HMS Forward was a shore establishment of the British Royal Navy during World War II. It was based at South Heighton, just outside Newhaven, East Sussex...
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Four ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Forward: Ships HMS Forward (1805) was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in...
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This is a list of shore establishments (or stone frigates) of the Royal Navy and Corps of Royal Marines. Portsmouth establishments HMNB Clyde RNAS Culdrose...
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50°47′38″N 1°06′25″W / 50.794°N 1.107°W / 50.794; -1.107 HMS Vernon was a shore establishment or "stone frigate" of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. Vernon...
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83528; -1.19167 HMS Collingwood is a stone frigate (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy, in Fareham, England. It is the lead establishment of the Maritime...
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HMS Dryad is a former stone frigate (shore establishment). It was the home of the Royal Navy's Maritime Warfare School from the Second World War until...
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HMS Raleigh is a stone frigate (shore establishment), serving as the basic training facility of the Royal Navy at Torpoint, Cornwall, United Kingdom....
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HMS Harrier was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, located at Kete, Pembrokeshire. It was commissioned on 1 February 1948 and was the home of the...
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1834°W / 50.3908; -4.1834 HMS Drake, also known as the Fleet Accommodation Centre, is a stone frigate (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy on Saltash...
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HMS Sultan is a shore base of the Royal Navy in Gosport, Hampshire, England. It is the primary engineering training establishment for the Royal Navy and...
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1°05′47″W / 50.79944°N 1.09639°W / 50.79944; -1.09639 HMS Nelson is a stone frigate (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy on Queen Street in Portsmouth,...
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HMS Hibernia is the name given to a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, which serves as the headquarters of the Royal Naval Reserve in Northern Ireland...
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HMS Mercury was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, and the site of the Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School. There was also a subsidiary...
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Britannia Royal Naval College (redirect from HMS Dartmouth (shore establishment))
College, Dartmouth (RNC). As a Royal Naval shore establishment, it was later known also by the ship name HMS Britannia (a battleship called Britannia operated...
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HMS Lochinvar was a minesweeping training "stone frigate" (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy, sited at Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth. It was established...
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List of air stations of the Royal Navy (redirect from RNAS Dundee (HMS Condor II))
of naval air stations of the Royal Navy. Naval air stations are shore establishments of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA), the branch of the Royal Navy (RN) responsible...
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HMS Standard was a British Royal Navy shore establishment between 1942 and 1945. Situated well away from the sea near Kielder in Northumberland, the base...
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Unsinkable Sam (section HMS Cossack)
the forward section of the ship, killing 159 of the crew; however, Oscar survived this, too, and was subsequently brought to the shore establishment in...
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HMS Cambridge was a Royal Navy shore establishment south of Plymouth UK, commissioned between 1956 and 2001. Formerly named HM Gunnery School, Devonport...
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its lid survived and was eventually presented to the Royal Navy shore establishment HMS Centurion in 1981. Other surviving relics are items that were removed...
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Warlow, Ben (2000). Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy. Maritime Books. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-907771-74-6. Fray Bentos (3 March 1973). "HMS Flying Fox" (photograph)...
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was the Navy's only Continuous Service Training Establishment. HMS St George opened in September 1939. The facility was divided in various component parts...
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moved ashore, and recommissioned as the "stone frigate" (i.e., shore establishment) HMS Hibernia. Caroline herself was decommissioned on 31 March 2011...
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United Kingdom. In 1907, before the revolution in design brought about by HMS Dreadnought of 1906, the United Kingdom had 62 battleships in commission...
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Royal Naval Dockyard, Bermuda (redirect from HMS Malabar (shore establishment))
the base as an active naval dockyard in 1957 (excluding HMS Malabar, the shore establishment which operated until 1995), the base fell into a state of...
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HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy and was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the...
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Singapore Naval Base (redirect from Flag Officer, Malaya and Forward Areas)
Naval Base and HMS Sembawang, was situated in Sembawang at the northern tip of Singapore and was both a Royal Navy shore establishment and a cornerstone...
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sub-lieutenant while posted to the shore establishment HMS King Alfred. He next served at the shore establishment HMS President, then in December of that...
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crew.[citation needed] During World War II (1939–1945), the first Coastal Forces headquarters was set up at HMS Vernon in 1940 under Rear Admiral Piers Kekewich...
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was decommissioned. Thereafter she saw service with the training establishment HMS Imperieuse, a role she filled until February 1948, when she was paid...
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