Anson returned alone with his flagship the Centurion on 15 June 1744.

Centurion, the flagship of the Royal Navy's China station. Militarism is defined as:

Centurion 50 ( Red 7 ) was engaged by Ambiteux 96 ( White 7, Villettes flagship ) and severely damaged ; Chester 50 ( Red 12 ) was outgunned by Glorieux 64 ( White 8 ) and had to withdraw ; Eagle 70 ( Red 11 ) was forced to pull out of the line, with 70 dead, to repair damage, but was able to re-join after emergency repairs ; while Grafton 70 ( Red 18 ) suffered 80 casualties, but was able to continue.

His flagship was the battleship HMS Centurion.

In 1749, Reynolds met Commodore Augustus Keppel, who invited him to join HMS Centurion, of which he had command, on a voyage to the Mediterranean.

In 1736, Harrison sailed to Lisbon on HMS Centurion and returned on HMS Orford.

Ranking within the legion was based on length of service, with the senior Centurion commanding the first century of the first cohort ; he was called the primus pilus ( First File ), and reported directly to the superior officers ( legates and tribuni ).

However, the nameless Centurion in TOS's " Balance of Terror " seems to be a senior officer who holds sway with his commander, having served on more than 100 campaigns with him.

The sport took on an endurance aspect and competitions were held over long distances or walkers would have to achieve a certain distance within a specified time frame, such as Centurion contests of walking within 24 hours.

In October 1973, he placed a British arms embargo on all combatants in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur war, which mostly affected the Israelis by preventing them obtaining spares for their Centurion tanks.

Based on the success of Centurion, 23 additional systems were ordered in September 2008.

Starting in 2010 the Village of Blue Mounds began being a food stop on the 100K route for the annual Centurion race, which starts and ends in Middleton, Wisconsin.

In contrast, 1943 saw the British begin development of the 51-ton Centurion tank ( although this would be reach service too late to see combat ) and, on the Eastern Front, a full-blown tank arms race was underway, with the Soviets responding to the German heavy tanks by starting development work on the T34 / 85 and IS-2 tanks.

Legio XX Valeria Victrix and their final days in Deva ( Chester ) in the early 400's AD form the backdrop to the Tom Stevens mythic-fiction genre novel ' The Cauldron ' ( special edition ) with the story's protagonist Valerian-the Praefectus and Chief Centurion defending the city with the rump of the legion against the incursions of Hibernian pirates as the ' Dark Ages ' settle on Britannia

After some months Prime Kang embarks on an ambitious scheme ( the Kang War ) to conquer the Earth, this time aided by a son, Marcus, who now uses the alias of the Scarlet Centurion.

The major Indian counter-offensive came in this area where two large Pakistani tank regiments, equipped with the Patton tanks, lost part of the region despite outnumbering the Indian First Armoured Corps, which was equipped with British Centurion tanks. also have a small village chak sukha located on line of control on sialkot zafarwal road 20 km toward east.

A Buick-exclusive at the time, it was an option on all full-size models, including the Riviera, Estate Wagon, Electra 225, Centurion, and popular LeSabre family sedan.

The new Centurion Mark III also featured a fully automatic stabilisation system for the gun, allowing it to fire accurately while on the move, dramatically improving battlefield performance.

All later variants of the Centurion, from Mark 5 / 2 on, used the L7.

The Israeli version of the Centurion earned its legendary status during the Battle of " The Valley of Tears " on the Golan Heights in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Centurion tank on display at the QEII Army Memorial Museum – Waiouru, New Zealand

; Centurion Mk 3: Fitted with 20pdr, 2 stowage positions for track links on glacis

; Centurion Mk 5: Browning machine guns fitted to coaxial and commander's cupola mounts, stowage bin on glacis

Apart from its main plant in the Basque Country, which produces around 1000 bodies per year, Irizar also has factories in other countries: in Skhirat ( Morocco ), Tianjin ( China ), Botucatu ( Brazil ), Querétaro ( México ), Centurion ( South Africa ) and in Tamil Nadu ( India ) ( in partnership with Ashok Leyland and TVS Motors ).

