HMS Vidal was a survey ship of the Royal Navy. She was designed specifically as a surveying vessel, and was the first survey ship to carry a helicopter. In 1955, a group from Vidal formally annexed Rockall in the North Sea to the United Kingdom.
HMSVidal was a survey ship of the Royal Navy. She was designed specifically as a surveying vessel, and was the first survey ship to carry a helicopter...
FROM H.M.S. VIDAL. THE UNION FLAG WAS HOISTED AND POSSESSION OF THE ISLAND WAS TAKEN IN THE NAME OF HER MAJESTY. [Signed] R H Connell, CAPTAIN, H.M.S. VIDAL...
Emeric Vidal (1792 – 5 February 1863) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He became an accomplished surveyor, and reached the rank of vice-admiral. Vidal was...
HMS Triton HMS Fantome (1906–14, 1920–24) HMS Endeavour (1913–42) HMS Melisande (1918–19) HMS Challenger (1932–53) HMS White Bear (1939–45) HMSVidal (1954–71)...
Marine), were deposited on the island by a Royal Navy helicopter from HMSVidal (coincidentally named after the man who first charted the island). The...
Navy ships. In 1953, the first purpose-built survey vessel was launched: HMSVidal. With the use of the echo sounder and other electronic equipment in the...
as La Fayette. July – First trials of a steam catapult, on HMS Perseus. 31 July – HMSVidal launched, first small ship designed to carry a helicopter....
NAS operated the Ships' Flights of the ocean survey ship HMSVidal and the ice patrol ship HMS Protector (A173). The squadron acquired the helicopter trials...
Eileen Vidal BEM (died October, 2003) was a kelper telephone and radio operator who maintained radio service and relayed military intelligence to the...
HMS Dalrymple, in the Persian Gulf and HMSVidal in the West Indies and North Atlantic. In 1951 on the survey ship HMS Challenger, recorded the deepest part...
The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, made under her newest commander...
1964), American film director, screenwriter, producer and musician Gore Vidal (1925–2012), American writer Gore, a mythical place mentioned in the Arthurian...
E11, E-11, E.11 or E 11 may refer to: HMS E11, a United Kingdom Royal Navy submarine which saw service during World War I Bombardier E-11A, a United States...
Great Britain Walpole G. Colerick (1845–1911), American politician Walpole Vidal (1853–1914), 19th century British footballer Walpole, Western Australia...
Literarias Juveniles #2 (1970, Editorial Bruguera) — adapted by José Antonio Vidal Sales and Alfonso Cerón Nuñez; translated and reprinted as "Treasure Island"...
polemicist Gore Vidal was apt to speak of Hitchens as his "dauphin" or "heir". In 2010 Hitchens attacked Vidal in a Vanity Fair piece headlined "Vidal Loco", calling...
the Royal Navy and a scientist. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition...
1960s. They hosted parties and shuttled between Paris and New York; Gore Vidal, who met the Windsors socially, reported on the vacuity of the Duke's conversation...
voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. 1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage. 1840 – The penal transportation of British...
to 1972 on the guided-missile destroyer HMS Norfolk and the frigates HMS Minerva, from 1972 to 1973, and HMS Jupiter in 1974. That same year, he also...
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