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HMS Portland F79 Type 23 (aka Duke-class) Frigate of the British Royal Navy departs the CLT, Liverpool outbound for sea. She was assisted off the berth by Boluda tugs VB Phoenix and VB Elbe.
Little fact: During sea trials Portland attained a top speed of 30.8 knots (57.0 km/h), the fastest speed attained by any Type 23 frigate at that time. (WIKI SOURCE). She is the eighth HMS Portland
IMO: 8949733
Pennant Number: F79
Name: HMS Portland
Vessel Type - Detailed: Military Ops
MMSI: 234627000
Call Sign: GDIS
Flag: United Kingdom
Homeport: HMNB Devonport, Plymouth
Commander: Ed Moss-Ward
Gross Tonnage: .......
Displacement: 4,900t (4,800 long tons; 5,400 short tons)
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 133 x 16.1 m
Draught: 7.3m
Motto: Craignez Honte "Fear Dishonour"
Ordered: February 1996
Builder: Marconi Marine, Clyde, UK
Laid down: 14 January 1998
Launched: 15 May 1999
Sponsored by: Lady Brigstocke
Commissioned: 3 May 2001
Refit: LIFEX 2018 onwards
Propulsion Systems: CODLAG: x4 1510kW (2,025shp) Paxman Velenta 12CM 4 stroke 12 cyl diesel gens & x2 GEC electric motors delivering 2980kW (4000shp) AND x2 Rolls-Royce Spey SM1C gas turbines delivering 23,190kW (31,100shp) - these sounded absolutely amazing! Truly impressive!
Speed: In excess of 28kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)
Range: 7,500 nautical miles (14,000km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Complement: 185 (accommodation for up to 205)
Sensors and processing systems: Sonar 2087
Electronic warfare & decoys: UAF-1 ESM, or, UAT Mod 1 Seagnat & Type 182 towed torpedo decoy & Surface Ship Torpedo Defence
Armament: Anti-air missiles: x1 32-cell GWS 35 Vertical Launching System (VLS) for: x32 Sea Ceptor missiles (1–25+ km). Anti-ship missiles: Up to x2 quad Harpoon launchers (x8 missiles). Anti-submarine torpedoes: x2 twin 12.75 in (324 mm) Sting Ray torpedo tubes
Guns: x1 BAE 4.5 inch Mk 8 naval gun & x2 30 mm DS30M Mk2 guns, or, x2 30 mm DS30B guns & x2 Miniguns & x4 General-purpose machine gun
Aircraft carried: x1 Westland Wildcat HMA2, armed with x2 anti submarine torpedoes OR x1 Westland Merlin HM2, armed with x4 anti submarine torpedoes
Aviation facilities: Flight deck & Enclosed hangar
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American Pianist, bandleader and Songwriter Duke Ellington (1899–1974) was an originator of big-band jazz, and created one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in Western music. He composed thousands of scores over his 50-year career and continued to play until shortly before he died in 1974.
Duke Ellington was born in 1899 in Washington, D.C. He was raised by two talented, musical parents in a middle-class neighbourhood. At the age of 7, he began studying piano and earned the nickname 'Duke' for his gentlemanly ways. Inspired by his job as a soda jerk at the Poodle Dog Cafe, he wrote his first composition, Soda Fountain Rag, at the age of 15. He created it by ear because he had not yet learned to read and write music. Despite being awarded an art scholarship to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, Ellington followed his passion for ragtime and began to play professionally at age 17. In late 1917, he formed his first group, 'The Duke's Serenaders'. He moved to Harlem, ultimately becoming part of the Harlem Renaissance. New dance crazes like the Charleston emerged in Harlem, as well as African-American musical theatre. From 1924 on, Ellington performed in Broadway nightclubs as the bandleader of a sextet, a group which in time grew to a 10-piece ensemble. From 1927 on, he gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the legendary Cotton Club in Harlem. With a weekly radio broadcast, the Cotton Club's exclusively white and wealthy clientele poured in nightly to see them. At the Cotton Club, Ellington's group performed all the music for the revues, which mixed comedy, dance numbers, vaudeville, burlesque, music, and illegal alcohol. In 1929, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn.
