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Dartmouth College Faculty
Dartmouth may refer to: Places * Dartmouth, Devon, England ** Dartmouth Harbour ** Dartmouth (UK Parliament constituency) * Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States * Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada * Dartmouth, Victoria, Australia Institutions * Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States ** Dartmouth Big Green, athletic teams representing the college ** '' The Dartmouth'', a newspaper of Dartmouth College * Dartmouth University, a defunct university (1817–1819) in New Hampshire * University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, a university in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States * Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, a research hospital in Lebanon, New Hampshire * Britannia Royal Naval College or Dartmouth, a college in Dartmouth, Devon, England Ships * ''Dartmouth'' (1655), a 22-gun ship * HMS ''Dartmouth'' (1693), a 48-gun fourth rate * HMS ''Dartmouth'' (1698), a 50-gun fourth rate * HMS ''Dartmouth'' (1910), a Town-class c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dartmouth, Devon
Dartmouth () is a town and civil parish in the England, English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the western bank of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and South Hams district, and had a population of 5,512 in 2001, reducing to 5,064 at the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 census. There are two electoral wards in the ''Dartmouth'' area (Townstal & Kingswear). Their combined population at the above census was 6,822. History In 1086, the Domesday Book listed ''Dunestal'' as the only settlement in the area which now makes up the parish of Dartmouth. It was held by Walter of Douai. It paid tax on half a hide, and had two plough teams, two slaves, five villagers and four smallholders. There were six cattle, 40 sheep and 15 goats. At this time Townstal (as the name became) was apparently a purely agricultural settlement, centred around th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Britannia Royal Naval College
Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, also known as Dartmouth, is the naval academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy. It is located on a hill overlooking the port of Dartmouth, Devon, England. Royal Naval officer training has taken place in Dartmouth since 1863. The buildings of the current campus were completed in 1905. Earlier students lived in two wooden hulks moored in the River Dart. Since 1998, BRNC has been the sole centre for Royal Naval officer training. History The training of naval officers at Dartmouth dates from 1863, when the wooden hulk was moved from Portland and moored in the River Dart to serve as a base. In 1864, after an influx of new recruits, ''Britannia'' was supplemented by . Prior to this, a Royal Naval Academy (later Royal Naval College) had operated for more than a century from 1733 to 1837 at Portsmouth, a major naval installation. The original ''Britannia'' was replaced by the in 1869, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Dartmouth
Six ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Dartmouth'', after the port of Dartmouth, whilst another two were planned: * was a 22-gun ship launched in 1655. She was converted to a fireship in 1688, and rebuilt as a fifth rate in 1689. She was wrecked in the Sound of Mull in 1690. * was a 4-gun fireship captured in 1672 and sold in 1674. * was a 48-gun fourth rate launched in 1693. She was captured by France in 1695, recaptured in 1702, and renamed HMS ''Vigo''. She was wrecked in 1703. * was a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1698. She was rebuilt in 1741 and sunk in action with the Spanish ship ''Glorioso'' in 1747. * HMS ''Dartmouth'' (1746) was to have been a 50-gun fourth rate. She was ordered in 1746, but was cancelled in 1748. * was a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1813. She was used for harbour service from 1831 and was broken up in 1854. * HMS ''Dartmouth'' (1860) was to have been a wood screw frigate. She was laid down in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Of Dartmouth
Earl of Dartmouth is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1711 for William Legge, 2nd Baron Dartmouth. History The Legge family descended from Edward Legge, Vice-President of Munster. His eldest son William Legge was a Royalist army officer and close associate of Prince Rupert of the Rhine. On the Restoration, Charles II offered to create him an earl, but Legge declined. Barons Dartmouth His son George Legge was a prominent naval commander, who in 1682 was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Dartmouth, of Dartmouth in the County of Devon. George's son William, the second Baron, notably served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department between 1710 and 1713 and in 1711 was created Viscount Lewisham, in the County of Kent, and Earl of Dartmouth, in the Peerage of Great Britain. Earls of Dartmouth William was succeeded by his grandson, the second Earl. He was the only surviving son of George Legge, Viscount Lewisham (d. 1732), eldest so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dartmouth (Indianapolis, Indiana)
The Dartmouth is a historic apartment building in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was built in 1890 and is a large six-story, nine-bay-by-twelve-bay building faced in two shades of center-scored, salt-glazed brown brick. It features two three-sided projecting bays, limestone accents, and a crenelated parapet. ''Note:'' This includes , , , and Accompanying photographs It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1983. See also * Apartments and Flats of Downtown Indianapolis Thematic Resources * National Register of Historic Places listings in Center Township, Marion County, Indiana References Apartment buildings in Indiana Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Residential bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a seminal American protest, political and Mercantilism, mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, during the American Revolution. Initiated by Sons of Liberty activists in Boston in Province of Massachusetts Bay, colonial Massachusetts, one of the original Thirteen Colonies in British America, it escalated hostilities between Kingdom of Great Britain, Britain and Patriot (American Revolution), American Patriots, who opposed British colonial mercantile and governing practices. Less than two years later, on April 19, 1775, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, also in Massachusetts, launched the eight-year American Revolutionary War between the British and the Thirteen Colonies, which ultimately prevailed, securing their independence and the establishment of the sovereign United States, United States of America. The target of the Boston Tea Party was the British implementation of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Dartmouth (1910)
