• 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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    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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