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Overview page. Subjects: Warfare and Defence — Maritime History.
Of a ship, to sink at sea, generally understood to be by the flooding of its hull either through springing a leak or through striking a rock. Other causes of a ship sinking, such as...
Evans, Evan [Ieuan Glan Geirionydd] (1795–1855), Welsh-language poet
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
P ublished online September 2006 .
Reference Entry. Subjects: Literary Studies (Poetry and Poets); Literary Studies (British and Irish). 841 words.
Evans, Evan [Ieuan Glan Geirionydd] (1795–1855), Welsh-language poet, was born at Tan-y-celyn in Trefriw, Caernarvonshire, on 20 April 1795. His father, Robert Evans, a farmer, and his...