Navy Boating Sailing Magnets
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Description: Royal Navy - Sometime in the 19th century, the Royal Navy attempted to finally dispel the old superstition among sailors that beginning a voyage on a Friday was certain to bring bad luck. To demonstrate the falseness of this belief, they decided to commission a ship named HMS Friday. Her keel was laid on a Friday, she was launched on a Friday, and she set sail on her maiden voyage on Friday the 13th, under the command of a Captain James Friday. She was never seen or heard from again. Or so the story goes, it is believed to be an urban legend within the Royal Navy.
Description: Royal Navy - HMAV Bounty, His/Her Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty, was a small merchant vessel that the Royal Navy purchased in 1787 for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the South Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to the West Indies.
Description: Royal Navy - HMS Dreadnought was a Royal Navy battleship, the design of which revolutionised naval power. The ship's entry into service in 1906 represented such an advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the dreadnoughts, as well as the class of ships named after her.
Description: Isambard Kingdom Brunel - SS Great Eastern was an iron hulled steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Powered by both side wheels and a screw propeller, she was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers from England to Australia without refueling.
Description: World War 2 - HMS Illustrious was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy before World War II. Her first assignment after completion and working up was with the Mediterranean Fleet, in which her aircraft's most notable achievement was sinking one Italian battleship and badly damaging two others during the Battle of Taranto in late 1940. The carrier participated in the early stages of the Battle of Okinawa until mechanical defects arising from accumulated battle damage became so severe she was ordered home early for repairs in May 1945.
Description: Royal Navy - HMS Birkenhead, also known as HM Troopship Birkenhead, was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy. In January 1852, HMS Birkenhead left Portsmouth to transport troops to fight in the Frontier War in South Africa. In February 1852, the ship sank off the South African coast. The sinking of the Birkenhead is one of the earliest maritime disaster evacuations during which the concept of "women and children first" is known to have been applied. "Women and children first" subsequently became standard procedure in relation to the evacuation of sinking ships, in fiction and in life. The term "Birkenhead Drill" became defined as courageous behaviour in hopeless circumstances.
Description: If you're into boating on the lake, river or ocean -- whether that's a sailboat, yacht, speedboat, or pontoon -- then this cool boat captain shirt is just for you! Featuring a distressed design, this boating tshirt makes the perfect gift or birthday present for the pirate captain in your life.
Description: Sailing Boat Gipsy Moth IV is a ketch that Sir Francis Chichester commissioned specifically to sail single handed around the globe, racing against the times set by the clipper ships of the 19th century. Gipsy Moth IV was the first ever purpose built ocean racer and has over the years become the most famous of small sailing vessels.
Description: If you're into boating on the lake, river or ocean -- whether that's a sailboat, yacht, speedboat, or pontoon -- then this cool boat captain shirt is just for you! Featuring a distressed design, this boating tshirt makes the perfect gift or birthday present for the pirate captain in your life.
Description: If you're into boating on the lake, river or ocean -- whether that's a sailboat, yacht, speedboat, or pontoon -- then this cool boat captain shirt is just for you! Featuring a distressed design, this boating tshirt makes the perfect gift or birthday present for the pirate captain in your life.
Description: Canadian Pacific Line - Canadian Pacific Steamship Company was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on Canadian Pacific ships from Europe to Canada. In 1914 the sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship RMS Empress of Ireland just before World War I became the largest maritime disaster in Canadian history. The company provided Canadian Merchant Navy vessels in World Wars I and II. Twelve vessels were lost due to enemy action in World War II, including the RMS Empress of Britain, which was the largest ship ever sunk by a German U-boat.
Description: Canadian Pacific Line - Canadian Pacific Steamship Company was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on Canadian Pacific ships from Europe to Canada. In 1914 the sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship RMS Empress of Ireland just before World War I became the largest maritime disaster in Canadian history. The company provided Canadian Merchant Navy vessels in World Wars I and II. Twelve vessels were lost due to enemy action in World War II, including the RMS Empress of Britain, which was the largest ship ever sunk by a German U-boat.
Description: Wind In The Willows - A quote from the Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, spoken by the Water Rat to the Mole. It captures the pure joy of being on the water without any special goal. "Believe me my young friend, there is nothing absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats".
Description: Isambard Kingdom Brunel - SS Great Western was a wooden hulled paddle wheel steamship with four masts, the first steamship purpose built for crossing the Atlantic, and the initial unit of the Great Western Steamship Company. Designed by British civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Great Western proved satisfactory in service and was the model for all successful wooden Atlantic paddle-steamers. She was capable of making record Blue Riband voyages as late as 1843.
Description: Isambard Kingdom Brunel - SS Great Britain is a museum ship and former passenger steamship that was advanced for her time. The largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1853, she was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between Bristol and New York City. While other ships had previously been built of iron or equipped with a screw propeller, Great Britain was the first to combine these features in a large ocean-going ship, making her one of the most technologically advanced ships of her time. She was the first iron steamer to cross the Atlantic Ocean, which she did in 1845, in 14 days.
Description: Maritime History - Turbinia is the first steam turbine-powered steamship. Built as an experimental vessel in 1894, and easily the fastest ship in the world at that time, Turbinia was demonstrated dramatically at the Spithead Navy Review in 1897 and set the standard for the next generation of steamships, the majority of which would be turbine powered.
Description: World War 2 - The light cruiser HMAS Sydney operated by the Royal Australian Navy during World War II, was lost with all 645 crew members in November 1941 following a devastating close-quarters naval battle with the disguised German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran off the coast of Western Australia.
