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Tally Ho is a gaff-rigged cutter yacht designed by the artist and yacht designer Albert Strange. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The 48-foot (15 m) yacht was built at Shoreham-by-Sea , West Sussex in England and has previously carried the names Betty , Alciope , and Escape .
Albert Strange was born on 29 June 1855, [1] growing up in Gravesend where he learned to sail with a fisherman who helped him convert a peter boat for cruising around the Thames Estuary. He studied art at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Leicester College of Arts and Crafts , completing his education in 1878.
HMS Tally-Ho was a British submarine of the third group of the T class. She was built as P317 by Vickers Armstrong , Barrow and launched on 23 December 1942. She has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name, that of the hunting call, " Tally-Ho !".
HMS Tally-Ho. The action of 11 January 1944 was a minor naval action that resulted in the sinking of the light cruiser Kuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy by the British Royal Navy submarine HMS Tally-Ho. Kuma was being escorted by the destroyer Uranami about 10 nmi (12 mi; 19 km) north-west of Penang, Malaya.
On 26 September 1917, Worsley and the PC.61 were on patrol south of Ireland when a U-boat, UC-33, torpedoed a nearby tanker. Worsley gradually slowed his ship's propellers, hoping to deceive the U-boat's crew into thinking his P-boat was leaving the area and luring it to the surface. [72]
The crew features a billionaire, a pilot, and two SpaceX employees. After an early morning launch on Tuesday, they're floating in the company's Crew Dragon spaceship in Earth's orbit.
Blears enlisted in the Merchant Navy in 1940 during World War II at the age of 17. With his knowledge of Morse code he became a radio officer. [10] Whilst serving as second wireless operator on board the SS Tjisalak, a Dutch merchant ship, his ship was torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-8 on 26 March 1944 during a voyage from Melbourne, Australia to Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
Along with Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race and the Newport-Bermuda Race, it is considered one of the classic big offshore races with each distance approximately 625 nautical miles (719 mi; 1,158 km), testing both inshore and offshore skills, boat and crew preparation and speed potential.