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Aux Belles Poules was requisitioned for desperately needed student housing.
It adds that the documents indicate such data is routinely requisitioned.
Suspected cases went to requisitioned hotels and schools to be isolated.
They settle into a mansion requisitioned from Stephen (Skarsgard), a German widower.
In 2014/15, it was requisitioned to become an Ebola treatment centre instead.
For the Pool, which didn't, they requisitioned, redecorated, refurnished and renamed the mezzanine.
On Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron said stocks of protective masks would be requisitioned.
The few football grounds still standing have been requisitioned by the jihadists as hideouts.
Nasrat Al-Bader was again requisitioned—this time, to accompany Sahhaf's announcements with music.
While the peasants ate grass, Stalin requisitioned their grain to fund industrialization in the cities.
Mr Hammond understands that wealth must be generated before it can be redistributed, or indeed requisitioned.
But this time, the entire hotel was requisitioned by Chanel, and filled with the brand's guests.
Every provision—coats, gauze, jugs of water—came from volunteers in Kiev or was "requisitioned" from locals.
But many of the requisitioned hotels strained initially to care for the masses of weak, feverish patients.
It was requisitioned by the Germans and as many as 250 German soldiers were holed up in the building.
Further, Stirling has requisitioned a shareholder meeting, calling for the replacement of the current board with its own slate.
They were designed in 1980s, requisitioned by the city in the 1990s, and put into place in the early 2000s.
Detailed lists were kept of trucks, buses and boats, in case they needed to be requisitioned for national defense purposes.
The land was requisitioned by the military during World War II but handed over as a civil airport in 18.53.
Estonia's defence minister, Margus Tsahkna, recently revealed that Russia has requisitioned 4,000 railway carriages to take troops and equipment to Belarus.
Citing shortages that endanger doctors and nurses, the French government last week requisitioned all mask production through the end of May.
Police on Wednesday requisitioned some 69,000 surgical masks and more than 5,000 protective goggles and gloves to be transferred to health workers.
Police on Wednesday requisitioned some 69,000 surgical masks and more than 5,000 protective goggles and gloves to be transferred to health workers.
The Confederate cavalry requisitioned them during the Civil War, and the Carnegies bred them with Tennessee walkers and Arabians to improve the stock.
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour's leader, did more to embrace people's anger, calling for empty properties to be requisitioned to provide houses for those now homeless.
Banks have requisitioned their staff to be at their desks through the night on Sunday to enable them to respond fast to the outcome.
Requisitioned by the government for migrants repatriated from Libya, it offers new arrivals free accommodation for a few days while they find their feet.
Self-proclaimed revolutionary authorities acted first and asked questions later as they requisitioned apartments and detained "class enemies" in the name of revolutionary justice.
To build it, Allende had hired Stafford Beer, a British consultant, who requisitioned a mainframe computer and connected it to telex machines in factories.
When he was 23 and Baghdad was being bombed by the US, the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party requisitioned him with a gun against his temple.
Tevereterno requisitioned this downtown section of the Tiber more than a decade ago to create a dedicated public space for contemporary art, called Piazza Tevere.
The guidelines call for equal treatment under the law for all property holders, and for fair and clear laws when land or homes are requisitioned.
Suspected cases, close contacts of confirmed cases and patients with fevers were put in temporary quarantine centers set up in requisitioned hotels and university dormitories.
For now, tourists have little reason to head beyond it to the district's main town, near to which, on requisitioned farmland, the expo will be held.
Stalin expropriated, expelled or exterminated many of the most prosperous and sophisticated farmers (the "kulaks"), requisitioned grain at low prices and tried to nationalise draught-animals.
Like a handful of singers requisitioned in the rush, Al-Bader's goal was to compose 100 pieces, which would then be played on national television and radio.
After six days of delirium, she awoke, announcing that she was no longer Jemima Wilkinson and that her body had been requisitioned by God for humanity's salvation.
To avoid eruptions of animosity when absentee owners attempted to reclaim requisitioned land, the government sagely bestowed legal title to beneficiaries of previous Communist land reform campaigns.
Chagall wanted Vitebsk to sponsor a new art academy with no student fees, and in early 1919 the city government requisitioned a banker's mansion to host it.
The president signed an executive order that, by April 216, requisitioned police stocks of tanks, grenade-launchers and bayonets and provided for closer scrutiny of federal procurement programmes.
Nineteen when peace finally came in 1945, he had seen two-thirds of his father's cereal farm requisitioned to be made into a wartime airfield for the RAF.
The castle overlooking its factory was commandeered by the Nazis and, after World War Two, requisitioned by the Americans to house journalists covering the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
During the Second World War, the Ardnamurchan Peninsula was requisitioned for military training, and the northern coastline was used for live-fire rehearsals of the D Day landings.
Even worse, some of the unclaimed dead were requisitioned as teaching cadavers by medical and mortician schools under questionable laws dating to the bygone era of body snatching.
As if to remedy that, we meet Stephan (Alexander Skarsgard, resplendent in a series of snazzy woolen jumpers), the lonesome German widower whose luxurious home Lewis has requisitioned.
A hyperbaric chamber at the hospital—first installed to treat scuba divers with the bends—has been requisitioned to treat diabetics in danger of losing their limbs to amputation.
Medicom, a Canadian manufacturer, has three factories in China, but the Chinese government has requisitioned all production and nothing is being exported, according to the company's COO, Guillaume Laverdure.
Netanyahu's lawyers contend the indictment does not hold up because the regulations for ordering meals were legally invalid and a household employee had requisitioned the food despite Netanyahu's protestations.
Even the Germans, who requisitioned the chateau for their army during World War II, used it for concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic at the beginning of their occupation of France.
The first was Christian Dior's "New Look" of 218, an ironic moniker given that the silhouette requisitioned the corsetry that had been shrugged off by women back in the Edwardian era.
Now it takes over an entire city: Madrid has been awash with Liverpool and Spurs fans since Wednesday; roads have been closed and hotels requisitioned and sun-bleached plazas staked out.
To do so, the two owners have requisitioned a sous-chef from Eleven Madison Park, Danny DiStefano, to run the enormous kitchen, while Mr. Humm waves his magic wand somewhere offstage.
The tools work so well, and with such sophistication, that it was probably a matter of time before they were requisitioned from abroad and applied to a territory of U.S. citizens.
At many libraries, the prime real estate occupied by books is being requisitioned to make way for new digital humanities initiatives like virtual reality experiences or "Makerspaces" cordoned off for 3D printing.
Valmy SAS, a midsize medical supplies maker near Lyon, France, was unable to fulfill an order for a million masks by the British National Health Service because the French government requisitioned supplies.
"Armor that could be useful to Fermilab is requisitioned by the Fermilab Research Division, and ERDA then requests that this steel be reserved for the factory's needs," according to a 1975 Fermilab newsletter.
They collect huge amounts of data that can be requisitioned by law enforcement — late last year, a New Hampshire judge ordered Amazon to turn over Echo recordings related to a double murder case.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's police have requisitioned 150,000 surgical masks from a factory in the southern city of Jaen to supply health services, the Civil Guards police force said in a statement on Monday.
Sports Direct said on Thursday it had requisitioned a general meeting of Debenhams investors to appoint Ashley to the board and remove all current board members other than Chief Financial Officer Rachel Osborne.
So Mr. Etchegaray took the young men off the streets, requisitioned an old military barracks near the train station, put camp beds in it, brought in hot meals and keeps the place heated.
The assistant Librarian of Congress at the time, J.T. Frost, tried desperately to save the books as the British prepared to march on Washington, but almost everything had been requisitioned by the army.
In a weird twist, one of the requisitioned boats happened to be a cruise ship adorned with a large picture of the Loony Tunes character Tweety Bird, or Piolín as he's called in Spanish.
MARINKA, Ukraine — The last time Marina Korneeva heard about her home in Marinka, a small town in eastern Ukraine, it had been requisitioned by the army and was being used as an improvised morgue.
MADRID, March 16 (Reuters) - Spain's police have requisitioned 150,000 surgical masks from a factory in the southern city of Jaen to supply health services, the Civil Guards police force said in a statement on Monday.
The governments of the states of Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh have announced in the past few days that intensive care units, ventilators and staff of private hospitals might be requisitioned to treat virus patients.
Chinese officials announced later Saturday that more than 1,200 medical personnel would be sent to Wuhan and over 10,000 beds in 24 local hospitals would be requisitioned for treating confirmed and suspected cases of the virus.
And he had tried to resign from that post too, again for good reason: a kerfuffle over a piece of land in Dorset, Crichel Down, which the government had requisitioned and then transferred, ignoring the owners' rights.
So, according to a source knowledgeable about the board's spending, on at least one occasion the department requisitioned military aircraft at a cost of $1503,2150 an hour to transport its employees to meet Schmidt on his tour.
Soon, the scene switches to another port, where a British teenager, George (Barry Keoghan), is helping a father and son (Mark Rylance and Tom Glynn-Carney) unload a small yacht that's been requisitioned for the Dunkirk mission.
India is adding more resources to tackle its increase in coronavirus cases by announcing that private hospitals may be requisitioned to help treat virus patients, and turning railway cars and a motor racing circuit into makeshift quarantine facilities.
The decision to not grant a further extension was made after SEBI told the court it was unable to raise money from the Sahara properties as they had been requisitioned by the income tax department against unpaid dues.
Werner von Maltzahn, a 69-year-old farmer, recalls how his grandfather, a Prussian baron who settled in the same arid spot in 1913, had to start all over again when the British army requisitioned his cattle in 1915.
Playwright George Bernard Shaw, an opponent of the war, popularized the once-uncommon phrase "cannon fodder," which suggested that soldiers of all nations had been impersonally requisitioned to feed the guns or duped into enlisting by interchangeably imperialist rulers.
The government has requisitioned three resorts to use as isolation facilities, and services in the camps have been cut back to the bare essentials to try to reduce the chances of humanitarian workers bringing the virus into the camps.
The virus' impact on China has also impacted domestic supply of PPE more broadly, Laverdure said, as exports are now forbidden from Taiwan, China and France, where masks and supplies are being requisitioned by the government for local use.
The decision, earlier on Friday, to not grant a further extension was made after SEBI told the court it was unable to raise money from the Sahara properties as they had been requisitioned by the income tax department against unpaid dues.
For this installment of the Zapad maneuvers, a Cold War relic revived in 0003 and held again in 2000 and 2100, Russia has requisitioned enough rail cars to carry 2000,000 loads of tanks and other heavy equipment to and from Belarus.
At some point, NYPD officers entered the location and took protesters who refused to leave the premises into custody, the photos showed:JFREJ wrote on Twitter that the NYPD appeared to have requisitioned a city bus to transport the large number of arrested individuals.
Bill Cassidy's office reached out to the White House on Wednesday after learning that University Medical Center in Louisiana was informed that a new lab-testing machine, due to arrive on Monday, had instead been requisitioned by government officials for a "higher priority" coronavirus situation.
Although Ms. De Block did not refer to France, which has requisitioned all current and future stocks of some types of protective face masks, France's health minister was asked about her comments after a special meeting of E.U. health ministers in Brussels on Friday.
When they tried to leave their villages and head for the cities, where the grain that had been taken from them was turned into bread, they were blocked by armed detachments; when they tried to break into the government silos where their requisitioned grain was kept, they were shot.
One afternoon this summer, near a front line in West Raqqa, I sat in a requisitioned residence with Ali Sher, a thirty-three-year-old Kurdish commander with a handlebar mustache and the traditional Y.P.G. uniform: camouflage Hammer pants and a colorful head scarf tied back pirate-style.
According to Privacy International, requisitioned data can include medical records, travel records, financial records, population data, commercial data (details of corporations and individuals involved in commercial activities), regular feeds from internet and phone companies, billing data or subscriber details, content of communications (including with lawyers, MPs and doctors), and records from government departments.
A: Bobbie is explicitly described as a non-caucasian character in the first 10 pages of the novel: Bobbie was not the right shape to fit into one of the standard suits, and the Marines made her jump through a series of flaming hoops every time she requisitioned a new custom one.
The certifications, he said, have ranged from small-bore attestations that, for instance, a Chinese company was unable to send a representative to Argentina because the executive was under quarantine to verification that a medical supply company could not fulfill its contract because the Chinese government requisitioned its factory for domestic production.
That's right: The Ritz-Carlton Riyadh was requisitioned over the weekend to house the princes, government ministers, and members of the military who were arrested by a new anti-corruption committee helmed by 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whose rapid rise and consolidation of power has raised eyebrows in the kingdom and around the world.
There were also 215 trawlers of no specific classuboat.net - Allied Warships - ASW Trawlers These were commercial trawlers that the Admiralty requisitioned. The Royal Navy classified requisitioned trawlers by manufacturer, although such classes were more diverse than traditional naval classifications. Seventy-two requisitioned trawlers were lost.
32 of the 108 locomotives requisitioned during the Second World War had been previously requisitioned during the First World War, and of those 32, 24 were again sent overseas.
He returned them to Vendôme, and they were requisitioned in 1792.
They can also be spent on equipment (requisitioned from Q branch).
She was requisitioned as a coal hulk by the RAN in 1941.
Domala was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport and renamed Empire Attendant.
If the National Assembly is so requisitioned, it must be summoned within 14 days.
Approximately 400 muskets had to be requisitioned for the regiment to be fully armed.
2589, - accessed 30 December 2014. The French Navy requisitioned her and renamed her Duguay Trouin.
It still not exactly known how many "Centauros" were eventually requisitioned by the Luftwaffe or those acquired by ANR. About 18 aircraft were expropriated by the ANR while 12–20 (possibly as many as 42, according to some official reports) were requisitioned by the Germans.
At the close of the court proceedings the British government announced the ships had been requisitioned.
She resumed civilian operations until requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Army again on 8 July 1941.
The F.K.33 ended its days requisitioned by the Luftwaffe in 1939 as an instructional airframe.
It postponed until the end of March 1966 the decontrol of dwellings requisitioned during the war.
Appledore railway station and the whole line closed in 1917 having been requisitioned by the War Office (Stuckey 1962).
Built in Rockhampton, Queensland for the Rockhampton Harbour Board, she was requisitioned by the RAN on 16 June 1942.
On 13 November 1941, Kaimei Maru was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Army for service as a troop transport.
In 1939 the Admiralty requisitioned Asturias and Alcantara and had each ship converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC). Asturias was requisitioned on 28 August, shortly before the Second World War broke out. She steamed from Southampton to Belfast to be refitted for the Royal Navy. Her First Class accommodation was removed.
This was to be her last civilian voyage, as she was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy on 30 November.
Kerguelen abandoned Berryer and requisitioned the 24-gun fluyt Fortune and the 16-gun Gros Ventre to continue his mission.
The delay had been caused by the Navy's having requisitioned the ship to transport workers to and from navy shipyards.
United Fruit Co's SS Quirigua The s were six United Fruit passenger and refrigerated cargo liners built in 1931–1933 that the United States Maritime Commission requisitioned in 1941–1942. They were USS Antigua, , , , and . Antigua, although requisitioned, was never commissioned into the Navy. United States Maritime Commission Type R ship were Reefer ships.
On the 4th of May 1940, during the German occupation of Norway, the school was requisitioned by German forces and used as barracks. The school was released to its former function from August 19, 1940, to April 4, 1942, whereafter it was again fully requisitioned by German forces. During the 'Liberation of Finnmark,' the school served as accommodation for the evacuated from November 1944 through to February 8, 1945. From the 8th of February 1944, the school along with its headmaster & custodian courters were requisitioned by 'Hirdens bedriftsvern' (Hirden's Industry Protection Service).
Under the terms of the armistice, France was to hand over its railways to the Germans undamaged and was to work with the German authorities to restore them to serviceable condition. In 1942, the Marine Verpflegungsamt (MVA) took control of the workshops at Lumbres, which it used for the maintenance of requisitioned rolling stock. Work on requisitioned stock was given priority over non-requisitioned stock In the spring of 1943, the Germans constructed a branch line at Verchin. It was capable of handling 750 tonnes of traffic a day.
The British government therefore resorted to requisitioning, a practice last exercised during the Suez Crisis in 1956. An Order in Council was issued on 4 April allowing any British ship to be requisitioned, along with anything on board. Civilian ships acquired became known as ships taken up from trade (STUFT). Half were requisitioned; the rest were chartered.
The older passenger and refrigerated ships acquired from United Fruit in 1942, and were built in 1912 and 1913 and were of a different class from USS Mizar. They had been requisitioned in World War I and then returned to United Fruit The converted "reefers" , and were former Danish refrigerated ships requisitioned by the US Maritime Commission in 1942.
After the war Macklin was knighted for his war effort, although the Admiralty did not return his Cobham site which they had requisitioned.
During the war, the Gestapo requisitioned the St. Stanislaus Institute.Griesser-Pečar, Tamara. 2007. Razdvojeni narod: Slovenija 1941-1945: okupacija, kolaboracija, državljanska vojna, revolucija.
Taiping was requisitioned by the Royal Navy as a Victualling Stores Issuing Ship in 1941. She was returned to her owners in 1947.
To carry the 5th Infantry Brigade's vehicles and stores, two more roll-on/roll-off vessels were requisitioned, the and . Atlantic Conveyors sister ship, , was requisitioned for the same conversion to an aircraft transport on 4 May. They were joined by the helicopter support ship . Atlantic Causeway was loaded with vehicles and stores, requiring another vessel to carry the aircraft.
RAF Northleach was placed under "Care and Maintenance" thereafter until the site was de-requisitioned and wholly abandoned by the RAF in May 1946.
He built the manor house in the 1920s. In the 1930s part of the estate was requisitioned for the construction of the RAF airbase.
On 5 June 1942, Governor Cobb was requisitioned at Philadelphia by the War Shipping Administration, after which she was stationed at New York City.
Random House. Kindle Edition. In November 1943, they were moved to a requisitioned café in the Pankow district of Berlin.Weale, Adrian (2014-11-12).
She had only begun to establish herself within the Company's fleet, when she was requisitioned by the Admiralty at the outbreak of war in 1914.
Princess Irene was requisitioned by the Royal Navy on completion and converted to an auxiliary minelayer. She had a complement of 225 officers and men.
The Admiralty requisitioned City of Edinburgh in 1914, but then returned her to her owners. On 10 January 1915 the Admiralty again requisitioned her for war service. She received a 6-pounder gun and operated out of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, as an auxiliary patrol vessel. City of Edinburgh helped transport the Liverpool Rifles from Southampton to Le Havre on 24 February 1915.
Nearby requisitioned three-story private homes served as dormitories.The Voyager, 1948 school yearbook. Other facilities available to the students were a Teen-Age Club housed in the Fürth Opera House; Linde Stadium, an ice skating and swimming facility built by Nazi Germany for the 1936 Olympics; and Stein Castle, requisitioned from the Faber-Castell family. It was the scene of the Junior-Senior Prom.
It was later flown by others and, when war began, was requisitioned into the RNAS with serial 1322. It was destroyed at Hendon the following March.
Felipe A. Espil (Courtney Letts de Espil). On 20 May 1941, the United States Maritime Commission requisitioned all four unfinished combiliners, for conversion to military use.
The French Navy requisitioned Citoyenne Française in August, but then returned her to her former owners in December 1795. Her owners again deployed her as a privateer.
Manx Maid saw service in both World Wars. In 1914, she was requisitioned and served throughout the World War I under her original name, Caesarea. In World War II she was requisitioned in August 1939, and served as an ABV, an Armed Boarding Vessel. As other Steam Packet ships were attending the Evacuation of Dunkirk, Manx Maid took no part in Operation Dynamo, as she was undergoing repairs at the time.
Many vessels were again requisitioned in the Second World War. Three – , Carnarvon Castle, Dunvegan Castle became armed merchant cruisers. (1939) was also first requisitioned as an armed merchant cruiser, but later served as an escort carrier. After the war the line made good use of its three ships converted to troop transports to facilitate carrying the vast number of emigrants seeking new lives in East and South Africa.
SS Canberra in the Falklands after being requisitioned as a troop ship A STUFT (acronym for ship taken up from trade) is a UK civilian ship requisitioned for government use. The Falklands War of 1982 saw a diversity of ships taken up from trade, including tankers with potable water (see British logistics in the Falklands War) and fuels, freighters carrying food and munitions, and luxury liners converted to carry troops.
No 3 ITW also came to Torquay in June. Its headquarters were at St. James' Hotel (now Harbour Point). Hotels in Beacon Terrace were requisitioned, together with Park Hall Hotel and the Regina Hotel (which was slightly damaged during a "tip and run raid" in June 1942); the Dorchester and Devonshire Hotels were requisitioned later, from February 1943. St. Vincents' Hotel (now flats) was taken over for use by the WAAF.
Four destroyers (and allegedly a submarine) were actually ordered from Italy, but they were not delivered as the Italian Navy requisitioned them in 1914. Three 340-ton coastal submarines were ordered from France in early 1917, but these were also requisitioned at the end of the year and completed for the French Navy as the O'Byrne class. The largest Romanian Black Sea ship was the old cruiser , laid down in 1888.
The station's officer commanding was the highest ranking Pole in the RAF, Group Captain Aleksander Gabszewicz. The airfield was de- requisitioned in 1945 and returned to farm use.
During World War II, she was again requisitioned by the Admiralty and, possibly in view of her age, served as an accommodation ship in Greenock's East India Harbour.
In 2010, the shipyard was requisitioned for Expo 2010. The shipyard's operations moved to Changxing Island, an island within Shanghai Municipality at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
Osterreich was requisitioned for use by the Austro- Hungarian Navy as a minesweeper, and served until she was sunk by a torpedo in the Adriatic Sea in 1917.
During World War I the Intake Ground was requisitioned by the British Army. In 1919 Doncaster Rovers moved to the Bennetthorpe ground, taking the main stand with them.
The requisitioned RS-1s were remanufactured by ALCO into six axle RSD-1s for use on the Trans- Iranian Railway to supply the Soviet Union during World War Two.
Marie Antoinette was the merchant schooner Marie Antoinette. In 1793, she was requisitioned at Saint-Domingue and commissioned in the French Navy as the 20-gun corvette, Convention Nationale.
The hospital was requisitioned by the War Office in 1914 to create the 5th London General Hospital, a facility for the Royal Army Medical Corps to treat military casualties.
He took three officers and eleven enlisted men as prisoner, took them back behind the federal column, and requisitioned another horse, as his had been shot during the charge.
Originally a steam-powered fishing vessel named Elite. The vessel was requisitioned by the Portuguese government to serve as a patrol boat during World War I.Saturnino Monteiro, page 141.
The demand from the army was therefore enormous, and in 1918 it requisitioned a third of the French harvest, including colonies. The requisitioned wine was left with the producers for storage and withdrawn according to military needs. In return, the winemaker or wine cooperative received a bonus of twenty centimes per 100 liters per month. From the cellars the wine was sent to large regional warehouses in Béziers, Sète, Carcassonne, Lunel and Bordeaux.
Wartime austerity led to restrictions on the number of new clothes that people bought and the amount of fabric that clothing manufacturers could use. Women working on war service adopted trousers as a practical necessity. The United States government requisitioned all silk supplies, forcing the hosiery industry to completely switch to nylon. In March 1942 the government then requisitioned all nylon for parachutes and other war uses, leaving only the unpopular cotton and rayon stockings.
In 1913, the dockyard was known as the State Shipbuilding Yard and was requisitioned in 1918 by the Commonwealth. Ownership passed to the Melbourne Harbor Trust in 1924 and during World War II it was requisitioned by the Commonwealth in 1942 and was known as HM Naval Dockyard Williamstown, or Williamstown Naval Dockyard. In 1987 it passed into private control of Tenix Defence and which was subsequently acquired by BAE Systems Australia.
296 The Catalonia autonomy was abolished. The Catalan language, the Sardana and Catalan Christian names were forbidden. All Catalan newspapers were requisitioned and the forbidden books retired and burned.Beevor, Antony.
Glücksburg was built for H C Horn, Hamburg. She was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine on completion. In 1944, she was renamed Stadt Glücksburg. In 1945, she was returned to Horn's.
During World War I, Albert was requisitioned with the intention of converting her to a tug, however this was cancelled before work began and she was disposed of in 1917.
After the new Meiji government requisitioned the garden, it was designated a prefectural garden and opened to the public on 16 March 1875. In 1953, the garden was designated a .
49 Germanicus was given a force of freemen and freedmen. Some of the latter were requisitioned from their masters, who were compensated. In Rome there was a shortage of grain.
In 1939, Billy Butlin purchased the Thatched Barn as his first hotel; however, like his camps, it was requisitioned (this time by the SOE) before he could develop it further.
1813 was the 27th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Lord's Middle Ground was requisitioned by Parliament for the building of the Regent's Canal.
Albert Hulett and Sidney Smith were requisitioned on 8 August 1940 with Albert Hulett being re-named HMSAS Langlaagte and Sidney Smith as HMSAS Parktown after the Johannesburg suburb of Parktown.
The War Department ex-LMS Fowler Class 3F consisted of 8 LMS Fowler Class 3F 0-6-0T steam locomotives requisitioned in 1940 from the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS).
Renegades (Kindle Locations 2529-2530, 2793). Random House. Kindle Edition. On 24 February 1945, they travelled from Dresden to Berlin, where they stayed in a requisitioned school on the Schönhauser Allee.
Geoanna was requisitioned 1 February 1942 for war service by the United States Maritime Commission. The War Shipping Administration had set a just value of $20,000, of which $15,000 was paid.
Just prior to the onset of the first World War, the company purchased four new ships: Bermagui, Bonandera, Bodalla, and Bergalia. Bodalla was requisitioned for the war effort and repurposed as a minesweeper; she was lost in 1924. After the war the company purchased another three vessels: Nergalia, Cobargo, and Kianga. Nergalia and Kianga were requisitioned during World War II, but while both survived the hostilities, Kianga was not returned to the company after being decommissioned.
As armed merchant cruiser HMS California in World War II In 1939 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser, and from 1942 she was a troopship.
Tourist and market traffic on the river, using purpose-built or converted steamers, remained substantial until the Devonport piers were closed and the ships requisitioned on the outbreak of war in 1939.
A further revised fourth edition was published in 2010 to include requisitioned ships, e.g. Armed merchant cruisers, Merchant aircraft carriers, as well as small craft, e.g. landing craft and Admiralty-built trawlers.
322–3 Bread and meat for the men was to a large extent also supplied from local sources. Grain concealed in Damascus and sheep and cattle from the local region were requisitioned.
During the German occupation (1940–45), the building was requisitioned by the German military.Höye, Bjarne, & Trygve M. Ager. 1943. The Fight of the Norwegian Church Against Nazism. New York: MacMillan, p. 9.
Babington Smith, pp. 22-24, 34-35, 55, 63-64Cotton, pp. 8, 166-178Nesbit, pp. 93, 104 On 31 May 1940, the staff and equipment of AOC were requisitioned by the Air Ministry.
The launching of Lafian and Zarian in 1938 marked the end of this major building programme. With the outbreak of war in September 1939 the British government immediately requisitioned all 16 UAC ships.
In 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I, the last horse-bus operated on the Tilling Honor Oak – Peckham Rye Station route, after which the horses were requisitioned for war work.
In less than one year after his death, the five requisitioned warships he ordered in September 1874 fought or served in active duty during the Spanish–American War, which started in April 1898.
Changte was requisitioned by the Royal Navy as a Naval Stores Issuing Ship on 27 August 1939 and was known as RFA Changte (Y1-9). She was returned to her owners in 1946.
Her identical sister ships, also built by William Beardmore and Company, were SS Warilda (1911) and Wandilla (1912). In 1913, Willochra was chartered by the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand.. In November 1914, Willochra was requisitioned, as a troopship making numerous journeys with reinforcements to the war, notably Egypt, and returning with wounded. . In 1918 she was requisitioned by the British for Trans-atlantic duties and painted in dazzle camouflage. At the end if the war she repatriated German prisoners to Europe.
Eastern Steamship Lines served as operator for the War Shipping Administration in World War II. The United States government requisitioned all of the fleets vessels for military duty on both the Atlantic and Pacific.
From November 1939 to February 1942 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and used in Rosyth Dockyard. In December 1962 she was sent to White and Co at St Davids on Forth for scrapping.
In addition, they abandoned the 32 requisitioned naval guns to the French. The 8,000-man French garrison suffered 1,000 casualties, plus 14 guns, two mortars, six ammunition wagons, 17 colors, and three standards captured.
Royal Edward sailed from Avonmouth to Montreal in the summer and to Halifax in the winter. At the outbreak of World War I Royal Edward and Royal George were requisitioned for use as troopships.
In 1940 she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Daffodil. In 1941 was converted to a Landing Craft carrier. She was sunk on 18 March 1945 off Dieppe, Seine Maritime, France.
The Swiss Air Force was founded in 1914. The first Aircraft started with the serials 21, 22, 23, .. In 1915 the Balloons get the prefix "K". Some requisitioned Aircraft don't get any serial number.
60 built (Bu00883/00942). ;SB2A-4 :Aircraft built for Netherlands and requisitioned for the US Navy. 162 built (Bu29214/29375). ;A-34 Bermuda :Designation for Lend Lease production for United KingdomFactsheet: Brewster A-34 .
Western Isles was requisitioned by the Admiralty as an auxiliary in April 1940. On 27 October 1941, she was renamed Eastern Isles and used as an accommodation ship at in Birkenhead until 27 April 1946.
Polska w kulturze powszechnej. Kraków: Krakowska Ekspozytura Biura Patronatu dla Spółek Oszczęd i Pożyczek, p. 137. This Slovene-language upper secondary school operated here until 28 April 1941, when the German authorities requisitioned the building.
On Clarke requisitioned , Cairo – opposite and below a brothel – and in April received official mandate for his department. "Advanced Headquarters 'A' Force" moved into their new offices on and Clarke began to recruit his staff.
An easement can be expressly,UK Government: Land Registry Practice Guide 62 at 12.2.5: Statute or impliedly,Subsection (2) of Section 4 of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act extinguished or modified by statute.
During wartime, portions of the original site were requisitioned by the military and only later turned into a public park, the U.S. Navy's Negishi Heights housing facility and the location of an equestrian sports museum.
Altillac was the seat of a Viguerie under the Carolingian dynasty. On 28 May 1942, the regional prefect of Limoges requisitioned land from the Chateau of Doux to create an internment centre for Jewish families.
This was later merged into MCC who relocated to the Middle Ground in 1811. In 1813 Parliament requisitioned the land for the Regent's Canal, which was cut through the site, thereby necessitating a further move.
The town is situated at the foot of the Great Canjuers Plain, at the heart of a forest of oaks. 15 square kilometres of the commune were requisitioned for the Canjuers military camp in 1970.
Lieutenant Donaldson served in the oiler and in repair ship from March 25, 1941. On December 13, 1941 Donaldson was given command of the requisitioned tug Trabajador at Manila with the Navy's Inshore Patrol. On February 25th, 1942 he was transferred to command the British salvage tug Henry Keswick, requisitioned by the U.S. Army during the continuing siege of Manila. He was killed in action while commanding Henry Keswick on April 9, 1942, when the tug was set on fire by Japanese artillery and beached off Corregidor.
During the First World War the ground was requisitioned by the British army to graze cavalry horses, damaging the pitch, and during the Second World War it was again requisitioned for military purposes, this time to billet soldiers.Ton up – A century for the Kent Cricket Festival, Index Magazine. Retrieved 2018-03-11. Ownership of the ground was transferred in 1946 from the Marquess of Abergavenny to Tunbridge Wells Borough Council after Tunbridge Wells Cricket, Football and Athletic Club had already transferred the lease a year prior.
With the lead-up to war, many civilian departments within the Canadian Government had their ships requisitioned for use in the naval service. Bras d'Or was requisitioned on 15 September 1939 and was converted to an auxiliary minesweeper and received her new name and posting. Her first posting was to Halifax (former city), Nova Scotia, where she was tasked to patrol the harbour approaches to free up major warships for convoy duty. On 14 November 1939 Bras d’Or and collided in the approaches of Halifax Harbour.
Both schools were evacuated in World War I and were requisitioned by the military. Thurman retired and after the war Eddington College was taken over by Captain Turner who ran it as Herne Bay College until 1939. The college specialised in engineering, and in the 1930s "the College possessed one of the largest and best-equipped school engineering workshops in England, and was remarkable for its many engineering examination successes." However the building and its engineering equipment were requisitioned for the World War II war effort.
In 1939, at the beginning of World War II, the house was requisitioned for use by the Thames Nautical Training College, HMS "Worcester" whose ship of that name had been requisitioned by the Admiralty. Lord Waring died in 1940, and after the College vacated the property, dilapidated after its wartime use, in 1946, Waring's widow sold the house and grounds to Kent County Council for use as a museum. A fire in October 1949 caused extensive damage, and the house was demolished in 1950.Colvin 1995, s.v.
18-Pounder being inspected in France, April 1940. 139th Field Regiment mobilised at Lewisham on 1 September 1939 and after a week moved to Mill Hill where the men were billetted in private houses with clubs and church halls use as messes and cookhouses. Training began with the equipment available: two 4.5-inch howitzers per Troop and a few requisitioned civilian vehicles. In November the regiment moved to requisitioned buildings in Gloucestershire, with RHQ and 362nd Bty at Tetbury and 364th Bty at Westonbirt House.
Later in the war, some houses that were already constructed but not occupied were requisitioned by the War Office for use by American troops who were preparing for the relief of Europe. At the end of the war, the requisitioned houses, in a poor state of repair were sold off, to high demand. Park Farm was sold for development in 1955. In the early 1960s, the FNHT offered to sell houses to their tenants, and many converted their rents into mortgage payments with the Banner Building Society.
Northam station and the line closed in 1917 having been requisitioned by the War Office, and is now used as part of the Tarka Trail cycle route which forms part of the South West Coast Path.
Luna was built for Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft Neptun AG (Neptun Line). She had a passenger certificate. Her port of registry was Bremen and the Code Letters DOUV were allocated. In 1940, Luna was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine.
In 1939, Ganter was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and renamed Transporter RO 29. She was seized by the Allies in May 1945 at Copenhagen, Denmark. Ownership passed to the MoWT and she was renamed Empire Consistence.
Bovic was pursued by the submarine, but managed to escape. In 1917 she was requisitioned for war service. In 1922 she was sold to the Leyland Line and renamed Colonian. She was scrapped at Rotterdam in 1928.
Gruinard was surveyed, deemed suitable, and requisitioned from its owners by the British Government.Pearson, Dr. Graham S. (October 1990) "Gruinard Island Returns to Civil Use " The ASA Newsletter. Applied Science and Analysis. Inc. Retrieved 12 January 2008.
Until 1993 the Institute was placed at Gajowicka street and the Bishop Palace, that after the II World War was requisitioned by the Polish People's Republic government. Currently the Institute is placed at Okólna street in Wrocław.
Cutty Sark also appears, by name, in the 1943 film, Close Quarters. By 1944 the need for requisitioned vessels had diminished, and HMS Cutty Sark was laid up at King’s Lynn and used by the Sea Cadets.
In 1916, the asylum was requisitioned by the Army Council and became the Manor War Hospital. All mental patients were transferred to other institutions and the hospital used to treat soldiers wounded in the First World War.
After World War II, the hotel was requisitioned by the U.S. Army and only reopened in 1952. The original building was demolished in 1973 and replaced by a seventeen-story building whose construction was completed in 1976.
Prior to 1900 the area was called Turners Marsh Lower. Karoola is the Aboriginal name for Pipers River. The locality was gazetted in 1963. During World War I, a requisitioned hospital ship was named after the town.
Wright, Lawrence. (1983) Perspectives in Perspective, p. 238 His cartoons often reflected upon the chastened circumstances of English country houses requisitioned in the War and later left to their decline, a suitable theme for his architectural backgrounds.
After failing to acquire any British vessels at the outset of World War II for auxiliary purposes, the Royal Canadian Navy discreetly searched the American market for suitable ships. However, American law prevented the sale of ships for possible use in the war to any of the belligerents. The Royal Canadian Navy requisitioned unsuitable Canadian yachts and had their respective owners go the United States and buy those ships the navy wanted as replacements. Once the ships arrived in Canada, the navy then returned the original yachts and requisitioned the new ones.