HMS ''Dartmouth'' was a light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She was one of the ''Weymouth'' sub-class of the ''Town'' class. The ship survived the First World War and was sold for scrap on 13 December 1930. Construction and design ''Dartmouth'' was laid down by Vickers at their Barrow shipyard on 19 February 1910, one of four Town-class protected cruisers ordered under the 1909–1910 Naval Estimates. The four 1909–10 ships, also known as the ''Weymouth'' class, were an improved version of five similar Town-class ships laid down under the 1908–1909 Estimates, known as the ''Bristol'' class, with a heavier main armament of eight 6 inch (152 mm) Mk XI guns, compared with the two 6 inch and ten 4 inch of the earlier ships.Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 52.Brown 2010, pp. 63–64. The ships had a secondary armament of four Vickers 3-pounder (47 mm) guns, with two submerged 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes mounted on the ships' beams.Lyon ''Warship'' Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Dartmouth (1698)
HMS ''Dartmouth'' was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of eight such ships authorised by the Navy Board on 24 December 1695 to be newly built (six by commercial contract and two in the Royal Dockyards); the others were the ''Hampshire'', ''Winchester'', ''Salisbury'', ''Worcester'', ''Jersey'', ''Carlisle'' and ''Tilbury''. The contract for the ''Dartmouth'' was signed in 1696 with shipbuilder James Parker, for the ship to be built in his site in Southampton, taking the name of the previous ''Dartmouth'' of 1693 (which had been captured by the French in 1695), and she was launched there on 3 March 1698.Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714'', p.136. Career The ''Dartmouth'' was ordered on 3 March 1714 to be rebuilt according to the 1706 Establishment at Woolwich Dockyard, where she was re-launched on 7 August 1716Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714'', p.144. and formed part of the naval ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Dartmouth (1693)
HMS ''Dartmouth'' was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, ordered on 21 June 1692 to be built by commercial contract with the master shipwright John Shish in Rotherhithe Rotherhithe ( ) is a district of South London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is on a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, with the Isle of Dogs to the ea ... (one of seven such 50-gun ships ordered during 1692),Rif Winfield, ''British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714'', p.133. and launched there on 24 July 1693. Under the command of Captain Roger Vaughan (who was killed in the action), she was badly damaged and captured in the Western Approaches by two French 40-gun ships on 4 February 1695. The French sold her in January 1700 to Spain, who renamed her as ''San Juan Bautista'' (rating her as 48 guns and 549 ''toneladas'' in size); she served as the ''almiranta'' (2nd flagship) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Ship Dartmouth (1655)
The ''Dartnouth'' was a fifth-rate warship of the Commonwealth of England's naval forces, one of six such ships ordered on 28 December 1654, all six from the state dockyards (the others were , , , , and ). She was built by Master Shipwright John Tippetts at Portsmouth Dockyard, and was launched on 22 September 1655 as a 22-gun fifth rate. She cost £1.693-5-od to build (or £6.10.0d per ton for a total of 260 tons Builder's Old Measurement, bm. She was named ''Dartmouth'' to commemorate the capture of that town by Parliamentary forces under Thomas Fairfax in January 1646. Her length was recorded as on the keel for tonnage calculation. The breadth was with a depth in hold of . The tonnage was thus calculated at 260 Builder's Old Measurement, bm tons. She was originally armed with 22 guns, comprising 18 demi-culverins on the single gundeck and 4 saker (cannon), sakers on the quarterdeck. At the Stuart Restoration, Restoration in 1660 she was taken into the Royal Navy as HMS ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), the flagship campus of the Dartmouth Health system, is the U.S. state of New Hampshire's only academic medical center. DHMC is a 507-inpatient bed hospital and serves as a major tertiary-care referral site for patients throughout northern New England. As an academic medical center, DHMC offers primary, specialty and subspecialty care as well as education and research in partnership with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, one of America's oldest medical schools, as well as the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice. It is headquartered in Lebanon, New Hampshire on a campus in the heart of the Upper Connecticut River Valley and employs more than 8,000 employees. DHMC is New Hampshire's only Level I Trauma Center, one of only three in northern New England, and it includes New Hampshire's only air ambulance service. DHMC is one of 20 members of the New Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dartmouth Harbour
Dartmouth Harbour (also Dart Harbour) is a natural port located in Dartmouth, Devon, Dartmouth, Devon, England. It is situated at the mouth of the River Dart on the English Channel. Bayard's Cove Fort is a small fort, which was built to defend the harbour's entrance. The crafts which dock at the port are mainly local fishing vessels, naval ships and luxury yachts; warships routinely visit the harbour. The River Dart is navigable from Dartmouth to the old weir location at Totnes. Geography The harbour is located at the mouth of the River Dart (the name 'Dart' is Common Brittonic, Brythonic Celtic languages, Celtic meaning 'river where oak trees grow'), which source (river), rises high on Dartmoor, and enters the sea at Dartmouth. The river begins as two separate branches (the East Dart and West Dart), which join at Dartmeet. The rivers are crossed by a number of clapper bridges, notably at the hamlet (place), hamlet of Postbridge, Devon, Postbridge. At Totnes a weir (of the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
