HMS Boreas (1757) after periods at sea, averaging £1,573 in repairs for each year of service compared with £1,261 for comparable vessels built from oak. The frigate was named after Boreas, the Greek god of the north wind and bringer of winter. The naming followed a trend initiated in 1748 by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, in his capacity as First Lord of the Admiralty, of using figures from classical antiquity as descriptors for naval vessels. A total of six "Coventry"-class vessels were named in this manner; a further ten were named after geographic features including regions, English or Irish rivers, or
Eurus Rokkasho Solar Park Eurus Rokkasho Solar Park Eurus Rokkasho Solar Park () is a solar power generating station in the Mutsu-Ogawara Industrial Park, Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Comprising two solar fields about five kilometres apart from one another, the facility has a nameplate capacity of 148 MW, and a "grid capacity" of 115 MW. It is the largest operational solar plant in Japan. Construction began in August 2013. The power plant was engineered and constructed by Shimizu Corporation. It was commissioned on 1 October 2015. The station occupies 253 hectares of land on two different sites about five kilometres apart. The inland "Chitosedairakita