• HMS Colne was a Thornycroft Type River class destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1903–1904 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Colne in eastern...
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    March 1915 she in conjunction with HMS Jed and HMS Colne assisted with the rescue of the crew of the battleship HMS Ocean after she struck a mine in the...
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  • 1914, accompanying HMS Triumph, to support the Dardanelles campaign. On 18 March 1915, in conjunction with HMS Chelmer and HMS Colne, she assisted with...
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    HMS Illustrious was a light aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and the second of three Invincible-class ships constructed in the late 1970s and early...
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  • metres (225.0 ft). They did up to 26.0 knots on trials. HMS Jed 367 550 HMS Chelmer 371 550 HMS Colne 372 550 1905 Naparima 373 Shallow-draught steamer for...
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    3rd Brigade headquarters. Arriving at Gallipoli in April 1915 on board HMS Colne, he was made temporary warrant officer in October. He was evacuated from...
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    situated between Colchester and Clacton-on-Sea, at the mouth of the River Colne, on Brightlingsea Creek. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 8,076...
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  • HMS Cossack. Able Seaman Albert Alfred Henson, HMS Scarborough. Able Seaman Sydney Gordon Hobbs, HMS Colne. Able Seaman Harold James Hubbard, HMS Whitshed...
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    HMS Active was a Type 21-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Built by Vosper Thornycroft, Southampton, England, she was completed with Exocet launchers in...
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  • economist and Labour Party politician. He was the member of parliament for Colne Valley from 1963 to 1966, and for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1970 to 1992...
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  • of Nelson, Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 1890–1950 Nelson and Colne (UK Parliament constituency), 1918–1983 Nelson College, a secondary school...
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    HMS Ocean was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Ocean and her sister...
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  • Destroyers HMS Active HMS Agincourt HMS Alamein HMS Antelope HMS Armada HMS Blean HMS Boadicea HMS Boyne HMS Cheerful HMS Derwent HMS Doon HMS Eden HMS Electra...
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    private hands, is parked and able to be viewed at the entrance of a farm on Colne Road, Bures Hamlet, Essex, England. AeroVenture in Doncaster, UK has a Centurion...
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  • East Donyland. Rowhedge is on the right (west) bank of the tidal River Colne and is the first settlement downstream from Colchester. The small town of...
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    for Wells, coming third, while in 1951 she stood for the winnable seat of Colne Valley. As an old friend, Churchill arranged for the Conservatives to refrain...
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    converted flour mills adjoins Buckinghamshire, the boundary being the River Colne. Government data analysts have confirmed within its Borough are suburbs...
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    The base is notable for having previously served as both a Royal Navy (as HMS Flycatcher) and a Royal Air Force (as RAF Middle Wallop) controlled airfield...
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    place of HMS Skate in the Devonport instructional flotilla, and received the crew from that ship. On 11 April 1907 Falcon and the destroyer Colne collided...
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    Farnham in Surrey. They took refuge on an island at Thorney, on the River Colne between Buckinghamshire and Middlesex, where they were blockaded and forced...
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  • Spencer, Andrew (14 May 2015). "Duke of Lancaster's Regiment parade through Colne". Pendle Today. Retrieved 18 July 2021. Macpherson, Jon (13 July 2016)....
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    Station Halesworth (RNAS Halesworth). On 5 August it was commissioned as HMS Sparrowhawk with Captain L.A.K. Boswell, DSO, as commanding officer. 762...
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    RAF Bungay (redirect from HMS Europa II)
    September as HMS Europa II. Known as Royal Naval Air Station Bungay (RNAS Bungay), it was used as a satellite airfield to RNAS Halesworth (HMS Sparrowhawk)...
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    Mackay-Bennett, before being returned to England for burial in his home town of Colne, Lancashire. The violin that he used on the Titanic was found in its case...
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  • and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway from 1907 to 1914. and also as HMS Duke of Albany from 1914 to 1916. She was built by John Brown and Co. at...
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    returned to England, where on 18 May he was buried in Keighley Road Cemetery, Colne, Lancashire. The body of 19-month old Sidney Leslie Goodwin (known until...
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    Napoleonic Wars two Martello Towers were built on the peninsula between the Colne Estuary and Brightlingsea Creek. One survives at Stone Point and is now...
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  • Gloucetsershire Caledonian Railway, Scotland Cambrian Heritage Railways, Shropshire Colne Valley Railway, Essex Corris Railway, Mid-Wales Derwent Valley Light Railway...
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    Worcestershire Admiral Rodney - Pub, Criggion Lane, Powys Admiral Lord Rodney - Pub, Colne, Lancashire Admiral Rodney - Hotel, Horncastle, Lincolnshire Admiral Rodney...
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    Bromfield Cardiff Cardigan Cranborne Darenth Deeping Dover Dunster Earls Colne Ewenny Ewyas Harold Exeter Farne Felixstowe Finchale Freiston Great Malvern...
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