Duke Ellington made hundreds of recordings with his bands, appeared in films and on the radio, and toured Europe on two occasions in the 1930s. Ellington's film work began with Black and Tan (1929), a nineteen-minute all-African-American RKO short in which he played the hero Duke. He also appeared in the Amos 'n' Andy film Check and Double Check (1930). Ivie Anderson was hired as their featured vocalist in 1931. She is the vocalist on It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (1932) among other recordings. Ellington and his Orchestra also appeared in the films Murder at the Vanities (Mitchell Leisen, 1934) and Belle of the Nineties (Leo McCarey, 1934), featuring Mae West. The short film Symphony in Black (Fred Waller, 1935) featured his extended piece A Rhapsody of Negro Life. It introduced Billie Holiday and won an Academy Award as the best musical short subject. While the band's United States audience remained mainly African-American in this period, the Ellington orchestra had a huge following overseas, exemplified by the success of their trip to England in 1933 and their 1934 visit to the European mainland. Ellington's fame rose to the rafters in the 1940s when he composed several masterworks, including Concerto for Cootie, Cotton Tail and Ko-Ko. His blend of melodies, rhythms and subtle sonic movements gave audiences a new experience—complex yet accessible jazz that made the heart swing. He preferred to call it 'American Music'. During the early 1950s, Ellington's career was at a low point, with his style being generally seen as outmoded. Ellington's appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956 returned him to wider prominence and introduced him to a new generation of fans. Ellington began to work directly on scoring for film soundtracks, in particular Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1959), with James Stewart, in which Ellington appeared fronting a roadhouse combo, and Paris Blues (Martin Ritt, 1961), which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians. Ellington earned 12 Grammy awards from 1959 to 2000, nine while he was alive. At the age of 19, Ellington married Edna Thompson, who had been his girlfriend since high school, and soon after their marriage, she gave birth to their only child, Mercer Kennedy Ellington. In 1928, Ellington became the companion of Mildred Dixon, who travelled with him, managed Tempo Music, inspired songs at the peak of his career and raised his son Mercer. In 1938, he left his family and moved in with Cotton Club employee Beatrice 'Evie' Ellis. The relationship with Ellis, though stormy, continued after Ellington met Fernanda de Castro Monte in the early 1960s. Ellington supported both women for the rest of his life. In 1974, at the age of 75, Duke Ellington died of lung cancer and pneumonia. His last words were, "Music is how I live, why I live and how I will be remembered." Following Duke's death, his son Mercer took over leadership of the orchestra, continuing until his own death in 1996.
Source: Bio. and Wikipedia.
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Vintage British postcard, 1920s. Cinema Chat, Claude Harris.
Ivy Duke (9 June 1896 – 8 November 1937) was a British actress. Born in Kensington, London, as Ivy Elsie Duke, she was already an established stage actress, appearing regularly in the light musical confections associated with George Edwardes’ Gaiety Theatre, when she began her film career in 1919. She took part among others in the movies The March Hare (Frank Miller, 1919) and The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton (Arthur Rooke, 1919), produced by George Clark for Lucky Cat Productions, and distributed by Ideal Films. Already in her third film, I Will (Kenelm Foss, 1919), she was paired with Guy Newall, who earlier on had co-written her first film The March Hare. Late 1919 Lucky Cat Productions became George Clark Productions, and Stoll Pictures - the biggest renter in the 1920s - became the distributor. The company founded its own studio complex at Beaconsfield.
After a period of being the star couple directed by others, Guy Newall became also Duke's director. In the 1920s Duke reached the apex of her film career, taking part in productions like Testimony (Newall, 1920), The Bigamist (Newall, 1921), Beauty and the Beast (Newall, 1922) and Fox Farm (Newall, 1922). In 1922 Duke married Newall too, but seven years after the marriage ended in divorce. Their last film together was The Starlit Garden (Newall, 1923).
In her last films, Duke worked with other directors and male leads: The Great Prince Shan (A.E. Coleby, 1924) with Sessue Hayakawa, Decameron Nights (Herbert Wilcox, 1924) with an international cast including Lionel Barrymore and Werner Krauss, and, with an interval of several years, her last film: the Anglo-German co-production A Knight in London (Lupu Pick, 1928) with Lilian Harvey, cinematography by Karl Freund, and edited by Michael Powell. The female lead was for Harvey, Duke played her mother. It's all about a woman who accidentally awakes in a man's hotel bed. With the rise of the sound film, Ivy Duke retired from the film business. Few years later, she died at the age of only 41.
