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USNS Contender ( T - AGOS - 2 ) USNS " Contender " ( T - AGOS - 2 ) was a Stalwart class Modified Tactical Auxiliary General Ocean Surveillance Ship of the United States Navy . History . Stalwart class ships were originally designed to collect underwater acoustical data in support of Cold war anti - submarine warfare operations in the 1980s . ex - " Contender " is now T / V " Kings Pointer " the flagship and training vessel of the United States Merchant Marine Academy . In the spring of 2004 she underwent a major overhaul to upgrade her crew ' s quarters and training equipment . The aft ' tow ' deck was also modified and any vestage of her previous employment as a SURTASS ship was removed and reworked . She was the flagship and training ship of the United States Merchant Marine Academy from 1999 until January 2012 . She was transferred to Texas A & M University at Galveston and renamed the " General Rudder " , where she will be the primary training vessels for cadets of the Texas Maritime Academy .
Military Aid to the Civil Authorities Military Aid to the Civil Authorities ( MACA ) is the collective term used by the Ministry of Defence of the Government of the United Kingdom to refer to the operational deployment of the armed forces of the United Kingdom in support of the civilian authorities , other government departments and the community as a whole . Scope . There are 3 criteria for the provision of MACA : Legal considerations . All operations must be conducted within both civil and military law . Failure to comply with this principle may result in criminal and / or civil law proceedings being brought against individuals or the MOD . Unlike the Police and some other civil agencies , members of the Armed Forces have no powers over and above those of the ordinary citizen . They have the same personal duty as anyone else to abide by the law at all times . Types of assistance . MACA encompasses three types of assistance : Military Aid to other Government Departments . Military Aid to other Government Departments covers assistance provided by the Armed Forces on urgent work of national importance or in maintaining supplies and services essential to the life , health and safety of the community , such as Operation Fresco during the UK firefighter dispute 2002 – 2003 . MAGD is controlled under orders made under section 2 of the Emergency Powers Act 1964 . Military Aid to the Civil Power . Military Aid to the Civil Power encompasses the provision of military assistance ( armed if necessary ) in its maintenance of law , order and public safety using specialist capabilities or equipment in situations beyond the capability of the Civil Power . This includes capabilities such as Explosive Ordnance Disposal , air - sea rescue ( where it is provided by the RAF Search and Rescue Force ) and mountain rescue ( where it is provided by the Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service ) Military Aid to the Civil Community . Military Aid to the Civil Community encompasses the provision of unarmed military assistance to prevent or deal with the aftermath of a natural disaster or a major incident or , to assist civil sponsors either by carrying out special projects of significant social value to the community or by attaching individual volunteers to specific projects .
Santameri Castle Santameri Castle ( ) is a castle on the mountain Skollis near the boundary of Achaea and Elis in southwestern Greece . It was one of the strongest castles , controlling the Elean fields and the mountain passes to Tritaia . It was built in 1311 by the Frankish Nicholas of Saint - Omer , who gave his name to the castle . In Venetian records it was listed as " Edrolcamo " ( Εντρόλκαμο ) . Saint - Omer was lord of Thebes . Around the castle developed a large city , that had 1 , 500 houses at its peak . The Byzantines had tried many times to besiege the castle without succeeding . According to the Aragonese version of the " Chronicle of the Morea " , the Byzantines lost 1 , 500 men and 500 horses in a large battle between the Byzantines and Navarrese , that ruled the castle at the time . It was handed over as dowry to the Despot of the Morea Constantine Palaeologus in 1429 along with Chlemoutsi castle , when he married Theodora Tocco , daughter of Leonardo II Tocco . Theodora died the following year during childbirth and was buried in Santameri . After many years , her remains were transferred to Mystras . The Ottomans captured the castle in 1460 , and many of its inhabitants were killed or sold into slavery . Today , the walls of the castle and ruins of many buildings and a Byzantine church remain . Outside the castle is the locality " Patrini " where the tomb of Theodora Tocco was located .
