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Former mining operation at Ny-Ålesund Kings Bay Kull Comp mining operation during the early years Steam powered transfer of coal onto railway cars. Peter Andreas Severinsson Brandal (21 December 1870 – 23 March 1933) was a Norwegian sealer and businessman.
Smithtown Central School District is a school district in New York which serves residents in Smithtown, New York.It serves approximately 10,000 students in seven elementary schools, three middle schools, and two high schools, and covers an area of 35 square miles (91 km 2) out of the 53.75 square miles (139.2 km 2) in the town, including the neighborhoods of Nesconset, Kings Park, and Saint ...
The company was founded in 1916 as Kings Bay Kull Company with the intention of operating a coal mine. It was later nationalized, and in 1962 the mine closed in the context of a political crisis in Norway known as the Kings Bay Affair (Kings Bay-saken). A research facility was subsequently set up in at Ny-Ålesund, to be run by the company. [4]
Kings Bay attempted coal liquefaction from 1924 to 1927 in cooperation with Greaker Cellulosefabrik. Four hundred tonnes of oil were produced, but the endeavor failed to become profitable. [20] The labor union, Kings Bay Arbeiderforening, was founded in 1925, although many of the workers had previously ad hoc organized themselves. [21]
Kings Bay may refer to: Svalbard, Norway. Kongsfjorden, a fjord previously known as Kings Bay; Ny-Ålesund, a town known as Kings Bay until 1925; Kings Bay (company), a Norwegian government enterprise that runs the Ny-Ålesund research facility; Kings Bay Affair, the political aftermath of a mining accident which caused a cabinet to resign ...
A MFPU boat pictured in 2016. A Maritime Force Protection Unit (MFPU) is a U.S. Coast Guard special unit tasked with the protection of U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) while surfaced and transiting U.S. territorial waters to and from their patrol stations.
Ny-Ålesund is located on the north shore of Brøggerhalvøya, a peninsula of Oscar II Land on the island of Spitsbergen. The town is located on the southern shore of Kongsfjorden (literally "the King's Bay"), a bay on the west coast of Spitsbergen that connects to Forlandssundet of the Greenland Sea.
The Kings Bay Plowshares are a group of seven Catholic peace activists who broke into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base and carried out a symbolic act of protest against nuclear weapons. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The name of the action and the wider anti-nuclear Plowshares movement comes from the prophet Isaiah’s command to "beat swords into plowshares."