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William Stewart (fl. c. 1580-1610) was a Scottish sea captain from Dundee. Stewart was skipper of one of the ships that took James VI to Norway in 1589, when the king sailed to meet Anne of Denmark. James VI gave him a present of 20 dalers from his dowry. [1]
William Stewart (skipper) (fl. c. 1580-1610) was a Scottish sea captain from Dundee. William Robert Stewart (died 1818), American ship captain; William W. Stewart (1776–1851), Scottish-born whaler, sealer and settler; Sir William Drummond Stewart (1795–1871), Scottish adventurer and British military officer
Captain John Bury, Canadian mariner involved in standardising international buoyage; Harry McNish, Scottish carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition; Jeremiah O'Brien, captain of the privateer Unity in the first battle of the Revolutionary War; Herbert Pitman, third officer of the Titanic
Although defeated 11–13, Team Scotland enjoyed a tremendous occasion with almost 1,000 fans turning out to see the game. 1999 also saw the expansion of the team's youth programme to incorporate a four-team youth league within the city and a school development scheme called 'Pitch, Hit and Run' which provides baseball for children in 17 ...
Sea captain from Guernsey widely credited as having transformed the economy of Costa Rica by establishing the Costa Rican coffee trade. United Kingdom: Yes 1802 1863 Ladd, William. American anti-war activist and New England sea captain who devoted his pen to preaching non-resistance during the War of 1812. United States: Yes 1778 1841 Lawrence ...
Sir Andrew Wood of Largo (died 1515) was a Scottish sea captain. Beginning as a merchant in Leith, he was involved in national naval actions and rose to become Lord High Admiral of Scotland. He was knighted c. 1495. He may have transported James III across the Firth of Forth to escape the rebels in 1488.
Elizabeth Miller (1792–1864) was a Scottish merchant. [1] She has been referred to as the first female sea captain in Great Britain. She was the daughter of the successful timber merchant and shipowner William Miller from Saltcoats on the Ayrshire coast by the Firth of Clyde.
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