When the crew of HMS Endeavour arrived to observe the transit of Venus at Otaheite (Tahiti) in 1769 they established a fortified observatory known as Fort Venus . Sydney Parkinson (1773). Source: The ...

D espite its $5 billion endowment from about 1,400 school-specific gifts, Harvard Medical School will run a deficit this year.. Only slightly more than a quarter of HMS’ operating revenue comes ...

Back in 1845, Sir John Franklin set out with two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, to find the Northwest Passage. They vanished without a trace, sparking one of history's great maritime ...

From defect repair to planned maintenance periods, HMS Forth’s engineering needs can now draw on a broader pool of knowledge and capability, ensuring she’ll remain best prepared for tasking.

The HMS Endeavour was a British Royal Navy vessel sailed by Captain Cook in 1778 during the ... first recording the transit of Venus in Tahiti and then charting the coasts of Australia and New ...

Why does HMS Queen Elizabeth have a straight deck design? At one point, an angled flight deck was planned to be implemented but it didn't happen. But why? It's #NotWhatYouThink, or is it?

Petty Officer Jack 'Spud' Yates, a veteran of Dunkirk, D-Day and the Arctic Convoys, served in the Far East in 1945 on HMS Saumarez, which helped destroy the Japanese cruiser Haguro.

HMS Restructures and Renames Diversity Office, Removes Pledge To Fight Inequities | News | The Harvard Crimson ...