In the early months of the Second World War, most of the civil Q.6s were requisitioned for service with the RAF and RN. Two Q.6s of the Lithuanian National Airline were impressed by the Soviet Air Forces in 1940. With one exception, all the civilian Q.6s served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Between 1946 and 1947, four requisitioned Q.6s and three Petrels were sold to civilian buyers. These were operated by small UK airlines, as executive transports and flown by private pilot owners.
Meanwhile, churches in Danzig as elsewhere in Germany, and in German-occupied areas, saw their church bells requisitioned as non-ferrous metal for war production.Volker Koop, Besetzt: Britische Besatzungspolitik in Deutschland, Berlin: be.bra, 2007, p. 144\. . Bells were classified according to historical and/or artistical value and those categorised the least valuable and cast after 1860, and especially those requisitioned in occupied areas, were melted down the first. The church was severely damaged late in World War II, during the storming of Danzig city by the Red Army in March 1945.
The Belfast and Portrush hotels continued to function fairly normally although they had lost their French and German employees at the outbreak of war. The Laharna, on the other hand, was suffering from a shortage of tourists and was requisitioned by the army in 1917. The steamer services were affected by the war. The Princess Victoria was requisitioned as a troop ship leaving the Princess Maud to operate the Larne-Stranraer mail service which was sometimes the only crossing available due to enemy submarine activity in the Irish Sea.
After failing to acquire any British vessels at the outset of the Second World War for auxiliary purposes, the Royal Canadian Navy discreetly searched the American market for suitable ships. However, American law prevented the sale of ships for possible use in the war to any of the belligerents. The Royal Canadian Navy, requisitioned unsuitable Canadian yachts and had their respective owners go the United States and buy those ships the navy wanted as replacements. Once the ships arrived in Canada, the navy then returned the original yachts and requisitioned the new ones.
However, American law prevented the sale of ships for possible use in the war to any of the belligerents. The Royal Canadian Navy, requisitioned unsuitable Canadian yachts and had their respective owners go the United States and buy those ships the Navy wanted as replacements. Once the ships arrived in Canada, the navy then returned the original yachts and requisitioned the new ones. Halonia was purchased by Montye McRae of Toronto, Ontario from Ray van Clief of New York City for $207,100 and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in March 1940.
Production of explosives and gunpowder resumed in October 1940 at a reduced level, since the powder mill could not supply customers in the unoccupied zone of France. Delivery wagons were requisitioned by the German authorities, preventing deliveries, and the growth of stocks raised the risk of explosions. After December 1940 the Germans took control of the facility and authorized deliveries of powders and explosives to the mines. Starting in 1943 the operation was severely affected by workers being requisitioned to work in Germany, and others leaving the powder mill to avoid being sent to Germany.
After failing to acquire any British vessels at the outset of the Second World War for auxiliary purposes, the Royal Canadian Navy discreetly searched the American market for suitable ships. However, American law prevented the sale of ships for possible use in the war to any of the belligerents. The Canadian Navy requisitioned unsuitable Canadian yachts and had their respective owners go the United States and buy those ships the Navy wanted as replacements. Once the ships arrived in Canada, the navy then returned the original yachts and requisitioned the new ones.
The Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service had one ocean-going tugboat, , but it was evident that more would be required, and three were requisitioned from the United Towing company: SS Salvageman, Irishman and Yorkshireman. The Royal Navy had no hospital ships. had been built to allow its conversion into a hospital ship, but she required special fuel oil, and had only a 200-bed capacity. Instead, the P&O; liner , which was in the Mediterranean on an educational cruise with a thousand schoolchildren on board, was requisitioned, and modified to become a hospital ship.
After failing to acquire any British vessels at the outset of the Second World War for auxiliary purposes, the Royal Canadian Navy discreetly searched the American market for suitable ships. However, American law prevented the sale of ships for possible use in the war to any of the belligerents. The Royal Canadian Navy, requisitioned unsuitable Canadian yachts and had their respective owners go the United States and buy those ships the Navy wanted as replacements. Once the ships arrived in Canada, the navy then returned the original yachts and requisitioned the new ones.
The Admiralty requisitioned Ranchi for the Royal Navy on 27 August 1939, less than a week before the UK entered World War II. She was commissioned on 23 October 1939 as the armed merchant cruiser (AMC) HMS Ranchi with the pennant number F15. The Admiralty also requisitioned her sisters Ranpura, Rawalpindi and Rajputana as AMCs. AMCs escorted merchant convoys in the early years of the war, as the Royal Navy did not have enough warships to spare for the purpose. From October 1939 until February 1942 Ranchi served the East Indies Station.
When the stores purchased, after having been received and placed in the storeroom, are requisitioned and delivered to the producing departments, there must be a credit to the Stores account for the value of the quantity delivered, etc.
She makes him inform Mrs. Dunne that the castle is in danger of being requisitioned. Mrs. Dunne takes back her cheque. However, after hearing from Phillips that he has been passed over for promotion, the earl has Mrs.
During World War II, students were evacuated to Downton Castle in Herefordshire. Both the main college and the prep school buildings were requisitioned by the Admiralty and became part of the Royal Navy shore establishment HMS King Alfred.
Falkefjell was chartered to the Anglo-Saxon Company and was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and loaned to the Royal Australian Navy as a fleet oiler in December 1941. She was returned to the Admiralty in April 1942.
Lanfranc was built by the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company for the Booth Steamship Company, which ran passenger services between Liverpool and Manaus, up the Amazon River. With the outbreak of war she was requisitioned as a hospital ship.
However, the second assigned locomotive had been requisitioned for a munitions train by the officer in charge of dispatching. The driver objected to taking the heavy load with a single engine, but was overruled by the transport officer.
Pirate radio station Radio Caroline North was based in Ramsey Bay from 1964–68 and supplied with provisions from Ramsey. During World War II, thirty boarding houses on the North Shore were requisitioned for the Mooragh Internment Camp.
In 19 December 1941, the colonial government requisitioned Capitol Theatre, which was closed after one show and also the closure of the Capitol Restaurant to serve as a food depot while the Mansions continued as the residential flats.
If management agrees to allow the militants to leave with their shopping carts, it is not legally a flight but extortion. Requisitioned products are then collectively shared or distributed to show the militant and selfless character of the action.
Donegal had a triple-expansion steam engine rated at 386 NHP, giving her a speed of . She and Antrim worked between Heysham and Belfast from 1904 until they were requisitioned for UK Government service in the First World War.
On 24 October 1939, Adele was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy as HMAS Adele. She was armed with two .303-in Vickers machine guns and employed as an examination vessel. From December 1941, HMAS Adele was attached to .
On 3 February 1947 she was returned to CMB, returning to Antwerp on 7 March. On 18 March Elisabethville was requisitioned by the Ministry of Transport and renamed Empire Bure. In 1949 she was laid up in Holy Loch.
From the end of the war until Feb.25th, 1946, the school building was requisitioned by the French occupying forces. Today Hegau-Gymnasium has a so-called Abi-Bac section and boasts the title of "Partner School for Europe".
In addition, the Canadian Power Boat Company produced four Scott-Paine designed PTs for the U.S. These were to be provided to the Dutch forces under Lend Lease, but were re-requisitioned to the USN as PT 368-371.
Just as the aircraft was being readied for its first commercial flights, World War II began. With the outbreak of hostilities, all models were requisitioned by the Luftwaffe for military air-transport roles, and later, long-range maritime patrol.
In 1642, the palace and church was requisitioned by Parliament for use as a prison and hospital during the English Civil War. During Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth (1649–1660) most of the palace was demolished and the gardens were destroyed.
Contamination due to ammunition caused by military use may also lead to the development of ghost towns. Tyneham, in Dorset, was requisitioned for military exercises during the Second World War, and remains unpopulated, being littered with unexploded munitions from regular shelling.
Nazi Troops occupied Mimizan on 28 June 1940. The chateau was requisitioned to house officers. On Liberation the house was returned to its owner. On 7 February 1947 the Duke married for the fourth time to Nancy Anne Winifred Sullivan.
During the Second World War the remaining court buildings we requisitioned and formed the officers quarters for the then RAF Shobdon. One of the legacies of this was the construction of an on site squash court which still exists today.
Parktowns commanding officer, Lieutenant Leslie James Jagger was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches for his conduct during the ship's final hours. The name was used for another HMSAS Parktown, formerly MV Suderoy, requisitioned from Suderoy Whaling Company on 3 July 1941.
Tsingtau and Tanga were depot ships for the 1st and 2nd E-boat flotillas at Kiel and Hamburg, respectively. Kamikaze Maru, Nihonkai Maru, Shinsho Maru and Shuri Maru were requisitioned from civilian service as depot ships for Japanese Motor Torpedo Boats.
The Aircraft Operating Company was a British aerial photography company, that took over Aerofilms in 1925. In 1940, its staff and equipment were requisitioned by the Air Ministry, and in 1944 the company itself was taken over by Hunting Aerosurveys.
A further seventy tuna clippers were called up as minesweepers (Amc designation), ten as harbour patrol craft (YP) and fifty as coastal transports (APC).Conway p152 The United States Coast Guard requisitioned ten Boston fishing trawlers for the Greenland Patrol.
National Register of Historic Vessels Naval drifters were boats built in the same way used by the Royal Navy primarily to maintain and patrol anti-submarine nets. They were either purpose-built for naval use or requisitioned from private owners.
Hart- Davis: The Essential Neville Cardus p. 13 On the outbreak of war in September 1939 the Free Trade Hall closed, requisitioned for military purposes. The Hallé Society left Manchester to tour with Sargent around the north-west of England.Brookes, pp.
She was refitted before entering service. Her port of registry was changed to Weymouth. She was used for day trips from Bournemouth. During the Second World War, Embassy was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for use as a minesweeper, HMS Ambassador.
Empire Clydesdale was laid down as Mazatlan for the Mexican Government. She was requisitioned by the MoWT and launched as Empire Clydesdale. Her port of registry was Glasgow. The Code Letters MKPP and United Kingdom Official Number 169125 were allocated.
Vinters, was a Whatman family home for many years. It was requisitioned for work during the second world war and it was demolished some time after 1956. The grounds are now (2020) a nature reserve and open to the public.
The TSS Awatea (translation "Eye of the Dawn") was a crack express Ocean Liner operating between Australia and New Zealand from 1937 until 1940 when she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for troop transport duties during World War Two.
It had also been decided to send another six RAF Harriers to augment the six already sent on Atlantic Conveyor. MV Contender Bezant, was requisitioned for conversion to an aircraft transport on 10 May, followed by Astronomer on 29 May.
In 1942 it was bought by the Giles family, whose land had been requisitioned by the Armed Services for Camp Parks.Holmes and Singleton, pp. 80–81. Their estate, "Peacock Hill", was redeveloped for housing in the 1980s.Holmes and Singleton, p. 97.
Boucher executed the bronze bust for this 1904 monument which is located in Saint-Brieuc. Baratoux had served as Saint Brieuc's mayor. In 1942 the bronze was requisitioned and melted down. In 1949 Elie Le Goff executed a replacement bust.
The state also had to contend with the merchant guilds; whenever the state requisitioned goods and assessed taxes it dealt with guild heads, who ensured fair prices and fair wages via official intermediaries.Gernet, 88.Ebrey et al., East Asia, 157.
The second "Earl of Zetland" saw brief service on the ferry route in 1939 but was almost immediately requisitioned for the war effort. Initially, passengers were offered a choice of "saloon" or "second class" fares. See Nicholson (1972) p. 105.
One ship was transferred to Canada. Five survived the war. One of the Greek ships was captured by the Germans and used by them in the Mediterranean. The six requisitioned Brazilian ships are sometimes referred to as the Havant class.
Hundreds more vessels would be requisitioned by the Admiralty as the war continued and more purpose built vessels were developed, including specially designed timber-hulled Motor MineSweepers (MMS class) that would be better protected from the threat of magnetic mines.
During the Second World War, Black Barony at Eddleston near Peebles was requisitioned for military use and in 1942 became The Polish Higher Military School used for staff officer training. Poland had been invaded by Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and Slovakia. Many Polish military personnel escaped via Romania to France and the United Kingdom. After the Fall of France in May 1940, many more Polish forces arrived in the UK. Most Polish land forces were deployed to Scotland and so Black Barony and other sites were requisitioned for the use of the Polish forces stationed in Scotland.
However, American law prevented the sale of ships for possible use in the war to any of the belligerents. The Royal Canadian Navy requisitioned unsuitable Canadian yachts and had their respective owners go the United States and buy those ships the navy wanted as replacements. Once the ships arrived in Canada, the navy then returned the original yachts and requisitioned the new ones. Mascotte was one such vessel and was purchased in 1940 and sent to Quebec City, Quebec for conversion to an armed yacht. Once there, the ship had the 4-inch gun installed forward.
In order to circumvent these laws, the Royal Canadian Navy requisitioned the yachts of prominent Canadian yachtsmen and then sent them to the US to purchase the yachts that had been identified by the navy without the US government knowing they were working for the navy. The money to acquire the vessels was provided by the Canadian government through bank loans. In 1940, Xania II was requisitioned from her owner, George Herrick Duggan, by the Royal Canadian Navy for $1. Following her acquisition, Xania II was converted into an armed yacht, departing Halifax, Nova Scotia on 30 May 1940 for Quebec City, Quebec.
At the outbreak of the First World War, the asylum was requisitioned to serve as a Military Hospital and the inmates were relocated to other asylums in the area. Casualties began arriving on 24 March 1915 directly from the Western Front, via train from Dover. The hospital was returned to civilian use in 1919 following a solemn ceremony during which the last patients left to the sound of the Last Post. During the Second World War the hospital was not requisitioned but the Summersdale block was commandeered to serve as an acute battle neurosis unit for front-line casualties.
As a result, 624 8Fs passed into British Railways ownership when Britain's railways were nationalised in 1948. A further 39 (10 requisitioned) were purchased from MEF stock in 1948, and a final 3 (1 requisitioned) from the Longmoor Military Railway in 1957, bringing the total to 666. The 8Fs were concentrated on the London Midland Region, but were also allocated to former LMS sheds on other regions. Despite some having operated in Scotland by the LMS, they were not common on the Scottish Region under BR ownership as the later WD 'Austerity' 2-8-0 and 2-10-0 types were used instead.
She suffered a fire in her No. 3 hold on 9 March 1939. In September of that year, she was requisitioned for conversion to an armed merchant cruiser due to the outbreak of World War II, but was released from that service before any conversion occurred. Instead, the Rimutaka was requisitioned for the Liner Division between 12 May 1940 and 14 June 1946, but remained in UK—New Zealand service for most of the war. After hostilities ceased, she continued in NZSC service on the same route; her last voyage with the company was in 1950, departing Wellington for London in January, 1950.
She was laid down 25 April 1939 at the Goshi Kaisha Urabe Zosen Tekkosho shipyard for the benefit of Sankyo Kaiun K.K. She was launched on 21 February 1940, completed on 8 April 1940, and registered in Osaka. She worked as a cargo ship until 12 September 1941, when she was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was designated as an auxiliary net-layer and her conversion was started on 24 September 1941 at the shipyard of Niigata Iron Works Company Limited. Her sister ships, Uji Maru and Kumano Maru, were also requisitioned and converted into auxiliary netlayers.
Partridge, requisitioned for use by US Army in WW2; used as special school; sold c. 1965 to Ayles family, who sold 1976 to Christopher & Belinda Petersen; sold 2000 to Mrs & Mr R.Taylor; sold 2005 to Jan Mosbacher; sold 2014 to Bowden Housing Cooperative.
The Protestant church contains an organ built by the Wetzel brothers around 1870. In 1917 German troops requisitioned part of the instrument, but it was restored in 1926 by the Strasbourg organ builder Edmond Alexandre Roethinger. A further restoration took place in 1972.
She left the convoy at the Tyne, where British Diplomat was to undergo a refit, and was renamed Empire Diplomat as she had been requisitioned by the MoWT. She was placed under the management of her former owners. She was assessed at .
This allowed the ITT to repatriate its assets just as Romania and the US declared war on each other.Popescu (2015), p. 91 The Filipescu family estate at Moara Vlăsiei hosted the diplomatic corps of Vichy France, then was requisitioned for storage space.Ion, pp.
In 1940, Glückauf was sold to Warnow Reederei GmbH, Rostock and was renamed Warnow. In 1940, she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. Warnow was seized by the Allies in May 1945 at Rendsburg. She was passed to the MoWT and renamed Empire Conleven.
The Air Ministry requisitioned Wycombe Abbey School in March 1942 to serve as the headquarters of the United States Eighth Air Force after the entry of the United States into World War II. It was returned to Wycombe Abbey on 9 May 1946.
In 1982, three vessels operated by European Ferries were requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence to assist with the Falklands Campaign.Baker(June 1983)pp.111-118 The three vessels were Europic Ferry,Villar(1984)pp.44&172 Nordic Ferry,Villar(1984)p.
101, 124 had recovered some of his UDR stock.Rusnac, p. 9 He was still prevented from reusing his villa, which was requisitioned by the Red Army in 1946. In tandem, Auschnitt served as Vice President of a rival club, called "Friends of America".
Clothes in houses that belonged to evacuated people were requisitioned. As people lost weight due to the diet, new clothes needed to be found or clothes adjusted. Elastic supplies ran out. Shortages of needles and thread were relieved with supplies from France.
The price of £138,118 included the cost of conversion to her new role. The ship was nearly complete when requisitioned, although her propelling machinery was not yet installed. Consequently, only limited internal modifications, notably the addition of three large workshops, could be made.
Retrieved 16 April 2016. In Paris in World War II, between 17 June 1940 and 23 August 1944, the lycée was requisitioned and transformed into a barracks for SS troops. The soldiers undertook military exercises in close proximity, in Parc des Princes.
During post-World War II Britain, AEI established a consolidated research effort at Aldermaston in Berkshire, England. The research centre was based at Aldermaston Court a large stately home owned by AEI that had been requisitioned for military use in the war era.
There is a mention in an 1889 directory.GENUKI: Middleton Tyas Parish information from Bulmers' 1890 After her death, it was unoccupied and the furniture was sold in 1928. The castle was requisitioned by the British Army during the Second World War (1939–45).
However, when the United States entered World War I in April 1917, the entire American-Hawaiian fleet, including American, was requisitioned by the United States Shipping Board (USSB), which then returned the ships for operation by American- Hawaiian.Cochran and Ginger, p. 363.
In 1938, she was renamed Kehdingen. In 1939, Kehdingen was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. She was converted to a weather ship and entered service as WBS 6 Kehdingen in 1942. On 7 September, Kehdingen departed from Kristiansand, Norway escorted by for Operation Edelweiss.
During the First World War, land in Credenhill was occupied by an army unit to store ammunition. In 1939 the land was requisitioned for defence and became RAF Hereford. The 12th-century church of St Mary is a grade I listed building.
The Sinclairs began the building of an adjacent mansion, although construction was abandoned. In 1856 a hotel was built over these foundations. This building was requisitioned by the Armed Forces during the Second World War, and was converted into flats in the 1970s.
The rig which supported 200 Gigashot high-definition video cameras requisitioned from Toshiba, was 1.8 m-highNettleton, Kate; "Close-Up: Live issue - Toshiba eschews the 'big idea' for technology", Campaign, 21 November 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2010. and weighed over half a tonne.
McKinstry, pp. 151–53. The looming First World War overshadowed much of the season.McKinstry, p. 153. Cricket initially continued once the war began, but as the Oval had been requisitioned by the military, Hobbs' benefit match was moved from the Oval to Lord's.
The disused General Motors assembly plant (east on Dewdney Avenue), which had ceased operations as the Depression gripped the prairies, was requisitioned for armaments manufacture before returning to idleness at war's end. At the conclusion of the war Regina's population was about 65,000.
During World War II, the Royal Engineers requisitioned the Chichester Diocesan Training College for Schoolmistresses at Ditchling Road; they put up several Nissen huts on the Level to give them more space, and these temporary buildings stayed until well into the 1950s.
In December 1870 horses and equipment were requisitioned for use by the French cavalry. A consignment of six hundred saddles left Saint-Valery by train for Noyelles on the 30 December. The Prussians occupied Saint-Valery from February 1871 until September 1873.
She was withdrawn from regular service in 1934, but retained for excursions and as a spare ferry. During the Second World War she was again requisitioned and used as a barrage balloon depot ship in the Humber. She was scrapped in 1945.
After hostilities ceased they were returned to United Fruit Company in 1919. They were requisitioned again on 2 June 1941 from United Fruit for use in World War II. After hostilities ceased they were then returned again to United Fruit Company in 1946.
During World War II, the Norwegian and later British Royal Navies requisitioned a number of whalers for use in a variety of functions such as minesweeping, search and rescue, and anti-submarine warfare. Ten Allied vessels categorized as whalers were lost in the war.
In June 1916 the Admiralty requisitioned her for the Royal Navy as an auxiliary patrol vessel. The Turkish Navy captured her in 1917. After the Armistice of Mudros in 1918 she returned to the Royal Navy. From April 1919 she served as a minesweeper.
Meanwhile, Rügemer asked Gut to work as a housekeeper in his requisitioned villa. She hid 12 Jews in the cellar. They would come out and help her clean the house when he was not around. Rügemer found out about the Jews she was hiding.
During the Occupation, the Rex was requisitioned and became the Soldatenkino, reserved for German soldiers. In the 1950s, one of the first escalators in France was installed and inaugurated by Gary Cooper. Between 1974 and 1990, seven further screens were added in the basement.
During the Second World War, the house was requisitioned to serve as an ARP area headquarters. Later it was used by the British Iron and Steel Research Association as a major research centre for the steel industry. The Hall was completely renovated in 1993.
In July 1940, Algonquin caught fire and sank while docked at New York. The ship was salvaged and repaired, then transferred to the Puerto Rico Line on return to service in 1941. In January 1942, she was requisitioned and put into service as a troopship.
Randier, p.448 During the Turko- Russian war in 1877, the Russians requisitioned 19 trade vessels to convert them as torpedo boat tenders.Naval Warfare, 1815-1914 By Lawrence Sondhaus p.123 Velikiy Knyaz Konstantin was the first historical vessel in this new ship class.
The Hall was requisitioned by the army during World War II and in 1948 with the aid of grant funding the Keele estate was purchased from another Ralph Sneyd for the establishment of the University College of North Staffordshire, which in 1962 became Keele University.
Gernet, 77. The state also had to contend with the merchant and artisan guilds; whenever the state requisitioned goods and assessed taxes it dealt with guild heads, who ensured fair prices and fair wages via official intermediaries.Gernet, 88.Ebrey et al., East Asia, 157.
School for Skylarks is the story of a schoolgirl evacuee from London, who during WWII is sent to live with an eccentric great-aunt in an equally eccentric stately home. When their home is requisitioned as a school, Lyla's lonely world is turned inside out.
Of the 31 aboard, five (including the commanding officer Lt D. W. Blacklaws) were killed or drowned, and three seamen were injured, one seriously. Gale rescued the 26 survivors, 5 officers and 19 ratings. The cargo boat was requisitioned as a replacement for Puriri.
In autumn 1960, the FPA had 600 members. It first operated in the 13th Arrondissement, where it requisitioned café-hotels. Torture is rumoured to have been used, most notably at 9, rue Harvey and 208, rue du Château des Rentiers. Forced disappearances took place.
In the large cities, merchants were > organized into guilds according to the type of product sold; they > periodically set prices and arranged sales from wholesalers to shop owners. > When the government requisitioned goods or assessed taxes, it dealt with the > guild heads.Ebrey et al., 157.
Farndale, p. 98.Sainsbury, pp. 70–3, 113. By early September, the regiment was concentrated round the Swansea GDA, where RHQ and 248 Bty set up a Gun Operations Room (GOR) in two Requisitioned houses and arranged a barrage scheme codenamed 'Ball of Fire'.
273 the avisos and , and the pink Normande.Normande was a transport, previously the Sicilian pink Jésus-Maria-Saint Pierre, that the French Navy requisitioned in December 1805 and armed with six 4-pounders and 4 swivel guns.(Demerliac, n°1378, p.164)James (1837), Vol.
Baker got permission to make his own way home and drove in a requisitioned Mercedes to Venlo, from where he flew to Ghent and then back to London.My Testament, p. 209. He weighed 7 stone 2 lbs when he returned to England.My Testament, p. 200.
The Admiralty requisitioned on the outbreak of war and commissioned her in September 1939. In early 1940 she endeavored to defuse a floating horned mine in the Firth of Forth. The mine detonated and killed and wounded almost 90 per cent of the ship's company.
Following Olympics return to Britain, the White Star Line intended to lay her up in Belfast until the war was over, but in May 1915 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty, to be used as a troop transport, along with the Cunard liners and . The Admiralty had initially been reluctant to use large ocean liners as troop transports because of their vulnerability to enemy attack; however, a shortage of ships gave them little choice. At the same time, Olympics other sister ship Britannic, which had not yet been completed, was requisitioned as a hospital ship. In that role she would strike a mine and sink the following year.
The airfield was originally opened by the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) during the First World War. At first in 1916 Koonowla House was requisitioned by the War Office in 1916, for the RFC to conduct wireless experiments. Then on 13 Feb 1917 the RFC transferred there (from their long time HQ at RAF Joyce Green, Dartford), and established it as part of the London Air Defence Area, using the adjacent Cudham Lodge estate which contained a huge undivided field, ideal for aircraft. The same year Lord Stanhope's Aperfield Court and grounds, some from the station were requisitioned for use as a radio transmitter and fighter ground control station.
The vessel was in government service until 1926, when she was sold to Sydney-based fishing company Cam & Sons for use as a trawler. At the start of World War II, Goorangai was requisitioned for military service on 8 September 1939; one of eight vessels requisitioned from Cam & Sons during the war. The vessel underwent modification, and was fitted with minesweeping gear, a QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun, and depth charges. After conversion into an auxiliary minesweeper, Goorangai was commissioned into the RAN on 9 September 1939, and assigned the pennant number GR. She was operated by Royal Australian Navy Reserve personnel: 21 sailors and 3 officers.
The house became important during World War II. In 1940, the estate owners allowed the Royal Navy to use the house to accommodate overnight pupils of the Royal Navy School of Navigation, HMS Dryad, which was based in Portsmouth Naval Dockyard. In 1941, after heavy bombing of the dockyard, the house was requisitioned and became the new home of HMS Dryad. In 1943, with the planning for D-Day already underway, the house was chosen to be the location of the advance command post of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. Because of this, HMS Dryad was moved out of the house onto further land requisitioned from the estate.
Some 331 locomotives were built for the London Midland and Scottish Railway between 1935-45. A further 245 were built by the London and North Eastern Railway, Great Western Railway and Southern Railway in 1943-45 for LMS stock, though mostly retained on loan by the other railways during the war. The LNER also purchased 68 Stanier 8Fs for its own use in 1944-46, classifying them O6, though these were also sold to the LMS after the war. As noted above, 51 LMS locomotives were requisitioned by the WD in 1941, but 31 WD locomotives were subsequently purchased by the LMS in 1943 (including 8 of the requisitioned engines).
Canberra of 1961 in Ponta Delgada, Azores in 1984 Las Palmas, Gran Canaria in 2003 Initially, P&O; Cruises operated Oriana and Canberra from Southampton, serving the UK market, and Arcadia from Sydney, serving the Australian market, while Uganda operated educational cruises. In 1979, Arcadia departed the Australian fleet and was replaced by Sea Princess, which had previously been Kungsholm for Flagship Cruises. In 1981, Oriana relocated to serve the Australian market, while Sea Princess relocated to serve the UK market in 1982. The same year, Canberra was requisitioned as a troopship during the Falklands War, while Uganda was requisitioned as a hospital ship.
Duchess of Fife began her passenger service on the Gourock to Dunoon and Rothesay routes. In May 1916 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a minesweeper for the remainder of World War I with her name shortened to HMS Duchess, and was allocated the pendant number PP533, where she served in the North Sea. She was returned to her owner in April 1919 and from 1937 she undertook sailings from Wemyss Bay to Millport and Kilchattan Bay. She was requisitioned once again in 1939 upon the outbreak of World War II, this time retaining her full name as HMS Duchess of Fife, pendant number J115.
In 1918, she was requisitioned for war service and became HMS Daffodil. Her sister ship Iris was also requisitioned and became HMS Iris II. In preparation for the Zeebrugge Raid which aimed to deny the Germans further use of the port as a u-boat base, both ships were stripped of all furniture and fittings and had armour fitted to the superstructure. The ferries were chosen because of their shallow draught and double hulls. Daffodils role was to carry two of the three seamen demolition parties, known as "C" Company and commanded by Lieutenant Cecil Dickinson, specifically tasked with using explosives for demolition work.
She was built by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton for the London and North Western Railway in 1897 in response to the competition launched by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company who had launched a steamer in 1896 capable of 24 knots and a Holyhead to Dublin crossing time of 2¾ hours. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty as an Armed boarding steamer in 1914 and became a hospital ship after August 1915. She was renamed TSS Arvonia in 1919. In August 1922 she was again requisitioned as a troopship, this time by the Irish Free State along with the In 1925 she was scrapped.
In 1904, the telephone was installed at the hotel. The Hôtel d’Europe was one of the first three hotels in Avignon to be connected by telephone. During World War II, the Hôtel d’Europe was requisitioned by the German army from November 19th, 1942 to August 23rd,1944.
The respondent Cors had purchased a tugboat at auction, and after paying both the purchase price, and conducting repairs, he had spent $8,574.78 on the boat. Months later in October 1942, the War Shipping Administration requisitioned the tug for use in the war effort, offering Cors $9,000.
XIII, 1966 Chronically poor at managing his money, he nevertheless lived during his Cluj years in a lavish apartment near the city's Central Park that had been requisitioned from a Hungarian owner. In his last years, he built an imposing house in Sibiu, intending to retire there.
Military airport building in 2008 In 1940 100 ha were requisitioned to create a Russian airport.History, ERM.ee, retrieved 31 December 2013 The airport became a major Soviet bomber base for fifty years. The secrecy of the airfield meant that foreigners were not allowed to visit the city.
In the course of the coalition war French troops came to Beindersheim in 1792. On February 2, 1794, the French requisitioned 47 pieces of cattle in the parish. The [Prussians] detach the French. On May 1, 1794, there were fights about Frankenthal, the Prussians must retreat.
In September 1939 the airline was requisitioned for military duties and operated a mail service between Paris and London. In June 1940 the fleet was reduced to just the Caudron Goélands and by September 1940 the fleet was transferred to Air France and the company was dissolved.
They are described as Ayuddha-jivi or Shastr-opajivis (nations-in-arms), which also means that the Kamboja cavalry offered its military services to other nations as well. There are numerous references to Kambojas having been requisitioned as cavalry troopers in ancient wars by outside nations.
The season of 1803 saw the Theatre Royal, Margate requisitioned by the army to be used as auxiliary barracks. Copeland's returned to manage the Theatre Royal 1811. Through his descendants Copeland left quite a mark on British theatre. His daughter Fanny went on to become an actress.
The original factory was in Rawson Street, Nottingham. A second factory at Scotholme, off Gauntley Street, opened before World War II . The factory was requisitioned during World War Two, and had wood block floors installed for production of armaments. Hosiery production ceased in the mid 1970s.
To prevent the spread of the epidemic, several unsanitary houses were demolished, and with a lack of manpower to accomplish the demolitions, convicts from the Central Jail were requisitioned. In 1892, the Western extension was formed in the city and sites measuring . by . were sold, by community.
Eventually, Iron Wolf planned to infiltrate the riflemen and "cleanse" it from "ideologically unreliable" personnel. Iron Wolf promoted sports particularly those that were related to military preparedness. Special attention was paid to shooting sports and weapons instruction. Iron Wolf hired military instructors and requisitioned three machine guns.
The house has been owned by the Lowsley-Williams family since 1891. They employed the architect John T. Micklewaite who added the east wing which includes an oak pannelled ballroom. In 1944, the house was requisitioned and housed American troops prior to the Normandy landings in France.
This company renamed her SS Lord Aberconway. In 1930 she was again sold to Etablissenents Oden de Lubersac of Rouen, France, who renamed her SS Gallois. The ship was requisitioned in London in July 1940 by the British Government at the start of the Second World War.
Katsura Maru Number Two was a Japanese auxiliary gunboat built as a merchant ship at Urabe in 1937 and requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy prior to the commencement of World War II. She was sunk in the Sea of Okhotsk by on 20 September 1943.
Many White Star vessels were requisitioned for various types of war service, most commonly for use as troop ships, the most notable of these was the RMS Olympic which transported over 200,000 troops during the conflict.Chirnside, Mark (2011). The 'Olympic' Class Ships. The History Press. p. 142. .
The War Department had 208 8Fs built by Beyer Peacock and North British Locomotive Company and requisitioned 51 more. Stanier 8F production for the WD continued until 1943 when the cheaper WD Austerity 2-8-0 was introduced. Production for British domestic use continued until 1946.
Maryann, sometimes seen as Maryanne or Mary Anne, was a yacht requisitioned and converted by the United States Navy during the defense of the Philippines in World War II and destroyed 5 May 1942 at Corregidor to prevent capture. The yacht was "in service" and not commissioned.
The Grand Prince Ferdinando was grievously ill with syphilis; he had become prematurely senile, not recognising anybody who came to see him. Cosimo despaired. He successfully requisitioned the assistance of Pope Clement XI with Anna Maria Franziska. He sent the Archbishop of Prague to reproach her.
Jamnagar was operated by the Mercantile Marine Department of the State of Nawanagar. In 1940, she was sold to Hashim Mohomed Ganchi, India. Her port of registry was Karachi. In 1940, Jamnagar was requisitioned by the Royal Indian Navy for use as an auxiliary patrol vessel.
In 1940, Hinrich Freese was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. She was converted to a weather ship and was commissioned on 1 March as WBS 4 Hinrich Freese. Her complement was nineteen, plus five meteorologists. On 20 March, she departed from Wilhelmshaven to operate north of Iceland.
During World War II it was requisitioned for use by British and American troops. Hearst did not return after the war but continued to lend the castle to friends; Bob Hope, the comedian, stayed in May 1951 during his visit for a golf tournament at Porthcawl.
'Gerald-Libois, 'Katanga Secession,' 1966, 114. The numbers of the new force were originally fixed at 1,500 volunteers from 16 to 21 years of age recruited from 'safe' ethnic groups. Almost all the aircraft of the Force Publique had been transferred to Kamina, then requisitioned by Katanga.
Marcel Miocque et Huguette Vernochet (2006). Houlgate regards sur le passé. p129 The French Army's 3rd Corps created temporary hospitals and requisitioned all hotels and some large villas. Houlgate became a hospital town where local "Houlgatais" mingled with soldiers who had been wounded from the front.
During the Second World War, Byam's home in Guernsey was requisitioned for the use of German officers, and all his philatelic trophies and medals were stolen. They were never recovered. Fortunately, Byam's stamp collection remained in England and was safe. It was sold by auction in 1961.
High-carbon steel was requisitioned during World War II to make German tanks and airplanes. Jaboulay was made a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1959. Émile Jaboulay died in Saint-Étienne on 28 January 1961. A street in Saint-Étienne is named after him.
Cochran and Ginger, p. 362. However, when the United States entered World War I in April 1917, the entire American-Hawaiian fleet, including Pennsylvanian, was requisitioned by the United States Shipping Board (USSB), which then returned the ships for operation by American- Hawaiian.Cochran and Ginger, p. 363.
Mormacland was . She was operated by Moore-McCormack Lines Inc., with New York as her homeport, until 6 March 1941 when she was requisitioned by the United States Navy and sent to Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co, Newport News, Virginia, for conversion to an aircraft carrier.
Powbank Mill closed at the outbreak of World War II, when it was requisitioned as a Canteen/Naafi. After the war, the mill never returned to the family, being the home of the Scottish Aviation Club, before they moved into the St Cuthbert's site on Kirk Street.
The ship was long and wide and had a top speed of . She could carry 60 passengers in first class and 900 in third class. Until she was requisitioned for use as a troopship during World War I, she travelled mainly between Genoa and South America."Minas" (in Italian).
1940 the sculpture was requisitioned by the German occupation forces and posed in the office of the Nazi governor Hans Frank on the Wawel castle. Since October 2007 the sculpture is part of the art collections of the Erasmus Ciołek Bishop’s Palace, a part of the Kraków National Museum.
