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  • which related to the way dogs can run on three legs to gain sympathy and the sailor's term heaving the lead which was to take soundings. Left high and...
    11 KB (1,433 words) - 04:20, 26 December 2022
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    Knobelsdorf to take soundings from the 5th Army corps commanders, who unanimously wanted to continue. The German infantry were exposed to continuous artillery...
    120 KB (16,665 words) - 13:41, 15 May 2024
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    area 2,250 yards west of the correct area. Two attempts had to be made to take soundings off Pointe de Ver. The first sortie, Operation Bellpush Able...
    48 KB (5,638 words) - 11:01, 4 May 2024
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    Cocos (Keeling) Islands (category Wikipedia pages move-protected due to vandalism)
    Robert FitzRoy arrived to take soundings to establish the profile of the atoll as part of the survey expedition of the Beagle. To the naturalist Charles...
    84 KB (7,823 words) - 15:40, 11 May 2024
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    Honda Point disaster (category Events that led to courts-martial)
    them to be erroneous. No effort was made to take soundings of water depths using a fathometer as this would require the ships to slow down to take the...
    23 KB (2,391 words) - 22:17, 12 May 2024
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    probably take soundings, via the Cabinet Secretary, of members of the Cabinet, to ensure that The Queen invited someone who would be acceptable to the Cabinet...
    53 KB (5,905 words) - 11:53, 9 May 2024
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    on 11 October 1874 and left for Honolulu on 1 November with orders to take soundings of the ocean bottom every 30 nautical miles (60 km). She remained...
    12 KB (1,462 words) - 13:08, 3 November 2023
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    sent to force the Danes to withdraw from the League of Armed Neutrality. On the night of 1 April 1801, Hardy was sent in a boat to take soundings around...
    25 KB (2,707 words) - 08:41, 4 April 2024
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    and the pilot, John Lock, set off with two seamen in a small boat to take soundings. The river was high and they discovered ten feet of water over the...
    24 KB (2,667 words) - 12:15, 15 April 2024
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    Rab Butler (category Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y)
    to visit Blackpool ever again. Back in London, Macmillan, from his hospital bed, proposed on 14 October a four-track consultation to "take soundings"...
    107 KB (12,989 words) - 21:43, 15 May 2024
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    Swan. Lieutenant Carnac and the ship's Master, Millroy, were left to take soundings and look for channels and possible landing places. Meanwhile, Stirling...
    65 KB (8,531 words) - 04:09, 12 May 2024
  • potential candidate for the leadership. Beattie had said he would "take soundings" with regard to the leadership position. However, on 14 October 2019, the Upper...
    3 KB (265 words) - 08:48, 8 October 2023
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    probably take soundings, via the Cabinet Secretary, of members of the Cabinet, to ensure that The Queen invited someone who would be acceptable to the Cabinet...
    30 KB (2,514 words) - 21:43, 15 May 2024
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    Lagarto; less than an hour later, she slowed to take soundings, recording seven fathoms. She changed course to parallel the coast. Baya's SJ picked up four...
    28 KB (3,759 words) - 08:40, 4 October 2023
  • probably take soundings, via the Cabinet Secretary, of members of the Cabinet, to ensure that The Queen invited someone who would be acceptable to the Cabinet...
    13 KB (1,706 words) - 14:15, 11 April 2024
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    Rear-Admiral Eliab Harvey, volunteered to lead such an attack, but Gambier hesitated to act, failing to take soundings of the approaches or make any practical...
    59 KB (7,905 words) - 23:06, 15 May 2024
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    King's Counsel (redirect from Take silk)
    government's focus switched from abolition to reform and, in particular, reform of the much-criticised "secret soundings" of judges and other establishment legal...
    80 KB (9,124 words) - 10:26, 14 May 2024
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    Nelson was forced to be cautious in his advance, and ordered Captain Samuel Hood in Zealous to take soundings as he advanced to establish the depth...
    69 KB (8,892 words) - 11:22, 10 April 2024
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    position just before the 1:00 a.m. stranding with failure to take soundings. The board, with respect to the master's long service and performance during the...
    9 KB (827 words) - 01:00, 7 November 2023
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    Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet (category Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y)
    agreed to take soundings of army opinion at the annual Staff College conference at Camberley the following week. At the end of February Wilson went to Belfast...
    198 KB (27,748 words) - 00:24, 16 May 2024
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