Encyclopedia > HMS Fox

Article Content

HMS Fox

On a hill above Diyatalawa in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) is the outline of a running fox; underneath is '1913 HMS Fox', all done in whitewashed stones. This was reputedly done by crew members who had mutinied, though I have been unable to find any historical reference to this incident.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

East Marion, New York

... $31,250 for females. The per capita income for the town is $24,373. 5.8% of the population and 4.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living ...