Orcades can refer to: Orcades (islands), the ancient name of the Orkney Islands Orcades (Roman province), an apocryphal Roman province over Orkney SS Orcades (1921)...
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Orkney (redirect from Orcades (islands))
islands Orcades (Ancient Greek: Όρκάδες), as did Tacitus in AD 98, claiming that his father-in-law Agricola had "discovered and subjugated the Orcades hitherto...
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SS Orcades can refer to: SS Orcades (1921) SS Orcades (1936) SS Orcades (1947) This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If...
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Melbourne, Australia, Orcades served as an accommodation ship. Orcades was refitted in 1959 and 1964. In the 1964 refit, Orcades became a single-class...
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Orcades Crawford (born 23 August 1965) is a New Zealand former professional rugby union player. Crawford was a NZ under-16s and NZ Secondary Schools representative...
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torpedoes to sink her. Orcades' Master, Charles Fox, was decorated by the Crown and Lloyd's of London for his bravery and leadership. Orcades is the Latin name...
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History of Orkney (redirect from Orcades (Roman province))
the Orkney Islands, which they called "Orcades", thought to be a Brythonic Celtic name. A "king of the Orcades" was one of the 11 rulers said to have...
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Beacurs in Parzival. The earliest known form of a Morgause-type name is Orcades (Norcadés), given to her in the First Continuation of Chrétien de Troyes'...
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with his half-sister, the queen of Lothian or Orkney named either Anna, Orcades, or Morgause. The accounts presented in the Historia and most other versions...
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rhapsodizes on the conquests of the emperor Theodosius I, declaring that the Orcades "ran red with Saxon slaughter; Thule was warm with the blood of Picts;...
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on, the farthest people of Germany, the Hermiones. [...] 54. The thirty Orcades [Orkney Islands] are separated by narrow spaces between them; the seven...
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Carter Rose 9 Oct: Pennington Court, U-171 10 Oct: Komintern, Camden, HMT Orcades 11 Oct: Fubuki, Furutaka, L-16 12 Oct: USS Duncan, Murakumo, Natsugumo...
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October 1948. She had an identical hull and machinery to the Orient Line's Orcades (yard no. 950 to Himalaya's 951), though differing in superstructure and...
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1937 SS Orbita 1914 Scrapped in 1950 SS Orcades 1937 Torpedoed and sunk on October 10, 1942, by U-172 SS Orcades 1947 Scrapped in 1973 SS Orduña 1913 Scrapped...
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Rufus listed six provinces, including the highly dubious "province of Orcades" (Orkney Islands). Some scholars[who?] argue that the initial reforms established...
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Carter Rose 9 Oct: Pennington Court, U-171 10 Oct: Komintern, Camden, HMT Orcades 11 Oct: Fubuki, Furutaka, L-16 12 Oct: USS Duncan, Murakumo, Natsugumo...
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Ruler 26 Apr: USS Wasp April (unknown date): Esso Appalachee 7 May: SS Orcades 8 May: HMS Tenacious 21 May: ROKS Apnok, USS Mount Baker,Nathaniel B. Palmer...
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Carter Rose 9 Oct: Pennington Court, U-171 10 Oct: Komintern, Camden, HMT Orcades 11 Oct: Fubuki, Furutaka, L-16 12 Oct: USS Duncan, Murakumo, Natsugumo...
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Zealand-born marine architect, Brian O'Rorke, to design RMS Orion (1934) and Orcades (1936), which became the focus of great interest from the British design...
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position are also clearer than his predecessors. He is the first to name the Orcades or Orkney Islands, which he defines and locates pretty correctly. Of northern...
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Muir Nicht "The Narrow Seas" (English Channel) Caer Myrddin Carmarthen Orcades Orkney Pictland Scotland Ynys Prydein "Isle of the Mighty" (Great Britain)...
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documented in Paul Rotha's 1935 film Shipyard. The vessel's sister ship was Orcades, launched in 1936. Orion was an enlarged version of SS Orontes, and the...
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Orient Line were formally merged in 1960 to form P&O-Orient Lines. In 1964, Orcades and Oronsay were transferred to the P&O fleet. The name Orient Line was...
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century AD, the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela called the Orkney islands Orcades, as did Tacitus in AD 98 "Orc" is usually interpreted as a Pictish tribal...
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Kent, England. His family migrated to Adelaide, South Australia, on the Orcades in August 1954 when he was 10. His father, Harry Shorrock, was a Yorkshire-born...
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October. Of 623 aboard, 45 were killed. 45 Military 1942 United Kingdom HMT Orcades – On 10 October, after leaving Cape Town, the British troopship was torpedoed...
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the final development of the 28,000 ton class which began with the SS Orcades of 1948 and continued with the SS Oronsay of 1951. In 1960, in conjunction...
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Carter Rose 9 Oct: Pennington Court, U-171 10 Oct: Komintern, Camden, HMT Orcades 11 Oct: Fubuki, Furutaka, L-16 12 Oct: USS Duncan, Murakumo, Natsugumo...
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the second Orient Line ship built after World War II. A sister ship to Orcades, she was named after the island of Oronsay off the west coast of Scotland...
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