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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.
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A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
The special guard, however, was still posted on Kehl bridge.
The team had posted 3 podiums and was operated by Alan Docking Racing.
The company has posted a three phase turn down schedule, which was completed in September 2008.
In May 1923, Montgomery was posted to the Territorial 49th Division.
A proposal was posted by Michael Everson for the Blissymbolics script to be included in the Universal Character Set ( UCS ) and encoded for use with the ISO / IEC 10646 and Unicode standards.
A colony was established, and a series of military governors were posted to Clipperton from that time, the last of whom would be Ramón Arnaud ( 1906 – 1916 ).
The Cubs posted a winning record ( 83 – 78 ) for the third consecutive season, the first time the club had done so since 1972, and a new era of ownership under the Ricketts ' family was approved by MLB owners in early October.
Although much of the attention focused on the power-hitting lineup, much of the club's success was due to a strong bullpen, as relievers Darren Holmes, Curt Leskanic, Steve Reed, and Bruce Ruffin all posted earned-run averages below 3. 40.
He then was posted as chief military aide to General MacArthur, Army Chief of Staff.
Beatty was posted to the China squadron and only returned to England after being wounded at the siege of Tsientsin, eighteen months later in August 1900.
Poe's regiment was posted to Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina and traveled by ship on the brig Waltham on November 8, 1827.
Louis was posted as midshipman to the battlecruiser HMS Lion in July 1916 and, after seeing action in August 1916, transferred to the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth during the closing phases of World War I.
He was posted to the battlecruiser HMS Renown in March 1920 and accompanied Edward, Prince of Wales, on a royal tour of Australia in her.
He was posted to the battleship HMS Revenge in the Mediterranean Fleet in January 1923.
He was appointed Fleet Wireless Officer to the Mediterranean Fleet in August 1931, and having been promoted to commander on 31 December 1932, was posted to the battleship HMS Resolution.
Washington, an inmate from Georgia, was eventually prohibited from filing any future lawsuits or motions in any district court unless he first posted a contempt bond of $ 1, 500.
While Cabrera, Willis, and several others posted very good first-half numbers, Lowell was one of the least productive regular major-league starters, and Leiter went 3 – 7 with an ERA of 6. 64 before being traded to the New York Yankees on July 15 for a player to be named later.
After a short posting at Maymyo, Burma's principal hill station, he was posted to the frontier outpost of Myaungmya in the Irrawaddy Delta at the beginning of 1924.
When he was posted farther east in the Delta to Twante as a sub-divisional officer, he was responsible for the security of some 200, 000 people.
At the end of 1924, he was promoted to Assistant District Superintendent and posted to Syriam, closer to Rangoon.
After performances in the youth and A teams gained him promotion to the reserves, Banks was posted to Germany with the Royal Signals on National service, winning the Rhine Cup with his regimental team.
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The first modern production technology for armour plating was used by navies in the construction of the Ironclad warship, reaching its pinnacle of development with the battleship.
The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.
The crowning achievement of naval artillery was the battleship, but the advent of airpower and missiles have rendered this type of artillery largely obsolete.
Following Camperdown he was transferred to the battleship Trafalgar until 4 May 1896.
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.
He was made captain of the battleship HMS Queen on 15 December 1908 until replaced 4 January 1910.
The Royal Navy named a King George V-class battleship after Beatty, but this ship was renamed HMS Howe before completion, as another battleship of the same class, intended to be named after Jellicoe, was renamed HMS Anson.
Potemkin was a heavily fictionalized film telling the story of a mutiny on a battleship which came about as a result of the sailors ' mistreatment ; the film was an obvious but skillful propaganda piece glorifying the proletariat.
White Fang has seized control of a Peacemillion-class battleship OZ was building for Romefeller to show its military power, called Libra.
The seaport area was largely destroyed by withdrawing German troops and millions of encircled refugees in 1945 being bombarded by Soviet Military ( 90 % of the buildings and equipment were destroyed ) and the harbour entrance was blocked by the German battleship Gneisenau that had been brought to Gotenhafen for major repairs.
* was a modified Royal Sovereign-class battleship launched in 1891 and sunk as a blockship in 1914.
* was an Admiral-class battlecruiser launched in 1918 and sunk in 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in the Battle of the Denmark Strait.
Under this system, for example, the battleship Indiana was USS Indiana ( Battleship No. 1 ), the cruiser Olympia was USS Olympia ( Cruiser No. 6 ), and so on.
Hence, CV-1 was the aircraft carrier USS Langley and BB-1 was the battleship USS Indiana.
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In 1778 Britain was again at war, and Phillip was recalled to active service, and in 1779 obtained his first command, HMS Basilisk.
Until the 1980s, the flagship of the ocean-going navy was the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais ( the ex-British HMS Vengeance ), which has been in service since 1945.
* The battle was used as the name of several Royal Navy ships, HMS Ramillies.
The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.
On 21 May, as Nelson's squadron approached Toulon, it was struck by a fierce gale and Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard lost its topmasts and was almost wrecked on the Corsican coast.
Troubridge's ship HMS Culloden was also some distance from the main body, towing a captured merchant ship.
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.
Peuple Souverain also remained at Gibraltar: the ship was deemed too badly damaged for the Atlantic voyage to Britain and so was converted to a guardship under the name of HMS Guerrier.
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.
In the Royal Navy the battle has been commemorated by the ship names HMS Aboukir and HMS Nile and in 1998 the 200th anniversary of the battle was commemorated by a visit to Aboukir Bay by the modern frigate HMS Somerset, whose crew laid wreaths in memory of those who lost their lives in the battle.
The reburial was attended by sailors from the modern frigate HMS Chatham and a band from the Egyptian Navy, as well as a descendant of the only identified burial, Commander James Russell.
As a precaution to protect the ships against any reprisals against their crews, HMS Wyandra was transferred to the Mediterranean, and took the name of sister ship Manica, while Baralongs name was deleted from Lloyd's Register.
In November 1794, ten vessels, which were part of a convoy escorted by HMS Convert, were wrecked on the reef in Gun Bay, on the East end of Grand Cayman, but with the help of local settlers, there was no loss of life.
The Summary Report of the HMS Challenger expedition lists radiolaria from the two dredged samples taken when the Challenger Deep was first discovered.
The spectacular unauthorized demonstration of the turbine powered Turbinia at the 1897 Spithead Navy Review, which, significantly, was of torpedo boat size, prompted the Royal Navy to order a prototype turbine powered destroyer, HMS Viper of 1899.
Beatty was instead appointed to HMS Alexandra, flagship in the Mediterranean Squadron commanded by Admiral the Duke of Edinburgh's, Queen Victoria's second son.
He was transferred to HMS Cruiser.
In May 1902 he was passed fit for sea duty and was appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno in June, spending two months in exercises with the Channel Fleet under Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson before joining the Mediterranean fleet.
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