What position did the man who drowned at a Australian beach named after a naval ship hold?
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Harold Holt Harold Edward Holt, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; 5 August 190817 December 1967), was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 to 1967. He was born in Stanmore, New South Wales and won a scholarship to study law at the University of Melbourne. Holt went into business as a solicitor, during which time he joined the United Australia Party (UAP). In 1935, aged just 27, he was elected to parliament for Fawkner. He held this seat until 1949, when he transferred to Higgins. Holt spent 32 years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but was Prime Minister for only 22 months before he disappeared in December 1967 while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria and was presumed drowned.
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Cheviot Beach Cheviot Beach is a beach near Point Nepean in Victoria, Australia. It was named after the SS "Cheviot", which broke up and sank nearby with the loss of 35 lives on 20 October 1887.
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Diether von Roeder Kapitänleutnant Diether von Roeder (died 10 July 1918) was a German naval officer killed during World War I. He was commander of the 13th Torpedo Boat Flotilla and died aboard Torpedo Boat "S66". The World War II German destroyer "Z17" was named "Diether von Roeder" in his honour.
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Williams Island (South Australia) Williams Island is an island in the Australian state of South Australia located off the south coast of Jussieu Peninsula on Eyre Peninsula approximately 34 km south-east of Port Lincoln. It was named by Matthew Flinders for Robert Williams who subsequently lost his life along with seven other crew in the capsize of a cutter launched from the HM Sloop "Investigator" to search for water on 21 February 1802. Since 2004, the island has been part of the Memory Cove Wilderness Protection Area.
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Robert Carthew Reynolds Rear-Admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds ("bap." 30 July 1745 – 24 December 1811) was a long serving and widely respected officer of the British Royal Navy who served in four separate major wars in a 52-year career. During this time he saw only one major battle, although was engaged in one of the most noted frigate actions of the French Revolutionary Wars, the destruction of the "Droits de l'Homme", in which his own frigate was driven ashore and wrecked. Reynolds died in 1811 during a great storm in late December, which scattered his convoy and wrecked three ships of the line including his own flagship HMS "St George". Over 2,000 British sailors, including Reynolds, were drowned.
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Robert Clark Morgan Robert Clark Morgan (13 March 1798 – 23 September 1864) was an English sea captain and diarist. He was captain of the ship that brought the first settlers to South Australia in the "Duke of York" in 1836. The diaries that he kept are held in the collection of the State Library of New South Wales. His life as a whaling captain has been recorded in the book "The Man Who Hunted Whales" (2011) by Dorothy M. Heinrich.
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Perceval Shipton Perceval Martin Maurice Shipton (17 June 1906 – 11 August 1972) was an English-born Australian politician.
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Broken Bay Broken Bay, a semi–mature tide-dominated drowned valley estuary, is a large inlet of the Tasman Sea located about 50 km north of Sydney central business district on the coast of New South Wales, Australia; being one of the bodies of water that separate greater Metropolitan Sydney from the Central Coast. Broken Bay is the first major bay north of Sydney Harbour.
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Herbert Haddock Herbert James Haddock, CB RNR (27 January 1861 – 4 October 1946) was an English naval reserve officer and ship's captain, and was captain of the RMS "Olympic" at the time of the sinking of the "Titanic". He was the first person to captain "Titanic," overseeing the ship at Belfast while her delivery-trip crew was assembling there from 25 to 31 March 1912.
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Ted Briggs Albert Edward Pryke "Ted" Briggs MBE (1 March 1923 – 4 October 2008) was a British seaman and the last survivor of the destruction of the battlecruiser HMS "Hood" . He remained in the Royal Navy after the Second World War and was later commissioned.
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Brian Murray (governor) Rear Admiral Sir Brian Stewart Murray {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (26 December 1921 – 4 June 1991) was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy and the 22nd Governor of Victoria, serving from March 1982 until October 1985.
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Baudin Beach, South Australia Baudin Beach is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on Dudley Peninsula on the north coast of Kangaroo Island about 115 km south of the capital city of Adelaide and about 12 km west of Penneshaw. It is named in 2002 after the French navigator Nicolas Baudin in honor of his exploration of Kangaroo Island in 1802.
