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Despatch (other)
Despatch may refer to: Business * despatch, the inverse of demurrage, paid by the shipowner to the charterer under a voyage charter when a ship is loaded or unloaded in less time than allowed in the charter party * Merchants Despatch, a refrigerated freight transporting company, which founded the village of Despatch, New York Military terminology * Despatch rider, a military motorcycle courier * Mentioned in despatches, a military tradition for commending notable achievements * Military communications, particularly historically Places * Despatch, Eastern Cape, a small town near Uitenhage Uitenhage ( ; ), officially renamed Kariega, is a South African town in the Eastern Cape Province. It is well known for the Volkswagen factory located there, which is the biggest car factory on the African continent. Along with the city of Port E ... and Port Elizabeth in South Africa * Despatch, New York, United States, village now known as "East Rochester" Ships * ''Despatch'' (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demurrage
The term "demurrage" from Old French ''demeurage'', from ''demeurer'' – to linger, tarry – originated in vessel chartering and referred to the period when the charterer remained in possession of the vessel after the period normally allowed to load and unload cargo (laytime). By extension, demurrage refers to the charges that the charterer pays to the ship owner for its delayed operations of loading/unloading.Maritime Knowhow website: GENCON Clause 7 Officially, demurrage is a form of liquidated damages for breaching the laytime as it is stated in the governing contract (the charter party). The demurrage sometimes causes a loss to the seller as it increases cost of the total freight. The inverse of demurrage is despatch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merchants Despatch
The Merchants Despatch Transportation Company (MDT, also known as the Merchants Despatch Refrigerator Line) was established in 1857 or 1858 by the American Express Company of New York (then a freight forwarding service). The entity was reformed as a joint stock trading company on June 1, 1869, with ownership divided among the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway (CCC&I), the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and the New York Central Railroad (NYC), all part of the Cornelius Vanderbilt rail empire. The MDT entered the refrigerated transit business around 1880, and within five years had 1,900 reefers in service, making it one of the largest such concerns in the United States. Historian and author John H. White describes MDT as "the oldest corporate name connected with refrigerated transit to survive into modern times." The company began manufacturing cars on a small scale in 1883, and in spring of 1887 constructed a large manufacturing facility near Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Despatch Rider
A despatch rider (or dispatch) is a military messenger, mounted on horse or motorcycle (and occasionally in Egypt during World War I, on camels). In the UK 'despatch rider' is also a term used for a motorcycle courier. Despatch riders were used by armed forces to deliver urgent orders and messages between headquarters and military units. They had a vital role at a time when telecommunications were limited and insecure. They were also used to deliver carrier pigeons. World War I United Kingdom In the British Army, motorcycle despatch riders were first used in the World War I by the Royal Engineers Signal Service. When the War Department called for motorcyclists to volunteer with their machines for despatch work at the start of August 1914, the response was huge."Military Motor Cycle Notes", The Motor Cycle, 13 August 1914 The London office had 2000 more applicants than places, and a similar response was reported in regional centres around the country. If a rider and machine w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mentioned In Despatches
To be mentioned in dispatches (or despatches, MiD) describes a member of the armed forces whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which their gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described. In some countries, a service member's name must be mentioned in dispatches as a condition for receiving certain decorations. United Kingdom, British Empire, and Commonwealth of Nations Servicemen and women of the British Empire or the Commonwealth who are mentioned in despatches (MiD) are not awarded a medal for their actions, but receive a certificate and wear an oak leaf device on the ribbon of the appropriate campaign medal. A smaller version of the oak leaf device is attached to the ribbon when worn alone. Prior to 2014, only one device could be worn on a ribbon, irrespective of the number of times the recipient was mentioned in despatches. Where no campaign medal is awarded, the oak leaf is worn direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Communications
Military communications or military signals involve all aspects of communications, or conveyance of information, by armed forces. Military communications span from pre-history to the present. The earliest military communications were delivered by runners. Later, communications progressed to visual and audible signals, and then advanced into the electronic age. Examples from ''Jane's Military Communications'' include text, audio, facsimile, tactical ground-based communications, naval signalling, terrestrial microwave, tropospheric scatter, satellite communications systems and equipment, surveillance and signal analysis, security, direction finding and jamming.IHS Jane'sMilitary Communications Retrieved 2012-01-23. History In past centuries communicating a message usually required someone to go to the destination, bringing the message. Thus, the term ''communication'' often implied the ability to transport people and supplies. A place under siege was one that lost communicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Despatch, Eastern Cape