As the site At the Pictures writes: "A reasonable number of their films survive in the BFI National Archive, and several have been screened at the British Silent Film Festival over the years, including Fox Farm from the novel by Warwick Deeping about the romance between a gypsy girl and a blinded farmer, Boy Woodburn from the novel by Alfred Oliphant about a lady horse trainer and her romance with a penniless banker, and Maid of the Silver Sea from the novel by John Oxenham about romance and murder in a Breton fishing community (actually filmed on Sark). Perhaps the most widely seen is The Lure of Crooning Water {...]. In the Lure of Crooning Water Ivy Duke plays a London stage actress who, suffering from nervous collapse goes into the countryside for a ‘rest cure’ and amuses herself while there by seducing the married farmer (played by Newall) who has been acting as her host. (this reminds a bit of Murnau's Sunrise] The Garden of Resurrection, from the novel by E. Temple Thurston reverses this pattern – this time it is Newall who is suffering from extreme depression brought on by his sense of his own ugliness. He goes for a ‘rest cure’ visiting some friends who live surrounded idyllic garden in rural Ireland (although the film was shot in Cornwall). There he meets Ivy Duke….
Sources: IMDb, English Wikipedia, www.cyranos.ch/spduke-e.htm, atthepictures.photo.blog/2018/09/19/guy-newall-and-ivy-du...
The Duke of Gloucester 71000 alongside the River Towy estuary at St Ismael as it hauls the returning Carmarthen Cavalier to Bristol.
The Duke Ambassadors were an independent, student run, dance band founded by Sonny Burke in 1934 that was a staple of the Duke University social scene for thirty years. They were fixtures at the "Sunday Night Sings" in Baldwin Auditorium leading the students in group sings like "follow the bouncing ball," and audience participation events like "So you want to be a Band Leader."
For more information, see library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/uaambass/inv/
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
British postcard. Photo: George Clark Production. Ivy Duke and her dog Sammy, a sleigh courier.
Duke was the second wife of actor Guy Newall (1885–1937), a British stage and, from 1915, also screen actor, who after World War I, formed a production company, Lucky Cat Films (which later became George Clark Productions, based at Beaconsfield), in conjunction with producer and cameraman George Clark. He directed many of his own films from 1920, also occasionally sidelining as a scenario writer. He often co-starred with Duke.
Ivy Duke (9 June 1896 – 8 November 1937) was a British actress. Born in Kensington, London, as Ivy Elsie Duke, she was already an established stage actress, appearing regularly in the light musical confections associated with George Edwardes’ Gaiety Theatre, when she began her film career in 1919. She took part, among others in the movies The March Hare (Frank Miller, 1919) and The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton (Arthur Rooke, 1919), produced by George Clark for Lucky Cat Productions, and distributed by Ideal Films. Already in her third film, I Will (Kenelm Foss, 1919), she was paired with Guy Newall, who earlier on had co-written her first film The March Hare. Late 1919 Lucky Cat Productions became George Clark Productions, and Stoll Pictures became the distributor. The company founded its own studio complex at Beaconsfield.
After a period of being the star couple directed by others, including The Lure of the Crooning Water (Arthur Rooke, 1920), Guy Newall became also Duke's director. In the 1920s Duke reached the apex of her film career, taking part in productions like Testimony (Newall, 1920), The Bigamist (Newall, 1921), Beauty and the Beast (Newall, 1922) and Fox Farm (Newall, 1922). In 1922 (or 1923, sources differ) Duke married Newall too, but seven years after the marriage ended in divorce. Their last film together was The Starlit Garden (Newall, 1923).
In her last films, Duke worked with other directors and male leads: The Great Prince Shan (A.E. Coleby, 1924) with Sessue Hayakawa, Decameron Nights (Herbert Wilcox, 1924) with an international cast including Lionel Barrymore and Werner Krauss, and, with an interval of several years, her last film: the Anglo-German co-production A Knight in London (Lupu Pick, 1928) with Lilian Harvey, cinematography by Karl Freund, and edited by Michael Powell. The female lead was for Harvey, Duke played her mother. It's all about a woman who accidentally awakes in a man's hotel bed. With the rise of the sound film, Ivy Duke retired from the film business. Few years later, she died at the age of only 41.
