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The list of April 9 o.s. names 84 ships divided amongst five squadrons each with "near about 15 flyboats", which would give a total of about 160. [8] However, in the payment list of September 5, 1589 o.s. naming 102 ships that returned, there are 33 ships named that were not on the April 9 o.s. list. [9] Those 33 ships were not flyboats hence they should be added to the 160 from the April 9 o ...
The English Armada (Spanish: Invencible Inglesa, lit. 'Invincible English'), also known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack fleet sent against Spain by Queen Elizabeth I of England that sailed on 28 April 1589 during the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... move to sidebar hide. Benjamin is the title of two 2018 films: Benjamin (2018 American film) Benjamin (2018 ...
CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin leaves the port of Hamburg in July 2016. CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin is an Explorer-class container ship built for CMA CGM. Delivered in November 2015, [3] she is named after Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. She is one of the largest container cargo vessels, capable of carrying 18,000 TEU.
Armada Portuguesa, the Portuguese Navy; Armada de la República Argentina, the Argentine Navy; Marina Armada, the Mexican Navy; Armada de Barlovento, a subdivision of the Spanish Navy assigned to the Windward Islands during the 1700s; Komando Armada Barat (Western Fleet Command) and Komando Armada Timur (Eastern Fleet Command), fleets of the ...
The Benjamin Franklin-class submarines were built with the Polaris A-3 ballistic missile, and in the early 1970s were converted to carry the Poseidon C-3 missile. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, six boats were further modified to carry the Trident I (C-4) missile, along with six James Madison-class boats.
USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN 640), the lead ship of her class of ballistic missile submarine, was the only submarine of the United States Navy to be named for Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. a
The Spanish Armada was the fleet that attempted to escort an army from Flanders as a part the Habsburg Spanish invasion of England in 1588, was divided into ten "squadrons" (escuadras) [1] The twenty galleons in the Squadrons of Portugal and of Castile, together with one more galleon in the Squadron of Andalucia and the four galleasses from Naples, constituted the only purpose-built warships ...