Introduction to Royal Sapphire

1. Later life of royal sapphire

In 1770 Strachan was appointed to command HMS Orford, one of the squadron which went with Rear-Admiral Robert Harland to the East Indies. Ill health forced him to return to England just two years later whereupon he retired from active service.

He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Lovelace of Battersea, but the marriage produced no children. He died at Bath on 28 December 1777. After his death the baronetcy passed to his nephew, Richard John Strachan who also became a distinguished Navy officer.

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2. Royal Navy warships of royal sapphire

All British warships which served in the Dardanelles region received the battle honour Dardanelles 1915 after the war Seaplane carriers Ark Royal Ben-my-Chree Battleships Queen Elizabeth Battlecruisers Indefatigable Indomitable Inflexible (mined and damaged on March 18) Pre-dreadnought battleships Agamemnon Albion Canopus Cornwallis Exmouth Glory Goliath (torpedoed and sunk on May 13 at Cape Helles, 570 men killed) Hibernia Implacable Irresistible (mined and sunk on March 18, 150 men killed) London Lord Nelson Magnificent Majestic (torpedoed and sunk on May 27 at Cape Helles, 49 men killed) Mars Ocean (mined and sunk on March 18, little loss of life) Prince George Prince of Wales Queen Russell Swiftsure Triumph (torpedoed and sunk on May 25 at Anzac, 78 men killed) Venerable Vengeance Zealandia Cruisers Amethyst Bacchante Blenheim Chatham Cornwall Dartmouth Doris Dublin Edgar Endymion Europa Euryalus Grafton Kent Minerva Phaeton Sapphire Talbot Theseus Destroyers Arno Beagle Bulldog Chelmer Colne Foxhound Grampus Grasshopper Hussar Jed Kennet Louis (ran aground during a gale and destroyed by shellfire on October 31) Lydiard Laforey Lawford Mosquito Partridge Pincher Racoon Rattlesnake Renard Ribble Savage Scorpion Scourge Usk Wear Wolverine Monitors Abercrombie Earl of Peterborough Havelock Humber Raglan Roberts Sir Thomas Picton M33 Sloops Anemone Aster Heliotrope Honeysuckle Jonquil (HQ for British IX Corps at Suvla) Submarines B6 B11 E2 E7 (scuttled on September 5) E11 E14 E15 (destroyed on April 19) E20 (torpedoed and sunk on November 5) Other Beryl (Trawler / minesweeper) Canning (Kite balloon ship) Egmont (Ironclad, formerly Achilles) Guildford Castle (Hospital ship) Hector (Kite balloon ship) Heroic (Armed Boarding Steamer) Manica (Kite balloon ship) Triad (Yacht) Barryfield (paddle steamer converted to landing vessel)http://historicalrfa.org/requisitioned-auxiliaries/161-requisitioned-auxiliaries-b/1575-requisitioned-auxiliary-barry

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3.

List of Jubilees of British monarchs of royal sapphire

The formal jubilees of British monarchs started with George III. At the start of the 50th year of his reign, his jubilee was celebrated throughout the islands of Britain and Ireland and his colonial possessions. Later monarchs added other jubilee years.

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4. Exhibitions of royal sapphire

SoloKa Awatea, Pataka Art Museum, Porirua, 2012 Nga Kakahu Karaihe, Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 11 April 6 May 2015 Ka Awatea, De Young (museum), San Francisco, CA, January 2014 February 2016 Krero Mai, Krero Atu: Artists Areta Wilkinson and Te Rongo Kirkwood at Auckland Museum, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland, 1 July 11 September 2016 As Above, So Below, Milford Galleries, Dunedin, 22 April 17 May 2017GroupTe Hau a Uru: A Message from the West, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, 1 November 7 December 2014

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5.

French warships of royal sapphire

Battleships Bouvet (mined and sunk on March 18, 1915, 660 men killed) Charlemagne Gaulois Henri IV Jaurguiberry Massna (hulk scuttled off Cape Helles in November 1915) Saint Louis Suffren Cruisers Jeanne d'Arc Latouche-Trville Submarines Bernoulli Joule (mined and sunk on May 1, 31 men killed) Mariotte (scuttled on July 27) Saphir (sunk on January 15, 1915, 15 men killed) Turquoise (captured on October 30)

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6. Crown of Wilhelm II of royal sapphire

The Crown of Wilhelm II, also known as the Hohenzollern Crown, is the 1888 crown made for Wilhelm II, German Emperor, in his role as King of Prussia. It was only used for heraldic purposes.