In 1886 a bronze statue of Berlioz had been erected in Paris' square Hector- Berlioz in the 9th arrondissement but this had been requisitioned by the Germans in 1941 and the bronze melted down for re-use. In 1948 a replacement had been sculpted in stone by Saupique.
Many buildings were requisitioned in both Durham and Newcastle, and the number of students dropped so low that the university had to deny it was closing. The finances of both the Durham Colleges and Armstrong College were, however, perilously low, leading to an appeal to the government for assistance.
In 1902 Henry Ross died. During World War I, Lina Waterfield's castle was requisitioned for military purposes. Lina, her husband and daughter moved in with the Rosses during this period. In her autobiography, Lina's daughter Kinta also portrays Janet as somewhat intimidating in appearance, but very kind and loving.
However, these too were requisitioned by the French Navy and commissioned in 1921 as the O'Byrne class. These three boats became the first class of French submarines to be completed between 1919 and 1944.Paul E. Fontenoy, Submarines: An Illustrated History of Their Impact, ABC-CLIO Publishing, 2007 p.
By 1895 it was owned by Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham who leased it to Augustus Scobell Orlebar. His son, Augustus Orlebar, was a distinguished RAF pilot. During the Second World War it was requisitioned by the government, though its use during this period is not fully known.
Part of the hospital was also requisitioned for military use during the Second World War. The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948. After services transferred to Bensham General Hospital, the hospital closed in 1995. Most of the hospital was demolished in 2015 to make way for housing.
Sometimes the food was requisitioned from kulaks considered the "saboteurs". Acquired food was divided: half taken by the organisation which sent the prodotryad and half was donated to Narkomprod (People's Commissariat for the Food Supply). With an emergence of NEP, the new economic policy, prodotryads were disbanded in 1921.
During the German occupation of Norway in World War II the ship was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and as NS 09 Sindbad was stationed as a patrol boat in Stavanger, serving as part of 51. Vorpostenflottille ("51st Guard Flotilla"). The ship was returned to Knutsens after the war.
In 1935, she was sold to Atlas Levant Linie AG. She was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine in 1940. In 1942, Akka was allocated the German Official Number 8535 and her Code Letters were changed to SFMN. she was damaged by mine and beached off Varangerfjord, Norway, 29 November 1942.
In 1940, August Wriedt was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. She served as the weather ship WBS 8 August Wriedt. On 29 May 1941, August Wriedt was intercepted and captured in the Atlantic Ocean by shortly after leaving Bordeaux, Gironde, France. a prize crew took her to St. John's, Newfoundland.
The rationing of petrol caused civilian cars and then motorcycles to leave the roads within days of the occupation starting. A limited bus service ran for a while. Some delivery vans were allowed. Bicycles became the standard form of transport, but strong bikes were requisitioned by the Germans.
The French occupation of 1809 resulted in economic hardship for the population. The village gained access to electricity in 1926. In the Second World War the village's agricultural produce and livestock was requisitioned by the Wehrmacht, leading to food shortages. Most of German population was deported after the war.
Before the Second World War Mason combined with some others to buy a country house, Cuffnells (the family home of Alice Liddell). They brought it and originally planned to convert it into an upmarket hotel. However, when the war broke out in 1939, Cuffnells was requisitioned by the army.
During the War the ship was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and used as a convoy escort vessel, HMS Philante. After the war the vessel was returned to Sopwith and he sold her to Norway in 1947, to be used as a royal yacht for the Norwegian king.
He retired as warden in 1937, and was succeeded by Ben Tinton, who had worked at the Settlement since 1918. After the outbreak of the Second World War, most activities at the various settlements ceased; many buildings were requisitioned by the military, and there was extensive bomb damage.
Like many Clyde steamers, Waverley was requisitioned in 1915 by the Admiralty for service during World War I, being modified to increase her decked area and adding bow plating. For four years she served on the British and Belgian coasts, and was discharged from service in April 1919.
On 22 May 1940, Sachsen was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. She was converted to a weather ship and was commissioned on 18 September. She had a crew of fifteen, plus five meteorologists. From 18 September to 23 November, she was employed on a mission to the Denmark Strait.
Takliwa was at Bombay when the Second World War started. In 1940, she was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport for use as a troopship. Between September 1939 and July 1943, she sailed the Indian Ocean. From July 1943 to August 1944, Takliwa was mostly sailing the Mediterranean.
Brooklands closed to motor racing during World War I, was requisitioned by the War Office and continued its pre-war role as a flying training centre although it was now under military control. Brooklands soon became a major location for the construction, testing and supply of military aeroplanes.
She departed Ile d'Aix around April, and sail to America. In July 1779, Fier Rodrigue was escorting a 10-ship convoy near Grenada. On 6, she encountered the fleet under Estaing, preparing for battle. the French Navy requisitioned her and she took part in the ensuing Battle of Grenada.
Whence these leagues arrived in Tuscany, a concerned Ferdinand requisitioned an Austrian garrison, from his brother Emperor Francis of Austria, for the defence of the state. Ferdinand aligned Tuscany with Austria. Following Ferdinand's death, his elder son, Leopold II, succeeded him. Leopold was contemporarily acknowledged as a liberal monarch.
41 During the Second World War Swakeleys House was requisitioned by the military and a searchlight battery established in the grounds. The house was Grade I listed in 1956, and the head gardener's cottage on the junction of Swakeleys Road and The Avenue was Grade II listed in 1959.
Linz was constructed in 1909 at the Lloyd Austriaco shipyard in Trieste, Italy. She was requisitioned by the Austro-Hungarian Navy and used to transport troops and prisoners on Albanian routes. The ship was long, with a beam of and a depth of . The ship was assessed at .
The Wing Headquarters was located in requisitioned Bowdown House, a mansion on the northeast end of the airfield, and made use of the runways for its communication and courier flights. The 51st TCW HQ followed its groups to North Africa as part of Operation Torch in November 1942.
With the change in code letters in 1934, the letters DFBH were allocated. In 1940, Fritz Homann was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. She was converted to a weather ship and was commissioned as WBS 3 Fritz Homann on 1 March. She had a complement of fifteen, plus her meteorologists.
Yoshida Maru was requisitioned as an auxiliary gunboat/minelayer and transport ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was armed with 3 guns of 12 cm and machineguns. On 18 January 1944, she was sunk by the submarine USS Flasher at 140 miles west-southwest of Minami-Tori-shima, .
The estate was purchased in 1888 by Sir Jeremiah Colman whose family had established the Colman's mustard food brand in the early 19th century. The property was requisitioned during the Second World War; the estate was then purchased by the current owners, The Royal Alexandra and Albert School.
On She served on the Tsuruga–Vladivostok route until 1939, then the Niigata–Seishin–Rashin route. On 30 January 1940. Siberia Maru was sold to the Nipponkai Kisen K.K. Her port of registry was changed to Tokyo. In November 1941, Siberia Maru was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Army.
The Viking was requisitioned by the Admiralty on 23 March 1915 and was purchased outright later that year. Following her fitting out she was commissioned at Liverpool on 11 August. HMS Vindex during operational service. She was named Vindex by the Admiralty, who purchased her on 11 October.
Additional supplies would be taken by sea to Novo Alexandrovsk and carried east to the main column. 7750 Bashkir carts were mobilized to haul supplies to Orenburg. 10400 camels and 2000 camel drivers were requisitioned from the Kazakhs. This required military force in the case of one tribe.
In 1932 Hektoria returned to the British register after her ownership was transferred to Hektoria Ltd. Hektoria was requisitioned for use as an oil tanker on the outbreak of World War II, but sunk by a U-boat on 11 September 1942 whilst sailing in an Atlantic convoy.
On arrival, Rio Grande was requisitioned by the MoWT and renamed Empire Blanda. It was operated under the management of the Larrinaga Steamship Co Ltd. Its port of registry was London. Convoy HX 107 departed Halifax on 3 February 1941 and was to arrive at Liverpool on 28 February.
Roemer initially proposed that the land be requisitioned, with compensation being provided by the local authorities. Houzeau de Lehaie refused to accept payment for the land and agreed to part with it only under the condition that it be donated instead of requisitioned, and that in the cemetery the dead of both sides be treated with equal respect. During 1916 and 1917 Landsturm Infantry Battalions exhumed burials from isolated and less maintainable sites and re-interred them in the new cemetery. Most of the bodies that were exhumed were from the north and north east of the Mons battlefield especially near Nimy and Obourg where the British stopped Imperial German units from crossing the Mons-Conde canal.
In World War II a similar situation arose; the Admiralty again requisitioned civilian tugs and placed orders for a range of Admiralty tugs. In all 117 harbour tugs were brought into service, including the 10 Robust and 6 West-class vessels (built in World War I and now in civilian service) and 101 others of various design. Just two harbour tugs were built for the Admiralty during World War II, the Alligator class. Prior to 1939 the Royal Navy had built four Brigand-class rescue tugs for its own use; at the outbreak of World War II a further 74 civilian tugs were requisitioned, including 16 Saint and 5 Rollicker class of World War I vintage, and 53 others.
In 1941 Katoomba was briefly requisitioned for troop deployments transporting 1,496 troops leaving Brisbane for Rabaul on 15 March and then again with 687 troops from Sydney to Darwin before returning to commercial service. Katoomba was transporting troops to Rabaul escorted by when news of the attack on Pearl Harbor (8 December Australian date) and other Japanese attacks in the Pacific caused her to be held in Port Moresby. Plans to reinforce the garrison at Rabaul were abandoned, with the existing garrison sacrificed to delay Japanese advances, and Katoomba instead joined other ships in evacuating women and children from New Guinea, Papua, and Darwin. She was again requisitioned as a troopship in February 1942.
During the war, the temple premises were requisitioned, and the monks returned to Ceylon. In 1955, the Vihara reopened in Ovington Square, Knightsbridge under the initiative of Sir Cyril de Zoysa.Sir Cyril de Zoysa, the great Buddhist devotee . Ven Narada Nayaka Thera became the chief bhikkhu of the Vihara in 1958.
Providing the 15 days of supply depleted depot stocks in that area, particularly of winter clothing, operational rations, POL, and post exchange comfort items. This resulted in subsequent logistical difficulties for Eighth Army. Much of the 15 days' resupply for X Corps had to be requisitioned on the Japan Logistical Command.
Alvis was requisitioned for war service as an anti submarine trawler, on 30 Apr 1940. She was given the pennant number 4118 and the Admiralty paid a hire rate of £84.0.0d per month. Alvis was given one 12pdr gun as her main armament and assigned to the Royal Naval Patrol Service.
Thus, the interiors are in a neoclassical "Adamesque" style. Never fully completed, the house passed through a succession of owners. In 1910 it was standing empty and in 1914, it was requisitioned by the British Government as an army convalescent hospital. It was again sold in 1928 and quickly sold again.
During the two World Wars, it was requisitioned as a military hospital. The building was damaged by a terrible fire in 1939. In 1964, the ISAB program in agricultural engineering was approved by the Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (CTI). The school opened its new campus in 1968, near its experimental farm.
292 A civilian pilot, Denis Cutler of Durban, South Africa, was commissioned into the Royal Marines and persuaded to make his private Curtiss seaplane available for the British Empire.Turner, pp. 39–40 The Royal Navy requisitioned the passenger ship to serve as a makeshift tender for Cutler's aircraft.Patience 2011, p.
"How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" is the eleventh episode in the second season of the American animated television series Futurama. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 2, 2000. The title references the 1998 film and popular novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
Antigone was ordered by the Greek Navy in 1912, with a design Maxime Laubeuf. The ship, which received the name PS,Gardiner, p. 387 was requisitioned by the French Government on 30 May 1917 during World War I. Antigone was built in the Schneider shipyard in Chalon-sur-Saone.Jane, p.
In October 1940, Tonbridge was requisitioned by the Admiralty. She was converted to a netlayer for the Royal Navy. She served as HMS Tonbridge with the pennant number T119. On 22 August 1941, HMS Tonbridge was bombed and sunk in the North Sea off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk by German aircraft.
The arch has three openings, a larger central one with two smaller lateral ones. The arch is bedecked with ten columns with Corinthian capitals. Most of the sculptures and reliefs were requisitioned locally. It has bas-reliefs celebrating the imperial role in Italy, along with depictions of flags and weapons.
Eventually it was sold to Brenton Halliburton Collins, a banker from Halifax, Nova Scotia and on his death, it was inherited by his son, Carteret Fitzgeral Collins who subsequently died in 1941. At this point the house fell vacant before being requisitioned for the war effort on 15 May 1941.
On 10 July, she was refloated and taken to a shipyard for repairs. Fiddown was requisitioned by the MoWT. She was renamed Empire Estuary and re-entered service in 1943. She was placed under the management of Craggs & Jenkin Ltd, remaining registered at Goole and retaining the Code Letters MJJY.
Originally a ship of the French East India Company, Lawriston was brought into service in the French Navy. She took part in the Siege of Pondicherry in 1778. She was returned to merchant service in June 1781 at Île de France but again requisitioned in December 1781. HMS IsisCunat, p.
Hector was requisitioned by the Admiralty on 27 August 1939, and they proceeded to refit her as an armed merchant cruiser. This process was completed on 20 December 1939.Hector at Uboat.net In January 1940 she was assigned to the New Zealand station, where she served until July that year.
In September 1939 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for minesweeping duties once more and commissioned as HMS Queen of Thanet, pennant number J30.Lenton & Colledge, Warships of World War 2, Part 4. Ian Allan. In May 1940 she took part in the Dunkirk evacuation rescuing 4,000 men in four trips.
During World War II, in retirement, he provided and sailed as a volunteer on one of the "little ships" that played a part in the Dunkirk evacuation. Rather than allow his motoryacht to be requisitioned by the Admiralty, he sailed the vessel to Dunkirk personally and repatriated 127 British servicemen.
The total saved was about 1,670.Löb (2009), pp. 114, 198-200 The group was housed in the Swiss village of Caux, near Montreux, in requisitioned former luxury hotels. The Orthodox Jews were housed in the Regina (formerly the Grand Hotel), and the others in the Hotel Esplanade (formerly Caux Palace).
In the first weeks after liberation, Allied military forces improvised relief in the form of shelter, food, and medical care. A large number of refugees were in critical condition as a result of malnutrition, abuse, and disease. Many died, but medical material was requisitioned from military stores and German civilian facilities.
The Hall was requisitioned during World War II for use as a base for the Royal Air Force, and then later became a military hospital for injured servicemen, being attached to the Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital in Mansfield. It reverted back to its owners shortly before the end of the war.
Paris 1919, Six Months that Changed the World. New York: Random House. p. 268. Although public entities in occupied Hungary bore the brunt of the Romanian- imposed reparation quotas, where these were not enough the Romanian occupation authorities requisitioned quotes from private entities, including cattle, horses and grain from farms.
Stille, p. 40Watts & Gordon, pp. 187–188 This is indirectly supported by the allocation of a new yard number, 888, to the ship. Tully, on the other hand, says that she was requisitioned on 10 February 1941 and was used as a transport until the conversion began on 1 May.
Messina was built for Robert Miles Sloman Jr, Hamburg Her port of registry was Hamburg and the Code Letters DJUT were allocated. In 1940, she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. She was seized in May 1945 as a war prize at Travemünde. She was passed to the MoWT and renamed Empire Cherwell.
On 18 August 1914 , Upolu was requisitioned by the RAN for use as a submarine depot ship. She participated during the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force occupation of German New Guinea tendering the submarines and . She returned to Sydney in November 1914 and was returned to her owners on 9 December 1914.
They were the Arlita, the Lord Minto, and the Nancy Hague. After removing the crews from the Arlita and Lord Minto onto the Nancy Hague, the U-35 sank the two empty ships. The three crews returned to Fleetwood aboard the Nancy Hague. The Alvis was subsequently requisitioned in 1940 by the Admiralty.
His persistent refusal to install electric light saved the manor from being requisitioned by the occupying power. His nephew, the late Seigneur, Cecil de Sausmarez (1907-1986), after a distinguished career in the Diplomatic Service and whilst a successful people deputy carried out an extensive programme of restoration and modernisation of the property.
Many war horses during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars were Morvan horses, provoking a crisis in Morvan horse breeding farms and decimating the species. In 1791, the war minister ordered that mares be requisitioned for war. Morvan horses had a good reputation as war horses, according to Pierquin de Gembloux.
Titanic sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912, while Britannic was requisitioned by the British government while she was still being fitted out, and was used as a hospital ship during World War I. Britannic hit an underwater mine in the Kea Channel and sank on the morning of 21 November 1916.
During this period many Frenaysien soldiers were imprisoned in Germany or were requisitioned for compulsory labour. During the night of 7 August 1944, a Royal Air Force Lancaster crashed in La Frenaye. Three British airmen were killed and now rest in La Frenaye cemetery. On 30 August 1944 the Germans left La Frenaye.
Załuska and Załuska, pp.219-20 During World War I both the German and the Russian armies requisitioned food, horses, machinery and precious metals from the village.Szlązak, p. 17. In 1916 a hailstorm struck Retkinia, causing massive damage in the fields, and further worsening the difficult wartime economic situation of the population.
Symons, p. 168. A more devious tactic developed on 7 May, when Churchill requisitioned the bulk of the supply of the Worker's newsprint."The British Worker and Paper Supplies", The Times (8 May 1926), p. 4. Such provocative action compelled the Publicity Committee to reduce the paper's size from eight pages to four.
On 30 May, Bourdon de l'Oise denounced the commission for having requisitioned an armed force to guard the hôtel de Breteuil, where it was sitting. Then a deputation from the 22 sections of Paris came to demand that the Convention end the commission and put its members on trial before the revolutionary tribunal.
During July 1943, Protector was requisitioned for war service by the U.S. Army. En route to New Guinea and off Gladstone, she was damaged in a collision with a tug and abandoned. The hull was subsequently taken to Heron Island off the Queensland coast and later sunk for use as a breakwater.
Alexandru Marghiloman became the new German-sponsored Prime Minister. King Ferdinand, however, refused to sign the treaty. The Germans were able to repair the oil fields around Ploiești and by the end of the war had pumped a million tons of oil. They also requisitioned two million tons of grain from Romanian farmers.
The late 1930s were marked by a series of illnesses, and the outbreak of the Second World War would prove too disruptive for him. His ranch was requisitioned by German troops in 1943, and the Marquis was evicted to Saintes-Maries. Sick and disoriented, he finally died at Avignon in December 1943.
King George V was initially mainly used on the Inveraray service but also visited Campbeltown. She became a much loved ship. After 1935, she was based in Oban cruising round Mull, to Iona, Staffa and Fort William. In World War II, she was requisitioned as a troop carrier, initially based at Southampton.
Jobs are allotted, one to whip up the eggs, while another creams the butter and sugar, cake tins are lined, and a strong pair of arms requisitioned to do the final mixing and stirring. The Mitais, Mandas, Ushae, Pitae and Mani are well known sweet dishes and are also included in the kuswar.
In May 1918 Zealandia was requisitioned as an Allied troopship. She was among the ships used to transport the American Expeditionary Force from the east coast of the USA to France. After the armistice she carried troops on the Liverpool – Sydney route. In 1919 she resumed her commercial role with Huddart Parker.
The Yugoslav team won the gold medal, Argentina silver and West Germany bronze. In 1949 the Olympiad management requisitioned a new style of chessmen. Painter and sculptor P. Poček was contracted to design the Olympiad chessmen.1950 Dubrovnik chess set details The pieces were made in an unknown workshop in Subotica, Yugoslavia.
On 17 March, she steamed back to sea, after repairs. In 1915, Dongola was requisitioned until further notice and served as a temporary hospital ship in the Dardanelles during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 to 1916. She then returned to use as a troop transport, largely along the coast of East Africa.
All area residents were asked to stay at a shelter that was set up at a nearby elementary school. Several people who violated the police perimeter were arrested. The Baltimore County Tactical Squad requisitioned a nearby house, in which there was a barking dog. The Tactical Squad shot and killed the dog.
She plied the Singapore straits as part of the Blue Funnel Line until she was requisitioned in 1939 by the Royal Navy and conversion into an auxiliary minesweeper and commissioned as HMS Medusa. She was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1942 and renamed HMAS Mercedes upon commissioning on 6 July 1942.
In May 1794, the French Navy requisitioned Duguay-Trouin and commissioned her as a corvette of 22 guns. On 23 December she was under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Eudes-Dessaudrais. Her role was to escort convoys between Breast and Île-d'Aix Roads. The Navy renamed her Calypso in May 1795.
France declared war on Prussia on 19 July 1870. Saint-Valery was a strategic port, and thus its capture was an objective of the Prussians. In October 1870 the French requisitioned Jules Verne's boat Saint-Michel I for the defence of the Baie de Somme. The boat was crewed by Crimean War veterans.
She plied the Singapore straits as part of the Blue Funnel Line until she was requisitioned in 1939 by the Royal Navy and conversion into an auxiliary minesweeper and commissioned as HMS Circe. She was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1942 and renamed HMAS Medea upon commissioning on 6 July 1942.
The tower was included on the Antiquities List of 1925. With the beginning of World War II, the British military requisitioned the tower in 1940 and used it as a Regional Headquarters. In support of this role, they constructed a pillbox on the roof. Machine gun emplacements were also built on the roof.
Empress of Britain arriving at Greenock with Canadian troops aboard. ( is visible in the background.) Upon arrival, the ship was repainted grey and then laid up awaiting orders. On 25 November 1939, Empress of Britain was requisitioned as a troop transport. First, she did four transatlantic trips taking troops from Canada to England.
The ship's sea trials were unsatisfactory. She was designed for a top speed of but failed to achieve it. Also by this time the first phase of the war on commerce was over. The fast passenger liners that the Imperial Navy had requisitioned had proved impractical because of their prodigious coal consumption.
The squadron operated Junkers F.13FE, Ju-86Z/K-1 and Ju 52/3M aircraft which had been requisitioned from the South African Airways at the outbreak of war. The eleven Ju 52's were assigned to 51 Flight, operating a shuttle service from Nairobi to Egypt, Middle East and South Africa.
The ship was built by Hawthorn and Company of Leith and launched in 1918. She was taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. In 1942 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a wreck dispersal vessel at Deptford. She increased in tonnage from 892 to 1,200.
Chatterton p74 After the war, it was concluded that Q-ships were greatly overrated, diverting skilled seamen from other duties without sinking enough U-boats to justify the strategy.Preston, p. 58 One Arklow schooner requisitioned as a Q-ship, the Cymric, did sink a submarine. Unfortunately it was , a "friendly fire" incident.
A bust of General Vallejo at the park The fate of the ranch turned in 1846-48 when the United States and Mexico went to war: Lieutenant Colonel Vallejo was imprisoned for his position in the Mexican military, and in his absence, John C. Frémont requisitioned and stripped the ranch of its horses, cattle and grain reserves for the California Battalion. Many of the natives, his main labor force, fled from the soldiers. Thereafter the ranch declined in value and profitability every year. In 1851 Vallejo submitted a claim to the United States for the animals and materials requisitioned by Fremont, et al.. His claim was reduced by a Board of Officers appointed by the Congress to examine the claims and Vallejo was paid $48,700 in 1855.
SS Tashkent anchored near San Francisco during World War II. In 1942, after Iowan was repaired and after the United States had entered World War II, the ship was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration (WSA). On 6 December 1942, Iowan was transferred to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease, and renamed Tashkent (Ташкент ) after the capital of Uzbekistan. Near the end of World War II, the WSA offered a payment of $694,743 to American-Hawaiian for the former Iowan as part of a $7.2 million settlement for eleven American- Hawaiian ships that had been requisitioned by the WSA. Tashkent was assigned to the Far East Shipping Company (FESCO), but sailed with the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Navy throughout the war.
On 9 April 1940, Theresia L M Russ was requisitioned at Bergen, Norway by the Kriegsmarine. She was returned to Ernst Russ on 29 April. On 15 August 1940, she was again requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. On 9 December 1941, Theresia L M Russ was one of seven ships in a convoy travelling from Kirkenes, Norway to Tromsø, Norway when the convoy was attacked by and was sunk. Theresia L M Russ was returned to her owners on 23 May 1942. She was damaged in an air raid on 26 February 1944 at Helsinki, Finland. On 18 December 1944, Theresia L M Russ was sunk in a Royal Air Force raid on Gotenhafen, German occupied Poland. On 13 January 1945, she entered dry dock for repairs.
With their intended role in France having ceased to exist, early WD 8Fs were loaned to British railway companies in 1940-42, being given temporary numbers in the LMS series. However, by late 1941 the need for locomotives in Iran and Egypt was such that all of the WD locomotives which had been completed up to that point were recalled for military service, and 50 more locomotives were requisitioned from the LMS. Locomotive WD 407 (LMS 8293) had been damaged in an accident whilst on loan to the Great Western Railway, so a 51st LMS engine was requisitioned as a replacement. By 1942 the need for locomotives overseas had been satisfied, and the final 24 new WD 8Fs remained in the UK on loan to LMS.
With one exception, a new ship from Union Iron Works already loaded for departure named War Sword, the contracts and ships were requisitioned. Out of 431 such ships, totaling , requisitioned 414 were completed after cancellations of some contracts for ships of unwanted design that were in early stages of construction or not yet laid down. A very large group of these ships, contracted with names prefixed with "War" and renamed before completion, were being built for the British Shipping Controller of Ministry of Shipping under various shipping line contracts. Examples of these ships are , which became USS West Bridge, and one of the Great Lakes built ships, originally War Bayonet, which became USS Lake Superior for the first war and USS Tuluran for the second.
Most people were peasant farmers paying dues to the abbey. Life was hard during the medieval period in the north of France, in between famines and the invasions of the English, Burgundians and the Spanish. Things changed little during the French Revolution for the peasants. The church was requisitioned and transformed into a gunpowder factory.
In 1903, she passed to Elder Dempster Lines when that company absorbed the African Steamship Company. In August 1914, Montcalm was requisitioned by the Admiralty. She was initially used as a troopship carrying members of the British Expeditionary Force. In October 1914, she was converted to a dummy battleship, mimicking , whose name she carried.
Blacksmiths emerged in West Africa around 1500 BCE. They are feared in some societies for their skill in metalworking, considered a form of magic. They are also much admired and hold high social status. Because the trade is so specialised and dangerous, blacksmiths are often requisitioned by towns and villages where there are none.
In addition thousands of tons of innumerable other stores were hauled from Corps dumps or requisitioned from civilians. Their skilled workers had to operate many times under the most adverse of conditions. In March 1946, the sappers returned home to Lethbridge and the unit was re-designated to 33rd Field Park Squadron in 1947.
During the Second World War, like many other country estates, the house was requisitioned by the War Office, designated for use by the British Army as a hospital. It remained serving as a hospital post-War, operating as the gynaecology unit of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital from 1951, until it was closed in 1981.
The ship way allocated to the Stranraer - Larne route and entered service on 8 July 1939. In September 1939, after just two months service, Princess Victoria was requisitioned and converted to an auxiliary minelayer. She was commissioned as HMS Princess Victoria and given the pennant number M03. She had a capacity of 244 mines.
The Japanese Official Number 45674 and Code Letters JZPM were allocated. She was operated by Tyugai Kaiun KK between Japan and the west coast of the United States. On 15 August 1941, Kuroshio Maru was requisitioned on charter by the Imperial Japanese Navy. She entered to Tama Zosen shipyard on 22 August for conversion work.
In the prettytime, everyone has a "hole in the wall" where they can ask the wall for a piece of clothing/accessory, and it will give it to them. Certain complex items (like hoverboards, furniture and really nice clothes) had to be requisitioned from the factory belt, where middle pretties assembled the special objects.
Cecil Geoffrey Darley of Aldby Hall was born in 1885. The house was requisitioned by the army during the Second World War and suffered severely, but was renovated after the war by Mark Winn. He passed it on to his son George whilst continuing to live there. In 1999 the house suffered a serious fire.
Duchess of Norfolk was built for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the London and South Western Railway. She was used on their Portsmouth - Ryde route. Her port of registry was Portsmouth. In May 1916, Duchess of Norfolk was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for use as a minesweeper in the Mediterranean.
It was requisitioned in both World Wars. Two blue plaques were erected by the London County Council in 1937 to commemorate Wolseley and Chesterfield at the house. Later it was used to display the Dolmetsch collection of musical instruments and the Suffolk Collection of Jacobean portraits. The latter is now on display at Kenwood House.
In 1935, Laura was sold to Wendenhof Reederei GmbH, Wismar and was renamed Sylt. In 1940, the ship was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. On 21 July 1943, she sailed from Bodø, Norway under escort from the vorpostenboot for a port to the north. In May 1945, Sylt was seized by the Allies at Trondheim, Norway.
General Charles Decaen, governor of Isle de France, requisitioned Revenant on 4 July.Fonds Marine, p. 377 The government renamed her Iéna, and gave command of her to Lieutenant Nicolas Morice, with Lieutenant de vaisseau Albin Roussin as second officer. Surcouf had an altercation with Decaen but had to accept the requisitioning of his ship.
Tilling's buses were the first to use pre-arranged bus stops, which helped them to run to a reliable timetable. His services expanded to cover much of London until his horses were requisitioned for the Army in the First World War. During the mid-19th century, housing had spread north and west of Peckham Rye.
Wick was originally a grass airfield, used by Captain E. E. Fresson's Highland Airways Ltd. (later Scottish Airways Ltd.) from 1933 until 1939. Requisitioned by the Air Ministry during World War II, the airfield was extended with hard runways, hangars, and other buildings. The airfield was administered by No. 18 Group, RAF Coastal Command.
In 1984 the Sevens date was switched to the Spring - the Sunday prior to the first Monday in May. The 1939 Sevens tournament was cancelled as World War 2 started the next day. No organised rugby took place until the war ended. Throughout the war the pitch and clubhouse were requisitioned by the military.
Miss Holland also introduced the school uniform. However, the Second World War brought Miss Holland and her staff their greatest challenges. On her arrival at school in August 1939, with the new session due to start, Miss Holland was greeted by the news that 17 Albyn Place had been requisitioned for the Food Office.
Kianga was requisitioned by the RAN on 28 July 1941 and after being fitted out was commissioned as a minesweeper on 16 September 1941. During the war she was based at Brisbane with Minesweeping Group 74. Kianga was decommissioned on 17 January 1946 and she was scuttled off Sydney Heads on 7 July 1948.
At that time, the Pasteur Institute faced a sensitive issue : the German authorities requisitioned serums and vaccines while typhus raged in French prison camps in Germany. Decision was made to produce typhus vaccine on a large scale using the Durand - Giroud process. The vaccine produced in the unoccupied territories was sent to the prison camps.
Allenwood operated along the east coast of Australia in the coastal trade for Allen Taylor and Co. Ltd. On 16 September 1941, Allenwood was requisitioned by the RAN on 27 July 1941 for use as an auxiliary and fitted out. She was commissioned on 16 September 1941. During the war, Allenwood was based in Sydney.
Swakeleys was requisitioned by the military during the Second World War when a searchlight battery operated within the grounds. The Foreign Office retained the house until 1955 when it was sold to the London Postal Region Sports Club.Bowlt 1996, pp.22—23 The club staged cricket matches with local teams from Ickenham and Uxbridge.
During World War II she was evacuated from London with her mother and brother. In 1940, they were sent to Weymouth, Dorset. The same year the French army was defeated, and many evacuated troops took shelter in Weymouth. Exhausted soldiers slept on the pavements and the luckier ones on straw in the requisitioned schools.
Another convoy departed Italy on 25 June, escorted by Gorizia, , and a squadron of destroyers. The convoy, which consisted of requisitioned transatlantic liners, steamed to Tripoli and back, arriving in Taranto on 1 July. On 23 August, the main fleet sortied to intercept the British Force H, though they failed to locate their opponent.
Kanowna was returned to her owners on 21 September.Jose, The Royal Australian Navy 1914–1918, p. 488 Kanowna in hospital ship livery On 1 June 1915, the vessel was requisitioned again for military service. Kanwona transported soldiers and supplies to Egypt, then made for England, where she was modified for use as a hospital ship.
Principal Mackenzie transferred to Jordanhill along with the male students in 1931 and Helen Drummond took up the post of principal of the women's college. From 1939-46 the college temporarily moved to the Teachers' Training College in Aberdeen, as its buildings in Dunfermline were requisitioned by the Royal Navy during World War II.
2 p. 5694th Light Horse Brigade War Diary 29 September 1918 AWM4-10-4-21 During the afternoon four Bristol Fighters raided Damascus aerodrome and by the evening an advanced aircraft base had been established at Quneitra.Powles 1922 p. 243 On 29 September, grain requisitioned at Tiberias was distributed to units, when wheeled transport arrived.
On 21 November the aircraft were requisitioned by Poland and the squadron was dissolved. The squadron was replaced with the Fliegerzeug der Verkehrshundertschaft der Schutzpolizei der Freien Stadt Danzig, also known as the Luftaufsicht. Most of the staff were carried over from the previous unit. In mid-1922 the force was renamed Luftfahrtüberwachungsstelle (L.Ü.St.).
Bapaume society was transformed during the French revolution. During the Terror, the Castle was not sufficient to imprison citizens suspected of not being favourable to the Revolution. Homes vacated by residents who had fled were requisitioned to serve as prisons. Joseph Le Bon came to the commune revive the actions of the revolutionary committee.
She continued to serve this route until the outbreak of World War Two in 1939. On the outbreak of war, Georgic was not immediately commandeered, but was instead transferred back to the Liverpool to New York route in September 1939, and made five round trips before being requisitioned for trooping duties on 11 March 1940.
Jodrell Hall is a country house near Jodrell Bank in the parish of Twemlow, in the county of Cheshire, England. Requisitioned during World War II, the building later became an educational establishment, now known as Terra Nova School. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
However, the castle was rebuilt under Henry Howard, again by Salvin. During the Second World War the castle and estate were requisitioned by the army as a tank drivers' training area. The castle itself became a prisoner of war camp. Consequently, much damage was done to both the building and the estate during this period.
Janusz Jasinski, Historia Krolewca, 1994, page 249 In 1933 the NSDAP alone received 54% of votes in the city. After the Nazis took power in Germany, opposition politicians were persecuted and newspapers were banned. The Otto-Braun-House was requisitioned and became the headquarters of the SA, which used the house to imprison and torture opponents.
In September 1939, the yacht was again requisitioned as an armed patrol vessel, equipped with a 12-pounder gun. She initially served with the North Atlantic Command at Fort William in Scotland. One of Lorna's captains was Robert Atkinson, who in 1980 became the chairman of British Shipbuilders. She was returned to her owner in 1943.
In 1939, Mariette was requisitioned for service with the US Coast Guard and used for patrols. Crowninshield was given his ship back in 1946, in a state of disrepair, and sold her. In the following years, Mariette had several owners and various names. At some point, she was owned by Lou Boudreau under the name Janeen.
Her two sister ships, Fuji Maru and Kiso Maru, were also requisitioned, the former as a subchaser and the latter, as a gunboat. On 10 April 1941, she was assigned to the 2nd Base Force, Third Fleet, as part of the 3rd Gunboat Division (along with gunboats Kiso Maru and Nampo Maru) based at Takao, Formosa.
In early June, Yamato and Musashi were again requisitioned as troop transports, this time to reinforce the garrison and naval defenses of the island of Biak as part of Operation Kon.Steinberg (1978), p. 147.Garzke and Dulin (1985), p. 56. The mission was cancelled when word reached Ozawa's headquarters of American carrier attacks on the Mariana Islands.
April 2012. and Henry Miller, accompanied by Anaïs Nin. During the German occupation, Aux Belles Poules, like several other luxury Parisian brothels, was requisitioned for the use of German officers, in order to prevent their contacts with the local population. The health services of the Wehrmacht were responsible for organizing the sanitary control of these establishments.
In the evening there were reports of large scale arson and looting in Jirania block. At 7:00 p.m. Sharma rushed to the District Magistrate office where he appraised Additional District Magistrate M. L. Dasgupta of the situation, who requisitioned two companies of the army. The army units however were given orders of flag march only.
