Navy of the Order of Saint John information

The navy of the Order of Saint John, also known as the Maltese Navy after 1530, was the first navy of a chivalric order. It was established in the Middle...

The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the...

ruled by the Order of Saint John as a vassal state of the Kingdom of Sicily from 1530 to 1798. The islands of Malta and Gozo, as well as the city of Tripoli...

constructed between 1842 and 1845 on the site of the arsenal of the navy of the Order of Saint John. It was designed by the architect William Scamp, and its...

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM), officially the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta (Italian:...

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince of Wales (the...

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable...

of Paris in 1814. The Order of Saint John was expelled from its base in Rhodes during the Ottoman siege of 1522. After seven years of moving from place...

The United States Navy has approximately 475 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled...

The Imperial Order of Saint Anna (Russian: Орден Святой Анны; also "Order of Saint Anne" or "Order of Saint Ann") was a Holstein ducal and then Russian...

Kingdom of Cilicia. Order of Saint Blaise of Armenia Not revived by the self-styled prince, but reputed to have been awarded by the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia...

Order of Saint John. The boats were usually used as fishing boats, but some were also used to carry passengers. Variants of the kajjik included the kajjik...

The Order of Saint Stephen (Hungarian: Szent István rend) is an order of chivalry founded in 1764 by Maria Theresa. In 1938, Miklós Horthy took the rights...

20 March 1393) was a saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Later accounts...

as a saint in Christianity. According to tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army. Of Cappadocian Greek origin, he became a member of the Praetorian...

until 1837, the order was frequently bestowed upon British subjects. Until 1837 the order was frequently awarded to officers in the British Navy and Army...

The flag of England is the national flag of England, a constituent country of the United Kingdom. It is derived from Saint George's Cross (heraldic blazon:...

Order of Saint Benedict of Aviz (Portuguese: Real Ordem Militar de São Bento de Avis), previously to 1789 Knights (of the Order) of Saint Benedict of...

Elisabeth was a 32-gun frigate of the Navy of the Order of Saint John of Malta, later brought into French service as the Carthaginoise ([kaʁ.ta.ʒi.nwaz];...

The Order of the Redeemer (Greek: Τάγμα του Σωτήρος, romanized: Tágma tou Sotíros), also known as the Order of the Saviour, is an order of merit of Greece...

King, describing the African Orthodox Church of Saint John Coltrane, said "We are Coltrane-conscious...God dwells in the musical majesty of his sounds." Samuel...

suddenly exploding. Saint Barbara is the patron of the Italian Navy. Within the tunnelling industry, as a long-standing tradition, one of the first tasks for...