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HMS Mallard (1801) was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1801. The French captured her after she ran aground in 1804. The French Navy converted her to a gunboat in 1811, renamed her Favori in 1814, Mallard in 1815, and then Favori again later in 1815. She was struck at Brest in 1827, but was a service craft there on 17 September 1831. HMS Mallard ...
HMS Mallard was a two funnel, 30-knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1894 – 1895 Naval Estimates. She served in Home waters both before and during the First World War, and was sold for breaking in 1920.
HMS Express in 1874, a Forester-class gunboat similar to HMS Mallard, which found the abandoned Resolven. The mystery of this ship earned it the nickname "The Welsh Mary Celeste". [3] [4] Struck with misfortune a second and final time, Resolven was wrecked in 1887 while returning to Newfoundland from Nova Scotia with a load of lumber. [5]
Indigenous American body painting. Body painting is a form of body art where artwork is painted directly onto the human skin. Unlike tattoos and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, lasting several hours or sometimes up to a few weeks (in the case of mehndi or "henna tattoos" about two weeks). Body painting that is limited to ...
On the night of 14/15 February 1944 Mallard and sister ship Shearwater engaged and pursued six E-boats that had laid mines off Great Yarmouth. [28] [29] Mallard remained in full service, operating on patrols in the North Sea through the rest of the war in Europe, going into reserve at Harwich in June 1945. [28] She was sold for scrap on 21 ...
Ough was born in Leytonstone, London.His father, Arthur Ough (1863–1946), was an architect, surveyor and civil engineer. [1] At the age of two Ough accompanied his parents to Hong Kong, [2] where his father was employed as an architect for the University of Hong Kong and the Kowloon-Canton Railway, remaining there for four years. [3]
The company was founded in 1939 by William M. "Bill" Lester (1908-2005) and his first wife, Betty L (Lubarsky). [1] Rapidly establishing itself as a “leading contractor of custom-made parts and products in plastic” [2] Pyro employed the injection molding method for forming plastic shapes, which Lester had perfected in the early 1930s. [3]
A. HMS Abdiel (1915) HMS Acasta (1912) Acasta-class destroyer; HMS Achates (1912) HMS Acheron (1911) HMS Acorn (1910) HMS Afridi (1907) HMS Alarm (1910)