* 1893 – The, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.

*, lead ship of the ballistic missile submarines in service from 1966 to 1994.

** USS Sacramento ( AOE-1 ) was the lead ship of Sacramento-class fast combat support ships, commissioned in 1964 and decommissioned in 2004.

An earlier appeal to Achilles to return was rejected, but after Hector burned Protesilaus ' ship, he allowed his close friend and relative Patroclus to go into battle wearing Achilles ' armour and lead his army.

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:: USS Thresher ( SSN-593 ), the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines and was lost by accident on 10 April 1963

*, the lead ship of her class, was the first American ballistic missile submarine.

* was a guided-missile cruiser and lead ship of her class.

* Vostok, the lead ship of Faddey Bellingshausen, who discovered Antarctica during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition.

* July 17 – In a convoy of ships from Great Britain, returning to India for the East India Company, the lead ship Dodington wrecks at Port Elizabeth, losing a chest of gold coins from Robert Clive, worth £ 33, 000.

* The third Skate ( SSN-578 ), the lead ship of her class of nuclear attack submarines, saw action during the Cold War.

*, renamed before launching, was the lead ship of her class.

* is the lead ship of her class.

* The second USS Omaha ( CL-4 ), the lead ship of the Omaha-class of light cruiser, served during World War II

The lead ship of a new class of battleships, launched in 1903, was named in his honour.

* Japanese gunboat Maya, the lead ship of the Maya-class gunboats of the early Imperial Japanese Navy

As the last ship in the British line passed the Spanish, the British line had formed a U shape with Culloden in the lead and on the reverse course but chasing the rear of the Spanish.

These upgrades were surprisingly expensive ($ 200, 000 and $ 400, 000, respectively ) and had long ship date lead times after being ordered by a customer ; consequently, they were never popular with customers, majority of which leased their systems via a third-party leasing company.

* USNS Mission Buenaventura ( AO-111 ) — the lead ship in a Class of fleet oilers built during World War II.

** La Fayette ( F710 ), French stealth frigate, lead ship of the La Fayette class

** SMS Königsberg ( 1905 ), lead ship of the class, stationed in German East Africa at the start of World War I

** SMS Königsberg ( 1915 ), lead ship of the class

** German cruiser Königsberg, lead ship of this class

When the ship stopped on Aeaea, home of Circe the sorcress, Eurylochus and Odysseus draw lots to lead a group of twenty two men to explore the island.

* The second, launched in 1901, was the lead ship of her class of battleships.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Miss Xydis has a natural affinity for the keyboard, and in the twenty years since her debut here she has gained the authority and inner assurance that lead to audience control.

She let him lead her around.

Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.

Acquaintances may be bored by analogies that often lead her to a deeper realization about the true nature of a crime.

Because of her beauty, other gods feared that jealousy would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, and so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who was not viewed as a threat.

Eager to work with both Laurents and Sondheim, Angela Lansbury accepted the lead role as Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, despite her strong misgivings about the script and her ability to handle the score.

In 1973, French dance historian Francine Lancelot ( 1929 – 2003 ) began her formal studies in ethnomusicology which later lead her to researching French traditional dance forms and eventually Renaissance and Baroque dances.

While following the tradition that she lived in Italy, he comments wryly that there are now many more temptresses like her to lead men astray.

* The British Hammer Film Productions also produced a fairly faithful adaptation of " Carmilla " titled The Vampire Lovers ( 1970 ) with Ingrid Pitt in the lead role and Madeline Smith as her victim / lover.

While he quickly gains the respect of Planet editor Perry White, he is forced to contend with rival reporter Lois Lane, who often uses trickery to prevent Clark from pursuing a lead ( giving her the chance to scoop him ).

In 1948, after being persuaded by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne and her agent at the time, Al Levy, she auditioned for Michael Curtiz, which led to her being cast in the female lead role in Romance on the High Seas.

Just a Gigolo ( 1979 ), an Anglo-German co-production directed by David Hemmings, saw Bowie in the lead role as Prussian officer Paul von Przygodski, who, returning from World War I, is discovered by a Baroness ( Marlene Dietrich ) and put into her Gigolo Stable.

According to Fuller, the female lead in Bride of the Monster was written for her but Wood gave it to Loretta King instead.

A lead coffin inside a stone sarcophagus with her name on it was found and opened in 2008 by archaeologists during work on the building.

It was a financial failure, but it gave Wray her first lead role.

On March 23, 1430, Joan of Arc dictated a letter that threatened to lead a crusading army against the Hussites unless they returned to the Catholic faith, but her capture by English and Burgundian troops two months later would keep her from carrying out this threat.

Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

In 1930, she lost the lead role in the Josef von Sternberg-directed The Blue Angel to her neighbour, Marlene Dietrich.