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Seaford Creek
Seaford may refer to: Places Australia * Seaford, Victoria ** Seaford railway station, Melbourne * Seaford, South Australia ** Seaford railway station, Adelaide United Kingdom * Seaford, East Sussex ** Seaford (UK Parliament constituency) ** Seaford branch line ** Seaford (Sussex) railway station United States * Seaford, Delaware * Seaford, New York ** Seaford (LIRR station) * Seaford, Virginia * Seaford Hundred, an unincorporated subdivision of Sussex County, Delaware People * John Seaford, Anglican priest * Richard Seaford, British classicist * Baron Seaford, a UK peerage Sports * Seaford Town F.C., an association football team in Seaford, East Sussex * Seaford Football Club, an Australian rules football club * Seaford Rangers FC, an association football team in Seaford, South Australia Other uses * Seaford House, a building in London * Seaford Museum, a museum in Seaford, East Sussex * Short Seaford, a British flying boat * HMS ''Seaford'', the name of several ships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaford, Victoria
Seaford is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 36 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Frankston local government area. Seaford recorded a population of 17,215 at the . History Seaford was the site of the Karrum Karrum swamp, which was utilised for food by the Bunurong Aboriginal people. In the early twentieth century, after European settlement, the swamp was drained for farming purposes (with wet areas remaining only at low lands; including Seaford and the Edithvale wetlands). The name Seaford arose during a meeting of local residents in 1913, called to decide upon a name for the settlement and the new railway station about to open. It was agreed that the name should contain some reference to the sea. Councillor Sydney Plowman suggested "Seaford", dropping the "l" from his home town of Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, England. The suggestion was adopted. The Seaford Post Office opened on 6 March 1914. During the 1950s a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Seaford
John Nicholas Shtetinin Seaford (born 12 September 1939) is a retired Anglican priest. He was educated at Radley and Durham University and ordained in 1969. After curacies in Enfield and Winchester he held incumbencies at Chilworth, North Baddesley, Highcliffe and Hinton Admiral before becoming Dean of Jersey and Rector of St Helier St Helier (; Jèrriais: ; french: Saint-Hélier) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. St Helier has a population of 35,822 – over one-third of the total population of Jersey – ..., posts he held from 1993 to his retirement in 2005. References Deans of Jersey 1939 births People educated at Radley College Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham Living people {{Christianity-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Seaford
Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Seaford'', after the coastal town of Seaford, now in East Sussex. A fifth was planned, but was not completed for the navy: * was a 24-gun sixth rate purchased in 1695 and captured by the French in 1697. * was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1697, rebuilt in 1724 and broken up in 1740. * was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1741 and broken up by 1754. * was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1754, participated in the Battle of Manila (1762), and sold in 1784. * HMS ''Seaford'' was to have been a . She was laid down in 1941, renamed later that year, and captured while under construction by the Japanese during the Fall of Hong Kong The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the ... in late 1941. She was completed by them and lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Seaford
The Short S.45 Seaford was a 1940s flying boat, designed as a long range maritime patrol bomber for RAF Coastal Command. It was developed from the Short S.25 Sunderland, and initially ordered as "Sunderland Mark IV". Background In 1942, the Air Ministry issued Specification R.8/42 for a replacement of the Sunderland, as a long range patrol bomber for service in the Pacific Ocean. It required more powerful engines, better defensive armament, and other enhancements.Barnes 1989, pp. 357Green 1968, p. 106. Design and development The Sunderland Mark IV used major structural elements of the Sunderland Mark III, with a fuselage stretch of 3 ft ahead of the wing, an extended and redesigned planing bottom, the same wing with thicker Duralumin skinning, and Bristol Hercules engines. Further structural changes were made after initial flight tests. The planned armament consisted of two fixed forward-firing .303 inch (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns in the nose, a Brockhouse Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaford Museum
The Seaford Museum and Heritage Society is a local history museum located at the Martello Tower in East Sussex, East Sussex, England. It was established in 1979 and contains objects, archives and displays relating to the history of the local area. The Museum Seaford Museum is housed in Tower number 74 and is situated on the Esplanade in Seaford, East Sussex. The Tower is the most westerly of a line of defensive fortifications built along the Kent and Sussex coast during the Napoleonic Wars. The Tower is a round two-storey structure surrounded by a dry, brick-lined moat. It was constructed between 1806 and 1810. The War Department sold it in 1880. During the next 90 years it passed through a number of hands and was used for various commercial purposes. During the 1930s the moat floor was used as a roller skating rink while the tower was used as a cafeteria. In 1976 the Tower was acquired by Lewes District Council and the Museum was installed there in 1979. The Museum has of f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
