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  • There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner? Canada and the Empire
  • Fish and chips for the white van man and beef wellington for the admiralty. BritChick Paris: Why a High Society Wedding in France Is Tres Tres Posh
  • The geographical results were fruitful; the Ross Sea, the Admiralty Range and the Great Ice Barrier were discovered and some eight hundred miles of Antarctic coastline were broadly delineated. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • The Admiralty court was declared by statute to be a sovereign court.
  • In November 1875, Sir Frederick Evans, newly appointed hydrographer of the British Navy, ordered 123 doubtful islands banished from Admiralty Chart 2683 of the Pacific Ocean. A Furnace Afloat
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  • This general rule of construction should especially guide a court of admiralty in interpreting a contract of bottomry and respondentia.
  • He was thirty years in Admiralty, all through the period of the Napoleonic War, and he devised the new doctrine, really based on the old rule of 1745, known as "Continuous Voyage". The Freedom of the Seas
  • He noted the latitude and longitude, then made a mark on the admiralty chart, with the time and date. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • Lovelock was saying, `We have charts for the whole world aboard, both airways and admiralty. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • Our noble captain did not get rid of his angry looks for some days, and actually wept at what he termed the treacherous conduct of the Admiralty. A Sailor of King George
  • On his return three years later he was appointed director of electrical engineering at the Admiralty, Bath.
  • On his return three years later he was appointed director of electrical engineering at the Admiralty, Bath.
  • At one extreme of these is the proceeding in rem of the admiralty, which conclusively disposes of the property in its power, and, when it sells or condemns it, does not deal with this or that man's title, but gives a new title paramount to all previous interests, whatsoever they may be. The Common Law
  • The fact that a coastguard was the first on board may save some complications, later on, in the Admiralty Court; for coastguards cannot claim the salvage which is the right of the first civilian entering on a derelict. Dracula
  • Built in Glasgow in 1910, this vessel tramped her way around the globe for the next three decades, until she was requisitioned by an Admiralty hurriedly preparing for a war it was desperately unready to fight.
  • I am glad to have met you, Mrs Campbell," said Captain Lumley; "I found, on paying my respects to the Governor, that there is what they call the Admiralty House here, which is kept furnished by Government for the senior officers of his Majesty's ships. The Settlers in Canada
  • After more abortive attempts, the Admiralty decided, in 1845, to send Sir John Franklin with two steamers, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to resolve the problem.
  • The Admiralty order, "Let the Regulating Captains send them as he desires," [Footnote: _Admiralty Records_ 1. 1983 The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • Besides the flying foxes, the admiralty cuscus (Spilocuscus kraemeri) is the only endemic cuscus in the hotspot, being confined to the Admiralty Islands. Biological diversity in the East Melanesian Islands
  • While plans were drawn up in case the raider was a pocket battleship and not just one of the many German merchant ships which had sneaked out of the sanctuary of a South American port and armed herself, the Admiralty signalled to Admiral Lyon and Commodore Harwood that the order recalling the 4th Destroyer Division was cancelled and they were "to be retained in the South Atlantic for the present. Graf Spee
  • The doors of Kirribilli House, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's official Sydney home and neighbouring Admiralty House, the governor-general's Sydney home were thrown open to the public for a bit of a stickybeak. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • During the war, he joined the British Admiralty Research Laboratories where he designed acoustic and magnetic mines.
  • The title went to Her Majesty, and with it yet another flag - the Admiralty flag of a gold anchor on red.
  • _ Chambers, [385] the Supreme Court held specifically applicable in admiralty proceedings the law of Florida whereby a cause of action for personal injury due to another's negligence survives the death of the tort-feasor against his estate and against the vessel. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
  • Admiralty , bankruptcy and company winding-up proceedings are also undertaken. Most of these cases relate to employees' wages and severance pay.
  • The scenes in the subterranean offices of the Admiralty are remarkably subdued; the war seems to be a deuced spot of bother bound to blow over any day now, but damned unpleasant in the clinch, eh?
  • Queen Elizabeth might do it, but how likely was it that the Admiralty would permit the prize superdreadnought to be exposed to the dangers involved in entering the Sea of Marmara? Castles of Steel
  • Perceval appointed him secretary to the Admiralty in 1809, a well-paid post which he held for 22 years, never quitting his office ‘without a kind of uneasiness like a truant boy’.
