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The Sea Dragon was a 1962 conceptualized design study for a two-stage sea-launched orbital super heavy-lift launch vehicle. The project was led by Robert Truax while working at Aerojet , one of a number of designs he created that were to be launched by floating the rocket in the ocean.
Following a Caribbean shakedown cruise, Seadragon returned to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, whence, on 1 August 1960, she sailed for the Pacific. Ordered to proceed via the Northwest Passage, she moved north to Parry Channel, at mid-month reached Lancaster Sound, the eastern end of the channel, and continued westward with Edward Parry's 1819 journal as a guide.
Piracy in the South China Sea (1 C, 11 P) Piracy in the United States (3 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Piracy in the Pacific Ocean" ... (pirate) Real Felipe Fortress;
Image credits: Fototeca Storica Nazionale / Getty Images #2 Black Bart. John Bartholomew Roberts, better known as Black Bart, was born in Wales around 1682. He began his life on the open ocean as ...
On 11 September, her progress into the South China Sea was delayed by an emergency appendectomy performed successfully on Seaman Darrell Rector by Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes, the first such performed on a submarine. [13] This incident was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning account by Chicago Daily News reporter George Weller.
The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet. Virginia Beach, VA: Köehlerbooks. ISBN 978-1-6466-3151-3. Pérotin-Dumon, Anne (1991). "The Pirate and the Emperor: Power and the Law on the Seas, 1450–1850". In Tracy, James D. (ed.). The Political Economy of Merchant Empires State Power and World Trade, 1350–1750. Studies ...
While coastlines are normally associated with Jurassic finds, experts are starting to rethink.
A third and new species of seadragon has been discovered. Named the ruby seadragon, it joins its two known counterparts, leafy and weedy, in a group characterized by seahorse-like bodies and ...