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Salcombe and Kingsbridge were busy ship-building locations, producing the Salcombe schooner, which was a fast boat that could be sailed with few hands. However, almost half the fleet was lost with all hands. A mutual marine assurance association had been established in 1811 to insure Salcombe ships.
Duane A. Wills (March 10, 1939 – May 21, 2007) was a lieutenant general in the United States Marine Corps who served as Deputy Commandant for Aviation for the Marine Corps from 1990 to 1993. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles , he was commissioned in 1961 and retired in 1993.
Wills Marine make motor inflatable boats off the A379 in Kingsbridge. [citation ... Caterpillar's Wimborne Marine Power Centre make Perkins Sabre marine diesel ...
Kingsbridge estuary from Sharpitor looking upstream towards Kingsbridge. Salcombe is on the left, Sunny Cove and other beaches are visible to the right.. The Kingsbridge Estuary (also, erroneously, known as the 'Salcombe Estuary') in the South Hams area of Devon, England runs from Kingsbridge in the north to its mouth at the English Channel near Salcombe and lies between Bolt Head and ...
An Act to provide for the Regulation of the Public Office for registering Memorials of Deeds, Conveyances, and Wills, in Ireland. Licensing (Scotland) Act 1828 [ 2 ] 9 Geo. 4.
The Wills Baronetcy, of Blagdon in the County of Somerset, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 19 July 1923 for George Alfred Wills (first cousin once removed of the 1st baronet "of Blagdon", the first creation of 1893 (Baron Winterstoke), who died without issue when his titles became extinct). He was president of the ...
Kingsbridge Community College is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Kingsbridge in the English county of Devon. [1] The school was initially founded in 1670 as the Kingsbridge Grammar School, providing for boarding and day pupils. It occupied a house in the town, which is now the Kingsbridge ...
The Imperial German Navy or the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) was the navy of the German Empire, which existed between 1871 and 1919. It grew out of the small Prussian Navy (from 1867 the North German Federal Navy ), which was mainly for coast defence.