In 1983 one in Kuala Lumpur came to grief when palm-oil futures crashed.
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She was all too aware of the financial price if the car came to grief.
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Famed hedge fund manager Xu Xiang also came to grief over stock market manipulation, sentenced to 5½ years in jail in January.
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But on June 8th, Mr Renzi's project came to grief when maverick lawmakers torpedoed a bill incorporating the deal between the main parties.
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You walk a curb your kindred came to grief on, not a toss gets given, were you not shit-scared of light one time?
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Simpson was on the verge of smashing the course record after reeling off six straight birdies but came to grief at the island-green par-three 17th.
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It ran into constant trouble with the CBS censors, alienated many of the affiliates in the South because of its anti-Vietnam War stance, and eventually came to grief.
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Some put Hillary Clinton's chance of victory against Mr Trump above 73% (Mr Wang came to grief because his model almost totally discounted the chance the polls in battleground states were all askew).
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He came to grief when he refused to get up in the middle of the night to check the arrival time of a train for the wife of the newspaper's publisher, an offense that earned him a ticket to London.
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With a bone-chilling wind blowing through the venue, a raft of lugers came to grief in the session, including Ukraine's Andriy Mandziy, who finished the last of the 40 sledders after flying off his sled at the track's perilous turn nine.
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After taking courses at Sciences Po, a leading university in Paris for political science, he set his sights on a career in journalism, although his internship at Le Monde came to grief when he misspelled François Mitterrand's last name in an article on local elections.
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After an absence of 733 days, Sizing John finally returned to a racetrack on 31st December, 2019 for the Bet With Tote At Punchestown Hurdle. Seemingly going well, he came to grief with two hurdles remaining which was the first time he had ever fallen.
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Many of the spectators followed Tom Morris, Jr. and Willie Park, Sr. who were paired together. Morris started badly and came to grief in several bunkers. Park scored 40 in the first round to Morris's 42. However, as the day progressed, Morris improved while Park fell away.
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Sherrod History, pp. 460–461. During the duration of World War II, VMF-212 was credited with shooting down 132½ enemy aircraftSherrod History, p. 430. A Corsair which came to grief on Approach to Quoin Hill Airfield on Efate, Vanuatu is now a great dive attraction.
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Bishop, Battle of Britain, p. 305 Mystery surrounds exactly how Hughes came to grief, though his close-in tactics are believed to have played a major part in it. The strain of regular combat without respite, manifesting itself in fatigue and spots before the eyes, may also have contributed.
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In 1121, al-Afdal was assassinated. The new vizier, Al-Ma'mum, organized a major invasion of Crusader lands. This came to grief at the Battle of Yibneh in 1123. To protect against the raids from Ascalon, the Crusaders began encircling the strategic port with a ring of castles.
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His tombstone was moved to the borough cemetery at Witton in 1886. At the time of his death, Toulmin had a plan for an annuitant society for the benefit of widows. However, this society plan came to grief because it was based on London death rates, which differed from those of Birmingham.
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Ahmed Hassanein during his 1923 expedition in Libyan Desert, from where he obtained much scientific data. Note his wrist-watch which used to help take his coordinates. Hassanein's first journey was to the Kufra, the Senussi's oasis capital. The journey nearly came to grief due to companion Rosita Forbes making an error reading the compass.
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It was during her third patrol that the boat almost came to grief. She sank HMS Castle Harbour, which was travelling as part of Convoy TRIN-19 from Trinidad at 2120 hours on 16 October 1942. The ship sank within twenty seconds with the loss of nine of her twenty-two crew.Castle Harbour, Uboat.
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Nobby's Breakwater was originally built in the first half of the 19th century to protect ships entering Newcastle Harbour. After the breakwater was completed Nobby's Beach formed against it and over the reefs around Nobby's headland. It is on these reefs where Pasha Bulker came to grief. However, it is not the first ship to run aground in the area.
