In November 2018, the Sprecher Brewery released a beer named after Light Vessel No.57.
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Blogg and his crew of seventeen proceeded to the Alf. Soon after the launch the Lug sail was hoisted. By 1:00 am the Louisa Heartwell had reached the Haisbro light vessel. The master of the light vessel gave Blogg a bearing and reported that more flares had been seen an hour earlier.
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As a light vessel, she was unpowered, relying on Trinity House tenders to tow her into position where she would anchor.
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On 28 July 1959, she ran aground off Lowestoft, Suffolk. Although she was refloated, she capsized and sank off the Inner Dowsing Light Vessel.
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As photosynthesis has not taken place in the dark vessel, it provides a measure of ecosystem respiration. The light vessel permits both photosynthesis and respiration, so provides a measure of net photosynthesis (i.e. oxygen production via photosynthesis subtract oxygen consumption by respiration). Gross primary production is then obtained by adding oxygen consumption in the dark vessel to net oxygen production in the light vessel.
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In this role she was seen by many of the occupants of troop ships carrying British and Canadian forces to France. Another Trinity House vessel, Light Vessel 68, was deployed off the American beaches at a station known as "Kansas" but was withdrawn to the United Kingdom in November 1944. Light Vessel 72 remained on station until 27 January 1945 when she was withdrawn to Le Havre for repairs to damage caused by storms and collisions. She was placed on a new station, known as "Seine", in February but was withdrawn to Harwich, England, on 3 March after being replaced by the French light vessel Le Havre.
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On 31 May 1958 Henry Blogg took part in an unusual rescue when she was called to aid the Sheringham lifeboat Forester's Centenary. This service began with a call at 9.50am to the Sheringham honorary secretary from the Trinity House Superintendent of Great Yarmouth requesting that a sick man be taken off the Dudgeon Light-vessel. At 10.15am the Sheringham lifeboat Forester's Centenary was launched with a doctor on board and she reached the light-vessel by 1.10pm. The doctor went aboard the light-vessel and dispensed a sedative to the sick man and he was then strapped to a stretcher and transferred to the Forester's Centenary.
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The first House Yacht was a schooner once owned by Robert Stephenson, the engineer. The second was an Admiralty concrete tug, the Cretehatch which capsized at its moorings in 1949. The present vessel is a former Trinity House light vessel (LV 50), which last saw service at Calshot Spit at the entrance to Southampton Water. Built in 1879, she is the oldest surviving wooden light vessel still afloat in the UK.
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Light Vessel 72 was deployed in service in the British Isles until the Second World War. She was anchored off the Normandy coast on 18 June 1944 as part of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France. Light Vessel 72 served to mark a mineswept channel on the approach to the British and Canadian landing grounds. For this deployment she was marked with the letters "JUNO" on her hull, in reference to Juno Beach, part of the Normandy Landings.
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Eventually she was assigned as permanent replacement for the retired Amrumbank. Being supplanted again by a fully automated light vessel – and following another collision and overhaul in Wilhelmshaven – she was towed to Bremerhaven and named Confidentia.
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The British renamed the ship SS Huntley and used her for transporting fuel from Portishead to Boulogne. On 21 December 1915 she was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat UB-10 off the Boulogne light vessel.
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The first Innisfallen was built in 1896. She was torpedoed and sunk, without warning, by German U-boat on 23 May 1918, east of the Kish Light Vessel. She was on her way from Liverpool to Cork. 10 died.
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The lightship would display a chronic inability to hold its station in future years, even after its single anchor chain was supplemented with second and third anchors. It was dragged from its station by ice more than half a dozen times, most notably in 1875 when it ran aground at Orient Point, and in 1876 when it drifted to Faulkner Island. When standard hull numbers were assigned to lightships in 1867, the Stratford Shoals lightship was named LV-15; previously it had been known as "Middle Ground floating light", "Stratford Shoal Light Vessel," or "Stratford Point Light Vessel".
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On 28 October 1918, Tarantula sank about southwest of the Fire Island light vessel after colliding with the Royal Holland Lloyd Line steamship . Her name was subsequently struck from the Naval Vessel Register. Tarantula′s owner subsequently was paid $75,000 to cover her value.
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The last such manned lightship is now a museum ship at the Port Museum of Dunkirk at anchor.:fr:Sandettié (bateau-feu) Today the British authority Trinity House maintains an unmanned lightship, the Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic there. The ship also has an Automatic Weather Station.
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The Alf had crossed the North Sea from Porsgrunn in Norway with a cargo of timber."Henry Blogg, the Greatest of the Lifeboatmen", Jolly, C., Pub: Poppyland Publishing, new edition 2002, She was heading for the port city of Liverpool with a crew of fifteen men aboard, including captain Orberg. On Tuesday 23 November 1909, Alf had reached the north east coast of Norfolk in good time but it was now dark, foggy and very cold. The master was unable to locate the Haisbro light vessel with the consequence that his ship ploughed into the Haisborough sands south-east of the Haisbro Light vessel.
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The two stranded sailors on board the Alf watched their ship being destroyed. In the ships' stores the men retrieved some flares and throughout the night they lit them up. Eventually the signals were seen by the master of the Haisbro light vessel. He telephoned the coastguard.
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Grenville rejoined them the on 3 December and participated in several attempts to intercept enemy shipping traffic off the Dutch and German North Sea coasts.English, pp. 90–91 Whilst returning from one of these missions on 19 January Grenville struck a mineRohwer, p. 13 east of Kentish Knock Light Vessel.
