General
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In 1919 it was true that during a 24-hour day it was always daylight somewhere in the British...
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A mile on land is 1760 yards: a sea or nautical mile is 1/60 of a degree of latitude...
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'Char' is in fact quite a close version of the Chinese for tea, 'tcha'...
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Every maritime nation can tell of captains who stayed with their ships until the last moment, and...
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They did, but it doesn’t appear to have been as common in fact as in fiction...
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It is believed to have been Hamlet, performed on board the Red Dragon in 1607...
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No, purple was just the colour assigned to the engineering branch (Royal Navy) in 1863...
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The South Sea Bubble was the famous financial collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720...
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The practice of colouring the Empire in pink on maps and globes began as a printer’s compromise for...
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The first naval Victoria Cross was awarded to Charles Lucas in 1854...
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They were commissions issued by the High Court of Admiralty authorizing privately owned ships to...
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Martello towers were built on the South and East coast of England in the first part of the 19th...
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Greek fire was apparently introduced about 672AD. Naptha or petroleum is thought to have been its...
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The over-200 ton obelisk was encased in an iron cylinder which was rolled down a track into the...