The rest of aristocratic Belgium followed and soon Ostend became known as " The Queen of the Belgian sea-side resorts ".

Born in Ostend, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1873, and became Minister of Public Works under Jules Malou, greatly improving the rail, canal and road systems.

James Weddell ( Ostend, August 24, 1787 – September 9, 1834 ) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in the early Spring of 1823 sailed to latitude of 74 ° 15 ' S ( a record 7. 69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle ) and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea.

Permeke was born in Antwerp but when he was six years old the family moved to Ostend, where his father became curator of the Municipal Museum of Arts.

: After the failure of the Holyman Sally Line service from Ramsgate to Ostend Holyman became partners with Hoverspeed and moved the service to Dover.

At the age of twenty-five he became a lieutenant-colonel and in 1798 led a light battalion with distinction in the Ostend expedition.

He was initially imprisoned near Ostend, Belgium, then transferred to a transit camp in Essex, where he was interrogated.

The strategic position on the North Sea coast had major advantages for Ostend as a harbour but also proved to be a source of trouble.

After this era, Ostend was turned into a harbour of some importance.

In later times, the harbour of Ostend continued to expand because the harbour dock, as well as the traffic connections with the hinterland, were improved.

On 9 / 10 May 1918 at Ostend, Belgium, Lieutenant Drummond commanding HMML ( Motor Launch ) 254, volunteered for rescue work and was following HMS Vindictive to the harbour when a shell burst on board killing an officer and a deck hand and badly wounding the coxswain and Lieutenant Drummond.

He spent a month on a short tour of England and two performances in Ostend later that year.

The British army's withdrawal to England to deal with the Jacobite Rebellion facilitated the French capture of the strategically important ports of Ostend and Nieuwpoort, threatening Britain's links to the Low Countries.

In England, she captured the Hardwicke Stakes at Ascot Racecourse, then won the Grand International d ' Ostende at Hippodrome Wellington, in Ostend, Belgium and in France the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, the Prix d ' Hedouville, the Prix du Prince de Galles, and the Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe, and repeated her win in the Grand Prix de Marseille.

Hannah died August 18, 1784 in Ostend, Belgium and was buried in London, England.

Returning to England in the summer of 1917, he narrowly missed selection for Keyes's operations against Zeebrugge and Ostend owing to his war wounds, and instead trained crews of coastal torpedo boats, a role which led to a distant posting in the Caspian Sea during the Russian Civil War, fighting the Bolshevik forces along the Russian coastline.

During the 1830s rabbits were imported to England from Ostend in Belgium every week for the meat market.

Strauss work on the act 3 of the work was also interrupted when his third wife, Adele Strauss, was taken ill and the couple left for Ostend.

His first distinction was as Lieutenant-Admiral Piet Hein's flag captain on the Vliegende Groene Draeck during the fight with Ostend privateers in 1629 in which Hein was killed.

HMS Rainbow, one of the two scouts who had first spotted the Dutch fleet, got isolated and fled to neutral Ostend, chased by twelve ships from Tromp's squadron while the other, the Kent, left the battlefield in search of Rupert's squadron.

In Belgium, the first happenings were organized around 1965 – 1968 in Antwerp, Brussels and Ostend by artists Hugo Heyrman and Panamarenko.

The first commercial flight of Sabena was operated between Brussels and London ( UK ) on 1 July 1923 via Ostend.

After some time spent blockading French-occupied Ostend and cruising around the Western Approaches, where on 24 May he took his first prize a 16-gun Spanish privateer, the Eagle was sent to join the Western Squadron.

In 1948, East Anglian operated its first inclusive tour ( IT ) charter from Southend to Ostend, and by winter 1948 had acquired seven additional aircraft ( five de Havilland Dragon Rapides, a Miles Aerovan and an Auster Airspeed Courier ).

She went into exile from 1936 – 1940, first to Ostend in Belgium and later to the Netherlands.

The driving force was the Scottish trader Colin Campbell, who had gained firsthand knowledge of the China trade as supercargo for the Ostend Company ; he was knighted by the Swedish King and moved to Gothenburg to organise the first expedition.

He won or shared first at Munich 1900 ( the 12th DSB Congress ), Coburg 1904 ( the 14th DSB Congress ), Ostend 1906, Stockholm 1906, in the Vienna 1908 chess tournament, in the Prague 1908 chess tournament, in the Hamburg 1910 chess tournament ( the 17th DSB Congress ), and thrice in the Trebitsch Memorial in Vienna ( 1911, 1912, 1913 ).

After graduating from the nautical college of Ostend as first lieutenant, he was assigned to the Belgica, a hydrography ship.

* 21 December – Flying a Maurice Farman biplane, Royal Naval Air Service Wing Commander Charles R. Samson conducts historys first night bombing raid, attacking Ostend, Belgium.

Notable are the raids by the RNAS on the German airship sheds at Düsseldorf, Cologne and Friedrichhafen in September, October and November 1914, as well as the formation of the Brieftauben Abteilung Ostende ( or " Ostend carrier pigeon detachment ", cover name for the first German strategic bombing unit ), which mounted the first token raid over the English Channel in December.

For the trip he took his own car, a four-door Ford Thunderbird, crossing the channel and journeying through Ostend, Antwerp and Bremen before arriving at his first destination: Hamburg.

The first show ever given was a music hall revue entitled ' Giddy Ostend ' with Little Tich and ( in one of his first roles ) Charlie Chaplin.

His best achievement was to win the first Trebitsch Memorial at Vienna 1907, and he came third at the 28-round Masters tournament at Ostend the same year.

In 1858 the first Frankfurt Zoo was laid out on the Bockenheimer Landstraße, which was later moved to the Ostend.

Rubinstein was not the first to fall victim to the trap, as the first recorded game featuring the trap is Amos Burn – Heinrich Wolf, Ostend 1905.

This included new car ferry services between Southampton ( Eastleigh ) and Cherbourg as well as between Southend ( Rochford ) and Ostend and a DC-3 passenger service linking Gatwick and Le Touquet.

Abandoned, Merrick made his way by train to Ostend, where he attempted to board a ferry for Dover but was refused passage.

Superseacat One which had operated for Hoverspeed on its now closed Newhaven-Dieppe ( 2000 and 2002 – 2004 ) and Dover-Calais / Ostend ( 2001 ) fast ferry services was sold in April 2006 to Acciona Trasmediterránea and was renamed Almudaina Dos.

Cherwell was conceived by two Balliol College students, Cecil Binney and George Edinger, on a ferry from Dover to Ostend during the summer vacation of 1920 while the students were travelling to Vienna to do relief work for the Save the Children charity.

Indeed in 1959 one intrepid owner sailed single-handed from Southend to Calais, and followed this in 1962 with a trip from Dover to Ostend.

On December 3, 1781, Fanning sailed from Ostend aboard Eclipse and had another productive cruise, returning to Dunkirk on March 6, 1782.

Between 1715 and 1723, 34 ships sailed from Ostend to China, the Malabar or Coromandel Coast, Surat, Bengal or Mocha.