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The aircraft left Great Yarmouth on patrol at 03.30 a.m. in poor weather with heavy rain and low cloud. The weather cleared as she approached the Texel, and at 4:45 a.m. she spotted the Terschelling Light Vessel, and a few minutes later Zeppelin L 22 about 10–15 miles away.
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Light Vessel No.57 was retired in 1923. In 1924 she was sold to the South Shore Yacht Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was no longer in the federal government's records. Later, she was condemned and dismantled and finally brought to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She lay in Norwegian Alley for several years.
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On Tuesday 16 October 1877, following an assistance signal being hoisted, the Ramsey Harbour boat Snider, was despatched to the light vessel. On reaching the vessel it was found that her Master, Captain Temple, had fractured several of his fingers during a storm the previous night.The Manx Sun. Saturday 20 October 1877.
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The remains of Light Vessel No.57 were discovered by divers along the shore, about south off the tip of South Shore Park. One of the divers reported that while most of the ship was buried under silt in to of water, some parts of her hull are poking through the lake floor.
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In the English Channel, the ship ran into thick fog and slowed to half-speed to the Forelands. By Friday 14 October, Captain Solvatore was trying to locate the Newarp Light vessel but there was no sign of this guiding light. The Monte Nevoso was now at a steady speed of nine Knots and on the last hundred miles and Captain Solvatore radioed an estimated time of arrival to his agent in Hull. Still unable to locate the guiding light of Newarp the Captain’s next step was to get a bearing from the Humber radio station but just before this was done an officer on the bridge saw the light vessel six miles away, just as the Captain had calculated.
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In World War I and World War II, German submarines torpedoed a number of allied ships near Sambro Island Light. For example, in World War II, while mine sweeping near Sambro Light Vessel on 24 December 1944 while preparing to escort a convoy, was hit by a torpedo aft fired by .German, Tony (1990).
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For example, in WW2, while mine sweeping near Sambro Light Vessel on 24 December 1944 while preparing to escort a convoy, HMCS Clayoquot was hit by a torpedo aft fired by U-806.German, Tony (1990). The Sea is at our Gates : The History of the Canadian Navy. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Inc. pp.
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Relandersgrund is the oldest surviving Finnish light vessel. In 1892 the company built two light ships, which were sisters: Nahkiainen was used until 1976 and Ärangsgrund was later converted into cargo ship that operated until the 1980s. The 1893 built pilot ship Saimaa has remained nearly original and she still operates in summertime by her Crichton- made steam engine.
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Wando subsequently performed buoy and net-tending functions off the Cornfield Light Vessel from 10 September 1917 to 13 September 1917. Wando returned to New London on 16 September 1917 and the following day had more minesweeping gear installed. She again transported Captain Belknap as a passenger, from New London to Newport, before heading for Norfolk.
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The flyboat (also spelled fly-boat or fly boat) was a European light vessel (developed primarily as a mercantile cargo carrier, although many served as warships in an auxiliary role) displacing between 70 and 200 tons, used in the late 16th and early 17th centuries; the name was subsequently applied to a number of disparate vessels which achieved high speeds or endurance.
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She played on 5 Van Morrison albums. In 1994 she co-wrote and sang on 4 tracks with Roger Eno on the album The Familiar on the All Saints Label. This led to the formation of Channel Light Vessel, a band with Kate, Roger Eno, Bill Nelson, Laraaji and Mayumi Tachibana. St John has released two solo albums: Indescribable Night (1995) and Second Sight (1997).
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Then, while off Newfoundland Otter had a second fire in a heavy storm. The danger of fire was higher aboard Otter than other warships as the cabins aboard the vessel were constructed of wood, not steel. Then, on 26 March 1941, the ship was ordered to await the arrival of the submarine off the Sambro Light Vessel. Otter was to escort the submarine into Halifax Harbour.
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Customs control ship Nordvakten built in the same year was broken up in 1959.Knorring: Valtion uskolliset palvelijat. pp. 51–54. The Light vessel Relandersgrund built in 1888 served until 1977, when it was decommissioned under name Vuolle. The badly decayed ship was salvaged from a shipbreaker in 1991, after which she was thoroughly renovated and nowadays she serves as a restaurant ship in Helsinki.
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In 1832 the first lightvessel on the Great Lakes was placed here. That wooden lightship was the Lois McLain. In 1851 she was replaced by the Waugoshance Light, which stands in the area of the Wilderness State Park, and which remains one of the most hazardous areas near the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan. The last light vessel on the Great Lakes was the Lightship Huron.
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Sevenstones Light Vessel, LV 19 Lightvessel 19 was in position in 1958 and was on station when Torrey Canyon became, at that time, the largest shipwreck in world history. The lightship was towed to Penzance for a few days while the wreck was bombed by Fleet Air Arm aircraft; in an attempt to release the remaining oil on board and set fire to it.
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The Sublime Porte claimed the polacca on the grounds that she belonged to an Ottoman subject. The British Ambassador to the Sublime Porte argued that she should be declared a legitimate prize, but was unable to prevail and she was restored to Ottoman control.Marshall (1830), Supplement, Part 4, pp.426–428. In August 1811, Gleaner became a dockyard lighter, and a light vessel for the Galloper Sands ().