  • Researching some obscure question of admiralty law for your boss's next move? BALANCE OF POWER
  • House of Commons and the Admiralty — Author attempting to cut out a Spanish zebec, is taken prisoner — His pleasant experiences while in captivity — At last released. A Sailor of King George
  • The island is only a quarter of a mile in diameter, and on it are situated an Admiralty coalshed — where A Goboto Night
  • He noted the latitude and longitude, then made a mark on the admiralty chart.
  • But Perfect View, poised on a ledge above Snow Hill and beneath Richmond Heights, gazing serenely across to Bathampton and what – in my young day as a cub reporter on the Bath Chronicle – we called the Admiralty hutments: Perfect View is the real thing. Britain's best views: Bath
  • In 1801, as 1st lord of the Admiralty, St Vincent prosecuted an inquiry into theft in the dockyards which contributed to Lord Melville's impeachment in 1806 for malversation of funds.
  • Furthermore, some such as Admiralty House whilst 10 Downing Street was undergoing renovations or repairs. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Establishment (ASEE), where he was involved with the development of asdic, an early form of sonar, and then for the Admiralty Signals Establishment (ASE). The Guardian World News
  • This inlet they called Port Dalrymple, after the late hydrographer to the Admiralty in England. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole
  • High fences around Admiralty installations gave good views as the birds perched briefly on the wires, taking their bearings.
  • The Admiralty is a very great place, if, Mr. President you will allow me to call it a place. There Are No Civilians In London
  • In Admiralty Square three puppets in a puppet theatre come to life: Petrushka, the Ballerina, and the Moor.
  • Most of the passage had already been charted and the British Admiralty expected that Franklin, a veteran Arctic explorer, would handily chart the rest.
  • Refusing exemption, he had joined the navy as a lieutenant and was about to take charge of the Admiralty's Educational Film Unit.
  • At the outbreak of the Second World War the port, with its large graving and floating docks, became a naval base and later an Admiralty dockyard.
  • High mountains were visible to the west-ward, part of the Admiralty Range, two splendid peaks to be seen towering above the remainder, which appeared to be Mounts Sabine and Herschell. South with Scott
  • I am glad to have met you, Mrs. Campbell," said Captain Lumley; "I found on paying my respects to the Governor, that there is what they call the Admiralty House here, which is kept furnished by Government for the senior officers of his Majesty's ships. The Settlers in Canada
  • The Admiralty placed its faith in dreadnoughts and Britain's traditional naval ships - and this, to a great extent, did not include submarines.
  • The expenditure in connection with wireless telegraphy is under the control of the Admiralty and included in its general budget. The Imperial Conference of 1907
  • The Admiralty Pilot Book warned that in some years the Kuroshio shifts its course.
  • Much of this information is held on the back of the chart, unlike the Admiralty who only use one side.
  • (Admiralty 68/194, ff. 82r, abstracted in Survey Report 6801, Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.) [4] The impost was the duty imposed by Britain on imported tobacco, and the cocket (for which a fee was charged) was the certified document issued that the impost had been paid. Letter from Robert Carter to John Pemberton and Company, June 1, 1728
  • In calm seas and glorious weather, the ship made landfall off the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken, and secured to the Admiralty buoy in Cumberland Bay.
  • 'Admiralty House' is a fine residence in San Thomé, and is now the property of the Raja of The Story of Madras
  • The associated ship provisions is one of the most typical legal system in the South African Admiralty Jurisdiction.
  • The first glimpse of Antarctic land, Sabine and the great mountains of the Admiralty Range. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
  • Much of this information is held on the back of the chart, unlike the Admiralty who only use one side.
  • The Royal Fleet Auxiliary was born exactly a century ago as the Admiralty sought to make the distinction between warships and the auxiliaries which supported the Royal Navy.
  • Visit to a Jamaican plantation — Condition of the slaves — A growl against the House of Commons and the Admiralty — Author attempting to cut out a Spanish zebec, is taken prisoner — His pleasant experiences while in captivity — At last released. A Sailor of King George
  • Horatio enjoys dry clothes and a tot of rum, as well as the news that the Admiralty has confirmed him as Lieutenant in recognition of his courage during the fire ship attack at Gibraltar.
