Other smaller but more nimble players in the banking industry include Fidelity Bank ( Bahamas ) Ltd. ( FBB ) and Royal Fidelity Merchant Bank & Trust Limited ( RFMBT ).

* 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land's End.

Fatalities totaled 1, 570 The Royal Newfoundland Regiment suffered 1, 297 dead ; there were an additional 171 dead in the Royal Navy and 101 in the Merchant Navy

The figures include Royal Navy war dead of 32, 287 The Merchant Navy war dead of 14, 661 were listed separately Figures for total RAF are included in the totals of the War Office report

By contrast, an ordinary seamen in the Royal Navy received 19s per month to be paid in a lump sum at the end of a tour of duty which was around half the rate paid in the Merchant Navy.

At this early stage the idea of a regular navy ( the Royal Navy, as distinct from the Merchant Navy ) was not present, so there is little to distinguish the activity of English privateers from regular naval warfare.

The term is believed to derive from lime fruits, referring to the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy practice of supplying lime juice to British sailors to prevent scurvy.

Normal practice for UK ships is to fly the White ensign ( Royal Navy ) or the Red ensign ( Merchant and private boats ).

* 1938, Merchant ship Ems for shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd, in WW II used as auxiliary cruiser Komet, 1942 sunk by planes and ships of Royal Air Force and Royal Navy

Memorial to members of the Royal Norwegian Navy, Army and Merchant Marine in Halifax Regional Municipality | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the flag plaza outside the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. On June 7, 1940 13 ships, five aircraft and 500 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy followed the King to the United Kingdom and continued the fight from bases there until the war ended.

He was the son of Count Costanzo Ciano and his wife Carolina Pini ; his father was an Admiral and World War I hero in the Royal Italian Navy, founding member of the National Fascist Party and re-organizer of the Italian Merchant Marine in the 1920s.

* The Merchant of Venice as Shylock, 1981 Royal Flemish Theatre Brussels in association with The British Council

Abraham has focused on stage work throughout his career, giving notable performances as Pozzo in Mike Nichols's production of Waiting for Godot, Malvolio in Twelfth Night for the New York Shakespeare Festival, and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, for the Off Broadway Theatre For A New Audience ( TFANA ) in March 2007, which was performed at the Duke Theatre in New York and also at The Swan Theatre, part of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Shortly after Professor Laughton published his " Jenkins's Ear " research in the English Historical Review, a Royal Navy colleague wrote, on 26 October 1889, to inform the historian: " I have a curious book connected with the subject, published in London in 1739, entitled England's Triumph: or a complete History of the many signals victories gained by the Royal Navy & Merchant Ships of Great Britain, for the term of 40 years past over the insulting & haught Spaniards by Captain Charles Jenkins, who has too severely felt the effects of Spanish tyranny.

Wreaths are laid by Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Princess Royal, the Duke of Kent, the Earl of Wessex, the Duke of Cambridge, the Prime Minister, leaders of major political parties and former Prime Ministers, the Foreign Secretary, the Commonwealth High Commissioners and representatives from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force, the Merchant Navy and fishing fleets and the civilian services.

The Red Ensign or " Red Duster " is a flag that originated in the early 17th century as an English ensign flown by the Royal Navy and later specifically by British Merchant Seamen ( The British Merchant Navy ).

In 1862, she joined her sister Kate in J. H. Chute's stock company at the Theatre Royal, Bristol, where she played a wide variety of parts, including burlesque roles requiring singing and dancing, as well as roles in Much Ado about Nothing, Othello and The Merchant of Venice.

* is the name of two ships of the Royal Navy

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.

* 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeats the British Royal Navy, preventing them from taking the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

Marc Isambard Brunel ( father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel ), with the help of Henry Maudslay and others, designed 22 types of machine tools to make the parts for the blocks used by the Royal Navy.

He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.

* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.

* Adrian Johns ( born 1951 ), English governor of Gibraltar and former senior officer in the Royal Navy

* 1913 – Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser.

* HMS Adder, any of seven ships of the Royal Navy

* HMS Ajax, several ships of the Royal Navy

*, a British Royal Navy ship.

* 1914 – World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

* 1918 – World War I: The British Royal Navy makes a raid in an attempt to neutralise the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge.

In the 2000s, " Absalon " was adopted as the name for a class of Royal Danish Navy vessels, and the lead vessel of the class.

Category: Royal Danish Navy

*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships

Category: People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh

The rights to the Pooh books were left to four beneficiaries: his family, the Royal Literary Fund, Westminster School and the Garrick Club.

In 1774, he became a physics professor at the Royal School in Como.

Fleming went to Loudoun Moor School and Darvel School, and earned a two-year scholarship to Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London, where he attended the Royal Polytechnic Institution.

She attended the Royal Navy School in Singapore, and a convent school in Bath.

Category: People educated at Royal Grammar School, Guildford

School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.

Bardot was featured in many other films along with notable actors such as Alain Delon ( Famous Love Affairs ; Spirits of the Dead ); Jean Gabin ( In Case of Adversity ); Sean Connery ( Shalako ); Jean Marais ( Royal Affairs in Versailles ; School for Love ); Lino Ventura ( Rum Runners ); Annie Girardot ( The Novices ); Claudia Cardinale ( The Legend of Frenchie King ); Jeanne Moreau ( Viva Maria!

Montgomery attended St Paul's School and then the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was almost expelled for rowdiness and violence.

From 1938 to 1945, he held a succession of positions, first becoming senior history master at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon in 1938 ( and also a Captain in the school's OTC ), then instructor at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1939.

* Samuel Beckett ( 1906 – 1989 ), author and playwright ( educated in Portora Royal School )

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), author and playwright ( educated in Portora Royal School )

Dewar called the Royal High School on Calton Hill in Edinburgh a " nationalist shibboleth ", mainly because it had been the proposed site of the Scottish Assembly in the 1979 referendum.

This program is now known as the University of London International Programmes and includes Postgraduate, Undergraduate and Diploma degrees created by colleges such as the London School of Economics, Royal Holloway and Goldsmiths.

The Royal Free School of Fermanagh was moved onto the island in 1643.

* Portora Royal School

Hospitals in Edinburgh include the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, which includes Edinburgh University Medical School, and the Western General Hospital, which includes a large cancer treatment centre and the nurse-led Minor Injuries Clinic.

During the next three years, she continued her battle to qualify by studying privately with various professors, including some at the University of St Andrews, the Edinburgh Royal Maternity and the London Hospital Medical School.

In 1881, Munch enrolled at the Royal School of Art and Design of Christiania, one of whose founders was his distant relative Jacob Munch.

Louis was home schooled for the first ten years of his life: he was then sent to Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire and on to the Royal Naval College, Osborne in May 1913.