On 25 August 1939, SS Cathay was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted at Bombay for service as an armed merchant cruiser. The second (dummy) funnel was removed and eight 6-inch and two 3-inch guns were fitted on the decks. The ship served on the Bombay–Durban patrol after its conversion in October 1939.
In 1946, after the adoption of the "Loi Marthe Richard", the brothel was closed. The building was requisitioned to accommodate convalescent students of the Fondation de France. In 1962, the building was demolished; the van Dongen frescoes and Egyptian interiors were destroyed. A branch of the Banque Populaire rives de Paris now stands on the site.
Sources disagree as to when Slieve Bearnagh entered Royal Navy service. The Admiralty may have requisitioned her in 1915, used her as an auxiliary minesweeper and then bought her in October 1917. According to another source the Admiralty did not requisition her until 1917. However, sources agree that in January 1919 she served as hospital carrier ship HC5.
The Luftwaffe expropriated of land from surrounding farms and used a combination of Norwegian and Soviet prisoners of war for labor. The farmhouse at Fyllpå was requisitioned and used for offices, and the runway was planned to measure . By the German capitulation on 8 May 1945 the leveling work was nearly competed. The value of the work was ca.
Sorrento was built for Robert M Sloman Jr, Hamburg. In October 1926, she was sold to Otwi Werke GmbH, Bremen and renamed Bessel. In December 1928, she was sold to Dampschiffs Gesellschaft Neptun, Bremen. The Code Letters RFLM were allocated. In 1934, her Code Letters were changed to DOIE. In 1940, Bessel was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine.
Eidsvold was built in as yard number 480 in 1934 by Götaverken A/B, Gothenburg, Sweden for Skibs A/S Eidsiva. She was delivered in September 1934. Eidsvold was operated under the management of Sverre Ditlev Simonsen & Co. Her port of registry was Oslo and the Code Letters LIVR were allocated. In 1940, the vessel was requisitioned by Nortraship.
Villa Certosella is a hotel in Capri, Italy. Set along the Via Tragara, it was the home of Camille du Locle when he lived in Capri. The villa was enlarged by the illustrator Jan Styka in Italian Renaissance style. Later, Edwin Cerio requisitioned the house so that it is now part of the Ignazio Cerio estate.
Air raids on Helsinki and other Finnish cities made World War II a difficult period for the airline. Half the fleet was requisitioned by the Finnish Air Force and it was estimated that, during the Winter War in 1939 and 1940, half of the airline's passengers from other Finnish cities were children being evacuated to Sweden.
The present day location of Lord's Middle Ground. Lord's Middle Ground was a cricket venue in London that was established by Thomas Lord in 1811. It was used mainly by Marylebone Cricket Club for major matches until 1813, after which Lord was obliged to relocate because the land was requisitioned for the cutting of the Regent's Canal.
RMS Strathnaver in Lisbon in 1934 RMS Strathnaver departs Sydney Harbour in 1936 Strathnaver and Strathaird mostly worked the Tilbury — Brisbane route via the Suez Canal. They also undertook occasional cruises. In October 1938 the ship was chartered to move 1,200 British troops from India to Palestine. In 1939 or 1940 the two sisters were requisitioned as troop ships.
The ship was requisitioned for use as a military transport in February 1941. She made a few voyages, including one transferring roughly 1,200 American prisoners of war from Wake Island to Japan in January 1942. The ship departed on 12 January, arriving in Yokohama six days later. After unloading 20 men there, she departed for China.
The area gained further notoriety in August 2011, when a fire broke out at Alamein Farm, a 5000-hectare property which had been requisitioned from the owner in 2003 by retired General Solomon Mujuru and his wife, Vice-President of Zimbabwe, Joice Mujuru. The General and another officially unidentified person died in circumstances that many commentators suggest were suspicious.
The country had been partitioned and had suffered, like so many others from inflation caused by the occupation mark system. In Norway the Germans requisitioned personal property right down to woollen blankets, ski trousers and windproof jackets, and in Denmark all trade and industry of consequence was now controlled by Germans.TIME, 8 November 1943, Vol. XLII, No. 19.
Formerly the cargo ship Santa Cruz, she was built by Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, (DWH) in 1938, and was owned and operated by the Oldenburg Portuguese Line (OPDR), Hamburg. In the winter of 1939–40 the navy requisitioned her and had her converted into an auxiliary warship by DWH. She was commissioned as the commerce raider Thor in March 1940.
There, only four were killed and eleven wounded, when an artillery shell hit a team working to clear the beach. Overall, NCDUs had 53 percent casualties. NCDUs also participated in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France. With Europe invaded Admiral Turner requisitioned all available NCDUs from Fort Pierce for integration into the UDTs for the Pacific.
To improve the minelaying capability of the Royal Navy, Princess Irene and Princess Margaret were requisitioned and converted to minelayers. They were long overall with a beam of and a draught of . The ships had a gross register tonnage of 5934 t. Ten Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boilers fed steam at to geared steam turbines driving two shafts.
Teiyō Maru was completed as a civilian tanker in 1931 and requisitioned by the Navy as a replenishment oiler on 22 November 1941. Yokohama Dock Company completed the conversion to a naval auxiliary on 4 December 1941. Teiyō Maru served with replenishment group no. 1 for the Java Invasion Force, and later with replenishment group no.
The diocesan seminary was headed by the Vicar General of the diocese, and had five professors and two masters; there were thirty-eight students.Bertolotti, p. 304. During World War I, the diocesan seminary was requisitioned as a hospital for wounded soldiers.Gianpaolo Gregori and Amos Aimi, "Giuseppe Fabbrucci", Museo del Duomo di Fidenza; retrieved: 2018-09-22.
Dictionnaire des femmes belges: XIXe et XXe siècles, ed. Éliane Gubin, Catherine Jacques, Valérie Piette & Jean Puissant (Brussels, 2006), pp. 199-200. At the beginning of the First World War she ran a dressing station at her castle, until it was requisitioned by the Germans. She died at Ermeton-sur-Biert (Namur) on 8 January 1925.
As Butlin was dealing with other sites, he asked his business competitor, Harry Warner, to complete the construction of Filey.Dacre 1982, p. 131. Butlin had purchased his first hotel in 1939, the Thatched Barn in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. Like his camps, it was requisitioned (this time by the Special Operations Executive (SOE)) before he could develop it.
The couple lived at the house until 1937. Greathed Manor was requisitioned by the British Government during both World Wars. In the Great War it became a Hospital for wounded American Army officers. In the Second World War it was used as the Headquarters of a Canadian Armoured Division in the run-up to D-Day.
"As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park..." Philip Larkin, "MCMXIV". During World War II, The Oval was requisitioned, initially housing anti-aircraft searchlights. It was then turned into a prisoner-of-war camp, intended to hold enemy parachutists. However, as they never came, The Oval was never actually used for this purpose.
Her dower house (Dagnam Priory) and Llys Dulas had also been requisitioned, leaving Lady Dorina homeless. Fortunately, she was able to find a flat in Albany, Piccadilly. When Anthony Eden opened the Turkish House (Londra Türk Halkevi)Britons learn Turkish, Imperial War Museum. in Fitzhardinge Street to foster Anglo-Turkish relations, he requested Lady Dorina's help.
During both the world wars the club was requisitioned by the government, during the first used as a training depot for the Brigade of Guards and during the second as a base for American forces. Unlike the First World War, during the Second World War play was allowed at the course, although access to the clubhouse was restricted.
Subsequently she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for work as a barrage balloon ship in the River Thames and English Channel. In 1942 she was renamed Toreador. She returned to railway service after the war and resumed operation at Weymouth in September 1945 and in 1948 was taken over by British Railways. She was scrapped in 1964.
MY Shemara seen at Southampton Docks. Docker commissioned John I. Thornycroft & Company to build a yacht to his specifications. The yacht was completed in 1938 and christened MY Shemara. MY Shemara was requisitioned by the Royal Navy at the start of the Second World War in 1939 and used as a training vessel for anti-submarine warfare.
Between 400,000 and 500,000 refugees including the defeated Army of Catalonia crossed the border into France. With the Nationalists now in control, Catalan autonomy was abolished, removing the co- official status of the Catalan language and banning Catalan Christian names, and the Sardana was forbidden. All the Catalan newspapers were requisitioned and the forbidden books retired and burned.
She was built by Gourlay Brothers in Dundee and launched on 25 May 1906. She was built as a replacement for the Hilda, lost in the English Channel in 1905. She was built in four months, with the order being placed in December 1905. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1915 and converted to a Q-ship.
Monument to Pierre-Antoine Berryer in Marseille. The original monument was inaugurated on 25 April 1875 and the sculpture was the work of Jean-Auguste Barré. However, in 1943, the statue was requisitioned and the bronze melted down for use in the war. Vézien was commissioned to produce a replica which was inaugurated on the 29 February 1948. 6\.
He falls into the river and swims to safety. Soon, Toad is reunited with his friends, but his home Toad Hall has been requisitioned by the Wild Wooders. Sneaking through an underground passage into Toad Hall, the four animals drive the Wild Wooders out and Toad reclaims his house, receiving a celebration for his return the next day.
In late November 1942, all Jews of Oslo including women and children were put on a ship requisitioned by the Quisling government and taken to Hamburg, Germany. From there, they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train. In total, 770 Norwegian Jews were sent by boat to Germany between 1940 and 1945. Only two dozen survived.
The departments in the USMRR tended to operate autonomously, although micromanagement from the Secretary of War and overlapping authority between departments did affect their operations.Gable, Railroad Generalship, p. 14. Over time the USMRR would buy, build or capture 419 locomotives and 6,330 cars beyond the rolling stock that was requisitioned from the various Northern railroads. When Col.
Requisitioned again in the Second World War, Archangel was bombed and damaged on 16 May 1941 in the North Sea north east of Aberdeen () by Luftwaffe aircraft with the loss of 52 of the 475 people on board. The survivors were rescued by . On 17 May 1941 Archangel was beached south of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire and broke into four.
During World War II classes continued, but the dorm was requisitioned by the Romanian army. After the war, the school became 100% state-funded, as tuition was forbidden by the communist government. In 1953, the school was renamed Middle school no. 1, Buzău, losing the right to hold the name of its patron, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, until 1958.
The ship was built by William Thompson of Dundee for the Yorkshire Coal and Steamship Company and launched on 13 February 1877. in 1895 she was acquired by the Goole Steam Shipping Company. In 1905 she was acquired by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. In 1914 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and renamed River Crake.
He later committed suicide by shooting himself in a London pub. In 1914, Brighton was requisitioned by the Royal Navy for use as a troopship. She was later used as a hospital ship. On 19 December 1914, she rescued the survivors of the naval trawler , which had been sunk by a mine in the North Sea off Scarborough, Yorkshire.
Following the completion of his university degree, Atkinson joined the Royal Naval Reserve. He was promoted from acting sub-lieutenant to sub lieutenant on 13 August 1939. His first command was a requisitioned private yacht, , which he sailed from the United Kingdom to Gibraltar. From there, he was to conduct irregular operations in the Mediterranean Sea.
In 1837 the tower house was extended by the architect David Bryce, working to designs by William Burn. In 1941 the house was requisitioned for use as a home for children evacuated from Glasgow. In the later 20th century it was restored and divided into privately owned apartments. The castle is a category B listed building.
For transporting vehicles, a roll-on/roll-off vessel was preferred, as unloading facilities were unavailable in the Falkland Islands. The P&O; ferry MS Elk was therefore requisitioned. It took on 100 vehicles, 2,000 tons of ammunition, and several hundred tons of stores. It was followed by the , which was taken up on 19 April.
Private motor transport was requisitioned. Cooperative stores selling goods like medicines, cloth, and kerosene were formed, providing goods imported from Vietnam. Wealthier peasants had their land redistributed so that by the end of 1972, all families living in the Marxist-controlled areas possessed an equal amount of land. The poorest strata of Cambodian society benefited from these reforms.
In June 2007, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex unveiled a memorial to the , a merchant ship requisitioned by the British military during the Falklands Conflict of 1982. the ship was attacked by Argentine fighters and the resultant explosions killed 12 sailors. Whilst under tow after the event, she sunk off the north eastern coast of the Falkland Islands.
Paterson was requisitioned by the RAN for use as an auxiliary and commissioned on 1 May 1941. She was returned to her owners in 1947. She was beached off Norah Head on 17 November 1947, after springing a leak and was later refloated. On 11 June 1951, Paterson was wrecked after sinking again off The Entrance.
Religious orders were suppressed, private schools closed and religious instruction forbidden in schools.The Nazi War Against the Catholic Church; National Catholic Welfare Conference; Washington D.C.; 1942; pp. 31–32 When the Germans advanced on Prague in March 1939, churches came under gestapo surveillance and hundreds of priests were denounced. Monasteries and convents were requisitioned and Corpus Christi processions curtailed.
Thalia was built for Dampfschiffahrts- Gesellschaft Neptun, Bremen. Her port of registry was Bremen and the Code Letters DORT were allocated. When war was declared in 1939, Thalia was at Seville, Spain. She was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine, In 1943, Thalia was interned at Cadiz, Spain. She was surrendered to the United Kingdom in May 1945.
In light of the shortage of building materials the education committee were forced to seal off the girls' school. The boys' school was completed however in 1940. In 1941 the buildings were requisitioned by the Ministry of Supply, and became a hostel for munitions workers in Chester. There are no current records of any further uses during the war.
The convent was requisitioned to serve as a military hospital, with the sisters nursing the wounded. For seven months, the sisters lived in a bomb-proof shelter. Cowley was awarded the Royal Red Cross from King Edward VII on 1 October 1901 in recognition of her service during the war. She also received the South African War Medal.
In 1943, after the nearby Mount Pleasant sorting office was bombed, the building was requisitioned for use during World War II and never re-opened to the public. It continued as a sorting office until 1971, then lay empty and deteriorating until eventually the main hall was redeveloped as the Business Design Centre in the 1980s.
As supporters of the Royalist cause, they found themselves isolated in a community of Parliamentarians. Little Moreton Hall was requisitioned by the Parliamentarians in 1643 and used to billet Parliamentary soldiers. The family successfully petitioned for its restitution, and survived the Civil War with their ownership of Little Moreton Hall intact, but financially they were crippled.
In 1907, a rotunda was built, adding to the two wings. In 1921 a new wing to the building was built. The hotel was the most prestigious of Beuzeval-les-Bains and welcomed much rich Protestant gentry. Between 1914 and 1918, the Hôtel Imbert was requisitioned by the French Army's 3rd corp and used as a temporary military hospital.
The case-pipes (along with those from the organ in Oederquart) are the only ones by Schnitger's hand that have completely survived today, their metal luckily not having been requisitioned in the 20th century for military purposes.Edskes, Vogel (2016). Arp Schnitger and His Work. p. 10. Sonically they are characterized by an elegant and overtone-rich sound.
The FPA then extended its action to the 18th Arrondissement, where three hotels were requisitioned in rue de la Goutte-d'Or. The FPA was also active in the suburbs, from the summer of 1961, in particular in Nanterre's bidonvilles. Some voices were opposed to these crimes denied by the police prefecture.Jean-Luc Einaudi and Maurice Rajsfus, 2001, p.
Asama was purchased by Mr. T. A. Field and sailed to Sydney, Australia in 1928. She was purchased by Cam & Sons Pty Ltd in February 1929 and was renamed Alfie Cam. In 1940, Alfie Cam was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy for use as an auxiliary. She was returned to her owners in 1946 and resuming trawling.
In 1936 she was in collision with the Dutch vessel Almkirk (6,810 tons), but there were no casualties. In 1940 she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and renamed HMS Malines. She was used as an auxiliary Convoy Escort Vessel. On 19 July 1942 she was torpedoed by German aircraft and beached near Port Said, Egypt.
Flour is sieved and gently warmed in the sun. Nuts are peeled and chopped and the whole family comes together to make the cake. Jobs are allotted, one to whip up the eggs, while another creams the butter and sugar, cake tins are lined, and a strong pair of arms requisitioned to do the final mixing and stirring.
After the war in Seven-Up Bottling Co. of Los Angeles, Inc., V. United States the United States Court of Claims set the yacht's value at $30,000 when requisitioned and ordered payment of the additional $15,000. The ship remained in the Philippines after the war, was reportedly undergoing restoration and subject of additional lawsuits as late as 2009.
Koolonga was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy on 6 August 1914, as a collier and supply ship, and commissioned as HMAS Koolonga. She participated during the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force occupation of German New Guinea until May 1915 when she was later returned to her owners. She was awarded the battle honour Rabaul 1914.
This route is now served by high- speed, passenger-only catamarans. In 1867 Red Funnel instituted a service crossing the River Medina between Cowes and East Cowes. This service was operated by a series of small launches over the years. The service ceased on the outbreak of war in 1939 when the vessels involved were requisitioned by the Admiralty.
At the time, she was the longest vessel serving Rockhampton. On 25 January 1910, Mallina was in collision with and the coal hulk in the Brisbane River at Brisbane. Lady Norman was forced against and Maida was forced against . Mallina was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy in May 1914 for use as a store carrier and collier.
The ship was built by Swan Hunter and launched in 1913. She was the first of an order of two ships from Swan Hunter, the other being . She was deployed on the Grimsby to Rotterdam service. She was requisitioned by the British Admiralty in October 1914 for use as a fleet messenger and renamed HMS Chesterfield.
Fergusson, p. 41 The Admiralty acquired the four Glens shortly after their launchings, and converted them into fast supply ships. By June 1940, Glengyle, Glenearn, and Glenroy were under conversion to LSI(L)s. The Admiralty insisted on keeping Breconshire in a fast cargo configuration, so the ISTDC consulted the Director of Naval Construction about suitable requisitioned ships.
Northern end of the friary site, showing now derelict engineering sheds. Catalina IVB 205 Sqn RAF, on the ground at Saunders-Roe's Friars site. The background was blanked out by a wartime censor to avoid showing the site details. In 1939 the 50 acre Fryars estate was requisitioned from the Burton family, for use in the war effort.
Economic losses to the Bashkirs and Kazakhs were estimated at 2.5 million rubles each.Camels were requisitioned at 3 silver rubles each for 6 months. Anonymous does not report compensation for dead camels Of the original 10500 camels only 1500 remained alive by April. During the campaign there were 3124 cases of sickness, 608 of them mortal.
The ship was requisitioned for use in the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1900, and was captained by both James Clayton Barr and William Thomas Turner during the course of the war. She may have been used as a floating prison for Boers during the war. The vessel arrived at Genoa for scrapping on 24 May 1901.
On 22 September 1914 Vaderland commenced Liverpool – New York sailings under the British flag and in December 1914 was chartered to White Star–Dominion for three Liverpool - Halifax - Portland sailings. In 1915 she was requisitioned as a troopship. In 1915 she was renamed Southland as the Dutch word vaderland was considered too similar to the German Vaterland.
Al-Nida' ('The Call') was a newspaper published from Kuwait City during the Iraqi occupation 1990-1991. In August 1990 the Iraqi authorities shut down the al-Qabas newspaper and founded al-Nida using the requisitioned facilities of al-Qabas. Al-Nida' was the sole newspaper published in Kuwait during this period. It was distributed for free in Kuwait.
On 10 November 1947 the XII Tactical Air Command was inactivated at Bad Kissingen. In early 1948, the airfield was turned over to the United States Army. During 1949, an additional 30 acres of land were requisitioned and added to the Kaserne. The PX, Commissary, EM Club, Gym, Bowling Alley were constructed as parts of this addition.
The ship was built in 1918, by Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, Oregon as the yard's hull #3 being built for foreign owners with keel laid on 29 May 1917. The hull was requisitioned by the United States Shipping Board and launched 27 March 1918 as Point Bonita. The ship was delivered on 24 June 1918.
In 1934, Arcadia was sold to Kohlen-Import und Poseidon Schiffahrt, Königsberg and was renamed Elbing. A new four-cylinder compound steam engine was fitted in 1935. The engine had two cylinders of and two cylinders of diameter by stroke. In 1940, Elbing was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine for use as a coal ship in Operation Sea Lion.
Around were requisitioned, principally from the Swynnerton and Cotes estates. Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, Consultant Engineers to the Ministry of Supply, were appointed to supervise construction. Plans were drawn up by A.P.I.Cotterell & Son, Chartered Engineers, on behalf of Gibb. The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, as the long-established principal Royal Ordnance Factory, designed the various processes and layout of buildings.
Departing on 10 September without passengers and two of her crew having refused to sail, she successfully returned to Germany, arriving at Hamburg on 14 October 1939. On 11 January 1941 the Kriegsmarine requisitioned Monte Pascoal. She was used as an accommodation ship at Wilhelmshaven. On 3 February 1944 the United States Eighth Air Force bombed Wilhelmshaven.
The first jamming operations were carried out using requisitioned hospital electrocautery machines.Mackay 2003, pp. 88–89. The counter-operations were carried out by British Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) units under Wing Commander Edward Addison, No. 80 Wing RAF. The production of false radio navigation signals by re-transmitting the originals became known as meaconing using masking beacons ().
In November 1939 Anselm was in Liverpool and was due to sail to Pará via for Lisbon. Because of war conditions she was to leave with Convoy OB 32G, which would then join Convoy OB 6. However, her sailing was cancelled and OB 32G left without her. Instead Anselm was requisitioned and quickly converted to carry about 500 troops.
St Chad's Hostel, in Hooton Pagnell near Doncaster, was a hostel to prepare candidates for theological college. It was opened in 1902 by Frederick Samuel Willoughby, vicar of Hooton Pagnell. In 1904 a sister institution, St Chad's Hall, was opened at the University of Durham. The hostel closed in 1916, when its buildings were requisitioned as a war hospital.
Ulster Monarch was the first of three 3700ton motorships built by Harland and Wolff for the Belfast Steamship Co. between 1929 and 1930. She and her sisters, and , were pioneer diesel-propelled cross- channel passenger ships. Her original grey hull was later changed to black. Ulster Monarch was requisitioned by Admiralty in October 1940, initially as a stores carrier.
Clan Line saw a large number of its ships either requisitioned by the British government, or otherwise used to ship vital supplies to Britain during the First and Second World Wars. Their ubiquitousness led to them being called the 'Scots Navy' (due to their officers' sleeve rings being identical to those of the Royal Navy) and they were often in dangerous environments, at risk from mines, air attacks or German U-boats. During the Second World War, for example, three of the Line's Cameron class steamers were requisitioned in 1942 by the Royal Navy whilst still under construction at Greenock Dockyard and commissioned as (aircraft transporter), (aircraft transporter) and (submarine depot ship for X-craft). The Clan Line lost a total of 30 ships in the 1939-45 war.
In addition to the engines directly contracted for, the Navy also requisitioned a number of merchant steamships powered by Allaire engines and converted them into warships. Some of these vessels had been built prior to the war, while others were built during the war and requisitioned by the Navy as they entered service. The largest and most impressive of these ships was the 3,360-ton oceangoing sidewheel steamer Vanderbilt, launched in 1856, and gifted to the U.S. Navy by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1862. With her 14 knot speed and long operational range, Vanderbilt was an ideal candidate for a pursuit ship, and after being fitted out with a formidable battery of cannon, the newly commissioned was employed in a year-long hunt for the notorious Confederate raider CSS Alabama, but without success.
However, the hotel was requisitioned by the armed forces during the Second World War and never reopened as a hotel. Following the end of the war, there was a proposal to sell the building to the Roman Catholic Church as a residence and seminary. This plan caused much alarm among the more traditional Presbyterians in the town and was soon abandoned.
The family home was partially requisitioned by Soviet forces.Associated Press,'Zeev Sternhell, Dovish Israeli Expert on Fascism, Dies at 85,' New York Times 21 June 2020. After the German declaration of war on the Soviet Union, the family were sent to a ghetto. His mother and older sister, Ada, were killed by the Nazis when he was about seven years old.
Quickly released, the charged were abandoned in 1947, after the tribunal cleared his name. The SECM, which had been requisitioned in 1944, was nationalised in 1946, through a private sale to the Government, ending its aeronautics activities. After WWII Amiot dedicated himself to the reconstruction of his factory in Cherbourg, which became the "Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie" (CMN) developing into shipbuilding.
In 1915 the Admiralty requisitioned Albion, renamed her HMS Albyn and had her converted into a minesweeper. With the Royal Navy she was stationed at Dover and in 1917 she was bombed and set on fire by enemy action. After the First World War Albyn was not refurbished. She was scrapped in 1921 but P&A; Campbell had her engines salvaged.
In November 1939, Pretoria was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and used as a U-boat depot ship. Initially based at Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, she served the 1st U-boat Flotilla, based at Neustadt, Hamburg, from January 1940. In December she was transferred to 21st U-boat Flotilla, based at Pillau, East Prussia. In 1945, she was converted to a hospital ship.
English Gothic architecture The Nazareth Built around 1898, this house has undergone several transformations. Once the house of the Chief Justice, 'Nazareth' was requisitioned during the Japanese Occupation as the Domestic Science School for Girls. With the rapid increase in enrolment, there was a shortage of trained teachers in the country. In 1957, the Sisters acquired Nazareth to house a Teacher's Training College.
There is also evidence that one of the castles occupants was related to Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan, the person on which Alexandre Dumas based his Three Musketeers character d'Artagnan. During World War I and World War II, the castle was requisitioned first by French troops, then Canadian and British soldiers. The current owner has undertaken a programme of restoration.
The Jameses entertained Edward VII at the house. It was leased after the First World War, and in 1924 it was purchased by Sir James Horlick, founder of Horlicks Ltd. Horlick developed a plant collection at another of his properties, Achamore House in Argyll, but only visited Greywalls annually. The house was requisitioned during the Second World War for use as a hospital.
Creveld, pp. 17–20 Despite these changes, French armies still relied on plunder for a majority of their needs while on the move. Magazines were created for specific campaigns and any surplus was immediately sold for both monetary gain and to lessen the tax burden. The vehicles used to form convoys were contracted out from commercial interests or requisitioned from local stockpiles.
The government's reaction was swift. Martial law was declared on March 16. Measures included cordons sanitaires of villages and neighborhoods, roadblocks, the prohibition of public meetings, closure of borders and prohibition of all non-essential travel. Hotels were requisitioned for quarantines in which 10,000 people who may have been in contact with the virus were held under guard by the army.
Samuel Benbow was purchased by A. A. Murrell and sailed to Australia in 1928. With the outbreak of World War II, she was requisitioned by the RAN. On 5 September 1940, Samuel Benbow was commissioned by the RAN for use as an auxiliary minesweeper. Samuel Benbow was in Sydney Harbour during the Attack on Sydney Harbour on 31 May-1 June 1942.
British officers on the northern boundaries and Spanish officers to the south supplied arms to Native American tribes, allowing them to attack American settlers. The Spanish refused to allow western American farmers to use their port of New Orleans to ship produce. Revenues were requisitioned by Congressional petition to each state. None paid what they were asked; sometimes some paid nothing.
The club was initially based at the Oddfellows Arms in Patricroft, but moved to St Michaels Community Centre in Peel Green in 1973. In 2002 the club learnt that their Salteye Park was to be requisitioned to build Salford Reds' new stadium. As a result, they moved to Silver Street in Irlam, which had formerly been the home ground of Irlam Town.
During the Spanish Civil War, Ruth Pennyman of Ormesby Hall, contacted Alfred Pease to request the use of Hutton Hall to house Spanish nuns and Basque refugees. The first 20 children arrived on 1 July 1937. During World War II it was requisitioned by the military. In 1948, the hall, and the which remained of the estate, was sold to John Mathison.
This is an accounting of the naval trawlers, purpose built or requisitioned, operated by the Royal Navy mainly during World War I and World War II. Vessels purpose built to Admiralty specifications for RN use were known as Admiralty trawlers. All trawlers operated by RN, regardless of origin, were typically given the prefix HMT, which stood for "His Majesty's Trawler".
She was used on the Fremantle to Sydney passenger-cargo service until May 1915. After the start of World War I, Wandilla was one of several Adelaide Steamship Company vessels requisitioned for military service. The ship was initially used as a troop transport under the designation His Majesty's Australian Transport (HMAT) Wandilla, and delivered Australian soldiers to Europe.Wylie, Ron (2006).
All ten locomotives were requisitioned by the War Department in 1940–1941 and some were sent abroad to France, the Netherlands, Belgium or Egypt. The four sent to Egypt were numbered MEF19–MEF22 (MEF = Middle East Forces) but, in 1944, they were re-numbered 70019–70022. The other six retained their LMS numbers until 1944 when they received WD numbers 70213–70218.
Lina sold her castle in Aulla and moved to Poggio Gherardo on Janet's death. Lina and her husband Aubrey thereafter operated an English girls' boarding school in the villa to help defray expenses. Lina left the villa for England in 1940. During World War II the villa was requisitioned by a prominent fascist leader and later occupied by American troops.
The Luftstreitkräfte aircraft turned for home and detached their bombs mainly in the Folkestone district, killing 71 people and injuring 94 more. After the war a good deal of refurbishment was required: requisitioned buildings had to be made ready for holidaymakers. New buildings to attract them were built: the Marina and new pleasure gardens were established, and the Marine Pavilion built.
Adler was built for Argo Reederei Richard Adler & Co, Bremen. Her port of registry was Bremen and the Code Letters DOTX were allocated. The ship had a passenger certificate. In 1940, Adler was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine. She was used to transport the wounded between 14 August and the end of October 1944 and again from 6 March 1945 until the war ended.
Although at first only a cover name, the department soon became real and took control of deception in the region. On Clarke requisitioned , Cairo – opposite and below a brothel – and in April received an official mandate for his department. "Advanced Headquarters 'A' Force" moved into their new offices on and Clarke began to recruit his staff. Clarke's airborne SAS had another legacy.
The central government's assault to retake South Kasai began on 23 August. Lumbala advised the army during the operation and organised the arrests of the rebel leadership. All Sabena aircraft in the Congo were requisitioned by the government for the offensive, while technical and materiel assistance was requested from the Soviet Union. The Soviets supplied 14 Ilyushin transports and 100 trucks.
However, in the 1941–42 season, the Indians finished in first place. Disaster struck in the following season. With World War II, the United States army requisitioned the Eastern States Coliseum, Springfield's home arena, for the war effort, leaving the Indians homeless. Shore loaned Indians players to the Buffalo Bisons for the duration, returning the players to Springfield for the 1946–47 season.
The property passed to his daughter Nesta, who had married George Coventry, grandson of the 9th Earl of Coventry. They moved out in 1930 when George inherited the Coventry title and estates and the building became a farmhouse. Amroth Castle was requisitioned during the Second World War, and since 1969 has been used as holiday accommodation, with a caravan park in the grounds.
During the Second World War, the United States Army took over the Tower Athletic Grounds as a storage facility for military vehicles to be used in the invasion of France. Following the war the stadium was reopened as the home ground for New Brighton A.F.C., whose Sandheys Park had been requisitioned for housing. They sold it to the Wallasey Housing Corporation in 1977.
On 16 April, Farragut's fleet moved to a position below Forts Jackson and St. Philip. Mounting over 100 guns, these forts were the principal shore defenses of New Orleans. The Confederates had also gathered a flotilla of requisitioned gunboats and were trying to complete the powerful casemate ram as well. They further counted on using fire ships to disrupt the large Union squadron.
She was stripped of her bowsprit, dismasted and converted to a factory ship, regaining her former name Belgica. From the late 1930s, Belgica was used as a coal hulk. In April 1940, Belgica was requisitioned by the Franco-British Expeditionary Force for use as a depôt ship storing high explosives. Belgica was scuttled when the Franco-British Expeditionary Force evacuated from Harstad.
A Blackburn Skua in target tug markings. On 3 September 1939 all civilian flying in the UK was prohibited. The airfield lay unused for a while, before being requisitioned by the Air Ministry and occasionally used by communications aircraft during armament testing at a nearby range. The Research Development Flight used the airfield to help develop balloon cable cutters and airfield rocket defences.
For example, Gorky had a routed taxi line between Sormovo and the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. , the full fare was 3½ roubles; a similar service cost 1 rouble with a bus, or 50 kopecks with a tram.The Soviet rouble was denominated twice: in 1947 and 1961. During the World War II of 1941-1945, as the Red Army requisitioned cars, routed taxi services ceased.
At the outbreak of World War II the Admiralty requisitioned salvage vessels and most were put under Risdon Beazley's management. By 1945 Risdon Beazley were operating 61 vessels, including 29 that were owned by the Admiralty, working as far east as Colombo. They lost three vessels and a barge in the war. The other managers operated less than 20 vessels between them.
The first submarine ordered by Romania was part of the 1912 naval program. She was ordered from Italy, along with the four Vifor-class destroyers, however she was requisitioned by the Italian authorities in 1914 and never delivered to Romania.Robert Gardiner, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1906-1921, Naval Institute Press, 1985, p. 421Axworthy, Mark; Scafeș, Cornel; Crăciunoiu, Cristian (1995).
Joseph Gabriel Gaveau had six children, and Étienne Gaveau received competition from his brothers. Gabriel Gaveau was established in 1911. Gabriel Gaveau made some pianos with pedal or Duo-Art systems, and was located in 1919, 55-57 Av. Malakoff, 75016. (This part is now Av. Raymond Poincaré, near the Trocadéro.) This plant was requisitioned by the Germans in 1939.
The Empire ships were civilian vessels in the service of the British Government. Their names were all prefixed with "Empire". Mostly they were used during World War II by the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), who owned the ships but contracted out their management to various shipping lines. Some ships requisitioned during the Suez Crisis were also given the Empire prefix.
The Naval Shipyard in Surabaya launched 4 boats of this class throughout 1939Monteiro ordered Sgt. Maj. J. Schrander to stay behind with 80 men and several remaining demolition engineers at Sanga Sanga. After conducting the final destruction to the oilfields, Schrander's detachment must inflict as much casualty on the Japanese as possible. In the meantime, Monteiro requisitioned all available sailing vessels - ca.
In 1938, Guinness sold her to the Crete Shipping Co Ltd, London, who sold her to Sark Motorships Ltd later that year. Her port of registry was changed to Guernsey. In 1939, Arpha was requisitioned by the Royal Navy. She was used as an armed boarding vessel in the Mediterranean and Red Sea as part of the Contraband Control Service.
She is remembered in Romford by the foundation stone of an extension to the Victoria Cottage Hospital in Pettits Lane, which she laid in the 1930s.History of Dagnam Park Sir Thomas Neave died in 1940. That winter, Dagnam Park was requisitioned for the use of the army. Some of Lady Dorina's Turkish friends came to help her pack up her belongings.
Wheen (2001), pp. 158–68 Driberg's mother had died in July 1939. With his share of her money and the help of a substantial mortgage, he bought and renovated Bradwell Lodge, a country house in Bradwell-on-Sea on the Essex coast, where he lived and entertained until the house was requisitioned by the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1940.Wheen (2001), pp.
The following year Prince's Golf Club hosted the event for the only time. The course was requisitioned by the military during the Second World War and was extensively damaged. Royal Birkdale was chosen as the host course in 1940, however, due to the Second World War the event did not go ahead. It was not until 1954 that Royal Birkdale hosted the Open.
HMS Ben-my-Chree'Ben-my-Chree was the flagship of the Steam Packet Fleet when the Great War broke out in the summer of 1914, carrying more passengers than any other company ship.Island Lifeline. Connery Chappell, 1980, p86. She was requisitioned in January 1915, and went to Cammell Laird's where she was to be converted to a seaplane carrier in the Birkenhead yards.
Pack animals were requisitioned from the neighbouring settlements in preparation for an anti- partisan sweep. The forces amassed for the operation against Porta numbered two full infantry battalions from the Pinerolo Infantry Division, two battalions from the—partly motorized—Lancieri di Aosta cavalry regiment at Trikala, a field battery, two companies of Vlach Legionaries, four bomber aircraft and one reconnaissance aircraft.
Her engine was then rated at 115 nhp. In 1934, her Code Letters were changed to DHBR. In September 1939, Preußen was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine, initially serving in the Baltic Sea as Vorpostenboot V 1101 Preußen with 11 Vorpostenflotille, which was under the command of Kapitänleutnant der Reserve Günther Reisen. From January 1940, she served in the North Sea.
This was the last election at which he stood: requisitioned to stand at the Leeds by-election, he declined the invitation. He and his family moved in July 1834 to Belfast, where he died in 1835 and was buried in Ballylesson churchyard. There is a Grade II listed statue of Sadler in St George's Fields (the former Woodhouse Cemetery) in Leeds.
