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    He became a distinguished hydrographer during his career and served as Hydrographer of the Navy. Evans, son of John Evans, a master in the Royal Navy...
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  • of architectural subjects Frederick Evans (hydrographer) (1815–1885), Royal Navy officer and hydrographer Fred Evans (comedian) (1889–1951), British music...
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    Frederick William Beechey FRS (17 February 1796 – 29 November 1856) was an English naval officer, artist, explorer, hydrographer and writer. He was the...
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    The Hydrographer of the Navy is the principal hydrographical Royal Naval appointment. From 1795 until 2001, the post was responsible for the production...
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  • (namesake of Pender Island), after Staff Commander Frederick John Owen Evans, naval hydrographer, British Admiralty. The name Estero survives in the...
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    the testimony of Captain J. Knapp, U.S. Navy, and a part of the Navy Hydrographer's Office, made clear that Titanic and Californian were in sight of each...
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    appointed to the post of Hydrographer of the Navy, which he held for the next twenty years. In 1885, on the death of Sir Frederick Evans he was appointed to...
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  • Captain Sir Frederick J. O. Evans and Rear-Admiral Sir William J. L. Wharton. During Rear-Admiral A. Mostyn Field's term as Hydrographer to the Admiralty...
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  • Fred Evans (boxer) (born 1991), Welsh amateur boxer Frederick John Owen Evans (1815–1885), Royal Navy officer and hydrographer Frederick H. Evans (1853–1943)...
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  • He conducted experiments on the SS Great Eastern with Frederick J Evans RN. The work with Evans related to dealing with the disturbing elements arising...
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  • April - Lewis Morris, hydrographer and writer, eldest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 64 1767 11 September - Theophilus Evans, clergyman and historian...
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    executive officer, and hydrographer Roald Amundsen – Norwegian – first mate Henri Somers – Belgian – chief engineer Frederick Cook – American – surgeon...
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  • Prosecution of the War 1942-03-26 9113 Transfer of the Oceanographer and the Hydrographer and Certain Personnel From the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the War and...
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    Edward Belcher (category English hydrographers)
    KCB (27 February 1799 – 18 March 1877) was a British naval officer, hydrographer, and explorer. Born in Nova Scotia, he was the great-grandson of Jonathan...
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    ship on the compass. In 1862, in conjunction with the hydrographer Sir Frederick John Owen Evans FRS (1815-1885), then superintendent of the compass department...
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    William Edward Parry (category English hydrographers)
    November 1821, and shortly after his return he was appointed acting Hydrographer of the Navy. His Journal of a Second Voyage, &c., appeared in 1824. In...
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    Andrews (1813–1885) – chemist and physicist Francis Beaufort (1774–1857) – hydrographer, developed a scale for classifying wind strength John Stewart Bell (1928–1990)...
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  • 10651 10652 Blaeu 4599 P-L Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Dutch cartographer and hydrographer for the Dutch East India Company † MPC · 10652 10653 Witsen 6030 P-L...
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  • painter MPC · 8205 8206 Masayuki 1994 WK1 Masayuki Okumura (born 1960), a hydrographer for the Japanese Coast Guard. JPL MPC · 8206 8207 Suminao 1994 YS1 Suminao...
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  • theorist, hanging Robert FitzRoy (1865), English meteorologist, surveyor, hydrographer, Governor of New Zealand and captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's...
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  • Ronald EVANS Senior Wireless Operator, Royal Society Antarctic Expedition for the International Geophysical Year 1957-1958. Leslie Frederick MORRIS Carpenter...
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    name Ellice was applied to all nine islands, after the work of English hydrographer Alexander George Findlay. The United States claimed Funafuti, Nukufetau...
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  • (1858–1913) and Boris Vilkitsky (1885–1961), father and son, Russian hydrographers and Arctic explorers MPC · 5314 5315 Balʹmont 1982 SV5 Konstantin Balmont...
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    of M. de Gennes in 1695–97. The young French explorer, engineer and hydrographer François Froger described this expedition in his A Relation of a Voyage...
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    operate at its original site until the early 1980s. In 1795, the post of Hydrographer of the Navy was created. He became responsible to the First Naval Lord...
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  • Swiss philologist and author (d. 1776) March 2 – Lewis Morris, Welsh hydrographer (d. 1765) March 6 – Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais, French jurist...
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    James Cook (category English hydrographers)
    and also acquired items belonging to the other relatives Reverend Canon Frederick Bennett, Mrs Thomas Langton, H.M.C. Alexander, and William Adams. The...
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    Vice-Admiral Sir G. Frederick B. Edward-Collins: December 1940 – December 1942 Post holders included: Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Edward Collins: December...
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    Havannah in 1851, Nares had met Commander George Henry Richards, a future Hydrographer of the Navy, who had suggested he apply to Sir Edward Belcher for a place...
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  • Wenzao, First Chinese bishop (b. 1615) February 28 Joseph Moxon, British hydrographer (b. 1627) Mathias Spieler, Swedish architect (b. 1640) March 1 – Sultan...
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