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    HMS Eagle was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, in service 1951–1972. Until the arrival of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers...
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    naval buildup - Africa, Irresistible, Audacious and Eagle. At the end of hostilities Africa and Eagle were cancelled. Work on the remaining two was suspended...
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  • Steamers. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 9780711027725. "HMS Golden Eagle". Imperial War Museums. "Golden Eagle". www.paddlesteamers.info. Geoffrey Body (1971)...
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    United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently in service. HMS Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and...
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    HMS Victorious (1939) HMS Indomitable (1940) Implacable class HMS Implacable (1942) HMS Indefatigable (1942) Audacious class HMS Eagle (ex-Audacious) (1946)...
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  • X Y Z HMS Acasta (1912) HMS Acasta (H09) HMS Achates (1912) HMS Achates (H12) HMS Acorn (1910) MV Adelaide Star (1950) HMS Airedale (L07) HMS Alarm (1911)...
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    carried by HMS Eagle in 1951–53, which was faster and longer-ranged compared to the carrier's Blackburn Firebrand torpedo strike aircraft. In 1951, Indomitable...
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    Ramillies, aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, cruisers HMS Berwick, Orion, HMAS Sydney and destroyers Whitley, p.96 Mason, HMS Ajax Lenton & Colledge 1968 p...
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  • completed 20 June 1946. HMS Eagle, Audacious-class aircraft carrier for British Admiralty, launched 19 March 1946, completed 31 October 1951, scrapped 1978. MV Empire...
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  • 1914 and renamed HMS Canada, repurchased 1920, broken up 1959 Almirante Cochrane (1913) - purchased by Britain 1918, renamed HMS Eagle and converted to...
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  • cruise ship in Pokémon: Best Wishes! Diamond Serpent – Full Ahead! Coco HMS Eagle - Invincible-class aircraft carrier in Hellsing Ghost Ship – Blue Submarine...
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    problems had been resolved. 830 Sqn. took the Wyvern into combat from HMS Eagle, flying 79 sorties during Operation Musketeer, the armed response to the...
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    HMS Tiger was a conventional cruiser of the British Royal Navy, one of a three-ship class known as the Tiger class. Ordered during the Second World War...
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    Dido-class cruiser: HMS Cleopatra, Abdiel-class minelayer HMS Manxman, and Town-class cruiser HMS Glasgow) Ballantrae (in the 1951 Trevor Howard film Gift...
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    May 1951 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell at Beverley, Yorkshire. Built on the River Hull, she was launched on 19 March 1953 and was commissioned as HMS Humber...
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    Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt (category 1951 deaths)
    later HMS Agincourt Turkish battleship, later HMS Erin Chilean battleships Almirante Latorre, later HMS Canada and Almirante Cochrane, later HMS Eagle (aircraft...
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  • the training establishment HMS Ganges at Harwich in December 1954. He was given command of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle in February 1957 and was promoted...
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  • aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, an experience that influenced his 1951 book Confucius and Christ. In November 1942 he was transferred to HMS Unicorn. From 1963...
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    HMS Hermes was a conventional British aircraft carrier and the last of the Centaur class. Hermes was in service with the Royal Navy from 1959 until 1984...
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    She was acquired from the Royal Navy, where she served in World War II as HMS Nigeria. Mysore was the second cruiser to be purchased by independent India...
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    the missile's tail fins aided identifying the missile. HMS Eagle's GWS-20 was trialled on board HMS Decoy, a Daring-class destroyer, in 1961; it was subsequently...
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    accompanying fast carrier task forces, particularly HMS Eagle, the flagship, commissioned in 1951. However, in practice, frigates and destroyers moving...
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    Haakon VII (category Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia))
    attacked and sank the nearby aircraft carrier HMS Glorious with its escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. Devonshire did not rebroadcast the enemy...
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  • Fireflies. In August 1951 the Supermarine Attacker entered service with the Squadron at Ford, West Sussex, later embarking in HMS Eagle. It was the first...
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    610-ton HMS Chatsgrove (X85) ex-Royal Navy P-class sloop PC-74 built 1918 5,072-ton HMS Maunder (X28) ex-King Gruffyd built 1919 4,443-ton HMS Prunella...
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  • served in World War II as commanding officer of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle from 1939, as Director of the Naval Air Division at the British Admiralty...
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    celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Together with HMS Gambia, HMS Bermuda, HMS Eagle, seven destroyers and two frigates she escorted Queen Elizabeth...
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  • Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) – British war drama film telling the story of the British sloop HMS Amethyst caught up in the Chinese...
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    (HMS Cardiff, HMS Exeter, HMS Manchester, HMS Gloucester, HMS York) Support ships Hecla class (HMS Herald, HMS Hecla) Submarines Oberon class (HMS Opossum...
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    becoming the first squadron to operate the Gannet. It embarked aboard HMS Eagle but disbanded in November 1955. The 826 designation was then reactivated...
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