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USNS John Lewis (T-AO-205) is a United States Navy replenishment oiler and the lead ship of her class. She is part of the Military Sealift Command fleet of support ships. Ray Mabus , then Secretary of the Navy , announced on 6 January 2016 that the ship would be named in honor of John Lewis . [ 6 ]
Pages in category "Ships built in Leith" The following 60 pages are in this category, out of 60 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
British ships were then free to sail to India or the Indian Ocean under a licence from the EIC. [4] In the late 1820s, Forth , master, sailed between Great Britain and Mauritius . On her first convict voyage , under the command of J. Robertson and surgeon J. Cook, she sailed from Cork , Ireland on 3 June 1830, and arrived at Port Jackson on 12 ...
The ships were "gallantry trimmed with painting and gilding". [13] Next month, James V embarked on the newly equipped Salamander at Leith, after first making his will on 12 June, [14] and accompanied by the Mary Willoughby, the Great Unicorn, the Little Unicorn, the Lion and twelve other ships sailed to Kirkwall on Orkney. Then he went to Lewis ...
HMS Leith (1777) was launched in 1744 or 1746 in the British "Plantations", more specifically, the colony of Maryland as the merchant ship Leith. From 1764 to 1777 she traded with Greenland as a whaler. Between 1777 and 1782 she served the Royal Navy as a transport and hired armed naval ship. She was last listed in 1783.
Private merchant ships were rigged at Leith, Aberdeen and Dundee as men-of-war, and the regent Mary of Guise claimed English prizes, one over 200 tons, for her fleet. [ 41 ] The re-fitted Mary Willoughby sailed with 11 other ships against Scotland in August 1557, landing troops and six field guns on Orkney to attack Kirkwall Castle , St Magnus ...
In 1823 the adventurer and fantasist Gregor Macgregor chartered Skene, John Wilson, master, to take 105 (or 109 [7] emigrants from Leith to Poyais, the colony in Honduras that he was promoting. He had already dispatched Honduras Packet and Kennersley Castle. Skeen left Leith on 4 June with the settlers, together with stores and merchandise. [7]
The list of ship launches in 1871 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1871. ... For J. Lewis. [15] 7 February ... Leith and Clyde Steamship Co. ...