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    be found here. Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Vesuvius (ship, 1888). navsource.org: USS Vesuvius hazegray.org: Photographs of the Vesuvius...
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  • USS Vesuvius may refer to: USS Vesuvius (1806), a bomb ketch operated during the first decade of the 19th century USS Vesuvius (1846), a bomb brig saw...
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    his service in the Navy, Vanderbilt served on the torpedo test ship USS Vesuvius from April 17 to May 31, 1917, the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport from...
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    weapons, items from the home front, a model and diagram of the strange USS Vesuvius (1888), and the uniform of Admiral George Dewey. The story of Admiral Richard...
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    on 28 April 1888 and sponsored by Mary Cameron, the daughter of U.S. Senator Don Cameron of Pennsylvania. The dynamite-gun cruiser Vesuvius was launched...
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  • from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79. Often quoted as audaces fortuna iuvat. Also the motto of the Portuguese Army Commandos and the USS Montpelier in the...
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  • the construction of a specialized "dynamite gun cruiser." The USS Vesuvius, launched in 1888, was armed with three fifteen-inch pneumatic guns capable of...
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    Grover Cleveland (category Candidates in the 1888 United States presidential election)
    and one monitor were also ordered, along with the experimental cruiser Vesuvius. Cleveland, like a growing number of Northerners and nearly all white Southerners...
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    Spanish–American War, later Despatch (IX-2) Chicago (1885), protected cruiser Vesuvius (1888), experimental dynamite guns – Spanish–American War New Orleans class...
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    USS Vesuvius (1806, 1846, 1888, AE-15) USS Viburnum (YN-76/AN-57) USS Vicksburg (1863, PG-11, CL-81, CL-86, CG-69) USS Victor (SP-1995, AMc-109) USS Victoria...
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  • anthem, replacing The Internationale. March 18 The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26, and causes thousands to flee their homes. WWII: The...
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    wrecked near Cape Dorset. HMS Terror  Royal Navy After 22 April 1848 A Vesuvius-class bomb vessel that had participated in the Battle of Fort McHenry during...
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    Mirabeau had once said the Saint-Domingue whites "slept at the foot of Vesuvius", suggesting the grave threat they faced should the majority of slaves...
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    Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and San Francisco; dynamite-gun cruiser Vesuvius; dispatch vessel Dolphin; gunboats Yorktown, Concord, Bennington and Petrel;...
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    modern steel warships. In 1888-1890 he was involved in the trials of the Vesuvius, whose large caliber compressed-air guns were then considered a promising...
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  • the eruption of Mount Vesuvius The Last Days of Pompeii 1959 79 Pompeii in the days leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius Pompeii: The Last Day...
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    Brune, Ingo Klaucke, Christoph Böttner, Jens Karstens, and Judith Elger, "An 1888 Volcanic Collapse Becomes a Benchmark for Tsunami Models," eos.org, 17 October...
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    with smoke and flashing lights as the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Commodore Perry's flagship USS Saratoga was burned offshore as a tourist attraction in...
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    capital stock and obtained contracts from the US government to equip the USS Vesuvius, based on Capt. Edmund Zalinski's patents, as well as contracts to supply...
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    research on the pigments used by artists. He also visited Naples and Mount Vesuvius, where he collected samples of crystals. By June 1814, they were in Milan...
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    construction of many well-known vessels, such as the USS cruisers Philadelphia and Newark ; dynamite cruiser Vesuvius ; gunboats Yorktown, Concord, and Bennington ;...
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  • Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist. 1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. 1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France...
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    marks the first participation of an aircraft in battle. June–July – Mount Vesuvius erupts in Italy; the town of Torre del Greco is destroyed. July 12 – Horatio...
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    and one monitor were also ordered, along with the experimental cruiser Vesuvius. The second Cleveland administration was as committed to military modernization...
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    travelled to the Caribbean in the immediate aftermath of the eruptions, on the USS Dixie. The party included geologists Thomas Jaggar, Israel Russell, Angelo...
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    exhibition, a demonstration of a model volcano called "The Eruption of Vesuvius," plays, concerts, including one by the Mendelssohn String Quartet, lectures...
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