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Although the present lighthouse was built in 1840, there had been a lighthouse on the site since the 17th century (prior to which a light to aid navigation may have been displayed from St Edmund's Chapel, the ruins of which stand nearby). Prior to the establishment of the Lynn Well light vessel in 1828, Hunstanton Lighthouse provided the only visible guide to ships seeking to enter The Wash at night.
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She was about south of the Dean light vessel when the German Type UC II submarine torpedoed her. She sank with the loss of 29 wounded British soldiers and 12 of her crew. A Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant, H Holehouse, jumped from his ship into the sea to recover one of Donegals wounded soldiers from the water. The man did not recover, but the Royal Humane Society awarded Lieut.
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Both these positions lie west of Esbjerg in the North Sea. Its final period of service was off the island of Møn (at Møn SE Station) from 1981 to 1988. In 1989, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Culture, it was acquired by Fonden til bevarelse af Motorfyrskib Nr.1 (Foundation for the preservation of Motor Light Vessel No. 1). It opened as a museum in July 1990.
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No personnel were assigned to the district staff until late 1915. In 1945 the district, still headquartered in Philadelphia, consisted of the following geographic areas: Pennsylvania, the southern part of New Jersey (including the counties of Burlington and Ocean, and all counties south thereof), and Delaware (including Winter Quarters Shoal Light Vessel). On 7 October 1976 this command absorbed the functions of the First and Third Naval Districts.
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The RV Celtic Explorer surveyed the Rockall Bank in 2003. The Irish Light Vessel Granuaile (the same name as the steamer on the RIA 1896 botany survey) was chartered by the Geological Survey of Ireland, on behalf of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, to conduct a seismic survey of the Rockall Bank and the Hatton Bank in July 2004, as part of the Irish National Seabed Survey.
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She also had a gross tonnage of 130 tons, and a net tonnage of 101 tons. She had two masts, and a cluster three oil burning lens lanterns that were hoisted onto each masthead. She had a top speed of eight knots. From 1891 to 1923, Light Vessel No.57 was stationed at Grey's Reef, a ridge of rock 18 miles west of the Mackinac Bridge in northeastern Lake Michigan.
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UB-81 would carry a crew of up to 3 officer and 31 men and had a cruising range of . UB-81 had a displacement of while surfaced and when submerged. Her engines enabled her to travel at when surfaced and when submerged. On the night of 30 November/1 December 1917 she torpedoed and sank the 3,218 ton British steamer Molesey 12 miles west-south-west of the Brighton Light Vessel.
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To begin with the flying boats had little success against U-Boats until the introduction of the "Spider web" system of patrolling. The patrols capitalised on the practice of U-Boats signalling by wireless their homing position, which could be picked up by wireless stations at Hunstanton, Lowestoft and Birchington. The "Spider Web" used the North Hinder Light Vessel, a Dutch maintained light ship 55 miles from Felixstowe and the Hook of Holland as a centre point.
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Tegeler Plate Lighthouse As an additional improvement of the waterway conditions as implemented by the procedure as a whole (see above), construction of another lighthouse was essential. This effort simultaneously made it possible to take the light vessel Bremen out of service. As a location for the new lighthouse the Tegeler Plate sand bar was chosen. The tower shaft, as well as the upper storeys of the Tegeler Plate Lighthouse, were intended to be entirely built as steel construction.
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More success came when the submarine sank Battanglia on 23 January 1940 southeast of Farne Island and Gudveig east of the Longstone Light vessel (north of Newcastle). A steady stream of sinkings followed, including Charkow on 19 March 1940 and Bothal on the 20th. The boat was then transported in sections along the Danube to the Romanian port of Galați. She was then re-assembled by the Romanians at the Galați shipyard and sent to the Black Sea.
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Light Vessel No.57 was built in 1891, in Toledo, Ohio by the Craig Shipbuilding Company, at a cost of $14.225. She was one of three federal lightvessels designed for use during the navigational season as an experiment to avoid the construction of a much more expensive permanent lighthouse. Her wooden hull was long, and was built of white oak planks, that were fastened together with 5.8 inch iron spikes. Her beam was wide, and her hull was deep.
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The minefield probably caused the loss of one U-Boat, , although at the time it was thought that four or five German submarines had been sunk. Melpomene underwent initial repair at Dunkirk before more permanent repair work in a British dockyard. On the night of 22 July 1916, two light cruisers and eight destroyers of the Harwich Force set out on a patrol to prevent German torpedo boats based in Flanders from interfering with shipping traffic between Britain and the Netherlands. One group, consisting of the light cruiser and four destroyers, was to patrol off the Mass estuary, while the second group, led by the cruiser and including Melpomene, was to patrol off the North Hinder light vessel. Seven German destroyers of II Flotilla had set out from Zeebrugge on a mission to lay lines near the North Hinder light vessel, and at 00:15 on 23 July, Carysforts group sighted the German force, which turned away and escaped under the cover of a smoke screen and a rain storm.
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Light Vessel 72 was built for Trinity House, the General Lighthouse Authority for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar. Constructed in Sunderland by John Crown & Sons in 1903, she had a hull of rivetted iron plates and a wooden deck. The vessel measured in length, in beam, and in depth, and had a gross tonnage of 257. For her role as a navigational aid, a tower in the midships was fitted with a paraffin lamp that could be seen up to away.
