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Hi Mark, Great looking model you are building. Thank you for taking the time to do a build log, -
1695 - English & Dutch fleet capture Dunkirk. 1718 - Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish. 1909 - SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC. 1921 - Carrier arresting gear first tested at Hampton Roads. 1942 - British aircraft carrier Eagle torpedoed & sinks. 1960 - USNS Longview, using Navy helicopters and frogmen, recovers a Discover satellite capsule after 17 orbits. This is first recovery of U.S. satellite from orbit. 1971 - The British Admiral's Cup team wins the Admiral's Cup beating the United States ( Previous holders ) into 2nd place and Australia into third place. The British Prime Minister Edward Heath was the captain of the British team. 1987 - France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf. 2006 - The oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
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Next from me. Good Luck.
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Is it the steel-hulled barque Omega. Famous for being the last cargo-carrying square-rigger in the world?
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1304 - Battle at Zierik Sea: Dutch & French fleet beat Flemish fleet. 1500 - Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar. 1512 - Battle at Brest: English fleet beats French fleet. 1512 - The naval Battle of Saint-Mathieu, during the War of the League of Cambrai, sees the simultaneous destruction of the Breton ship La Cordelière and the English ship The Regent. 1519 - Ferdinand Magellan's five ships set sail from Seville to circumnavigate the globe. The Basque second in command Juan Sebastián Elcano will complete the expedition after Magellan's death in the Philippines. 1653 - Sea battle at Heijde, English fleet beats Dutch. 1675 - King Charles II lays foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England. 1904 - Russo-Japanese War: the Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place. 1943 - Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali
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1666 - Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire". 1778 - Captain Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering straits. 1790 - Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry US flag around the world. 1865 - Return of Naval Academy to Annapolis after 4 years at Newport, RI. 1942 - Battle of Savo Island begins; First of many sea battles near Guadalcanal.
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HMS Royal William by kay
st george replied to kay's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Nice work Kay, looking forward to seeing more. -
1588 - Battle of Gravelines – The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England. 1673 - Dutch battle fleet of 23 ships demands surrender of NYC. 1813- US Schooners Hamilton and Scourge founder in storm on Lake Ontario. 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena 1921 - The ship Alaska bound for San Francisco met with tragedy. In the fog the ship hit a rocky ledge twice. The boilers blew up as a result, blowing a lot of its passengers off the decks and out into the icy ocean. One hundred and sixty-six people were saved off of the vessel, but thirty-one were missing, and 28 were dead. The ship, Anyox, rescued the survivors, but risked the rocky reef in the fog. 1972 - Women authorized for sea duty in the U.S Navy as regular ship's company. 2000 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler.
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1679 - The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America. 1714 - The Battle of Gangut: the first important victory of the Russian Navy. 1942 - Navy Amphibious Task Force lands Marines on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in first U.S. land offensive of World War II. 1947 - The Kon-Tiki expedition headed by Thor Heyerdahl, which had carried a six-man crew aboard a balsa wood raft from Peru 3,770 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean, crashed into a reef in at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on a Polynesian archipelago after being at sea for 101 days since 28th April. 2005 - Russian Priz AS-28 mini-submarine, with seven crew members on board, is rescued from deep in the Pacific Ocean by a British Scorpio-45 rescue sub.
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1620 - The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America. 1666 - English fleet beats Dutch under Michiel the Ruyter. 1864 - US Civil War Battle of Mobile Bay won by the Union led by Rear Admiral Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead". 1882 - Authorizing of first steel U.S. warships, beginning of the modern Navy. 1914- The German minelayer Königin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64 km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMS Amphion. 1921 - Yangtze River Patrol Force established as command under Asiatic Fleet. 1937 - Ranger (US) beats Endeavour II (England) in 17th America's Cup 1964 - Operation Pierce Arrow – American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. 1990 - Navy and Marine Task Force (USS Saipan, USS Ponce, and USS Sumter) begin evacuation of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals from Liberia during civil war.
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Hi Adriaan, Good to hear you're on the mend mate.
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Congratulations on your promotion Grant.
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1704 - Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles. 1854 - The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships. 1914 - German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast. 1944 - Fifth Fleet carrier task forces begin air attack against Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands. 1964 - The Navy and national intelligence sources report a North Venamese PT boat attack on USS Turner Joy and USS Maddox in the Tokin Gulf prompting Congress to pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution on 7 August 1964. The attack was later disproven. 1991 - The Greek cruise ship MTS Oceanos sinks off the Wild Coast of South Africa.
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HMS Agamemnon 1852 it is. Well done Nigel. Your turn
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Not the Nile, Ohio or the amargeddon, but muggebigge is close.
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Not La Couronne or the Vanguard
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Not Victory or Warrior
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1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain. 1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes. 1704 - English/Dutch fleet under Rooke/Callenburgh occupy Gibraltar. 1833 - HMS Beagle reaches river mouth of Rio Negro. 1861 - First manned ascent in a balloon from a ship, gunboat USS Fanny, to observe Confederate artillery position at Hampton Roads, VA. 1950 - First Marine Corps aviation mission against North Korea by VMF-214, from USS Sicily. 1958 - USS Nautilus (SSN-571) is first ship to reach the geographic North Pole submerged. 1970 - USS James Madison (SSBN-627) conducts first submerged launching of Poseidon nuclear missile off Cape Kennedy.
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Here's mine. Good Luck
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H.M. Brig Frolic?
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Will do Mark.
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1610 - Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean. 1865 - Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost. 1916 - Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto. 1943 - PT-109, under command of LTJG John F. Kennedy, cut in half by Japanese destroyer Amagiri. 1943 - Naval task groups bombard Japanese forces on Kiska, Alaska. 1950 - Amphibious force ships land Marine First Provisional Brigade at Pusan, Korea helping to save this last area of South Korea from capture. 1964 - Three North Vietnamese PT boats attack USS Maddox (DD-731) in international waters in Gulf of Tonkin. Maddox sinks one.
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1498 - Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela) 1588 - English admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada. 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil. 1909 - British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed. 1958 - US atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st begins transit of North Pole "operation Sunshine" 2000 - Judge J. Calvitt Clarke Jr. on his own accord ruled that the R.M.S. Titanic Company, who had salvage rights to the Titanic, was banned from cutting into the sunken ship and plundering the artifacts. The salvage company apparently was searching for $300 million in lost diamonds and had sold chunks of coal from the famous ship wreck.
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1498 - On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad. 1588 - The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England. 1718 - Battle at Cape Passaro: English fleet destroys Spanish. 1849 - Benjamin Chambers patents breech loading cannon. 1865 - East India Squadron established to operate from Sunda Strait to Japan. 1874 - Commissioning of USS Intrepid, first U.S. warship equipped with torpedoes. 1912 - First attempt to launch an airplane by catapult made at Annapolis. 1948 - USS Nevada (BB-36) is sunk by an aerial torpedo after surviving hits from two atomic bombs (as part of post-war tests) and being used for target practice by three other ships. 1964 - All-nuclear task force with USS Long Beach, USS Enterprise, and USS Bainbridge leaves Norfolk, VA to begin voyage, Operation Sea Orbit, to circle the globe without refueling. They returned on 3 October. 1970 - Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
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Hi Muary, I've put this link on your other post too. Oar sizes
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