Starting in 2011, the school's Centurion Soccer Fields, on the English Station Campus, are serving as the home to the city's USL Premier Development League team, the River City Rovers.

* April 21 – The Pretoria runaway in which a train of carriages runs away for twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Centurion Station and derails at Pretoria, South Africa, killing three and seriously injuring seven.

At the height of the British Empire, photographs of naval and military commanders were a popular subject for eagerly collected cigarette card s. The one shown here, from the turn of the 20th century, depicts then-Captain Jellicoe ( later John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe | Admiral Jellicoe of World War I ) in command of HMS Centurion ( 1892 ) | H. M. S.

* Centurion Card, American Express charge card

* Other names for the card are The Centurion or Victory.

As of 2008 the American Express Platinum ( in some countries ) and Centurion charge cards, Morgan Stanley i24 card and the RBS Black Card include Priority Pass membership.

He managed a twelve-piece reggae band, from the Nottingham / Derby area, Junior C Reaction, who received airplay on John Peel and Janice Long's shows on BBC Radio 1 for their first independent release on Centurion Records, a double A Side, " Cry Jahoviah ", and " Love & Emotion ".

He was posted to the battleship HMS Centurion in the Reserve Fleet in 1926 and became Assistant Fleet Wireless and Signals Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes in January 1927.

The fifth test of the 1999-2000 South Africa versus England series at Centurion was ruined by rain, entering the final day only 45 overs had been possible with South Africa 155 / 6.

The actions of Peter, at the conversion of Cornelius the Centurion, seemed to indicate that circumcision and food laws did not apply to gentiles, and this was agreed to at the apostolic Council of Jerusalem.

* An Israeli modification of the British Centurion Tank was named after Ben-Gurion

Before the discovery of Centurion, the tallest known specimen was Icarus Dream, which was rediscovered in Tasmania in January, 2005 and is high.

It was also used by other military forces, particularly those that acquired the early post-World War 2 British 105 mm Centurion tank, including Sweden, India, and Israel.

Similarly the British Centurion AVRE ( Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers ) was equipped with a short 165 mm gun solely for a 29 kg HESH shell.

The private prosecution concerned " The Love that Dares to Speak its Name ", a poem by James Kirkup, a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the theme of which was the sexual fantasies of a Roman Centurion about the body of Jesus Christ.

Sea Centurion was returned to its owners in 2002 and Sea Crusader in 2003, after performing cargo hauling duties for the campaign in Iraq.

In the mid-1990s the brigade was the first to adopt the Merkava mark-III main battle tank, phasing out its older Centurion tanks.

His was the only remaining tank force, equipped with 36 Israeli modified Centurion tanks to fight the Syrians for 3 continuous days, until enforcements and reserves were moved into positions.

The Department of Energy ( DOE ) decided that direct experimentation was the best way to settle the issue, and between 1978 and 1988 ran a series of underground experiments at the Nevada Test Site ( now known as Nevada National Security Site ), that used small nuclear bombs to directly illuminate ICF fuel components with high-energy X-rays ; LLNL ran its program under the name " Halite ", while LANL ran its as " Centurion ".

Centurion Way was opened in the Mid 1990s and runs along the former railway line.

In 1749 he was appointed to HMS Centurion, then commissioned for service in the Mediterranean, by the Hon.

This was home to a number of famous campus events, including the ' Shite ' Disco, the gZ Centurion and many others, getting Grizedale the reputation as the Social College.

Six prototypes were built, but the project was cancelled due to the emergence of the new and less complicated Centurion Mk1 which offered the same armament and armour and had just entered production.

The Centurion, introduced in 1945, was the primary British main battle tank of the post-World War II period.

Prototypes of the original 40-ton design, the Centurion Mark I, had 76 mm of armour in the front glacis, thinner than the then current infantry tank designs such as the Churchill which had 101 mm, but the glacis plate was highly sloped and so the effective thickness of the armour was very high — a design feature shared by other effective designs such as the German Panther tank and Soviet T-34.