HMS Canterbury was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw service in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. She was part of the Cambrian...
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ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Canterbury, after the English city of Canterbury: HMS Canterbury (1692) was an 8-gun storeship purchased in...
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HMS Maidstone (1937) HMS Mameluke (1915) HMS Marne (1915) PS Mars (1902) HMS Matapan (D43) HMS Medea (1915) RMS Media HMS Medusa (1915) SS Merion HMS Milne (1914)...
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Gallipoli campaign (redirect from Gallipoli 1915)
Dardanelles, to divert Ottoman troops from Caucasia. On 17 February 1915, a British seaplane from HMS Ark Royal flew a reconnaissance sortie over the Straits. Two...
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the coast of Belgium. On 5 June 1917, she and the light cruisers HMS Canterbury and HMS Centaur sank the German torpedo boat S20 in the North Sea near the...
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primer was blamed for the explosion. Following the loss of HMS Natal on 30 December 1915 and HMS Vanguard on 9 July 1917, both caused by internal explosions...
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HMS Melpomene was a Medea-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was one of four destroyers, of similar design to the British M-class ordered...
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July 1934. Canterbury, built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank; she was laid down on 14 October 1914, and launched on 21 December 1915; she was completed...
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Canterbury is a suburb of western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Canterbury is located 10.5 kilometres (6.5 mi) south-west of the...
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Topographical Survey of the County of Kent". Canterbury. pp. 565–572. Retrieved 16 October 2015. Cundall, Frank (1915). Historic Jamaica. West India Committee...
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HMS Engadine was a seaplane tender which served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. Converted from the cross-Channel packet ship SS Engadine...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
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HMS Invincible was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the twentieth century and the...
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scripts for Warship HMS Phoebe Association website HMS Danae website (all commissions) HMS Danae website (first commission) HMS Dido Association website...
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cruiser Blücher during the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915 and towed the damaged British battlecruiser HMS Lion to safety after the battle. She damaged the...
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around Przemyśl after a Russian counterattack failed. British light cruiser HMS Arethusa encountered a German airship on the North Sea and quickly launched...
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and English Channel. On 5 June 1917 she and the light cruisers HMS Canterbury and HMS Conquest sank the German torpedo boat S20 in the North Sea near...
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The history of the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand dates back to settlement by Māori people in about the 14th century. Probably no...
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served on HMS Formidable and HMS Queen (under Captain David Beatty) in the Mediterranean. Subsequently, he was posted to China (first aboard HMS Kinsha and...
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the Allied and Ottoman forces involved in the Gallipoli campaign during 1915. Mediterranean Expeditionary Force Commander-in-Chief: Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton...
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Endurance (1912 ship) (category Maritime incidents in 1915)
pack ice and finally sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica on 21 November 1915. All of the crew survived her sinking and were eventually rescued in 1916...
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battlecruisers HMS Invincible and Inflexible, the armoured cruisers HMS Carnarvon, Cornwall and Kent, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Macedonia and the...
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the small 8-gunner HMS Drake. He was promoted to post captain on 9 June 1738 on appointment to the command of the fifth-rate HMS Kinsale. He transferred...
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HMS Inflexible was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war. She...
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Azalea-class sloop minesweeper for the British Royal Navy with the name HMS Peony in 1915. The Azalea-class was based on the previous Acacia-class, but with...
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Kennedy Accompanying cruisers HMS Canterbury : Capt Percy Royds HMS Chester : Capt Robert Neale Lawson Attached destroyers HMS Shark (sunk 31 May): Cdr Loftus...
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Dennis Price (category 1915 births)
Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose Price (23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) was an English actor. He played Louis Mazzini in the Ealing Studios film Kind Hearts...
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Britannia Royal Naval College (redirect from HMS Dartmouth (shore establishment))
training of naval officers at Dartmouth dates from 1863, when the wooden hulk HMS Britannia was moved from Portland and moored in the River Dart to serve as...
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SS Sarnia (1910) (redirect from HMS Sarnia)
reconfigured her as the armed boarding steamer HMS Sarnia. On 28 October 1915 she collided with the auxiliary minesweeper HMS Hythe in the Dardanelles; Hythe sank...
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1915 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in October 1915: The US. District...
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