Stingray (1964 TV series) "P.W.O.R." – short for "Proceeding With Orders Received". "Stingray" is piloted by the square-jawed Captain Troy Tempest. He is paired with Southern navigator Lieutenant George Lee Sheridan, nicknamed "Phones" for his role as "Stingray"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s hydrophone operator. Troy and Phones board "Stingray" by sitting on twin injector seats in Marineville's stand-by lounge, which are lowered into the vessel via injector tubes and then clamped into place. They answer to the crusty "hoverchair"-bound Commander Sam Shore, whose daughter, Lieutenant Atlanta Shore, takes shifts in the Marineville control tower and is enamoured of Troy. At the start of the series, the WASP learns
Vane-Tempest baronets Vane-Tempest baronets The Vane, later Vane-Tempest Baronetcy, of Long Newton in the County of Durham, was a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 13 July 1782 for Reverend Henry Vane. He was a descendant of Sir Henry Vane the Elder, also the ancestor of the Dukes of Cleveland. Vane married Frances (née Tempest). He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet. He succeeded to the substantial Tempest estates on the death of his maternal uncle, John Tempest, and assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Tempest in accordance with his uncle's will. Vane-Tempest