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  • 1send ashore —    to dismiss from the navy    A figurative use, covering misconduct on land or at sea …

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  • 2Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea) — This article is about the strait in Papua New Guinea. For the same strait name in Indonesia, see Dampier Strait (Indonesia). Dampier Strait seen from space. Also visible are Umboi Island (west), New Britain (east) and Sakar Island (north). (false …

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  • 3Fortunatus Wright — (3 May 1712 – 1757) was an English privateer.Early lifeFortunatus Wright’s early days are unrecorded, he may have followed the sea as a boy, but by his twenties he had settled down as a brewer and distiller. MarriagesIn 1732 he married Martha… …

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  • 4Message in a bottle — For other uses, see Message in a bottle (disambiguation). Start (Hurtigruten, 2011) A message in a bottle is a form of communication whereby a message is sealed in a container (archetypically a glass bottle, but could be any medium, so long as it …

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  • 5disembark — I. v. a. Land, put on shore, send ashore, debark. II. v. n. Land, go on shore, debark …

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  • 6George Anson's voyage around the world — While Great Britain was at war with Spain in 1740, Commodore George Anson led a squadron of eight ships on a mission to disrupt or capture Spain s Pacific possessions. Returning to England in 1744 by way of China and thus completing a… …

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  • 7Landing at Suvla Bay — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Landing at Suvla Bay caption= partof=First World War date=6 ndash;15 August, 1915 place=Suvla, Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey result=Turkish victory combatant1=flagicon|UK United Kingdom combatant2=… …

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  • 8Guadalcanal Campaign — Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II …

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  • 9List of Onedin Line episodes — The Onedin Line episode list shows details of the 91 episodes of the BBC television series The Onedin Line. Contents 1 Series 1 2 Series 2 3 …

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  • 10ship — shipless, adj. shiplessly, adv. /ship/, n., v., shipped, shipping. n. 1. a vessel, esp. a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines. 2. Naut. a. a sailing vessel square rigged on all of three or more masts, having jibs, staysails, and a… …

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