and a naval base of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nelson in honour of Horatio Nelson: HMS Nelson (1814) was a 120-gun first rate launched in 1814....
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HMS Nelson (pennant number: 28) was the name ship of her class of two battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1920s. They were the first battleships...
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50°47′58″N 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...
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"first-rate" warship HMS Nelson (1876), a British armoured cruiser HMS Nelson (28), a British battleship Nelson-class battleship USS Nelson (DD-623), an American...
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Report of HMS Nelson Board of Inquiry into the loss of HMS Sheffield, 1982. Released CIC Fleet Northwood Sept 82 David Manley. "The Loss of HMS Sheffield...
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and Nelson's fleet engaged them at the Battle of Trafalgar. The battle became one of Britain's greatest naval victories, but Nelson, aboard HMS Victory...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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Navy have been named HMS Lord Nelson, after the Vice-admiral Horatio Nelson, victor of the Battle of Trafalgar: HMS Lord Nelson (1800) was a storeship...
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previous British battleships after HMS Dreadnought of 1906 had four screws as did all British battleship classes after Nelson. In order that fuel gasses be...
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HMS Nelson was a 126-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 July 1814 at Woolwich Dockyard, but then laid up incomplete at Portsmouth...
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D. Eisenhower for the Allies, at Malta aboard the British battleship HMS Nelson. The term Additional Conditions for the Armistice with Italy was coined...
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Malaya to lay down their arms was in Penang on 2 September 1945 aboard HMS Nelson. The concept of a unified East Asia took form based on an Imperial Japanese...
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HMS Nelson served as the flagship of the Royal Navy's Task Force 11 Royal Navy destroyer HMS Petard Vice Admiral Harold Walker, with his flagship HMS...
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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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training wing – the Royal Marines School of Music at HMS Nelson – and its headquarters is at HMS Excellent, Whale Island, Portsmouth. The development...
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Troubridge was given command of the battleship HMS Nelson in June 1941 and then the aircraft carrier HMS Indomitable in January 1942. In 1943, he was appointed...
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Battle of Trafalgar (category Horatio Nelson)
approached the Franco-Spanish lines. Nelson's own HMS Victory led the front column and was almost knocked out of action. Nelson was shot by a French musketeer...
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achieved the level of fame and adulation that Nelson secured. Nelson's death in the cockpit of his flagship HMS Victory has been described by Andrew Lambert...
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wide and powered by two Rolls-Royce diesel engines. The ship is based at HMS Nelson, the shore base in Portsmouth and was commissioned in 1988. Blazer carries...
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Surveyors of the Navy at the time, Robert Seppings and Joseph Tucker. HMS Nelson Builder: Woolwich Dockyard Ordered: 23 November 1805 Laid down: December...
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HMS Nelson was a Nelson-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s. She was sold for scrap in 1910. The Nelson-class ships were designed...
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HMS Queen Elizabeth was the lead ship of her class of five dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s, and was often used as...
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adaptation of Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. The guns of the British battleship HMS Nelson, officially known as "Right, Centre or Left" gun in "A", "B" or "X" turret...
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shells fired would strike a surface target. The AFCT MK 1 was fitted to HMS Nelson and Rodney in the early 1920s, while the battleships Warspite, Valiant...
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March 1929, serving on HMS Iron Duke and later on the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet (renamed the Home Fleet in 1932), HMS Nelson. He served on the latter...
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Islands and came within striking distance of HMS Nelson and Rodney. Unbeknown to Zahn, aboard the flagship HMS Nelson were First Lord of the Admiralty Winston...
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RMS Majestic (1914) (redirect from HMS Caledonia (training ship))
White Star and Thomas Ward. She served the Royal Navy as the training ship HMS Caledonia before catching fire in 1939 and sinking. She was subsequently...
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(HMS Heron). Vernon ceased to be an independent command on 31 March 1986, when it was renamed HMS Nelson (Vernon Site), and in 1987 it was renamed HMS...
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when it ceased to be an independent command and was incorporated into HMS Nelson as part of HMNB Portsmouth. The name continues to exist in reference to...
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HMS Nelson (HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth) HMS Neptune (HMNB Clyde, Faslane, Dunbartonshire) HMS Seahawk (RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall) RNAS Predannack HMS Heron...
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