St. James Infirmary Blues London's St. James Hospital, a religious foundation for the treatment of leprosy. His references list an article by Kenneth Lodewick. That article states, giving no reference or source for the idea, that the phrase "St. James Hospital" refers to a hospital of that name in London. There is some difficulty in this because the hospital in question closed in 1532 when Henry VIII acquired the land to build St James's Palace. Another possibility suggested by Higginbotham on the basis of his claim that the song "St. James Infirmary" dates at least from the early nineteenth century, is the Infirmary section
Monarch-class coastal defense ship off Crete during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. However, less than five years after their completion, the "Monarch"-class battleships were rendered obsolete by the newly commissioned . The newly completed conducted a training cruise with the three "Monarch"-class battleships in January 1903; they were joined by the following year. During the 1904 training exercises, the three "Habsburg"-class battleships engaged the three "Monarch"s in simulated combat; the maneuver marked the first time two homogeneous squadrons consisting of modern battleships operated in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The three "Habsburg"-class ships took over the position of the I Division while the "Monarch"s formed the