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The Valiant Sailor, Cambridge University Press, 1973: ISBN 9780521201018; The Oxford Book of Sea Songs, Oxford University Press, 1986: ISBN 019 2141597; Boxing the Compass Sea Songs and Shanties, Heron Publishing, 2001: ISBN 0954 068203; A Touch on the Times, Penguin, 1974; ISBN 01408 11826
John Gordon Witherspoon, Sr. [1] (August 26, 1939 – January 4, 1994) was a distinguished sailor in the United States Coast Guard. [2] Born in Yadkin Valley, North Carolina [3] and raised in Lenoir, North Carolina, [1] Witherspoon started his military career in the United States Army and later enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1963, where, after promotion to Quartermaster First Class, he was ...
Valiant Beyond is a new reboot of the Valiant Universe following Resurgence of the Valiant Universe.It was originally reported on by Bleeding Cool to be Valiant's response to the increase of separate comic universes using previous characters with more creative freedom, such as Marvel's Ultimate Universe.
Pinkney's voyage around the world lasted 22 months. He traveled approximately 27,000 miles (43,000 km). [11] He departed from Boston on August 5, 1990, sailing first to Bermuda, then along the eastern South American coastline, across the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Town, South Africa, across the Indian Ocean to Hobart, Tasmania, across the South Pacific Ocean, around Cape Horn, and up the eastern ...
Originally a print character, Billy Bunter appeared in a wide range of media before and after the strip in Valiant, [9] including a controversial live-action revival featuring Bunter as the adulterous Mayor of London and - briefly - Prime Minister of Great Britain.
The sailor describes the horrors of a big storm and the valiant courage required to face the dangers of the ocean. In addition to facing storms, the sailor boasts that he and his fellow seamen will gallantly face any naval force and shrink from no enemy.
When Ralph Vaughan Williams was commissioned at the start of the 20th century to edit a new hymnal as an alternative to Hymns Ancient and Modern, he set John Bunyan's hymn, in an adaptation by Percy Dearmer, to his own adaptation of the tune of an English folk song Valiant or Welcome Sailor which he had collected from Mrs Harriet Verrall of ...
USCGC Valiant (WMEC-621) is a United States Coast Guard multi-mission medium endurance cutter in service since 1967. Valiant is home ported in Jacksonville, Florida and operates in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico for the Commander, Coast Guard Atlantic Area. Missions include search and rescue, maritime law enforcement ...