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  2. Figurehead (object) - Wikipedia

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    An exception was HMS Rodney which was the last British battleship to carry a figurehead. [6] Smaller ships of the Royal Navy continued to carry them. The last example may well have been the sloop HMS Cadmus launched in 1903. [7] Her sister ship Espiegle was the last to sport a figurehead until her breaking up in 1923. Early steamships sometimes ...

  3. USS Lancaster Eagle - Wikipedia

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    Eagle figurehead on the bow of the Lancaster. The piece took over a week to install underneath the bowsprit of the ship, which was still on the slipway at the time. The eagle was dismantled and brought to the ship, where it was then bolted together and mounted underneath the bowsprit using special scaffolding under the direction of Bellamy.

  4. File:NH 115261 USS DELAWARE figurehead Tamanend, Front view.jpg

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  5. HMS Surprise (replica ship) - Wikipedia

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    The ship was sold to the 20th Century Fox film studio in March 2001, [8] and underwent extensive modifications to be used in the making of the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, in which she portrayed the Royal Navy frigate HMS Surprise with a story based on several of the books by Patrick O'Brian. The modifications included ...

  6. Java (1811 ship) - Wikipedia

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    Locals attacked the picnickers and carried away a young girl. One of the ship's officers led an armed party that succeeded in rescuing the young girl. In gratitude, the girl's father had Java built, and donated to her rescuer. [5] Java bore a figurehead depicting a young girl with her hands crossed over her breast. [6]

  7. Tamanend (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    The statue is positioned on a base of Vermont marble and measures 96 by 59 by 46 inches (2.4 m × 1.5 m × 1.2 m). The area between the figurehead and Bancroft Hall is called T-Court. [5] In 1930, the wooden "heart" and "brains" of the original statue were transferred to the bronze statue. [1]

  8. Worzel Gummidge (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    "The Golden Hind" (5 December 1981) A fish and chips shop opens in town and Worzel becomes good friends with Jolly Jack, the ship's figurehead that stands out front. The friendship runs aground when the rakish seaman meets the flirtatious Aunt Sally and they leave poor Worzel adrift in his misery.

  9. Draken Harald Hårfagre - Wikipedia

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    The ship in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the westernmost point of its 2016 expedition Figurehead of Draken Harald Hårfagre. The ship left its home port of Haugesund, Norway on 26 April 2016, bound for Newfoundland, the aim being to explore and retrace the first transatlantic crossing and the Viking discovery of the New World.