Archive for: October 2010

20/10/2010

Utting, ms andechs

Filed under: Island - 20 Oct 2010

Utting, ms andechs

sunday-trip in january to Ammersee in Bavaria. the weather was a perfect dream. this paddle-steamer is for a long time inoperative. the boat accommodated a sailers club yet. the shipping-season on the bavarian lakes is starting at Easter.

09/10/2010

Fort sumter national monument sign

Filed under: All - 09 Oct 2010

Fort sumter national monument sign

On December 26, 1860, five days after South Carolina declared its secession, U.S. Army Major Robert Anderson abandoned the indefensible Fort Moultrie and secretly relocated companies E and H (127 men, 13 of them musicians) of the 1st U.S. Artillery to Fort Sumter without orders from Washington, on his own …

04/10/2010

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Filed under: River - 04 Oct 2010

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The Yarmouth Belle seen here on the River Thames. Yarmouth Belle was built in 1892 for services in Norfolk. She was brought to the Thames in 1946 by H.G.Hastings of Kingston. In 1955 she passed to Thames Launches until 1971, and then Harbourside investments until 1978. After a year with …