LuaLua is a born-again Christian and his former teammate at Portsmouth, Linvoy Primus, was quoted saying " We are not scared to say we pray together before games.

Primus, along with Darren Moore, former footballer Mick Mellows, and Portsmouth FC star Joel Ward is involved with the Christian charity ' Faith and Football, and walked the Great Wall of China in summer 2005 to raise £ 100, 000 for Prospect Children ’ s School in Ibaden, Nigeria and a new medical centre, school and orphanage for a village in Goa.

Scores of the followers of Wheelwright and Hutchinson were ordered out of the Massachusetts colony, but before leaving, a group of them, including Sherman, signed what was is sometimes called the Portsmouth Compact, establishing a non-sectarian civil government upon the universal consent of the inhabitants, with a Christian focus.

The purpose of the Portsmouth Compact was to set up a new, independent colony that was Christian in character but non-sectarian in governance.

On 7 March 1638, before leaving Boston, William Hutchinson and other supporters of his wife signed an instrument, sometimes called the Portsmouth Compact, agreeing to form a non-sectarian government that was Christian in character.

Scores of Mrs. Hutchinson's followers were ordered out of the Massachusetts colony, but before leaving Boston a group of them, including Coggeshall, signed what was later called the Portsmouth Compact, establishing a non-sectarian civil government upon the universal consent of the inhabitants, with a Christian focus.

The Christian Radich and its Norwegian crew were filmed while sailing from Oslo, across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, to New York City, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and then back home to Oslo.

During his time at Portsmouth, due to influence from team mate Linvoy Primus and the Faith and Football organisation, Davis converted to Christianity ; " Since going to Portsmouth and meeting people like Linvoy Primus, who is a Christian, I have got into that and it ’ s been a revelation to me.

Tōgō then went to the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth, and to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

In 1778, he accepted a command which in the ordinary course would have terminated his active career, becoming Commissioner of the dockyard at Portsmouth and governor of the Naval Academy.

In 1729, the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth, renamed the Royal Naval College in 1806, was founded, for 40 students aged between 13 and 16, who would take three years to complete a course of study defined in an illustrated book, and would earn two years of sea time as part of their studies.

His elevation was in part a result of the interest of William IV who, having admired his St. Michael's Mount at the Academy in 1831 ( now in the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia ), commissioned two works from him of the Opening of New London Bridge ( 1832 ) and The Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour.

In 1770, he went to Mrs Betesworth's Academy in Kingston, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, leaving in 1772 to join Mr Lockee's Military Academy, Little Chelsea, London, and later to Colonel Gallatin's School of Equitation for 7 months.

After graduating from Portsmouth Senior High School, Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1974, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1978, and a Masters of Science degree in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology on a National Science Foundation Fellowship in 1979.

Neville was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and entered the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1886 chiefly because no one else in his district desired an appointment to Annapolis that year.

Prior to this there had been a Royal Naval Academy ( later Royal Naval College ) at Portsmouth from 1733 to 1837.

Andy Awford ( born July 14, 1972 in Worcester, England ) is a former football player and currently Academy manager at Portsmouth

He attended the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth from 1777 to 1779.

Broke joined the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1788, and began active service as a midshipman in 1792.

His later appointments were to the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth as president, and afterwards as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.

Hotham was educated at Westminster School and at the Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth.

Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Ensign Hovey graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1907.

The next year, he went to David Bogue's Academy in Gosport ( near Portsmouth ) for further training.

Simmons first planned to train to become a wrestler at the NWA-UK Hammerlock training school, but not long after securing a week long training session in August 2000 Simmons received news of a new training centre starting up in Portsmouth, The FWA Academy, which was 30 minutes away from him.

They were the Virginia Literary, Scientific and Military Academy at Portsmouth, Virginia ( 1839 – 1846 ), Pennsylvania Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy at Bristol, Pennsylvania ( 1842 – 1845 ), Pennsylvania Military Institute at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ( 1845 – 1848 ), Wilmington Literary, Scientific and Military Academy at Wilmington, Delaware ( 1846 – 1848 ), the Scientific and Military Collegiate Institute at Reading, Pennsylvania ( 1850 – 1854 ), Gymnasium and Military Institute at Pembroke, New Hampshire ( 1850 – 1853 ) and the National Scientific and Military Academy at Brandywine Springs, Delaware ( 1853 ).

* Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth ( 1733 – 1837 ), renamed the Royal Naval College in 1806

Portsmouth and Anse-de-Mai are located in the northern region of the island, and Roseau is in the south.

A small passenger ferry connects it to the neighbouring island of Portsea where the city of Portsmouth is located.

The Hayling Ferry is the most convenient way to travel between Portsmouth and Hayling Island.

Alternatively, Portsmouth and Southsea is another railway station, used for connections to Bristol ( Temple Meads ) and Cardiff.

Another version, which Bogart's long-time friend, author Nathaniel Benchley, claims is the truth, is that Bogart was injured while on assignment to take a naval prisoner to Portsmouth Naval Prison in Kittery, Maine.

* 1545 – The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth ; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.

Portsmouth is known for its orange cake, often containing cranberries.

Known as Northrop Grumman Newport News ( NGNN ), and later Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Newport News ( NGSB-NN ), the company is located in Newport News, Virginia, and often participates in projects with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, also located adjacent to Hampton Roads.

* 1982 – The Mary Rose, a Tudor carrack which sank on July 19, 1545, is salvaged from the sea bed of the Solent, off Portsmouth.

The largest is Aquidneck Island, shared by the municipalities of Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth.

) The two most common handicap systems are the IRC and the Portsmouth Yardstick, while the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet ( PHRF ) is very common in the U. S. A.

Only two survive, one near her birthplace in Knaresborough and the other in Portsmouth where there is a lifesize statue above the door.

And, reflecting the then lack of international standards, sizes varied and not all were built as ovals-for example, the oldest velodrome in the UK, at Preston Park, Brighton ( 1877 ), is 579m long and features four straights linked by banked curves, while the 536m Portsmouth velodrome has a single straight linked by one long curve.

Waterlooville is a town in Hampshire, England, approximately 8 miles north of Portsmouth.

The nearest train station is located in Bedhampton and is on the main train route between London and Portsmouth.

Havant railway station is served by Stagecoach service 39, and stations in Portsmouth by First services 40 / X40, 41, 45 and 45A.

For westbound trains the station at Cosham, served by the local bus services, is on the line between Portsmouth and Fareham, with regular trains to Southampton and Cardiff.

* October 13 – The HMS Canopus ( 1898 ), a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, is launched at Portsmouth, England ( will be deployed widely in World War I ).

* July 3 – English fleet attempts to sail from Portsmouth to Normandy but is forced back by contrary winds.

* July – Henry VIII of England's flagship, the Mary Rose, is launched at Portsmouth.

Williams facilitated the purchase by William Coddington and others, and in the spring of 1638 the Antinomians began settling at a place called Pocasset, which is now the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

* The city of Portsmouth is awarded its Royal Charter.

Pinafore is at anchor off Portsmouth.