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Only seven destroyers of the M class were fast enough to engage the German warships. On 1 May 1915, the German submarine torpedoed and sank the old British destroyer near the Galloper Light Vessel, off the Thames Estuary. Four destroyers of the Harwich Force, Lark, , Lawford and Leonidas set out to hunt for Recruits assailant. Meanwhile, two German torpedo boats, and , which had been searching for a German floatplane which had ditched, encountered four British trawlers near the North Hinder.
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Chittenden, 1903, Volume I, pp. 217-218 In the spring of 1859 the American Fur Company sent two vessels up the Missouri River, commanded by LaBarge and his brother, John, with its annual outfit of men and supplies. The Company employed its own boat, the Spread Eagle, and chartered a second riverboat, called the Chippewa. It was a light vessel and her owner, Captain Crabtree, was contracted to reach Fort Benton, 31 miles below the Great Falls, or as far past this point as was possible.
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These deployments continued until February 1961. In 1961, Wave Chief came to the assistance of the Haisboro Light Vessel which was sinking off the Norfolk coast after being in collision with another ship. From September to December 1965, Wave Chief accompanied , , and on a goodwill tour of South America. The squadron, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir Fitzroy Talbot, visited ports in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. On 12 December 1967, Wave Chief was severely damaged in a storm in the Mediterranean.
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From 1961-1975 it is used as an institution for Social Youth Care in Dordrecht and was named Hollands Glorie. It replaced the ship of the same name, the old light vessel Haaksgronden, which had been in use since December 3, 1941. In 1978, it was handed over to the non-profit organization, RIC, (Recreative International Center) under the name Ric’s River Boat and moored in the center of Brussels. Ric's Art Boat is a barge , built in Dendermonde (Belgium) in 1936 and was baptized Selenium.
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Before the battle started, Zhang Shuo led his men out on a large vessel to scout the riverbank. He encountered Ling Tong, who was also checking out the area with only tens of soldiers on a light vessel. They engaged in combat and Ling Tong slew Zhang Shuo and captured the rest of his men. Upon learning of Zhang Shuo's death, Huang Zu immediately ordered Chen Jiu to block the entrance of the Mian River by scuttling two of his largest mengchongs at the chokepoint.
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In June, WLEF's escorts were divided into groups and Transcona was placed in W-2. She remained with that unit until May 1944 when the minesweeper was transferred to Halifax Force, a local escort force based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. On 23 December, with sister ship and the frigate , Transcona sailed from Halifax on a pre-convoy escort submarine sweep of the swept channel near the Sambro Light Vessel. While the convoy was forming up, the fired a torpedo which hit Clayoquot, sinking the minesweeper.
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The exploits of Miranda gave rise to further orders of similar vessels, including Gitana, built in 1876 and capable of , which was an astonishing speed at the time. Besides the yacht sales, Thornycroft found an even more lucrative business building torpedo boats. It started with for Norway in 1873, a light vessel built of thin steel plates. The early torpedo boats were designed for spar torpedoes, but when a new generation of self-propelled torpedoes arrived from Whitehead in 1876, the torpedo boat really found its form.
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When oscillating tidal currents in the stratified ocean flow over uneven bottom topography, they generate internal waves with tidal frequencies. Such waves are called internal tides. Shallow areas in otherwise open water can experience rotary tidal currents, flowing in directions that continually change and thus the flow direction (not the flow) completes a full rotation in hours (for example, the Nantucket Shoals).Le Lacheur, Embert A. Tidal currents in the open sea: Subsurface tidal currents at Nantucket Shoals Light Vessel Geographical Review, April 1924.
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At about 8:45 pm five patrolling German destroyers encountered the British force near the Horns Reefs light vessel. The German destroyer fired two torpedoes, one of which stuck the British destroyer . Princess Margaret turned away to avoid the attack, with the rest of the British destroyers (most of which had not spotted the German ships and thought that Mentor had struck a mine) following. The German force also turned away, and Mentor, which had her bow blown off, was left by herself to make her way back to base.
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Flensburg underway in 1961 Noorderlicht is a steel two-masted schooner built in 1910 in Flensburg, Germany, by Flensburger Schiffbau- Gesellschaft for the Imperial German Navy. The ship was originally named Fs Kalkgrund II, rigged as a three-masted schooner, and used as a light vessel (Feuerschiff) on the Kalkgrund station off the Flensburg Firth. It also functioned as a weather ship and pilot station. The middle mast was taken out to improve stability during World War II, when the vessel was in the service of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine and named Flensburg.
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Ling Cao's uninterrupted dash broke the defence line immediately and threw Huang Zu's navy into confusion with his sudden attack. Ling Cao then advanced further on a light vessel, but was killed by a stray arrow in the midst of battle.(及權統軍，從討江夏。入夏口，先登，破其前鋒，輕舟獨進，中流矢死。) Sanguozhi vol. 55. The historical record Wu Shu (吳書; Book of Wu) by Wei Zhao claimed that Gan Ning fired the arrow.
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U-117 as a target ship On 21 June 1921, three Navy Felixstowe F5L flying boats flying at an altitude of bombed and sank U-117 at anchor in smooth water East of Cape Charles Light Vessel, with twelve bombs, each loaded with of TNT. The bombs were dropped in two salvos, one of three bombs and one of nine bombs. Both salvos straddled and fell close to the target, all within of it, all bombs functioned as designed. The submarine sank within seven minutes after the second salvo.
