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    The third USS Chesapeake and second USS Severn was a three-masted, sheathed, wooden-hulled full-rigged ship with auxiliary steam power in commission in...
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    (137 ha) campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County, 33 miles...
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  • Dorothy. In 1920 older boats were sold with Music being sold for $625. USS Severn (1918) St. Mary's (motorboat) Governor R. M. McLane (steamboat) Naval...
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    shortly afterwards, became the executive officer of the cruiser USS Olympia. In 1899, he became a Veteran Companion of the Pennsylvania Commandery of...
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    flowers growing over me",: 93  "I die of a broken heart",: 93  and as "Severn, lift me up, for I am dying. I shall die easy. Don't be frightened. Be firm...
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    SC-1634) USS S-1 (SS-105) USS S-2 (SS-106) USS S-3 (SS-107) USS S-4 (SS-109) USS S-5 (SS-110) USS S-6 (SS-111) USS S-7 (SS-112) USS S-8 (SS-113) USS S-9 (SS-114)...
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    Cherbourg – USS Kearsarge sinks CSS Alabama August 2–23 Battle of Mobile Bay – Largest Union naval victory of the war October 7 Bahia incident – USS Wachusett...
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    Rev. Ebenezer Parkman, of Westborough, Mass: For the Months of ...” pub 1899. p. 57 Henry Cadwalader Chapman, A Manual of medical jurisprudence, insanity...
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    coast of West Africa. In 1845, the Naval Academy was founded at old Fort Severn at Annapolis, Maryland by the Chesapeake Bay. In 1861, the American Civil...
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    include: USS Castor (AKS-1); USS Nereus (AC-10) and (1863); USS Arethusa (AO-7); USS Prometheus (1814) and (AR-3); USS Jason (1862), (AC-12); USS Galatea...
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    then-commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander John Scivier, paid a visit to USS Constitution of the US Navy, which is the world's oldest commissioned naval...
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    ago. Lake Simcoe, connected to Georgian Bay by the Severn River, serves as part of the Trent–Severn Waterway, a canal route traversing Southern Ontario...
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    Annapolis. Badt was aboard the USS Chesapeake, a three-masted, wooden-hulled, fully rigged ship, renamed the USS Severn in 1905. Abe claimed to have again...
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  • 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated...
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    Farquhar served in the screw sloop Swatara, was executive officer of the sloop Severn and the frigate Powhatan, and commanding officer of the gunboat Kansas....
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  • Massachusetts, moved to Baltimore in 1836, iron manufacturer, supplied the armor for USS Monitor Arunah Shepherdson Abell (1806–1888), born in East Providence, Rhode...
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    the White House in October, 1901." The American Review 1986.20: 48–67. Severn, John K.; William Warren Rogers (January 1976). "Theodore Roosevelt Entertains...
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    the frigate USS Congress. Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee, commander of the North Atlantic Squadron attended on his own flagship, the USS Severn. The other...
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    remains of USN Fireman Patrick Howard Roy who was killed in the attack on the USS Cole. The cemetery was placed under the War Department on July 14, 1870;...
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  • Academy Annapolis Second System 1808 1873 Demolished 1909 Maryland Fort Severn United States Naval Academy Annapolis Second System 1808 1865 Demolished...
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  • Theseus", making the definition of "original" unclear. An example is the USS Niagara: the original sank in 1820 and was raised and reconstructed three...
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  • of smoke inhalation sustained in a Japanese aircraft attack when visiting USS Appalachian during a government goodwill tour over 1944–45. MP (Conservative...
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    SS Trent (category 1899 ships)
    SS Trent was a British steamship that was built in 1899 as an ocean liner for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (RMSP) service between England and the...
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    Review (1938), 43#3, pp. 542–552, in JSTOR. On the Southern response see Severn Duvall, "Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Sinister Side of the Patriarchy," The New...
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    at Runnymede. SL Nuneham was built at Port Brimscombe on the Thames and Severn Canal by Edwin Clarke. She was built for Salter Bros at Oxford for the regular...
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    other rivers in the chain via the Welland Canal and to Lake Erie. The Trent-Severn Waterway for pleasure boats connects Lake Ontario at the Bay of Quinte to...
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    1804. "Ship News". The Aberdeen Journal. No. 2973. 2 January 1805. "HMS Severn (+1804)". Wrecksite.eu. Ashelford, Jane (2008). In the English Service:...
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    Academy was founded in 1845 on the site of Fort Severn, and occupied an area of land reclaimed from the Severn River next to the Chesapeake Bay. In the summer...
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    for the purpose: Thames, Medway, Trent, and Isis (built at Northfleet); Severn and Avon (built at Bristol); Tweed, Clyde, Teviot, Dee, and Solway (built...
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  • businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805) 1879 – Joseph Severn, English painter (b. 1793) 1894 – George Inness, American painter (b. 1825)...
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