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HMS Cutlass – name given to four ships of the Royal Navy – the first a battleship present at the Battle of the Nile; the second an ironclad sunk in World War I; the third a World War II destroyer, and the most recent ship a Cold War-era destroyer. All four ships appear in the Commando Comics story Bright Blade of Courage.
Ships that are part of the mythology of particular cultures. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. N. Noah's Ark (3 C, 18 P)
Local folklore on the island of Oahu says that one should never carry pork over the Pali Highway connecting Honolulu and Windward Oahu. The stories vary, but the classic legend is that if one carries pork of any kind over the old Pali road (not the modern pali highway) by automobile, the automobile would stop at a certain point on the way and not restart until the pork is removed from the vehicle.
A mythical city at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. Vyraj: A mythical place in Slavic mythology, where "birds fly for the winter and souls go after death". Westernesse: A country found in the Middle English romance King Horn. Xibalba: The underworld in Mayan mythology. Yomi: The land of the dead according to Shinto mythology, as related in ...
Legendary ghost ships (1 C, 17 P) M. Māori waka (57 P) Mythological ships (2 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Legendary ships" This category contains only the following page.
In Southeast Asia, the importance of the sea gave rise to many myths of epic ocean voyages, princesses on distant islands, monsters and magical fish lurking in the deep. [5] In Northern Europe, kings were sometimes given ship burials when the body was laid in a vessel surrounded by treasure and costly cargo and set adrift on the sea. [21]
The RMS Republic was a British ship built in 1903, the Republic was carrying $3,250,000 worth of gold and double eagles for the US Navy's Great White Fleet. However, the ship collided with the SS Florida and sunk. In 1919 an attempt was made to recover the lost money, but it was ultimately unsuccessful. [16] [17] Romanian Treasure: Confirmed 1917
Honolulu Harbor, also called Kulolia and Ke Awa O Kou and the Port of Honolulu, is the principal seaport of Honolulu and the State of Hawaiʻi in the United States. From the harbor, the City & County of Honolulu was developed and urbanized, in an outward fashion, over the course of the modern history of the island of Oahu .