She was the lead ship of the , though her sister ship was commissioned a month earlier.

Inheriting his father's title on 2 January 1775, Napier was earlier commissioned into the 31st Foot in 1774 and was promoted to a lieutenant in 1776.

Commissioned in Augsburg 817 years earlier, it had been sold at Sotheby's in 1887 for $:910.

In 1809, the Scottish publisher George Thomson, who had earlier commissioned Haydn, asked Beethoven to arrange some folk songs from the British Isles for domestic sales.

The section from Lindau to Friedrichshafen had been commissioned two years earlier on 1 October 1899.

He also knew that Cheyenne, though commissioned less than a year earlier, had already become one of the most successful submarines in American naval history.

And the Etrechaya, which had been commissioned only a couple of days earlier.

Charles would access it via a first-floor window, which meant passing - with grim irony - beneath the lavish, monarchist ceiling he'd commissioned from Rubens two decades earlier.

The first generator was commissioned earlier in 1967.

Famous publisher Penguin had earlier commissioned Ritu Beri to write the book but abandoned the project after hearing the price for the book she had in mind.