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Charles Fitzgerald CB (c. 1791 – 29 December 1887) was an officer in the British Royal Navy and Governor of The Gambia from 1844 until 1847, then Governor of Western Australia from 1848 to 1855. [ 1 ]
Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the events in 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, during which Mende tribesmen abducted for the slave trade managed to gain control of their captors' ship off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by the Washington, a U.S. revenue cutter.
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald, Captain McSorley was captain of the Fitzgerald from 1972–1975. Captain McSorley was a Canadian by birth. At age 11 in 1924, Captain McSorley moved to the United States with his father and stepmother and spent part of his life in the St. Lawrence River town of Ogdensburg, New York, and eventually moving to the Toledo ...
James fitz Maurice FitzGerald (died 1579), called "fitz Maurice", was a Gaelicised Hiberno-Norman nobleman and the captain-general of Desmond while Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, was detained in England by Queen Elizabeth after the Battle of Affane in 1565.
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes and remains the largest to have sunk there.
It was fourteen months before Fitzgerald met the squadron commander, Admiral Geoffrey Hornby. [2] On 19 March 1880 he was promoted to captain and was appointed to HMS Inconstant, flagship of the flying squadron. Although he wrote on the subject of sailing, he was an advocate of the complete removal of sails from naval vessels (which frequently ...
Fitzgerald worked as an assistant to "Captain America" director Joe Johnston and had a small role billed as "Stark Girl." The 2011 movie set the stage for "The Avengers," which was released the ...
Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0060-08877-4. UK edition: Evolution's Captain: The Tragic Fate of Robert FitzRoy, the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World (Profile Books, 2003) ISBN 978-1-8619-7451-8; Scholefield, Guy Hardy, ed. (1940).