Vesuvius (disambiguation)

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Vesuvius can mean:

• Mount Vesuvius, a volcano in Italy which infamously destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii
• Battle of Vesuvius in Italy in 339 BC
• An asteroid, 13897 Vesuvius. See Meanings of asteroid names (13001-14000).
• Vesuvius Incorporated is a publisher in White Wolf Game Studio's videogame setting World of Darkness.
• Vesuvius Group sa/nv is a company that develops, manufactures and markets high performance specialty ceramics, refractory products and control systems.
• Vesuvius, British Columbia is a community in British Columbia in Canada.
• Vesuvius, Virginia is a community in Virginia in the United States.
• TCS Vesuvius is a starship in the Wing Commander science fiction universe.
• The US Navy had various ships named USS Vesuvius:-
  • Vesuvius (1806), a bomb ketch
  • Vesuvius (1846), a brig
  • Vesuvius (1888), a unique dynamite-gun cruiser
  • Vesuvius (AE-15), a Second World War ammunition cargo ship
• The British Royal Navy has had 13 ships named HMS Vesuvius. The earliest was a fireship launched in 1693 and the most recent a minelaying tender scrapped in 1958.
• Vesuvius was the code name for German World War II bases that were to launch the Wasserfall anti-aircraft missile.
• The name of a piece, written by Frank Ticheli about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the resulting destruction of Pompeii.
• Vesuvius Records, a record label.

[edit] References

Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.