Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Fame, whilst another was planned: HMS Fame (1646) was a 20-gun Irish Royalist ship. She was captured by...
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HMS Fame was an F-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the ship was attached...
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out to China to command another destroyer, HMS Hart, in September 1898, transferring to a newer ship, HMS Fame, in January 1899. In April 1899 he went to...
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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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cruiser HMS London whilst at the same time serving as Chief Staff Officer to the Rear-Admiral Commanding the 1st Cruiser Squadron. From July 1934 until...
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waist level and sliced in two. The blue squadron was then completed by HMS Fame and HMS Russell under Captain James Saumarez. The white squadron under Rodney...
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HMT Warwick Deeping (redirect from HMS Warwick Deeping)
nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) south of the Isle of Wight, in company with HMS Listrac (former French armed merchant ship), when she encountered five German...
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HMS Electra was a one of nine E-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea, Electra was a witness...
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HMS Cheshire was a passenger ship that was built in Scotland in 1927 and scrapped in Wales in 1957. She belonged to Bibby Line, which ran passenger and...
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1934 The Pitcairners by Robert B. Nicolson (Pasifika Press, Auckland, 1997 pp. 260) After the Bounty: The Aftermath of the Infamous Mutiny on the HMS...
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sent the F-class destroyer HMS Fame on an anti-submarine sweep of the area, while Electra, another E-class destroyer, HMS Escort, the Swedish yacht Southern...
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Elizabeth II British Admiral HMS Dreadnought HMS Invincible HMS Sheffield HMS Ocean Winston Churchill HMS Indomitable Princess Diana HMS Vanguard Queen Elizabeth...
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E and F-class destroyer (redirect from F-class destroyer (1934))
above the bridge removed in exchange for a Type 271 target-indication radar, Fame had her 'A' gun reinstalled by 1944. A Type 286 short-range, surface-search...
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HMS Barham was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed in 1915, she was often used as...
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Insect-class gunboats plus assorted other small craft. Fairbanks commanded from HMS Aphis. Fairbanks stayed in the US Naval Reserve after the war, and ultimately...
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version.) Redgrave joined the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman in July 1941, (HMS Illustrious) but was discharged on medical grounds in November 1942. Having...
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readings from his books. The weekend concluded with a tour of Nelson's flagship HMS Victory followed by a dinner on her lower gundeck. The event was repeated...
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9:30 am on 27 October, a party from HMS Broke went on board and attached tow ropes. The oceangoing tugs HMS Marauder and HMS Thames had arrived and took the...
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Battlecruiser Squadron from 1931 to 1934. Tomkinson joined the Royal Navy in 1891 and served in the destroyer HMS Fame during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900...
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submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist). 1778...
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Wembley Arena (redirect from Wembley Arena Square of Fame)
Empire Pool (also known as Empire Pool and Sports Arena) was built for the 1934 British Empire Games by Arthur Elvin. As its original name suggested, it...
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Brian Phelan (category 1934 births)
the 1950s. Phelan's notable film appearances include The Kitchen (1961), HMS Defiant (1962) and the title role in The Soldier's Tale (1964).[citation...
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girl named Agnes, who had a role in Pauline Markham troupe's production of H.M.S. Pinafore in San Francisco. Author Sherry Monahan questions why an 18-year-old...
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000 troops were evacuated to Egypt by ships (including HMS Ajax of Battle of the River Plate fame). A smaller number of ships were to withdraw troops on...
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overseas exploration, and it led to his commission in 1768 as commander of HMS Endeavour for the first of three Pacific voyages. In these voyages, Cook...
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Ship's mascot of HMS Queen (and tortoise). James Gray (1836–1939) — British Empire. Served in the Royal Marine Artillery aboard HMS Hawke. Yves Prigent...
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patrols and in April 1941 was loaned to the Royal Navy and appointed to HMS Goshawk naval base in Trinidad, and served as assistant to the Senior British...
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dedicated submarine base. The Electric Boat Company built HMS Holland 1 the first Royal Navy submarine. HMS Holland 1 was launched on October 2, 1901. Holland...
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he became a Cup legend by nearly winning it in 1934. He was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1995. In 1927 Sopwith commissioned yacht builders...
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Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...
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