• Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Amsterdam, after the city of Amsterdam: HMS Amsterdam (1804) was the Dutch frigate Proserpine, launched...
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    Île Amsterdam (French pronunciation: [ilamstɛʁdam]), also known as Amsterdam Island and New Amsterdam (Nouvelle-Amsterdam), is an island of the French...
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  • ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Java, named after the island of Java in Indonesia. The first HMS Java (1806) was a 32-gun fifth rate, originally...
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  • [dead link‍] wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/ships/ship.php?pid=6121 "HMS Amsterdam II [+1944]". wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 8 October 2013. Haws, Duncan (1993)...
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  • Dutch frigate Proserpine (1801) (category Ships built in Amsterdam)
    Amsterdam in 1801 as a 32-gun frigate. The Royal Navy captured her in May 1804 at the capture of Surinam and took her into service as HMS Amsterdam....
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    Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam...
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  • Operation Amsterdam is a 1959 black and white British action film, directed by Michael McCarthy, and featuring Peter Finch, Eva Bartok and Tony Britton...
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    Fort Amsterdam was a fortification on the southern tip of Manhattan Island at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers. The fort and the island were...
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    HMS Umbra (P35) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow-in-Furness. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy...
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  • frigate built at Amsterdam and launched in 1785. Her dimensions, in Dutch feet of 11 Rotterdam inches, were: 125' 7/11" x 34' x 13' 2/11". HMS Thetis (1810)...
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    port is Amsterdam. In September 2009 Stad Amsterdam was refitted to accommodate a televised research expedition, tracing the second voyage of HMS Beagle...
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    her into service as HMS Berbice. In 1804 the British captured Proserpine at Suriname and took her into service as HMS Amsterdam. Winfield (2008), p. 215...
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    HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the...
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    needed] HMS Alouette – returned to owners 21 November 1919 HMS Amsterdam – ABS from October 1914 until returned to owners 29 September 1919 HMS Anglia...
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  • HMS Dolphin was the Dutch 7th Charter Dolfijn, launched in 1780 at Amsterdam. In 1781 she was under the command of Captain Mulder when she participated...
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    on board. On 23 May 1660 the King and the Duke renamed her from Naseby to HMS Royal Charles. The ship landed them at Dover on 25 May. Under her new name...
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  • Navy have been named HMS Observer: HMS Observer (1781), a sloop of 10 guns, was the Massachusetts privateer Amsterdam, which HMS Amphitrite captured on...
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  • Sunderland raised the alarm, and the tug HMS Amsterdam was sent to her aid, escorted by HMS Atherstone and HMS Campbell. Empire Conveyor sank before the...
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    HMS Cairo (D87) was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the Egyptian capital, Cairo. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal...
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    HMS Lion was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, of the Worcester class, launched on 3 September 1777 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She...
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    Fort Amsterdam is a fort located in Willemstad, Curaçao. It was constructed in 1634 by the Dutch West India Company (WIC) and served not only as a military...
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    Forbidden City] (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Balans. pp. 116–142. ISBN 9789463821773. Mason, Geoffrey (2003). Smith, Gordon (ed.). "HMS Suffolk – County-type Heavy...
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    HMS Norfolk was a British Type 23 frigate, the sixth in the Royal Navy to use this name, laid down in 1985 by Yarrow Shipbuilders. She was launched on...
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    Titanic (redirect from HMS Titanic)
    May: HMS A3 May (unknown date): USLHT Armeria, USS Pensacola 8 Jun: Vendémiaire 26 Jun: Naniwa 8 Aug: HMS Holland 5 17 Aug: Leafield 1 Sep: HMS Waterwitch...
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  • the Dutch 24-gun Dolflin, launched in 1780 at the Amsterdam naval yard, which HMS Wolverine and HMS Arrow captured at Vlie Island in 1799. She became...
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  • Navy have been named HMS Weser for the River Weser: HMS Weser was the French frigate Weser, or Wezer launched in 1812 in Amsterdam. The British Royal Navy...
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  • HMS Hermes was the Dutch cutter Mercuur, that the Amsterdam Admiralty purchased in 1781 or 1782. (Mercuur was a brig when captured.) HMS Sylph captured...
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    the warship Jason and captured the Royal Navy ships of the line HMS Elizabeth and HMS Coventry. On 21 October 1707, together with Claude de Forbin, he...
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    Fate: Captured by the Royal Navy in January 1814, becoming first HMS Palma and then HMS Gloire. before being sold in 1817. Méduse Builder: Paimboeuf Ordered:...
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  • the West Indies. Lawson died on 19 November 1804. In December 1804 HMS Amsterdam recaptured Horatio, of Liverpool, Lawson, master, after a French privateer...
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