Winston Churchill 1924 as a Major. On 24 May 1901 he was initiated into Freemasonry at Studholme Lodge No.1591, which at the time met in the Regent Masonic Hall at the Cafe Royal, London, passed to the Second Degree on 19 July, and raised to the Third Degree on 25 March 1902. Churchill met his future wife, Clementine Hozier, in 1904 at a ball in Crewe House, home of the Earl of Crewe and Crewe's wife Margaret Primrose (daughter of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, and Hannah Rothschild). In March 1908, they met again at a dinner party hosted by Lady
USS Winston S. Churchill in the Gulf of Aden. After attempts to repair the skiff's engines failed "Winston S. Churchill" took the vessel under tow towards Somalia. On 27 September the skiff sank when the 85 passengers rushed to one side of the skiff during a food delivery causing the vessel to capsize. "Winston S. Churchill" was able to rescue 61 of the passengers and continued towards Somalia on 28 September. Her homeport is currently Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. She is currently a part of Carrier Strike Group 12 "The shield features an inescutcheon of his ancestral coat of arms and the cross of