A Crown of the German Empire was never made. The crown is surmounted by a diamond-studded cross which rests on a large sapphire. These rest on eight half-arches rising from the base that are adorned with 142 rose-cut diamonds and 18 diamonds.

Eight large pearls are mounted between the arches. When William abdicated in 1918 he was permitted to retain the jewels, which included the Hohenzollern crown. To protect it from theft and destruction during World War II, it was hidden in a wall in the crypt of a church.

After the war it was returned to the Hohenzollern family and is now kept at the family residence of the Hohenzollern Castle.

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7. Final standings of royal sapphire

Division One Team P W L T NR Pts 1.

Essex Eagles 16 13 1 0 2 56 2. Middlesex Crusaders 16 10 5 0 1 42 3. Northamptonshire Steelbacks 16 7 7 0 2 32 4.

Glamorgan Dragons 16 6 6 0 4 32 5. Nottinghamshire Outlaws 16 6 7 0 3 30 6. Lancashire Lightning 16 6 9 0 1 26 7.

Gloucestershire Gladiators 16 6 9 0 1 26 8. Worcestershire Royals 16 5 10 0 1 22 9. Hampshire Hawks 16 5 10 0 1 22 Champions Relegated Season ProgressionA detailed description of the season progression can be found here Division One Progression Division two Team P W L T NR Pts 1.

Sussex Sharks 18 13 4 0 1 54 2. Durham Dynamos 18 12 4 0 2 52 3. Warwickshire Bears 18 10 6 0 2 44 4.

Leicestershire Foxes 18 10 7 0 1 42 5. Derbyshire Scorpions 18 9 7 1 1 40 6. Somerset Sabres 18 9 8 0 1 38 7.

Surrey Lions 18 7 10 0 1 30 8. Kent Spitfires 18 6 10 0 2 28 9. Yorkshire Phoenix 18 5 13 0 0 20 10.

Scotland Sapphires 18 2 14 1 1 12 Promoted Season ProgressionA detailed description of the season progression can be found here Division Two Progression

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8. Te Rongo Kirkwood of royal sapphire

Te Rongo Kirkwood is an artist of Mori (Waikato, Taranaki, Te Wai-o-Hua, Te Kawerau, Ngi Tai ki Tamaki) and Scots heritage, from Auckland, New Zealand. She is known for her glass art, particularly in fused and slumped glass.

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9. Early life of royal sapphire

John Strachan was born the eldest son of Patrick Strachan, M.D.

, physician to the Greenwich Hospital, and his wife, the daughter of a Royal Navy captain. Little is known about his early life, but he appears to have entered the Navy in about 1727. It would be twenty years before he would be promoted to the rank of lieutenant, in January 1747

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10.

Mount Barrington of royal sapphire

Mount Barrington, a mountain that is part of the Mount Royal Range, is located on the Barrington Tops plateau in the Mid-Coast Council within New South Wales, Australia and has an elevation of 1,555 metres (5,102 ft) above sea level. Now the remnants of a volcano, Mount Barrington, formerly the Barrington Volcano, erupted near its present peak between 44 and 54 million years ago. The eruption caused a 700-cubic-kilometre (170 cu mi) basalt flow, which covered much of the Barrington Tops plateau.

The lava was up to 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) thick. The extensive rainforests in the area grow on much of the resultant red/brown soils. Gemstones such as zircon, sapphire and ruby were formed from the volcano.

Nearby Careys Peak is considered a vent in this extinct shield volcano. The surrounding area is covered by sub alpine Snow Gum woodland, with rainforest on the escarpment edge and in fire free gullies.

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11.

HMS of royal sapphire

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sapphire, after the Sapphire, a precious gemstone: HMS Sapphire (1651) was a 34-gun ship launched in 1651 and run ashore to avoid capture in 1671. HMS Sapphire (1675) was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate launched in 1675 and scuttled by her captain (Capt. Thomas Cleasby) to prevent capture by the French in 1696.

HMS Sapphire (1708) was a 42-gun fourth rate launched in 1708, hulked in 1740 and sold in 1745. HMS Sapphire (1741) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1741. She was reduced to 32 guns in 1756 and had been hulked by 1780.

