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IRON KNIGHT
...Iron Knight (2)
Australian - BHP
1948 - 72
5547 gross tons, 2804 net, 7763 dwt.
Lbd: 413'6" x 52'3" x 24'. on196742. Steamship, cargo only as built by Burrard Dry Dock Co Ltd, Vancouver as the Venissieux for the French Government. Single screw, coal fired, with Parsons type double reduction Turbine engine.
11 knots on 20 tons of fuel per day. Sold 19..... to Cie Nantaise Des Bhargeurs De L'Ouest & Others.
Sold 19..... Society Nationale Chemins De Fer Francaise (French Railways). August 1955 purchased by BHP.
Registered Melbourne.
Accomodation reconstructed to suit Australian conditions at Newport Graving Dock on the Usk River, Wales UK. 9 February 1956 trials completed and she sailed for Swansea with Captain J Miles in command and a crew of 39. She loaded 2,070 tons of Anthracite coal and proceed to Sauda, Norway to load 3,995 tons of ferro manganese.
This visit gave her the distinction of being the first ever Australian vessel to visit Norway. Departing February 15 bound for Port Kembla, she broke down in the North Sea 27 February, taking four hours to repair. Arrived Aden for coal bunkering and, had to unload the Anthracite coal from the third hold due to spontaneous combustion.
Sailed out only to return the following day with electrical problems. Eventually arrived Port Kembla via Port Said, Suez, Aden (twice) and Fremantle, a voyage of 16 weeks. In her time on the Australian coast, BHP employed her very suitably in most cargo capacities. At times she carried train rails to Thevenard and Port Lincoln, South Australia. Has also transported Bentonite from Whyalla to Port Stanley, Tasmania. Also conveyed 'scrap' metal and pre-slung cargoes.
By 1972 she had transported 2,500,00 tons of cargo. Sold 1972 to Great Fareastern Ltd, Hong Kong, and resold to Great China Steel Enterprise Co, Taiwan for scrapping purposes. Sailed from Newcastle in tow with Iron Whyalla bound for Kaohsiung and arrived October 14 1972. 30 October 1972 demolition began
Information supplied by John E. Hoskin www.flotilla-australia.com/
Photo Credits: Many thanks to the Australian Merchant Navy Collection
Knights Reed Meyer has made a living off blocks this season getting yet another highlight rejection as St. John's blew out the Islanders.
KNIGHTS OUST ISLANDERS
By Regina Shiroma
The St. John’s Knights added another win to their record Tuesday night on their home court after defeating the JFK Islanders 72-58 with the help of center Reed Meyer, who led his team with 19 points.
Without a big man to challenge Meyer in the paint, the Islanders were forced to take shots from the outside.
“When you have teams that are shorter than you, you really want to take advantage of the post,” said Meyer.
In the first quarter, the Islanders attempted eight shots from the three point line unsuccessfully. By the end of the first quarter, the Knights seemed to be looking at an easy win after Argie Flores made two threes, one after the other. However the Islanders Kurtis Silva gave the Knights a run for their money; Silva would bridge the gap, sinking a trey of his own to begin their 10-0 spree at the end of the second quarter. Knowing that their shooting game was crucial, the Islanders passed the ball around the arc, spreading the defense to give them some breathing room to shoot the short jumpers.
“Kurt was hitting all their three’s so we stuck somebody on him, Cedric (Sevilla), probably our best defender, to slow him down,” said Meyer of the Islanders’ comeback.
The second half opened up with Meyer immediately dropping an easy floater untouched, but the Islanders Give Lewi answered with back to back jumpers. Soon after, Silva stole the ball, made his layup and picked up a foul in the process. After Silva’s successful free throw, the Islanders were down by just one point making the score 38-37. Nevertheless, this is as close as the Islanders would ever come to the Knights for the rest of the game.
After a brief power outage in the middle of the third quarter, both teams seemed to have regained their strength and energy during the break. The intensity level raised as each team sprinted the length of the court, almost non-stop, through the entire fourth quarter. The Knights began to pull away off back to back steals by teammates Cedric Sevilla and Thaddeus “TJ” Atalig, each of them scoring on both attempts. The Knight’s then scored lay-up after lay-up to extend their lead once again and to secure the win.
