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    HMS Hyacinth was one of three Highflyer-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. Initially assigned to the Channel Fleet, she spent...
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  • named HMS Hyacinth after the hyacinth flower: HMS Hyacinth (1806), launched in 1806, was an 18-gun Cormorant-class ship-sloop, broken up in 1820. HMS Hyacinth (1829)...
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    HMS Goliath was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Goliath and her...
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    HMS Pegasus was one of 11 Pelorus-class protected cruisers ordered for the Royal Navy in 1893 under the Spencer Program and based on the earlier Pearl...
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    captain on 1 January 1903, ha was in July that year placed in command of HMS Hyacinth, flagship of Admiral George Atkinson-Willes on the East Indies Station...
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  • successively the screw sloop HMS Mariner on the East Indies Station, the corvette HMS Hyacinth in the Pacific, the battleship HMS Collingwood with the Home...
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    Navy. HMS Hermes - launched on 7 April 1898, she was converted to a seaplane carrier in 1913, and sunk on 31 October 1914 by U 27 HMS Hyacinth - launched...
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    SS Baltic (1871) (category Maritime incidents in 1898)
    delivered. In 1888 Holland America Line bought her, and renamed her Veendam. In 1898 she struck a submerged wreck and sank, but with no loss of life. Originally...
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    edited. After his first wife's death in 1874, in 1876 he married Lady Hyacinth Jardine (1842–1921), daughter of William Samuel Symonds and the widow of...
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    flagship Hyacinth operated independently to protect the trade routes around the Cape, but on 12 August, the Admiralty ordered Astraea to join Hyacinth off...
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    Saxon, attempted to sail to Guangzhou. The Royal Navy ships HMS Volage and HMS Hyacinth fired warning shots at Royal Saxon. In response to this commotion...
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    Genovese firm Fratelli Beverino in 1898. It renamed her Fratelli Beverino. She was sunk in 1915. By 13 January 1898 the steamship Glenorchy had been sold...
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    faith to believe that it was not in reality a city."[citation needed] In 1898, Prince Luigi Amedeo organized an expedition towards the North Pole and consulted...
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    federal parliamentarian to identify as Aboriginal. Eric Deeral (QLD) and Hyacinth Tungutalum (NT) followed at a state and territory level in 1974. In 1976...
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    vessels were joined by the steamer George Burnham and the lighthouse tender Hyacinth. Overnight, the fire on board Ira H. Owen was extinguished. The fire burned...
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    "HMS Hyacinth – December 1914 to December 1918, Cape of Good Hope Station". Naval-History.net. Retrieved 29 January 2024. Money, Paul (ed.). "HMS Thistle...
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  • July 28, 1934 in Passaic, New Jersey, she was the daughter of Francis Hyacinth Herold and Marian Alda Burrows." Staff. "Ernest A. Blood, Veteran Coach...
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    Devereux, of Carigmenan, accompanied by his second F. Joyce Esq., and John Hyacinth Talbot, of Talbot Hall, accompanied by his second, William Harvey, of Kyle...
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  • Fergus Montgomery: Newcastle East 1; Brierley Hill 2; Altrincham and Sale 2 Hyacinth Morgan: Camberwell North West 5; Rochdale 4; Warrington 5 John Fletcher...
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    1871 Shipwrecks 1 May: Octa 17 Jun: HMS Megaera 26 Jun: Sam Cearns Jul: HMS Vindictive 17 Sep: Bouvet 2 Oct: Hyacinth 20 Nov: Hattie C. Besse c. Dec: Chattanooga...
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  • 1871 Shipwrecks 1 May: Octa 17 Jun: HMS Megaera 26 Jun: Sam Cearns Jul: HMS Vindictive 17 Sep: Bouvet 2 Oct: Hyacinth 20 Nov: Hattie C. Besse c. Dec: Chattanooga...
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  • June 1837 – Hanged at Sydney for aggravated highway robbery of Mr Thomas Hyacinth Macquoid on the road between Berrima and Mittagong. Michael Cagney (or...
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    Adélaïde of Orléans, French princess (d. 1847) August 29 – Nikita Bichurin (Hyacinth), Russian monk (d. 1853) August 30 – Parashuramrao Shrinivas I, Indian...
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    Liverpool. Mary Agnes sank with the loss of two lives. Survivors were rescued by HMS Warrior. On 20 October 1864, she collided with the steamship Hibernia at...
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  • Caballos (now Puerto Cortés in Guatemala) and pillage the city. April 17 – Hyacinth of Poland is canonized by Pope Clement VIII. April 27 – After suppressing...
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  • complex from Pope Honorius III to the Order of Preachers on 5 June 1222. St. Hyacinth of Poland and companions Bl. Ceslaus, Herman of Germany, and Henry of Moravia...
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    the new steamships on the route Hamburg – Suez – Dar es Salaam, and from 1898 also Durban was connected via Suez, no longer via Cape Town, in order to...
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