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1673 - Sea battle at Kijkduin: De Ruyter defeats English & French fleet. 1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales. 1821 - Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances. 1883 - Installation of the first electric lighting on a US Navy Ship completed on USS Trenton. 1951 - First contract for nuclear-powered submarine awarded. 1980 - USS Truxtun rescues 42 Vietnamese refugees and USS Merrill rescues 62 Vietnamese refugees, over 200 miles southeast of Saigon.
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1597 - 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East. 1852 - Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard. 1959 - USS Thetis Bay (LPH-6) completes 6-day humanitarian operation after floods in Taiwan. 1962 - The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage. 1969 - Navy Seabees and sailors from Helicopter Training Squadron Eight (HT-8) evacuated 820 people from Pass Christian, MS after Hurricane Camille. 1989 - The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision, 51 people are killed. 1994 - Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed.
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You got her Danny. Well done mate. Your turn.
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First clue is, Michael was close
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Put me down for a seat in the front when you start the Essex. -
1666 - Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire". 1702 - Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French. 1759 - Battle of Lagos, Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France. 1812 - Devastating hurricane struck the Navy's New Orleans station, delaying military preparations in the War of 1812. 1818 - CAPT James Biddle takes possession of Oregon Territory for U.S. 1967 - Operation Coronado IV begins in Mekong Delta. 1981 - 2 VF-41 aircraft from USS Nimitz shoot down 2 Libyan aircraft which fired on them over international waters.
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Congratulations Rusty on producing such a fine model. She looks really good in the display case.
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Not the SMS Schleswiig-Holstein Nigel
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Not the SMS Emden.
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Not the SMS Helgoland.
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1597 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores. 1796 - English beat Bataafs navy in Saldanha Bay. 1807 - Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York, for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave South-America for last time. 1942 - Submarines USS Nautilus and USS Argonaut land 222 Marines on Makin Island, first amphibious attack made from submarines 1942 - Task Force 17 leaves Pearl Harbor under adm George Murray on Hornet. 1962 - Navy's first hydrofoil patrol craft, USS High Point (PCH-1) launched at Seattle, WA. 1977 - The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
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Interesting concept. The Ship being the cargo. Next from me. Good Luck.
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The Columbus?
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Happy Birthday Nigel
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1913 - Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary. 1954 - Beginning of Operation Passage to Freedom, transport of refugees from Haiphong to Saigon, Vietnam
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Well done muggebigge, It is the Zywiec. Your turn mate.
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Next clue: She had a gross tonnage of 2,376 tons. And Michael, you were right about the flag
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1281 - Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan. 1864 - Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners. 1895 - Commissioning of Texas, the first American steel-hulled battleship. Texas served off Cuba during the Spanish-American War and took part in the naval battle of Santiago. Under the name of San Marcos, she was sunk in weapon effects tests in Chesapeake Bay in 1911. Her hulk continued in use as a gunnery target through World War II. 1914 - The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon. 1940 - An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October. 1942 - Operation Pedestal - The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses. 1944 - Operation Dragoon, Allied invasion of Southern France. 1958 - USS Lexington (CVA-16) arrives in vicinity of Taiwan.
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Next clue: On 14/02/2001 she arrived at Alang for breaking up.
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1592 - Imjin War: Battle of Hansan Island Admiral Yi Sun-sin decisively defeats the Japanese Navy at Hansan Island. 1886 - SECNAV establishes Naval Gun Factory at Washington Navy Yard. 1915 - British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000. 1942 - British Aircraft Carrier Eagle Destroyed. 1945 - Japan agrees to surrender; last Japanese ships sunk during World War II (15 August in DC). 1979 - A freak storm with force seven winds has decimated the Fastnet race with over 150 yachts still missing and at least 3 reported dead. The Fastnet is the last in a series of five races which make up the Admiral's Cup competition, the world championship of yacht racing. The final death toll for the race was 15 and because many of the boats were not equipped with a VHF radio it was some time before the organisers were able to determine how many boats were damaged, after the race new rules were put in place that all boats were fitted with VHF Radio's and additional qualifications for competing in the Fastnet were put in place. 2006 - A Japanese oil tanker spilled around 4,500 tons of oil into the Indian Ocean on this day after hitting another ship on a rescue mission. The oil spill was quickly contained, but it still became the largest spill involving a Japanese oil tanker.
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Todays clue: She had three names and was built in 1967.
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1870 - Armed tug Palos becomes first U.S. Navy ship to transit Suez Canal. 1936 - Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska were in a state of starvation this summer when the usual whales and seals did not migrate to the northern seas. The ship called, “The Northland” rescued them as it was loaded with 41/2 tons of foodstuffs. 2010 - The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.
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Not a Russian survey vessel. First clue is, She's a General Cargo Ship.
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1492 - Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World. 1499 - First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets. 1779 - The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. 1851 - 1st America's Cup-US schooner America beats British yacht Aurora. 1942 - USS Cleveland (CL-55) demonstrates effectiveness of radio-proximity fuze (VT-fuze) against aircraft by successfully destroying 3 drones with proximity bursts fired by her five inch guns. 1943 - Alleged date of the first Philadelphia Experiment test on United States Navy ship USS Eldridge. 1953 - Ann Davison arrives in Miami, becoming the 1st woman to sail solo across the Atlantic. 1957 - In first test of Automatic Carrier Landing System, LCDR Don Walker is landed on USS Antietam. 1958 - USS Nautilus (SSN-571) arrives Portland, England completing first submerged under ice cruise from Pacific to Atlantic Oceans. 2000 - The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise. 2007 - The bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with the oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
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ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
st george replied to DORIS's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Hi Doris, Great collection of ships you have made and some nice looking Cockatiels too.- 881 replies
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