Empire Arthur was built by Grangemouth Dockyard, Grangemouth as yard number 439. She was launched on 5 March 1942 and completed in June 1942. Empire Arthur was built for the Ministry of War Transport and managed by Rowbotham & Sons. She was requisitioned to serve as a water carrier in October 1942, and used as an auxiliary to supply naval ships and merchants.
In November 1942, the Argosy Lemal was requisitioned by the Commonwealth Government and she played an important role in the US Army Small Ships Section, functioning as a radio communication vessel in the Arafura and Timor Seas during World War II.AWM Collection Record: 302944 (2008). Australian Auxiliary Schooner Argosy Lemal. Retrieved on 10 June 2009.Diving near Booya wreck a possibility (2007).
At that time the new machines are purchased to build new production lines. During the Second World War, was requisitioned graineterie: line decortication is used to treat rice and also, as stated in the oral tradition, split peas. In 1949, Aimé Roux institutions are created. André Roux, son of the founder, became plant manager in 1951 and made arrange the laboratory.
After World War II (1939–45) France had to rebuild itself and launched a program to produce more coal. SMC was requisitioned from the Solages family and became the Houillères de Carmaux concession. After the mines were nationalized in 1946 it was integrated into the Houillères du Bassin d'Aquitaine, then in 1969 into the Houillères de Bassin du Centre et du Midi.
Also in 1934, Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine cruised on Rosaura in the eastern Mediterranean. On 26 September 1936, Rosaura was in collision with the Dutch coaster at Amsterdam, Netherlands and was severely damaged. She was subsequently repaired. Rosaura was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in the Second World War for use as an armed boarding vessel in the Contraband Control Service.
Anarchists dominated the western sectors and all the suburbs. In the city center, where the headquarters of trade unions and political parties (installed in requisitioned buildings and hotels) were relatively close, shooting began, and cars circulating were machine-gunned.Hugh Thomas, p. 709. In the Telefónica building a truce was agreed and telephone communications, essential for war operations, were not interrupted.
Horses from Ariège were requisitioned for Napoleon's Grand Army during his Russian campaign. They were used mainly to pull artillery, as were most horses of this type from French territory at the beginning of the 19th century. A popular legend has them becoming famous during the crossing of the Berezina River during the Battle of Berezina.Vidal Saint-André and Gasc, p.
The engine modifications were executed by Mike Langton and the blocks were initialled and numbered by him. A Porsche "60" badge was requisitioned for the boot lid motif, in order to denote the car's special status and upgraded power output. An Oleopress fire extinguisher was fitted. The only known survivor of this series is number 49; the engine being stamped 'ML49'.
It was the primary exhibition site for London until the 20th century and the largest building of its kind, holding up to 50,000 people.A Vision of Britain – Islington. Retrieved 26 April 2007 It was requisitioned for use by the Mount Pleasant sorting office during World War II and never re-opened. The main hall has now been incorporated into the Business Design Centre.
The rebel column, followed by a mass of city-dwellers, walked through the borough later known as Rahova. The procession was led on by an ensign with Vladimirescu's banner of white and blue; Vladimirescu himself held a loaf of bread, to signal prosperity.Ciobotea & Osiac, p. 153 Upon reaching Dealul Mitropoliei, he requisitioned the home of Zoe Brâncoveanu, turning it into his temporary residence.
The ship was built for the RN as the Rescue/Saint class ocean tug St Giles. She entered service in 1919 and was sold to J. & A. Brown, Newcastle in 1922. She was sold in 1931 to the Waratah Tug and Salvage Co Pty Ltd, Sydney. Following the outbreak of World War II, St Giles was requisitioned by the RAN in 1939.
To complement the already-built communal shelters, the council requisitioned cellars and basements as makeshift shelters. Those with gardens often built Anderson shelters to take refuge in. However, not everyone was so fortunate, and others had to use crowded public shelters. In late 1940, Morrison shelters were introduced, which were not much more than a steel table to hide under inside the house.
Over the next few months, 54 ships were requisitioned from 33 owners. During the Falklands War they carried of freight, 95 aircraft, 9,000 personnel, and of fuel. On 3 April it was decided to add the 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment (3 Para) to Thompson's 3rd Commando Brigade. This ended plans for the amphibious force to carry the entire landing force.
In 1946 RAF Spanhoe was closed and returned to the farmers from whom it had been requisitioned. On 12 August 1960 a Vickers Valiant, BK1 XD864 of No. 7 Squadron, nose wheel failed to retract on takeoff from RAF Wittering. While sorting it out the aircraft stalled and crashed into the ground at Spanhoe airfield. All five of the crew were killed.
The Oratorian seminary was suppressed transiently in 1769, re- suppressed in 1808, but again returned to the order in 1814. By 1866, when Florence had been chosen the capital of Italy, the building was requisitioned by the state for office space. Restructuring and expansion of the seminary was conducted by Marco Treves and Paolo Comotto.C. Paolini, Palazzo Spinelli entry on complex.
Built by Bremer Vulkan in 1937, she began her career as the cargo ship Goldenfels, owned and operated by DDG Hansa, Bremen. Goldenfels was powered by two Six-cylinder Single Cycle Double Action diesel engines, built by Bremer Vulkan. She was allocated the Code Letters DOTP. In late 1939 she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and converted into a warship by DeSchiMAG, Bremen.
Coburg was built as yard number 125 in 1938 by Schulte & Bruns, Emden for H Bischoff & Co, Bremen, Germany. She was completed in August 1938. Her port of registry was Wesermünde and the Code Letters DFDX were allocated. Coburg was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine in 1940 and converted to a weather ship. She was commissioned on 3 August as WBS 2 Coburg.
The club was moved from their Waller St. home in 1916, when their land was requisitioned for war purposes. Their second home (1916–1930) was approximately the present site of the Supreme Court of Canada. From 1931 until 1949 the club was located at 277 Laurier Ave West, and the club reached their present home, at Cooper and Percy Streets in July 1949.
Rundstedt was now a free man after four years in custody, but it brought him little joy.Messenger, chapter 15 He was 73, frail and in poor health. He had no home, no money and no income. The family home in Kassel had been requisitioned by the Americans, and the Rundstedt estate in Saxony-Anhalt was in the Soviet Zone and had been confiscated.
Service continued until 1941, when steamships were requisitioned for the war effort. In June 1911, the French Fabre Line began trans-Atlantic service to Providence. Between June 30, 1912 and June 30, 1913, Fabre brought almost 12,000 mostly Italian and Portuguese immigrants to the Lonsdale Dock. The route was so popular that Fabre built an additional pier on Allens Avenue in 1914.
The French tartane Marie-Rose (or Marie) was a tartane that the French Navy requisitioned in March 1798 at Marseille and commissioned as a transport of four guns and 22 men. The British Royal Navy captured her in March 1799 off Syria and her captors took her into service as the gunbrig HMS Marie Rose. The Royal Navy disposed of her in 1800.
The flotilla was founded during spring 1916, as the Russian military commissioned the Finnish passenger ships , and and the tugs Murole and Näsijärvi. In addition, civilian motorboats were requisitioned for military use. The ships were manned by their original Finnish crew, commanded by their Finnish masters subordinated to a Russian officer. The passenger ships were armed with naval guns, manned by Russian matrose.
In 1940, during the Second World War, the house was requisitioned for war use. British soldiers camped in the park before huts and roads were built to serve the military, including survivors from Dunkirk. The house became a prisoner-of-war camp, known as Camp 180. Bert Trautmann, a German paratrooper, later to become Manchester City goalkeeper, was billeted at the camp.
In the Second World War midget submarines exercised in the bay and nearby Loch Striven. The luxury Kyles Hydro Hotel, overlooking the Port, was requisitioned by the Admiralty to serve as the HQ for midget submarine (x-craft) operations. In particular, it was from here (hotel renamed HMS Varbel) that the top secret and audacious attack on the Tirpitz was masterminded.
He served as a seaman aboard the requisitioned trawler , which was sunk west of Ireland in March 1941. For his service aboard the ship, he was mentioned in dispatches in July 1941. He was promoted to the temporary rank of sub- lieutenant in June 1944. He fell seriously ill in 1945, dying at the Royal Hospital Haslar in Gosport in July 1945.
She was laid down as a merchant ship by shipbuilder Uraga Senkyo and launched on 19 July 1940. In December 1941, she was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy and converted to an auxiliary gunboat. On 4 September 1943, she was sunk while on convoy duty after being hit by three torpedoes from the () at () northeast of Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands.
Falke was requisitioned during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 as what was by then the North German Federal Navy sought to acquire ships with which it could defend the North German Confederation's coast in the North and Baltic Seas. Falke was among four merchant ships purchased by the navy, along with the paddle steamer and the HAPAG passenger liners Cuxhaven and Helgoland.
Chōkai Maru was laid down on 14 September 1936 at the shipyard of Mitsubishi Jukogyo Hikoshima Zosensho. She was launched on 28 June 1936 and completed on 15 February 1937. On 5 September 1941, she was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy and converted to an auxiliary patrol boat. She was assigned to 1st platoon, Patrol division 7, 5th Fleet along with , , and .
Mary B Mitchell was built by Paul Rogers in 1892 at Carrickfergus, as a three-masted topsail schooner.Forde Maritime Arklow, p 84 She was owned by Lord Penrhyn and served for a period as a yacht, before being put to work as a coaster.Ritchie p8 In 1916 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty to be used as a Q-ship.
Bayonnaise was being built as a privateer when the Ministry of Marine requisitioned her in 1793 before she sailed. The Ministry assumed the construction contracts and purchased her in March 1794. Bayonnaise participated in the Croisière du Grand Hiver, an unsuccessful sortie by the French fleet at Brest on 24 December 1794. Her hull was coppered in 1795 in Brest.
According to Norris, the city was "much stronger than Barcelona ... with 87 brass cannon mounted". The British under Leake had recently rescued Barcelona from a siege. In light of the ongoing campaign in Catalonia, the island shipped 1,400 tons of corn to Catalonia on August 13, either because the British requisitioned it, or the Sardinian parliament, the Stamenti, offered it.
At the start of World War II, Andania was requisitioned for use as an armed merchant cruiser (as was her sister ship Aurania) and armed with six old 6-inch (152 mm) guns, two 3-inch (76 mm) anti- aircraft guns and several machine guns. On 25 November 1939 she took up her naval duties as HMS Andania with the Northern Patrol.
Pillau was ordered by the Imperial Russian Navy as Maraviev Amurskyy from the Schichau-Werke shipyard in Danzig. She was laid down in 1913, and was launched on 11 April 1914, after which fitting-out work commenced. She was requisitioned by the German Navy on 5 August 1914, and renamed Pillau. She was commissioned into the High Seas Fleet on 14 December 1914.
In 1934, the Great Eastern Train Ferry Company was liquidated and she was bought by the London and North Eastern Railway. In 1940 she was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and renamed Iris. She assisted with the evacuation of the Channel Islands. In 1941 she was converted to a Landing Craft Carrier, and the twin funnels were incorporated into a single stack.
In 1675 it was requisitioned for a military prison. The prison was known for its extremely poor condition, for example, in 1836, Benjamin Appert wrote :Benjamin Appert, Bagnes, prisons et criminels, p. 205, Guilbert, 1836, vol. I The prison was the site of one of the September massacres of 1792 and was eventually destroyed to make way for the Boulevard Saint-Germain.
Samuel Bray died c1845. He was a merchant and land investor, farmer and legislator, serving in 1820 on the Kentucky State Legislature. The property went to his unmarried daughter, Nancy Chenoweth Bray, who held the farm until her death in the last months of the Civil War, February, 1865. The Farm was requisitioned as a Union encampment part of that time.
It remains unclear whether the Luftwaffe subsequently used this machine. After the outbreak of war, Vega Gulls were requisitioned for military use. In the UK, 21 were impressed in 1939–40, 14 for the RAF and seven for the FAA. Two aircraft were impressed in each of Australia and India, while one other was "called to the colours" in New Zealand.
The UK Ministry of Shipping requisitioned Nea Hellas as a troop ship and contracted Anchor Line to manage her. After seven years in government service the UK Ministry of War Transport released her back to Goulandris Brothers after the end of the war. The ship was renamed New York in 1955, retired in 1959 and scrapped at Onomichi, Hiroshima in 1961.
Immediately, all shipyards with Admiralty contracts were given priority to use available raw materials. All civil contracts including the Britannic were slowed. The naval authorities requisitioned a large number of ships as armed merchant cruisers or for troop transport. The Admiralty paid the companies for the use of their ships but the risk of losing a ship in naval operations was high.
At the outbreak of the Second World War the Admiralty requisitioned Dunnottar Castle, had her converted into an AMC and commissioned her as HMS Dunnottar Castle. BL 6 inch Mk XII naval guns were fitted as her primary armament. Her secondary armament included QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti- aircraft guns. She began her first patrol on 14 October 1939.
"Outline History of RAF Cranwell". Royal Air Force Cranwell Apprentices' Association, as archived at the Internet Archive on 19 August 2013.Ludlam 1988, p. 47 During the Second World War, Lincolnshire was "the most significant location for bomber command" and Rauceby Hospital, south-west of Sleaford, was requisitioned by the RAF as a specialist burns unit which plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe regularly visited.
Brisson was built as a fluyt for the Mississippi Company. She became property of the Crown on 8 December 1769 with the liquidation of the Company, and commissioned as a light frigate. She was sold to the commerce circa September 1771. She returned to the service of the Crown when the French requisitioned in July 1778 for the defence of Pondicherry.
Tevere had been requisitioned by the Imperial Russian Navy and was in use as a transport ship at the time. Two days later, the U-boat torpedoed the 3,701-ton Gioconda, another Russian transport, off Trebizond.Gioconda was towed into Trebizond and converted to a landing platform, making the ship an apparent total loss. Gioconda was the last ship sunk by UB-45.
However, it took some years before the uniforming was completed, since the uniforms already purchased had to be used up before new ones could be requisitioned. Steel helmets were generally abolished and were not reissued until around 1930. The terms "Sipo" and "green police" continued in popular usage until the Nazi reorganization and disbandment of local police forces in 1935.
NOTE: also requisitioned from the United Fruit Co. was SS Ulua; which became . It was the last of the UFC 'reefer' ships to be taken over; which happened near the end of April 1943 in San Francisco. Other "reefers" converted for US Navy use were the Danish ships , and . In addition, the US Maritime Commission ordered 41 new refrigerated ships for the Navy.
During the First World War, he was serving on the RMS Caronia (then requisitioned for war service) and witnessed the next ship in the convoy suffer a torpedo attack. He also remained at sea during the Second World War and witnessed a torpedo attack on another ship in his convoy."Sir Ivan Thompson", The Daily Telegraph, 24 July 1970, p. 12.
Sanato – built in 1929 by the marriage of Irena and Dr. Eugeniusz Budzyński, a doctor of spa in Busko. This hotel was the most modern building among spa buildings in the town. The building was requisitioned by UB in 1950; until the end of 1990 it was used as sanatorium UB-MSW . The heir of the building requested reimbursement in 1990.
The site was purchased in 1940 and Lord Somers Camp was requisitioned to form the site of the camp for No. 1 Initial Training School for the Royal Australian Air Force as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme during World War II. Recruits commenced their military service at the Initial Training School, learning fundamentals such as mathematics, navigation and aerodynamics.
Ravelston was requisitioned in 1941 by the MoWT. She was renamed Empire Bond and was operated under the management of Gillespie and Nichol. Empire Bond was a member of a number of convoys during the Second World War. ;ON 14 Convoy ON 14 departed Loch Ewe on 10 September 1941. ;SC 46 Convoy SC 46 departed Sydney, Cape Breton on 24 September 1941.
The service ceased immediately at the outbreak of World War II, with the three ships on the Hook service being requisitioned for war service, and it only re-opened in November 1945 with three sailings per week. Of the three vessels, was lost and the was purchased by the government as a troop carrier leaving the to operate the service.
Her Klemm aircraft was destroyed in a fire in 1939. Her first aircraft, the De Havilland plane was requisitioned during World War II and later scrapped. Bonney's plans for an around the world flight did not materialise due to World War II. Despite offering her services as a pilot in World War II, these were declined. She stopped flying after 1945.
She was built by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton for the London and North Western Railway in 1902. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty as an Armed boarding steamer in 1914. She was renamed TSS Menevia in 1920. In 1928 she was sold to the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company and scrapped later that year by Thos W Ward.
Paolo Piazza, the secular name of the Franciscan priest Padre Cosmo da Castelfranco or Fra Cosimo Piazza, (1557-1621) was an Italian painter active in North-Central Italy. He was born in Castelfranco in the Veneto. He joined the order of Capuchin monks. He painted for the Casino Eucherio Sanvitale of Parma, until requisitioned by Scipione Borghese to go to Rome in 1611.
Facilities included two hangars of , and a long grass runway, aligned east- west. A large house, Knotley Hall, which stood to the south of the airfield was requisitioned for use as the officer's accommodation. During 1917, Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12 aircraft of No. 78 Squadron RFC were based at Penshurst. On 8 November 1917, No. 2 Wireless School was formed at Penshurst.
John Fisser was purchased by Cam & Sons Pty Ltd and sailed to Sydney, Australia in 1928 after being renamed Mary Cam. The voyage from Hull took 69 days. She was accidentally grounded on Iphill Shoal in Torres Straits and was later refloated and arrived in Sydney. On 5 October 1939, Mary Cam was requisitioned by the RAN for use as an auxiliary.
The following year the school was requisitioned in part by the Royal Artillery for their headquarters. The Primary School shifted to Tammita Church grounds into temporary cadjan sheds. Then Royal Artillery moved out in November, but the Royal Air Force occupied the buildings in March the following year. The College was put under protection of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
There she worked in Graylingwell Hospital which was also requisitioned as a military hospital dealing with men sent back from the front. In 1916 Tate volunteered for service with the Royal Army Medical Corps and left for Malta on 24 August 1916. She worked in the military hospitals there but on 28 January 1917 she died at Victoria Junction, Sliema, Malta.
The yard was then a semi-private concern, with the actual shipbuilding contracted to Joseph Graham, who was sometimes mayor of the town. During World War II parts of Harwich were again requisitioned for naval use and ships were based at HMS Badger; Badger was decommissioned in 1946, but the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service maintained a headquarters on the site until 1992.
Map outlining the British recapture of the islands, one of two aircraft carriers that the Royal Navy had available for the task force Sea Harrier FRS1. The gloss paint scheme was altered to a duller one en route south. The British government had no contingency plan for an invasion of the islands, and the task force was rapidly put together from whatever vessels were available. The nuclear-powered submarine set sail from France on 4 April, whilst the two aircraft carriers and , in the company of escort vessels, left Portsmouth only a day later. On its return to Southampton from a world cruise on 7 April, the ocean liner was requisitioned and set sail two days later with 3 Commando Brigade aboard. The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was also requisitioned and left Southampton on 12 May with 5th Infantry Brigade on board.
The Parkeston Quay site had been used during the First World War by the Royal Navy (see Harwich Force), and an Admiralty Research Laboratory had been constructed there. The port was again requisitioned from the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) at the beginning of World War II. In its early days Badger provided a base for minesweepers, but by the end of 1940 it also serviced a destroyer flotilla, a submarine squadron and a Coastal Forces motor torpedo boat base, becoming the largest base for small craft in the United Kingdom. Badger was the name of the Harwich-Parkeston shore base, but for traditionalist purposes was also applied to a harbour craft—initially the requisitioned LNER ferry Epping, but later the large 4-masted sailing ship Westwood. which was kept permanently moored, as personnel-accommodation ship, at the east end of Parkeston Quay.
Despite the emphasis on exploiting the agricultural production of Poland and Ukraine and achieving self-sufficiency from domestic production, Germany also imported (or forcibly requisitioned) substantial quantities of food from other countries. In order of the value of their exports from 1939 to 1944, the most important countries exporting food to Germany were (1) southeastern Europe (Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, and Turkey); (2) Denmark; (3) Italy: (4) France; (5) Netherlands; and (6) Soviet Union (mostly Ukraine). Polish agricultural production from the area annexed by Germany is not included in this total, and most of Polish production in the non-annexed area of the General Government was used to feed the German army. Likewise, the large amounts of food requisitioned in Ukraine and other republics of the Soviet Union to feed the German army are not included in this valuation.
S.P. Austin & Son Ltd. of Sunderland built her in 1906 for William Cory and Son. She was named Lady Cory-Wright after either Lady Mima, wife of Sir Cory Cory- Wright, 1st Baronet or Lady Elizabeth, wife of Sir Arthur Cory-Wright, 2nd Baronet. In August 1914 the War Department requisitioned Lady Cory-Wright for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary, who used her as a mine carrier.
The ship delivered Ferres sister ship in 1913 and the the following year.Croce, p. 202 Kanguroo (foreground) sinking, 3 December 1916 After the start of World War I in August 1914, the French Navy requisitioned the Kanguroo. She was torpedoed and sank at the Port of Funchal, Madeira on 3 December 1916, together with the and the elderly British cable layer , by the German submarine .
Therefore, some locals would bicycle to the nearest station, get on the train and get off at Oppdal. There they would get into the same queues as the tourists and purchase the alcoholic beverages. From the opening until 1940, the hotel did not make sufficient profit to cover the investment costs. From 1940 through 1945, the hotel was requisitioned by the German occupation forces.
Bailey's were to repair her on an "as and when" basis. The ship was almost completely rebuilt, with of new steel needed. Irish Hazel was requisitioned by the MoWT on 17 November 1943 whilst under repair at Newport, Monmouthshire and renamed Empire Don. The requisitioning was partly offset by the granting of a warrant that allowed Irish Shipping Ltd to operate the Italian steamer Caterina Gerolimich.
When the United State entered the war in December 1941 President Fillmore was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) on 9 February 1942 and operated by American President Lines as the WSA agent. Though some sources use the term United States Army Transport (USAT) the ship was only allocated by WSA to Army requirements and never operated by Army or under direct contract with Army.
In these regions, new land, which they cleared for farming, was provided for the refugees; in more populated areas, property was requisitioned. The sudden influx of these settlers was successfully dealt with in just a few years. One of the effects of rural resettlement was an increase in the number of farms during the postwar years, a unique occurrence for industrialized nations of this period.
Further restorations and additions were undertaken by Sir John Stirling-Maxwell in 1899–1900. A renovation scheme was prepared by architects MacGibbon and Ross, although their plans for a faithful restoration were not followed. In 1943 the castle was requisitioned by the military, and was later divided into flats. In 1972 the Glasgow Corporation bought the castle, converting it to serve as the Museum of Childhood.
E. Grabham, From Grand to Grove: Entertaining South Bedfordshire, Book Castle, 2007, , pages 76, 139 and 146. During World War II the old Empire was requisitioned for "government purposes". After the war it was used as a synagogue, and then later as an Islamic centre. The Odeon was used for music concerts as well as for showing films; The Beatles played there in 1963.
Wiking 6 was built as a whaler by Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau, Wesermünde for Deutsche Ölmülen Rohstoffe GmbH, Hamburg. Her port of registry was Hamburg and the Code Letters DKAP were allocated. She was operated under the management of the Hamburger Walfang Kantor GmbH. In 1939, she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine, serving from 25 October with 15 Vorpostenflotille as the Vorpostenboot V 1502 Wiking 6.
New traditions emerged, such as a house system, with competition in various sports, debating and, with the strong music tradition of the school, house chorals. A Memorial Hall paid for by past students was a feature of the new school. Just as had occurred in World War I, World War II disrupted the school's proceedings greatly. The school building itself was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy.
Although the peasants had been allowed to work the land they held, the production surplus was bought by the state (on the state's terms), the peasants cut production; whereupon food was requisitioned. Money gradually came to be replaced by barter and a system of coupons. When the war ended, the NEP took over from War Communism. During this time, the state had controlled all large enterprises (i.e.
A wide variety of small vessels from all over the south of England were pressed into service to aid in the Dunkirk evacuation. They included speedboats, Thames vessels, car ferries, pleasure craft, and many other types of small craft. The most useful proved to be the motor lifeboats, which had a reasonably good capacity and speed. Some boats were requisitioned without the owner's knowledge or consent.
On 27 January the battalion arrived in Łozice village and requisitioned around 40 horse-drawn carriages from a big gathering of farmers arranged by the local authorities in need of conscripted labour. In the same evening, the battalion moved to Hajnówka County. Rajs ordered the attack on Hajnówka where the Polish communist militia as well as some Red Army soldiers were stationing. The attack was unsuccessful.
Designed by Marshall Mackenzie Kingseat Hospital was the first segregate or village hospital system in the British Isles opened in 1904. During World War II it was requisitioned by the Admiralty to be used as a Naval Auxiliary Hospital which it functioned as until 28 February 1946. The hospital closed in 1994 but not before lending its name to the Kingseat Hospital in New Zealand.
Some historians assume that 42% of the entire Kazakh population died in the famine. Kazakhstan's livestock and grain were largely acquired between 1929 and 1932, with one-third of the republic's cereals being requisitioned and more than 1 million tons confiscated in 1930 to provide food for the cities. Some historians and scholars describe the famine as a genocide of the Kazakhs perpetrated by the Soviet state.
During the Suez Crisis, the ship was requisitioned by the Royal Navy and renamed LST 3041. She sailed to Port Said where she offloaded Centurion tanks, and where she struck a sunken vessel. As a result of this collision, she had to call in at Naples on the way home for repairs and was in drydock until early January 1957. She remained in use until 1960.
Hannington, p. 16 In the Second World War Lady Somers was requisitioned as an ocean boarding vessel; an Italian submarine sank her in 1941. Her four sister ships continued in CN service, but and Lady Drake were sunk by German submarines in 1942. Lady Nelson was torpedoed in 1942 but refloated and converted to a hospital ship while Lady Rodney survived the war unscathed.
Also thereafter, Emperor Taizong often requisitioned Turkic cavalry soldiers to supplement regular Tang troops on various campaigns, such as the 634 campaign against Tuyuhun. Meanwhile, Xueyantuo largely took over Eastern Turkic Khaganate's former territory, with most of Eastern Turkic Khaganate's former vassals submitting to it. Former Eastern Turkic Khaganate's vassals Khitan, Xí (), and Xī () tribes directly submitted to Tang, as did the city-state of Yiwu ().
This was the first batch of many more for the camps on the Island, now collectively known as 171 POW Camp. The prisoners had vacated the camp again by 4 August 1945. By 24 November, the tenants and owners of the houses in Hutchinson, Onchan and Mooragh camps had received notice that their property had been de- requisitioned and they were free to move back in.
Britten described the voyage as at first "bloody boring", though there was later a "terrific gale" and even "ice bumping against the ship". Towards the end of the voyage, they gave a recital for voice and piano. On 2 September 1939 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted into an armed merchant cruiser. On 3 June 1942 the Ausonia was converted to a repair ship.
On their far left they knew that XVII Corps and I Reserve Corps were coming into action, but headquarters had learned little about their progress. In fact, XVII Corps had defeated the Russian VI Corps, which fled back along the roads. XVII Corps had endured long marches in sweltering weather, but some men still had the energy to pursue on bicycles requisitioned from civilians.Showalter, 1991, p. 263.
On 1 September 1939 Germany invaded Poland. On 2 September, the 125th Polish Infantry Regiment was formed at Pignerolle before going to fight on the Moselle. The Chateau was requisitioned by the Polish government-in-exile. The Polish General Staff settled into the Chateau. Władysław Raczkiewicz became Polish President in Exile on 30 September 1939 and lived at the Chateau of Pignerolles from 2 December 1939.
During the war Gainesville served as a depot for food requisitioned by the Confederate government from the surrounding area. A small post on the east side of Gainesville called Fort Lee was an induction point for men entering the Confederate States Army.Hildreth and Cox:24-26, 30-31 Fighting on a small scale reached Gainesville twice. On February 15, 1864, a small Union raiding party occupied Gainesville.
In 1914, the council began leasing the theatre to Ernest Wheeler, who continued to run it for twenty five years. It later saw competition with the opening of the Alexandra Gardens Theatre in 1924. In response, the pavilion also began screening films. The pavilion was requisitioned by the military during World War II and was largely used by the newly-formed No. 4 Commando.
In 1919 she suffered a boiler explosion which killed three people. On 25 September 1922 she was involved in a minor collision with the coasting steamer Trevor which was between Laxey and Douglas. In 1923 she was acquired by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, but in 1928 they sold her to Bland Line in Gibraltar who renamed her Gibel Dersa. She was requisitioned in 1941.
TrSS Londonderry was designed by the Messrs Bilee Gray and Co, naval architects to the Midland Railway and built by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton. She was launched on 29 April 1904 by Mrs Tilney, daughter of Sir Ernest Paget, Chairman of the Midland Railway. She was the first ship equipped with Lodge-Muirhead wireless telegraphy. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1914.
When the United Kingdom entered the First World War in August 1914 Magdalena was 25 years old and near the end of her useful life. However, on 16 December 1915 the Admiralty requisitioned her as the troop ship HMT Magdalena. She was armed with two guns and a Royal Navy gun crew. Magdalena brought Australian troops across the Mediterranean and bringing West India Regiment troops to Europe.
George Ferdinando continued to live at Basildon during this time. Eric served in the navy during the war and on his return set about mending the walls that had been damaged by bridging units used on the river and the huge holes left in the demolition area. The house was then requisitioned for the Ministry of Works, whose caretaker stole the lead from the roofs.Pugh, p14.
HMAS Ovens Various buildings and properties in Fremantle were requisitioned as part of the support of the base, and remained so until late 1945.Chadwick, Claire (1995) Details of base operated during World War 11 in Port weekly, 2 Oct. 1995, p.11. Other facilities further from the coast were also utilised for support, such as the Byford armament depot, which stored torpedoes and mines.
The civil airfield was requisitioned by Royal Australian Air Force and the 808th Engineer Aviation Battalion extended the airfield from 19 February 1942 to 13 April 1942. The runway was extended to long and wide and 18 dispersals without revetments were constructed. During 1943, the Department of Civil Aviation established a flight service unit at the airfield which operated until 1978 with the closure of the airfield.
Its last head, Bonaventura di Casalloro, was forced to close the monastery and leave the island with the remaining monks. The property was then requisitioned by a decree of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798, after the establishment of the Cisalpine Republic. Its government sold the island to private owners in 1800. After passing through several hands, it was bought in 1817 by Count Luigi Lechi from Brescia.
Wanborough Manor Wanborough Manor Wanborough Manor is an Elizabethan manor house on the Hog's Back in Wanborough in the Borough of Guildford, Surrey. During World War II the manor house was requisitioned by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to train secret agents and was known as Special Training School 5 (there were six in total across the UK) and later returned to private ownership.
Settlements, whether on private or public land, could not be considered permanent, nor could the land be permanently confiscated, only temporarily requisitioned. Settlements on private land were legal only if determined to be a military necessity; the original owner retained title to the land and must be paid rental fees for its use. Public lands' possession cannot be alienated, nor its basic character transformed.
Retrieved 25 June 2009. The fleet circled the coast from Derby in northern Western Australia to Cairns in northern Queensland. Shipping operations were supported by a large network of agency offices in almost every major Australian port. During World War I, several Adelaide Steamship Company ships were requisitioned, as were several other privately owned ships; Grantala and Warilda as hospital ships and Wandilla and Willochra as troopships.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, thousands of Federal troops were stationed in the town. Despite the threat of being requisitioned by the Army, the college continued to operate in relative safety. This was even despite a major skirmish taking place near the town. Nevertheless, concern for the safety of the students led many of the parents and bishops to remove their students from the College.
In 1933 Queen of Bermuda joined Monarch of Bermuda on scheduled services between New York and Hamilton, Bermuda. A round trip took six days. Just before the Second World War, on 29 August 1939 the Admiralty requisitioned the ship for conversion into an armed merchant cruiser. One of her three funnels was removed, either as a disguise or to improve the field of fire for her guns.
In 1934, he attempted to re-establish his family at Vale Royal, the family's country home and baronial seat from the 17th century; however, the great house was requisitioned as a sanatorium during the war years.Holland, G.D et al. (1977). Vale Royal Abbey and House, p. 32; Westair-Reproductions: Cheshire, Museum finder When it was sold in 1947, the fourth Baron returned to Kenya.
Speculation at the time centered on a confrontation between German cruiser Karlsruhe—which had been sinking British vessels in the Atlantic and Caribbean areas—and one of the Royal Navy cruisers or . A follow-up news story reported that Saratoga had chanced upon U.S. Navy gunnery practice. On 23 May 1917 Saratoga and , her Ward Line sister-ship, were requisitioned by the U.S. government.
A grammar school has existed in Ramsey since 1681. It moved to Lezayre Road in 1933 and was housed in a building that now forms the east building of the present school. It was decommissioned and requisitioned by the military during the Second World War from 1940 to 1946. In 1946 Ramsey Grammar School was re-opened as a non- selective mixed comprehensive school.
At the outbreak of hostilities the area surrounding Newhaven Port was requisitioned and the Harbour station closed. From 22 September 1916 Newhaven became a special military area for handling Government traffic under the Defence of the Realm Regulations.Marx (2007), 49–51. This additional traffic required substantial improvements to infrastructure, notably at Newhaven harbour, where additional warehousing, new sidings and signalling constructed and electric lighting was installed.
The facility was designed by George Thomas Hine in an echelon formation. Construction started in 1910 and it opened as the Gateshead Borough Lunatic Asylum in 1914. The hospital was requisitioned for military use during the First World War and then became Gateshead County Borough Mental Hospital in 1920. A nurses' home was completed in 1928, as well as various other additions to the site.
Guns suitable for Monowai had been ordered and stored at the Devonport Naval Base in Auckland. Monowai was requisitioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy on 21 October 1939 and was prepared for mounting the guns. Then followed a period of indecision, and in February 1940 work on her was suspended for over four months. After construction was completed in August 1940, she was commissioned.
HMS Lady Shirley (ASW trawler) During World War II, most Australian coastwatchers were commissioned as officers in the RANVR. Some RANVR officers also served in the Royal Navy, and with the Royal Canadian Navy. One officer also served as the Royal Navy liaison officer to the Soviet Navy. was a fishing trawler requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1940 and converted for anti-submarine warfare.
Mangere Aerodrome, named after a nearby suburb, was the original home of the Auckland Aero Club. It is now the site of Auckland Airport. Mangere Aerodrome's claim to fame was as the arrival point for New Zealand aviator, and aeroclub member, Jean Batten's solo flight from the United Kingdom in 1936. The RNZAF requisitioned the aerodrome from 1939 until 1944, renaming it RNZAF Station Mangere.
Just prior to World War II, the War Department requisitioned a large amount of land to the northern side of Arrowe Farm, next to the Police station. This was used for military weapons storage. The camp was known as 64 Anti-Aircraft Ordnance Depot. The site had three reinforced bunkers for storage of ordnance, in the area which is now occupied by the Sainsbury's building.
Before this arrangement could be consummated, World War II intervened; Balboa Park was requisitioned for use in the war effort. During the war the Club was relatively inactive, except for a member exhibition in the La Jolla Art Center in June 1944. After the end of the war, interest in the project was revived and the club was reorganized at a meeting held on April 4, 1947.
At some date an owner renamed her Sölyst. In 1898 she was acquired by a JL Phipps, who renamed her Sea Maid. After 1902 Sea Maids ownership is unclear. At some date she sailed to Greek waters, and one source suggests that in 1913 during the Balkan Wars the Kingdom of Greece requisitioned her as a troopship to take soldiers from Chalkidiki to Amphipolis.
21 April 1936 saw a special commemorative ceremony on the completion of the paintings and exactly one year later the Gallery opened to the public on a full-time basis. In December 1944 the Gallery closed due to the war situation. With the US Occupation, the Gallery was requisitioned by occupying forces (cf., the Bayreuth Festspielhaus), a state of affairs that continued until 1952.
Victoire asked to be executed first, telling her parents: "You taught me to live; with the grace of God, I will teach you how to die." Their corpses were thrown into a common grave hastily dug not far away, at the end of the garden of a convent of canonesses of St. Augustine which had been closed and requisitioned. This place is today Picpus Cemetery.
