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    HMS Wild Swan was an Osprey-class sloop built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1870s. She was launched in 1877 and became a base ship in 1904, being renamed...
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  • Navy have borne the name HMS Wild Swan: HMS Wild Swan (1876) was an Osprey-class sloop launched in 1876. She was renamed HMS Clyde in 1904 while serving...
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  • Eisenhower HMS Columbine, a list of ships of the Royal Navy HMS Columbine (1806), an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Wild Swan (1876) or HMS Columbine...
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    after the sloop HMS Wild Swan in 1876. Like her sisters, she was completed too late to see action in the First World War. Wild Swan was one of seven...
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  • HMS Columbine was an Osprey-class screw sloop launched as HMS Wild Swan in 1876, converted to a base ship and renamed HMS Clyde in 1904, renamed HMS Columbine...
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  • 1951. HMS Clyde was an Osprey-class screw sloop launched as HMS Wild Swan in 1876, converted to a base ship and renamed HMS Clyde in 1904, renamed HMS Columbine...
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  • The Swan River Colony, also known as the Swan River Settlement, or just Swan River, was a British colony established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western...
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    hulked at Rosyth in 1914 with the port depot ship there, HMS Columbine, the former HMS Wild Swan. She was moved to Chatham, where she became an accommodation...
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    London: Swan Sonneschein & Co. From the preface to the Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of HMS Alert...
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    principal charge on the shield. A black swan on a gold plate or disk has been the official badge of the state since 1876, and is shown on the flag of Western...
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  • Keith; Copsey, John (1990). The Great Western in South Devon. Didcot: Wild Swan Publication. ISBN 0-906867-90-8. Kay, Peter (1991). Exeter - Newton Abbot:...
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  • historicalrfa.org. Retrieved 15 August 2021. "HMS Cygnet (U 38) of the Royal Navy - British Sloop of the Modified Black Swan class - Allied Warships of WWII - uboat...
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    Destroyer D04 1961 123 HMAS Swan River Class Destroyer DE-50 1960 122 HMS St Brides Bay Bay Class Anti Aircraft Frigate K600 1959 121 HMS Cossack C Class Destroyer...
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    Titanic (redirect from HMS Titanic)
    the managing director of Harland and Wolff's design department; Edward Wilding, Andrews's deputy and responsible for calculating the ship's design, stability...
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  • Greek mythology. She was seduced by Zeus in the guise of a swan (also see Leda and the Swan). DMP · 38 39 Laetitia – Laetitia, Roman goddess of gaiety...
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    the theory of "balancing hemispheres". Lieutenant James Cook, captain of HMS Endeavour, claimed the eastern portion of the Australian continent for the...
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    missionaries as the Commander describes in his book. And later HMS Beagle under Captain de Houghton and HMS Wolverine under Commodore John Crawford Wilson conducted...
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  • Goose has appeared as the boyfriend of a classy and rich anthropomorphic swan named Cissy Swann. In Italy, a nephew of him named Pepper appeared in two...
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    The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, made under her newest commander...
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  • where they could gather swan eggs. In coastal and swamp areas there was plenty of bird life to hunt, including ducks and swans. There were abundant eels...
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    appears in the form Aper Tyui. The name Swansea, pronounced /ˈswɒnzi/ (Swans-ee, not Swan-sea), is derived from the Old Norse name of the original Viking trading...
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    saying piggin wassail meaning "good health". Swan With Two Necks: In England and Wales, wild mute swans swimming in open water have traditionally been...
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    access. Swan Walk, a shopping centre which opened in 1976 and was enclosed with a glass roof in 1989 with the addition of Springfield Court. Swan Walk takes...
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  • JPL · 8433 8434 Columbianus 6571 P-L Tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus), the smallest of the Holarctic swans JPL · 8434 8435 Anser 6643 P-L Greylag goose...
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  • (September 22, 2010). "Crew diaries reunited with HMS Trincomalee on Teesside". BBC. Retrieved 2013-12-26. "Name HMS Trincomalee | National Historic Ships". www...
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    1941 (eastern Australia time). The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse sent to defend Singapore were sunk soon afterwards...
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  • later in Arnhem Land. 1770 English Lieutenant James Cook's expedition in HMS Endeavour charted the eastern coast, and claimed it for the British Crown...
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    first adequately documented landing on the mainland of Antarctica. 1872–1876HMS Challenger under Capt. George S. Nares, becomes the first steamship to...
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    locomotives referred to, lots 613–616, were "Dolbadarn", "Red Damsel", "Wild Aster" and "Irish Mail". Before the bidding started, it was announced that...
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  • allies. While attempting to kill Edward in 1719, Hornigold is lured to the Swan Islands, where he is ultimately assassinated by his former friend. Charles...
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