As the site At the Pictures writes: "A reasonable number of their films survive in the BFI National Archive, and several have been screened at the British Silent Film Festival over the years, including Fox Farm from the novel by Warwick Deeping about the romance between a gypsy girl and a blinded farmer, Boy Woodburn from the novel by Alfred Oliphant about a lady horse trainer and her romance with a penniless banker, and Maid of the Silver Sea from the novel by John Oxenham about romance and murder in a Breton fishing community (actually filmed on Sark). Perhaps the most widely seen is The Lure of Crooning Water {...]. In the Lure of Crooning Water Ivy Duke plays a London stage actress who, suffering from nervous collapse goes into the countryside for a ‘rest cure’ and amuses herself while there by seducing the married farmer (played by Newall) who has been acting as her host. (this reminds a bit of Murnau's Sunrise] The Garden of Resurrection, from the novel by E. Temple Thurston reverses this pattern – this time it is Newall who is suffering from extreme depression brought on by his sense of his own ugliness. He goes for a ‘rest cure’ visiting some friends who live surrounded idyllic garden in rural Ireland (although the film was shot in Cornwall). There he meets Ivy Duke….
Sources: IMDb, English Wikipedia, www.cyranos.ch/spduke-e.htm, atthepictures.photo.blog/2018/09/19/guy-newall-and-ivy-du...
Interior shot of the chapel at Duke University. Constructed from 1930 to 1932, the Chapel seats about 1,800 people and stands 210 feet (64 m) tall, making it one of the tallest buildings in Durham County. It is built in the Collegiate Gothic style, characterized by its large stones, pointed arches, and ribbed vaults.It also has a 50-bell carillon and three pipe organs, one with 5,033 pipes and another with 6,900 pipes. From Wikipedia.
A statue of Duke Kahanamoku on Waikiki beach in Honolulu. Trish actually took this picture and stood very still so that I could turn it into an HDR image.
At the time the Duke had passed away and it was Don Ho's home and the Dukes Business partner still promoting it. It was located at Waikiki Beach
Some of the variety of views at Duke Farms in Hillsborough, New Jersey. Great place for a nice walk or bicycle ride.
MGS with Justina from Zambia Sopie from Côte d'Ivoire and Rita from Angola out on the Town at The Duke of Wellington English Pub Toynbee Street London
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Duke Chapel as seen from the traffic circle where Chapel and Campus Drives meet, blurry, July 22, 1951
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Winston Duke speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Black Panther", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
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I received my box of Duke Cannon “Big Ass” bars of soap today. Yes, it really does say “Big Ass” on each of the individual boxes. I was pleased to get them as I like to take a shower on Wednesday nights whether I need one or not.
The individual bars are three times the size of a regular bar of hand soap. These bars of soap won’t be slipping out of your hand in a prison or gym shower. No how, no way. Duke Cannon is often described as a “Man’s Man.” He doesn’t wear scarves and he’s never ordered a veggie burger. Duke grew up in a time where the word “salad” was never put next to the word “bar.” Duke Cannon don’t use no shower jell because that’s for teenage boy band members who want to smell like teen girls and not men.
According to the company’s history, this “big ass” soap was inspired by the soap bars issued to G.I.s during the Korean War. Though it does smell better. It’s made in Minnesota where the “women are strong and the men are handsome.” A portion of the proceeds go to veterans organizations.
Their web site had a really good price on a “big ass” box of four “big ass” bars of soap. This box contained soap all inspired by WWII. The manly scents are:
- Victory is in Your Hands
- Accomplishment is Our Secret Weapon
- Naval Supremacy
- Productivity Wins the Day
Preserved BR Standard CLass 8, 71000 'Duke of Gloucester' - the sole member of its class - waits at Bristol Temple Meads prior to working the return leg of an excusion from London Victoria on 9th December 2025.
Positioned in Southampton's historic Bugle Street, the award winning Duke of Wellington Pub has been a silent witness to many of the city's most famous events. The dark timbered building was originally built upon Norman vaults and cellars in 1220 and was first leased out to a Benedict Ace, one of the city's earliest mayors.
During the great French raid of 1338 it was badly damaged but only required a repair job when other parts of the city were destroyed.
In 1494 the building was for the first time converted into a public house after being bought by brewer Rowland Johnson who named it Bere House or Brew House.
Johnson not only sold drink but also started brewing his own and subsequently set up the city's first brewery.
Port books of the day record the importation of his brewing equipment and brewing hops from his native town in what is now Holland.
In 1620 the pub would have been passed many times by the Pilgrim Fathers on their way to the Mayflower, which sailed its maiden voyage to the New World from the bottom of Bugle Street.
Repository: Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. library.duke.edu/uarchives
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