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William James Lanyon Smith William James Lanyon Smith {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1 December 1922) is a former New Zealand naval officer. He served in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II and was second-in-command of a midget submarine during an attack in Singapore codenamed Operation Struggle, for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.
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Richard Edmond Courtney Lieutenant Colonel Richard Edmond Courtney CB, VD (8 September 1870 – 21 October 1919) was an Australian soldier during the First World War. Courtney's Post, now the site of a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula, is named in his honour.
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Arthur Thomas Thrupp Arthur Thomas Thrupp (8 June 1828 – 4 May 1889) was an officer of the British Royal Navy during the Crimean War and the Second Opium War, who held several sea commands, including "Megaera" , which he deliberately beached at the isolated Île Saint-Paul when she became unseaworthy.
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Joseph Arthur Hamilton Beresford Commander Joseph Arthur Hamilton Beresford (11 August 1861 – 28 December 1952) was a senior officer in the Royal Australian Navy. Born in Laugharne, Wales, Beresford came to Australia in 1900 on loan from the British Royal Navy. During the early stages of the First World War he commanded the naval brigade attached to the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) which captured German New Guinea in September 1914. He was later mentioned in despatches. His only son was killed during the war. Later settling in Sydney, New South Wales where he lived until the death of his wife in 1951, he died at the age of 91 in Hobart, Tasmania. He was survived by a grandson and a granddaughter.
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Middle Harbour Middle Harbour (or "Warring-Ga"), a semi–mature tide dominated drowned valley estuary, is the northern arm of Port Jackson, an inlet of the Tasman Sea located north of Sydney central business district on the coast of New South Wales, Australia.
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William Tennant (Royal Navy officer) Admiral Sir William George "Bill" Tennant KCB CBE MVO DL (2 January 1890 – 26 July 1963) was a British naval officer. He was lauded for overseeing the successful evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. Tennant subsequently served as captain of the battlecruiser HMS "Repulse", when it searched for German capital ships in the Atlantic. He remained in this capacity when the "Repulse" was sunk by the Japanese along with HMS "Prince of Wales" in the South China Sea on 10 December 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He later aided in the setup of the Mulberry harbours and the Pluto pipelines, a crucial part of the success of Operation Overlord.
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Phillip Island (Norfolk Island) Phillip Island is an uninhabited island located 6 km south of Norfolk Island in the Southwest Pacific, and part of the Norfolk Island group. It was named in 1788 by Lieutenant Philip Gidley King for Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales. It is part of the Australian territory of Norfolk Island. It is included in Norfolk Island National Park, as is neighbouring Nepean Island, and about 10 per cent of Norfolk Island proper. Phillip Island has an area of 190 ha , measuring 2.1 km from west to east and 1.95 km from north to south, with the highest point, Jacky Jacky, 280 m above sea level. It is roughly shaped like a hairdryer with the nozzle pointing east. The island is of volcanic origin, made of basaltic tuff and lava dating from the Miocene epoch. Phillip Island is included on the Register of the National Estate.
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Lionel Matthews Lionel Colin Matthews, GC, MC (15 August 1912 – 2 March 1944) was an Australian Army Signals Corps officer posthumously awarded the George Cross in recognition of his gallant and distinguished services whilst a prisoner of war in Japanese hands in Borneo during the Second World War.
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Little Manly Beach Little Manly Beach is a beach on Sydney Harbour, in Little Manly Cove, near Manly Cove in Manly. Arthur Phillip was stabbed in the shoulder after interrupting some Australian Aborigines butchering a whale carcass near here. There are some historic baths, and toilets, and known for a popular kiosk that is open for breakfast lunch and dinner through the daylight savings period. There is also a beach in manly called manly beach near manly cove.
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Ludwig von Reuter Ludwig von Reuter (9 February 1869 – 18 December 1943) was a German admiral during World War I who commanded the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet when it was interned at Scapa Flow at the end of the war. On 21 June 1919 he ordered the scuttling of the fleet to prevent the British from seizing the ships.