Invicta was completed in June 1940. The Admiralty then requisitioned her and she left Dumbarton on 27 June for Clynder, where she was laid up on the River Clyde, although technically she had been delivered to the Southern Railway on 1 July. In 1941 it was decided to convert Invicta to a Landing Ship, Infantry. The work was carried out by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Elderslie.
The conceptual artwork for Melatonin Magik is derived in part from the feature film The Matrix, displaying Canibus in meditative posture, unchaining himself and his listeners from structural and unknown tyrannies while alluding to the central protagonists ultimate choice of the liberating red pill as opposed to its blue counterpart. The graphic design artist credited with its illustration was requisitioned by Canibus himself through Spitboss.
There, the vessel was sold to the Empire Line for service on the Seattle–Nome route. However, in April 1898 the Spanish–American War broke out, and Indiana was requisitioned by the U.S. Navy as a troopship. Later in the war, she served as a hospital ship, returning wounded troops from Manila, Philippines via Honolulu to San Francisco. Nine of the wounded died during the voyage.
By the following year, William Howson was forced to discontinue shipping agricultural goods from the Clover Depot due to a lack of available railroad cars for storage or transport. William Howson also lost several of his male slaves after they were requisitioned by the Confederate army. In October, Sims' overseers also were conscripted. To exacerbate the situation, the region experienced a drought during the summer of 1864.
During the German occupation of Norway, which started in 1940, Conrad Wilhelm Eger owned Skallum. When he was forced into exile in 1944, the Nazi authorities requisitioned the property. It was used by the Hird, and sports official and judge Egil Reichborn-Kjennerud lived there. The Nazi authorities had already set up an anti-air battery, named Grossbatterie Bertha, on a field south of Skallum.
From 1936, the US Government had supported the expansion of US flag shipping. Mooremack had begun a building program, but as the war began four of its C-3-class ships were requisitioned. These were Rio- class ships of 17,600 tons displacement and designed to carry 150 passengers. Thus Rio Hudson, Rio Parana, Rio de la Plata and Rio de Janeiro became Royal Navy s , , and .
Under Martinsen and Rød's command, his section made up lists of Jewish women, children, patients, and elderly who were not yet arrested and detained. He organized 100 squads, each consisting of a police officer, a squad leader and two assistants, typically Hird members, SS soldiers, or other police officers. A taxi was requisitioned for each squad. Each squad was given a list of four addresses.
Gauci Tower was built sometime before 1548 by Francesco Gauci to protect his family from corsair raids. Construction cost a total of 400 scudi. In 1548, it was requisitioned by the Order of Saint John, who ruled the Maltese Islands, to house the Captain of the Naxxar militia. Gauci petitioned against this move, and the tower was returned to him on 16 May 1548.
A number of the company's vessels were requisitioned for war duties during World War I where they took part in various military campaigns including in the Dardanelles, Archangel and the Persian Gulf. Company tug 'Danube' was transferred to Admiralty control and assisted a monitor through the Mediterranean en route to the Rufiji River delta, in present-day Tanzania, in order to destroy the German raider Konigsberg.
In lean times, they provided charitable assistance."Old Hall, East Bergholt", The Suffolk Churches During World War II, the community of nuns was evacuated from the coast, some members went to Stanbrook Abbey, others to Swynnerton. The Abbey was requisitioned by the military. After the War, the building was in such poor condition that the nuns decided to sell the property and relocate to Haslemere.
In World War I five of the company's vessels were requisitioned. was sunk on 26 June 1918 following collision with a German mine north of Cape Maria van Diemen, New Zealand, killing 26 passengers. In World War II, three of the company's passenger ships, , and were pressed into war service. Huddart Parker was taken over by Bitumen and Oil Refineries Australia Limited in October 1961.
The Hall was requisitioned during World War II for use as a base for the Royal Air Force, and then later became a military hospital for injured servicemen. The hall was sold in 2009 to couple, Robert Everist and Susan Mills. 2010 saw the start of a significant and vital restoration. The project was financed by the Hall's owners, who use the mansion as their primary home.
St Petersburg was built by John Brown & Company of Clydebank for the Great Eastern Railway and launched on 25 April 1910. She was launched by Miss Green, daughter of Frederick Green, director of the Great Eastern Railway Company. She was placed on the Harwich-to-Hook of Holland route. St Petersburg was requisitioned by the Admiralty during the First World War and renamed Archangel in 1916.
On 18 May, Sirius was on her way from Tromsø to Risøyhamn to retrieve a number of requisitioned civilian motor vehicles. The vehicles were destined for Helgeland further south in Northern Norway, where Norwegian forces were opposing advancing German units. Sirius sailed in ballast, having unloaded a cargo of hay at Røsneshavn after departing Tromsø. She had left Røsneshavn in the morning of 17 May 1940.
Following the outbreak of World War II, the Royal Navy requisitioned part of the grounds and buildings located on the shore of the River Hamble. In July 1940 a combined operations base named HMS Tormentor was commissioned, occupying the old Coast Guard House and RAF wireless station at Warsash. The purpose of the base was the training of landing craft crews and British Commandos.
The ship's regular route was between Liverpool and Valparaíso in Chile via Bermuda, the Caribbean and the Panama Canal. In November 1937 a former UK Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, died aboard her at the age of 71 while on holiday. In the Second World War she was requisitioned to be a troop ship. Many of her passenger fittings were removed and stored in Bootle.
Dieppe was built for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. She was used on their Newhaven — Dieppe route. She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in the First World War for use as a troopship and a hospital ship. On 27 February 1916 she took aboard over 100 survivors from the P&O; passenger liner , which was sunk by a mine off Dover.
Jennifer Sherwood and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Penguin Books, 1974, pages 264–266. . The Examination Schools building is Grade II listed. During the First World War, the Examination Schools together with Somerville College and other Oxford buildings were requisitioned by the War Office to create the 3rd Southern General Hospital, a facility for the Royal Army Medical Corps to treat military casualties.
Some private companies moved head offices or their most vital records to comparative safety away from major cities. Government functions were also evacuated. Under "Plan Yellow", some 23,000 civil servants and their paperwork were dispatched to available hotels in the better coastal resorts and spa towns. Other hotels were requisitioned and emptied for a possible last-ditch "Black Move" should London be destroyed or threatened by invasion.
However, it was used occasionally by the parish and also by the Greek Orthodox Church. It continued to be used for weddings until 1981 but ceased to be used as a church in 1986. During the Second World War it was requisitioned and used as a radar and anti-aircraft command post. It was also used as a recording studio and as a location for filming.
The ship was launched as the Commonwealth Line steamer Jervis Bay, named after the Australian bay of that name (the line named all its passenger liners after bays). She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in August 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War, and armed with seven 1898-vintage 6 in (150 mm) guns and two 3 in (76 mm) guns of 1894 design.
Western Morning News, 13 April 1926. During the Second World War, Lydiard Park was requisitioned for a variety of military uses. After the death of his mother, Vernon moved away from the ancestral home which was in the process of being sold to Swindon Corporation. He took up residence in Ringwood, Hampshire, during which time he was befriended by the art historian Rupert Gunnis.
The service contained only those personnel necessary for administration and operation. These included veterinarians, wagon-wrights, and grooms. The couriers and wagon drivers did not belong to the service: whether public servants or private individuals, they used facilities requisitioned from local individuals and communities.Travel & Geography in the Roman Empire, Ed. Colin Adams and Ray Laurence,, 2001, 'Transport and communication in the Roman state: Anne Kolb, p.
He proposed using a Holweck pump to produce the vacuum necessary for this work, and enlisted George B. Kistiakowsky and E. Bright Wilson to help. There was little interest in their work because research was being carried out elsewhere. In 1943, their cyclotron was requisitioned by Edwin McMillan for use by the U. S. Army. It was packed up and carted off to Los Alamos, New Mexico.
The hostel continued to operate as a preliminary place of study until 1916, when it was requisitioned as a war hospital and all teaching was moved to Durham. The hostel briefly re-opened after the war, but closed permanently in 1921. The hostel building was bequeathed to the village by the Warde-Aldam family as a village club, and now operates as a pub, "The Hostel".
The SS Cabrillo was a wooden steamer launched in 1914 to serve as a ferry across the San Pedro Channel to Santa Catalina Island. It was later requisitioned by the United States Army and served as a troop transport in northern California during World War II. In 1992, the United States Postal Service issued a 29¢ stamp in honor of Cabrillo.Colnect, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. Accessed 2009.09.28.
After being purchased by Red Funnell, Durraween was sailed from Fleetwood, England to Sydney, Australia. The voyage took 92 days, during which the trawler spent some time aground at Cocos Islands, and finished in late 1928. On 28 December 1937, the trawler collided with the passenger liner off Montague Island. On 29 July 1940, Durraween was requisitioned by the RAN for use as an auxiliary minesweeper.
She arrived at Papeete on 28 June 1940, five days after the signing of armistice between France and Germany that ended the battle of France. On 18 July 1940 she arrived at Suva in British Fiji to refuel, but was requisitioned by the authorities there. She was taken to Sydney, Australia, where 26 members of the crew, including the captain, volunteered to serve aboard.
The Manchus soon ordered all male residents of the city to shave their heads in the Manchu queue way.; ; (which calls this edict "the most untimely promulgation of [Dorgon's] career." They requisitioned a large section of the city for the bannermen's cantonment, and occupied the former imperial Ming Palace, but otherwise the city was spared the mass murders and destruction that befell Yangzhou.Struve (1993), pp.
However, a compromise was worked out by the United States Marine Hospital Service which allowed Havana to depart after a one-day delay. In September of the same year, another inspection gaffe resulted in government prosecution of the Ward Line. On 23 May 1917 Havana and sister ship , another Ward Line steamer, were requisitioned by the War Department for U.S. Army use during World War I.
On 1 September 1939 the airfield was requisitioned by the government for military use and was renamed RAF Clifton. It was host to a flight of Whitley Bombers. Following an upgrade in status, the airfield became host to reconnaissance aircraft such as the Westland Lysander and the North American Mustang. The airfield also contained a large civilian staffed repair facility for the Halifax bomber.
In 1939 the school buildings in Eastbourne were burnt down,Eastbourne Chronicle, 20 May 1939 and the school decamped to Midhurst, until the premises were requisitioned by the army in 1940. After a period in Gloucestershire, the school joined Summer Fields School in Oxford.Nicholas Aldridge Time to spare?: A History of Summer Fields 1989 In 1948 Tomlinson took a headmastership again at Norwich at Langley Junior School.
Guests accessed the casino by walking through a luxurious garden, now a mini golf. In 1914, the hotel was requisitioned by the military authorities and was the main part of the temporary hospitals 23 and 24 of the Army 3rd corp. In 1917, the number of wounded reduced and the order of derequisition was signed. The hotel resumed its main purpose but Houlgate's golden age had ended.
Barton Grange was built as the country residence for Mr John Healey, a local mill owner and was later the home of Levi Collison MP. In 1940 it was requisitioned by the War Office and is now a hotel. There is a primary school, Barton St Lawrence CofE Primary School, on Jepps Avenue. The modern village hall is on the northern edge of the village.
72nd Tactical Recon Group P-39, c. 1942 The United States requisitioned 200 of the aircraft being manufactured for the UK, adopting them as P-400s (named for the advertised top speed of ). After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the P-400 was deployed to training units, but some saw combat in the Southwest Pacific including with the Cactus Air Force in the Battle of Guadalcanal.Baugher, Joe.
His stay in Italy and Sicily can only be imagined as unpleasant for the locals. Everything of any value in Rome was requisitioned by the Byzantine army — even copper from the rooftops. It was to many people's relief that Constans II was murdered while bathing by his Greek servant on 15 September 668. Constans II left the Empire in a worse state than he had found it.
These were operated by the British Royal Navy, not CP Ships. For example, RMS Princess Irene and RMS Princess Margaret were requisitioned at the point of completion by the British Royal Navy for war service. They were manned by naval personnel, not CP. Neither ship was delivered to CP – Princess Irene exploded in 1915 and Princess Margaret was purchased by the Admiralty after the war.
Relatively little information was provided about the dam to the affected people in Mato Grosso. 109 properties were requisitioned for the project, and between 652 and 1,065 families were displaced. The displaced families were settled in areas with sandy soil, unsuitable for agriculture, and given insanitary straw shacks as homes. The reservoir submerged a significant quantity of biomass, which was not cleared before construction started.
Rich families were ordered to supply freedmen compulsorily in proportion to their income. Augustus warned that the rebels could reach Rome in ten days if drastic action was not taken.Cassius Dio, Roman History, 55.29-30 In 7 AD Augustus sent Germanicus to Illyricum with a force of freemen and freedmen. Some of the latter were requisitioned form their masters, who were paid a compensation.
Common resources were pooled, but each company maintained its own management. During World War I, two of its newest liners, and , and two new liners under construction, and , were requisitioned for government use. Saratoga and Havana became United States Navy hospital ships and , respectively; Sibony and Orizaba became troop transports under their original names. All but Saratoga/Mercy eventually returned to the line after the war.
In 1942 all of the company's remaining passenger liners were requisitioned by the government for use during World War II, none of which were returned to the company. In 1947, Agwilines resurrected the Ward Line name for limited passenger service on converted World War II freighters. This reduced service lasted until 1954, when Agwilines was liquidated as a result of rising fuel prices and competition from airlines.
The airport was established by the Council in 1928. It was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II for the purposes of an airbase for anti submarine patrols. No. 71 Squadron and 'C' Flight No. 73 Squadron operated from the base from 1943 until being disbanded in late 1944. No. 12 Operational Base Unit maintained and serviced the airfield during its operation.
Later in the 20th century the island was owned by illustrator William Wallace Denslow who built a house there and declared himself "King Denslow I, Monarch of Denslow Islands and Protector of Coral Reefs". Between 1917 and 1919, the island hosted the Bermuda Biological Station for Research; this was transferred for the period from Agar['s] Island, which had been "requisitioned for military purposes".
The period up to the commencement of the Second World War was one of modest growth, the major event being purchase of the William Arthur Evelyn collection of prints, drawings and watercolours of York in 1931. The building was requisitioned for military purposes at the outbreak of the Second World War and closed, suffering bomb damage during the Baedeker Blitz on 29 April 1942.
On 15 February 1915, along with Duchess of Argyll and Duchess of Hamilton, she was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a troopship and spent the first few months of her service ferrying troops from Southampton to France. It is reported that she initially arrived in Southampton in her Caledonian Steam Packet livery but was soon repainted naval grey.Bacon, Sir Reginald (1919). The Dover Patrol 1915-1917.
The case centred on of agricultural land at Crichel Down, near Long Crichel, Dorset. Much of the land in question was part of the estate of Crichel House, owned by the 3rd Baron Alington. The land was purchased compulsorily in 1938 by the Air Ministry for use for bombing practice by the Royal Air Force. The purchase price when it was requisitioned was £12,006.
Riss (2000), p. 92. Asro worked on organizing the first performance; by chance, the local circus owner was willing to have the group use the circus as a venue, since he feared it would otherwise be requisitioned by the military. The new theatre company premiered in February 1916, with a performance of Der landsman (The countryman), a comedy by Sholem Asch.Bułat, Mirosława M. (November 2, 2010).
Here she supplemented Britannic and Georgic on the London to New York service. Mauretania in her grey paint scheme On 11 August 1939 she left on her final prewar voyage to New York. On her return she was requisitioned by the government. Mauretania was armed with two guns and some smaller weapons, painted in battle grey, and then despatched to America at the end of December 1939.
The draughtsmen and planning department and all the key factory employees were sent to the Harlesden factory. A shopfitting competitor, a former Sage's employee, offered his factory at Ilford, and a section of a factory at Enfield was requisitioned for the firm by the Ministry of Aircraft Production. And so the firm carried on through the war, its efforts eventually entirely devoted to the war effort.
Minnewaska had made 66 voyages from London to New York between May 1909 and January 1915. She was requisitioned by the British Government for service in World War I as a troopship. She sailed the Avonmouth - Alexandria route during this period in her career. She was defensively armed with a gun mounted on her stern and made five voyages ferrying troops and artillery to the Dardanelles.
To survive, resistance fighters largely relied on the civilian population. This included access to food, clothing and other supplies. Soviet partisans requisitioned food, livestock and clothes from local peasants, and when peasants did not share them willingly, they often did it by force. The results of such requisitioning were made more severe by the fact that Axis occupation forces had been already carrying out their own requisitions.
The vessel entered service on 21 February 1930, and it operated between Malta and Syracuse or Tunis. The Knight of Malta was the first purpose-built vessel to operate on a Malta-Sicily route. The Knight of Malta had her own paquebot postmark which was applied to mail posted on board. After World War II broke out, the vessel was requisitioned by the Admiralty in July 1940.
In 1930, he returned to Warsaw. He was mainly active in the environment of the poetic group Kwadryga, with whom he had worked for a year. He described this period in roman à clef Wspólny pokój (Shared Room), published in 1933. The publication of the novel became the basis of a social scandal in the Warsaw literary community, and the novel was requisitioned for censorship.
Om 5 September 1939, Kanimbla was requisitioned for military service, and underwent conversion to an armed merchant cruiser at Garden Island in Sydney.Bastock, Australia's Ships of War, p. 216 She was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Kanimbla, though with a largely Australian crew, on 6 September 1939. The ship was initially assigned the pennant number F23 - and later given the pennant number C78.
ST Leukos was built in Aberdeen in 1914 by the John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. for the National Steam Fishing Company of Aberdeen. She was powered by a coal-fired steam engine. During World War I she was requisitioned by the British Admiralty and used as a "boom defence vessel"; that is: she maintained the buoys, hawsers and netting of a boom defence.
This was officially opened on 19 April 1930 by the Minister of Health, the Right Hon Arthur Greenwood. At the start of World War II it provided offices for the Society's staff who were transferred from London. Later in the war it was requisitioned by the Government for use as a military billet. After the war it returned it its former use as a convalescent home.
The ship was requisitioned by the US government in 1941 and renamed the S. S. Larranga (sometimes seen as Larraňaga). After service in World War II, the ship was placed in the reserve fleet. In 1947, Michael P. Bonicos, a Greek immigrant, purchased the ship and named it Kefalos. Under his ownership, the cargo made a number of trips to Montevideo and to England.
The English industrialist Bernard Docker commissioned John I. Thornycroft & Company to build a yacht to his specifications. The yacht was built at Thornycroft's yard at Woolston, Southampton. She was completed in 1938 and christened MY Shemara. MY Shemara was requisitioned by the Royal Navy at the start of the Second World War in 1939 and used as a training vessel for anti-submarine warfare.
Plaque on the auberge The Order of St. John was expelled from Malta with the French invasion and occupation in 1798. Two years later, the Maltese Islands became a British protectorate, and the auberge was requisitioned by the Quartermaster. From 1822 to 1824, the building housed the government printing press. In the late 1830s, the building was the residence of the Chief Secretary to Government.
After the war he restored and ran the Astoria Hotel in Budapest, until it was requisitioned by the communist regime in 1948. In 1949 de Unger, following a series of arrests in Hungary, moved permanently to England, working first as a manservant. After further training, he entered the legal profession as a barrister. He later worked as Crown Counsel in Ghana for the Colonial Office.
James Miller and completed in 1907 Shipping magnate Lord Runciman saved the company, letting it retain its identity. In the Second World War the Admiralty requisitioned Cameronia and Transylvania as armed merchant cruisers. On 10 August 1940 torpedoed and sank Transylvania in the North Atlantic off Malin Head, killing 36 members of her complement. After the war Anchor Line struggled once again to change with the times.
In 1916 three Arklow schooners were requisitioned by the Admiralty to be used as Q-ships, they were: Cymric, Gaelic and Mary B Mitchell. Another Q-ship was the schooner Result which was built in 1893 in the same yard as Mary B Mitchell. Result is now with the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. They sailed the Southwest Approaches, masquerading as merchantmen, inviting attack by U-boats.
With Europe invaded Admiral Turner requisitioned all available NCDUs from Fort Pierce for integration into the Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) for the Pacific. Thirty NCDUs had been sent to the Pacific prior to Normandy. NCDUs 1–10 were staged on Florida Island in the Solomon Islands (archipelago) during January 1944.World War II US Navy Special Warfare Units, Eugene Lipak, Osprey Publishing, POB 3985, NY,NY, 10185.
334 Aiming to prevent any landings, and with no warships at his disposal, he equipped scores of chaloupes to defend the goulet and armed militias with weapons requisitioned by the navy. The cavalry regiments and dragoons were positioned at Landerneau and Quimper and, to enable the fast transmission of information, Vauban organised a communications code in the form of signals.Bernard Pujo, op. cit., p.
War was declared on 4 August 1914, and Hooton Park's racecourse was used for the last time some ten days later. The British War Department then requisitioned the estate for use as an army training ground. The hall became a headquarters, hospital, and officers' mess. Lord Derby recruited the first Pals regiments and Hooton became the training ground for the 18th Battalion of the Kings Liverpool Rifles.
The line reopened in November 1942 with two trains a day available for conscripted workers. The railway ceased to be used for the transport of waste at Boulogne in April 1944, due to its stock being requisitioned by the Germans. The track serving the incineration plant was taken up. In May 1943, the MVA required two trains to run daily between Lumbres and Boulogne.
This Trafalgar Square building temporarily housed the NLC twice; once in 1882–87, whilst the club's own premises were being built; and again 1916–19 when the club building was requisitioned for war work. From late 1916 to December 1919, the clubhouse was requisitioned by the British government for use as a billet for Canadian troops, the club relocating to nearby Northumberland Avenue in the meantime. Many of these troops were offered heavily discounted temporary club membership during their stay, although it appears that some overstayed their welcome – a "farewell dinner" by the club on 19 March 1919 attempted to hint that their departure was imminently expected. At the end of the First World War, the Canadian soldiers who had stayed there presented the club with a moose head as a gift of thanks, which was hung in the billiards room for many years.
Having sponsored two exploratory voyages in the South Seas with no material results, Cortés decided to lead a third exploration himself. Annoyed that his enemy, Nuño de Guzmán, had requisitioned one of his ships during the first expedition, Cortés decided to confront Guzmán on his own ground and from there set up the third expedition; consequently he prepared a large force of infantry and cavalry to march on the province of New Galicia, of which Guzmán was governor. The viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza, warned Cortés on September 4, 1534, "not to confront he who had requisitioned his ships", a warning which Hernán Cortés ignored, claiming that he had been designated to conquer and discover new territories, and that he had spent more than 100 thousand gold ducats of his own fortune. The feared confrontation between the armies of Cortés and Nuño de Guzmán did not occur.
The W.F. Stanley and Co. company continued to expand after Stanley's death, moving to a factory in New Eltham (The Stanley Scientific Instrument Works) in 1916. During World War I, the factory was requisitioned by the government. Between the wars, it continued to expand its position in the market place for quality surveying instruments, although it was requisitioned by the British Government during World War II. After the war, the company continued to expand, participating in many large project – for example, RMS Queen Mary and Royal Navy ships used the company's compasses and other navigational instruments. The company went into liquidation in July 1999 – the main factors were not investing the proceeds of the sale of the factory land to buying new machinery, the high value of the pound affecting export orders, and the loss of Ministry of Defence orders following the end of the Cold War.
Thomas Jefferson wanted the original or a reproduction at Monticello. The less well-off could purchase copies of the statue in miniature for use as ornaments and paperweights. Full-size plaster copies were also studied by art students. It was requisitioned by Napoleon Bonaparte by terms of the Treaty of Campoformio (1797) during his invasion of Italy and taken in triumph to Paris, where it was put on display.
Under the command of Vice Admiral Sir George Patey, the destroyers entered Blanche Bay on 12 August. HMAS Australia captured Sumatra and HMAS Encounter captured Zambesi while patrolling St Georges Channel on 12 August. HMAS Melbourne requisitioned the cargo of coal of the collier Alconda off Rossel Island on 13 August. The destroyers entered Simpson Harbour and Matupi Harbour at night searching for the German East Asia Squadron.
Another renovation in 1901 led to the enlargement of the stage area to 800 square meters and a modernization of the installed technology. From 1910, Berlin audiences preferred programs with trained predator animals, and interest in Schumann's performances waned. The first World War finally brought him to ruin. At the beginning of the war, his horses were requisitioned for the Imperial Cavalry, and earnings went to paying taxes.
HMAS Bombo in Sydney, during WWII, after her conversion to a minesweeper. (Australian Navy, Naval Historical Collection, Australian War Memorial.) There was an interruption to the trade during the Second World War, when the Kiama, Dunmore and Bombo were requisitioned for wartime service. The quarries and narrow-gauge railway at Kiama closed permanently at this time. Around the same time, the Bass Point quarry and jetty also closed.
Barton Hall was requisitioned during World War II and left afterwards in a poor state. It was sold to a group of businessmen in 1947 and ten years later sold on to Fred Pontin who turned it into one of the flagships of Pontin's, his holiday empire. The hall and surrounding lands then passed through several owners, and as of 2010 are being run by PGL Travel Ltd.
In 1949 the owner of Glympton Park had a row of four almshouses built at Glympton.Panoramio: The Alms Houses at Glympton When their site was being prepared, a hoard of coins from the reigns of James I and Charles I was found, possibly dating from the English Civil War. In 1646 Royalist troops requisitioned food and carts from the village and in 1648 up to 50 Parliamentarian soldiers were billeted here.
The ship was subsequently requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy and refitted as a troopship at Williamstown. She was renamed HMT Boorara. Soon after, she took part in the second Australian convoy to the Mediterranean, with subsequent duties including the transportation of Ottoman prisoners from the Dardanelles Campaign. While serving in the Aegean Sea in July 1915, Boorara collided with the armoured cruiser and was beached at Moudros.
She was originally built as the Clan Brodie, for the Clan Line at the yards of the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Company Greenock, Scotland. The Navy requisitioned her and she was launched on 1 October 1940 as the aircraft transport HMS Athene. Athene received a single catapult, and operated as a seaplane carrier in the South Atlantic over 1942/43. In 1946 the Navy returned her to Clan Line.
In 1941, the factory on Lodge road was requisitioned by the Ministry of Aircraft Production to build aircraft components. Boot and shoe manufacturing resumed in 1945 and included the TUF boot exported and manufactured widely overseas leading to a second factory on Lodge Road built in 1959. Manufacturing ended and the factory finally shut in 2001,BBC News, Shoe makers lose city foothold. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.
He was making no attempt to escape the ship as she sank.Hood and Bismarck by David Mearns and Rob White After the loss of Hood he was assigned to and also participated in the inquiry into the loss of Hood. He was then transferred to and then to the requisitioned merchantman . Hilary served as a Combined Operations Headquarters ship, at Salerno and had the same role during the D-Day landings.
About 40% of the Estonian pre- war fleet was requisitioned by British authorities and used in Atlantic convoys. Approximately 1000 Estonian sailors served in the British Merchant Navy, 200 of them as officers. A small number of Estonians served in the Royal Air Force, in the British Army and in the U.S. Army. From February to September 1944, the German army detachment "Narwa" held back the Soviet Estonian Operation.
On 27 January 1946 the battalion entered Łozice village and approached a gathering of horse-drawn vehicles organized by the local authorities in need of conscripted labour. The partisans requisitioned around 40 carriages and ordered their drivers to go along. Some coachmen mistakenly believed that the uniformed soldiers have belonged to the communist forces. The battalion boarded the carriages and in the same evening rode to the County of Hajnówka.
The alterations in the 1760s included a wing at a right-angle to the house (added c.1764), making it a T-shape, and a new stable block and coach house. In 1919 the Mainwaring family sold the house to John Graham Peel and it was sold again to Harry Brooks in 1940. During the Second World War the house was requisitioned and used by General George Patton and his staff.
All the survivors were taken to HMS Hermes. Due to the presence of both fuel and ammunition that were stored below decks, the incendiary effect of the unburnt propellant from the missiles caused an uncontrollable fire. When the fire had burnt out, the ship was boarded but nothing was recovered. While under tow by the requisitioned tug Irishman, Atlantic Conveyor sank in the early morning of 28 May 1982.
During the Second World War the Berystede was requisitioned for war service. When the Courts of Justice became a casualty of the bombing they found a temporary home at the hotel. 180 cases were dealt with during this period and prisoners were brought down daily from London to stand trial before Mr. Norman Birkett. Woolwich Arsenal also moved from its vulnerable London home and came to Ascot Racecourse.
It was a family home until the Second World War, when it was requisitioned by the War Office as a military hospital. Following the war, it was converted for use as a convalescent home for employees of the Corby steel works. Since 1992 it has been a home for people with Prader-Willi Syndrome. Manor Farmhouse, in High Street, is a good example of banded ironstone and limestone.
Dr. Kane was rewarded as Mahamahopadhyaya (Etymology: Maha+Maha+Upadhyay = The greatest among the great teachers), usually shortened to MM as a prefix in the writings that refer to him. He served as the vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai. His services were requisitioned and enlisted for establishing Kurukshetra University in Indic studies. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award in 1956 for History of Dharmaśāstra, vol.
The isolation ward of Gulu Municipal Hospital, Gulu, Uganda, during an outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in October 2000 Sports centre requisitioned for the isolation and care of people infected with coronavirus disease 2019, in Wuhan (China). In hospitals and other medical facilities, an isolation ward is a separate ward used to isolate patients suffering from infectious diseases. Several wards for individual patients are usually placed together in an isolation unit.
He was sent North and imprisoned in Fort Mackinac in Michigan for six months before being released. Confederate General James Chalmers occupied Belle Meade as his headquarters during the Battle of Nashville. Harding somehow kept all of his thoroughbred horses, although the horses at most other plantations were requisitioned by both armies. Early on December 15, 1864, Union and Confederate forces fought on the front yard outside the mansion.
MV Tassie III (S-77) was a 120-ton steel motor vessel, which was requisitioned by the United States Army during the Second World War. She was carrying 80 tons of condemned ammunition when she was wrecked while sheltering at the jetty at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, on 9 June 1945. The Australian salvage tug Tancred salvaged most of the ammunition from the wreck in 1946.
Shortly after the start of the Second World War, the Admiralty requisitioned the Butlins holiday camp at Ingoldmells near Skegness to be the first Royal Arthur stone frigate (land based establishment). It was commissioned as a training establishment on 22 September 1939. Over 4000 naval personnel were based at Royal Arthur at one time. In 1942 a lowflying German bomber wrecked dozens of the chalets and killed four men.
The suspension continued through the military occupation of New York City by British troops until their departure in 1783. The college's library was looted and its sole building requisitioned for use as a military hospital first by American and then British forces. Loyalists were forced to abandon their King's College in New York, but some led by Bishop Charles Inglis fled to Windsor, Nova Scotia, where they founded King's Collegiate School.
It hosted famous persons such Jacek Malczewski, Wojciech Kossak, Włodzimierz Tetmajer, Julian Fałat, Fryderyk Pautsch, Karol Hukan, Ludwik Puget, and Karol Hubert Rostworowski. During the Nazi occupation the cafe was requisitioned and access allowed only to Germans. The family Noworolski again lost the place in 1949, when the cafe was nationalized by the communists and renamed. After the fall of communism, the café was restituted to the family in 1992.
885, François-Antoine Pouget inherited Château Pouget in 1748. His daughter Claire married Pierre-Antoine de Chavailles in 1771. Over one and a half centuries, the Pouget de Chavailles family was in charge of Château Pouget. They had sometimes to face difficulties, as when, during the French Revolution, their properties were requisitioned, but they also met with great success, as Château Pouget was classified as a fourth Cru Classé in 1855.
The Tuy Hòa Valley was an important rice-growing region and in 1965 People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong forces had requisitioned much of the harvest to feed their troops. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam wanted to ensure the same would not occur again with the 1966 harvest. The PAVN 95th Regiment, 5th Division was believed to be located in the mountains around the Tuy Hòa Valley.
This was due to the ministration of Richard Love who was Master throughout the Civil War and the Commonwealth. According to college legend, the silver plate was distributed to the fellows to keep it from being requisitioned by the warring factions. When the fighting finished the plate was returned and melted down to pay for repairs. Twelve college heads were removed from their posts, but Love and three others were retained.
She was originally ordered by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, Saint Nazaire, France, but in 1917 she was requisitioned by the United States Navy while under construction. USS West Mount was commissioned on 21 May 1918. Operated by the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, she sailed from Seattle on 23 May with a cargo of flour. She passed through the Panama Canal and arrived at New York on 2 July.
The original polo ground and golf course was requisitioned by New York City Park Commissioner Robert Moses for a parkway extension. The Meadowbrook State Parkway extension of 1954 cut through the club property from north to south. The polo club moved to Post Road in Old Westbury, New York, in 1954. A new entity was formed, now called the Meadowbrook Polo Club, which continued to arrange polo matches on Long Island.
Rupert defeated him on the banks of the Trent on 22 March 1644 and relieved Newark. With the defeat of the Parliamentarians' Lincolnshire forces at Newark, the county lay open to Royalist occupation. Lincoln was occupied on 23 March, where the Royliasts found and requisitioned 2,000 muskets. The Parliamentarians abandoned Sleaford and on orders from Meldrum, Gainsborough was slighted so that it could not be garrisoned by the Royalists.
244, online version here Warrior was requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1917 and served as Admiral Sir W.L. Grant's flagship during a visit to Washington, DC in 1918, during which HMS Warrior took part in a Memorial Day ceremony honouring those who died at sea during the First World War, including the victims of RMS Lusitania.Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, vol. 52, pp. 486-87 (1918).
By 1917, the church had about 15,000 membership and also managed a school (Petrischule), a hospital and an orphanage.The European Walkway signpost showing the history of St. Peter's Lutheran Church During the Soviet rule, religion was persecuted. This church was requisitioned by the local government and was used as an indoor swimming pool. During the 1990s, the church building was returned to St. Peter's Church and was restored.
Requisitioned merchant ships HMS Aberdonian (F74) and Vienna (F138) and the French Belfort (U63) were used as depot ships for Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy. Aberdonian started at Fort William, Scotland, but spent most of the war at Dartmouth, Devon, while Vienna was in the Mediterranean. The Loch-class frigates Loch Assynt (K438) and Loch Torridon (K654) became coastal forces depot ships HMS Derby Haven and Woodbridge Haven, respectively.
During the World War I, bus transport was interrupted, vehicles were requisitioned by the army and rebuild to trucks. Since 1918, postbus transport continued in Czechoslovakia. The post transport had its main base place at Citadela, a former army depot in Vyšehrad, Prague, and in 1926 it had 216 buses in the whole Czechoslovakia. In 1927, the Citadela base with many equipment and material was burned by fire.
In the 1930s, the male and female teams were at the top of the poster of French basketball. In 1939 the section was mothballed, war approached and the buildings were requisitioned. In 1942, the club attempted recovery and became a sports structure. In 1949, the basketball section merged and came under the control of the Stade Reims but, for lack of funds, the activity stopped immediately and the club closed.
On 24 September 1949, Empire Baltic hit a mine off Borkum, West Germany. Tugs from Borkum and Cuxhaven went to her assistance. The outbreak of the Suez Crisis in 1956 led to her being requisitioned along with the other LSTs operating under Admiralty charter, and Empire Baltic was used to carry Centurion tanks to Alexandria. In Auust 1958, Empire Baltic was involved in a collision with in the River Thames.
Page 35. At the outbreak of World War II Togo was at Douala, French Cameroon. To avoid Togo being captured and interned, her Belgian-born captain, Eugene Rousselet, slipped her out under cover of darkness to the Belgian Congo port of Boma. On 25 October, she sailed from Boma and, breaking through the Allied blockade, returned to Hamburg on 23 November 1939 where she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine.
The track was removed again in 1937.Geograph The nearby Aultmore became the terminus of a goods spur from Keith and continued in use until 1966. Work had begun on the Keith to Portessie line of the Highland Railway on 7 November 1882. Wartime economies led to closure of the line on 7 August 1915 and in 1917 the track between Aultmore (towards Keith) and Portessie was requisitioned by the Admiralty.
After San Benito, Balboa Shipping ordered further turbo-electric refrigerated ships. In 1930 Workman, Clark built for Balboa and Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, England built Musas sister ship . After 1930 Balboa's diesel electric motor vessel was re-engined as a turbo-electric. In 1931–33 Newport News Shipbuilding and Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation supplied six passenger and refrigerated cargo liners that in the Second World War were requisitioned as the s.
