* 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

The neoclassical architect, Sir Robert Smirke, was asked to draw up plans for an eastern extension to the Museum "... for the reception of the Royal Library, and a Picture Gallery over it ..." and put forward plans for today's quadrangular building, much of which can be seen today.

There are also preliminary plans to erect a 1: 1-scale replica of Wacław Szymanowski's Art Nouveau statue of Frederic Chopin found in Warsaw's Royal Baths along Chicago's lakefront in addition to a different sculpture commemorating the artist in Chopin Park for the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin's birth.

While serving as First Sea Lord, his primary concerns dealt with devising plans on how the Royal Navy would keep shipping lanes open if Britain fell victim to a nuclear attack.

Although they were fighting the same enemy, the Royal Navy and the United States Navy did not cooperate operationally, nor did they share operational plans or come to mutual understandings about deployment of their forces.

* June 20 – Oil multinational Royal Dutch Shell caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the Brent Spar oil rig at sea.

In Hooke's time, the Royal Society met at Gresham College, but within a few months of Hooke's death Newton became the Society's president and plans were laid for a new meeting place.

After the Z Plan was completed in the mid-1940s, Raeder's plans called for a " double pole strategy ", in which U-boats, Panzerschiffe and cruisers operating alone or in tandem would attack British commerce all over the globe, forcing the Royal Navy to divert ships all over the world to deal with these threats while at the same time two task forces of carriers, battleships, cruisers and destroyers would engage in frequent sorties into the North Sea, preferably from bases in Norway to destroy what remained of the British Home Fleet in a series of battles that would give Germany command of the sea.

Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York ; the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Nevertheless, in February 1907 Shackleton presented his plans for an Antarctic expedition to the Royal Geographic Society, the details of which, under the name British Antarctic Expedition, were published in the Royal Society's newsletter, Geographic Journal.

To manage the logistics associated with the increased artillery, Royal Artillery staff officer Major Alan Brooke developed coordinated communication and transport plans to work in conjunction with the complex barrage plans.

The first ideas for a telegraph were launched within the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1848, but by 1852 the plans were public and the Parliament of Norway decided on a plan for constructing the telegraph throughout the country.

Napoleon maintained grandiose plans to establish a vast French Empire in Louisiana but the Royal Navy prevented him from transferring troops or settlers to the acquired territories.

" He was appointed to the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1904, and early in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the committee of engineers which subsequently reported in favor of a sea-level canal ... In 1904 Parsons was also appointed, together with the famous British engineers Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir John Wolfe-Barry, to membership on a board to pass on the plans of the Royal Commission on London Traffic.

Royal Jordanian plans to operate the Amman-Baku route in late 2009 or early 2010.

However, his plans were halted by other European matters and the supremacy of the Royal Navy ( including thousands of Congreve rockets ).

Barry also served on the Royal Commission ( learned committee ) developing plans for the Great Exhibition of 1851.

He subsequently in 1802 revised the plans for the Royal Canal of Ireland from Dublin to the Shannon near Longford.

The Cult announced plans for a tour showcasing their 1985 Love album across the USA and then the UK in October where they will play at the Royal Albert Hall.

In 1924, due to financial constraints, plans to turn the Royal Hospital into a parliament house were abandoned ; Leinster House instead was bought, pending the provision of a proper parliament house at some stage in the future.

There are 423, 781 active contributors to the federal public service, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Canadian Forces pension plans.

He finally graduated from RADA in 1953 ; whilst there he had been offered ' spear-carrying ' roles at Stratford and he stayed there for 13 years, soon graduating to more significant roles and abandoning plans to move on after Peter Hall founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960.

In accordance with the Constitution, the King ( as Supreme Commander ) used to " operate and use " the " Royal Nepal Army on the recommendation " of this council.

This launched Bermuda into a new prominence with the London Government, as its location, near the halfway point from Nova Scotia to the Caribbean, and off the US Atlantic Seaboard, allowed the Royal Navy to operate fully in the area, protecting British trade routes, and potentially commanding the American Atlantic coast in the event of war.

In some areas Royal National Lifeboat Institution ( RNLI ) Lifeguards operate on behalf of the local authority.

There are many independent commissions, agencies, and institutions that operate outside this general framework, such as the Royal Monetary Authority and Election Commission.

The Royal Armoured Corps is divided into those regiments that operate main battle tanks ( armoured regiments ) and those that operate reconnaissance tanks ( formation reconnaissance regiments ).

In 1839, Canadian-born Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company to operate the line's four pioneer paddle steamers on the Liverpool – Halifax – Boston route.

Most British universities operate under Royal Charters, which give them the power to grant degrees.

The most recent generation of UK universities were granted the power to grant degrees by the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 instead of by Royal Charter, while some other universities operate under Acts of Parliament.

After failing to secure government funding for a new road bridge, Plymouth City Council and Cornwall County Council applied for permission to operate a toll bridge for which they received Royal Assent in 1957.

In Britain, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution | RNLI operate a small fleet of RNLI hovercraft lifeboat | hovercraft lifeboats

An Act of Parliament ( 28 and 29 Vict, cap cccxv ) allowing the company to operate passenger trains as a public railway was given Royal Assent on 5 July 1865, and the company appointed James Swinton Spooner as engineer for the construction.

Several localities in the valley also operate public transportation systems, including Front Royal Area Transit ( FRAT ), which provides weekday transit for the town of Front Royal ; Page County Transit, providing weekday transit for the town of Luray and weekday service between Luray and Front Royal ; and Winchester Transit, which provides weekday transit for the city of Winchester.

Once the remaining funds had been raised, in April 1867 Queen Victoria signed the Royal Charter of the Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences which was to operate the Hall and on 20 May, laid the foundation stone.

The foundation of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden lies in the letters patent awarded by Charles II to Sir William Davenant in 1660, allowing Davenant to operate one of only two patent theatre companies ( The Duke's Company ) in London.

HM Royal Navy operate in Fareham with the Maritime Warfare School, HMS Collingwood, training well over 2, 000 British and foreign sailors at any one time.

In 1401, a Royal Grant was issued, allowing the men of the town to operate boats between London and the town ; these became known as the " Long Ferry ".

ADGs do not operate anti-aircraft weapons, which are the responsibility of the Army's Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery.

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards is also affiliated to A ( Ayrshire ( Earl of Carrick's Own ) Yeomanry ) & C ( Fife and Forfar Yeomanry / Scottish Horse ) Squadrons of the Queen's Own Yeomanry regiment of the Territorial Army, who train to provide personnel to operate in in the Formation Reconnaissance role and are equipped with CVR ( T ) vehicles, including the Scimitar and Spartan

Royal Signals units provide the full telecommunications infrastructure for the Army wherever they operate in the world.

Tredinnick's views continue to cause amused disbeliefin some quarters and a spokesman for the Royal College of Surgeons said they would " laugh their heads off " at the suggestion they could not operate at the full moon.