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Distress rockets were seen on the morning of 6 December by the Sunk lightship, which tried through the day to attract the attention of passing shipping, without success. Later, rockets from that light vessel were seen by another, whose own rockets were seen at Harwich in the evening, though neither the nature nor location of the casualty were known. The paddle tug Liverpool was dispatched at daylight on 7 December, reaching the Deutschland via the sequence of light vessels, and embarked all 173 still alive on the wreck.
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The Allied naval commander Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay recognised the contributions of the light vessels and associated buoys in a dispatch of September 1944 noting that "the great success achieved [in the invasion] was due in no small part to the contribution of Trinity House". After the war Light Vessel 72 served in the Bristol Channel. She remained in service until sold for scrapping in 1973 to the Steel Supply Company in Neath, Wales. At the time of her sale she was the oldest vessel in the Trinity House fleet.
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The manager of the Steel Supply Company, Ian Jones, recognised her historic value and refused to break her up. The vessel has sat on a mud bank of the River Neath, adjacent to the scrapyard since. Light Vessel 72 has since deteriorated, some of its hull plates have warped, plants now grow on its deck and some of her brass fittings have been stolen. As one of the last remaining iron vessels she has historic interest and has been added to the National Historic Ships register (number 143).
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From 1920 to 1945 the ship was home ported at Kiel- Holtenau and served in many locations, but mainly along Baltic shores. She was installed in 1945 as a permanent replacement for the bombed and damaged light vessel Kiel. In the spring of 1957 she was rammed by a Swedish freighter and sank; she was raised and after a two-year overhaul returned to service in 1959. During the summer of 1967 her location was upgraded to a lighthouse and she returned to stand-by reserve for North Sea deployment.
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The present lighthouse was erected in 1908, but the first proposal to build a lighthouse here was made in 1825 by Trinity House. The lighthouse replaces a light-vessel previously moored in the south of Cardigan Bay. The lighthouse is similar in construction to Skokholm Lighthouse and is among the last lighthouses to be built in Britain. The circular stone tower is 55 ft high and still contains the original lantern complete with Fresnel lens manufactured by Chance Brothers, using a mercury bath as a low-friction bearing.
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It would seem to have been a foolish act to build two lighthouses to cover a bearing that so soon would be useless even if new sites were selected. Less widely known is the fact that a lightship of sorts is said to have been stationed at the South Sands Head since Elizabethan times for the express purpose of guiding the fleet into the anchorage of the Downs, although evidence for this assertion is slim. How effective a primitive light vessel may have been is a matter of speculation.
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For the following nine months, the warship cruised the warm waters of the Mediterranean visiting ports in Greece, France, Italy, Spain and Egypt. She entered the Atlantic on 18 June 1902 and, after stops at Cherbourg, France, and Southampton, England, rendezvoused with USS Illinois (Battleship No. 7) and protected cruisers USS Chicago and USS San Francisco (Cruiser No. 5) off Galloper light vessel on 12 July. She exercised with those ships until 20 July at which time she set a course for the Baltic Sea. During her sojourn in the waters of northern Europe, she visited Stockholm, Sweden; Kronstadt, Russia; and Copenhagen, Denmark.
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When Zhao fled during a flood — believing that the floodwaters would protect him from pursuing Lu soldiers — it was Tian who got on a light vessel, chased him down, and captured him. Yang was able to take over Xuanshe and became its governor (and later, military governor, with the circuit renamed to Ningguo).Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 258. Thereafter, Yang sent Tian to attack Chang Prefecture (常州, in modern Changzhou, Jiangsu), which was then under the control of Du Leng (), a follower of Qian Liu the prefect of Hang Prefecture (杭州, in modern Hangzhou, Zhejiang).
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The 3 brothers formed the management of Radio Veronica. The Norderney was bought to replace the former German lightvessel Borkum Riff from 1911 as that vessel was completely worn- out and also a little bit to small to continue to be operated as a radio ship. As (former) light-vessel the Borkum Riff had her name printed in large letters on the hull of the ship: this idea was copied on the Norderney, even though she wasn't a light-ship. On the Zaanlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij shipyard in Zaandam the trawler was transformed into an offshore radio-ship.
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Fearing for their lives, the population began to call to each other and move back from the coast along the road. A rain of ash fell, causing Pliny to shake it off periodically to avoid being buried. Later that same day the pumice and ash stopped falling and the sun shone weakly through the cloud, encouraging Pliny and his mother to return to their home and wait for news of Pliny the Elder. Pliny's uncle Pliny the Elder was in command of the Roman fleet at Misenum, and had meanwhile decided to investigate the phenomenon at close hand in a light vessel.
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The group then again set out, with Ossipee aiding in steering Powhatan with a line on her starboard quarter and Acushnet leading the procession, ahead of Relief. Lady Laurier and Gresham stood by the convoy. Although the weather worsened and made progress difficult, the ships sighted the Halifax light vessel early in the afternoon of 27 January; and, soon thereafter, they helped the crippled transport to a safe haven. On 7 February 1920 she picked up from lifeboats the survivors of that had ran aground and was wrecked on Old Cilly Ledge off Rockland, Maine in a snowstorm on 6 February.
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She was refitted at Sheerness in 1911. On 9 June 1915, following the sinking by a German submarine (probably U-10) of six fishing smacks, the Nore Local Defence Flotilla launched a large search for the submarine involved, with five destroyers and six torpedo-boats, including TB 12, taking part. At 03:30 on 10 June TB 12 was about 2 miles north east of the Sunk Light Vessel when an explosion wrecked the fore part of the ship. Her sister ship took TB 12 in tow, but shortly afterwards an explosion wrecked TB 10 which broke in two and quickly sank.