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To the west near Cuneo, Michael von Melas and Jean Étienne Championnet were engaged in maneuvers that would result in the Austrian victory at the Battle of Genola on 4 November 1799. Johann von Klenau was ordered to drive on Genoa from the east. This effort came to grief at the Bracco Pass where the French captured 1,200 Austrians on 13 October.
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The PWRC was also won by Stig-Olov Walfridson. He and fellow Swede Kenneth Bäcklund were the main contenders for overall victory; whilst the Uruguayan defending champion Gustavo Trelles came to grief once again, after being struck by a terminal engine failure on Special Stage 2 which meant he had retired from the second rally in a row. Finishing in third place was Juha Kangas.
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Bellambi was a busy ocean jetty port with a dangerous reef. At least four 'sixty-milers' came to grief there. The 'sixty-milers' wrecked on the reef at Bellambi include Llewellyn (1882), Adinga (1896) and Saxonia (1898). In 1913, an occulting light visible for eight miles to sea was erected, on a steel tower on Bellambi Point, to guide ships away from the dangerous reef.
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Catherine Hill Bay was the only ocean jetty port on the northern coalfields. Coal from the Wallarah Colliery was loaded here for Sydney and Newcastle. By using an ocean jetty, this colliery could exploit the coal seams of Lake Macquarie, without ships needing to enter the Swansea Channel. The port could still be dangerous, under unfavourable weather conditions, and some ships came to grief there.
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England under Henry VIII declared war on France in 1512 (as part of the larger conflict known as the War of the League of Cambrai). James IV of Scotland invaded England in fulfillment of his alliance with France (even though married to Henry's sister Margaret). In 1513, after preliminary raids by borderers came to grief, James's main army invaded England. His artillery quickly subdued English castles such as Norham and Wark.
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The crews warily trailed the columns and positions of the 82nd Airborne Division and 101st Airborne Division. The Americans knew of these operations and captured some crews that came to grief. One such pilot from NJG 2, Feldwebel Rudolf Haupt told his captors that he flew two to three sorties during the evening. 6./NJG 2 carried out interdiction against rail traffic the previous night near Charleville. 4.
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Alvinczi sent two battalions to guard Albaredo against a repetition of Guieu's attack.Boycott- Brown (2001), 467–468 Provera's effort came to grief when he ran into Masséna. Brabeck was killed during the encounter and the Austrians were chased back to Belfiore with the loss of five cannons. During the morning, Mittrowsky and Augereau engaged in a see-saw battle that ended when the Austrians fell back to Arcole.
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Smith, p 118 There were also 3,275 soldiers on the sick list.Boycott-Brown, p 387 After a complex series of actions, Quosdanovich's column came to grief at the Battle of Lonato on 3 August and retreated. Bonaparte then turned on Wurmser and defeated him at the Battle of Castiglione on 5 August. Before retreating up the Adige valley, Wurmser threw two brigades into the fortress and evacuated some of the sick.
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The small 'Stone Fleet' steamer Resolute was merely passing Bellambi, in 1907, when it became stranded on the reef and broke up. It was not until 1913, that an electrically-powered occulting light—visible up to 12.9 km to sea—was erected on Bellambi Point to aid shipping. A number of 'sixty-milers' came to grief there. The 'sixty-milers' wrecked on the reef at Bellambi include, Llewellyn (1882), Adinga (1896) and Saxonia (1898).
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His success inspired a strong following—the deforestation of Hokianga had begun and would be complete by the turn of the century. Hokianga Harbour from Rawene The only disincentive to Hokianga's exploitation was the harbour bar. Of the hundreds of ships that successfully negotiated it, records show that 16 were lost. Most came to grief when leaving fully laden, becoming caught in the wind shadow cast by South Head, where deep water lay.
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Until 1689 Holcroft took general charge of a number of congregations in Cambridgeshire and the adjoining counties. Soon after 1689 his health gave way, and he became a prey to depression. His organization quickly came to grief, and he died on 6 January 1693 at Triplow, Cambridgeshire, where he was buried. He left a small estate to the poor of his congregations, and a piece of ground at Oakington for a burial-place.
