HMS Cupar
HMS ''Cupar'' was a of the Royal Navy from World War I. She was originally to be named ''Rosslare'', but was renamed before launch to avoid possible misunderstandings of having vessels named after coastal locations. See also *Cupar, Fife, Scotland Citations References * Hunt-class minesweepers (1916) Royal Navy ship names 1918 ships Maritime incidents in 1919 Ships sunk by mines Shipwrecks in the North Sea {{UK-minesweeper-stub ...
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A McMillan & Son
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguis ...
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