  • There was also a degaussing station attached to the establishment, and after the war until 1962 it was used as a Sea Cadet training centre and an Admiralty store.
  • John Vassall, a sad homosexual who gave away naval secrets while working at the Admiralty.
  • It was an admiralty chart, showing the southern part of Australia and Antarctica. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • The worthy clerk of the Admiralty "glutted" himself with looking on her; Royalty Restored
  • For the average gangsman was as void of sentiment as an Admiralty warrant, pressing you with equal avidity and absence of feeling whether he caught you returning from a festival or a funeral. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
  • Equally disturbing to many, Parliament routed execution of these new laws through admiralty courts, where a judge would preside unhampered by either jurors or public spectators.
  • Barratry can be identified in two forms within an admiralty context and seamen should be aware.
  • Mr. Balfour and his associates were working also on this problem in Washington; and, at the same time, Page and Admiral Sims and the British Admiralty were bending all their energies in London to obtain immediate cooeperation. The Life and Letters of Walter H Page
  • While, since the formal declaration of war, United Kingdom shipping has not been running to normal schedules, the convoy system as announced by the United Kingdom Admiralty is already in operation, and as a result it will be possible to maintain frequent, although perhaps irregular sailings. The Scottish Link in the Empire
  • He noted the latitude and longitude, then made a mark on the admiralty chart.
  • Captain Somerville has been begging me to intercede with the Admiralty again; but I have been so rebuffed, that my spirits are gone, and the great Troubridge has what we call cowed the spirits of Nelson; but I shall never forget it. The Life of Nelson
  • The Expedition owes great obligations to the Lords of the Admiralty for their unvarying readiness to render us every assistance in their power; and to the warm-hearted and ever-obliging hydrographer to the A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
  • For instance, The Third Man recounts Blair continuing to deny to Mandelson that he agreed a resignation date at Admiralty House, even when Brown and Prescott are insisting that he did. Warning: you are about to be dazzled by a flash minister
  • Jones gave a long story to the High Court of the Admiralty in 1723 that explained how he eventually came to be a marooner.
  • The Admiralty bought what it could, used war prizes and added war-damaged ships, anything that would float long enough to be towed into position.
  • He noted the latitude and longitude, then made a mark on the admiralty chart, with the time and date. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • His brother Austen, affronted by the lack of respect paid to his seniority, reluctantly accepted the Admiralty outside the Cabinet.
  • He noted the latitude and longitude, then made a mark on the admiralty chart.
  • At 9 a.m. on January 7, Mount Sabine, a mighty peak of the Admiralty Range, South Victoria Land, was sighted seventy – five miles distant. South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
  • At the outbreak of the Second World War, he transferred to the Admiralty, designing magnetic and acoustic mines in which the circuitry would enable enemy ships and sweeps to be distinguished.
  • My father would drive me to the convent school in Bath on his way to the Admiralty. Times, Sunday Times
  • As, by the Admiralty's instructions, one of the blockaders was usually a ship of the line, the American vessels very properly evaded them. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2
  • At that time there was a very famous judge in Admiralty, who practically made all modern prize law -- Lord Stowell. The Freedom of the Seas
  • Mr Prescott has still not moved out of his grace-and-favour flat in Admiralty House in Whitehall, Central London. The Price of Lard
  • By all accounts both Tub O'Lard and Miss Caravanning Monthly 1975 are still enjoying the sybaritic delights of the 'Grace & Favour' residences that were granted to them when they were still Ministers of The Crown, the former enjoying a flat in Admiralty Arch where, as Deputy Prime Minister he is said to have smoothed the ruffled feathers of Vanity Blair and Macavity (and doubtless shagged his secretary whilst the going was good) and the latter at Carlton Gardens. Archive 2007-07-22
  • The Admiralty sent four ships (two sailing ships and two steam auxiliary ships), accompanied by one sailing ship to serve as a base, supply depot, and refuge in case of trouble.
  • Enjoying spectacular views across the firth, it was refashioned in 1916 for the admiralty and enjoyed the patronage of successive generations of the royal family until the late 1980s.