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The Sydney Morning Herald Monday 9 > May 1898 The Adderley was variously described as ashore at either on Stockton Beach, about from Newcastle or had the vessel proceeded further north she would have struck the rocks at Morna Point Coincidentally The Mareeba also came ashore 11 year later close to the scene to where the barque Adderley was driven ashore, The Mareeba bound to Sydney, was towed past the very spot and then came to grief.
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The Athenaeum Club is a private club situated in Melbourne, Australia. The club has been in operation since 1868. – The Athenaeum Club Circular Prospectus has been issued; it is to be under the management of Mr. G. Knight, and premises in Collins-street are being furnished for it. – The Athenæum Club (in no way connected with the Melbourne Athenæum, previously mentioned) was started about the middle of 1868, its moving spirit being J. G. Knight, but came to grief three years later.
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While an Austrian army laid siege to Le Quesnoy, a British-led army marched west to the coast to operate against Dunkirk. On 11 September, two French columns marched to the relief of Le Quesnoy. The force from Cambrai on the west came to grief in the Battle of Avesnes-le-Sec while the force from Maubeuge was also repelled. The Le Quesnoy garrison laid down their arms on 13 September, but the Siege of Dunkirk was a total failure.
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Maurice began speedway racing at Workington in 1931; he was sixteen years of age. He demonstrated his ability in the very first event, when while taking a bend, he struck a post, burst his rear tyre but skilfully retained his balance.West Cumberland Times, 19 August 1931 Although he often came to grief he showed tremendous promise and signed for York during that season. Returning to Workington in 1937 he equalled his brother’s long standing course and lap record on two occasions.
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The composite coach was a standard coach design going back to the early days of railways, enabling a railway company to provide multi-class passenger accommodation in a single vehicle and so reduce costs. In the book "Red For Danger" by L.T.C Rolt it is mentioned that the train which came to grief at Wigan on the night of 2 August 1873 featured a Caledonian Railway composite coach. Early composite coaches did not feature corridors or gangways between the vehicles.
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Kowie Railway 4-4-0T, crossing Blaauwkrantz Bridge with a mixed train, c. 1910 The Kowie Railway's death blow came on 22 April 1911. A mixed train from Port Alfred, made up of six goods trucks, three passenger carriages and a guard's van, came to grief when one of the goods trucks derailed on the Blaauwkrantz Bridge and, with the three carriages and the guard's van, plunged into the ravine below. Of the 55 passengers, 31 were killed and 23 seriously injured.
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Chess Canada magazine, February 2008, p. 13. Bobby Fischer, who held the title from 1972 to 1975, admired Capablanca's "light touch" and ability to see the right move very quickly. Fischer reported that in the 1950s, older members of the Manhattan Chess Club spoke of Capablanca's performances with awe. Capablanca excelled in simple positions and endgames, and his positional judgment was outstanding, so much so that most attempts to attack him came to grief without any apparent defensive efforts on his part.
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'Postponement of Miss Lydia Howard's Entertainment', Southport Independent and Ormskirk Chronicle, 4 May 1870 p.1 Although he later successfully sued the Howard family, they had no resources to meet their debt.'The Fairy Actress And Her Engagements', Southport Independent and Ormskirk Chronicle, 16 November 1870 His business and shop "came to grief" and he was left virtually penniless. Arthur Lloyd, the music hall singer, heard of his troubles and offered him £5 a week plus travelling expenses as 'agent in advance' for a provincial tour.
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Pyotr Stolypin was for some time in sympathy with that agenda, and even contemplated the formation of a ministry strengthened by leaders of public opinion, of whom Guchkov, Count Heyden and N. Lvov would have been prominent members. When this project came to grief, Guchkov continued to support Stolypin. Guchkov was Chairman of the Duma's Committee of Imperial Defence, which had a veto over the military budget. In 1908 he condemned the diplomats' decision not to go in war in 1908, when Austria annexed Bosnia and Hercegovina.