Keddie was educated at Summer Fields School, Summertown, Oxford, and Malvern College (at that time housed with Harrow School, as Malvern College was requisitioned by TRE for World War II effort). In the period 1947-51, whilst studying for the Bar, he served in the Inns of Court Regiment, part of the Territorial Force, and then served as a National Service Officer in the 10th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery until 1953.
Jean Marcel Lefebvre (October 3, 1919 in Valenciennes, Nord, FranceSome sources indicate he was born in 1922. – July 9, 2004 in Marrakesh, Morocco) was a French film actor. His erratic studies were interrupted by World War II. Taken prisoner and then requisitioned as a laborer, he escaped to join his family evacuated near Châteauroux and Neuvy-Saint-Sépulcre. He was a tram driver time in Limoges and seller of underwear.
With the signing of the Deutschlandvertrag the occupation ended, and Germany and the U.S. became allies.John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, 1952 Erinnerungen, p. 6. For the students at NHS the change in status meant a new school building. The requisitioned building at 19 Tannenstrasse was returned to the Germans, and the U.S. built a brand new school at 30 Fronmüllerstraße, complete with an adjacent dormitory.
In 1939 the Admiralty requisitioned Alcantara and Asturias and had each ship converted into an armed merchant cruiser. The mainmast and forward dummy funnel of each ship were removed to increase the arc of fire for their anti-aircraft guns. Alcantara was sent to Malta for further modifications, but en route she had a major collision with the Cunard ship . As a result, Alcantara continued to Alexandria for hull repairs.
On 27 April 1918, the US Navy requisitioned the vessel, reconfigured her for greater troop capacity, and commissioned her on 8 May as USS Mongolia (ID-1615). In all, she completed twelve turnarounds at an average duration of 34 days and transporting over 33,000 passengers, before being decommissioned on 11 September 1919. Returned to civilian service, Mongolia sailed the New York-Hamburg route under charter to the American Line.
The next day, Twickenham Ferry was requisitioned by the Admiralty as HMS Twickenham. Her port of registry was changed to London and the code letters BCYF were allocated. She was re-allocated the Official Number 163500. She was converted to a minesweeper, and initially based at Southampton. She was put into service between Larne and Stranraer from July to December 1940, and again from March 1941 to January 1944.
The site was a former World War II Australian Army base, and is adjacent to the current Latchford Barracks. Before being requisitioned by the army, the site was originally a section of large pastoral land. The camp opened in 1947 and operated until 1971, over which period it received over 300,000 migrants. It is estimated that over 1.5 million Australians are descended from migrants who spent time at Bonegilla.
After the War ML286 was sold off by the Ministry and was given the name Cordon Rouge and then later, in 1930 she became Eothen which was her name at Dunkirk. She returned to Ramsgate and towed to Teddington. She was requisitioned for service as an auxiliary patrol vessel in the Thames but found to be unsuitable, and later was returned to her owners in August of 1940.
Drinks are also served to members at The Institute and the Bowls Club. The Grange Hotel, Brampton, once a private residence, closed in 2013 for conversion into flats. A large 18th- century brick building, it had been requisitioned in the Second World War for the American Eighth Air Force. RAF Brampton closed in 2013 and its land was sold for development – plans have been submitted for up to 402 new houses.
In 1927 Tyack bought 17 Jury Street as well and combined the two back into a single whole. During World War II, the hotel was requisitioned for use by the Ministry of Production. It was handed over to the United States military in 1943, which used it as an Officers' Club, adding the "tower" extension. At the end of the war, the hotel was handed back to Tyack.
After a day or two, specialized Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) units took over. Soldiers requisitioned housing and office space as needed from residents. At first, this was done informally with occupants evicted immediately and taking with them few personal possessions, but the process became standardized, with three hours' notice and OMGUS personnel providing receipts for buildings' contents. The displaced residents nonetheless had to find housing on their own.
Born in Burnley, Barr first went to sea in 1877 and served mainly in the South American trade. During the Boer War, he was in command of the Catalonia, requisitioned by the Admiralty and employed as a floating prison camp for captured Boers. He was Master of from 1905 to 1914. In October 1913, while eastward bound, Barr responded to a distress call from the SS Volturno to pick up survivors.
In April 1915 the Admiralty requisitioned Alcantara and the other "A-series" ships , and Andes as armed merchant cruisers. Alcantara was armed with six guns, anti-aircraft guns and depth charges. On 17 April at Liverpool she was commissioned into the Royal Navy's 10th Cruiser Squadron as HMS Alcantara. Arlanza and Andes were also commissioned into the 10th Cruiser Squadron, which joined the Northern Patrol, part of the Blockade of Germany.
HMS Activity was built at Caledon shipyards in Dundee. When construction started in 1940 she was intended to become the refrigerated cargo ship Telemachus for the Alfred Holt Line. In February 1941, she was taken over by the Ministry of War Transport and renamed Empire Activity. In January 1942, she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for conversion to an escort carrier, now named HMS Activity and carrying pennant number D94.
When they were requisitioned, creating 100 tonnes of metal alloy, the decision proved very unpopular with housewives. World War II directly affected bread industries in the UK. Baking schools closed during this time so when the war did eventually end there was an absence of skilled bakers. This resulted in new methods being developed to satisfy the world’s desire for bread. Methods like: adding chemicals to dough, premixes and specialised machinery.
Her port of registry was changed to Charleston, South Carolina. In July 1943, Algonquin was requisitioned by the United States Army Transport Service. She was refitted by the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company, Mobile, Alabama and entered service at the end on January 1944. Her maiden voyage as a hospital ship was from New Orleans, Louisiana to Gibraltar, then Oran, Algeria and Bizerte, Tunisia ending in Naples, Italy.
Although the Barrackpore course was generally technically superior to the Maidan course, it did not attract the public and consistently lost money. Races were held until 1941, when it was requisitioned by the army. After the war, the course was rehabilitated and races were run in 1947 and 1948. It was sold to the government in 1954 in an arrangement which included renewing the lease on the Maidan course.
The aircraft was powered by an Gnome Lambda engine fitted at the rear of the cockpit nacelle and driving a pusher propeller. The design was started November 1913 but its construction was a low priority for the company and the completed aircraft was not delivered to Brooklands until July 1914. The Gnome engine was requisitioned by the war office and removed from the aircraft before it had a chance to fly.
SS Riviera was laid down by William Denny and Brothers at their Dumbarton, Scotland shipyard as a fast packet for the South East and Chatham Railway's Dover and Folkestone to Boulogne runs. The ship was launched on 1 April 1911 and completed later that year. She was requisitioned for service by the Admiralty on 11 August 1914, and was commissioned on 6 SeptemberHobbs, pp. 21, 32; Layman, p.
Based on the earlier Caudron C.280 the Frégate was a high-wing braced monoplane with an enclosed cabin for the pilot with two side- by-seats behind for passengers. Powered by a front-mounted 140 hp (104 kW) Renault 4Pei inline piston engine it had a tailwheel landing gear. The company built 27 Frégates, in 1939, 20 were requisitioned into service with the French Air Force for liaison work.
She worked for a couple of years at the Hamburg Ethnology Museum. However, the outbreak of war in 1939 put an end to her travels, as passenger ships were requisitioned for military use. That year she returned to Tübingen as an Ethnology teacher. The appointment was "honorary" (unpaid), and she continued to teach on an honorary basis till 1947 when she received from the university a more conventional teaching contract.
The Elliott House was built in Camden by U.S. Representative James Thomas Elliott. During the American Civil War, the house was requisitioned by Union General Frederick Salomon and housed, simultaneously, Elliott's own Confederate family and the war photographer Mathew Brady. in 1857, Elliott constructed his Elliott House on West Washington Street in Camden. The Union Army General Frederick Salomon occupied the structure in 1864 during his stay in Camden.
Mitchell & Sawyer, p. ix. The Duthie company laid down the keel of War Topaz as the eleventh ship begun at their shipyard. On 6 August 1917, the Emergency Fleet Corporation—an entity created by the USSB shortly after the United States entered the war on 6 April and tasked with overseeing U.S. shipbuilding—requisitioned most ships under construction in the United States;McKellar, p. 271. included among those was War Topaz.
The hospital was designed by Joseph Marr Johnston and was established in 1907 by Leith Parish Council as the Leith Poorhouse. Although it was built in two sections, a poorhouse section and a hospital section, the poorhouse section was almost immediately converted for medical use. It was requisitioned for military use during the First World War. An operating theatre and accommodation for nurses was added at this point.
Just before the Second World War, Lympne was requisitioned by the Fleet Air Arm. It was named HMS Buzzard and renamed HMS Daedalus II three months later, before being transferred to the Royal Air Force in May 1940. During the war Lympne was a front-line fighter base, RAF Lympne. It was heavily bombed during the Battle of Britain in 1940 and put out of action for a number of weeks.
Francis Bingham Mildmay, 1st Baron Mildmay of Flete (1861–1947), son and heir. In 2016 much of the original Flete estate, seemingly including the frehold of Flete House itself, is still owned by the Mildmay family. In World War II Flete House was requisitioned to serve as a replacement for the Freedom Fields Maternity Hospital, which had suffered bomb damage. 9,000 babies were born at Flete during that period.
During the First World War a flotilla, the Harwich Force, was based at the port. During the Second World War parts of Harwich were again requisitioned for naval use, and ships were based at HMS Badger, a shore establishment on the site of what is now Harwich International Port. Badger was decommissioned in 1946, but the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service maintained a headquarters on its site until 1992.
The ship was described as "one of the largest bulk cargo carriers constructed in the United States." Hewitt plied the route along the American east coast. During World War I she delivered sulfur to ammunition and chemical industries. Beginning on 9 August 1917, when the Navy requisitioned the ship in Newport News, Virginia and, continuing until the end of the war, she shipped war materials to various French Atlantic ports.
A factory in Sutton Oak, St Helens was requisitioned in 1917 by the War Department, renamed HM Factory, Sutton Oak and started producing the chemical warfare agent diphenyl chloroarsine. The site switched to producing Adamsite in 1922. In 1923 the War Office halted the requisition and purchased the site, renaming it the War Office Research Establishment, a.k.a. Chemical Warfare Research Establishment, and later the Chemical Defence Research Establishment Sutton Oak.
A farm of some kept the school supplied with home produced meat, milk and poultry, and a vast kitchen garden gave a constant supply of fresh vegetables. This school was well in advance of its time. The farm won awards for the quality of its meat. The work of the hospital continued until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, when the building was requisitioned by the army.
The pupils then moved out to Capernwray Hall. They expected to return at the end of the war, but the government requisitioned Ripley for another three years for use as an emergency teachers' training college. By then, it was realised that the need for an endowed orphanage was much reduced. State pensions allowed more one parent families to stay together, and the fashion had moved away from institutional units.
After the final overthrow of the monarchy in July 1792, all of the furniture, art works and other valuables of the Petit Trianon were sent to auction, under a decree of the Convention dated 10 June 1793. The auction began on Sunday, 25 August 1793, and continued until 11 August 1794. The properties sold were widely scattered. Silverware, lead and brass fixtures were requisitioned for use in the arsenals.
A new mansion constructed of limestone was built in later years with extensive gardens, greenhouses and fine collections of plants. Much of the Stackpole Estate farmland was requisitioned at the start of World War II to create a training ground for British troops. Castlemartin Training Area range still occupies this land. This made the estate unviable and The Cawdors returned to their Scottish estate in Nairnshire in the early 1940s.
While she was under construction in 1942 for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, she was requisitioned by the RAN. She was based in Brisbane as a minefield tender for a couple of years before moving to Milne Bay, New Guinea as a stores and armaments carrier. Uralba was paid off in August 1945 and returned to her owners. For the next few years she transported timber between Melbourne and Tasmania.
The new house was built in 1852-1858 and stands to the southeast of the old house. The Dukes remained at Buchanan until 1925, when it was sold. In the 1930s the house opened as a hotel and the golf course was established in the grounds. Plans for residential development on the estate were delayed by the outbreak of the Second World War, during which the house was requisitioned.
Elisabethville was operated by Compagnie Belge Maritime du Congo, which in 1930 became Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB). She was used on the Antwerp – Matadi route. In 1930 Elisabethville was rebuilt, which increased her tonnage to . She was placed under the management of Agence Maritime Internationale. In 1940 she was requisitioned by the MoWT for use as a troopship under the management of Lamport & Holt Line, entering service on 16 December 1940.
During 1942–43 commercial buildings in Queen Street were requisitioned and occupied by the Australian and United States navies. Although the Operational Staff of the RAN's Naval Officer in Charge (NOIC), Queensland, was based in Queen Street, the District Naval Officer, Queensland, remained at the Edward Street Naval Offices with the Civil Secretariat and Accounts staffs. Other wartime RAN facilities in Brisbane were located at Colmslie and New Farm.
Even though the A-2 is still a military- requisitioned item and contracts have been awarded to other USA suppliers using the A-2 pattern, the Cooper label is considered collectible and highly sought after by World War II re-enactors and historians. A vintage Cooper A-2 in excellent condition can be worth more than the market rate of a new-build A-2 from a current manufacturer.
The camp comprised two buildings located in the town. The main camp was located on Naundorfer Strasse, about south-west of the railway station. Originally a small print factory it was requisitioned for use as a POW camp in May 1941. For most of the war the camp held only around 800 POWs, as most were assigned to Arbeitslager ("Work Camps") in factories, mines, railway yards, and farms, up to away.
Initially parented by RAF Millom, RAF Cark became a self reliant station during 1942. The Staff Pilot Training Unit left in November 1942, but returned the following March. In 1944 gliders of the requisitioned Lakes Gliding Club were moved from RAF Walney and formed No. 188 Gliding School, Air Training Corps. During its operational life RAF Cark played host to detachments from several squadrons on anti aircraft co-operational duties.
She was returned to Ganchi in 1944 and then requisitioned by the MoWT and renamed Empire Bulbul. In 1947, she was sold to Yannoulatos (Far East) Ltd, Hong Kong and renamed Hellenic Bulbul. She was operated under the management of the British Indian Steam Navigation Co Ltd. The name Hellenic Bee had been allocated, but on 29 August 1948 she ran aground on Domanik Island, Bay of Bengal (), and then sank.
In 1937, Shorts established an airfield in central Belfast, beside the factory. This became Sydenham Airport and, from 1938 to 1939, was Belfast's main civilian airport. During the Second World War, the airfield was requisitioned by the Royal Navy. Shorts continued to use the airfield until production of complete aircraft ceased, despite Nutts Corner, a former RAF base, becoming Belfast's main airport (Nutts Corner was itself superseded in 1963 by Aldergrove).
The property, while remaining in the possession of the bishops of the United States, was requisitioned for "charitable wartime employment" in 1943. Until mid-1947, it served as a home for displaced Italian children. Later that year, the property was returned to the use of the American College. Under the direction of Martin J. O'Connor, Rector of the College, a general restoration of the whole complex was begun.
Banine's maternal grandfather Musa Naghiyev dies and his vast wealth passes to his wife and his four granddaughters – Banine and her sisters. Banine becomes a millionaire just as the Bolsheviks have taken over, so she never takes possession of her inheritance. Banine's father is arrested and thrown in prison. The remaining family spend their last summer in the country, where part of the house is requisitioned as a sanatorium.
Banine and her cousin Gulnar are fascinated by Gregory, a recuperating Bolshevik, and get caught up in revolutionary fervour to the horror of their grandmother. Banine has a crush on Gregory's friend, the Russian Bolshevik Andrey. Their house in Baku has been requisitioned too. Cousin Gulnar is desperate to get married, so that once she has lost her virginity she can enjoy as many affairs as she likes.
The following year, in 1932, it opened to the public for the first time. Bare of furnishing and without sufficient funds to maintain it, James Lees-Milne, the secretary of the Trust's country house committee, described the mansion as an "empty and rather embarrassing white elephant". During the Second World War, Montacute was requisitioned by the army, and American soldiers were billeted in the surrounding parkland before the Normandy landings.
Arkley View, 1943 Initially, messages logged by VIs were sent to Wormwood Scrubs. But, as the volume became great and as Wormwood began to suffer German air attacks, RSS sought larger premises. RSS chose Arkley View, a large country house near the village of Arkley, in the London Borough of Barnet, which had already been requisitioned as an intercept station. It was given the cryptic postal address of Box 25, Barnet.
Otter was one of the ships chosen and in military service she performed tender duties and conducted patrols. Following Federation she was transferred to the Commonwealth but served only until 1906 when she was paid off. During World War I, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) requisitioned Otter from her civilian owner and used her as an examination vessel. Following the conclusion of hostilities, the RAN returned her to her previous owner.
The small cloister was designed in 1476 by the architect Giovanni Antonio Amadeo. Amadeo also designed and sculpted the elements of the Arca di San Lanfranco which serves as funereal monument and tomb to the saint. Located outside the walls of Pavia, the abbey was frequently requisitioned by armies besieging the town. Over the years a number of events, including floods and fires, damaged the church and abbey.
The Third Test was the last match played at The Oval in 1939. Soon after war was declared, the ground was requisitioned and modified for use as a prisoner-of-war camp, but no prisoners were ever held there. Lord's was prepared for a similar fate but the authorities decided against it and Lord's was able to stage many games throughout the war to raise money for charity.Birley, p.263.
Built in Bordeaux as a privateer corvette, Éole was requisitioned and brought into service in the French Navy in September 1799, and commissioned in Rochefort. captured her at Saint Domingue on 23 November 1799. She was one of a squadron of four French vessels, all four of which Solebay captured that day. Éole was described as being of 300 tons, carrying 16 guns, and having a crew of 125 men.
At the outbreak of the World War I, Royal Edward and Royal George were both requisitioned for use as troopships. On August 13, 1915, the German submarine UB-14 sank Royal Edward, which was transporting troops from Avonmouth to Gallipoli. Royal George was sold to Cunard in 1916, became an emigrant ship in Cherbourg by 1920 and scrapped in 1922 in Wilhelmshaven. Plans for a trans-Pacific service were mothballed.
Following the outbreak of war in the Pacific, the ship was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy for use as an auxiliary minesweeper on 9 February 1942. She was commissioned into the RAN on 3 March 1942 as HMAS Patricia Cam, with a complement of 2 officers and 17 sailors. Based in Darwin, Patricia Cam was mainly used to transport supplies to small communities, military outposts, and Coastwatchers.
Born in Nice, Moreu spent his childhood in Marseille, where his father decorated windows and subsequently managed a cafe. After working in a few small trades, he was hired as a mechanic in the printing shop of Le Petit Marseillais. Requisitioned on a coast guard ship, Moreu joined the French Resistance in 1940. Although he was suffering from a retinal disease, he still participated in the Liberation of Paris.
Fukuichi Maru No. 5 was ordered by Japanese shipping company Tokai Yenyo Gyogyo K.K. and laid down on 1 March 1933 at the shipyard of Goshi Kaisha Kanasashi Zosensho. She was launched and completed on 1 June 1933. On 5 September 1941, she was requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy and converted to an auxiliary patrol boat. She was assigned to 1st platoon, Patrol division 7, 5th Fleet along with , , and .
After WWII, the Fanling property had badly suffered from general neglect which was understandable in the circumstances. The trees had been cut down for fuel and parts of the course including most of the greens had been used for vegetable cultivation. The New Course had been used for training and a large number of fox holes had been built. The clubhouse was requisitioned by the British Army after the war.
Carnarvon Castle was at Cape Town at the outbreak of the Second World War, and was requisitioned by the Royal Navy on 8 September 1939. She sailed to the naval base at Simonstown and was converted to an armed merchant cruiser. Commissioned as HMS Carnarvon Castle on 9 October, she sailed into the South Atlantic. On 5 December 1940 she encountered the and had a five-hour running battle with her.
Schwester Pia never paid the SS for the use of prisoner labor. During her weekly visits in the prisoners' kitchen she took meat and margarine with her in her official vehicle, for which she also did not pay. The food was supposed to be inferior "dog food," but it was usually good quality meat. She was known in the camp as someone who requisitioned anything that was not nailed down.
At the outbreak of World War II, Tullichewan Castle Estate was requisitioned by the Royal Navy, who retained it for the rest of the war. Tullichewan Castle Camp was put to various uses. After the war, it was used as accommodation for workers at the Royal Naval Torpedo Factory in Alexandria. After the war, Mr J Scott Anderson returned to live in the castle, until its upkeep became too much.
This composition in plaster was Ogé's 1880 submission to the Paris Salon. It was purchased by the Paris municipality and having been cast in bronze was placed in Paris' Parc des Buttes-Chaumont. Sadly it was requisitioned by the Germans during the 1939–1945 war and melted down so that the metal could be re-used. Fortunately the original plaster work is held by the Musée de Saint-Brieuc.
Sea Alarm, formerly named Empire Ash limping in Malta with tug assist; 1942 Admiralty tugs were tugboats built for and operated by the Royal Navy. These were vessels built to Admiralty specifications and in specific classes during the First and Second World Wars. They were built to meet the Royal Navy's demand for auxiliary vessels and to supplement the civilian tugs requisitioned by the Admiralty for war service.
As Hans Gertsch reported, it was not long before neighboring youngsters "requisitioned" barrel staves for makeshift skis, found old shoes which they nailed to the "skis," used packing string for bindings, and adapted broomsticks for poles. Groups would climb to the Grosse Scheidegg and then race downhill past trees and boulders without an hour of previous instruction.Rubi, Rudolf. Rudolf, Im Tal von Grindelwald: Der Sommer- und Winterkurort III.
RAAF Station Narromine was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) station located at Narromine, New South Wales, Australia. Narromine Airfield was requisitioned in July 1940 as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme during the Second World War. No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School (5EFTS) operated from 1940 to 1944. The EFTS gave a recruit 50 hours of basic aviation instruction on a simple trainer such as a Tiger Moth.
Vice Chief of Army Staff, General Ahsan Saleem Hayat Col Qasim has so far hosted two successful calligraphy exhibitions. The first of these exhibitions was inaugurated by the former President of Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf. Some of Col Qasim's finest paintings have been requisitioned for the Faisal Mosque, whilst the former President of Pakistan is also a famous customer of this budding artist.Ijaz-ul-Haq, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Pakistan.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s she often transported various goods along the Cagliari - Napoli - Genoa route, covering short distances over a period of a few days. She also made occasional voyages to North Africa, transporting goods. At the outbreak of World War II San Giorgio was requisitioned by the Italian Royal Navy and converted into a minesweeper. After the war she reverted to use as a cargo ship.
In 1926, it was one of the first hotels in the UK to install central heating. During World War II, the hotel was requisitioned by the Royal Air Force, reopening as a hotel in 1946. Originally built with just 12 bedrooms, The Grand has been expanded several times to reach its present size of 132 en-suite bedrooms. Since 2001 it has been part of the Richardson Hotels group.
He also held land in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex. Later in the 20th century he moved to 29 New Church Road, where he died on 28 January 1934. In the meantime, Rutland Hall's fortunes were declining: it was requisitioned for wartime use and most of the male members of the congregation were called up for military service. Rutland Hall was sold to finance the Hounsom Memorial Church.
He gave the name of his partner, E. A. Riddell, who was unaware of the program at the time of the call. The RCN then requisitioned Riddell's yacht upon approval in order to keep the real source of the funds secret. Conversion to an armed yacht involved removing most of the luxurious finery and installing naval hardware. The ship was armed with a 12-pounder gun, depth charges and machine guns.
Also called Frontstalag 121, New Zealand report on civilian camps, p.95 this was one of the more hospitable internment camps as it was located in requisitioned hotels in this spa near Epinal in the Department Vosges. Most of the British families and single women were transferred here from St. Denis and Besançon. In early 1942, women over 60, men over 75 and children under 16 were released.
Alexander Antonov (centre) and his staff The Soviet government had adopted the policy war communism during the Russian Civil War. Food for the needs of the cities was obtained by compulsory requisition from the villages without financial compensation. This was met with the resistance of the peasant population, especially as the requisitions were often violent in nature. Likewise, the amount of cereals to be requisitioned were not measured according to production.
ACL was formed in 1965 by a consortium of four shipping companies, Wallenius Lines, Swedish America Line, the Transatlantic Steamship Company and Holland America Line. These were joined by Cunard and CGT in 1967. In 1976 ACL took over the Care Line, its ships, Mont Royal and Montmorency, and its direct route to Montreal. During the Falklands War the British registered and were requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence.
During the First World War the Railway Operating Division of the Royal Engineers requisitioned about 600 locomotives of various types from thirteen United Kingdom railway companies; the first arrived in France in late 1916. As the war became prolonged it became clear that the ROD needed its own standard locomotive, so the ROD adopted the Great Central Railway Class 8K 2-8-0 designed by John G. Robinson in 1911.
During World War II the house was damaged during a period when it was requisitioned by the Army. In 1943, Chingford Urban District Council arranged for the house to be connected to mains water and undertook some maintenance of the grounds. However, the house suffered considerable damage when a German V-1 flying bomb, coming from the north east, crashed into Hawkwood at 11:23 p.m. on 21 October 1944.
During World War II the house was requisitioned by the War Office and used by a cipher unit, who put up numerous huts in the grounds, some of which survive. The hall's Italianate watertower, which stood among outbuildings, now derelict, is visible from the roads around the park. A chapel also survives, equally derelict. The estate was sold in 1947 and most of the house came down soon after.
Three of a spread of four torpedoes hit targets, one aal (eel: U-boat slang for torpedo), damaged , a US Navy-requisitioned cargo transport; two others sank escort carrier and the British troop transport Ettrick on 15 November 1942 northwest of Gibraltar. Of 526 men on Avenger, there were 12 survivors. Ettricks master was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE). The boat also sank Serroskerk in mid-Atlantic.
Minterne House, located at Minterne Magna in Dorchester, was requisitioned for this purpose, leaving Portland's hospital to become a casualty and emergency hospital only. Despite this, it would receive 5,222 inpatients over the course of the war. The hospital became surplus to requirements and was handed over to the National Health Service in 1957. The underground operating theatre, although rewired during 1954-5, was then stripped of much of its equipment.
In the era of the Cold War, the United States designed the ship so that it could easily be converted from a liner to a troopship, in case of war. More recently, and were requisitioned by the Royal Navy to carry British soldiers to the Falklands War. By the end of the twentieth century, nearly all long-distance personnel transfer was done by airlift in military transport aircraft.
In 1939 Hantonia was requisitioned for a second time by the Admiralty and transported troops between Folkestone and Calais until January 1940. She was then a Royal Navy accommodation ship until 1945. She returned to railway service in 1945 and we deployed on the Channel Islands service, where she returned children who had been evacuated before the German Invasion. From 1946 returned to the Southampton to Le Havre service.
From March 1918 on she was a member of the board of the NKVD and worked in the Moscow Cheka, the Moscow secret police. From January 1919, as a board member of the People's Commissariat of Food, she led food inspections and parties that requisitioned food as a punitive measure. She was known for her severity in this matter. In October 1918 she opposed peace with the Germans.
With the pressure of events in April 1945, the samples still being completed at Viberti workshops, with covered top version and not, were requisitioned by the various factions. At least three were taken by Republicans of the Social Republic. Two vehicle was captured by the partisans, one was destroyed by a Panzerfaust from a legionary of the 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (italienische Nr. 1) (the Italian SS division).
In 1912 she was sold to the Cie Perso-Ottomane de Nav a Vapeur in Bandar Abbas and renamed Ispahan. A new owner in 1914, Levazim Isleri Dairesi in Constantinople, renamed her Isfahan. She was requisitioned by the government of the Ottoman Empire on 3 November 1914 and sank on 15 August 1915 after being torpedoed by . The Ottoman Navy refloated her on 17 October 1915, and she was beached.
The hoard contains 30 gold and 1552 silver coins with a total value of £93 and 5 shillings contained within a ceramic Ryedale ware vessel. Of these, 33 coins were Scottish, 35 Irish and 12 Spanish. The hoard also contained two receipts for cheese requisitioned by the Royalist Army on 17 January 1644; these receipts were signed by John Guy the deputy provider general of the York garrison.
On 28 August 1939 the Montclare was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser being commissioned as such in October 1939. On 2 June 1942 she was sold to the Admiralty. Now HMS Montclare, she was converted to a Destroyer Depot Ship, completing in 1944. She sailed from the Clyde on 1 March 1945 in convoy via the Suez Canal, arriving in Sydney on 20 April 1945.
Opened to the public in March 1943, during World War II, the airport was requisitioned by the United States Army Air Force, and was known as Cordele Army Airfield. It was also known as Turner AAF Auxiliary Airfield No. 7. The airfield supported the AAF Advanced Pilot School (Twin-Engine) school at Turner Army Airfield. It was closed in mid-1944 with the drawdown of AAFTC's pilot training program.
Croats appropriated many Serbian Orthodox churches as "vacated or requisitioned". The Catholic episcopate and HKP, the Croatian branch of Catholic Action, a lay organization, were involved in the coordination and administration of these policies. Paris notes that more than 50% of the Catholic clergy were active supporters of the Ustaše regime. Ustaše crimes committed against the Serbian population were generally done so under the pretext of expanding Catholicism in the region.
During the Second World War the castle was requisitioned as a combined operations centre (COC No. 2), and was commissioned as HMS Brontosaurus in 1942. It was a training centre for the amphibious landings that were launched on D-Day, as well as for other raids. Officers and men trained on nearby beaches to use various landing craft. Both Winston Churchill and Lord Mountbatten during this time visited Brontosaurus.
"St Joseph's Society Missionary Society (Mill Hill Missionaries)", Mill Hill Missionaries' Archives During the Second World War the college was evacuated to Lochwinnoch in Scotland. The war ministry then requisitioned part of the buildings for the use of the civil service. So, the college at Mill Hill was effectively closed for the duration of the war. In the 1960s, Pope John XXIII asked missionary societies to become involved in South America.
The building was finally de- requisitioned and returned to the care of the Trustees in November 1946. During the war Church House sustained minor damage caused by bombs that had fallen nearby. Although the bomb damage itself wasn't extensive, the building was in a dilapidated state following six years of heavy use by the military and local council. As a result, the War Damage Commission agreed to help fund temporary repairs.
After closure in 1910 the line was subject to minimal maintenance until its metals were requisitioned for the war effort in 1917. With neither track, rolling stock nor prospects an Act of Parliament was sought and passed to abandon the railway. Its assets were auctioned on 8 August 1924 and the company was wound up in 1925. Evocative contemporary descriptions of the line in its later years have been preserved.
After closure in 1910 the line was subject to minimal maintenance until its metals were requisitioned for the war effort in 1917. With neither track, rolling stock nor prospects an Act of Parliament was sought and passed to abandon the railway. Its assets were auctioned on 8 August 1924 and the company was wound up in 1925. Evocative contemporary descriptions of the line in its later years have been preserved.
After closure in 1910 the line was subject to minimal maintenance until its metals were requisitioned for the war effort in 1917. With neither track, rolling stock nor prospects an Act of Parliament was sought and passed to abandon the railway. Its assets were auctioned on 8 August 1924 and the company was wound up in 1925. Evocative contemporary descriptions of the line in its later years have been preserved.
The Irish students left in 1936 with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and the building was requisitioned by General Franco. From June 1937 to May 1939 it was occupied by the German embassy. With the opening of seminaries in Ireland, there was less need of the facility in Salamanca, which was in poor repair. The Irish bishops negotiated turning over the premises to the University of Salamanca.
France managed to regain its international status thanks to a successful production strategy, a demographic spurt, and technical and political innovations. Conditions varied from firm to firm. Some had been destroyed or damaged, nationalized or requisitioned, but the majority carried on, sometimes working harder and more efficiently than before the war. Industries were reorganized on a basis that ranged from consensual (electricity) to conflictual (machine tools), therefore producing uneven results.
The family seat, Bawdsey Manor, was requisitioned by the Devonshire Regiment during the First World War and returned to the family afterwards, but was later sold to the Air Ministry in 1936 for a new research station for the development of radio direction finding. In June 2018 the family seat since the late 19th century, Sutton Hall in Suffolk, was for sale by Sir Guy Quilter for £31.5m with 2,177 acres.
Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States entering World War II, the assembly lines at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation were taken over by the American government for the war effort. Along with the assembly lines, the Lockheed L-049 Constellation airliner was also requisitioned and redesignated C-69 and was to be used as an equipment and personnel transport by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). In February 1942, the 80 L-049/L-149 Constellations ordered by Transcontinental & Western Air and Pan American World Airways were also requisitioned. The 50 L-049s both airlines had on order were to be redesignated C-69 and C-69A, respectively, and used as troop transport aircraft. The 30 L-149 aircraft Pan Am had on order were replaced by the similar model L-349 (difference being the cargo door on the upper left hand side of the aircraft and the ability to carry cargo) and designated C-69B.
In 1917, 62 engines were taken over by the Railway Operating Division and sent to France. 46 of these engines returned to England in the early summer of 1919, but the other 16 had been sent on to Salonika at the beginning of 1918. Two of these engines, nos 2308 and 2542, were sold to the Ottoman railways and renumbered 110 and 111. No 111 was withdrawn in September 1929, but 110 lasted until the 1950s. Of the 14 engines remaining at Salonika, five were written-off and the other nine returned to England in April 1921. At the outbreak of the Second World War, the War Department requisitioned 100 of these engines from the GWR and the GWR had to hastily reinstate some engines that had been recently withdrawn. The requisitioned engines were fitted with Westinghouse brakes and 10 were fitted with pannier tanks and condensing gear. All were painted black with their WD numbers painted on.
Blackburn Botha torpedo bomber Avro Anson In 1941 the site was requisitioned for use as an airfield, and the hospital was transferred to Llangefni. In 1942 three tee hangars and seventeen blister hangars were constructed, and concrete runways were laid in 1943. At this time the base was controlled by RAF Flying Training Command. The RAF base was initially named RAF Heneglwys (a nearby hamlet) but was soon renamed RAF Mona (Latin for Anglesey).
Westralia was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Govan for the Huddart Parker company as a twin screw motor vessel.Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Westralia (I) Assigned the yard number 843, Westralia was launched on 25 April 1929, and completed later that year. Westralia was requisitioned for war service by the Australian government on 2 November 1939 as an armed merchant cruiser (AMC). She was fitted with seven guns and two anti-aircraft guns.
Late in the evening of 21 January 1911, a second fire broke out aboard Koombana, this time while she was berthed at Victoria Quay, Fremantle. About four or five tons of fodder stored in the Nos 2 and 3 cargo holds were discovered to be ablaze, apparently by spontaneous combustion. The Fremantle Fire Station quickly sent a fire engine, and soon afterwards the Harbour Trust fire plant was requisitioned. Once again the holds were flooded.
During the War years, all the Butlin's camps were requisitioned by the Government. Clacton was originally planned to be used as a POW camp, but it was spared this indignity and was used as a training site for the pioneer corps. However during its occupation, the camp suffered significant damage and substantial repairs had to be carried out to put the camp back into operation. It reopened to the public in 1946.
At first, he gathered intelligence via a team of thirty, under his orders, who he trained himself. Most of them were fugitives from justice, and he used them to gather equipment and buildings. His team requisitioned several apartments and hôtels particuliers under the cover of being French or (more often) German policemen. His speciality was bank convoys, of money gathered from different sources or in the form of gold, jewels, art objects or ingots.
5 (Paris: Gallimard), p. 524-525. During the Second World War, the couple joined the exodus from Paris and lived in a villa in the coastal resort town of Biarritz, which they had bought in 1932 when Odoyevtseva received an inheritance upon her father's death. The town was occupied by German troops in the summer of 1940. In 1943 their house was requisitioned by the German army, but they remained in Biarritz until 1946.
At the outbreak of war in August 1914, the yacht was requisitioned and hired by the Admiralty as an armed patrol vessel. Equipped with two 6-pounder guns and depth charges. Lorna probably operated as the Group Leader of a unit of the Auxiliary Patrol, both in home waters and in the Mediterranean. On the evening of 26 May 1918, Lorna was escorting a convoy off Portland Bill at the eastern end of Lyme Bay.
