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"HMS Atlas was a 91-gun second rate ship which was never completed and spent her entire service in reserve or as a hospital ship. She was launched in 1860, and lent to the Metropolitan Asylums Board for use as a hospital ship in 1881, and sold to them in 1885. Atlas served until 1904, when she was sold for breaking. Description Atlas was long. She was to have been driven by a screw propeller. Had she been completed, her complement would have been 860 men. History The early years A sister ship to , Atlas was to have been a 91-gun second rate ship of the line. She was built at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Laid down in 1858, Atlas was one of the ships under construction at Chatham that were inspected by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on 23 August 1859. Built on No. 6 Slip, Atlas was launched on 21 July 1860. The christening was performed by Mrs Schomberg, wife of Captain Schomberg. On 24 July, Atlas was taken to Sheerness to be fitted with her steam engines. By April 1861, Atlas was undergoing trials under steam. Atlas was initially earmarked for the Channel Fleet. Atlas was placed in reserve, in 1861 at Sheerness. She was reduced to 54 guns in 1870. In 1874, Atlas was transferred to Chatham Dockyard. She was totally disarmed in 1879. Hospital ship In June 1881, the Lords of the Admiralty agreed to lend Atlas and to the Metropolitan Asylums Board along with a steam pinnace, due to an outbreak of smallpox. Atlas was to be converted into a hospital ship for 250 patients. A third hospital ship was the Castaliâ. The Metropolitan Asylums Board was to insure Atlas and Endymion for £11,000 and £8,000 respectively. There was opposition to the proposed use of Atlas from the Thames Conservancy and other public and private bodies. Agreement had been made to lease a berth at Deptford, Kent but when the managers of a company with premises nearby learned of the proposed use of Atlas as an isolation hospital, they put pressure on the owners of the berth with the result that the owners then decided not to allow Atlas to be berthed there. She was initially stationed at Greenwich, Kent, in a berth which had been previously used for another hospital ship. This drew an objection from the shipbuilders Messrs Rennie because some of their employees refused to work near the riverside where Atlas was moored. It was also necessary to move Atlas and Endymion every time Rennie's launched a ship. Atlas was acquired by the board on 4 June, and Endymion on 5 July. Atlas housed 120 patients. In 1882, the Thames Conservancy wrote to the Metropolitan Asylums Board urging them to move Atlas and Endymion from Greenwich. The Thames Conservancy also called upon the board to pay a large claim for expenses incurred by Messrs Rennie's. At a meeting of the board, it was suggested that if moved, Atlas should be used for convalescent patients. The board decided to await the report from a Royal Commission into infectious diseases hospitals before deciding whether or not to move the ships. A ward on board Atlas In August 1882, Atlas was moved to nearby Deptford Creek. In February 1885, a meeting of the Metropolitan Asylums Board was informed that the Admiralty had stated that if the board wished to continue using Atlas and Endymion, they would have to purchase them at a cost of £8,400 and £6,500 respectively. The board replied that they would purchase the ships, but asked for the cost to be reduced. In June, it was reported that the board were authorised to purchase both ships. Following a fire on the training ship in 1875, engines and a generator were installed on board Atlas in 1886 to provide the ship with electric light, given that oil lamps had been deemed a fire hazard. Atlas served as a hospital ship until 1904, when the new Joyce Green Hospital opened at Dartford, Kent. Atlas was sold by auction in December, along with Endymion and Castaliâ for a total of £8,045. Atlas realised £3,725. See also * Healthcare in London References Category:1860 ships Category:Ships of the line of the Royal Navy Category:Hospital ships of the United Kingdom Category:Health in the Royal Borough of Greenwich Category:Merchant ships of the United Kingdom Category:Hospitals in Kent "
"Beckersville is a small, rural village located in the western portion of the vast Robeson Township, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The village sits upon Pennsylvania Route 10, and sits next to Interstate 176, which spans from Morgantown to northeastern Cumru Township, just outside Reading. The Twin Valley School District serves it. References Category:Unincorporated communities in Berks County, Pennsylvania Category:Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania "