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In the first two or three years of Nisbet's career, all the coasting trade was done by sailing ships. When he was in the colliers between Leith and London, there was only one steamboat – the Prompt – which plied between these two ports. After the Friendship was wrecked, Nisbet joined another vessel in the same trade, the Duchess of Portland of Leith, which was commanded by two brothers well known in Leith – James and William Barnetson. On that vessel's second trip she almost came to grief.
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This time, with the aid of advanced Dutch cannons, one wall was breached but the other wall held firm. 1643 also marked the resignation of the king, Lê Than Tông, in favor of his son, Lê Chan Tông. In 1648 a major offensive came to grief as the Royal (Trịnh) army was defeated at the battle of Truong Duc. The young king died at this time (Some people believe it was as a result of the battle) and so his father, Lê Than Tông, took the throne for a second time.
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The New York Times; August 18, 1910; Aeroplane Crashes into an Automobile; Ralph Johnstone Comes to Grief in a Twenty-Mile Wind at Asbury Park. Aviation Field, Asbury Park, New Jersey, August 18, 1910. Wilbur Wright's school of fledgling filers came to grief again this afternoon when they drove another of their teacher's biplanes into the ground, nose on and reduced it to a hopeless mass of kindling wood and canvas. On October 27, 1910, the International Aviation Tournament was held at the Belmont Park racetrack in Elmont, New York.
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The headland was known to Māori as Awaroa. The wider area around Gollans Bay within Lyttelton Harbour is also known as Otokitoki, and this Māori language word refers either to 'the place of tokitoki' (a native tree commonly known as tītoki), or a brown duck (Anas chlorotis), or New Zealand dabchick (Poliocephalus rufopectus). The French whaler Cachalot, commanded by Jean Langlois, came to grief in this location in 1838, and the headland was then known Cachalot Head. The headland was renamed by Captain Joseph Thomas, the chief surveyor of the Canterbury Association, in his 1849 survey of Canterbury.
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In 1901, Lowenfeld used some land he had bought in the West End for a new theatre designed by the architect Lewin Sharp. It was the Apollo Theatre. In a letter of 1906 to Siegfried Trebitsch, George Bernard Shaw wrote that Lowenfeld had "made a lot of money in a lucky railway speculation", and used it to enter theatre management, mostly "musical comedy of the vulgarest kind", but that soon after building the Apollo Theatre, he "came to grief and vanished, much discredited". Shaw advised Trebitsch, "You had better not have anything to do with him in the way of business".
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Scotland, 1976 It is Simon Macdonald Lockhart's assertion that the two knights, with six other knights and twenty-six squires and gentlemen, set out from Montrose in 1329, although records indicate they departed in 1330. Stopping a Sluys in Flanders, they heard of the crusade of Alfonso XI of Castile against the Muslim Emirate of Granada. Sailing to Seville, they joined Alfonso's army as it set off to besiege the castle of Teba on the border of Granada. At some point during the siege, during a confrontation with the Moorish relief force, the Scottish party came to grief.
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Moving to their right, they ran into Quesnel's brigade of Laboissière's division defending the heights. As the Russians pushed forward they were attacked in flank by Gardanne's men from Novi and even by Watrin's troops from the French right flank. Miloradovich's division was sent into the fray but every Russian assault on the French center came to grief. Bagration's Cossacks found employment by luring French skirmishers into the plain and then killing or capturing them.Duffy (1999), p. 143 Michael von Melas In due course, Derfelden's division arrived at the front and was hurled into a new attack near Novi.
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Cray rejoined the Kent League in 1934–35, but their four-year stay came to grief when 1936 saw the loss of the Fordcroft ground in Cray Avenue, their home since 1898. Cray were forced to drop into a lower level of football, drifting from one temporary pitch to another while the club committee dwindled to a perilously small number. The team struggled badly in the South London Alliance and the Kent Amateur League. 1951/52 heralded a new era, and an upturn in the club's fortunes, when local businessman Mick Slater took over at the helm.
