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    HMS Swindon was a Hunt-class minesweeper of the Aberdare sub-class built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was not finished in time to participate...
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  • and parish, near the Borough of Swindon Lydiard Tregoze, a Wiltshire village and parish, near the Borough of Swindon Lydiard Park, formerly in the parish...
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    Chris Kamara (category Swindon Town F.C. players)
    November 1974. He spent three years at the club before being sold on to Swindon Town for £14,000. He returned to Portsmouth in 1981 for a £50,000 fee but...
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    Columba. Converted to diesel power and renamed Chilliwack in 1954. Ex HMS Swindon. Ex HMS Barnstaple. Ex Deerhound. Ex Chilco. Hull built at Moodyville, BC...
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    Flotilla. HMS Victory HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS Prince of Wales HMS Daring – completing refit, scheduled to return to the fleet in 2024 HMS Dauntless HMS Diamond...
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    required"). HMS Northumberland HMS Richmond HMS Portland HMS Somerset HMS Kent HMS Sutherland (currently completing LIFEX refit as of March 2024) HMS St Albans...
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    Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
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    BRNC HMS Raleigh Northwood HQ Rosyth Dockyard HMS Vulcan HMNB Devonport HMNB Portsmouth HMS Jufair Mare Harbour RAF Mount Pleasant Stanley HMS Drake...
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    Fleet: architecture and engineering of the Royal Navy's bases, 1700–1914. Swindon, UK: English Heritage. "Heritage – Amble | Ascension Island". Archived...
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    Bath, Bristol, Bournemouth, Cheltenham, Exeter, Gloucester, Plymouth and Swindon. It is geographically the largest of the nine regions of England with a...
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    between March 1866 and June 1872. These were the first locomotives built at Swindon railway works, albeit with boilers supplied to the company. They were larger...
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  • Halliwell Swindon, Wiltshire, U.K. 22 Murdered O'Callaghan was abducted by taxi driver Christopher Halliwell after leaving a nightclub in Swindon and driven...
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  • Hospital, Dollis Hill, London, England St Andrews, Swindon, a civil parish of the Borough of Swindon "Earl of St Andrews", a subsidiary title belonging...
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    Tipner (section HMS Phoenix)
    Energy: the archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture. Swindon: English Heritage. pp. 58–59. Historic England. "Details from listed building...
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    Royal Navy at that point "to break that cycle". He completed his training at HMS Raleigh. He intended to become a helicopter pilot but was rejected when it...
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    transfer to the Princess Alexandra Hospital at RAF Wroughton, near Swindon. The hospital ship HMS Hydra made four such passages from the waters off the Falkland...
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    units from HMS Vernon and HM Signal School, Portsmouth) was itself commissioned as HMS Osprey, becoming an independent shore command. (HMS Icewhale initially...
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  • and other structures, the most famous being HMS Warrior. The last ship built there was the dreadnought HMS Thunderer in 1912 and the yard shut soon after...
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  • sloop HMS Tamar. In her, and afterwards in HMS Kingfisher, he continued on the North American station, and on 14 November 1775 he was posted to HMS Mercury...
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    1700–1914. Swindon: English Heritage. "Chatham Dockyard". Battleships cruisers. Retrieved 2 September 2016. Eastland & Ballantyne, p. 13. "HMS Unicorn:...
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    that the troops were already travelling, allowed them to go as far as Swindon and Cardiff, but blocked their deployment; he was concerned their use lead...
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  • Hertfordshire (Army, No. 1 Special Wireless Group) Hawklaw, Fife HMS Flowerdown, Winchester, Hampshire HMS Forest Moor, Harrogate, Yorkshire Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire...
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  • 1st Battalion, Wessex Regiment) C (Wiltshire) Company, at Devizes and Swindon (from HQ and B Companies, 1st Battalion, Wessex Regiment) In 1999 the battalion...
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  • these days." Fleming was buried in the churchyard of Sevenhampton, near Swindon. His will was proved on 4 November, with his estate valued at £302,147...
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  • a day school in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Wyvern Theatre, in Swindon, Wiltshire, England ”Wyvern School”, C.S. Lewis’ pseudonym for Wynyard...
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    August and the Isle of Wight Bestival with dates in such locations as Swindon, Southend-on-Sea, Warrington and Croydon. Later in the year, Ant's postponed...
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    Inglesham (category Borough of Swindon)
    Inglesham is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England, notable for the Grade-I listed St John the Baptist Church...
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    between those towns, and the locomotive was named after his ship, the frigate HMS Shannon. In 1862 it was sold to the London and North Western Railway (LNWR)...
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    The Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, also known as HMS Pembroke, was a UK naval barracks that was built between the Victorian Steam Yard and Brompton Barracks...
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    officer of the Northern Division of the West Indies Station, commanding HMS Boreas, until his departure in 1787. Nelson referred to the harbour as an...
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