named HMS Ganges after the river Ganges in India. HMS Ganges (1782) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1782 and broken up in 1816. HMS Ganges (1821)...
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HMS Ganges was a training ship and later stone frigate of the Royal Navy. She was established as a boys' training establishment in 1865, and was based...
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related to HMS Ganges (1821) at Wikimedia Commons The HMS Ganges Association Website has a detailed timeline of the activities of the Ganges. GANGES Museum...
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ship's mast stands on the site of the Royal Navy shore establishment HMS Ganges at Shotley, Suffolk in England. It was formerly used for mast climbing...
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(donated) her to the Royal Navy, which renamed her HMS Ganges. The Royal Navy commissioned Ganges in February 1782 under the command of Captain Charles...
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Shotley (section HMS Ganges site redevelopment)
Graves Commission. It has graves from both World Wars, not only those of HMS Ganges trainees, but also of Harwich-based warships killed in action with the...
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service from 1904, was renamed HMS Ganges II in 1906, became a coal hulk named C109 in 1908 and was broken up in 1960. HMS Agincourt was to have been a...
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1922. HMS Andromeda was HMS Impregnable II between 1919 and 1931. HMS Black Prince was HMS Impregnable III between 1910 and 1922. HMS Ganges was HMS Impregnable...
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training school HMS Ganges. The ship was renamed 11 June 1906 as HMS Ganges and then to Ganges II on 25 April 1908. She was sold on 30 January 1922 for scrap...
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1865 on the Shotley Peninsula to guard the port of Felixstowe, within HMS Ganges Naval Training school, on the same site as an existing Martello Tower...
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Royal Naval Training Establishment Shotley, known in the Royal Navy as HMS Ganges, was a naval training establishment at Shotley, near Ipswich in Suffolk...
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The Ganges-class ships of the line were a class of six 74-gun third rates, designed for the Royal Navy by Sir Edward Hunt in 1779. HMS Ganges Builder:...
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and was renamed HMS Ganges in 1908. She was renamed Powerful III in 1913 and Impregnable IV in 1919. She was finally sold in 1929. HMS Caroline (1914)...
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the navy. Briggs was trained at HMS Ganges for 16 months. After his training he was delighted to be assigned to HMS Hood which he joined on 29 July 1939...
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Fremantle joined him in August 1800 as commander of the ship of the line HMS Ganges. With this ship he received further accolades for his service at the Battle...
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1904 and 1906. HMS Triumph was HMS Indus IV between 1910 and 1914. HMS Ganges was HMS Indus V between 1910 and 1922. HMIS Indus was a Grimsby-class sloop...
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film Yangtse Incident: The Story of HMS Amethyst was filmed on the river. The naval shore establishment at HMS Ganges also featured in the film being used...
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establishment. HMS St George was paid off on Thursday, 20 December 1945, with the officers and ratings leaving the Isle of Man and relocating to HMS Ganges, Shotley...
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Egmont, the ships that escorted her into Portsmouth were HMS St George, HMS Edgar, HMS Ganges and HMS Phaeton. Egmont suffered heavy damage in the Battle of...
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he captured the French brig Griffon. By 1827 Inglefield was commanding HMS Ganges. Promoted to rear admiral in 1841, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief...
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carried mail and coal as well as munitions and sailors for the nearby HMS Ganges Royal Navy establishment. During the First World War the structure was...
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Otway, commander in chief of the South American station, arrived aboard HMS Ganges and announced his decision that Beagle was also to be brought to Montevideo...
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when the Second World War began in 1939 to command the training base HMS Ganges in 1939–1940. Halpern, p. 219 Halpern, Paul G., ed. (2016). The Mediterranean...
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HMS Tremendous was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Edward Hunt, built to the lines of HMS Ganges by William Barnard's...
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HMS Triumph was the original HMS Tenedos between 1906 and 1910. HMS Duncan was HMS Tenedos II between 1905 and 1910. HMS Ganges was HMS Tenedos III between 1906...
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broke out. An appointment to command the boys' training establishment HMS Ganges was cancelled, and he was appointed to command of the 11th Destroyer Flotilla...
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Second World War he joined the Royal Navy's boys' training establishment HMS Ganges. In 1940 Reeman was appointed Midshipman, at the age of 16. His initial...
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portions of one of her masts was installed at the shore establishment HMS Ganges for use in the training of boy seamen. The armament of the Minotaur-class...
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1930s, including a room created from the captain's cabin of the warship HMS Ganges (1821). The hotel is now a Grade II listed building During World War II...
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to my duty in less than half an hour." In 1801 while aboard the 74-gun HMS Ganges (commanded by Captain Thomas Fremantle, a personal friend), Brock was...
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