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The condition of this threefold advance was of course that the enemy should not be able to defeat the armies in detail, i.e., that he should be fixed and held in the Thames valley; this secured, there was no purely military objection against operating in separate armies from the circumference towards the centre. It was on the rock of local feeling that the King's plan came to grief. Even after the arrival of the Queen and her convoy, Newcastle had to allow her to proceed with a small force, and to remain behind with the main body.
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They find the source of it, the Ice Sphinx: A huge mountain magnetically "charged" by the particle streams that get focused on the poles through Earth's magnetic field. Here, they find the remains of Hearne's team, which came to grief when the Ice Sphinx's immense magnetic forces attracted their iron tools and boat components to it and smashed them on its rocks. The boat of Joerling and the others only escaped destruction because, being built by the natives, it contained no iron parts. At the foot of the Sphinx, they also find the body of Pym, who came to death the same way.
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Four Prime Ministers in 1945: Labor Prime Minister John Curtin (left) shares a joke with the Governor General Prince Henry (in uniform) with former Country Party Prime Minister Arthur Fadden, Nationalist Prime Minister Billy Hughes and UAP Prime Minister Robert Menzies. According to political historian Brian Carroll, Fadden "did no better than Menzies in getting the country organized for the war. He ruled for only 40 days and came to grief largely because he did not like Arthur Coles and made no effort to win his support". Coles persuaded the other independent, Alex Wilson, to support him in crossing the floor and then advised Opposition Leader Curtin of their intention.
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Each of these had ten lanes > for the barges to go up and down. Their cargoes of imperial tax-grain were > heavy, and as they were passing over they often came to grief and were > damaged or wrecked, with loss of the grain and peculation by a cabal of the > workers in league with local bandits hidden nearby. Qiao Weiyue therefore > first ordered the construction of two gates at the third dam along the West > River (near Huaiyin). The distance between the two gates was rather more > than 50 paces (250 ft) and the whole space was covered over with a great > roof like a shed.
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Thirty of the original forty starters continued onto the racecourse to The Chair, where Jack High, Silver Birch and Heros Collonges all came to grief. Garvivonnian also blundered there and was pulled up before taking the next, the Water Jump, which marks the end of the first circuit. Ballycassidy and Puntal had enjoyed a lead of about six lengths on the first circuit but the former began to draw away from the latter and the rest of the field on the run to Becher's for the second time. Behind, Lord of Illusion, Iris Royal, Shotgun Willy, Cornish Rebel, Le Roi Miguel, Direct Access and Amberleigh House all pulled up with Haut De Gamme falling at the 20th fence.
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Kolb, Eberhard The Weimar Republic, London: Unwing Hyman, 1988, p. 75. After the "betrayal" of the Dawes Plan vote, the fraction of the DNVP mostly closely associated with the Pan-German League had started a major effort to take over the party's grass-roots to prevent another "betrayal", a slow, but steady process that would ultimately prove the undoing of Count von Westarp.Beck, Hermann The Fateful Alliance: German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933 Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009, p. 42. During its time in the government, the DNVP made a major push for higher tariffs on agricultural products from abroad, which pleased the party's powerful rural wing, but came to grief over the Locarno Treaties.
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The loss of the Birchgrove Park forms a part of the narrative of a book—"The Sixty-Miler"—written by Norma Sim, the widow of Bill Sim, one men lost with the Birchgrove Park. One of the most modern of the 'sixty-milers', the MV Stephen Brown—built in 1954—nearly came to grief, when some air-vents that had been closed off and some of the deck hatches lost their covers in the stormy seas. She began to fill, with the water gradually entering her holds and developed a list. The hull sides at deck level began to go underwater, a circumstance very similar to that in the foundering of other 'sixty-milers'.
