In 1830 Captain Charles Sturt reached the river after travelling down its tributary the Murrumbidgee River and named it the Murray River in honour of the then British Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Sir George Murray, not realising it was the same river that Hume and Hovell had encountered further upstream.

In 1824 the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane, commissioned Hamilton Hume and former Royal Navy Captain William Hovell to lead an expedition to find new grazing land in the south of the colony, and also to find an answer to the mystery of where New South Wales's western rivers flowed.

But shortly afterwards Mr. Hume and Captain W. H. Hovell, of Minto, agreed together to undertake an expedition in that direction.

) In 1838 he, with Giles Strangways, a Mr McLeod and Captain John Finnis, herded cattle overland from Sydney to Adelaide, on the way proving that the Hume and the Murray were the same river.

He styles himself ' colonel ,' but the rank was probably of his own invention, for in the entry of his death, which took place at Charterhouse on Wednesday, 16 April 1645, he is still called Captain Hume.

* Video portrayal of Captain Hume by bassist Dean Farrell

In 1824 the Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane, commissioned Hamilton Hume and former Royal Navy Captain William Hovell to lead an expedition to find new grazing land in the south of the colony, and also to find an answer to the mystery of where New South Wales's western rivers flowed.

* 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.

At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.

To counter this effect, Nelson ordered HMS Theseus under Captain Ralph Miller to pass his flagship and join Zealous and Goliath in the vanguard.

The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.

HMS Audacious under Captain Davidge Gould crossed the French line between Guerrier and Conquérant, anchoring between the ships and raking them both.

Despite strenuous efforts from the Culloden < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s boats, the brig Mutine and the 50-gun HMS Leander under Captain Thomas Thompson, the ship of the line could not be moved, and the waves drove Culloden further onto the shoal, inflicting severe damage to the ship's hull.

On 12 August the frigates HMS Emerald under Captain Thomas Moutray Waller, HMS Alcmene under Captain George Johnstone Hope and HMS Bonne Citoyenne under Captain Robert Retalick arrived off Alexandria.

On 20 April 1899 Beatty was appointed executive officer of the small battleship HMS Barfleur, flagship of the China Station, Captain Stanley Colville under Rear-Admiral James Bruce.

* 1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate – Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland class cruiser ( pocket battleship ) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles.

* 1812 – The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle.

He then joined the frigate HMS Solebay as master under Captain Robert Craig.

Jellicoe as Captain, in command of HMS Centurion ( 1892 ) | H. M. S.

In February 1780 the crews of HMS Resolution and HMS Discovery, on the way home after Captain James Cook's death in

* 1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.

In 1841 the United States Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes mapped the region and named Neah Bay " Scarborough Harbour " in honor of Captain James Scarborough of the Hudson's Bay Company, who had provided assistance to the expedition.

Captain Andrew Barclay of the HMS Scarborough further exacerbated tensions by impressing local fishermen and seizing supplies for use by the troops in Boston.

Conversely, Fleet Captain Honoré Ganteaume later reported the cause as an explosion on the quarterdeck, preceded by a series of minor fires on the main deck among the ship's boats.

It was reported on 13 December 2007, that " wreckage of a pirate ship abandoned by Captain Kidd in the 17th century has been found by divers in shallow waters off the Dominican Republic.

Beatty is reported to have remarked ( to his Flag Captain, Chatfield, later First Sea Lord in the early 1930s ), " there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today ," after two of them had exploded within half an hour during the battle.

On 10 September, within days of arriving in Afghanistan it was reported that the Taliban threatened Captain Wales ' life.

This was driven in some part by scientific naiveté, namely an early belief that seawater was incapable of freezing ( as late as the mid-18th century, Captain James Cook had reported, for example, that Antarctic icebergs had yielded fresh water, seemingly confirming the hypothesis ), and that a route close to the North Pole must therefore exist.

Captain Frederick W. Light of the Manola reported that both the Canadian and the American weather stations had storm flag signals flying from their weather towers.

In 1892 Captain Davis of the, reported on trading activities and traders on each of the islands visited.

US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara failed to inform US President Lyndon B. Johnson that the U. S. naval task group commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, had changed his mind about the alleged North Vietnamese torpedo attack on U. S. warships he had reported earlier that day.

Walter Chrysler was not especially interested in his remote ancestors ; his collaborative author Boyden Sparkes says that one genealogical researcher reported " that he had a sea-going Dutchman among his forebears ; one Captain Jan Gerritsen Van Dalsen ", but that " as to that, Walter Chrysler made it plain to me he was in accord with Jimmy Durante: ' Ancestors?

When Captain John Smith and other English explorers came to the upper Potomac River beginning in 1608, they reported that the area within present Prince William County was occupied by the Doeg tribe.

Captain Woody of the Murray County Home Guard was reported wounded.

Air Commodore Lukis, Air Officer Commanding, North East Area, reported on 28 May 1942, that Pilot Officer Trench, RAAF had inspected the countryside near Portland Roads ( also known as Weymouth Bay ), with Colonel Mills and Captain Herman G. Cox of the USAAF.

The Jason, for example, probably of New London in the United States, Captain Chester, was reported at " Otago Bluff " south of Kakanui, with of oil, on 1 December 1839.

Personnel who have reported the UFOs include Captain ( then First Lieutenant ) Robert Salas, Colonel Frederick Meiwald, First Lieutenant Robert C. Jamison, and Staff Sergeant Louis D. Kenneweg.

Alarmed at reported French activities in Texas, the Viceroy of Spain in 1689 dispatched a Spanish expedition under Captain Alonzo de Leon, with one hundred men who penetrated the Trinity River region of Texas in the vicinity of present Liberty.

Even today, it is still logged daily in the ship's deck log and reported to the Captain prior to eight bells on the forenoon watch ( shipboard noon ).

The concept for the attack came from Navy Captain Francis Low, Assistant Chief of Staff for anti-submarine warfare, who reported to Admiral Ernest J.

In this article Hall reported the results of an experiment in random sampling that Hall had persuaded his friend, Captain O. C.

The company reported a loss of $ 32 million, after releasing such expensive flops as The Bounty, starring Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian and Anthony Hopkins as Captain Bligh.

A distraught torpedo officer rushed to the bridge and reported, " Captain, we've just dropped a depth charge over the stern!

* 1724-" A solemn match of golf " between Alexander Elphinstone and Captain John Porteous becomes the first match reported in a newspaper.

Gray reported that the animal was captured around the Cape of Good Hope by a Captain Haviside ( often misspelt " Heaviside ") and sent to the British Museum though the Royal College of Surgeons in 1827.

Cannonball concretions have also been reported from Van Mijenfjorden, Spitsbergen ; near Haines Junction, Yukon Territory, Canada ; Jameson Land, East Greenland ; near Mecevici, Ozimici, and Zavidovici in Bosnia-Herzegovina ; in Alaska in the Kenai Peninsula Captain Cook State Park on north of Cook Inlet beach.

Careless's rank is variously reported as Captain, Major and Colonel.