st george
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1848 - 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF. 1880 - SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton. 1894 - US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island. 2012 - MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papa New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126 missing (100 of these estimated to be trapped inside).
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1804 - British vice-admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao. 1917 - Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship 1918 - A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships 1953 - "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die.
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1774 - Capt Cook reaches 71°10' south, 1820km from south pole. 1790 - Mr Greathead, the inventor of the first Lifeboat, carries out 1st test at sea. 1862 - Launching of first turreted warship, USS Monitor. 1895 - SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed. 1945 - "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 9,400 die.
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1574 - Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet. 1943 - New Zealand cruiser Kiwi collides with Japanese submarine I-1 at Guadalcanal. 1944 - USS Missouri, the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy, is launched.
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You got her Doreltomin. Well done.
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Here's the next one for you.
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Sorry Jan, I've been too buzzy to play. Is it the S. S. Merapi?
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Can anyone identify this ship of the line?
st george replied to debnal's topic in Nautical/Naval History
USS North Carolina, 74 gun ship of the line, launched Sep 1820. It's a picture of an oil painting on wood in the collection of the Insurance Co. of North America and was used in their 1950 Ad. -
1604 - Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam. 1941 - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz assumes command of U.S. Pacific Fleet. 1942 - Commissioning of USS Essex (CV-9), first of new class of aircraft carriers, at Norfolk, VA.
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1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from NZ to Sydney. 1959 - Commissioning of first fleet ballistic missile submarine, USS George Washington (SSB(N)-598), at Groton, CT.
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1837 - Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo. 1860 - The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched. 1943 - USS Silversides (SS-236) sinks three Japanese ships and damages a fourth off Palau.
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1492 - Columbus' ship Santa Maria runs aground and sinks on Hispaniola. 1643 - Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary. 1941 - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of U.S. Pacific Fleet.
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1777 - Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook. 1832 - HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver. 1941 - 1st ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor fleet return to Japan.
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1775 - Continental navy organized with 7 ships. 1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands. 1841 - Commissioning of USS Mississippi, first U.S. ocean-going side-wheel steam warship, at Philadelphia.
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You found her Menno. Well done. Your turn.
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Not the Norrskar but close.
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Time for some clues, I think. She was built in Sweden in 1909 and was the first of many to carry the name. Good Luck
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50/50 and I chose the wrong one :mellow: Next from me
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Is it the HNLMS Flores?
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1600 - Olivier van Noort sinks Spanish galleon San Diego at Bay of Manila, 350 die. 1941 - Premier Winston Churchill travels to US on board HMS Duke of York. 1941 - U-557 torpedoes British cruiser Galatea.
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1577 - Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world. 1642 - New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman. 1775 - Continental Congress provides for the construction of 5 ships of 32 guns, 5 ships of 28 guns, and 3 ships of 24 guns. 1816 - Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston. 1833 - HMS Beagle arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonia. 1939 - Battle of the River Plate - 3 British cruisers vs German pocket battleship Graf Spee. 1941 - U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal. 1944 - Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138.
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1937 - Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)
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1620 - 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock. 1888 - French Panama Canal Company fails. 1893 - 11 fishing ships wash up at Wadden Sea, 22 killed. 1954 - First supercarrier of 59,630 tons, USS Forrestal (CVA-59), launched at Newport News, VA.
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1652 - Sea battle at Dungeness. Admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet. 1941 - Battleship HMS Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore. 1941 - Aircraft from USS Enterprise attack and sink Japanese Submarine I-70 north of Hawaiian Islands. A participant in the Pearl Harbor Attack, I-70 is the first Japanese combatant ship sunk during World War II. 1979 - First Poseidon submarine configured with Trident missiles, USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657) completes initial deterrent patrol. 1982 - USS Ohio (SSBN-726), first Trident-Class submarine, returns from first deterrent patrol.
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1938 - Prototype shipboard radar, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory, is installed on USS New York (BB-34). 1941 - USS Swordfish (SS-193) makes initial U.S. submarine attack on Japanese ship.
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