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The aircraft used were to include a de Havilland DH.9 bought from the Royal Air Force for the London to Calcutta stage, a Fairey IIIC floatplane for the Calcutta to Vancouver stage, again the DH.9 for the Vancouver to Montreal stage, and a Felixstowe F.3 flying boat for the trans-Atlantic stage. Blake's ambitious round-the- world trip was cancelled after the second stage of the flight came to grief in the waters of the Bay of Bengal. Macmillan would subsequently write of the attempt in his 1937 book, "Freelance Pilot". In 1951 he drove his Standard Vanguard motor car on a record journey around South America from La Paz to Rio de Janeiro taking in Peru, Chile, Argentina and Paraguay along the way.
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St Ives is an historic fishing port in west Cornwall and offers a sheltered harbour for ships in the open waters of the Western Approaches. On 24 December 1838 the schooner Rival was trying to enter the harbour in a gale but came to grief on one of its piers; despite lacking proper rescue boats and equipment five people were saved after much courage and effort by the people ashore. A meeting was held and it was decided that a proper lifeboat should be built for the town. Francis Adams, a local man, had recently won a prize from the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society for designing a double-ended, self-righting lifeboat and he was commissioned to now build one.
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William Wickham King (30 May 1862– 11 December 1959), usually known as Wickham King was a distinguished amateur geologist, a Fellow of the Geological Society for 50 years. He was the younger son of William Henry King and followed him as a solicitor in Stourbridge and magistrates clerk for the Stourbridge and Kingswinford Petty Sessional Divisions. As a young man, he rowed with Bewdley rowing club, but came to grief one day when his penny-farthing bicycle broke under him. He also climbed in the Alps and Cuillins, where King's Chimney and King's Cave Gully are named after him.Who’s Who in British Climbing Wickham King was a prominent member of the London Alpine Club and the Scottish Mountaineering Club, joining the latter in 1891.
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Leutnant Kling of Seeadler, having heard on the radio of his captain's capture, sailed out to Lutece and captured her at gunpoint. The French crew was put ashore with the other prisoners, and all the Germans embarked on the ship, which they renamed the Fortuna, and set course for South America. The master of A. B. Johnson, Captain Smith, then took the remaining open boat from Mopelia with three other American seamen, and sailed to Pago Pago, arriving on 4 October, where they were finally able to inform the authorities of the activities of Seeadler and arrange for the rescue of the other 44 sailors left stranded on Mopelia. Fortuna, meanwhile, came to grief when she struck uncharted rocks off Easter Island.
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In 1944, Flight 6, a Trans- Canada Air Lines Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra airliner, while on its landing approach, nearly came to grief at Dorval Airport in Montréal, Quebec, when an Avro Anson training aircraft wandered into its path. Flight 6 crossed Canada from Montréal to Vancouver and back, carrying a load of blue and yellow air mail bags. One of the vital pieces of mail, which started out at the Burrard Shipyard in Vancouver, is a container carrying the microfilmed blueprints of an elevator that would be incorporated in a naval vessel. Destined for approval at the Admiralty in England, it was one of countless items shipped three times a week across to war-torn London, Moscow, Lisbon, Paris and Chongqing.
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The company was founded by Charles Algernon Parsons in 1897 with £500,000 of capital, and specialised in building the steam turbine engines that he had invented for naval use.Chronology of Charles Parsons Life The first ship to use a Parsons propulsion system was Turbinia, launched in 1894;HMS Glamorgan: History the successful demonstration of this vessel led to the creation of the company and the subsequent construction of the engines for the first two turbine-powered destroyers for the Navy, and , launched in 1899. Although both these vessels came to grief, the new engines were not to blame, and the Admiralty was convinced. His son became a director in the company and was replaced during the First World War by his daughter Rachel Parsons.
