The Hero was a tiny sloop, just 44 tons and 47 feet long, captained by 21-year-old Nathaniel Palmer of Stonington, Connecticut, and manned by a crew of...
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redshift Hero (pinnace), a steam-powered boat, launched 1895 Hero (1807 ship), a British whaler Hero (sloop), that explored the Antarctic in 1820 Hero-class...
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approved by the Advisory Committee on Undersea Features in June 1987. Hero (sloop) "Hero Fracture Zone". Geographic Names Information System. United States...
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"Sloop John B" (originally published as "The John B. Sails") is a Bahamian folk song from Nassau. A transcription was published in 1916 by Richard Le...
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of the planet's core as it cooled over time. The scarp is named after sloop Hero, Nathaniel Palmer's ship used to explore the Antarctic coast, 1820–21...
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his name to Palmer Land, Antarctica, which he explored in 1820 on his sloop Hero. He was born in Stonington, Connecticut, and was a descendant of Walter...
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The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Beacon, New York that seeks to protect the Hudson River and surrounding...
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USS Yankee Hero was an American sloop-of-war commissioned in Massachusetts on January 13, 1776, for use by the new Continental Navy. It was under the command...
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RMS Carpathia (redirect from Titanic's hero)
Carpathia. U-55 started approaching the lifeboats when the Azalea-class sloop HMS Snowdrop arrived on the scene and drove away the submarine with gunfire...
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loss of over 600 lives. Grasshopper, The 74-gun HMS Hero, the ship-sloop Egeria, the brig-sloop Grasshopper and the hired armed ship Prince William left...
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