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    USS Bladen (APA-63) was a Gilliam-class attack transport that served with the US Navy during World War II. Bladen was named after Bladen County, North...
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    USS Berrien (APA-62) USS Bladen (APA-63) USS Bracken (APA-64), Operation Crossroads target USS Briscoe (APA-65), Operation Crossroads target USS Brule (APA-66)...
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    pages. USS A-1 (SS-2, SP-1370) USS A-2 (SS-3) USS A-3 (SS-4) USS A-4 (SS-5) USS A-5 (SS-6) USS A-6 (SS-7) USS A-7 (SS-8) USS AA-1 (SS-52/SF-1) USS AA-2...
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    of B Company, or BAKER Company, embarked along with his Marines aboard USS Bladen (APA-63) and performed command-post exercises (CPXs) around the beaches...
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    Blue Hole Half Moon Caye Thousand Foot Falls Victoria Peak Nature reserves Bladen Burdon Canal Tapir Mountain Wildlife sanctuaries Aguacaliente Cockscomb...
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    little-known remote islet of Rockall. T. Harvey, her master under Captain Thomas Bladen Capel, plotted its position to 57°39′32″N 13°31′16″W / 57.65889°N 13.52111°W...
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    Cape Fear River (category Rivers of Bladen County, North Carolina)
    Dam No. 1 on the Cape Fear River in Bladen County U.S. Coast Guard vessel on the Cape Fear, photographed from the USS North Carolina A cargo ship navigating...
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    state, most famously USS North Carolina in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II. Now decommissioned, she is part of the USS North Carolina Battleship...
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  • HMS Capel on 16 August 1943. The ship was named after Admiral Sir Thomas Bladen Capel (1776-1853). Capel was attached to 1st Escort Group based at Belfast...
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    of the New Hanover Precinct, out of which the Bladen Precinct was created in 1734. The renamed Bladen County was subdivided to create Anson County in...
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    Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is the site of the wreck of the USS Monitor, one of the most famous shipwrecks in U.S. history. It was designated as...
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    Catesby Jones 1848–1850 Commodore Charles S. McCauley 1850–1853 Commodore Bladen Dulany 1853–1855 Commodore William Mervine September 1855–October 1857 Commodore...
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    In June 1802 Capt. James Shephard took command. Captain The Hon. Thomas Bladen Capell followed him and recommissioned Phoebe in September. She then sailed...
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    New Hanover County in 1729. The western portion of New Hanover split into Bladen County in 1734, and its western portion split into Anson County in 1750...
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    Blue Hole Half Moon Caye Thousand Foot Falls Victoria Peak Nature reserves Bladen Burdon Canal Tapir Mountain Wildlife sanctuaries Aguacaliente Cockscomb...
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    and Province of South Carolina created from Province of Carolina 1734 – Bladen County formed from New Hanover County 1730–1750 – first Scots-Irish and...
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    USS LST-779 was a United States Navy LST-542-class tank landing ship used in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War II. LST-779 was laid down on...
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  • Margaret, from Madras. Mersey (1894 ship) Phipps (1840), pp. 176 & 189. Bladen (1897), p. 535. The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Sunday...
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  • Commander George F. Pearson USS Cumberland, Captain Bladen Dulany; Captain William Jameson USS Decatur, Commander Richard S. Pinckney USS Electra (ex-Rolla),...
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    Correspondence, Daniel Southwell, Midshipman HMS Sirius, 12 July 1788. Cited in Bladen (ed.) 1978, p.685 Hunter, John (1793). Journal kept on board the Sirius...
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    her. On 13 June 1813, the 74-gun third rate Hogue, commanded by Thomas Bladen Capel, encountered Young Teazer and forced her into Halifax Harbor, but...
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    Schaefer speaking at USS Antietam commissioning for the United States Navy, 1987...
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    he also had to stop at the "Dogue," the landed estate given to his son Bladen Tasker Tayloe, to check on that farm. Throughout his years as a farmer,...
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  • 1942) USS Aulick (DD-569) ... USS Young (DD-580) 27 of 98 Gearing-class destroyers (built May 1944 – December 1945) USS Corry (DD-817) ... USS Carpenter (DD-825)...
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    red tongue." During the War of 1812, while under the command of Thomas Bladen Capel, on 16 May 1813 Hogue recaptured and sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia...
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  • from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018. Bladen (1901), p. 478. LR (1833 Shipowners) Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database...
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    employed." John B. Forrest was related to Thomas Tingey's second wife Ann Bladen Dulany. There are two surviving agreements for enslaved labor both from...
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    1849. The final date for submitting claims was 1 May 1851. Admiral Thomas Bladen Capel was one of the members of the board that authorised the medal. The...
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    the state from 1884 to 1945 with a brief World War I period commissioned USS Governor R. M. McLane (SP-1328) was named in his honor. Robert Milligan McLane...
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  • galleries, research center, and performance space Bladenboro Museum Bladenboro Bladen Piedmont Multiple website, local history and art, hand-crafted miniature...
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