The building has had various uses throughout its life. It was originally the headquarters of Littlewoods, then the country's largest family-owned business empire. A year after it opened, during World War II, it was requisitioned and became home of the government's postal censorship department, while its printing presses were used to print National Registration cards. Its vast internal spaces were used for manufacturing the floors of Halifax Bombers, barrage balloons and woollen material.
Between 1946 and 1949 he worked as a miner near Annaberg. He was now employed the Saxony's strategically important uranium mines. In 1950 he took a job as a party official with the SDAG,"Sowjetisch-Deutschen Aktiengesellschaft" (known after 1954 as "SDAG Wismut"), the locally based uranium mining conglomerate which was tightly controlled by the Soviets, who had by now requisitioned a large part of his hometown as a strategically located military garrison.
Cape Leeuwin was built in 1924 for the lighthouse service. The ship was laid down at Cockatoo Island Dockyard on 15 July 1924, and launched on 10 December 1924. She was requisitioned for service with the RAN from the Queensland Department of Commerce in October 1941 and commissioned into the Navy on 27 August 1943. Her peacetime captain, Noel Buxton, stayed with the ship throughout her naval service and received the rank of Lieutenant.
Haakon VII boards Norge on 28 November 1905 It was intended to augment the Norwegian coastal defence ship fleet with the two ships of the Bjørgvin class, ordered in 1912, but after these were requisitioned by the British Royal Navy while still under construction at the outbreak of World War I the Eidsvold class and the older, two ship strong, Tordenskjold class was forced to soldier on long after they were obsolete.
This has helped secure the future of the house as a family home and as a venue for a wide range of activities including weddings, concerts and corporate events. ;Mainsail Haul During World War II, St Giles House was requisitioned and used as a girls school evacuated from London called, Miss Faunce's Parents' National Union School. At that time, the family took up residence at the dower house, known as Mainsail Haul.
Reaper later spent many years in Shetland fishing for herring in the summer and she was fitted with an engine between the Wars. During World War II she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and served in the southeast of England, often being used as a barrage balloon mooring. After the war, she resumed fishing in Shetland and continued until 1957. She holds the record catch for Shetland of 233 cran (almost 250,000 herrings).
In 1897, under the abbess Yevgeniya Govorovich, a monumental five-domed Cross Exaltation Cathedral was erected, designed according to the design of architect V.F. Korshikov in the neo-Byzantine style . In 1921 the monastery was closed, the cross requisitioned, in 1928 was transported to Minsk, in 1929 to Mogilev. In 1941, during the Great Patriotic War, the Cross of Euphrosyne of Polotsk disappeared without a trace and has not yet been found.
The basilica holding the Santa Casa was built starting from 1468. In 1797, Napoleon's troops sacked the church. The treasury was emptied, either looted by soldiers, or its contents requisitioned by the pope who needed money for the payments required by the Treaty of Tolentino, which he had signed with Napoleon. Still, by 1821 the Black Madonna had been returned from the Louvre via Rome, and the treasury was again filled with valuable offerings.
During the German occupation, La Fleur blanche, like several other luxury Parisian brothels, was requisitioned for the use of German officers, in order to prevent their contacts with the local population. The health services of the Wehrmacht were responsible for organizing the sanitary control of these establishments. Captain Haucke, commissioner of Geheime Feldpolizei, was responsible for managing prostitution in Paris. In 1946, after the adoption of the "Loi Marthe Richard", the brothel was closed.
The former river frontage (far left). Designed by architects Perry & Reed in a "Wrenaissance" style, the hotel was the largest in Europe when it opened, with more than 800 rooms. The proprietor, Jabez Balfour, later went bankrupt and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. The hotel was requisitioned for the war effort in 1917, and the very first headquarters of the newly formed RAF took up part of the hotel from 1918 to 1919.
The frost killed Bay Laurels, Portugal Laurels, Rhododendrons, Hollies and other smaller trees. During World War I the mansion was requisitioned by the government as accommodation for troops, who vandalised the building, using parts of the grand staircase bannisters for firewood. The post-war government refused to pay for the restitution of the house to its former state and with the agricultural depression it was closed up. It was demolished circa 1925.
Potylchak, p. 206; Rusnak et al., p. 41. See also Fostoy & Podlubny, p. 19; Meltyukhov, p. 60; Stănescu, p. 22 Soon after taking over, the Romanian garrison was joined by the 3rd Border Guards Regiment, responding to "alarmist claims" about "Bolshevik" concentrations on the Dniester.Giurcă, p. 14 A one-kilometer exclusion zone was enforced around the city, food was requisitioned, and the population was ordered to hand in all weapons and ammunition.
SS Artemis Pitta (, ex names Herold, Maid of Athens) was a 240 ft, cargo steamer built in 1906 by Stettiner Oderwerke at Stettin, German Pomerania. At the outbreak of the war, she was owned by G.N. Pittas Bros. During the Battle of Greece, on 6 April 1941, Artemis Pitta was sunk by the Luftwaffe in Piraeus. After being raised and repaired, she was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and manned by a civilian Greek crew.
She plied the London to Australia cargo route until she was requisitioned in 1903 by L. Gundersen and renamed Hövding. She continued plying the cargo trade to Australia until she was damaged in a storm and condemned at Melbourne on 9 July 1914. She was sold as a hulk to Mcllwrath, McEachern Propriety Ltd, who converted her into a coal hulk. Sometime afterward she was renamed back to her original name Kelat.
Olga had Hamburg as her port of registry. She was allocated the Code Letters RBGF. In 1936, Olga was lengthened and a new Klockner-Humboldt diesel engine fitted (six cylinders of 8 inches (22 cm) diameter by 14 inches (36 cm) stroke) (82.1L or 5,011 cubic inches), and the length of the boat was increased to , by adding a new centre section. On 5 June 1941, Olga was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine.
The prisoners slept in hangars or tents, where they dug holes to keep warm. The humid forts requisitioned to serve as places of detention led to numerous cases of pulmonary illness. The German authorities also commandeered schools, barns and various other types of shelters. Camps were established in the countryside as well as near the towns, which had consequences when epidemics of cholera or typhus threatened to spread to the civilian population.
The Confederate army experienced a persistent shortage of horses and mules, and requisitioned them with dubious promissory notes given to local farmers and breeders. Union forces paid in real money and found ready sellers in the South. Both armies needed horses for cavalry and for artillery.Spencer Jones, "The Influence of Horse Supply Upon Field Artillery in the American Civil War", Journal of Military History, (April 2010), 74#2 pp 357–377, Mules pulled the wagons.
The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. During the Second World War the building was requisitioned by the War Office and used for training Special Operations Executive agents. After the war it was used as offices by ICI, and later by AstraZeneca. To the north of the hall are the former coach house and stables built by Lingard Monk in 1890.
Captain John Murray took command of Carysfort in 1795, and left Britain for the East Indies in February 1796. Carysfort remained in the East Indies for the next few years, passing under the command of Captain Thomas Alexander in March 1796. On 19 August that year Alexander captured the 16-gun French corvette Alerte, a privateer requisitioned by the French government. She sailed from France for the East Indies with the squadron under Admiral Sercey.
The arrival of an immigrant ship led to the re-location of the Islanders to rented accommodation nearby as it was considered inappropriate to expect the "two races" to co-habit. The outbreak of World War I led to another change in use, the building being requisitioned for use as a military hospital. Few alterations to the fabric occurred as a consequence, although two single-storey wards were constructed to the southeast of the building.
According to Coughlin, in the aftermath of the coup, the National Guard initiated an "orgy of violence" against all communist elements and some left-wing forces. This period led to the establishment in Baghdad of several interrogation chambers. The government requisitioned several private houses and public facilities, and an entire section of Kifah Street was used by the National Guard. Many of the victims of the rout were innocent, or were victims of personal vendettas.
The German Embassy, c. 1930 The Prussian Consul-General was housed at 9 Carlton House Terrace in the so-called Prussia House. After World War II Prussia House was requisitioned as enemy property and the Federal Republic of Germany moved its consulate and diplomatic operations to Belgrave Square, still operating as a consulate general. The consulate became a fully functional embassy in June 1951, the FRG leasing the building for 99 years in 1953.
After that the G&SWR; sold Viceroy in 1907 and sold Vulcan back to her previous owner in 1908. In the First World War, paddle steamers were found suitable for service as auxiliary minesweepers so the Admiralty requisitioned most of the G&SWR;'s fleet for war service. The steamers' names were changed because the Royal Navy already had warships bearing many of their original names. In 1917 two were lost on active service.
In 1940 Taylor then resold her to Gerald S. Foley who later sold her to a Mr. David Feinburg, who sold her to Nicholas Allen. The last owner gave the schooner yacht the name Aldabaran. The United States Navy requisitioned her during World War II for service and the craft became the property of the War Shipping Administration (WSA). The yacht had ultimately passed through twelve owners, some of who updated the yacht.
Atlantic Causeway and her sister, Atlantic Conveyor were built by Swan Hunter as part of Cunard's contribution to Atlantic Container Line, a European shipping consortium. Atlantic Causeway was completed in 1969. With the outbreak of the Falklands War in 1982, Atlantic Conveyor was requisitioned on 14 April, and Atlantic Causeway on 4 May to serve as transport and support ships for the Royal Navy taskforce being sent to retake the Falkland Islands.
Early in 1917 Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co. decided to add two more tankers of approximately 9,000 deadweight to its existing fleet, expanding their oil carrying business. A contract for these vessels was awarded to the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. On August 3, 1917 the future tanker along with her sister-ship George W. Barnes were requisitioned by the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) for war purposes. Due to the fact that Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.
She was built by William Dobson and Company in Walker Yard for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and launched on 21 September 1911. She was requisitioned by the Admiralty between 1917 and 1919 when she operated as a decoy "Q" ship as Rule, Baryta, Cassor and Q35. On 8 August 1940 she collided with SS Rye in the English Channel off Newhaven whilst avoiding a torpedo fired by and sank. 23 crew were rescued.
Instead, the S/L detachments themselves were given the responsibility for attacking parachutists before they could organise, and spare men at company HQs were formed into mobile columns using requisitioned civilian transport to hunt them down. 74th AA Battalion drew extra rifles and ammunition from Warley Ordnance Store. On 1 August 1940, the RE's AA battalions were transferred to the Royal Artillery (RA), which designated them Searchlight Regiments, and the companies became batteries.Litchfield, p.
Thus, the current stud farm buildings date from 1884 (the first stone was laid on 11 June 1884), and the transfer was finished three years later. During World War I, five mares out of six were requisitioned, but no stallions. Grooms fought at the front, and German prisoners dug a pond. In 1939, the old stable housed the staff of the Haras de Strasbourg (40 stallions and staff) at the time of the German breakthrough.
The boat sank , an Elders & Fyffes banana boat that had been requisitioned as an Ocean Boarding Vessel and Sangro, west southwest of Cape Clear (southern Ireland)The Times Atlas of the World, p. 9 on 6 May 1941. On 8 May she struck again, sinking Ramillies southeast of Cape Farewell. Sortie number four was relatively uneventful, starting from St. Nazaire on 2 July 1941 and terminating in the same port on 8 August.
On receiving the news of Noakhali, Ashutosh Lahiry, the General Secretary of Hindu Mahasabha, immediately left for Chandpur. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee and Pandit Narendranath Das, along with other workers, flew to Comilla and entered the affected area with military escorts. A plane was requisitioned and dispatched to the affected area loaded with rice, chira, bread, milk, biscuits, barley and medicines. Other consignments of relief supplies were dispatched by train.
When Holms died in debt in 1938, Formakin was sold to the Bradford-born entrepreneur Albert Ernest Pickard, owner of the Britannia Panopticon among other Glasgow ventures. It was requisitioned by the military during the Second World War, and maintenance began to decline. By the 1970s the buildings and grounds were derelict. After the Pickards died, a proposal was put forward to develop 195 houses on the estate, but planning permission was refused.
The Ramsey was the third of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company's ships to be called up for service in the Great War. On 28 October 1914 she was requisitioned and fitted out as an Armed Boarding Vessel by Cammell Laird with two 12-pounder guns and a ship's company of 98, and renamed simply HMS Ramsey. Ramsey was based at Scapa Flow under the command of Lieutenant Harry Raby.Isle of Man Examiner.
In 1949 the Government of Pakistan requisitioned his services for the development and expansion of Chittagong Port in East Bengal (later East Pakistan, now Bangladesh). In 1950 he was responsible for organizing and overseeing the establishment of a second port in East Bengal, at Chalna. Chalna Port would be Pakistan's third port, and the first to be established after the country's independence. Bhombal subsequently served as Port Director and Conservator at Chalna.
Luftwaffe II.Gruppe of JG 77 operated with requisitioned C.205Vs for two months, from October until December 1943 Neulen 2000, p. 78., when the German unit was re- equipped with new Bf 109s. Thus there are photos of C.205s with black crosses painted over the mid-fuselage Italian white stripe markings. The Germans were less enthusiastic about the C.205Vs, nor were they really impressed by the early evaluations in spring of 1943.
Nearby Gopsall Hall was later requisitioned as a barracks for British soldiers during the war, who visited public houses in Newton Burgoland such as "The Belper Arms" and "The Spade Tree". The village contains a primary school situated on School Lane. Children attending the school typically transfer when aged 11 to Ibstock Community College, The Market Bosworth School or elsewhere The famous cinema and church organ builder, John Compton, was born in Newton Burgoland.
It had a sixth order Fresnel lens, and showed a fixed white light visible for . The Pensacola Bar Beacon was removed from service and demolished some time in the early 1900s. At the start of the Civil War, Pensacola was controlled by Confederate forces, while Fort Pickens across the bay remained in Union hands. Confederate authorities removed the lens from the lighthouse, and most of the lighthouse supplies were requisitioned for the war effort.
The Zeebrugge service was suspended during World War I and the Admiralty requisitioned her for use as an armed boarding steamer, stationed in the Channel approaches and later on the Northern Patrol. She returned to the Zeebrugge service in February 1920. Withdrawn and laid up at Fleetwood in September 1929, she was sold in May 1930 for scrapping to Thos W Ward and broken up at Barrow in Furness. then replaced Duke of Clarence.
Erin's Isle was in B&CDR; service from 12 July 1912 until her fourth summer season ended on 29 September 1915. On 20 November 1915 the Admiralty requisitioned her for £400 per month to be a Royal Navy minesweeper. On 7 May 1919 she was sunk by a mine, for which the Admiralty paid £53,676 compensation. However, the railway found that a new ship would cost £64,000 and decided not to return to owning steamships.
The airfield was opened to the public on 12 August 1940. In May 1943, during World War II, the airport was requisitioned by the United States Army Air Forces, and was known as Vidalia- Lyons Army Airfield. Also known as Turner AAF Auxiliary Airfield No. 8, the airfield supported the elementary & advanced training in two-engine aircraft being conducted at Turner AAF. The airfield inactivated on 28 December 1944, and was declared surplus in 1946.
In 1813 he was appointed High Sheriff of Monmouthshire and in 1818, returned as Member of Parliament for Stafford borough. Penydarren House was requisitioned by the UK Government at the start of World War II, it was handed over to the Ministry of Works in 1943. The house was demolished in 1957, and after a period of archeological excavation of the Roman fort, the site was redeveloped as the present day housing community.
Potton Manor was built in the 1860s. It was requisitioned by the armed forces and used as a laboratory during the war and as a car factory by Eva Pokorova and Otto van Smekal. The Champion car built in Potton was purchased from the National Motor Museum by Potton History Society, whose aim it is to restore the vehicle to full working order. The house was finally demolished in the early 1980s.
In September 1914, Viola was requisitioned by the Admiralty (FY 614) armed with a 3 pounder gun and moved to Shetland, patrolling the waters out as far as Fair Isle looking for U-boats and escorting other vessels. Later in the war, Viola was armed with a 12-pounder gun, and transferred to the Tyne for minesweeping duty. She was one of the first vessels to use depth charges. She was also fitted with hydrophones.
Harland and Wolff built Pretoria Castle in Belfast, launching her in 1938 and completing her in April 1939. The Admiralty requisitioned her for the Royal Navy in October 1939, and had her converted into an armed merchant cruiser with and guns, entering service in November 1939. In this role she served mainly in the South Atlantic. In July 1942 the Admiralty bought her outright for conversion to an escort carrier by Swan Hunter on Tyneside.
Flour sieved and gently warmed in the sun. Nuts shelled and chopped and the whole family comes together to make the cake. Jobs are allotted, one to whip up the eggs, while another creams the butter and sugar, cake tins are lined, and a strong pair of arms requisitioned to do the final mixing and stirring. Patrode or Pathrade, a dish of colocasia leaves stuffed with rice, dal, jaggery, coconut, and spices is also popular.
It was then sold to Lewisham Council – now called Summerhouse Playing Fields as part of the wider Beckenham Place Park open space. During the war years (1939-1945) the ground was requisitioned by the army and the site used for anti-aircraft guns. Nearby at Crab Hill, a Prisoner of War Camp for Italians was established known as Summerhouse Camp 233, Thomas Cook's Rugby Club page 45 part of the Beckenham Place Park estate.
Tomanelli, Steven N. Appropriations Law: Principles and Practice. Vienna, Va.: Management Concepts, 2003. Title VI of authorized heads of executive departments, establishments, bureaus, and offices to place orders with any other such Federal agency unless the requisitioned goods or services could be acquired as conveniently or more cheaply from the private sector. Though amended several times, this provision—commonly referred to simply as the Economy Act—remains in force as of 2019 ().
By 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Vizzini was the undisputed head of the Mafia in Villalba. The war provided the mafiosi with new opportunities for self-enrichment when the Italian Army requisitioned horses and mules in Sicily for the cavalry and artillery. Vizzini came to an agreement with the Army Commission to delegate the responsibilities to him. He collected a poll tax on the animals whose owners wanted to avoid requisition.
The project began in 1935, and a year later, the Scottish architect William Binnie was commissioned to design the building. Construction began soon after, and it was almost complete by 1939. With the outbreak of World War II, the finished parts of the hotel were requisitioned by the British military to be used by the Royal Air Force personnel. On 27 April 1942, the hotel suffered extensive damage when it was hit by aerial bombardment.
Much of Yokohama was destroyed on September 1, 1923, by the Great Kantō earthquake. A Scotsman, Marshall Martin, advisor to Mayor Ariyoshi Chuichi, is credited with persuading the city government to use rubble from the Kannai commercial district to reclaim the former waterfront as a park. Yamashita Park was formally opened on March 15, 1930. The park was requisitioned in 1945 during the Occupation of Japan for military housing, reverting to Japanese control in 1960.
The park was created in two sections. Two parcels of land at the eastern and southern ends were purchased in 1891 by the Borough of Hornsey at the instigation of Henry Reader Williams and opened in 1896 as the Middle Lane Pleasure Grounds. In 1926 the western section was added after the acquisition of a piece of land known as Lewcock's Field. During World War 1 this had been requisitioned by the council for allotments.
Built at New Westminster, British Columbia in 1906, the ship was purchased for fisheries patrol in 1908. In 1914 Restless was requisitioned by the Royal Canadian Navy to become an examination vessel on the west coast, a role the vessel performed throughout the First World War. Following the war the ship was used as a training ship for the Royal Naval College at Esquimalt from 1918–1920 for the sea cadets.Macpherson & Barrie, p.
They lost a test match against Morecambe, the bottom club in the First Division, however, and failed to gain promotion. They were eventually promoted at the end of the 1899–1900 season, by defeating Tyldesley in the test match. In 1908, the club nearly doubled their attendance record to 12,000 in a third round Challenge Cup match against Hunslet. In 1914, Cavendish Park was requisitioned by the authorities for the war effort.
The ship was still undergoing sea trials when it was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy in October 1940, commissioning as HMAS Vigilant on 12 November 1940. It was classed as an auxiliary patrol vessel. It was initially equipped with a 3-pounder QF gun but this was replaced with a 20 mm Oerlikon. As well as the mounted gun, it carried a variety of light arms including a Bren light machine gun.
Scout and Guide hut The Scout and Guide hut on New Road Side was requisitioned during the Second World War as an emergency mortuary for the factories based around what is now Leeds Bradford Airport (Yeadon Aerodrome at the time), but it was never needed. Before being purchased by the scouts and guides, the building was used as a cafe, a popular stop-off on the way out to Otley, Ilkey and the Dales.
The German High Command then sent orders for the farmhouse to be requisitioned and the family to be moved to a small cottage. Madame Belmont- Gobert asked the billeting Germans to help her move, which included moving the wardrobe with Fowler inside it. Luckily for Fowler, none of the Germans looked inside. The Germans only ever searched the wardrobe once, after a British nurse, Edith Cavell, was executed for helping Allied soldiers.
Following the 1940 Armistice and until August 1944, SNCF was requisitioned for the transport of German armed forces and armaments. The invading German troops were responsible for the destruction of nearly 350 French railway bridges and tunnels. According to differing estimates, SNCF surrendered between 125,000-213,000 wagons and 1,000-2,000 locomotives. France's railway infrastructure and rolling stocks were a target for the French Resistance aimed at disrupting and fighting the German occupying forces.
Philp, p. 55 In October 1939, early in the Second World War, the school had its first experience of hostilities when a German Junkers Ju 88 flew low over the school playing fields en route to bomb Rosyth Dockyard.Philp, p. 62 Kimmerghame House was requisitioned for use as a section of the mine research unit HMS Vernon.Philp, p. 63 A total of 118 former boys died in the Second World War.Philp, p.
She spent the next 40 years quite unremarkably, bunkering coal-burning ships in the Port of Melbourne. An exception was her war service; during the Second World War. In 1943 she was requisitioned as a dumb lighter (coal hulk) by the Royal Australian Navy for service with other hulks in New Guinea waters. She was taken under tow of ST Tooronga on 28 October 1943 and arrived in Cairns on 19 November 1943.
Stone cairns were placed on all open spaces to deter landings of enemy aircraft: the cairns were removed in 1944. In May 1941, 32 acres were requisitioned on the east side of Ladies Mile to store military vehicles in six canvas hangars. There was a tank repair area near the Sea Walls. An area of 42 acres to the west of Ladies Mile was used from February 1944 to store heavy army equipment.
Immediately rationed from July 1940, civilian cars almost ceased to operate. There were exceptions such as for doctors, a number of people had to swap to motorcycles to eke out the legal fuel ration. The mileage of vehicles had to be reported to ensure black market fuel was not being added, leading to needing to disconnect speedometers to avoid discovery. A large number of vehicles were requisitioned by the Germans and shipped to France.
She was once again requisitioned on 28 August 1939 as HMS Laird's Isle, to serve as an armed boarding vessel. To suit her new duties, she was equipped with a single and two QF two-pounder guns. Laird's Isle was converted into a torpedo training ship in 1940. In 1944 she was converted into a Landing Ship, Infantry (LSI(H)) and her two-pounders were replaced by two Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns.
57, 90–91. As a coal burner that emitted tell-tale black smoke visible for miles, Nairana was not considered for war service, the only Bass Strait ferry not to be requisitioned. She thus became the sole commercial passenger vessel to operate between Tasmania and the mainland through the war years, maintaining a heavy schedule. The ship underwent repairs for 13 days at Williamstown, Victoria, after running aground in the Tamar River in 1943.
The Manxman had started the Great War in the colours of the Midland Railway Company, and had been converted to a seaplane carrier. During the Second World War, however, she was requisitioned by the Ministry of War Transport as a personnel ship. Manxman served alongside seven of her Steam Packet sisters during Operation Dynamo. On 29 May, she was one of ten personnel ships which together took off 14,760 troops from the East Pier.
The merchant ship SS Aenne Rickmers was built by Rickmers of Bremerhaven in 1911. On the outbreak of war in August 1914, she was seized whilst in Port Said, Egypt and was requisitioned for service under the Red Ensign of the British Merchant Marine in January 1915 to operate seaplanes. No special modifications were made to the ship; the aircraft were stowed on the aft hatch covers and handled with her cargo booms.Turncoat Carriers, p.
Major Tanner Rogers, his son, inherited the Manor in circa 1940. Nansloe was requisitioned during the Second World War and sick Italian and German prisoners of war were billeted here. In 1942 it was bought back into the Penrose Estate by Captain John Lionel Rogers. John Lionel Rogers died on 5 November 1961, without issue; his younger brother gave up his right of succession in favour of his eldest son, Lieutenant Commander J P Rogers.
The day after his imprisonment following the end of hostilities he found the cell door open. Thinking it was maybe an attempt to shoot him while attempting to escape he waited a day before making his way to a nearby beach, stealing about and making his way to mainland. There he requisitioned a car and made his way south until he meet an advancing American troops. He then returned to his command of the squadron.
The French had hired a fleet of at least 32 from Genoa, and it was contracted to arrive in Boulogne by 20 May. In the event, by early July it had not got further than the Tagus roadstead, off Portugal. It has been suggested that the extremely slow progress of the Genoese may have been the result of English bribery. Edward requisitioned the largest fleet assembled by the English to that date, 747 ships.
Races were run for silver bells at Gatherley, Yorkshire, Croydon and Theobalds on Enfield Chase. Jockey weights began to be measured and rigorously enforced. Around the time that Charles I of England came to the throne, Spring and Autumn race meetings were introduced to Newmarket and in 1634 the first Gold Cup event was held. All horse racing was then banned in 1654 by Oliver Cromwell, and many horses were requisitioned by the state.
NYK Europe: Europe: Corporate Profile, history Before the war NYK had 36 passenger ships; by the time of Japan's surrender only one, the motor ship Hikawa Maru, survived. NYK's surviving vessels and equipment were confiscated by the Allied authorities as reparations, or taken by recently liberated Asian states in 1945-46. SCAJAP requisitioned Hikawa Maru as a transport ship to repatriate Japanese soldiers and civilians from territories that had been liberated from Japanese occupation.
During his time with Penguin, he was berthed on HMAS Kuttabul, a Sydney ferry requisitioned for use as a barracks ship. Granted a period of leave later that month, he returned home to Tasmania. While he was on leave, Japanese midget submarines attacked Sydney Harbour and sank Kuttabul on 31 May. Returning to Sydney eleven days after the raid, Sheean joined the newly commissioned HMAS Armidale as an Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun loader.
A farmhouse known as tal-Qassam located south of the village was requisitioned and converted into a hospital by 19 March. Known as the Tal-Fewdu plague hospital, it was led by the military doctor George McAdam. The dead were buried in a nearby field so as to limit the possibility of infection while transporting corpses. On 31 March, people who lived in houses where others had been infected were moved into a tented camp.
In 1924, the remaining part of the estate and house was sold to a group of local businessmen, who formed Alton Towers Limited. Although the contents of the house were sold off, the grounds were restored and remained open to the public. Parts of the house were converted into cafés and toilets for public use. During World War II, Alton Towers was requisitioned by the War Office as an officer training unit.
In September 1939 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for minesweeping duties once more and commissioned as HMS Queen of Kent, pennant number J74. For Operation Overlord in June 1944 she was stationed at Peel Bank off the Isle of Wight as the Mulberry Accommodation & Despatch Control Ship. Subsequently, she was stationed at Dungeness. After the war she was returned in 1946 to her owners to recommence excursion work around the Thames Estuary.
The Bondi Pavilion was well utilised for about two decades after its opening. During the war the first floor, where the Esplanade Cabaret had been, was requisitioned by the American Red Cross and the U.S. military to become an officers' club until the end of the war. After the war, dances were organised at the pavilion, and the proceeds went to disadvantaged Australian returned soldiers. In 1948 the pavilion obtained a liquor licence.
During the Second World War it functioned initially as a British military hospital, the first patients arriving in 1940 as a result of the German invasion of Norway. Later the hospital was transferred to the US military becoming the 10th US Station Hospital where it hosted Glenn Miller and the United States Air Force Band to entertain the American troops. After the War it was de-requisitioned and returned to Lancashire County Council.
The No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital was a World War I military hospital in Walton-on-Thames, England. The hospital opened in 1915 in the requisitioned 15th century Mount Felix estate, and closed in 1920. and It was the first hospital in the United Kingdom used specifically for soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. In 1916 a new hospital was built in Hampshire and Mount Felix was renamed to be hospital number two.
The ship was laid down at the Mitsui shipyard in Tamano on 27 August 1941 as a Type M cargo ship for the Mitsui Line. While still under construction the ship was requisitioned by the Imperial Navy and converted to a Landing Craft Depot Ship. She was fitted with a flight deck above the hull, but no hangar. Launched on 29 June 1942, the ship was completed and commissioned in December 1942.
Yasukuni Maru in the background and the battleship at sea, 1941. On 29 October 1940, Yasukuni Maru was again requisitioned by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was classified this time as an auxiliary submarine tender. She was taken to Kure Naval Arsenal, where her luxurious internal fittings were torn out, and she was repainted gunmetal grey. On 11 January 1941 she was assigned to the 1st Submarine Division of the IJN 6th Fleet.
Built in 1912 by the Greenock and Grangemouth Dockyard Company, Grangemouth for the North Coast Steam Navigation Company. She was sold in 1919 to the British New Guinea Development Company, in 1928 to the Tasmanian Government and later to Holyman & Sons. Tambar was requisitioned by the RAN and commissioned as an auxiliary minesweeper. On 4 March 1942, HMAS Tambar was fired on and hit by the Examination Battery at Fort Cowan Cowan, Moreton Island.
In 1890 Baronet and MP Sir Elliott Lees bought land in Dorset and moved into South Lytchett Manor. The Manor was requisitioned in WW2, serving as the battery headquarters of an anti-aircraft defence regiment. It had 29 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms. Ater Sir John Lees' death in 1955, his heir, Sir Thomas Lees, decided to sell rather than renovate, and the Lees family moved to Post Green House, then a farmhouse on the estate.
"New Rail Car Arrival in Whangarei: Visit to Opua: Possibilities for Future". Northern Advocate, 13 February 1934, p. 6. Wellington: New Zealand Government Railways Department After the 5 March 1934 Paihiatua (Horoeka) Earthquake, the "new rail-car was immediately requisitioned" so that the Chief Engineer and inspecting officers could travel through the Wairarapa, Hawke's Bay, and Manawatu districts to inspect, and where necessary test, track and structures such as bridges, tunnels and culverts.
Bergungs AG, for conversion to a salvage tug. Later that year she was sold to the Trieste-based company Unione Italiana di Salvataggio, in which Bugsier had a 25% holding, then renamed Salvatore Primo and stationed at Messina. Requisitioned by the Italian Navy in May 1940, Salvatore Primo was sunk at Palermo on 24 May 1941 by Royal Air Force bombing. She was raised by the Italians, repaired and returned to service.
128–29 Commemorative plaque at the entrance to the Heywood Hill bookshop, Curzon Street In April 1940 Mitford suffered her second miscarriage. Shortly afterwards Rodd, who had been commissioned into the Welsh Guards, departed overseas. Alone in London, Mitford moved to the family's Rutland Gate house where she remained during the London blitz. The main house had been requisitioned to provide a refuge for Jewish families evacuated from the bombed areas of the East End.
Cunard's container ship, was requisitioned on 14 April and converted into an aircraft transport. Soon after his appointment as land component commander on 9 April, Moore began to press for British Army's 5th Infantry Brigade to be sent to the South Atlantic as well. Fieldhouse formally requested this on 27 April. The brigade had a strength of 3,961 men, and for 35 days' operations it required of ammunition, of stores, 205 vehicles and 19 helicopters.
On 13 November 1915, Britannic was requisitioned as a hospital ship from her storage location at Belfast. Repainted white and from bow to stern with large red crosses and a horizontal green stripe, she was renamed HMHS (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) Britannic. Artist's conception of Britannic in her intended White Star livery At 08:12 am on 21 November 1916, HMHS Britannic struck a mine at , and sank. 1,036 people were saved.
610 Aiglons) were built with increased fuel capacity. In December 1935 a C.610 was flown from Paris to Saigon at an average speed of 80 mph (129 km/h). The type was popular with French private owners and flying clubs, and a number were sold abroad. With the outbreak of the Second World War many of the aircraft were requisitioned by the French Government for use as liaison aircraft by the Armée de l'Air.
There were only two Stratford class vessels, both built by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company. They were both apparently built for commercial service on the Great Lakes as freighters in about 1918, and operated as commercial vessels between the wars. Shortly before America's entry into World War II, two ships were requisitioned by the US Navy. The first ship, USS Stratford, was commissioned in August 1941 and the second, USS Gemini, in August 1942.
The house was fitted with the latest technology such as gas lighting, central heating, fireproof construction and iron roofs. It is now a Grade I listed building. Extensive formal terrace gardens were created around the house and of ornamental woodlands were planted in the 19th century. Since 1928, the house has been occupied by the girls' boarding school Westonbirt School, except during World War II when it was requisitioned by the Air Ministry.
The Germans designated Minsk the administrative centre of Generalbezirk Weißruthenien. Communists and sympathisers were killed or imprisoned, both locally and after being transported to Germany. Homes were requisitioned to house invading German forces. Thousands starved as food was seized by the German Army and paid work was scarce. Minsk was the site of one of the largest Nazi-run ghettos in the Second World War, temporarily housing over 100,000 Jews (see Minsk Ghetto).
In 1913, events marking the union of Crete with Greece took place on Souda Island. On February 1 the metallic Ottoman flag, the last symbol of Ottoman rule, was removed and replaced by the Greek flag on May 1. Also the ruined chapel was rebuilt and dedicated to Saint George. In 1916 the British liner SS Minnewaska, requisitioned by the British Army as a troops carrier, struck a mine and was beached at Souda Bay.
According to historian Ruairidh MacLeod, the reaction in the Highlands to the unsuccessful attempt of James Fraser of Foyers to capture or kill the Lord President Forbes at Culloden House, was of profound shock. In April 1746, the Jacobite leader Charles Edward Stuart requisitioned Culloden House and used it as his headquarters in the days leading up to the more famous Battle of Culloden that brought an end to the Jacobite rising.
By the 1940s, after being battered by the 1938 New England hurricane, and with many steamships having been requisitioned for the war effort, commerce largely ceased. The Port of Providence was moved to Allens Avenue, which had deeper waters. As diesel fuel replaced coal, the coal yards of India Point were turned into scrap yards. In the 1960s, the construction of Interstate 195 cut India Point off from the rest of the neighborhood.
Nodzu was purchased by Cam & Sons Pty Ltd and sailed to Sydney, Australia in 1929 and was renamed Olive Cam. In September 1939, Olive Cam was requisitioned by the RAN for use as an auxiliary and commissioned on 6 October 1939. During the war, Olive Cam was based in Fremantle with Minesweeping Group 66 and operated along the West Australian coastline. She was part of the search for which was lost on 19 November 1941.
During the Second World War, exploiting the excellent views of the surrounding area from the higher ground in the commune, the German military installed a radar base which operated from 1941 until September 1944. The base included a bunker, a wooden barracks and a large concrete water tank requisitioned from the village. The station was used to support military aircraft and anti-aircraft artillery. It was evacuated ahead of the arrival of the Americans.
In 1899 she was sold to the Atlantic Transport Line who renamed her Mohawk. After refitting she was then used on the North Atlantic, sailing between London and New York City from September 1900. In December 1900 Mohawk was requisitioned as a transport for Boer War service. She was returned to her owners in 1902 but the decision was taken not to refurbish her and she was scrapped by Garston at Liverpool in 1903.
The Karuah towed the still blazing hulk to Townsville and her crew later claimed salvage rights. The hull was rebought from the underwriters and refitted in 1921 at the Cleveland Foundry slipway in Townsville. She returned to service, in August 1921, carrying sugar. She was requisitioned by the RAN in June 1942 for service as a lighter during World War II and she was returned to her owners at the end of hostilities.
After the end of the war, Chile began seeking additional ships for its navy. In April 1920, Chile bought Canada and four destroyers, all of which had been ordered by Chile prior to the war's outbreak and requisitioned by the British for the war.Livermore, p. 48 Further planned expansion included Inflexible and Indomitable, but when the secret negotiations to acquire them were leaked to the press, a major uproar erupted in Chile.
In 1947 the buildings were de-requisitioned, and in 1948 the Ministry of Education approved the reinstatement and completion of all the buildings. In 1949 the boys' and girls' schools were completed and re-opened. The schools were then occupied by 350 boys and girls from the Runcorn County Grammar School, and, in accordance with the Education Act 1944 became the County Grammar School for Boys, Helsby and the County Grammar School for Girls, Helsby.

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