HMAS Samuel Benbow HMAS " Samuel Benbow " was an auxiliary minesweeper operated by the Royal Australian Navy ( RAN ) during World War II . She was launched in 1918 by Hall , Russell & Company , Aberdeen . She was a Strath class trawler admiralty design . The ship operated in Australian waters from 1929 , and was requisitioned by the RAN and commissioned on 5 September 1940 . She was returned to her owners after the war . Operational history . " Samuel Benbow " was purchased by A . A . Murrell and sailed to Australia in 1928 . With the outbreak of World War II , she was requistioned 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 . She was returned to her owners in late 1946 and resuming trawling . She was adrift for nine hours after her propellor was fowled by her nets on 14 January 1951 , before being towed into Sydney by " Goonambee " . Her captain drowned after being caught in her nets in November 1952 .
French ship Génois ( 1805 ) Génois was a 74 - gun ship of the line of the French Navy , of the sub - type of " Borée " and . Design and construction . Designed based on plans by Jacques - Noël Sané , and updated by Maillot , she was the prototype of a new variant of the " Téméraire " class designed to have a smaller draught , allowing the production of ships of the line in the shallower harbours . " Borée " was built is Antwerp , and " Génois " in Genoa . Construction of " Génois " was awarded to the shipbuilding company Muzzio and Migone , who botched the launch on 6 August 1805 : the ship stopped dead on her launching berth , and her keel hogged . Engineer Forfait was sent to Genoa to save the ship , and managed to launch her properly on 16 August . Career . " Génois " was commissioned under Captain Lhermite on 2 November 1805 . She remained in Genoa un 1806 , before sailing to Toulon and taking part in the Mediterranean squadron under Vice - Admiral Ganteaume . In early 1808 , she sailed from Toulon to Taranto , and took part in expeditions to supply Corfu . In the spring of 1809 , Lhermite was replaced by Captain Montalan , who took command in April , and retain it until " Génois " was disarmed on 23 June 1814 . In March 1821 , under Captain Bénard - Fleury , she ferried food supplies from Toulon to Rochefort . She was struck and broken up in 1821 in Toulon .
Peter Arnison Major General Peter Maurice Arnison ( born 21 October 1940 in Lismore , New South Wales ) , was Governor of Queensland from July 1997 until July 2003 . He graduated from the Royal Military College , Duntroon in 1962 , and retired from the Australian Army in 1996 . He was the Australian Defence Force ' s " Land Commander Australia " ( LCAUST ) from 1994 until June 1996 . For the year prior to his appointment as governor , he was the Executive Director of Allied Rubber Products , a manufacturing firm . He is currently the Chancellor of Queensland University of Technology , Chairman of Panbio Limited , Chairman of the Centre for Military and Veterans ' Health , Director of Energex Limited , Governor of the Queensland Community Foundation , and on the Board of Directors of the Australian Multicultural Foundation . Personal . He is married to Barbara .
Railroad Guards in American Civil War The Independent State Road Guards were organized August 3 , 1863 , with the following commissioned officers : Captain , William A . Fuller ; first lieutenant , John P . Mays ; second lieutenant , A . S . Bridges ; third lieutenant , R . C . Buchanan . The members were the employees of the Western Railroad and the Atlantic Railroad . The Georgia Railroad Guards were organized in Atlanta September 28 , 1863 . Its commissioned officers were : Captain , James H . Porter ; first lieutenant , A . M . Eddleman ; second lieutenant , J . C . Armstead ; third lietuenant , W . C . Anderson . The members were the employees of the Georgia Railroad .
