The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX , formerly President of the Royal Society . FREDERICK WILH . FACIS , medallist . JAMES HAKEWILL , architect . IPPOLITO ROSSELINI , Egyptian antiquities . GEORGE MADDOX , architect and artist . REV . W ...
... ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX , formerly President of the Royal Society . FREDERICK WILH . FACIS , medallist . JAMES HAKEWILL , architect . IPPOLITO ROSSELINI , Egyptian antiquities . GEORGE MADDOX , architect and artist . REV . W ...
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... Royal Steam Yacht Victoria and Albert . - The launch of this singularly beautiful and magnificent steam vessel took place at Pembroke , on the 26th April . The following are the principal dimensions : -Extreme length , 225 feet ; length ...
... Royal Steam Yacht Victoria and Albert . - The launch of this singularly beautiful and magnificent steam vessel took place at Pembroke , on the 26th April . The following are the principal dimensions : -Extreme length , 225 feet ; length ...
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... ROYAL GEORGE . ON November the 4th , the divers worked for the last time in search- ing for guns , to which their efforts had been exclusively devoted for more than six weeks , in consequence of the whole of the woodwork of this ...
... ROYAL GEORGE . ON November the 4th , the divers worked for the last time in search- ing for guns , to which their efforts had been exclusively devoted for more than six weeks , in consequence of the whole of the woodwork of this ...
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... Royal Engineers , commenced his operations , he recovered twelve guns , eleven more in 1840 , and six in 1841 ; but , in 1842 , he only reco- vered one iron 12 - pounder , because he then directed that the divers , who had got down to ...
... Royal Engineers , commenced his operations , he recovered twelve guns , eleven more in 1840 , and six in 1841 ; but , in 1842 , he only reco- vered one iron 12 - pounder , because he then directed that the divers , who had got down to ...
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... Royal George , the hull of which , then nearly perfect , stood 33 feet higher than the general level of the anchoring ground . Though the demolition and removal of this celebrated wreck com- menced in 1839 , yet only two months of that ...
... Royal George , the hull of which , then nearly perfect , stood 33 feet higher than the general level of the anchoring ground . Though the demolition and removal of this celebrated wreck com- menced in 1839 , yet only two months of that ...
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