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21Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum — The museum on the Auckland waterfront. The Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum is New Zealand s premier maritime museum. It is located on Hobson Wharf Auckland, adjacent to Viaduct Harbour. It houses exhibitions spanning New Zealands maritime… …
22STEVENSON — UNITED KINGDOM (see also List of Individuals) 11.1.1815 Edinburgh/ UK 17.7.1886 North Berwick/UK David Stevenson was the third son of the engineer Robert Stevenson. Being educated at Edinburgh University, David studied from 1835 diving bell works …
23Chorograph — Cho ro*graph, n. [Gr. ? place + graph.] An instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc. [1913 Webster] …
24James Rennell — Major James Rennell F.R.S. (December 3, 1742 March 29, 1830) was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.BiographyRennell was born near Chudleigh in Devon. His father, John Rennel, an officer in the Royal Artillery, was… …
25Transit (ship) — Transit was the name given to three sailing vessels designed and built to the order of Captain Richard Hall Gower.All three had fine lines at bow and stern, uniform frames mid ships with concave and convex sweeps and a deep keel. Their length to… …
26Richard Hall Gower — Captain Richard Hall Gower (1768 1833) was an English mariner, empirical philosopher, nautical inventor, entrepreneur, and humanitarian.MarinerRichard was the youngest son of Rev. Reginald Foote Gower, physician and antiquarian. He won a… …
27National Maritime Museum, New Zealand — The National Maritime Museum is New Zealand s premier maritime museum. It is located at the waterfront of Auckland, close to the Viaduct Harbour. It holds ships, models and related exhibition pieces spanning New Zealands maritime history from the …
28Seaford, Virginia — Seaford is an unincorporated community in York County, Virginia, United States, on the Virginia Peninsula.HistoryJohn Chisman patented 600 acres on Crab Neck in 1636 and began the Seaford Settlement. [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/hiway… …
29John Knox Laughton — Sir John Knox Laughton KCB (23 April 1830–14 September 1915) was a British naval historian and arguably the first to argue for the importance of the subject as an independent field of study. Beginning his working life as a mathematically trained… …
30Intertek Group — Infobox Company company name = Intertek Group plc company logo = company type = Public (lse|ITRK) foundation = 1885 location = London, UK key people = Vanni Treves, Chairman Wolfhart Hauser, CEO industry = Testing products = revenue = £775.4… …
