* is the name of two ships of the Royal Navy

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.

* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.

He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.

* Adrian Johns ( born 1951 ), English governor of Gibraltar and former senior officer in the Royal Navy

* 1913 – Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser.

* HMS Adder, any of seven ships of the Royal Navy

* HMS Ajax, several ships of the Royal Navy

*, a British Royal Navy ship.

* 1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

* 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.

In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.

Category: Royal Danish Navy

*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships

The British Royal Society of Chemistry claims that British scientist Edward Harrison developed the first practical gas mask for mass production, a claim supported by a thank-you note written by Winston Churchill.

* 1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters in order to fight with Murray and the British.

The highest reliably reported jump for a galago is 2. 25 m. According to a study published by the Royal Society, given the body mass of each animal and the fact that the leg muscles amount to about 25 % of this, galago's jumping muscles should perform six to nine times better than that of a frog.

In the Industrial Revolution simple mass production techniques were used at the Portsmouth Block Mills to make ships ' pulley blocks for the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars.

The following month, as Communist agitators fomented mass demonstrations against the Royal Lao Government, many RLAF pilots defected to Thailand.

In 1966 he was appointed as chairman of the Royal Commission to examine assizes and quarter sessions, and eventually proposed a mass reorganisation of the court system involving the setting-up of regional courts in cities such as Cardiff, Birmingham and Leeds.

He was also one of the pioneers of the private exhibition, orchestrating shows and marketing prints of his own work to mass audiences that might otherwise attend exhibitions only at the Royal Academy, or who previously had not gone to exhibitions at all.

However, the warship-standards construction and sophisticated armaments of the sloop of that time did not lend themselves to mass production, and the sloop was supplanted by the corvette, and later the frigate, as the primary escort vessel of the Royal Navy.

Before the church was built a mass took place each Sunday at the Grangetown Royal British Legion Social Club.

In 1872 Louis Raymond de Vericour remarked to the Royal Historical Society, " To this very day the word ' Jacquerie ' does not generally give rise to any other idea than that of a bloodthirsty, iniquitous, groundless revolt of a mass of savages.

However, the Scots Guards were shattered when retreating soldiers from the Royal Welch Fusiliers, who had been attacked by a mass of Russian soldiers, crashed into the Scots Guards and caused chaos amongst the formation.

Royal has supported the " Law against child pornography ", the creation of the association " Childhood and the Media " ( Enfance et média ) against violence in the media, the creation of the Plan Handiscole for the education of handicapped children and adolescents and their integration into life at school, programs for mass and individual transportation, and the creation of the program " Tourism and the Handicapped " ( Tourisme et handicap ).

The group has attracted media attention for both its non-violent " disarmament " direct actions, and mass civil disobedience at the gates of Royal Navy establishments with connections to the United Kingdom's Trident weapons systems.

At that time, the Royal Horticultural Society's Kensington gardens were being designed and planted with vast numbers of greenhouse flowers in mass plantings.

A number of bodies were never recovered having been wholly consumed by the fire and when the bodies of the men of the Royal Scots were returned to Leith on 24 May they were buried together in a mass grave in Edinburgh's Rosebank Cemetery.

It was founded as a religious mission and a Jesuit Royal College by priests José de Anchieta and Manuel da Nóbrega on January 25, 1554 ( the date of the first mass and the anniversary of Saint Paul's conversion ).

Matson is credited with introducing mass tourism to Hawaii with the opening of the historic Moana Hotel ( now known as the Moana Surfrider Hotel ) and the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki on the island of Oahu.

One brave group of Royal Welch Fusiliers had held their ground and were firing into the Russians until confronted by a mass of Russian soldiers, forcing them to retreat rapidly, and in the process, smashed straight into the formation of the advancing Scots Fusiliers Guards, causing immense chaos.

First World War stalled and delayed his research on providing experimental proof for the existence of isotopes by mass spectroscopy and during the war Aston worked at the Royal Airforce Establishment in Farnborough as a Technical Assistant working on aeronautical coatings.

The first was a mass raid by Royal Air Force ( RAF ) bombers, but this was rejected due to the difficulty in locating the plant during night bombing, the principal bombing tactic used by the RAF at the time, and the heavy casualties that would be inflicted on the local Norwegian population during a night raid.

Whilst saying mass in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace on 25 December 1558 he incurred the wrath of a furious Queen Elizabeth I ( who had succeeded her half-sister Mary I on the latter's death on 17 November ) when, contrary to her explicit instructions, he elevated the host, thereby implying the corporeal presence of Christ — an anathema to Elizabeth I's more Protestant religious beliefs.

In 1773 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in the following year he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London and reported on Nevil Maskelyne's determination of the mean density and mass of the earth from measurements taken in 1774 – 1776 at Schiehallion in Perthshire.

The work was recently unearthed by Berkeley musicologist Davitt Moroney and identified as a parody mass, Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno, and received its first modern performance at the Royal Albert Hall during the London Proms on 17 July 2007 by the BBC Singers and The Tallis Scholars conducted by Moroney.