  • The Admiralty had arranged for the carriage of mails by Churchward, but the continuation of the agreement depended on the availability of a sum of £18,000.
  • Landgrave Morton replied, that there was a necessity for holding a commission from the king to be judge of the court of vice-admiralty, because it did not appear from the charter that the Proprietors could impower their judge to try persons for acts committed without the bounds of their colony, and that with such jurisdiction the judge of the admiralty ought for many reasons always to be vested. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1
  • Its acme of awfulness is a reconstruction of the watershed Brown-Blair summit at Prescott's Admiralty Arch flat in 2004. Archive 2007-02-01
  • The British Admiralty had warned the Lusitania to avoid the area and to use the evasive tactic of zigzagging, but the crew ignored these recommendations.
  • He noted the latitude and longitude, then made a mark on the admiralty chart.
  • In 1505, by a royal decree of 14 April of that year, he had received Spanish naturalization, and a decree of 6 August, 1508, named him piloto mayor de España, a title corresponding to the modern one of head of the admiralty, and which was borne by Vespucci until his death. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • Despite the hoopla, the Admiralty dragged its feet for a year in arranging the formal trial.
  • In 1845, the British Admiralty sponsored a demonstration to determine which was superior, the paddle wheel or screw propeller; the latter clearly won.
  • As environment secretary and foreign secretary, Mrs Beckett was living at the grace and favour Admiralty House in Whitehall, which enabled her to rent out her London flat. For Foulkes Sake - step forward The Red Baron
  • April 23 -- German Admiralty announces that the German high seas fleet has recently cruised repeated in the North Sea, advancing into English waters without meeting British ships; the British Official Gazette announces a blockade, beginning at midnight, of Kamerun, German West New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
  • Finally there were courts administering family and probate matters, which had inherited their jurisdiction from the ecclesiastical courts, and the Court of Admiralty.
  • Equally disturbing to many, Parliament routed execution of these new laws through admiralty courts, where a judge would preside unhampered by either jurors or public spectators.
  • In admiralty: Foreclosure of the hypothecation of the British brig Euphemia, Capt. OpEdNews - Quicklink: When foreclosure hits close to home
  • Had Muse pled not guilty, it would have been the first piracy trial on American soil since 1826, sending scores of harassed law clerks into the dimmest, darkest recesses of Admiralty law. D.R. Burgess: Somali Piracy: Send in the Marines...Then the Lawyers
  • The bull lifts its head a little and gazes up at the Admiralty for some moments.
  • Admiralty, and was able to state that, after two years of "frightfulness," the British mercantile marine was only a small fraction below its tonnage at the commencement. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917
  • I had better luck just below Trafalgar Square, where the Old Admiralty Building stands intact, screened off behind a handsome neoclassical colonnade from the broad avenue of government buildings called Whitehall. Heart of Darwin
  • It stops short at the Palace in the west, and the Admiralty in the north.
  • At the outbreak of the Second World War the port, with its large graving and floating docks, became a naval base and later an Admiralty dockyard.
  • She sent a silent message winging to the small room at the Admiralty.
  • Deployed to New Guinea in 1944 she bombarded Japanese positions in the Admiralty Islands and took part in the landings at Sek Island.
  • The Admiralty House deal required Brown to help Blair to deliver his domestic policy agenda. Mandelson's memoirs: Blair thought Brown was 'mad, bad and dangerous'
  • Recent finds include copper pins marked with the broad arrow of the Admiralty, copper sheathing, pan weights, musket balls, cannonballs and a sounding lead.
  • Before the war, the Admiralty had developed a sloop design for convoy escort work.
  • Blair, it turns out, had indeed agreed to serve only two terms; though not, as journalists had always thought, in an Islington restaurant in 1994, but at a dinner in John Prescott's Admiralty House apartment in 2003. Warning: you are about to be dazzled by a flash minister
  • Instead, he sailed into a the region now named the Ross Sea and for two weeks, tracked the coast of Victoria Land, naming the peaks of the Admiralty Range, and various islands and geographic sites. Three National Expeditions to Antarctica
  • Britian's Conservative Party revealed late Saturday that Cameron and Clegg had already met for one-on-one talks at central London's Admiralty House. Liberal Democrats Mull Pact With Conservatives To Form UK Government

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