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The Royal Navy was initially reluctant to adopt the guns, mainly due to mistrust of the Carron Company, which had developed a reputation for incompetence and commercial sharp practice.
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* 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.
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*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships
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United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;
But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.
The Royal Lao Army, on the other hand, was paid and equipped with American funds.
Last week, when Royal was informed that three Longhorns were among the conference's top four in rushing, he said: `` That won't last long ''.
But the Royal Motel in Shamrock was the only one that offered the comfort and security of a storm cellar.
Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.
` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.
In 1827 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and in 1828, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.
The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes.
It passed through various hands and collections into the Royal Museum at Paris, and was engraved by the Chevalier Visconti.
A Serene Highness by birth, Ena, as she was known, was raised to Royal Highness status a month before her wedding to prevent the union from being viewed as unequal.
In 1864, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Fleming served throughout World War I as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was Mentioned in Dispatches.
* Fleming was awarded the Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
It was created by a deed which he signed on June 7, 1901, and it was incorporated by Royal Charter on August 21, 1902.
From that time until 1972 the Astronomer Royal was Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
There was also formerly a Royal Astronomer of Ireland.
The Act of Settlement was thus passed and granted Royal Assent in 1701.
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Conservation, as a distinct field of study, initially developed in Germany, when in 1888 Friedrich Rathgen became the first chemist to be employed by a Museum, the Koniglichen Museen, Berlin ( Royal Museums of Berlin ).
British public perception of the engagement was initially as a serious defeat, at a time when popular opinion expected great things from the Royal Navy.
He initially worked as an assistant director at Northampton repertory theatre ( now known as Royal & Derngate ), but in the early 1960s moved into television direction and was credited in this role on early episodes of Z-Cars in 1964.
The Karadjordjević family initially was a Serbian Royal House, then the Royal House of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and then the Royal House of Yugoslavia.
In 1538 the Audiencia Real de Panama, Royal Audiencia of Panama, was established, initially with jurisdiction from Nicaragua to Cape Horn.
The Royal National Theatre production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern had a year-long Broadway run from October 9, 1967, through October 19, 1968, initially at the Alvin Theatre, then transferring to the Eugene O ' Neill Theatre on January 8, 1968.
With Gotobed back in the line-up ( now using his birth name, Robert Grey ), the group initially reworked much of their back catalogue for a performance at Royal Festival Hall on 26 February 2000.
On 13 April 1912, less than two weeks after the creation of the Royal Flying Corps ( which initially consisted of both a naval and a military wing ), an Air Committee was established to act as an intermediary between the Admiralty and the War Office in matters relating to aviation.
The history of the Royal Mint stretches back to 886 A. D. For many centuries production took place in London, initially at the Tower of London, and then at premises nearby in Tower Hill.
Thus, even with his established reputation with the Royal Society as a reliable observer, his observations of microscopic life were initially met with skepticism.
At this time the king also created the position of Astronomer Royal ( initially filled by John Flamsteed ), to serve as the director of the observatory and to " apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.
He was interred initially in the Royal Vault until transferred to the King George VI Memorial Chapel inside St. George's on 26 March 1969.
Kuensel, which was initially government owned, became an autonomous corporation incorporating the Royal Government Press, in 1992.
On 22 October 1772 Amherst was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance and soon gained the confidence of George III who had initially hoped the position would go to a member of the Royal Family.
Renting a room in Bloomsbury, an area of central London, he initially found it hard to gain work, but spent much time studying at the nearby British Museum and the library of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Tertis was born in West Hartlepool, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, and initially studied the violin in Leipzig and at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Arsenal Football Club were founded in Woolwich in 1886 by workers at the Arsenal – the club were initially known as Dial Square, then Royal Arsenal and then became Woolwich Arsenal in 1891.
The community was initially served by the Simi Valley Unified School District, with the nearest post-elementary schools being Sinaloa Junior High ( about away ) and Royal High ( about 22 ( 35 km ) miles away ).
After eventually entering the Royal Academy art schools, having initially been rejected, Hunt rebelled against the influence of its founder Sir Joshua Reynolds.
The town's economy was initially based upon fishing and agriculture as in the case of Brixham across Torbay, but in the early 19th century the town began to develop into a fashionable seaside resort, initially frequented by members of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars while the Royal Navy anchored in the bay and later by the crème de la crème of Victorian society as the town's fame spread.
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