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    HMS Fifi was an armed screw steamer, captured from the Germans by Royal Navy units during the Battle for Lake Tanganyika, and used to support Anglo-Belgian...
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  • Look up fifi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fifi may refer to: Fifi (Better Call Saul), an episode of the TV show Fifi, a Beverly Hills Teens character...
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    action, on 26 December 1915 Kingani was damaged and captured, becoming HMS Fifi. In the second, the small flotilla overwhelmed and sank Hedwig von Wissmann...
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    February 1916 at 11h50 in the Battle for Lake Tanganyika including HMS Fifi and HMS Mimi. German casualties were engineer and two African stokers killed...
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    that killed her commander and four of her crew. Kingani was rechristened HMS Fifi and brought under Spicer-Simson's command. As a result, on 3 January 1916...
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    surprise attack on the Germans, capturing the gunboat Kingani – renamed HMS Fifi. They sank a second German vessel, Hedwig von Wissmann, in February 1916;...
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    Tanganyika. They captured the German ship Kingani on 26 December, renaming it HMS Fifi and with two Belgian ships under the command of Commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simson...
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    The British captured the German ship Kingani on 26 December, renamed it HMS Fifi and accompanied by two Belgian ships, attacked and sank the German ship...
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  • attacked Abercorn. A British flotilla, consisting of the Mimi, Toutou, HMS Fifi and Vengeur was organised on Lake Tanganyika to support the land forces...
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  • HMS Mimi and HMS Toutou were motor launches of the Royal Navy. After undergoing an unusual journey from Britain to Lake Tanganyika in the interior of Africa...
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    3°33′36″N 104°28′42″E / 3.56000°N 104.47833°E / 3.56000; 104.47833 HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that...
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    action, on 26 December 1915 Kingani was damaged and captured, becoming HMS Fifi. In the second action, early February 1916, the small flotilla overwhelmed...
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  • "Shipping losses". The Times. No. 41089. London. 14 February 1916. col C, p. 3. "HMS Arethusa". Uboat.net. Retrieved 21 November 2012. "Marine insurance market"...
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    from Rodney's fleet were the frigates HMS Blanche, which disappeared without a trace, and HMS Andromeda and HMS Laurel, which were wrecked on Martinique...
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    Lake Tanganyika Christmas 1915, in which HMS Mimi and HMS Toutou captured the German Kingani, renamed HMS Fifi In addition to the purely Naval cases, Anderson...
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    HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic)
    and was received by several other ships in the area, among them HMS Scourge and HMS Heroic, but Britannic heard nothing in reply. Unknown to either Bartlett...
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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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    HMS Repulse was one of two Renown-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Originally laid down as an improved version...
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  • himself only two months later Mademoiselle Fifi, (aka Paree) the cat of American aviator John Moisant. Fifi accompanied Moisant during the first aeroplane...
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    HMS Sidon was a submarine of the Royal Navy, launched in September 1944, one of the third group of S class built by Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead...
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    HMS A1 was the Royal Navy's first British-designed submarine, and their first to suffer fatal casualties. She was the lead ship of the first British A-class...
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    Fifi is a submerged tugboat shipwreck located approximately 8 km (5 mi) east of Al-Bander resort in Bahrain. The vessel caught fire and sank in the early...
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    Carabiner (redirect from HMS Carabiner)
    of a D with a greater asymmetry, allowing for a wider gate opening. Pear/HMS: Wider and rounder shape at the top than offset-D's, and typically larger...
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    HMS M2 was a Royal Navy submarine monitor completed in 1919, converted in 1927 into a submarine aircraft carrier. She was wrecked in Lyme Bay, Dorset...
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    HMS St Lawrence was a 102-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy that served on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812. Built on the lake at the...
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    HMS A3 was an A-class submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She sank in 1912. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed...
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    HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. She differed from the other ships...
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    Squadron HMS Emperor, first operational unit 804 Naval Air Squadron HMS Ameer, HMS Emperor, HMS Shah, HMS Ravager 808 Naval Air Squadron HMS Khedive 888...
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    of Africa and into the Red Sea. On leaving Cape Town, the light cruiser HMS Carlisle joined the convoy. Due to a collision in the Suez Canal, the convoy...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Warrior (1917)
    HMS Warrior was a steel-hulled steam yacht that was launched in Scotland in 1904. Her first owner was Frederick William Vanderbilt. One of his cousins...
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