Chris...
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Gibson Latta, shipping line owner, director of Lawther, Latta & Co. Ltd., London; knighted (1921) for services to Ministry of Shipping, war effort, World...
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Oliver some wallpaper and Oliver is trying to repair his tractor. After shipping the Douglases their furniture from New York, Oliver's mother Eunice attempts...
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Retrieved 27 May 2009. Willis, H. A. (Howard Alan) (1979), Manhunt : the story of Stanley Graham, Whitcoulls, ISBN 978-0-7233-0629-0 Willis, H. A. (Howard Alan)...
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www.bruzelius.info. Retrieved 3 May 2020. "Abandonment of the Scawfell". Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. 31 May 1883. Wendell W. Huffman. "Railroads Shipped...
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Trials of Oscar Wilde Lord Alfred Douglas Alec Guinness Tunes of Glory Maj. Jock Sinclair John Mills Lt. Col. Basil Barrow Laurence Olivier The Entertainer...
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Coroner (Robert Okazaki), Pilikika (Alicia Li), Anna (Eva Norde), Fletcher (Jock Gaynor) 101 30 "Aloha, Cricket" Irving J. Moore Story by : Charles B. Smith...
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transportation. At this time, the shipping tonnage registered at Wilmington was 9,035. Plans were developed to build a railroad line from the capital, Raleigh...
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Be careful even in your Hut ..." Nevertheless, there were security leaks. Jock Colville, the Assistant Private Secretary to Winston Churchill, recorded...
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(born 1953), football player and manager Ian Stark (born 1954), equestrian Jock Stein (1922–1985), football manager, won the European Cup with Celtic F.C...
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common prior to implementation of the 1912 London agreement). Willis Island in the Willis Islets was utilised as a meteorological observation station even...
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royal arms. The chairman of the original Scottish Classroom Committee was Jock Sutherland. The Swedish Classroom reflects a peasant cottage and contains...
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Mahin, screenwriter, Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Show Boat Jock Mahoney, actor, Tarzan films, Yancy Derringer John Mahoney, actor, Marty...
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of a Steamer". Hull Packet. No. 4435. Hull. 28 January 1870. "Carpio". Shipping & Shipbuilding Research Trust. Retrieved 3 October 2024. "Launch". Aberdeen...
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Network 10 just hours before it is due to air due to the sudden death of judge Jock Zonfrillo. After consultation with Zonfrillo's family, the series commences...
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Selwyn Willis Fraser-Smith, OBE, MC, lately Commissioner for Village Settlement, Tanzania. Harold Norman Smyth, VRD. For services to British shipping in Malaysia...
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Brigadier John Cassels Monteith, MC, (65386), late Infantry. Brigadier Jock Arthur Hume Moore, OBE, (68937), late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical...
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Mackenzie, (11761), Royal Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Jock Arthur Hume Moore (68937), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. The...
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