• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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