A whaling station in Richmond, California, caught 311 gray whales for " scientific purposes " between 1964 and 1969.

Once caught the spies were deposited in the care of Captain Robert Stephens at Camp 020 ( Latchmere house, Richmond ).

Stephens would also be caught, but with the support of Fenian prison warders, John J. Breslin and Daniel Byrne was less than a fortnight in Richmond Bridewell when he vanished and escaped to France.

Richmond ’ s work at Syracuse caught the eye of Sargent Shriver, head of the Kennedy Foundation.

Though they were caught by surprise, this small action helped determine the effectiveness of the ironclads ' casemates against close rifled fire, and in the case of the Richmond the results were favorable: her armor withstood the fire, though her smokestack was shot off.

He was educated at O ' Connell School in North Richmond Street, an Irish Christian Brothers school a short walk away.

The next phase to begin construction was a short connector between Highway 427 and Highway 400, and the upgrading of Highway 7 through Richmond Hill to a six-lane grade-separated expressway, which although originally planned to become incorporated into the 407 routing, today runs parallel to the highway.

** History: This short section of Autoroute was destined to become part of a much longer section of freeway, as the A-55 was supposed to follow this route south towards Warwick and Richmond, as opposed to its current alignment through Drummondville ; however, this was never realised, but the short route still remains.

Upon leaving Richmond Central State School, and after short spells in a sawmill and a boot factory, Tudor entered the felt hat industry.

Richmond also wrote about the bad feeling caused by his short tenure at Cracked: " Dick Kulpa was very upset about my leaving Cracked for MAD, but let ’ s be real … not doing so would have been the same as a minor league Triple-A shortstop refusing a call up to the majors.

He won a pair of pole positions at short tracks, and set a series record for victories by a rookie with three, Richmond, Phoenix and Homestead.

He began working in radio early on, including a short time at WSSV-AM in Petersburg, Virginia, where he called himself " Max The Player ," and later at WANT-AM, Richmond.

After being doled out by Count Alan Le Roux to his relative Bodin of Middleham for a short time, the new market town was founded by Scollandus ( Henry III later confirmed this charter ), a Breton officer in an hereditary position at Richmond Castle.

In 1989, CNR sold the entire railway line from Montreal to Portland, via Richmond, to a short line operator.

It was located in the suburb of Richmond ( now Cremorne ), a short extension from the recently opened Richmond Railway Station, now the Sandringham Line, on the Melbourne side of the Yarra River bridge and slightly north of Balmain Street.

A short distance east of US 501, US 301 and US 58 diverge, with the former highway turning north onto James D. Hagood Highway to cross the Dan River and Norfolk Southern's Danville – Richmond rail line.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch ( RTD or TD for short ) is the primary daily newspaper in Richmond the capital of Virginia, United States, and is commonly considered the " newspaper of record " for events occurring in much of the state.

While preparing to co-star as Vladimir to John Alderton's Estragon in Michael Rudman's acclaimed production of Waiting for Godot at the National Theatre in November 1987, McCowen also spent a busy autumn staging Martin Crimp's trilogy of short plays Definitely the Bahamas at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames, having previously enjoyed Crimp's style of writing in a BBC radio version of Three Attempted Acts.

In November 2001, a short reunion of Not Drowning, Waving – consisting of Bradley, Bridie, Mountfort, Phillips and Southall in the line-up – occurred at the Corner Hotel in Richmond for the book launch of Blunt: A Biased History of Australian Rock.

In 2006, he was seen in a production of A Taste of Honey which toured the UK extensively and played a short run at the Richmond Theatre.

In November 1919, the CLR published a new bill to revive the Richmond extension, but using a different route that required only a short section of new tunnel construction.

The N1 has a short section in the Northern Cape ; after it passes into this province, it passes through the town of Richmond before intersecting with the N10 at Hanover.

At the end of the 1988 / 89 season St Pats left Richmond Park for what the board of directors called " a short time " while redevelopment work was done.

The community's main business district sprang up around the railroad station, which is located a short distance west of the intersection of Amboy Road and Richmond Avenue.

He directed construction of other short lines around Richmond -- Petersburg & Roanoke, Richmond & Petersburg, Richmond & Fredericksburg, and Winchester & Potomac -- when in 1833, at age 31, he was chosen as chief engineer for a grand railroad project from Richmond through Lynchburg, New River Gorge, and on to the Ohio River ( future route of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad ).

Essendon appointed former Richmond player Kevin Sheedy as head coach in October 1980.

He appointed the Duke of Richmond, a wealthy landowner who was both Chancellor of Aberdeen University and Lord Lieutenant of Banff.

Major Richmond was appointed commander of the Wellington Battalion of the Militia.

In 1494 he resigned his benefice to become proctor of the university and three years later was appointed master debator, about which date he also became chaplain and confessor to Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of King Henry VII.

He was appointed by the governor of Virginia to be the grand marshal of the festivities associated with the laying of the cornerstone of Robert E. Lee's statue in Richmond.

However, in 1173 he had been appointed Sheriff of Lancashire and custodian of the honour of Richmond.

In 1539 Margaret Douglas and the Duchess of Richmond were appointed to greet Henry VIII's bride, Anne of Cleves, at Greenwich Palace, join her household and convey her to the King.

With the fall of Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865, Semmes supervised the destruction of all the squadron's nearby warships and was then appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army.

In August 2004 he was appointed the senior coach of Richmond for five seasons from 2005, replacing Danny Frawley.

" On Grant's first visit to Richmond after the war, he had tea with Van Lew, and later appointed her postmaster of Richmond.

In 1862 Fish was appointed by President Lincoln on a commission to serve with Bishop Edward R. Ames to visit the Union Army prisoners being held in the Confederate States of America capital in Richmond, Virginia.

In 1757 a second battalion ( 2nd / 33rd ) had been raised and in 1758 this battalion became an independent regiment, the 72nd Regiment of Foot: Richmond was appointed Colonel of the new regiment and his younger brother George Lennox took command of the 33rd Regiment ( 1st / 33rd ).

The Duke of Richmond was appointed British ambassador extraordinary in Paris in 1765, and in the following year he briefly served as Southern Secretary in the Rockingham Whig administration, resigning office on the accession to power of The Earl of Chatham.

the other delegates who were at Montgomery were appointed to Richmond.

On 28 November 1436, Robert was appointed Steward of the Honour of Richmond in Norfolk.

Richmond was also Lord Lieutenant of Sussex between 1835 and 1860 and was appointed a Knight of the Garter in 1829.

Sheedy made good copy ; during the season Richmond had appointed him as full-time promotions officer, effectively making him the first professional footballer in the VFL.

After serving as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1923, Parker was appointed, in 1925, as one of the judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond.

John Charles Linthicum was appointed president of the committee, alongside State Superintendent Dr. M. Bates Stephens and Sarah Richmond.

Woolf LJ was appointed a Law Lord in 1992, being created a life peer as Lord Woolf of Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond.

He was appointed a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army on March 28, and was made assistant adjutant general of the forces around and in the Southern capital of Richmond, Virginia, on April 29.

Geoffrey was a patron of scholarship, and employed a number of scholars throughout his life, one of whom, Honorius of Kent, Geoffrey appointed Archdeacon of Richmond.

Named after the Duke of Richmond, who was the newly appointed Governor General of the Canadas, the village of Richmond was laid out in a grid on the north bank of the Jock River ( which for a while was renamed the Goodwood after the Duke ’ s English estate ).