Phillip joined the Royal Navy at about fifteen, and saw action at the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War in the Mediterranean at the Battle of Minorca in 1756.

In 1774 Phillip joined the Portuguese Navy as a captain, serving in the War against Spain.

Tonnant and Spartiate, both of which later fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, joined the Royal Navy under their old names while Franklin, considered to be " the finest two-decked ship in the world ", was renamed HMS Canopus.

US Navy destroyers were among the first American units to be dispatched upon the American entry to the war, and a squadron of Japanese destroyers even joined Allied patrols in the Mediterranean.

After his masters, Singer joined the Armed Forces, working for the United States Navy on mine warfare and countermeasures from 1944 until 1946.

Cook joined the British merchant navy as a teenager and joined the Royal Navy in 1755.

After Harvard, Lemmon joined the Navy, receiving V-12 training and serving as an ensign.

Born in Southampton into a seafaring family, Jellicoe joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1872 and was posted to HMS Britannia.

His elder brother, Frank, joined the Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact.

In 1922 Heydrich joined the Navy, taking advantage of the security, structure, and pension it offered.

He then joined the Royal Navy during which time he got two tattoos, of which his official website says " unlike many tattoos, his were not frivolous — his tattoos reflect two of his lifelong commitments: his family and Scotland.

Reed comes from a long line of Royal Navy men, but joined Starfleet due to a fear of drowning.

After Staubach joined the Cowboys in 1969 after spending 4 years of service in the United States Navy, however, both quarterbacks competed for the starting job.

Clark originally joined the Navy during the Vietnam War ( as John Terrence Kelly ) and became a Navy SEAL who participated in several special operations, one of which was the rescue of a naval aviator shot down over North Vietnam.

Williams did not opt for an easy assignment playing baseball for the Navy or the Marine Corps, but rather joined the V-5 program to become a Naval aviator.

I joined the Navy, drove a cab, became an English teacher, took a customs inspector's job on the northern border, and didn't write another word for a quarter-century.

He joined the Kaiserliche Marine ( Imperial Navy ) in 1894 and rapidly rose in rank, becoming Chief of Staff for Franz von Hipper in 1912.

It was also used extensively in the British Merchant Navy, where many gay men joined ocean liners and cruise ships as waiters, stewards and entertainers.

Troughton had joined the Tonbridge Repertory Company in 1939 and in 1940 joined the Royal Navy.

Callaghan joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve as an Ordinary Seaman in World War II from 1942 where he served in the East Indies Fleet and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in April 1944.

In 1943, at the age of 19, he dropped out of school, and joined the U. S. Navy, where he eventually became interested in pharmacology .< ref name =" nyt ">

It entered her body with the ghastly intimacy of an incubus, and its particles, spreading, creeping, crawling, joined themselves into steel bands that constricted her knees so tightly that they ached ; ;

The United States having then entered World War II, Lancaster joined the United States Army and performed with the Army's Twenty-First Special Services Division, one of the military groups organized to follow the troops on the ground and provide USO entertainment to keep up morale.

Probably as a juvenile he joined the Cistercian Order at newly established Kołbacz ( Kolbatz ) Abbey and in 1209 entered Oliwa Abbey near Gdańsk, founded in 1178 by the Samboride dukes of Pomerelia.

It was said that Holihan sent senior clerics in the Catholic Church material on Kent, that Holihan organised the aerial propaganda against CND, that he had entered CND offices under false pretences, and that CPS workers had joined CND in order to gain access to the Campaign's 1982 Annual Conference.

Prince Harry entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on 8 May 2005, where he was known as Officer Cadet Wales, and joined the Alamein Company.

At the age of 18, Gödel joined his brother in Vienna and entered the University of Vienna.

Since then, under restored independence, Latvia has become a member of the United Nations, entered NATO and joined the European Union.

In 1936, Germany and Japan entered the Anti-Comintern Pact, and were joined a year later by Italy.

The town was not a field of battle during 1948 Arab-Israeli War before the first truce on 11 June, although some of the villagers had joined the loosely organized peasant military and paramilitary forces, and troops from the Arab Liberation Army had entered Nazareth.

He joined the army when he was sixteen and entered the Francisco López Military College, a military academy for the three services of the Paraguayan military.

Trudeau began his political career campaigning for socialist ideals, but he eventually joined the Liberal Party of Canada when he entered federal politics in the 1960s.

Soon after, the Cardassian Union joined the Dominion while the Romulan Star Empire entered a pact of neutrality with them.

Meanwhile Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein joined the European Economic Area ( which entered into force on 1 January 1994 ), an organization that allowed European Free Trade Association states to enter the Single European Market.

Shortly after her death, Gable ( who was inconsolable and devastated by her loss ) joined the United States Army Air Forces, as Lombard had asked him to do numerous times after the United States had entered World War II.

The first race car fitted with a turbine for the goal of actual racing was by Rover and the BRM Formula One team joined forces to produce the Rover-BRM, a gas turbine powered coupe, which entered the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans, driven by Graham Hill and Richie Ginther.

At an early age he joined the order of the Camaldolese ( part of the Benedictine monastic family ) and entered the Monastery of San Michael in Murano, near Venice.

In 1923, Miller entered the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he joined Sigma Nu Fraternity, but spent most of his time away from school, attending auditions and playing any gigs he could get, most notably with Boyd Senter's band in Denver.

He entered Baldwin-Wallace College in 1941 and joined Pi Lambda Phi International Fraternity, and two years later was drafted into the Army.

When Newfoundland joined the confederation in 1949, the RCMP entered the province and absorbed the then Newfoundland Ranger Force and took over responsibilities in that area.

Provinces and territories that became part of Canada after 1867 are also said to have joined, or entered into, confederation ( but not the Confederation ).

Having entered the Capuchin order, after a brief period of service at Kilkenny, he joined the mission in Cork.

Athletic hero Jim Thorpe entered the school in 1907 and joined its football team under coach Glenn Warner (" Pop " Warner ) in 1908.

Tillman Houser, another early settler who brought his family over Snoqualmie Pass to settle on Coleman Creek, entered the valley on June 16 of that same year, and was later joined by Martin Dervan and his wife.

After Samoth's parole, the band was joined by Trym and Alver on drums and bass respectively, and at the end of 1996, Emperor entered the studio to record Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk.