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  2. Sailor of the King - Wikipedia

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    Amesbury finds and attacks the Essen, scoring a major torpedo hit on the Essen’s bow, but is sunk with the loss of all but two hands, Petty Officer Wheatley and Signalman Andrew 'Canada' Brown. Brown is the son of a mother keen on the navy and thus knows more about naval tactics, strategy and gunnery than most of his rank.

  3. USS Amesbury - Wikipedia

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    Amesbury arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 23 February, was redesignated APD-46 on that day, and remained there until 16 May 1945 while undergoing conversion to a Charles Lawrence-class high speed transport. Amesbury got underway from Norfolk for the west coast and, after proceeding via the Panama Canal, reached San Diego on 17 June.

  4. Lowell's Boat Shop - Wikipedia

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    In 1994, the Trust for Public Land granted a preservation easement over the property to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Newburyport Maritime assumed ownership of the shop in 1994. [5] [6] Boat Shop in 2010. Today, Lowell's Boat Shop is a working boat shop and living museum.

  5. List of ship names of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    Amesbury, Cambridge, and Stratford, (from the 1953 Michael Rennie film Single-Handed or Sailor of the King, based on the novel Brown on Resolution by C. S. Forester; portrayed by Dido-class cruiser: HMS Cleopatra, Abdiel-class minelayer HMS Manxman, and Town-class cruiser HMS Glasgow)

  6. List of maritime museums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Kinsale Maritime Museum: Virginia: Mathews: Mathews Maritime Museum: Virginia: Morattico: Morattico Maritime Museum: Virginia: Newport News: Mariners' Museum and Park, the official National Maritime Museum Y Virginia: Norfolk: Hampton Roads Naval Museum: Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine: Y Virginia: Portsmouth: Portsmouth Naval ...

  7. List of museum ships - Wikipedia

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    The Kuwaiti Maritime Museum in Salmiya, Kuwait, holds replicas of a number of different types of dhows. [56] The Al-Hashemi-II (1997-2001), in Kuwait City, Kuwait, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the largest wooden dhow ever built; it has never been floated and is used for events. These do not seem to qualify as historic ships ...

  8. List of longest wooden ships - Wikipedia

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    She was sold to the Maritime Museum of San Diego in 2007. She again appeared on film as HMS Providence in the Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. 54 m (177 ft) 7.9 m (27 ft) Gazela: 1901–1971

  9. Norman A. Ough - Wikipedia

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    Ough was born in Leytonstone, London.His father, Arthur Ough (1863–1946), was an architect, surveyor and civil engineer. [1] At the age of two Ough accompanied his parents to Hong Kong, [2] where his father was employed as an architect for the University of Hong Kong and the Kowloon-Canton Railway, remaining there for four years. [3]