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    HMS Flora was an Astraea-class cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 21 November 1893. She was constructed under the Naval Defence Act 1889 along with...
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  • name HMS Flora: HMS Flora was a sloop ordered in 1755 but later cancelled. HMS Flora was a 32-gun fifth rate, previously the French ship Vestale. HMS Unicorn...
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    Flora Walsh (July 25, 1870 – January 22, 1893) was an American stage actress in the late 19th century. Walsh performed as a child as part of a singing...
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    they were soon sold out of the service and scrapped. However, one ship, HMS Hermione, was bought by the Marine Society and used as a training ship until...
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  • officer of the cruiser HMS Tribune in July 1893, of the protected cruiser HMS Aeolus in January 1894 and of the protected cruiser HMS Terrible in June 1897...
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    Abutilon listeri (category Plants described in 1893)
    inflorescence and fewer than 15 mericarps. Baker, E.G. (1893). Flora of Australia Online. Baker, Edmund G. (1893). "Synopsis of genera and species of Malveæ: A...
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    of a shell collection. From descriptions and drawings made by HMS Discovery, the flora appears to have been representative of a typical Javan tropical...
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  • (?–1898). RMLI HMS Flora. Private, HMS Flora, Royal Marine Light Infantry. Died 7 July 1898. John Hannigan. Beagle-class sloop HMS Basilisk. (?–1899)...
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    Thomas Staines, who commanded a Royal Navy flotilla of two ships, HMS Briton and HMS Tagus, which found the island at 25°04′S 130°25′W / 25.067°S 130...
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    rare due to high rates of deforestation throughout Scottish history. The flora of the country is varied incorporating both deciduous and coniferous woodland...
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    South Magnetic Pole after receiving a commission as Assistant-Surgeon on HMS Erebus. On this expedition, Hooker was granted full access to the private...
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    Ducie Island (section Flora)
    rediscovered by Edward Edwards, captain of HMS Pandora, who was sent in 1790 to capture the mutineers of HMS Bounty. He named the island Ducie in honour...
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    Nansen's Fram expedition of 1893–1896 was an attempt by the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen to reach the geographical North Pole by harnessing the natural...
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    RMS Celtic (1901) (redirect from HMS Celtic)
    incidents in March 1918 Shipwrecks 1 Mar: HMS Calgarian 2 Mar: HMS H5 9 Mar: Hindenburg 10 Mar: SM UB-58 12 Mar: HMS D3 13 Mar: Wegadesk 15 Mar: Amazon, SM...
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    HMS Endeavour was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Tahiti, New Zealand and Australia on his first voyage of...
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    latter expedition named Cape Horn at Hornos Island. On his first voyage with HMS Beagle in 1830, Robert FitzRoy picked up four native Fuegians, including...
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    Amundsen between 1893 and 1912. It was designed and built by the Scottish-Norwegian shipwright Colin Archer for Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 Arctic expedition...
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    possession was taken by Commodore Swinburn of HMS Mutine. The island was mined for phosphate between 1870 and 1893. It formed part of the British Gilbert and...
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  • Campania 1893 1893–1914 Express 12,900 Blue Riband, sold to Royal Navy 1914 and converted to aircraft carrier HMS Campania, sank 1918 Lucania 1893 1893–1909...
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    Science. Retrieved February 18, 2022. "Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved...
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    Edward Jones (7 April 1824 – c. 1893 or 1896), also known as "the boy Jones", was an English stalker who became notorious for breaking into Buckingham...
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    damage and many specimens transferred to HMS Porpoise were lost when it sank. The observations of Brown on the flora of this continent were the most extensive...
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    HMS Mermaid was a cutter built in Howrah, India, in 1816. The British Royal Navy purchased her at Port Jackson in 1817. The Navy then used her to survey...
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    In 1893, she paid for the erection in Longparish of a red brick reading room designed by F.R. Wilkinson. It was demolished in the 1960s. Flora Tippinge...
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    the Taputapuātea Marae, a UNESCO world heritage site on Ra’iātea. In 1767 HMS Dolphin, sailing under Captain Samuel Wallis, landed on Tahiti. The captain...
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    group was seen on March 25, 1800, by Captain Henry Waterhouse commanding HMS Reliance. Matthew Flinders was first lieutenant, and his younger brother...
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  • Conchologist Flora Scotica (1789) Henslow, John Stevens 1796–1861 Botanist, Geologist Mentor and friend of his pupil Charles Darwin Jenyns, Leonard 1800–1893 Priest...
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    missionaries as the Commander describes in his book. And later HMS Beagle under Captain de Houghton and HMS Wolverine under Commodore John Crawford Wilson conducted...
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    born on March 20, 1876, to William Collins Whitney (1841–1904) and Flora Payne (1842–1893). His siblings included: elder brother, Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1930)...
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    they returned to Réunion, abandoning the cattle on the island. In May 1880 HMS Raleigh circumnavigated the island searching for a missing ship the Knowsley...
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