Wharton J . Green Wharton Jackson Green ( February 28 , 1831 – August 6 , 1910 ) was a U . S . Congressman from North Carolina and an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . Biography . Born in St . Marks , Florida , Green was instructed by private tutors . He attended Georgetown College , Lovejoy ’ s Academy in Raleigh , North Carolina , and the United States Military Academy , West Point , New York but dropped out . He then studied law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and at Cumberland University , Lebanon , Tennessee . He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Washington , D . C . before engaging in agricultural pursuits in Warren County , North Carolina , in 1859 . During the Civil War , Green enlisted in the Confederate service in 1861 and rose through the ranks to lieutenant colonel of the Second North Carolina Battalion . Afterward , he served on Brigadier General Junius Daniel ’ s staff . Green was wounded and taken prisoner at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 . He spent the rest of the war in the Johnson ' s Island prisoner - of - war camp . After the war , he settled at “ Tokay Vineyard , ” near Fayetteville , North Carolina , and became interested in viticulture . He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1868 , 1872 , 1876 , and 1888 . Green was the first president of the Society of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors in North Carolina . Entering politics , he was elected as a Democrat to the Forty - eighth and Forty - ninth Congresses ( March 4 , 1883 – March 3 , 1887 ) . He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1886 and retired from public service . He then devoted his time to the cultivation of his vineyard and to literary pursuits . He wrote his autobiography , " Recollections and Reflections : An auto of Half a Century and More , " in 1906 . Wharton Green died at “ Tokay , ” near Fayetteville on August 6 , 1910 . He was buried in the town ' s Cross Creek Cemetery . He was the son of Texas Revolution general Thomas Jefferson Green , the grandson of U . S . Senator Jesse Wharton , and the cousin of Confederate general Matt Whitaker Ransom . One of Green ' s daughters , Sarah , married wealthy industrialist Pembroke Jones of Wilmington , NC , in 1884 . With the help of their close friend , art collector and railroad president Henry Walters , they created a lifestyle some claim made them models for the saying , " Keeping up with the Joneses . " They maintained luxurious residences in Newport and New York City . The garden estate Sarah Green Jones created in Wilmington still exists and is known as Airlie Gardens . < ref . name = Airlie : The Garden of Wilmington , by Susan Taylor Block .
Edward Dunsterville Commander Edward Dunsterville ( 1796 – 1873 ) was a naval officer and hydrographer . Life . Dunsterville , son of Edward Dunsterville , shipowner , was born at Penryn in Cornwall on 2 December 1796 . He entered the navy on 17 July 1812 as a first - class volunteer on board the sloop . On the north coast of Spain he was present in the night attack made in August 1813 on the fortress of San Sebastian , and became a midshipman on 26 September 1813 . As a midshipman and an able seaman he served until 18 November 1815 , when on the reduction of the fleet to a peace establishment he was ‘ finally discharged ’ from His Majesty ' s service . Afterwards he was employed as second and chief officer in the merchant service . However , on 9 September 1824 he passed an examination at the Trinity House for a master in the navy , and was appointed second master of . As master of the he was stationed in the West Indies , where he made many useful observations , which were duly recorded at the admiralty ; afterwards in England he passed examinations and received certificates of his practical knowledge as a pilot . On 25 March 1833 , on the nomination of the hydrographer of the admiralty , he became master of the surveying vessel " Thunderer " , with orders to complete the survey of the Mosquito coast , and remained in that employment until 27 November 1835 , when he was invalided from the effects of his servitude of fifteen years on the West India station . As a lieutenant on board the , he took part in the operations of 1840 on the coast of Syria , and assisted in blockading the Egyptian fleet at Alexandria , and was awarded the Syrian medals . On 19 April 1842 he became one of the hydrographer ' s assistants at the admiralty , Whitehall , where he remained until 31 March 1870 , when he was superannuated at the age of 73 , on two - thirds of his salary , namely , ₤400 per annum . During the twenty - eight years of his residence at the admiralty he had to attend to the issuing of charts to the fleet , to keep an account of the printing , mounting , and issue of charts and books , to report to the hydrographer on questions of pilotage , and to prepare catalogues of charts and the annual lighthouse lists . Of the latter he revised and saw through the press 102 volumes respecting the lights and lighthouses in all parts of the world . In 1860 he produced " Admiralty Catalogue of Charts , Plans , Views , and Sailing Directions " , 7th ed . 1859 , 2 vols . , and 8th ed . 1864 , 2 vols . He also brought out " The Indian Directory , or Directory for Sailing to and from the East Indies " . By James Horsburgh , F . R . S . Corrected and revised by Commander E . Dunsterville , ’ 7th ed . London , 1859 , 2 vols . , and 8th ed . 1864 , 2 vols . He died at 32 St . Augustine ' s Road , Camden Square , London , 11 March 1873 . He was twice married and left issue .
