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111Lorenzo Mitchell-Henry — (July 1866 June 1965)Lorenzo was born in Stratheden House, Knightsbridge, his father’s London residence, in 1866, the youngest son of Mitchell Henry (Mitchell being his Christian name) and his wife Margaret, who was a Vaughan. He went to Eton as… …
112Victoria Island (Russian Arctic) — Victoria Island (Russ. Остров Виктория; Ostrov Viktoriya) is a small Arctic island situated at 80°9 N 36°46 E, halfway between the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard and the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land. This westernmost of all Russian… …
113Bratvaag Expedition — The Bratvaag Expedition was a Norwegian expedition in 1930 led by Dr. Gunnar Horn, whose official tasks were hunting seals and to study glaciers and seas in the Svalbard Arctic region. The name of the expedition was taken from its ship, M/S… …
114Joe Baker-Cresswell — Captain Addison Joe Baker Cresswell DSO RN (born 2 February 1901, Mayfair, London, died Bamburgh, Northumberland 4 March 1997), was a Royal Navy officer, aide de camp to King George VI and High Sheriff of Northumberland.Background and early life… …
115USS Rambler (SP-211) — was a steam yacht acquired by the United States Navy during World War I for patrol duty. History Rambler , built in 1900 by Lewis Nixon of Elizabethport, New Jersey, was acquired by the Navy, 16 August 1917 from Kenneth Van Riper of New York City …
116USS Corona (SP-813) — was a yacht acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was outfitted as a patrol craft, and assigned to the North Atlantic Ocean, based out of Brest, France, to protect shipping from the German submarines and Q ships. Post war she was… …
117USS Halcyon II (SP-582) — was a yacht acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was outfitted as an armed patrol craft and stationed in Boston harbor in Massachusetts. She spent much of the war patrolling the Massachusetts waterways for German submarines and, in… …
118USS Margaret (SP-524) — was a yacht acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was reconfigured by the Navy at Boston, Massachusetts and served as a patrol craft throughout the war. Post war she was transferred to the War Department. World War I service Margaret …
119USS Zara (SP-133) — was an armed yacht that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919. Zara was a steam yacht built in 1891 in the United Kingdom by Fleming and Ferguson at Paisley, Scotland. Originally named Solgar , she had been renamed by the time the… …
120Edward VIII — later Duke of Windsor …
