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Ship Name Histories - W
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Ship Name Histories - Database of histories of ship names beginning with letter W. |
| Name Origin: A volcano in Java. |
| Name Origin: Young leaves. |
Name Origin: Whale |
Name Origin: - Pierre Marie Waldeck-Rousseau, born 1846, died 1902, a notable lawyer and statesman, Minister of the Interior during the Gambetta and Ferry Ministries. He was the leader of the moderate Republican Party, and held office as Prime Minister from 1899 to 1902. |
Wale
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| Name Origin: In Norse mythology a son of Odin and Rind. He was brave in fight and a good shot. |
| Wasa
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| Name Origin: The name of the old Swedish dynasty which gave Sweden many kings, the first of whom was Gustavus I, who in 1523 delivered Sweden from the Danish yoke and reigned until 1560. |
| Name Origin: A river on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk, and tributary to the Yare, which it joins a few miles from Yarmouth. |
| Name Origin: A river rising in County Durham, which flows past Durham into the North Sea at Wearmouth. |
Weissenburg
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| Name Origin: A town in Alsace, where on August 4th 1870, the Crown Prince of Prussia with three army corps defeated the French under General Douay, who fell. The German losses in this the first battle of the war amounted to 91 officers and 1460 men killed and wounded. |
| Name Origin: A river rising near Market Harborough and flowing into the Wash. |
| Name Origin: Wasp |
| Wespe
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| Name Origin: Wasp. |
| Wettin
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| Name Origin: The family name of the Royal house of Saxony. The first Wettin known to history is Count Dietrich, who fell in 928 in Calabria. Count Dedi II of Wettin married the widow of Margrave Otho of Meisen (Misnia), and thus laid the foundation of the wealth and importance of his house, which divided into two branches still rules over the kingdom of Saxony and the several Saxon duchies. |
Name Origin: Vienna, the capital of Austria |
Name Origin: Madcap |
| Name Origin: Another name for "Greek fire", a preparation of inflammable materials very hard to quench once alight. It was formerly used in naval warfare. |
| Name Origin: Dutch naval officer, who served as Second in Command of the Gorcum at the battle of the Kentish Knock against the British, on September 28th 1652, when he gallantly defended and saved his ship after the flight of his captain. |
| Name Origin: Dutch naval officer in command of a fireship with which he gallantly attacked and destroyed the British ship Old James, under a heavy fire from the shore batteries during Ruyter's attack on the Medway, June 12th 1667. |
Name Origin: A naval officer who distinguished himself in the battle of Copenhagen April 2nd 1801. He fell onboard the ship Prinds Christian Frederik during a fight with the English at Sjoeltand Odde March 21st 1808. |
| Wittelsbach
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| Name Origin: The family name of the Royal house of Bavaria. Its ancestor was Luitpold, cousin of the Emperor Arnulf, who fell fighting the Hungarians in 907. In 1180 the Wittelsbachs became Dukes of Bavaria, and in 1214 they received the Pfalz (Palatinate) in fief. In 1294 the House of Wittelsbach divided into the branches of Bavaria and the Palatinate, now reunited in the former. The Wittelsbachs gave three emperors to the Holy Roman Empire; Louis the Bavarian (1314-1346), Rupert the Palatine (1400-1401), Charles VII (1742-1745). |
| Name Origin: Sorcerer. |
Name Origin: (aka Odin) In Norse mythology the chief and father of the gods, who rules over the heavens and rides in the storm on his miraculous horse “Sleipner.” He is the protector of warriors and seamen. His two ravens, “Hugin” (thought” and “Munin” (memory), sit on his shoulders and whisper counsel in his ears. He sacrificed one of his eyes for a draught from the fountain of wisdom. Wednesday (Wodan’s day) is called after him. |
| Wodan
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| Name Origin: In Norse mythology the chief and father of the gods, who rules the heavens and rides in the storm on his miraculous horse “Sleipner.” He is the protector of warriors and seamen. His two ravens, Hugin (thought) and Munin (memory), sit on his shoulders and whisper counsel in his ears. He sacrificed one of his eyes for a draught from the fountain of wisdom. Wednesday is named after him. |
| Name Origin: Odin. In Norse mythology the chief and father of the gods, who rules the heavens and rides in the storm on his miraculous horse Sleipner. He is the protector of warriors and seamen. His two ravens, Hugin and Munin, sit on his shoulders and whisper counsel in his ears. He sacrificed one of his eyes for a draught from the fountain of wisdom. Wednesday is named after him. |
| Worth
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| Name Origin: A village in Alsace, where on August 6th 1870, the Crown Prince of Prussia with five army corps inflicted a crushing defeat on the French under Marshal MacMahon, who lost 8000 killed and wounded and 9000 prisoners. The German losses in killed and wounded amounted to 489 officers and 10,153 men. |
Name Origin: Shrike or butcherbird |
| Wurttemberg
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| Name Origin: Kingdom of Wurttemberg, one of the Federal Slates of the Empire. Stuttgart is its capital. |
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