HMS Britannia was a King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. She was named after Britannia, the Latin name of Great Britain...
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Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Britannia, after Britannia, the goddess and personification of Great Britain: HMS Britannia (1682) was a 100-gun first...
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name HMS Britannia (a battleship called Britannia operated from 1904 to 1918). The college was renamed HMS Dartmouth in 1953, when the name Britannia was...
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Navy. She was launched on 25 January 1860. In 1869 she was renamed HMS Britannia and under that name served at Dartmouth as a cadet training ship until...
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Britannia had been stripped of her spars and fittings, her hull was towed out to St Catherine's Deep near the Isle of Wight, and she was sunk by HMS Winchester...
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253. "HMS Britannia Sunk". The Daily Telegraph. 11 November 1918. Grant 2008, p. 291. Friedman 2015, p. 352. Grant 2008, p. 290. "Wreck of HMS Royal Oak"...
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HMS Royal Sovereign was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Woolwich Dockyard and launched in July 1701. She had been built...
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The community first developed between 1900 and 1904 as the residential area for the staff of the Britannia Mining and Smelting Company. The residential...
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HMS Beagle (H30) HMS Bermuda (52) SS Bodnant (1919) INS Brahmaputra (1957) HMS Brisk (1910) HMS Bristol (1911) HMY Britannia RMS Britannia (1838) SS British...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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Zrínyi, the British HMS Africa, HMS Britannia, HMS Commonwealth, HMS Dominion, HMS Hibernia, HMS Hindustan, HMS King Edward VII and HMS Zealandia (3rd Battle...
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Cocos in which the German cruiser SMS Emden was sunk. Passing out of HMS Britannia in 1887, he served for a short time in the Channel Fleet. His lifelong...
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HMS Caroline is a decommissioned C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that was the lead ship of her sub-class. Completed in 1914, she saw combat service...
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ship HMS Ganges at Harwich. Once shore hospital facilities had been built in 1902, Caroline was refitted as overflow accommodation for 60 boys. In 1904 both...
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in 1924. HMS Prince of Wales was completed to the same design as Marlborough in 1860 but saw no sea service; in 1869 she was renamed Britannia and became...
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HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior...
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Thomas Drummond Pratt, he joined HMS Britannia as a cadet in January 1884. In 1886, he went to sea as a midshipman in HMS Sultan in the Channel Squadron...
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officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland. Educated on HMS Britannia, Davenport joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1896. He was confirmed...
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OCLC 52620555. J Winton: Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor P Padfield: Rule Britannia Media related to HMS Shah (ship, 1873) at Wikimedia Commons HMS Shah...
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HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship afloat...
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Trafalgar. 35°53′N 5°53′W / 35.883°N 5.883°W / 35.883; -5.883 (HMS Britannia (1904)) C-3 Spanish Republican Navy 12 December 1936 A Spanish C-class...
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Shannon. Boyle joined the Royal Navy as a cadet on the training ship HMS Britannia in 1884. He was promoted to Commander on 1 January 1902, and in April...
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joined HMS Britannia in 1890. He was promoted to lieutenant on 30 September 1898, and among his early postings was a temporary posting to HMS Duke of...
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Stubbington House School in Fareham and Britannia Royal Naval College, Peters joined the Royal Navy in 1904. He served in World War I and took part in...
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HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Built in 1915, she saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia...
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HMS Unicorn is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was...
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the Royal Navy, and HMS Britannia, in 1897. He joined the submarine service in July 1904 when he was sent to the depot ship HMS Thames. He was soon promoted...
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Edward Neville Syfret (category Graduates of Britannia Royal Naval College)
at Diocesan College, South Africa and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Syfret joined the Royal Navy in 1904 and, in his early service years, specialised...
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1934-35 not played 1935 Onwards - The Rock Cup: 1935–36 HMS Hood 1936–37 Britannia XI 1937–38 Britannia XI 1938–39 2nd Battalion The King's Regiment 1939–40...
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HMS President (formerly HMS Saxifrage) is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently...
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