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She operated from the section base at Mayport, Florida, making nightly trips to a position south at St. John's light vessel, sometimes accompanied by ; which acted as a "target" vessel. The US Army Corps of Engineers made various arrangements of shore lighting in the vicinity of Jacksonville Beach, Florida. These lights varied in intensity and were measured aboard the cutter from seaward by civilian experts using photometers to determine the amount of light constituting a hazard to a merchant vessel passing between a submarine and a shore light. On one occasion the visibility of various navigational aids was tested.
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Radio Caroline was off the air for most of the 1990s, except for occasional low-power broadcasts of one month. Some of these 28-day Restricted Service Licence (RSL) broadcasts took place from the Ross Revenge during the 1990s, with the ship anchored off Clacton, in London's Canary Wharf, Southend Pier and off the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. At one minute past midnight on 1 October 2001, Caroline returned on 1503 kHz from the LV (Light Vessel) 18 in Harwich harbour. This two-day broadcast featured Phil Mitchell, Paul Dennis, Colin Lamb, John Patrick, Barry James, Steve Cisco and Clive Boutell.
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Ling Cao gave pursuit to Huang Zu and boarded a light vessel in the midst of chaos and fighting. However, when he was close to claiming Huang Zu's head, he was hit by an arrow fired by Huang's subordinate Gan Ning and died;(祖军败奔走，追兵急，宁以善射，将兵在后，射杀校尉凌操) Wei Zhao. Chronicles of Wu. thus Huang was able to retreat to Jiangxia safely. Huang Zu remained in Jiangxia thereafter and did not respond to the challenges of Sun Quan's main army.
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On 12 March 1917 the destroyer was torpedoed by the German submarine near the Maas light vessel while escorting an east-bound convoy to the Netherlands. Nimrod, leading the escort of the corresponding west-bound convoy, took Skate under tow and brought her back to Harwich. On 22 May the Dover Patrol carried out a bombardment of the German held Belgian port of Zeebrugge, using the monitors , and , with the hope of destroying the locks on the canal that linked Zeebrugge to Bruges. The Harwich Force supplied two leaders (Nimrod and ) and twelve destroyers to support the operation.
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That evening a Seamen's Charities fund concert took place throughout the ship and the captain was obliged to attend the event in the first-class lounge. At about 11:00 on 7 May, the Admiralty radioed another warning to all ships, probably as a result of a request by Alfred Booth, who was concerned about Lusitania: "U-boats active in southern part of Irish Channel. Last heard of twenty miles south of Coningbeg Light Vessel". Booth and all of Liverpool had received news of the sinkings, which the admiralty had known about by at least 3:00 that morning.
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The operation continued, despite the knowledge from radio intercepts that a force of German destroyers (II Torpedo- Boat Flotilla) was at sea. At about 8:45 pm five patrolling German destroyers encountered the British force near the Horns Reefs light vessel. Mentor, on spotting the German ships, steered to get between the German ships and Princess Margaret but was almost immediately struck in the bow by a German torpedo fired from the destroyer . Princess Margaret turned away to avoid the attack, with the rest of the British destroyers (most of which had not spotted the German ships and thought that Mentor had struck a mine) following.
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Eight German destroyers of II Flotilla had set out from Zeebrugge on a mission to lay lines near the North Hinder light vessel, and at 00:15 on 23 July, Carysforts group sighted the German force, which turned away and escaped under the cover of a smoke screen and a rain storm. The Canterbury group, including Milne, was ordered to proceed to the Schouwen Bank to intercept the Germans. They encountered the Germans at about 01:45, and set off in pursuit. Matchless could not keep up with the chase and lagged behind, while Milne kept station with the lagging Matchless, leaving the chase to and .
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The main reason for this was the Finnish government's purchasing policy; as long as it was cheaper in a short term to operate old ships rather than invest on new craft, the old vessels were kept in service. The 1867 built steam cruiser Suomi, that served as customs control vessel, was in use until 1935. Hydrographic survey ship Sekstant, later Åland, operated from 1872 until 1959. The 1878 built light vessel Taipaleenluoto served on lake Ladoga until Winter War and the subsequent Moscow Peace Treaty in 1940, after which it stayed in the territory ceded to Soviet Union; the fate of the ship is unknown.
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The record included "The Saints Are Coming", which was later covered in late 2006 as a charity single by U2 and Green Day. Skids enjoyed a further year of chart success as "Masquerade" and "Working for the Yankee Dollar" reached the UK Top 20 singles chart. The latter came from their second album, also released in 1979, Days in Europa, with the record's production and keyboards by Bill Nelson (Be-Bop Deluxe, , Channel Light Vessel and solo artist). Nelson was the obvious choice for the record's production duties as he was not only Adamson's principal 'guitar hero' but also an enormous influence on Adamson's playing.
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The boundaries of the Fourth Naval District, to be headquartered at League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were established on 7 May 1903 in accordance with General Order No. 128, signed by Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles H. Darling. No personnel were assigned to the district staff until late 1915. In 1945 the district, still headquartered in Philadelphia, consisted of the following geographic areas: Pennsylvania, the southern part of New Jersey (including the counties of Burlington, Ocean, and all counties south thereof), and Delaware (including Winter Quarters Shoal Light Vessel). On 7 October 1976 this command absorbed the functions of the First and Third Naval Districts.