"David Fisher (1946 – 21 March 2013) was an award-winning English artist and designer based in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. He was a prolific designer and painter of pub signs before securing a unique commission to create vast murals to improve UK service stations. He has won many awards including the Holburne Museum of Art's portrait award. His work has been praised by Victoria Glendinning, Humphrey Ocean RA and John Leighton, Director of the National Galleries of Scotland. Early life From 1961–1966 he served an apprenticeship as a signwriter and decorator for F.Speed and Sons in Midsomer Norton. From 1966–1970 he attended the West of England College of Art, now the School of Creative Arts, Bristol. He then went self-employed as a freelance artist and designer. Career After leaving West of England College of Art he started a business at his home at the Hole in the Wall, Church Square, Midsomer Norton, painting pictorial pub signs for Courage Brewery and Butcombe Brewery. In this role he designed and created signs for pubs in Somerset, Wiltshire, South Gloucestershire and South Wales. He completed almost 400 signs in a fifteen-year period. In the 1980s he commenced a ten-year period producing large scale murals for Trusthouse Forte's Welcome Break service areas on the country's motorway network. Fourteen were created, some measuring over sixty feet in length and eight feet high, setting a decorative theme for each site depending on its location. Some depicted local historical events, others recorded local battles, while some just informed travellers of attractions in that part of the country. These were placed in the following service station locations: * London Heathrow Terminal 4 * Dover Eastern Docks * Gretna Green * Abington services * Hartshead Moor services * Membury services * Michaelwood services * Woodall services * Newport Pagnell services * Pease Pottage services * Copdock, Ipswich * Sedgemoor services It is even possible to purchase prints of some of the service station murals. During this period, he also undertook a number of notable commissions, including working for RoadChef, Saudi Arabia Air Force, The Personalised Plates website, Qaboos bin Said al Said, the Sultan of Oman, National Giro and the Property Services Agency. After working for 25 years in the corporate field, he moved towards more personal choices for his art, specialising in detailed landscapes, seascapes and portraits in both oil and watercolour. Holburne Museum of Art In 2008 he won the Holburne Museum of Art's biennial portrait competition for Dead Man Posing, a portrait of Philip Ledbury from Frome, an artist who had been diagnosed with leukaemia. The prize was a commission of £5,000 for a portrait to be added to the Holburne's collection of portraiture. The panel of judges included the author Victoria Glendinning, John Leighton, Director of the National Galleries of Scotland and the artist Humphrey Ocean RA. They presented the award to him at a ceremony on 17 October. He belonged to the Old Bakery Artists group that has been meeting monthly in Radstock since 2000. He died of cancer on 21 March 2013. Exhibitions Royal West of England Academy * Royal West of England Academy Autumn Exhibition, 2009. * Royal United Hospital, 2009. * Bel-Ami Gallery, Honiton, Devon, 2008. * The Gallery, Stourhead, 2010 * Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 2008 * Royal Society of Portrait Painters, annual exhibition, the Mall Galleries, Carlton House Terrace, London, 2008 * Wells and Mendip Museum, 2009 * Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, 2009 Honours * Honorary Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers. * Associate of the Institute of British Decorators and Interior Designers (later incorporated into the Chartered Society of Designers). * Selected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition Awards * Shortlisted for the Daily Mail "Not the Turner Prize" award, 2003. * Eight times winner of 'The Most Popular Picture in the Show' at the Royal Bath & West of England Society's annual show * Winner of the 2008 Holburne Portrait Prize for Dead Man Posing. He won a £5,000 commission to paint a portrait for the Museum's collection from the Holburne Museum of Art in Bath, Somerset * Winner of the Royal West of England Academy Award for his Reflections on 2019, 2007 Media coverage His work has frequently been covered by local newspapers and magazines in Bath, Somerset and elsewhere, as well as by the BBC and arts media. References External links * https://web.archive.org/web/20040612205523/http://www.davidfisherartist.co.uk/ Category:People from Midsomer Norton Category:English designers Category:20th- century English painters Category:English male painters Category:21st-century English painters Category:21st-century male artists Category:English muralists Category:Alumni of the University of the West of England, Bristol Category:Artists from Somerset Category:1946 births Category:2013 deaths "