• name HMS Cambrian, after Cambria, the classical name for Wales: HMS Cambrian (1797) was a 40-gun fifth rate launched in 1797 and wrecked in 1828. HMS Cambrian...
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    1825 HMS Castor 36-gun fifth rate 1832 HMS Vernon 50-gun fourth rate 1832 Pique class 36-gun fifth rates 1834–41 HMS Pique 1834 HMS Cambrian 1841 HMS Flora...
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    HMS Rattlesnake was an Atholl-class 28-gun sixth-rate corvette of the Royal Navy launched in 1822. She made a historic voyage of discovery to the Cape...
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    Cambrian had been carrying a cargo of coal from Cork to Jamaica; HMS Melville recaptured Cambrian. Cochrane noted that Elizabeth was a fine vessel, well worth...
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    HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of...
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  • Naval Academy at Portsmouth he joined the fifth-rate HMS Cambrian. He transferred to the fifth-rate HMS Narcissus in 1801, and having been promoted to lieutenant...
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    October 1842, Commander William Nevill of HMS Serpent left Amoy for Taiwan. Captain Henry Ducie Chads of HMS Cambrian had ordered him to inquire about the...
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    James Whitley Deans Dundas (category UK MPs 1837–1841)
    HMS Cambrian. Following his marriage to Janet Dundas he assumed the surname of Dundas in April 1808. Dundas was given command of the third-rate HMS Stately...
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  • –1899). Samuel Ward. HMS Basilisk. (?–1899). Arthur J Owen. Apprentice, barque Beeswing. (?–1899). William Muggridge. Stoker, HMS Cambrian. (?–1901). Captain...
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    Aegean Islands, off Alexandria, and around the coasts of Syria. With HMS Cambrian and Cyrene, she shared in the destruction of a Greek pirate ship on 31...
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    there 8 February. While in Singapore, Commodore Henry Ducie Chads of HMS Cambrian paid a visit to Constitution, offering what medical assistance his squadron...
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    September 1834, aboard HMS Andromache, which he commanded from 1834 to 1837. In 1841-5 he was on the Chinese station in command of HMS Cambrian [fr], and then...
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    HMS Zebra, was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built of teak in the East India Company's Bombay Dockyard and launched in...
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  • James Hanway Plumridge (category UK MPs 1841–1847)
    Plumridge returned to sea duty in August 1847, commanding the frigate Cambrian on the East Indies and China Station, and serving as second-in-command...
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    HMS Roberts(1965) MV Robert Ley (1947) HMS Lion(1975) HMS Adventure HMS Bellona HMS Bermuda HMS Cambrian HMS Croome HMS Crossbow HMS Cumberland HMS Dee...
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  • 1825, he transferred to the 48-gun HMS Cambrian under Captain Gawen William Hamilton. He was still with Cambrian in 1827, and saw action at the Battle...
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    tropical or temperate climate, and it was covered in forests. During the Cambrian period, Gondwana had a mild climate. West Antarctica was partially in the...
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    William Bowles (Royal Navy officer) (category UK MPs 1841–1847)
    fifth-rate HMS Cambrian on the North America and West Indies Station, then to the fourth-rate HMS Leander and then to the fifth-rate HMS Milan. Promoted...
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    and Barfleur on the Channel Station. From June 1802 he served aboard the Cambrian and Leander, the flagships of Sir Andrew Mitchell, Commander-in-Chief on...
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    Stonehaven. This part of Scotland largely comprises ancient rocks, from Cambrian and Precambrian times, that were uplifted to form a mountain chain during...
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    100 km (62 mi) southwest of Downtown Halifax. The area is built largely on Cambrian to Ordovician sedimentary deposits. The last glacial period transformed...
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  • many uniquely shaped multicellular creatures that appeared during the Cambrian explosion. The fossil was first discovered in the Burgess Shale in the...
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    Edward Codrington (category UK MPs 1837–1841)
    the French Revolutionary Wars. In that capacity he served on the 100-gun HMS Queen Charlotte during the operations which culminated in the battle of the...
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    Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford (category UK MPs 1837–1841)
    originally destined for a naval career, and he served as a midshipman on HMS Cambrian in 1807 at the second bombardment of Copenhagen. His only surviving brother...
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    well-developed organisms in the oldest fossil-bearing layers, now known as the Cambrian explosion, posed a problem. Darwin had no doubt that earlier seas had swarmed...
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    Westralia 1907 69 H.M.S. Cambrian 1906 68 H.M.S. Powerful 1905 67 H.M.S. Roy Arthur 1904 66 H.M.S. Torch 1903 65 H.M.S. Dart 1902 64 H.M.S. Sparrow 1901 63 R...
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    eight-screen Cineworld multiplex cinema. Plans for redevelopment of the smaller Cambrian Centre were approved in 2012. Building on hosting the Ryder Cup in 2010...
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  • HMS Cambrian, then serving as the flagship of Sir Andrew Mitchell, on the North America and West Indies Station. He later followed Mitchell into HMS Leander...
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    were kept locked in irons on board HMS Buffalo until its sailing in 1837, and in temporary jails subsequently. 1841 saw the first permanent prison built...
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    Pleistocene, and Adam Sedgwick, who proposed (and coined) the name of the Cambrian Period. William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) drew important conclusions in the...
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