RFA Argus is a ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary operated by the Ministry of Defence under the Blue Ensign.Italian-built, Argus was formerly the container ship MV Contender Bezant.The ship was requisitioned in 1982 for service in the Falklands War and purchased outright in 1984 for a four-year conversion to an Aviation Training Ship, replacing RFA Engadine.

Annie Besant (née Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer, orator, political party member, educationist, and philanthropist.Regarded as a champion of human freedom, she was an ardent supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule.She was also a prolific author with over three hundred books and …

Dacorum Borough Council is the local authority for the Dacorum non-metropolitan district of England, the United Kingdom.Dacorum is located in the north-west of Hertfordshire, in the East of England region.The Council itself is based in Hemel Hempstead, the largest settlement in the district.. The Council consists of 51 elected councillors, representing twenty-five electoral …

Atlantic Conveyor was a British merchant navy ship, registered in Liverpool, that was requisitioned during the Falklands War.. She was hit on 25 May 1982 by two Argentine air-launched AM39 Exocet missiles, killing 12 sailors. Atlantic Conveyor sank whilst under tow on 28 May 1982.. The wrecksite is designated under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986.

Pre-war. Atlantic Causeway and her sister, Atlantic Conveyor were built by Swan Hunter as part of Cunard's contribution to Atlantic Container Line, a European shipping consortium. Atlantic Causeway was completed in 1969. With the outbreak of the Falklands War in 1982, Atlantic Conveyor was requisitioned on 14 April, and Atlantic Causeway on 4 May to serve as transport …

Murrey is used on these de Jong arms: Azure, a bezant; a chief per saltire, murrey and azure, filleted argent, over the partition a fillet saltire nowy, also argent. The name of the heraldic stain of murrey derives from the name of the mulberry, which is the fruit of the tree Morus nigra whose reddish purple colour murrey originally represented.

The Crusader States, also known as Outremer, were four Roman Catholic realms in the Middle East that lasted from 1098 to 1291.These feudal polities were created by the Latin Catholic leaders of the First Crusade through conquest and political intrigue. The four states were the County of Edessa (1098–1150), the Principality of Antioch (1098–1287), the County of Tripoli …

De centaur (Latijn: centaurus, ook wel kentaur, Oudgrieks: κένταυρος, kentauros of paardmens) is een fabeldier uit de Griekse mythologie, half mens en half paard, of liever half mens en driekwart paard, want hij heeft het volledige lichaam van een paard, behalve de kop.Hij heeft dus zes ledematen: vier paardenpoten en twee menselijke armen en hij heeft twee borstkassen.

Construction. The ship was built at Hebburn, in Tyneside, by the Hawthorn Leslie and Company shipyard in the mid-1960s. She was launched on 8 February 1966, and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 17 August 1967.. Service history 1967–1982. In her first year Argonaut escorted the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary on her last voyage across the North Atlantic Ocean to a …