HMS Ceylon was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was of the Ceylon sub class, named after the island and British colony of Ceylon (now...
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the name HMS Ceylon, after the former British colony of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. Two ships taken up from trade were also named Ceylon: HMS Ceylon was a 38-gun...
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Royal Navy HMS Ceylon (30), an Fiji-class cruiser commissioned in 1943 Ceylon-class cruiser, a sub-class of the Fiji-class cruisers Ceylon tea, a brand...
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HCS Bombay, later HMS Bombay and HMS Ceylon, was a teak-built fifth rate, 38-gun wooden warship built in the Bombay Dockyard for the Honourable East India...
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the larger French squadron blockading the British base at Île Bourbon. HMS Ceylon had been despatched by the British authorities at Madras after the Battle...
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Ceylon functioned as an independent constitutional monarchy in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign and head of state of the country. Ceylon shared...
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The Invasion of Ceylon was a military campaign fought as a series of amphibious operations between the summer of 1795 and spring of 1796 between the garrison...
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Indian Ocean raid (category Military of British Ceylon)
North Africa; and HMS Indomitable was relieved of naval duties to serve as a high-speed aircraft ferry shuttling available planes to Ceylon. Japanese intentions...
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Easter Sunday Raid (redirect from Battle of Ceylon)
of Ceylon. Ships were detached to resume previous commitments; the heavy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire were sent to Colombo, and HMS Hermes...
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40-gun HMS Ceylon, losing her fore-mast and her topgallant masts in the process. The next day, a British squadron composed of HMS Boadicea, HMS Otter and...
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His Majesty's Ship (redirect from HMS/M)
His (or Her) Majesty's Ship, abbreviated HMS and H.M.S., is the ship prefix used for ships of the navy in some monarchies. Derivative terms such as HMAS...
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Fiji-class cruiser (redirect from Ceylon class cruiser)
built to a slightly modified design and were sometimes also called the Ceylon class. They were built to the limitations that the 1936 Second London Naval...
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Ceylon was an independent country in the Commonwealth of Nations from 1948 to 1972, that shared a monarch with other dominions of the Commonwealth. In...
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of her era—her near-sister HMS Unicorn (of the modified Leda class) is now a museum ship in Dundee. After being ordered on 30 October 1812, Trincomalee...
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HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in...
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HMS Highflyer, Trincomalee, Ceylon HMS Hornet, Coastal Forces Depot MTB, Gosport, Hampshire HMS Idaho, WWI base at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire HMS Inskip...
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HMAS Vampire (D68) (redirect from HMS Vampire (D68))
Fleet at Colombo, Ceylon. In the first week of December, the battlecruiser HMS Repulse started on a trip to Australia with Vampire and HMS Tenedos as escorts...
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HMS Uva was a Royal Navy rest camp at Diyatalawa, in British Ceylon. The camp was reportedly built as a prisoner of war camp for use in the Boer War in...
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re-embarked for Ceylon. After operating with the East Indies Fleet, the wing returned to the UK and then disbanded post war at RNAS Nutts Corner (HMS Pintail)...
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Horatio Hornblower (redirect from HMS Crab (fictional Hornblower vessel))
Marmorice Bay within the Ottoman Empire with the aid of pearl divers from Ceylon. The operation is successful, though Hornblower has a narrow escape from...
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HMS Ruby. He spent the next period on course at Portsmouth and studying at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He was promoted to lieutenant on 30 June...
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Sri Lanka Navy (redirect from Royal Ceylon Navy)
They were HMS Overdale Wyke (the first ship to be purchased by the Government of Ceylon), HMS Okapi, HMS Semla, HMS Sambhur, HMS Hoxa, HMS Balta and HM...
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other 1950s cruiser reconstructions of three Town cruisers and HMS Newfoundland and HMS Ceylon had only a single main 274 director which limited their surface...
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Submarine Squadron October 1949: HMS Mercury – cryptographic instructor February 1950: HMS Ceylon – Korean War July 1952: HMS Mercury – signal instructors...
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HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the...
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HMS Cornwall, pennant number 56, was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Kent sub-class built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship spent most...
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French aircraft carrier Arromanches (redirect from HMS Colossus (R61))
carrier of the French Navy, which served from 1946 to 1974. She was previously HMS Colossus (15) of the Royal Navy. She was the name-ship of the Colossus class...
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Minelayer HMS Manxman Monitor HMS Erebus Seaplane Carrier HMS Albatross Destroyers HMS Active HMS Anthony HMS Arrow HMS Blackmore HMS Duncan HMS Fortune HMS Foxhound...
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Mediterranean, while en route to Trincomalee, Ceylon. There, she joined her sister ships HMS Battler, HMS Begum, and HMS Shah. In early 1945, Ameer joined Force...
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3°33′36″N 104°28′42″E / 3.56000°N 104.47833°E / 3.56000; 104.47833 HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that...
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