GW 85, Guam High 48
Valiant Borja led the charge for the Geckos with 23 points, three steals and three assist as they easily defeated the Panthers in their first game back from the Far East Tournament. Raymark Mariano also powered the Geckos with a double-double in 15 points and 10 rebounds. In the loss, Matt Eaton scored 24 points for Guam High.
FD 61, Southern 17
Coming off a third-place finish in the Far East, the Friars cruised past the Dolphins to open the second half of the seaon 61-17. FD naps a three-game losing streak.
Friars beat Dolphins by 44 points
Written by
Vincent Espinal Jr.
For Pacific Daily News
The Independent Interscholastic Athletic Association of Guam Basketball League resumed last night at Agat gym as the Father Duenas Friars battled it out with the Southern High Dolphins.
In the end the Friars emerged with a 61-17 victory, improving their record to 8-4, while the Dolphins dropped to 1-11.
The Friars were the first to strike with a layup by Cam Eusebio, and then they went to big man Michael Sakazaki in the paint for an easy basket, forcing the Dolphins to call a timeout.
The timeout didn't faze the Friars as they used aggressive defense, forcing the Dolphins to turn the ball over. The Friars went on a 21-0 run before Dolphins' Jacob Chaco scored, ending the quarter with FD up 23-2.
In the second quarter, the Friars' Luis Cabral got the first basket followed by two layups by Sakazaki to increase their lead to 29-2. The Dolphins' Jordan Aguon and Chaz Nangauta got two free throws apiece, but the Friars' John Onedera stopped the mini-rally with a jumper off the glass, giving his team a 31-6 lead with four minutes left. The Friars then closed the half on a 7-1 run to go up 38-7.
After halftime, Eusebio got the first basket with a floater off the glass, but the Dolphins' Tony Taianao and Aguon combined for five points to help motivate their team.
Christian Payumo hit an 18-foot jumper followed by a Sakazaki free throw to push the lead to 43-12.
In the final quarter, the Friars got started with quick baskets by Nick Bell and Glen Gogue. The Dolphins could not seem to find any rhythm on offense, but they did not give up. Stingy defense by the Friars, however, gave the Dolphins no opening to get to the rim. The Friars went on a 10-0 run before Nangauta scored five points in the waning moments of the game.
Payumo finished with 13 points, while Nangauta led the Dolphins with seven.
•St. Paul Christian Warriors 39, Simon Sanchez Sharks 22: Morgan Aiken had 11 points and Forrest Gourley added seven in a low-scoring affair at St. Paul Christian School as the Warriors improved to 10-3. Edros Olalai and Mark Tandoc scored five points apiece for Sanchez. The Sharks won the junior varsity game, but the score was unavailable. Official scorekeeper Jun Miranda provided the information.
The league will wrap up the regular season this weekend with a full slate of games on Friday and Saturday. The playoffs are scheduled to open March 10 with the championship and third-place games scheduled for March 16.
"Faces of Hayward" Mural Signal Box Series - Chabot College Graduate (Detail) - by Andrew Kong Knight
The horrible weather outside has taken its toll. So, inside I go to mess about with whatever I can find!
Then tried with a knight
Comments and feedback welcome!!
A map of the area of London around the Knights Templar pub, where my wife and I will be having our wedding reception / first anniversary party later this year. (Invites going out soon.)
Oh, and Cennydd, in case you didn't recognise it, the font is Segoe Condensed (one of the ones that ships with MS Office 2007) and I know the proportions aren't terribly accurate, it was drawn by hand :oþ
Burnzie is a big, bad monster. He has yellow gleaming eyes, a mouthful of sharp teeth and spooky, downward pointing horns. If you point an ordinary sword at him, he will spurt magma fumes on it, to make it go red-hot in an instant. And he is pretty good at bowling.
Knight Helmet with Moveable Visor/Face Mask to keep your face warm (7 sizes - Newborn to Adult)
This Crochet Hat Pattern includes instructions for making Knight Helmet with Moveable Visor to keep your face warm
The patterns is written for the following sizes:
Newborn, 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months, 1-2, 3-4 years, 5-10 years, teen/adult.
