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<h2 style="margin:0; background:#3B7883; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #F0E68C; text-align:center; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Ships Named Challenger</h2> | |||
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Challenger, most famously the survey vessel Challenger that carried the Challenger expedition from 1872 to 1876. | Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Challenger, most famously the survey vessel Challenger that carried the Challenger expedition from 1872 to 1876. | ||
*The first Challenger was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1811. | *The first Challenger was a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1811. | ||
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*The eighth Challenger, the RN's first purpose built ship for support of saturation diving missions, was launched in 1981 and sold in 1993. | *The eighth Challenger, the RN's first purpose built ship for support of saturation diving missions, was launched in 1981 and sold in 1993. | ||
*Another ship named after the original HMS Challenger was the deep sea research vessel Glomar Challenger (1968). | *Another ship named after the original HMS Challenger was the deep sea research vessel Glomar Challenger (1968). | ||
''Information from Wikipedia'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Challenger] | ''Information from Wikipedia'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Challenger] | ||
<h2 style="margin:0; background:#3B7883; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #F0E68C; text-align:center; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> H.M.S. CHALLENGER</h2> | |||
[[Image:Challenger_sailing.jpg|left]]The Challenger Expedition, a 70,000 mile voyage, was a scientific expedition that laid the foundation of oceanography with its many discoveries. The voyage of the H.M.S. CHALLENGER took place during the years of 1873-76 and catalogued 4,000 previously unknown species of animals. | |||
Captain George S. Nares, R.N. was the Commanding Officer of the H.M.S. Challenger and Sir C. Wyville Thomson was the Scientific Director. Their extensive research is chronicled in the a Report of the Scientific Results[http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-INDEX/index-linked.htm] published by order of Her Majesty's government. | |||
<h2 style="margin:0; background:#3B7883; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #F0E68C; text-align:center; color:#ffffff; padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> Space Shuttle Challenger</h2> | |||
[[Image:Shutlan2.jpg|left]] "Challenger joined NASA fleet of reusable winged spaceships in July 1982. It flew nine successful Space Shuttle missions. On January 28, 1986, the Challenger and its seven-member crew were lost 73 seconds after launch when a booster failure resulted in the breakup of the vehicle." [http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/Challenger.html] | [[Image:Shutlan2.jpg|left]] "Challenger joined NASA fleet of reusable winged spaceships in July 1982. It flew nine successful Space Shuttle missions. On January 28, 1986, the Challenger and its seven-member crew were lost 73 seconds after launch when a booster failure resulted in the breakup of the vehicle." [http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/Challenger.html] | ||
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