The Gallery of HMS 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth), also known as Officer and Ladies on Board HMS Calcutta, is an 1876 oil painting by the French artist James...
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HMS Calcutta was an 84-gun second-rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, built in teak to a draught by Sir Robert Seppings and launched on 14 March 1831...
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James Tissot (category Recipients of the Legion of Honour)
Retrieved 18 June 2022. "'The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth)', James Tissot, c.1876". Tate. Retrieved 15 March 2024. Regina Haggo. The Hamilton Spectator...
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1877 in art (category Years of the 19th century in art)
Love and the Maiden James Tissot The Gallery of H.M.S. 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth) Hide and Seek Portsmouth Dockyard Julius von Blaas – Fox Hunt in the Campagna...
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Navy". This was Commander Henry St Leger Bury Palliser, on his way to join HMS Forte in Bombay harbour. After their arrival in Bombay on 2 September 1870...
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HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the...
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Northampton (1801 ship) (category Ships of the British East India Company)
third rate ships of the line HMS Russell, Albion, and Sceptre, and the fourth rate HMS Grampus. Northampton arrived at Calcutta on 12 February 1804....
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Amazon-class frigate (1795) (category Fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy)
although the first of the class, HMS Amazon, only lasted until 1796, wrecked following an action on 13 January with a French ship-of-the-line. HMS Emerald...
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Chilean ship Lautaro (1818) (category Sailing frigates of the Chilean Navy)
initially under escort by HMS Akbar. They arrived in Sydney on 11 February 1814. Windham left on 14 April, bound for Calcutta. On 16 August 1814, Windham...
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Kenneth Dewar (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
His time training at HMS Excellent, the gunnery school at Portsmouth, coincided with that of the captaincy of Percy Scott, the renowned gunnery expert...
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USS O-9 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
6 June 1928. Sailing up to Portsmouth, New Hampshire in January 1930, the submarine returned to New London in March; the following February, she sailed...
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INS Viraat (category Centaur-class aircraft carriers of the Indian Navy)
commissioned in 1959 as the Royal Navy's HMS Hermes, and decommissioned in 1984. She was sold to India in 1987. INS Viraat was commissioned into the Indian Navy on...
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Rupert (1962). Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton: A selection from the Portsmouth Collection in the University Library, Cambridge. ISBN 0521294363...
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Hibernia (1810 ship) (category Merchant ships of the United Kingdom)
put back into Portsmouth on 1 March. In 1812, orders were issued that no vessels should leave St Thomas's without convoy, on account of the American privateers...
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original on 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2021-08-11. "HMS Caroline". National Museum of the Royal Navy. Archived from the original on 5 September 2016. Retrieved 18...
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William Light (category British Army personnel of the Peninsular War)
Calcutta in March 1805, remaining in India until November 1806, before returning to Europe. He bought a cornetcy in the 4th Dragoons regiment of the British...
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from the original on 4 October 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) "HMS Sovereign of the Seas". www.rct.uk. "The Swedish...
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Dundee (redirect from The city of discovery)
of the jute and whaling industries, including the Camperdown and Victoria Docks. The Victoria Dock is the home of the frigate HMS Unicorn and the North...
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threat to the social order." Ladies' December Fashions (1844). Hand-coloured steel engraving from a women's magazine. The Gallery of HMS Calcutta by James...
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Convicts in Australia (category Memory of the World Register in Australia)
known as the First Fleet. Other than the convict transports, there were two naval escorts and three storeships. The fleet assembled in Portsmouth and set...
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the remains of Allied prisoners of war from Rangoon to Calcutta-Barrackpore. The wreckage was discovered on 16 December 2011 by 34 Battalion of the Indian...
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The Royal Victorian Order is an order of knighthood awarded by the sovereign of the United Kingdom and several Commonwealth realms. It is granted personally...
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Jeffrey Street (category History of Sydney)
on HMS Calcutta as a free settler, participating in the effort to establish a settlement at Port Phillip, near the modern city of Melbourne. When the settlement...
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1922 New Year Honours (category 1922 in the United Kingdom)
Head of the firm of Yule, Catto & Co., East India Merchants, Calcutta, and throughout India. Director of London City & Midland Bank and of the Mercantile...
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1932 Birthday Honours (category 1932 in the British Empire)
Portrait Gallery. Trustee of the Wallace Collection and of the National Gallery, Millbank. William Chree, MA, LLD, KC, Procurator of the Church of Scotland...
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February 1880. "Shipping Casualties". Hampshire Telegraph. No. 4960. Portsmouth. 14 February 1880. "Severe Gale". Aberdeen Journal. No. 7794. Aberdeen...
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1933 Birthday Honours (category 1933 in the United Kingdom)
Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Kedar Nath Das, CIE, MD, Principal, Carmichael Medical College, Calcutta, Bengal. Kenneth Mackenzie...
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1988 New Year Honours (category 1988 awards in the United Kingdom)
public service. Hugh Frank John Leggatt, Art Dealer, Member of the Museums and Galleries Commission. John Warren Loveridge. For political and public service...
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1958 Birthday Honours (category 1958 in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland)
Ltd., Sheffield. Charles Henry Martin, Trade Instructor, HMS Sultan, Admiralty. (Portsmouth). William Tulloch Arnott Millar, Assistant Laboratory-man...
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2002 New Year Honours (category 2002 awards in the United Kingdom)
Director-General, National Galleries of Scotland. For services to the Arts. Professor Ronald Urwick Cooke, Vice-Chancellor, University of York. For services to...
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