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From 10 to 17 April 2004, BBC Essex marked the fortieth anniversary of offshore radio in Britain by launching their own ship-based radio station, Pirate BBC Essex. Broadcasting from an old light vessel, the station transmitted sixties music and memories twenty-four hours a day all week. This was followed in August 2007 by another broadcast marking the anniversary of the closing of the pirate stations by the Marine Offences Act. Over the Easter Weekend in April 2009, the popular Pirate Radio Essex programme was resurrected by popular demand from listeners, occurring five days after the release of the comedy movie The Boat that Rocked.
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The convoy had been unable to see the Haisborough light vessel due to the bad visibility, and in any case, due to wartime restrictions, the light was only illuminated for ten minutes when a convoy was due in the area. It is thought that due to the combination of the bad weather conditions, the strong westerly drift, and the fact that the exact position of the convoy was unavailable, HM Agate led seven of the convoy's ships onto the sands, where they ran aground. A further report from SS Oxshott describes HM Agate bearing down on her. The Oxshott was the first of the seven to run aground.
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The light vessel was built at Charleston Drydock & Machine Co. in Charleston, S.C. for $274,434.00; the keel was laid 6 February 1929, the ship was launched on 22 October 1930 and delivery was on 23 June 1930. Chesapeake took on the name of whatever station where she was anchored. The ship was also absorbed into the Coast Guard in 1939, as were all vessels in the United States Lighthouse Service. Service in the US Coast Guard meant a pay cut for the sailors aboard Chesapeake and other Lightships, as well as the requirements for the crew to pass Coast Guard physical exams and wear uniforms.
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The German battlecruisers aborted their bombardment to engage the Harwich force, hitting the cruiser and the destroyer but retired to the East rather than attempt to destroy the smaller British force. Matchless was undamaged. On the night of 22 July 1916, two light cruisers and eight destroyers of the Harwich Force set out on a patrol to prevent German torpedo boats based in Flanders from interfering with shipping traffic between Britain and the Netherlands. One group, consisting of the light cruiser and four destroyers, was to patrol off the Mass estuary, while the second group, led by the cruiser and including Matchless, was to patrol off the North Hinder light vessel.
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Eight German destroyers of II Flotilla had set out from Zeebrugge on a mission to lay lines near the North Hinder light vessel, and at 00:15 on 23 July, Carysforts group sighted the German force, which turned away and escaped under the cover of a smoke screen and a rain storm. The Canterbury group, including Matchless, was ordered to proceed to the Schouwen Bank to intercept the Germans. They encountered the Germans at about 01:45, and set off in pursuit. Matchless could not keep up with the chase and lagged behind, while kept station with the lagging Matchless, leaving the chase to and .
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The force encountered no German surface forces, although a submarine, which quickly dived away, was sighted near the North Hinder light vessel. On 16 August 1915, 8 destroyers of the 10th Destroyer Flotilla, including Medusa, set out from Sheerness to escort the minelayer which was tasked with laying a minefield on the Arum Bank. On the afternoon of 17 August, the force encountered a number of neutral and German fishing trawlers, which were suspected of signalling to Germany by radio. One trawler, the Roland BX.40, was boarded and scuttled by the destroyer , while Medusa stopped and searched a second German trawler, the Boreas, while the remaining ships of the force continued on with the mission.
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Over time, Trinity House, the public authority charged with establishing and maintaining lighthouses in England and Wales, crowded out the private light vessels. Trinity House is now responsible for all the remaining lightvessels England and Wales, of which there are currently eight unmanned lightvessels and two smaller light floats.Aids to Navigation , Trinity House, accessed 02-09-08 In the 1930s, "crewless lightships" were proposed as a way to operate a light vessel for six to twelve months without a crew."Crewless Lightship Is New Flying Dutchman" Popular Mechanics, December 1932 The first lightvessel conversion to solar power was made in 1995, and all vessels except the '20 class' have now been converted.
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An octagonal figure was drawn with eight arms radiating out from a distance of 30 miles from the centre. A set of circumvential lines then joined the radial arms at 10, 20 and 30 miles making eight sectors, each sector divided into three sections. As the patrolling flying boat flew up and down each sector line, the area was surveyed twice on any patrol and two sectors of the web could be patrolled in under five hours. A flying boat would take off from Felixstowe and head for the North Hinder Light Vessel then fly along a sector line, determined by previous instructions gained from wireless plots, and then along the patrol lines of the sector.
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The Halifax East Light Vessel No 6, which had been accurately fixed and used as a datum point for the search, was closed and inquiries made from the Captain where he estimated the sinking had taken place. Many ASDIC echoes were investigated. Echo sounder traces had been made off boulders on the bottom, and some looked promising; when crossed, however, on a course at right angles to the initial run-over, all proved to be false. The search was successful in so far as it was thorough and left no doubt that detection by any future search would be purely a matter of chance.Reports of Proceedings of BORDER CITIES in NS 1156-442/18.
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Von der Tann delayed the raid itself by several days, because Admiral Ingenohl was unwilling to send forth I Scouting Group at anything less than full strength, and Von der Tann was undergoing routine repairs in early December. I Scouting Group, along with the II Scouting Group, composed of the four light cruisers Kolberg, Strassburg, Stralsund, and Graudenz, and two torpedo boat flotillas, left the Jade at 03:20. Hipper's ships sailed north, through the channels in the minefields, past Heligoland to the Horns Reef light vessel, at which point the ships turned westward, towards the English coast. The main battle squadrons of the High Seas Fleet left in the late afternoon of the 15th.
