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Esperance was formally commissioned into the Royal Navy in August under Commander Jonas Rose. [1] On 4 May 1796 Esperance was sailing in company with Spencer and Bonetta when they sighted a suspicious vessel. [23] Spencer set off in chase while shortly thereafter Esperance saw two vessels, a schooner and a sloop, and she and Bonetta set off ...
From 1865 to 1869 she was used by Lidgetts on the London to India route from London to Calcutta and Madras under Captain A M Gronsund, [5] After her sale to Shaw Saville she was used on the London – New Zealand route to bring migrants to New Zealand. In total she made 28 voyages from Great Britain to New Zealand. Her average sailing time was ...
Rescue and salvage ships (hull classification symbol ARS) are a type of military salvage tug. [1] They are tasked with coming to the aid of stricken vessels. Their general mission capabilities include combat salvage, lifting, towing, retraction of grounded vessels, off-ship firefighting, and manned diving operations.
The key points were the victims of papal aggression, the sale of indulgences, abuses in the church, corruption, and conflicts at home. [141] Age of Enlightenment philosophers and historians such as David Hume, Voltaire and Edward Gibbon used crusading as a conceptual tool to critique religion, civilization and cultural mores. For them the ...
Crusader coins of the Kingdom of Jerusalem: Denier in European style with Holy Sepulchre (1162–75); Kufic gold bezant (1140–1180); gold bezant with Christian symbol (1250s) (British Museum). Gold coins were first copied dinars and bore Kufic script, but after 1250 Christian symbols were added following Papal complaints.
(The Center Square) – Efforts to push back retirement of the F-15E Strike Eagles and save more than 500 jobs at a U.S. Air Force base in North Carolina could be ready for the president's ...
Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Chris Sale is the winner of the 2024 National League Cy Young Award. With 177 2/3 innings pitched, 225 strikeouts, 2.09 FIP and a 2.38 ERA, he beat strong second ...
William of Tyre writing his history, from a 13th-century Old French translation, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, MS 2631, f.1r. The historiography of the Crusades is the study of history-writing and the written history, especially as an academic discipline, regarding the military expeditions initially undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th, or 13th centuries to the Holy Land.