Despatch is a small town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa situated between Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage with an estimated population of 40 000. It forms part of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality which includes Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage, and has collectively a population of over 1.3 million. History The town of Despatch is situated on rich clay soil and in the late 1800s was the site of a flourishing brick industry. Despatch's name derives from this brick industry history on the account that bricks were dispatched from the original railway siding. Many of the older buildings in Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth were built from these bricks. Most of these early bricks can be identified by the word 'Despatch' imprinted on the top and bottom of the brick. The only reminder of the town's brick industry past is a chimney built in 1882 which formed part of the Brick Works. The Chimney is situated in a field on the outskirts of the town to the north next to the rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uitenhage
Uitenhage ( ; ), officially renamed Kariega, is a South African town in the Eastern Cape Province. It is well known for the Volkswagen factory located there, which is the biggest car factory on the African continent. Along with the city of Port Elizabeth and the small town of Despatch, it forms the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality. History Uitenhage was founded on 25 April 1804 by ''landdrost'' (district magistrate) Jacob Glen Cuyler and named in honour of the Cape's Commissioner-General Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist by the Dutch Cape Colony governor, Jan Willem Janssens. Uitenhage formed part of the district of Graaff Reinet (shortly after its short-lived secession). The Cape Colony received a degree of independence when "Responsible Government" was declared in 1872. In 1875, the Cape government of John Molteno took over the rudimentary Uitenhage railway site, incorporated it into the Cape Government Railways (CGR), and began construction of the lines connecting Uit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Despatch, New York
East Rochester is a coterminous town and village located southeast of the City of Rochester in Monroe County, New York, United States. The village, home to approximately 6,600 people, is surrounded by Pittsford on the west side and by Perinton to the east. Most of the southern boundary is delimited by New York State Route 31F. History Beginnings The village of East Rochester was originally known as the Village of Despatch when the community was incorporated in 1897. Despatch was laid out as a planned community designed around the New York Central Railroad mainline that ran through the center of the village. Much of the original land which became the village came from Fairport businessman Walter Parce. This land was used to develop housing for employees of the earliest employers: The Merchants Despatch Corporation and the Aeolian Piano Corporation. The original buildings of the Aeolian Piano Corporation are still in use today as a shopping center and office complex called P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Despatch (brig)
''Despatch'' was a brig noted for having shipwrecked near Isle aux Morts, Newfoundland, and for the subsequent heroic rescue of many of her passengers and crew. ''Despatch'' was partly owned by William Lancaster of Workington, England. On 29 May 1828 she set sail from Derry, Ireland ''en route'' to Quebec with eleven crew and 200 passengers, almost all of whom were Irish emigrants hoping to escape the poverty then prevailing in Ireland. The ship ran aground 10 July 1828 on a small, bare rocky island near Isle aux Morts off the south coast of Newfoundland. A seventeen-year-old girl from the area, Ann Harvey, along with her father, her twelve-year-old brother and a dog, rescued 160 people from the wreck between 12 and 15 July. As a result, Ann Harvey became known as the ''Grace Darling of Newfoundland''. The English government later awarded them a medal and a sum of money for their heroic feat. Survivors were taken to Halifax aboard HMS ''Tyne''. See also * Lists of ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Despatch
Seventeen ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Dispatch'', or the variant HMS ''Despatch'': * was a 2-gun brigantine launched in 1691 and sold in 1712. * was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1745 and sold in 1763. * was a 14-gun sloop that foundered in a hurricane in 1772. She may have been salved and sold in 1773. * was an 8-gun sloop captured in 1776 by the American privateer .Hepper (1994), pp. 49-50. * HMS ''Despatch'' was a transport purchased in 1774 as the 6-gun armed ship . She was renamed HMS ''Despatch'' in 1777 and sold in 1783. * was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1777. She capsized in 1778. * was an 8-gun schooner purchased in 1780 and sold in 1795. * HMS ''Dispatch'' was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1779 as . She was renamed HMS ''Navy Transport'' in 1782, HMS ''Dispatch'' in 1783 and was sold in 1798. * was a sloop captured from the French in 1790 and sold in 1801. * was a 16-gun launched in 1795 and never commissioned but instead sold to the Russian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Despatch
USS ''Despatch'' may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...: * , a schooner in commission from 1814 to 1820 * , a sloop-of-war in commission from 1856 to 1859, which was recommissioned as in 1860, served in the American Civil War, and was decommissioned a final time in 1865 * , a screw steamer in commission from 1873 to 1891, which served as the first Presidential yacht from 1880 until 1891 * , a ferry launch in commission as USS '' Steam Cutter No. 423'' 1902–1908, as USS ''Despatch'' 1908–1918, and as USS ''Hustle'' 1918–1921, being designated YFB-6 in 1921 * , redesignated PY-8 in 1920, a tender with the Atlantic Fleet in commission as USS ''Vixen'' (SP-68) briefly in 1917, then as USS ''Despatch'' (SP-68) f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dispatch (sternwheeler)
''Dispatch'' was a sternwheel steamboat that was operated on the Coquille River (Oregon), Coquille River on the southern Oregon coast from 1903 to 1920. The name of this vessel is sometimes seen spelled ''Despatch''. This sternwheeler should not be confused with an earlier and somewhat smaller sternwheeler, also named ''Dispatch'', that was built at Bandon, Oregon, in 1890, for which the 1903 ''Dispatch'' was a replacement.U.S. Treasury Dept., Statistics Bureau, ''Annual List of Merchant Vessels'' (for year ending June 30, 1898). at page 225.Timmen, Fritz, ''Blow for the Landing -- A Hundred Years of Steam Navigation on the Waters of the West'', Caxton, Caldwell, ID (1973), at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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