Royal Navy

The scientific voyage of the HMS Challenger changed the course of scientific history during its four year voyage that spanned more than 69,000 nautical miles. In 1870, the British government agreed to give the Royal Society the use of one of its ships for research use. The warship HMS Challenger was modified to a research ship by having ammunition and 15 guns removed and replaced with laboratories. It was the first expedition of its kind, organized and funded specifically to chart and record…

“Oh no!” Grace gasped in horror, realizing what had happened upon seeing the familiar shape and size of the wooden crate. “I saw those floating away from our boat earlier in the storm. The wind must have broken the compartment and knocked the crates out when we were being jerked back and forth earlier.” “Well, we’ll just have to work with what we’ve got,” Chris said in his usual abnormally positive tone. “Plus, we can’t be that far away from land. We were set to arrive in San Francisco today.…

Chapter 1 Notes: August 5th, 1706 ( set out) April 11th, 1707 (arrived) Stayed 3 weeks to refresh crew, many of whom were sick Went to Tonquin Attacked by pirates. Latitude of 46N Longitude of 183 Dutchman had authority but not commander of either ship Spoke to him in Dutch which infuriated him even more Since Gulliver pissed off the Dutchman, he sent Gulliver off into the ocean Gulliver come upon many islands and lands on one of them Eats eggs and roasts seaweeds The sun is blocked out by a…

Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. U.S. Viking Penguin 2003. The author wrote in detail about the United States South Seas Exploring Expedition of 1838 (U.S. Ex.Ex.), an unprecedented naval operation for a nation with a navy less than half the size of Great Britain’s, and consisted of six sailing vessels and 346 men, making it one of the largest voyages of discovery in the history of Western exploration. The Ex.Ex.’s ships covered the Pacific ocean from top to…

Lusitania Disaster. Setting sail from New York harbor on May 1, 1915, the R.M.S. Lusitania began a voyage to Liverpool, England. This voyage would be her last; and the last for over 1,000 of her passengers. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children aboard, only 761 passengers would survive the voyage. While on the seas, word made it to the ship that the seas would be increasingly inhabited with German submarines the closer they got to England, so to better prepare the passengers they readied the…

returned their own answer to their approaching for. Keeping out of the way as sailor's ran to and fro delivering powder charges, and ignition cap's, making his slow way towards the ships armory. "Captain what are your order's," Matthew asked as he buckled the sword belt onto his hip. His eye's going wide when he saw the foot long wooden shrapnel protruding from her right abdominal wall. Bounding up the stair's ignoring the smoldering ship they were leaving in their wake. Knelling down at…

“CAPTAIN WE'RE GOING TO HIT IT” the captain (F. R. M. Crozier) quickly turned the helm and released the anchor, but it was too late they crashed right into the ice. The HMS Terror was abandoned at high sea do to a wreckage into ice and was accompanied by the HMS Erebus. All 129 men on the Franklin expedition died. It was found 168 years after shipwreck in the middle of Terror bay on the Coast of King William Island in September, 2014 ,but they didn’t know it was the HMS Terror at the time until…

regions and times, and the vague language they contained raised fear of trickery. Justices at the oyer and terminar court at Old Bailey in London executed two of William Kidd’s crewmembers in 1701 despite the fact they turned themselves in under a royal pardon. The court determined that since they did not hand themselves over to one of the four appointed commissioners specified in the proclamation their pardon was invalid.…

Did you know that Richard Bong was America’s best ace of World War Two? Richard Bong was a pilot for the Navy Air Force in World War Two. But really, Richard Bong, the Naval Pilot of World War 2, was one of the best pilots ever. And this is his story. Dick began by joining Superior State University in the year of 1938. He then entered a Civilian Pilot instruction curriculum while taking special aviation lessons. In the year of 1941, Richard registered for Air Force. What he had in common with…

When the humans were about to board the ship, us flamingo’s decided to take a rowboat and follow them. They were heading toward the north star. We tried to stay as hidden as possible riding in a hot pink boat, with hot pink flamingos in it. We waited to attack the ice breaker ship, while we were waiting all of the flamingos through a party on the tiny boat. Somehow, the people didn’t hear us in the back, like are they dumb dumbs? As soon as we were in the middle of the ocean, we attacked.…