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On the outbreak of the Second World War, the Royal Navy started laying a series of defensive minefields in British coastal waters and the English Channel. From 11 to 16 September 1939, Adventure, together with the coastal minelayer and the converted train ferries Shepperton and Hampton, escorted by the cruiser and the destroyers of the 19th Destroyer Flotilla, laid 3119 mines in the Straits of Dover, sealing the east end of the Channel from penetration by German submarines. Following the completion of this operation, Adventure was deployed in laying mines off the Yorkshire coast. On 13 November 1939, at 05.25, Adventure was badly damaged near the Tongue Light Vessel, in the Thames Estuary by an underwater explosion.
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The three German torpedo boats then returned to attack the British ships, with Medea hit three times by German shells, but were driven off by 12-inch fire from the monitor . The minefield probably caused the loss of one U-Boat, , although at the time it was thought that four or five German submarines had been sunk. On the night of 22 July 1916, two light cruisers and eight destroyers of the Harwich Force set out on a patrol to prevent German torpedo boats based in Flanders from interfering with shipping traffic between Britain and the Netherlands. One group, consisting of the light cruiser and four destroyers, was to patrol off the Mass estuary, while the second group, led by the cruiser and including Milne, was to patrol off the North Hinder light vessel.
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In response to Sun Quan's aggression, Huang Zu assigned his general Zhang Shuo as the vanguard, and Chen Jiu as the admiral, but he would stay behind the high walls of Jiangxia to avoid conflict in the frontline. Before the battle started, Zhang Shuo led his troop on a large vessel to reconnoitre the riverbank, but was located by Ling Tong, who was also scouting the area. At the time, Ling Tong only had tens of his closest warriors on a light vessel,(统为前锋，与所厚健兒数十人共乘一船，常去大兵数十里。) Chen Shou. Records of Three Kingdoms, Volume 55, Biographies of Cheng, Huang, Han, Jiang, Zhou, Chen, Dong, Gan, Ling, Xu, Pan, and Ding.
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A lateen-rigged caravel, Caravela LatinaA replica of the caravel Boa Esperança in the city of Lagos, Portugal Portuguese trade routes (blue) and the rival Manila-Acapulco galleons trade routes (white) established in 1568 The origin of their name holds some controversy, though it is strongly supported that caravel comes from the Greek word Καραβος, meaning light vessel."The vessel so named which had a real celebrity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the vessel employed by the Portuguese in their voyages of discovery and by Christopher Columbus in his daring adventure to the westward, was a small structure belonging to the family of roundships but more graceful in shape than its contemporaries, the nefs, and having narrower quarters. It was a faster sailer, more able, and was better fitted for all enterprises demanding speed and rapid maneuvering." Henry B. Culver.
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The tugboat sailed for Queenstown, Ireland in late summer 1918, and joined the Atlantic Fleet Mine Force, patrolling off Daunt Rock Light Vessel, on guard against enemy submarines until after the Armistice. She then engaged in patrol work out of Ireland, England, the Azores, Portugal, and Gibraltar into 1920 as part of Subchaser Detachment 2, U.S. Naval Forces in European Waters, removing remnants of the Great War's minefields. The ship sailed for American Samoa for duty as station ship, rescue vessel, Governor’s yacht, transport, and the flagship of the United States Navy in Samoa in mid-1920. For the next two decades, aside from regular yard periods at Pearl Harbor for repairs, Ontario operated out of the United States Naval Station Tutuila in her diverse but useful capacity, becoming a legend to Samoa's young men who were encouraged to join the Navy because of her presence.
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Ultimately, salvage vessels hired by the Navy to perform the operation enabled the release of the Coast Guard vessels and successfully brought S-19 from her perch on the rocks. In the spring of 1928, Acushnet cleared the sea lanes of two menaces to navigation. The first consisted of the wreckage of a wooden ship which she picked up some 5 miles south of the Northeast Light vessel at the entrance to Delaware Bay and towed inside the Delaware breakwater where the Lewes, Delaware, station crew beached it. The second was another mass of wreckage (possibly from the same vessel) in the same general area which she handled in the same manner as she had used with the first. The following November, the Coast Guard destroyer USCGD Henley spotted a derelict — the floating derrick Van Frank No. 2 and turned it over to Acushnet, which towed it into Sandy Hook Bay and secured it on 10 November 1928.
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In 1992, Nelson released Blue Moons and Laughing Guitars on Virgin which consisted of demos for a proposed four guitarists, two drummers band which never materialised. "This is what I do behind locked doors," he wrote on the sleeve, prefiguring much of his later, home recorded work including My Secret Studio (4-CD + 2-CD) and Noise Candy (6-CD). In the same year, Nelson worked with Roger Eno and Kate St. John as producer (with Roger Eno) on the duo's album The Familiar, on which Nelson also played guitar and other instruments. This experience fortuitously not only sowed the seeds of Eno's, Nelson's and St.John's participation in the 'ambient supergroup' Channel Light Vessel, which also featured Laraaji and Mayumi Tachibana, but also introduced Nelson to Voiceprint Records, whose subsidiary labels included All Saints and Resurgence, both of which would release a number of CLV and Nelson recordings over the next few years.
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