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Replica of CSS Albemarle, photographed in 2003 CSS Albemarle exhibit at the National Civil War Naval Museum. A 3/8 scale 63-foot (19 m) replica of Albemarle has been at anchor near the Port O' Plymouth Museum in Plymouth, North Carolina since April 2002. The replica is self-powered and capable of sailing on the river.
Also in 1938, artillery brigades were reorganized from three six-gun batteries to two 12-gun batteries. [ a ] Rather than disband existing batteries, they were instead linked in pairs. As a result, D and J Batteries formed D/J Battery on 11 May 1938 [ 9 ] [ 10 ] and M and P Batteries were linked as M/P Battery on the same date.
In 1995 39 Regiment left Dempsey Barracks, and moved to Albemarle Barracks in Northumberland. [4] In 1996, the regiment deployed again to Cyprus in support of UNFICYP. The island experienced some of its highest tension along the buffer zone in 30 years, and two of the Regiments soldiers were shot and wounded by Turkish Troops. The regiment ...
Albemarle had a main battery of four 12-inch (305 mm) 40-calibre guns mounted in twin-gun turrets fore and aft. The ships also mounted a secondary battery of twelve 6-inch (152 mm) 45-calibre guns mounted in casemates , in addition to ten 12-pounder 3 in (76 mm) guns and six 3-pounder 47 mm (1.9 in) guns for defence against torpedo boats .
The origins of the Albemarle can be traced back to the mid-1930s and the issuing of Specification B.9/38 by the British Air Ministry. [3] This sought a twin-engine medium bomber of wood and metal construction, without the use of any light alloys, in order that the aircraft could be readily built by less experienced manufacturers from outside the aircraft industry.
Cotton Plant withdrew back up the Roanoke, and Albemarle continued the fight alone. [3] Smith, despite an advantage in numbers, could do little damage to the single Confederate ship. Shots glanced off Albemarle ' s sides. Lieutenant Commander Francis Asbury Roe of Sassucus, seeing Albemarle at a range of about 400 yards (370 m), decided to ram ...
On October 23, 2003, WilcoHess announced it acquired 50 Servco stations in North Carolina from Service Distributing Co. Inc. of Albemarle, North Carolina, which was getting out of the business. WilcoHess had 155 stores and 38 restaurants and plans for a travel center in Tennessee. [6]
HMS Albemarle was a 28-gun sixth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She had been built as the French merchantman Ménagère , which the French Navy purchased in 1779. A British squadron captured her in September and she was commissioned into service with the Royal Navy.