HMS Esk may refer to one of the following Royal Navy ships named Esk after a Celtic word meaning a river: HMS Esk (1813), a 20-gun post ship launched...
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HMS Esk was an E-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. She was designed to be easily converted into a fast minelayer by removing...
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Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia Upper Esk, Tasmania, a locality in Australia HMS Esk, several ships Mungo ESK, a German Army air-transportable armoured...
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April in HMS Esk and established his headquarters at Tauranga. In addition to the reinforcements on Esk, more from Auckland arrived on HMS Falcon. Within...
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HMS Esk was a 21-gun Highflyer-class screw corvette launched on 12 June 1854 from J. Scott Russell & Co., Millwall. She saw action in the Crimean War...
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HMS Esk was a Cyrus-class ship-sloop launched at Ipswich in 1813. During the War of 1812 she captured one United States privateer, and fought an inconclusive...
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as the flotilla leader; the other ships assigned were Esk and the newly converted destroyers, HMS Intrepid and Ivanhoe. The four destroyers laid 240 mines...
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destroyers HMS Codrington B-class destroyers HMS Brilliant HMS Bulldog E-class destroyers HMS Esk HMS Express H-class destroyers HMS Hunter HMS Hyperion...
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April a large force of warships, escorted by the battlecruiser HMS Renown and the cruiser HMS Birmingham, comprising elements of Operation Wilfred and Plan...
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RMS Transylvania (1925) (redirect from HMS Transylvania)
armed merchant cruiser, pennant F56 during World War II. On 10 August 1940, HMS Transylvania was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat U-56. Transylvania...
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Argus recaptured, that HMS Revolutionnaire recaptured, and that the American privateer General Armstrong again recaptured HMS Esk was a Cyrus-class ship-sloop...
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William Moule after Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton, the commander of HMS Esk, who was killed in the battle of Gate Pā, Tauranga. On 10 March 2013 a...
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HMS Hostile (H55) was an H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. She was the first and so far only Royal Navy ship to bear the name Hostile...
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broken up 1820 HMS Esk 1813 – sold 1827 HMS Carron 1813 – wrecked near Puri, India 1820 HMS Tay 1813 – wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico 1816 HMS Slaney 1813...
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commanded HMS Esk and after whom the city of Hamilton is named), Commander Edward Hay (who commanded HMS Harrier), and other officers and men from Esk, Harrier...
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San Gabriel from convoy OB 205. August 31, 1940 British destroyers HMS Esk and HMS Ivanhoe are sunk and two other ships damaged by mines in the Texel...
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U-211 HMS Fearless (H67) off Bône 23 July 1941 Scuttled after being hit by Italian aircraft HMS Esk (H15) off Texel 1 September 1940 Sunk by mine HMS Escort...
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List of single-ship actions (redirect from HMS Hussar (1780))
slave ship and prize to HMS Esk, repels the pirate brig Caroline 1828, April 2 – HMS Black Joke captures Providentia 1828, May 1 – HMS Black Joke captures...
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Stakesby 28 Aug: HMS Dunvegan Castle 29 Aug: I-67 30 Aug: Mill Hill 31 Aug: HMS Esk, Har Zion Unknown date: J. W. Clise Other incidents 11 Aug: Ceramic, Testbank...
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HMS Spearfish was a second-batch S-class submarine built during the 1930s for the Royal Navy. Completed in 1936, the boat participated in the Second World...
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Navy (1877) HMS Esk Royal Navy (1877) HMS Medina Royal Navy (1876) HMS Medway Royal Navy (1876) SMS Planet Austro-Hungarian Navy (1889) HMS Sabrina Royal...
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HMS Dunvegan Castle was a UK ocean liner that was converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC) in the Second World War. Harland and Wolff built her...
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HMS Peacock (1806) HMS Sappho (1806) HMS Nimrod (1812) HMS Esk (1813) HMS Fly (1813) HMS Leven (1813) HMS Dee (1814) HMS Diligence (1814) "Ships Named Ipswich". Planet...
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The third HMS Penzance (L28) was a Hastings-class sloop launched in 1930, and torpedoed and sunk in 1940 whilst on convoy protection duty by the German...
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post-war research suggests that he was hit by a 41 Squadron Spitfire. HMS Esk was damaged at Harwich and Windsor was damaged off Botany Buoy in the Thames...
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Stakesby 28 Aug: HMS Dunvegan Castle 29 Aug: I-67 30 Aug: Mill Hill 31 Aug: HMS Esk, Har Zion Unknown date: J. W. Clise Other incidents 11 Aug: Ceramic, Testbank...
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charges on the sonar location. British destroyers HMS Active, HMS Hyperion and HMS Hotspur, and a cruiser HMS Galatea joined in, and continued the attack for...
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Stakesby 28 Aug: HMS Dunvegan Castle 29 Aug: I-67 30 Aug: Mill Hill 31 Aug: HMS Esk, Har Zion Unknown date: J. W. Clise Other incidents 11 Aug: Ceramic, Testbank...
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Stakesby 28 Aug: HMS Dunvegan Castle 29 Aug: I-67 30 Aug: Mill Hill 31 Aug: HMS Esk, Har Zion Unknown date: J. W. Clise Other incidents 11 Aug: Ceramic, Testbank...
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