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World War One: the sky below -- the sea above. Esprit de Corps (2/1/1997)
As 1914 and war approached, Canada's naval...and aerial matters, and the war years were characterized by...world as Europe drifted into war, eight time zones to the West...aggressive Hose found the sloop Algerine and continued south until he...

World War I: HMCS Niobe. Esprit de Corps (11/1/2000)
...outbreak of the First World War, there was no clear Canadian...the RN. With the outbreak of war, Niobe was refitted and placed...living in Canada and sailors from Algerine and Shearwater who were brought...depot ship for the rest of the war. ALARM SOUNDED On ...

Steady hearts: the battle of Coronel.(THE GREAT WAR) Esprit de Corps (5/1/2005)
...House of Commons to announce that Great Britain was at war with Germany, it was noticed that tears were streaming...ancients, the steam-and-sail sloops HMS Shearwater and Algerine, to hunt for the

Rainbow Warrior: naval action in the Pacific (HMCS Rainbow). Esprit de Corps (8/1/1999)
...as the world slipped into war, the residents of Canada...sail sloops HMS Shearwater and Algerine, last reported off the Mexican...Do your utmost to protect Algerine and Shearwater steering north...reports of Shearwater or "Algerine" and they had no radios...

The fallacy of grievance-based terrorism.(What Motivates Terror?) Middle East Quarterly (1/1/2008)
...enslaved her crew. A year later, Algerine pirates seized two more vessels...treaty with Morocco, but the Algerine leadership refused any accommodation...military embroiled in the War of 1812, Algerine pirates again began terrorizing...historians consider the ...

HMCS rainbow: celebrating our Navy's centennial: on the road to an independant Navy, in 1910 the Canadian government acquired some Royal Navy warships. Technically the first to be commissioned into Canadian service, HMCS Rainbow was also the first Royal Canadian Navy vessel to set sail on wartime operations.(BUILDING A NATION) Esprit de Corps (11/1/2009)
...fell to two British sloops, Algerine and Shearwater, which spent...Rainbow returned to Esquimalt, war clouds were gathering in Europe...shipping and to search for Algerine and Shearwater, which were...Do your utmost to protect Algerine and Shearwater ...

MISSING...AND FOUND! Daily Mail (London) (6/17/2000)
...PORTER EDDIE HIGGINBOTHAM is in search of fellow crew members who served on the Algerine Class minesweeper HMS Thisbe in World War II. The former servicemen of Algerine Class ships have a thriving association of some 1,200 members who gather annually...

History to see: Old Ironsides The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) (7/20/1997)
...quote, penned early in the war, summarizes in a sentence why...behind what began as an unpopular war," naval historian Tyrone G...edition. "We went into that war as Carolinians, Virginians...protection" -- often from Algerine and Tripolitan pirates. So...

A true Indian brave; answers to correspondents. Daily Mail (London) (10/10/2003)
...free Hollywood treatments of war, with a strong, brooding performance...in the U.S. Navy in World War II). Ironically, Ira Hamilton...stirring images of the Pacific War, as they strained to set the...to bear this name, one of 60 Algerine Class Minesweepers ...

TRIPLE CROWN RACES Chicago Sun-Times (6/11/1989)
...Ochiltree Calvin 1876 Vagrant Shirley Algerine 1877 Baden Baden Cloverbrook Cloverbrook...Kalitan Hourless 1918 Exterminator War Cloud Johren 1919 Sir Barton Sir Barton Sir Barton 1920 Paul Jones Man O' War Man O' War 1921 Behave Yourself Broomspun Grey...

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