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Ridden by Seamus Durack, The Last Fling was always working hard to stay on the tail of the leading half-dozen before finishing seventh. Young Kenny was regarded as a perfect Grand National horse after winning the Midlands Grand National, Scottish Grand National and Singer & Friedlander Grand National trial but was also faced with the task of trying to be the first horse to carry the 12 stone top weight to victory for over 20 years. He started at 14/1 with Brendan Powell in the saddle but the pair came to grief at the tenth fence. The retirement of both Richard Dunwoody and Graham Bradley after the 1999 running left two-time former winner Carl Llewellyn as the most senior rider in the weighing room, weighing out for a National for the tenth time.
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In the 1960s Hill expanded his scope and firmly established himself as a mainstream director. In the words of Richard Chatten of The Independent: > "The British cinema of the Sixties was littered with the bones of directors > who showed promise in the field of documentaries and shorts but came to > grief in features; but James Hill was one of the most conspicuous > exceptions." Beginning with The Kitchen (1961), based on Arnold Wesker's play, it was quickly followed by two John Mortimer play adaptations, Lunch Hour (1961), showing the dire consequences of a lunch hour romance, and the legal satire The Dock Brief (1962); both essentially two-hander plays. Every Day's a Holiday (1964), for which he also wrote the screenplay, was a teenage pop musical typical of the era.
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Little is known about Collingwood's townsfolk, much of the knowledge coming from the cemetery records that have survived – and there are only eight of those. Two of those buried at the former graveyard – both of them babies (which in itself says something about infant mortality in late colonial Australia) – bore the name Tranby. This same name figured in an 1890 newspaper report that mentioned a horse and buggy accident on the road from Winton to Collingwood. The buggy was driven by a Mr. Tranby – his first name is not given – and he was driving a party to Collingwood, apparently to attend the races (see Collingwood races below), when it "came to grief" and the buggy's forecarriage was torn right off "horses and all", throwing everybody out of the buggy.
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Ribbon ceremony to > open the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 20 March 1932. Breaking protocol, the soon > to be dismissed Premier Jack Lang cuts the ribbon while Governor Philip Game > looks on. But Labor came to grief in New South Wales as elsewhere during > World War I, when the Premier, William Holman, supported the Labor Prime > Minister Billy Hughes in his drive to introduce conscription. New South > Wales voters rejected both attempts by Hughes to pass a referendum > authorising conscription, and in 1916 Hughes, Holman, Watson, McGowen, > Spence and many other founders of the party were expelled, forming the > Nationalist Party under Hughes and Holman. Federal Labor did not recover > from this split for many years, but New South Wales Labor was back in power > by 1920, although this government lasted only 18 months, and again from 1925 > under Jack Lang.
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Entering the navy as a first-class volunteer on board the 64 gun in May 1801 and going with it to China, Percy returned in November 1802 and was posted to as a midshipman. (Soon afterwards, his elder brother Josceline was appointed its appointed acting lieutenant.) He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1807. Promoted to commander in 1810, his first command was the troopship in 1811. Percy and Mermaid transported troops between Britain and Iberia for the Peninsular War). He was made post captain on 21 March 1812, but his next command (of the 20 gun during 1814, operating on the North American coast) came to grief when he lost 50 of his crew wounded or killed in an unsuccessful attack on Fort Bowyer, Mobile and then had to set fire to his own ship to keep her out of enemy hands.
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His club magazine reported: > It must have been a nightmare kind of event and one in which only the > strongest combinations could have kept a rider in the front bunch. Charlie > could not gather his compatriots round him and from what we can understand > he had to fight his way, elbowing, jostling and pushing to occupy a front > position in that fierce affair. Very many riders came to grief, a happening > that overtook most of the other British representatives; but Charles sailed > through barging and bucking into the excited crowd and actually leading the > field a few hundred yards from the finishing tape. From a story recounted in the magazine of the Fellowship of Cycling Old- Timers: > During one of our long conversations while Phil, his lovely wife, prepared > tea, Charlie (she always called him Charles) recalled an incident while > training for the Berlin Olympics.
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