Glatton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England, some 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Peterborough, near the villages of Conington, Yaxley...
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Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Glatton. The first HMS Glatton (1795) was a 56-gun fourth rate, originally an East Indiaman purchased...
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HMS Glatton and her sister ship Gorgon were originally built as coastal defence ships for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as Bjørgvin and Nidaros respectively...
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HMS Glatton was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. Wells & Co. of Blackwell launched her on 29 November 1792 for the British East India Company (EIC)...
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Gorgon-class monitor (section Glatton)
service with the Royal Navy during World War I. Gorgon and her sister ship Glatton were originally built as coastal defence ships for the Royal Norwegian...
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Royal Air Force Glatton or more simply RAF Glatton is a former Royal Air Force station located 10 miles (16 km) north of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England...
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Glatton was launched as an East Indiaman. She made four voyages for the British East India Company (EIC) before her owners sold her in 1772. Her new owner...
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Four vessels named Glatton sailed as East Indiamen for the British East India Company (EIC)". Glatton (1762 EIC ship) was launched at Deptford. She made...
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HMS Glatton was a breastwork monitor which served in the Victorian Royal Navy. She was designed by Sir Edward Reed to a specific formula determined by...
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Aetna-class ironclad floating battery (redirect from HMS Glatton (1855))
salvaged from the first Aetna. Admiralty records for Meteor, Thunder, Glatton and Trusty state that both the Mare and the Green yards were at Limehouse...
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Glatton was launched in Rotherhithe in 1796. Between 1796 and 1815 she made eight voyages to South-East Asia, China, and India as an East Indiaman for...
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On the other hand, the bulges to Glatton nearly led to a disaster in Dover Harbour on 11 September 1918. Glatton caught fire in her 150-millimetre (6 in)...
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Mornington became HMS Drake. Other examples include: HMS Calcutta HMS Glatton HMS Hindostan (1795) HMS Hindostan (1804) HMS Malabar HMS Buffalo Their...
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Cerberus, were ordered in 1870 for local defence of English ports. HMS Glatton was derived from the design of the first breastwork monitors, but sacrificed...
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the difficulties and delights of maintaining a Tudor thatched cottage in Glatton, Huntingdonshire, the village he fictionalised as Allways. The now Grade...
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The Fireship Delancey has a position. He is the second lieutenant of HMS Glatton, a converted vessel from the British East India Company, fitted with an...
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ships were fitted with a carronade-only armament, such as HMS Glatton and HMS Rainbow. Glatton, a fourth-rate ship with 56 guns, had a more destructive broadside...
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detonation of the ammunition in the event of fire, such as the case with HMS Glatton or to maintain trim due to battle damage (counterflooding). Opening the...
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Walker) Edgar 74 (Captain George Murray) Ardent 64 (Captain Thomas Bertie) Glatton 54/56 (Captain William Bligh) Elephant 74 (flag of Vice-Adm. Lord Nelson...
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Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801, in command of Glatton, a 56-gun ship of the line, which was experimentally fitted exclusively...
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Ellington, Elton, Eynesbury Farcet, Fenstanton, Folksworth and Washingley Glatton, Grafham, Great Gransden, Great, Little and Steeple Gidding, Great Paxton...
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Euximoor Eye Eye Green Eynesbury Eynesbury Hardwicke Gamlingay Girton Glatton Godmanchester Gorefield Grafham Grantchester Graveley Great Abington Great...
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class Bjørgvin (1912) - Confiscated by the British Navy and renamed HMS Glatton, blew up Nidaros (1912) - Confiscated by the British Navy and renamed HMS Gorgon...
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available for the task were HMS Canopus, HMS Standard, HMS Thunderer, HMS Glatton, and the two bomb ships HMS Lucifer and HMS Meteor, under the command of...
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Warwickshire 1942 1974 Part of the site is now the Heritage Motor Centre RAF Glatton GT England Cambridgeshire 1943 1946 (USAAF) RAF Gormanston Republic of...
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Popular Science. Bonnier Corporation. p. 91. "B-29 Superfortress visit to Glatton". 29 May 2019. "Der Sternenbanner_1 (Photo 1)". 384thbombgroup.com. Wynn...
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War I while under construction, completed and served as the monitors HMS Glatton and HMS Gorgon HNoMS Bjørgvin HNoMS Nidaros Uragan class (1865) Novgorod...
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HMS Gorgon and her sister ship Glatton were two monitors originally built as coastal defence ships for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as HNoMS Nidaros and...
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Colne, Coppingford, Covington, Earith, Easton, Ellington, Fenstanton, Glatton, Grafham, Great Gidding, Great Stukeley, Hamerton, Hartford, Hemingford...
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the Italian war in the Adriatic in 1859. The British floating batteries Glatton and Meteor arrived too late to participate to the action at Kinburn. The...
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