She was sold in 1784, HMS Sapphire (1806) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1806 and sold in 1822. HMS Sapphire (1827) was a 28-gun sixth rate launched in 1827 and sold in 1864. HMS Sapphire (1874) was a Amethyst-class wooden screw corvette launched in 1874 and sold in 1892.

HMS Sapphire (1904) was a Topaze-class third-class protected cruiser launched in 1904 and sold for scrap in 1921. HMT Sapphire (1935) was an ASW trawler (P.No.

T.27) sold on 9 April 1946 and scrapped at Stavanger, Norway in June 1970.

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12.

Sir John Strachan, 5th Baronet of royal sapphire

Sir John Strachan (died 28 December 1777) was a Baronet and chief of Clan Strachan. He served in the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of captain and commanding a number of warships. His nephew, Richard Strachan, would also go on to have a distinguished career in the Navy.

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13. Joannah Tincey of royal sapphire

Joannah Tincey is an English actress. She attended Guildford School of Acting and later trained at RADA.

In 2007, she won a Carleton Hobbs Bursary and joined the BBC's Radio Drama Company. In 2008, she starred in Slipstream and also took part in the Sapphire and Steel audio dramas Remember Me and Wall of Darkness. Tincey married fellow actor Nick Underwood, and in 2014 they performed a two-person version of Pride and Prejudice together, between them playing twenty-one different characters.

After touring Britain, in 2016 the performance arrived at the Greenwich Theatre and then the Jermyn Street Theatre. She is an Associate Artist of Scary Little Girls.

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14.

Seven Years War of royal sapphire

In 1755, Strachan was appointed second lieutenant aboard the 98-gun HMS St George, which was then the flagship of Lord Hawke. The following year Strachan accompanied Hawke to Gibraltar aboard HMS Antelope, to relieve John Byng. On arriving he was appointed to command the 18-gun sloop HMS Fortune, and on 9 September 1756 was posted to HMS Experiment.

Serving on the Experiment he captured the 20-gun French privateer Tlmaque off Alicante on 19 July 1757, in a lopsided engagement that saw 110 French sailors killed and 156 wounded, against a total of 41 British casualties. During the encounter Strachan came alongside and sent a boarding party onto the Tlmaque under William Locker, who secured her surrender. Strachan took the prize into Gibraltar and along with Locker, was reassigned to the 32-gun HMS Sapphire.

He returned to England aboard her and in 1759 was attached to the Grand Fleet under Sir Edward Hawke. He was then assigned to the light squadron in Quiberon Bay under Commodore Robert Duff, and was present at the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759. Strachan remained in command of the Sapphire until 1762.

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15. Career of royal sapphire

Kirkwood credits her initial interest in glass art to meeting renowned glass artist Danny Lane in the United Kingdom. When she returned to New Zealand, her interest grew, but with two young children, she was not able to attend a formal multi-year course in glass art at a university.

She purchased a glass kiln and began to learn independently. Kirkwood's works have won recognition in a range of competitions and exhibitions. Her work was selected for inclusion in the Bombay Sapphire Blue Room exhibition in 2007, and for a Matariki-themed exhibition organised by Manukau City Council in 2009.

In 2009 she won the Auckland Royal Easter Show art awards in the glass art category with her 'Puawai' piece. In 2014 and 2012, she was selected as a finalist in the Australian Ranamok Glass Prize She has also contributed to the Project Twin Streams project in Waitakere by producing a major artwork near the pathway at Millbrook Esplanade. Her glass sculpture 'Te Aho Maumahara Sacred Strand of Memories' hangs in the community area of the Devonport Library.

In 2014, her work was exhibited in the group show Te Hau A Uru: A Message from the West at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery alongside artists Rebecca Baumann, Philip Dadson, Brett Graham, Lisa Reihana and Tanya Ruka. Between June 2015 and February 2016, Kirkwood's Ka Awatea series, previously displayed at Pataka Art Museum in 2012, was exhibited at the De Young Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco. In June 2016, Krero Mai, Krero Atu, featuring the work of Kirkwood and jeweller Areta Wilkinson opened at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

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16. Credits of royal sapphire

Witness: Five Plays from the Gospel of Luke (2007) as Martha Slipstream (2008) as Dr Kate Ritchie A Thousand Tiny Wings (2010) as Miss Lucy Watts Industrial Evolution (2011) as Clara Stretton The Elite (2011) as Stemp