Martin Luther Smith Martin Luther Smith ( September 9 , 1819 – July 29 , 1866 ) was an American soldier and civil engineer , serving as a major general in the Confederate States Army . Smith was one of the few Northern - born generals to fight for the Confederacy , as he had served most of his early military career in the South with the United States Army ' s topographical engineers , marrying a native of Athens , Georgia . He planned and constructed the defenses of Vicksburg . Early life . Smith was born in Danby , New York , where his father had settled after moving from Maine . In 1842 , he graduated 16th in his West Point class of 56 , which included twenty - two future Civil War generals including James Longstreet , D . H . Hill , and Abner Doubleday . His initial assignment was in Florida , where he surveyed the terrain and drew maps for army usage . In 1846 , he married a Georgia woman and subsequently raised a family . He served as an engineer during the Mexican - American War , and was brevetted for his performance in mapping the valley of Mexico City prior to Winfield Scott ' s assaults . He returned to Florida after the war . He was promoted from second lieutenant to first lieutenant in 1853 . Three years later , he was elevated to captain . He resigned from the army on April 1 , 1861 , to side with the Confederacy . Civil War . After resigning , he was commissioned as a major of engineers . In February 1862 , Smith was appointed colonel of the 21st Louisiana . He served under General David Twiggs at New Orleans and commanded a brigade of infantry while helping plan the defenses of the city . On April 11 , 1862 , Smith was promoted to brigadier general and transferred back to the engineers . In May , he took charge of constructing the defenses of Vicksburg , Mississippi , as well as leading a division . After the town fell in July 1863 , he was captured and was held as a prisoner of war for seven months . He was exchanged in early 1864 and briefly was the head of the Engineer Corps for the entire Confederate Army from March until April , when he became the chief engineer for the Army of Northern Virginia . Later , he held the same position for the Army of Tennessee . As chief engineer of the Department of Alabama , Mississippi , and East Louisiana at the end of the war , he prepared the defenses of Mobile , Alabama , under the command of P . G . T . Beauregard . He remained in Mobile until the city fell to Union forces , and then returned home to Athens , where he surrendered in May 1865 . Postbellum life . Smith moved to Savannah , Georgia , soon after the war ended and established a civil engineering company . He died less than a year later . At the time of his death , he was chief engineer of the railroad system that linked Selma , Alabama , with Dalton , Georgia ( the Selma , Rome and Dalton Railroad ) . He is buried in Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens , Georgia . A bust of General Smith stands at the Vicksburg National Military Park . It was sculpted in 1911 by Henry Hudson Kitson .
Micah Jenkins Micah Jenkins ( December 1 , 1835 – May 6 , 1864 ) , was a Confederate general in the American Civil War , mortally wounded by friendly fire at the Battle of the Wilderness . Early life . Jenkins was born on Edisto Island , South Carolina . He graduated first in his class from the South Carolina Military Academy , now called The Citadel , in 1854 . Jenkins then organized the King ' s Mountain Military School from 1855 to 1861 . Civil War service . He recruited the 5th South Carolina Infantry Regiment and became their colonel on April 13 , 1861 . He fought under David R . Jones at the First Battle of Bull Run and later was brigaded under General Richard H . Anderson . During the April 1862 reorganization of the army , Jenkins retained his command of the 5th South Carolina . At the Battle of Seven Pines , Anderson was temporarily put in division command while Jenkins got brigade command ( of his own regiment , the 6th South Carolina , and the Palmetto Sharpshooters ) . He led it with distinction in that battle , being wounded in the knee . Also during that year Jenkins was colonel of the Palmetto Sharpshooters . Considered one of the war ' s " boy generals " , he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general on July 22 , 1862 , at the age of 26 . He was later wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run in August 1862 , this time in the shoulder and chest . Consequently , Jenkins was absent from the Army of Northern Virginia when it fought the Battle of Antietam . Jenkins ' brigade served in the division of Maj . Gen . George Pickett at the Battle of Fredericksburg , although it was not engaged . Pickett ' s division participated in the campaign of Lt . Gen . James Longstreet against Suffolk , Virginia , in 1863 , but Jenkins ' brigade was retained near Richmond , Virginia , missing the Battle of Gettysburg . Jenkins and his brigade went with the First Corps , Army of Northern Virginia , to Tennessee in the fall of 1863 , and participated in the second day ' s fighting of the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20 . On January 16 , 1864 , Jenkins led his brigade to victory in the small Battle of Kimbrough ' s Crossroads against Federal cavalry . During the Battle of the Wilderness , Jenkins was riding with Lt . Gen . Longstreet when both were struck down by friendly fire on May 6 , 1864 . Jenkins died of his head wound a few hours later , and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery , Charleston , South Carolina . Son of the same name . Jenkins ' s son , Michah John . Jenkins was born July 3 , 1857 . He served in the Spanish American War , and enrolled as Captain of Troop K , 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry Regiment , " The Rough Riders . " He fought with the Regiment in Cuba and was present during the attack on San Juan Hill . He was promoted to Major of the Regiment on August 11 , 1898 ; and was mustered out of service with the Regiment at Montauk Point , Long Island , New York . He died in Charleston , SC on Oct . 17 , 1912 .
