Now, its huge wooden skeleton is the centrepiece of Command of the Oceans, a major new gallery opening at Chatham Historic Dockyard museum.
Richmond, in a 1942 article in The Fortnightly Review, charged that the loss of Singapore illustrated "the folly of not providing adequately for the command of the sea in a two-ocean war".
The British admiral in command of the eastern Indian Ocean, Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, led a force of four ships of the line, two frigates and brig to the capital of Java at Batavia (later renamed Djakarta), in search of the squadron, which was reported to consist of a number of Dutch ships of the line and several smaller vessels.
Pua Mau Place Botanical Garden, near Kawaihae on the Kohala Coast, at 10 Ala Kuhua, Kawaihae, (808) 882-0888, www.puamau.com, is a 45-acre desert garden set on an exposed rise commanding sweeping views of the ocean and mountains.
Regeneration is a word not often associated with summer towns — ephemeral by definition and seldom more so than on an island whose geography is entirely at the command of a mercurial ocean.
Yorke's particular project for Earth350 aims to bring together 2,000 volunteers for a massive living portrait of King Canute, a Viking king of England who according to legend tried, but failed, to command the ocean to stop its waves.
And will the thing that made these properties valuable in the first place, which is the view of the ocean, continue to command a premium?
On the basis of defining the Ocean Oil Spill Information Services and in order to improve the efficiency of disposal and command of more frequent ocean oil spill accidents, the SOA (service oriented architecture) and P2P (peer-to-peer) are utilized to design the physical framework and functional framework of the emergency ocean oil spill command information systems.
