• 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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    SS Orcades was an ocean liner serving primarily the UK – Australia – New Zealand route. She started service as a British Royal Mail Ship (RMS) carrying...
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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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    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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  • 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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    RMS Orcades was a British passenger ship that Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd of Barrow-in-Furness built as an ocean liner in 1937. Her owner was Orient Line,...
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    SS Orcades was built in Germany from 1903 and launched as Prinz Ludwig. She served on routes to South America until laid up in Germany during the 1914-1918...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved March 21, 2015. "Station Iles Orcades du Sud" (in French). Météo Climat. Retrieved October 5, 2017. Maurice Schwartz...
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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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  • Ask where's the North! at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland at the Orcades; and there At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where: The reflexive...
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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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    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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  • (Insula) Arran Ebudae Hebrides Malaeus Mull Mona Anglesey Monapia, Monaoeda Isle of Man Orcades Orkney Scetis Skye Taniatide Thanet Vectis Isle of Wight...
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  • to Britain as war reparation, 1920 transferred to Orient Line, renamed Orcades 1907 Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm 17,082 GRT Joh. C. Tecklenborg, Geestemünde...
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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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  • Thamesis meus ante omnes, et fusca metallis Tamara, et extremis me discant Orcades undis Quiller-Couch, Mabel (1914). "The Legend of the Tamar, the Tavy and...
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  • 11/05/1996 25/05/1996 29 Mark Carter 31 5 25 01/03/1997 08/05/1999 30 Orcades Crawford 4 01/03/1997 03/05/1997 31 Brian Lima 12 7 35 01/03/1997 02/05/1998...
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    Omnium Provinciarum gives six provinces, but Roman administration over the Orcades (Orkney) is generally discounted. Some modern scholars such as Birley,...
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    of Roman "boasting" involved, given that it was known to them that the Orcades lay at the northern extremity of the British Isles. Moffat (2005) pp. 174-76...
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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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