After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

* 2011: Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema ( Harry Potter series, joined by J. K. Rowling, David Heyman, David Barron, David Yates and Mike Newell, shared with Harry Potter cast and crew )

Of her 49 British and American training crew, only 4 survive.

As a former British privateer, Hornigold attacked only his old enemies, but for his crew, the sight of British vessels filled with valuable cargo passing by unharmed became too much, and at some point toward the end of 1717 he was demoted.

The Tonnant, its decks crowded with 1, 600 survivors from other French vessels, surrendered as the British ships approached while Timoléon was set on fire by her remaining crew who then escaped to the shore in small boats.

On 8 February 1813 the British ship Isabella, a ship of 193 tons and a crew of fourteen, was wrecked off the coast of Eagle Island ( now known as Speedwell Island ).

However, while Barnard was gathering supplies, the British took the opportunity to seize the Nanina and departed leaving Barnard and three of his crew marooned.

* 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.

From 1825 – 1827, the British sealer John Nunn and three crew members were shipwrecked on Kerguelen.

* 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

Warfare in the early 20th century ( 1914 – 1918 ) Clockwise from top: front line Trench warfare | Trenches, a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | British Mark I ( tank ) | Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible ( 1898 ) | HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a Naval mine | mine at the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign | battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas mask s, and German Albatros D. III biplane s.

* June 4 – Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.

* April 19 – British explorer Captain James Cook and his crew aboard become the first recorded Europeans to encounter the eastern coastline of the Australian continent.

* Hyperdrive, a British sitcom features the adventures of the crew of the HMS Camden Lock as they pursue Britain's interests in 2151.

Early on September 18, Brown's troops surprised a British contingent holding some prisoners near the Lake George landing, while a detachment of his troops snuck up Mount Defiance, and captured most of the sleeping construction crew.

Both Hitler and Raeder believed that Langsdorff should have fought the British and gone down fighting, even if it meant the deaths of most or all of the crew of Admiral Graf von Spee.

The plans to film the shows at Madison Square Garden were threatened when the local trades union tried to block the British film crew from working.

The British crew fired 9 rounds from the 3 pounder into U-4 at close range, sinking her with the loss of all hands despite the attempt of Inverlyon's skipper to rescue one surviving German submariner.

The first recorded visit by Europeans was in 1792 when Peter Puget and a crew from the British Vancouver Expedition charted the site.

Under the command of the British minister to China, Claude Maxwell MacDonald, the legation staff and security personnel defended the compound with small arms, three machine guns, and one old muzzle-loaded cannon, which was nicknamed the International Gun because the barrel was British, the carriage Italian, the shells Russian, and the crew American.

During the age of sail, young boys formed part of the crew of British Royal Navy ships and were responsible for many important tasks including bringing powder and shot from the ship's magazine to the gun crews.

The visual effects crew won the same category at the 38th British Academy Film Awards.

" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.

The British denied that they were invading Afghanistan, instead claiming they were merely supporting its legitimate Shuja government " against foreign interference and factious opposition ".

For British Catholics its effects were disastrous both socially and politically: Catholics were denied the right to vote and sit in the Westminster Parliament for over a century ; they were also denied commissions in the army, and the monarch was forbidden to be Catholic or to marry a Catholic, a prohibition still in force.

" The British would not contemplate transferring power to a Congress-dominated national government the authority of which was ” denied by large and powerful elements in India ’ s national life .”

Fought just prior to the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, the American victory denied the British any leverage to demand exclusive control over the Great Lakes or territorial gains against the New England states.

A British school led by John Evans denied any need for an intermediate.

The British monk Pelagius denied Augustine's view of " predestination " in order to affirm that salvation is achieved by an act of free will.

Gladstone believed that the right to combination used by British workers was in jeopardy when it could be denied to Irish workers.

Three British Columbia judges unanimously denied an appeal on November 13, 2009.

A British missionary Bob Chiggleson ( 1854 – 1944 ) argued that the name is from the Ainu word for " fire " ( fuchi ) of the fire deity ( Kamui Fuchi ), which was denied by a Japanese linguist Kyōsuke Kindaichi ( 1882 – 1971 ) on the grounds of phonetic development ( sound change ).

Upon his return, Edward hoped to pursue a career in the British Army, but this was denied him because he was heir to the throne.

He became the wealthiest man in Newport, but was denied citizenship on religious grounds, even though British law protected the rights of Jews to become citizens.

These actions effectively denied the British any hope of immediately moving onto the lake.

On 2 July 2009, Ronnie Biggs was denied parole by British Justice Secretary Jack Straw, who considered Biggs to be still " wholly unrepentant.

But by the time of the release of the second single " God Thank You Woman ", news of George's drug addiction began to circulate in British and American tabloids, which were denied by the singer, and the second single stalled on the charts.

On 1 January 1902, the British were finally able to accomplish what the Asante army had denied them for almost a century, and the Asante empire was made a protectorate of the British crown.

The British had asked for the traditional Honors of War ( marching out with dignity, flags waving, muskets shouldered, and playing an enemy tune as a tribute to the victors ), but remembering that the British, on taking Charleston earlier in the war, had refused the Americans ( under Benjamin Lincoln ) the same privilege, Washington firmly denied their request.

A Daily Telegraph article claimed that the British government opposed the filming, but these claims were denied by a Foreign Office spokesperson.

However the elections for the London Assembly have a threshold of 5 % which has at times denied seats to the Christian People's Alliance ( in the 2000 election ), the British National Party and Respect – The Unity Coalition ( both in the 2004 election ).

The American victory denied the British negotiators at Ghent leverage to demand any territorial claims against the United States on the basis of Uti possidetis i. e. retaining territory they held at the end of hostilities.