32nd Division ( German Empire ) The 32nd Division ( " 32 . Division " ) , formally the 3rd Division No . 32 ( " 3 . Division Nr . 32 " ) was a unit of the Saxon Army , a component of the Imperial German Army . The division was formed on April 1 , 1887 and was headquartered in Bautzen . The division was subordinated in peacetime to the XII ( 1st Royal Saxon ) Army Corps ( " XII . ( 1 . Königlich Sächsisches ) Armeekorps " ) . The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I . The division was recruited in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Saxony . Combat chronicle . During World War I , the division fought on the Western Front , seeing action in the Allied Great Retreat which culminated in the First Battle of the Marne . It then spent the next several years in the trenches . In 1917 , it fought in the Second Battle of the Aisne , also known as the Third Battle of Champagne ( and to the Germans , as the Double Battle of Aisne - Champagne ) , and in the Battle of Passchendaele . In 1918 , it fought against the Allied Meuse - Argonne Offensive . Allied intelligence rated the division third class in 1918 . Pre - World War I organization . The organization of the 32nd Division in 1914 , shortly before the outbreak of World War I , was as follows : Order of battle on mobilization . On mobilization in August 1914 at the beginning of World War I , most divisional cavalry , including brigade headquarters , was withdrawn to form cavalry divisions or split up among divisions as reconnaissance units . Divisions received engineer companies and other support units from their higher headquarters . The 32nd Division was redesignated the 32nd Infantry Division . Its initial wartime organization was as follows : Late World War I organization . Divisions underwent many changes during the war , with regiments moving from division to division , and some being destroyed and rebuilt . During the war , most divisions became triangular - one infantry brigade with three infantry regiments rather than two infantry brigades of two regiments ( a " square division " ) . An artillery commander replaced the artillery brigade headquarters , the cavalry was further reduced , the engineer contingent was increased , and a divisional signals command was created . The 32nd Infantry Division ' s order of battle on January 1 , 1918 was as follows :
No . 115 Squadron RCAF No . 115 Squadron was a Royal Canadian Air Force Canadian Home War Establishment ( HWE ) Squadron . It flew anti - submarine patrols on the British Columbian and Alaskan coasts as part of Western Air Command before disbanding at Tofino , British Columbia in August 1944 . Two letter Squadron code was BK from Aug 39 - May 42 , UV until the use of squadron codes was discontinued in the RCAF HWE on the 16 Oct 1942 " for security reasons " . References . < div class = " references - small " >
34th Battalion Virginia Cavalry The 34th Battalion , Virginia Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry battalion raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . It fought in western Virginia , East Tennessee , with the Army of Northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley . Virginia ' s 34th Cavalry Battalion , formerly the 1st Battalion Virginia Mounted Rifles , was organized in December , 1862 . The unit served in A . G . Jenkins ' , W . E . Jones ' , V . A . Witcher ' s , and B . T . Johnson ' s Brigade and first engaged the Federals in western Virginia . It had a force of 172 men at Gettysburg , returned to western Virginia , then was involved in operations in East Tennessee . During April , 1864 , it contained 222 effectives , saw action at Piedmont , and served with Early in the Shenandoah Valley . The 34th disbanded at Lynchburg in April , 1865 . Lieutenant Colonel Vinson A . Witcher , and Majors John A . McFarlane and William Straton were in command .