Maritime History
Bindon Blood Stoney (13 June 1828 – 5 May 1909) was an Irish civil engineer, who served as the chief engineer of the Dublin Port and Docks Board from 1852 to 1898. In 1851, Stoney discovered the spiral galaxy NGC 5609.
Galleon.
HMS Confiance (1814).
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