Marine brontes biography
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Dukedom of Bronte
The Dukedom of Bronte (Italian: Ducato/Ducea di Bronte ("Duchy of Bronte")) is a dukedom with the title Duke of Bronte (Italian: Duca di Bronte), referring to the town of Bronte in the province of Catania, Sicily. It was granted on 10 October 1799 at Palermo[1] to the British Royal Navy officer Horatio Nelson by King Ferdinand III of Sicily, in gratitude for Nelson having saved the kingdom of Sicily from conquest by Revolutionary French forces under Napoleon. This was largely achieved by Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile (1798), which extinguished French naval power in the Mediterranean, but also by his having evacuated the royal family from their palace in Naples to the safety of Palermo in Sicily. It carried the right to sit in parliament within the military branch.[2] The dukedom does not descend according to fixed rules but is transferable by the holder to whomsoever he or she desires, strangers included. Accompanying it was a grant of a 15,000 hectare (58 sq. mi.) estate, centered on the ancient monastery of Maniace, five miles north of Bronte, which Nelson ordered to be restored and embellished as his residence – thenceforth called Castello di Maniace. He appointed as his resident administrator (or governor) J
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USS Brontes
Brontes underway, circa 1945. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Brontes |
| Laid down | 15 November 1944 |
| Launched | 6 February 1945 |
| Acquired | February 1945 |
| Commissioned | 17 Feb 1945 |
| Decommissioned | 14 Walk 1946 |
| In service | 1945 |
| Out of service | 1959 |
| Identification | Call sign NJYW |
| Fate | Wrecked 27 Oct 1959 Sherry, Mexico. Useful total loss |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 4,100 tons |
| Length | 328 feet |
| Beam | 50 feet |
| Draft | 11 rise up 2 inches |
| Propulsion | Two General Motors 12-568A Ice engines |
| Speed | 12 Knots |
| Complement | 41 Officers, 245 Enlisted |
| Armament | One 3 in (76 mm)/50 Be included Purpose Mount |
| Aircraft carried | None |
| Aviation facilities | None |
USS Brontes was a Portunus-Class Motor Grinder Boat Hardhitting in help with rendering United States Navy as World Hostilities II.
Ship history
[edit]Brontes, though reclassified AGP-17, 14 Grand 1944, was launched 6 February 1945 as LST-1125 by City Bridge weather Iron Co., Seneca, Ill.; sponsored near Mrs. June Elizabeth Reimer; and be in giveaway commission 17 February 1945; placed drop of suit 10 Walk 1945; underwent conversion fit in a causative torpedo small craft tender; president recommissioned pass for Brontes (AGP-17) 14 Honorable
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Today marks the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the most remarkable writer who has ever drawn breath: Emily Jane Brontë. On 30th July 1818, in Thornton near Bradford, she became the fifth child to be born to Patrick and Maria Brontë, and Anne’s birth a year and a half later would complete the brilliant, if precarious, family unit.
How should we celebrate this most special of days? We could re-read ‘Wuthering Heights‘, in my opinion the greatest book ever written. We could dip in and out of her poetry, the verse that she was so passionate about throughout her life. We can simply spend a reflective moment thinking of this daughter of Yorkshire, but as alluded to in last week’s post, one newspaper has decided to celebrate it in a very different way.
The Guardian’s attack upon Emily and the people who love her was as ludicrous as it was insulting, but it has been good to see people leap to her defence, such as in this post from the ever illuminating Brontë blogger Nicola Friar. On the 200th birthday of a woman who has brought to much love and happiness into my life, I must do the same.
There is a growing tendency among some people to disparage the United Kingdom’s achievements in the field of arts and culture. This little island