Search results for "HMS Discovery (ship)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Dampier's life belongs to the great age of so-called "Discovery ... transferred to Captain Charles Swan's ship, the Cygnet, and on March ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- River. The third expedition led to the discovery of what Oxley named Brisbane ... in 1799, as a midshipman aboard the 74 gun HMS Venerable, and transferred ...8 KB (1,279 words) - 03:04, 2 May 2024
- [[Image:Mutiny HMS Bounty.jpg|thumb|300px|The mutineers turning Lieutenant ... members of the military; or the crew of any ship, even if they are civilians ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- at an early age. He served on an English ship in the War of the Spanish ... duel with the British thirty-gun man-of-war HMS Scarborough, which added to ...25 KB (4,026 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- The mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny aboard a British Royal Navy ... and they most commonly took place when a ship was in port — essentially ...32 KB (4,973 words) - 19:39, 10 November 2022
- and his valet, later unmasked by the ship's surgeon as Jeanne Baré ... visit, and claim, by Samuel Wallis in HMS Dolphin less than a year previously ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- Most navies have a standard court-martial which convenes whenever ... The Article 32 hearing is a major discovery tool for the defense. The ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- the Polynesian navigator credited with discovery of the Hawaiian Islands ... the Hawaiian Islands sighted by the crew of HMS Resolution on January 18, ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- The strait was an important sailing-ship route before 1914 and the ... honor of Magellan. From the time of its discovery both the Spanish Empire ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- The discovery of gold on January 24, 1848, by Sutter's carpenter ... and with a French passport sailed on the ship Sully, which traveled from ...21 KB (3,406 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- In 1849, Henry Kellett, captain of HMS Herald, landed on and named ... have endeavored to claim the merit of this discovery." ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 14:01, 20 May 2023
- 1688 by William Dampier of the British ship Cygnet, who found it uninhabited ... In 1887, Captain Maclear of HMS Flying Fish, having discovered an ...27 KB (3,857 words) - 21:39, 10 December 2023
- === Discovery === [[Image:Cabo de Hornos.JPG|thumb|275px|Cape Horn ... island with open sea to its south. This discovery went unused for some time ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- Africa, but after that the Chinese treasure ship fleets were disbanded. Zheng ... Treasure ship is the name of a type of vessel that the Chinese admiral ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- sailing around southern Africa, dominated discovery and trade. In 1598, five ... knowledge were made by the voyages of HMS Beagle in the 1830s, with ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- Controversies surround the archipelago's discovery by Europeans ... jpg|thumb|240px|right|Charles Darwin's HMS Beagle surveyed the coasts ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
- from Easter Island in 1869 by the crew of HMS Topaze, 79 complete moai, ... Possibilities: Hoa Hakananai'a and HMS Topaze on Rapa Nui (British ...33 KB (5,262 words) - 12:54, 10 March 2023
- The Falkland Islands have had a complex history since their discovery ... poor preparations and plans to decommission HMS Endurance, the Navy's ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- in September of 1845 that led to the discovery of the Faraday effect, ... Thomson sailed on board the cable-laying ship HMSS Agamemnon in August ...36 KB (5,321 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- a central source of labor even after the discovery of immigration labor, due ... were transported to Norfolk Island via HMS Sirius to increase the island’s ...21 KB (3,190 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- In common usage, "submarine" means a ship that operates ... diving submersibles reliant on a mother ship on the surface. ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- before the International Red Cross ship SS Vega was permitted to rescue ... The following morning, May 9, 1945, HMS Bulldog arrived in St Peter ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- English name derives from the British vessel HMS Indefatigable. It has an area ... European discovery of the Galápagos Islands occurred when Dominican ...33 KB (5,083 words) - 03:47, 18 April 2024
- But it was his five-year voyage on the HMS Beagle that began his road ... name, including the Darwin Sound, named by HMS Beagles Robert FitzRoy after ...55 KB (8,376 words) - 23:18, 22 January 2023
- land until Captain James Cook's ships, HMS Resolution and Adventure, ... so in November 1820. On that day the two-ship expedition led by Von Bellingshausen ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- European "discovery" The first European contact with Alaska ... the west coast of North America aboard the HMS Resolution, mapping the coast ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- on Spanish charts of this year. The discovery is attributed to a Spanish ... Some years later, a Portuguese ship on the way home from San Domingo ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- with appendicitis. Thanks to the discovery of anesthesia in the preceding ... The lead ship of a new class of battleships, launched in 1903, was ...38 KB (5,885 words) - 23:54, 12 February 2024
