Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Lochinvar (or Lan Var) is a loch in the civil parish of Dalry in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland. It is located in the Galloway Hills, around 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north-east of St. John's Town of Dalry. The loch formerly had an island on which stood Lochinvar Castle, seat of the Gordon family.
Based on Modern English Usage, by Henry Watson Fowler. ISBN 9780199661350; The King's English, by Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler. New Oxford Style Manual (2016 ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. It combines New Hart's Rules and The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, it is an authoritative handbook on how to prepare copy.
One ship, and two shore establishments, of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Lochinvar: HMS Lochinvar (1915) was a Laforey-class destroyer built as HMS Malice, but renamed before being launched in 1915. She was sold for breaking up in 1921. HMS Lochinvar (shore establishment) was a minesweeper training base at Port Edgar, commissioned in 1939.
HMS Lochinvar was a minesweeping training "stone frigate" (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy, sited at Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth. It was established in 1939. It was established in 1939. From 1943 to 1946 it was temporarily transferred to nearby Granton Harbour while Port Edgar became a training centre for the 1944 Normandy Landings .
The Old Man of Lochnagar is a 1980 children's book written by King Charles III, at that time the Prince of Wales, and illustrated by Sir Hugh Casson. [2] The story revolves around an old man who lives in a cave in the cliffs surrounding the corrie loch under the Lochnagar, a mountain which overlooks the royal estate at Balmoral in Scotland where the Royal Family spend much of their summer ...
Young Lochinvar is a 1923 British silent historical drama film directed by W. P. Kellino and starring Owen Nares, Gladys Jennings, and Dick Webb. [2] The screenplay was based on J. E. Muddock ’s 1896 novel Young Lochinvar, A Tale of the Border Country , [ 3 ] which was based on Canto V, XII of the poem Marmion by Walter Scott .
A link to edit the reading list. background: Background color of the reading list box. text_color: Text color of the article titles. font_size (Optional) Font size for the text. font_family (Optional) Font family for the text. text_align (Optional) Alignment of the text (left, right, center).
HMS Lochinvar was a repeat Laforey-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during the First World War. Named after the character in the poem Marmion , the ship was originally to be called HMS Malice but was renamed prior to being launched on 9 October 1915.