Vesuvius (disambiguation)
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Vesuvius can mean:
- Mount Vesuvius, a volcano in Italy which infamously destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii
- Battle of Vesuvius in Italy in 339 BC
- An asteroid, 13897 Vesuvius. See Meanings of asteroid names (13001-14000).
- Vesuvius Incorporated is a publisher in White Wolf Game Studio's videogame setting World of Darkness.
- Vesuvius Group sa/nv is a company that develops, manufactures and markets high performance specialty ceramics, refractory products and control systems.
- Vesuvius, British Columbia is a community in British Columbia in Canada.
- Vesuvius, Virginia is a community in Virginia in the United States.
- TCS Vesuvius is a starship in the Wing Commander science fiction universe.
- The US Navy had various ships named USS Vesuvius:-
- Vesuvius (1806), a bomb ketch
- Vesuvius (1846), a brig
- Vesuvius (1888), a unique dynamite-gun cruiser
- Vesuvius (AE-15), a Second World War ammunition cargo ship
- The British Royal Navy has had 13 ships named HMS Vesuvius. The earliest was a fireship launched in 1693 and the most recent a minelaying tender scrapped in 1958.
- Vesuvius was the code name for German World War II bases that were to launch the Wasserfall anti-aircraft missile.
- The name of a piece, written by Frank Ticheli about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the resulting destruction of Pompeii.
- Vesuvius Records, a record label.
References
Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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