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Thames Measurement, also known as Thames Tonnage, is a system for measuring ships and boats. It was created in 1855 as a variation of Builder's Old Measurement by the Royal Thames Yacht Club , and was designed for small vessels, such as yachts .
Thames INT vectors Biggin Hill traffic out of controlled airspace, and onto an approach, before handoff to Biggin Approach (not located at TC). In addition, Thames has responsibility for some Southend and all low-level London CTR traffic (the latter due to its much lower workload, compared to the Heathrow sectors).
The 12th Brigade was originally constituted as follows: [11] [12] 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment; 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment; 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment; 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment; After the Boer War, 12th Brigade became a permanent headquarters in 1902, stationed with 6th Division at Plymouth. [13]
It can fetch 5 instructions and 8 MOPs per cycle, and rename and dispatch 8 MOPs, and 16 μOPs per cycle. The out-of-order window size has been increased to 224 entries. The backend has 15 execution ports with a pipeline depth of 13 stages and the execution latencies consists of 10 stages. It also features 4x128b SIMD units. [3] [4] [5] [6]
In April 2004, operation of the Thames Trains franchise passed to the First Great Western Link, and subsequently to First Great Western. In 2012, First Great Western took delivery of five Class 180 Adelante units for Cotswold Line services, and three-car Class 150 Sprinter units for Reading to Basingstoke Line services, allowing Class 165 and ...
The West Drayton facility was renamed the London Terminal Control Centre (LTCC - though still pronounced "latsea") at this time. In 2004, Thames Radar (London City and Biggin Hill radar approach control) moved in from its former home at Heathrow Tower.
The Thames class was a revival of William Bately's design of the Richmond class 32-gun frigate from 1756. [5] [6] The Richmond design was brought back for the Royal Navy in 1804 for the Thames-class frigates because of a desire by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord St Vincent, to reduce the amount of timber being used in ships, as well as building costs. [1]
The year after the ratification, the 12 Metre Class were chosen for the Olympics—the 6 Metre and the 8 metres were also used in different years. The later 5.5 Metre was also used in the Olympics. The 12 Metre Class was used for the America's Cup events from 1958 through 1987.