In Act I, the witches told Macbeth that he would become the thane of Cawdor, and then the king of Scotland.
HMS Imperieuse (1883) was an Imperieuse-class armoured cruiser launched in 1883. She was converted into a depot ship in 1905 and renamed HMS Sapphire II. The name reverted to Imperieuse in 1909 and she was sold in 1913.
Its muse is not myth but history. The Medusa (or MÃ©duse) was a French naval frigate that boasted 40 guns and fought in the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century. Remarkably, the ship survived these maritime battles only to crash on a sandbank in 1816 during an attempt to colonize Senegal.