Two Knights: A classical knight, and a Valkyrie-ish knight.
Conceptualized for a possible Heroica-related project.
The Knights Hospitaller were a Christian organization that began as an Amalfitan hospital founded in Jerusalem in approximately 1080 to provide care for poor, sick or injured pilgrims to the Holy Land. After the Western Christian reconquest of Jerusalem in 1099 during the First Crusade it became a religious/military order under its own charter, and was charged with the care and defence of the Holy Land. Following the conquest of the Holy Land by Islamic forces, the Order operated from Rhodes, over which it was sovereign, and later from Malta.
The monastic hospitaller order was founded following the First Crusade. Initially the group cared for pilgrims in Jerusalem, but the order soon extended to providing pilgrims with an armed escort, which soon grew into a substantial force. The Hospitallers and the Knights Templar, formed in 1119, became the most powerful Christian groups in the Holy Land. The order came to distinguish itself in battles with the Muslims, its soldiers wearing a black surcoat with a white cross, although this was later changed to the better known red surcoat with the sign of the cross on it in white.
By the mid-12th century the order was clearly divided into military brothers and those who worked with the sick. It was still a religious order and had privileges granted by the Papacy; for example, the order was exempt from all authority save that of the Pope, and it paid no tithes and was allowed its own religious buildings. Many of the more substantial Christian fortifications in the Holy Land were built by the Templars and the Hospitallers. At the height of the Kingdom of Jerusalem the Hospitallers held seven great forts and 140 other estates in the area.
The rising power of Islam eventually expelled the Knights from Jerusalem. After the fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1291 (Jerusalem itself fell in 1187), the Knights were confined to the County of Tripoli, and when Acre was captured in 1291 the order sought refuge in the Kingdom of Cyprus, from where they later moved to Rhodes.
On Rhodes the Hospitallers, then also referred to as the Knights of Rhodes, were forced to become a more militarised force, fighting especially with the Barbary pirates. They withstood two invasions in the 15th century, one by the Sultan of Egypt in 1444 and another by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II in 1480 who, after capturing Constantinople 1453A.D., made the Knights a priority target. In 1522 an entirely new sort of force arrived: 400 ships under the command of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent delivered 200,000 men to the island. Against this force the Knights, under Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, had about 7,000 men-at-arms and their fortifications. The siege lasted six months, at the end of which the surviving defeated Hospitallers were allowed to withdraw to Sicily.
After seven years of moving from place to place in Europe the Knights got an established base again in 1530 when Charles V of Spain, as King of Sicily, gave them Malta, in exchange for an annual fee of a single Maltese falcon, which they were to send on All Souls Day to the King's representative, the Viceroy of Sicily.
In 1565 Suleiman sent an invasion force of 40,000 men to besiege the 700 knights and 8,000 soldiers and expel them from Malta, with the aim of gaining a base from which to launch an assault on Europe. The Great Siege of Malta was one of the greatest sieges in history. By the time the Ottomans withdrew the Hospitallers had only 600 men still able to bear arms. Of the 40,000 Ottomans, only 15,000 returned to Turkey. Malta’s capital Valletta is named in memory of the Grand Master who withstood the siege.
The Knights Hospitaller remained on Malta for 268 years, however they declined in power and influence through the 17th and 18th centuries, largely due to their losing their raison d'etre.
Their end was brought about by Napoleon, who in 1798 during his expedition to Egypt, as a ruse, asked for safe harbour to resupply his ships, and then turned against his hosts once safely inside Valletta. Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim failed to anticipate or prepare for this threat, provided no effective leadership, and readily capitulated to Napoleon, arguing that the order's charter prohibited fighting against Christians.
The order still exists, as a Roman Catholic religious order based in Rome.
Members of an incoming and outgoing cohort of winners of Prototype Fund grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Pittsburgh Sept. 19, 2014 at Left Field Meeting Space for a demo day. Photo by Michael D. Bolden / Editorial Director, Knight Foundation
Adding some scuffing and grime. I really want to add rust, but not sure it fits. Maybe I keep that in reserve for Nurgle...