HMS Ceylon was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was of the Ceylon sub class, named after the island and British colony of Ceylon (now...

the name HMS Ceylon, after the former British colony of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. Two ships taken up from trade were also named Ceylon: HMS Ceylon was a 38-gun...

Royal Navy HMS Ceylon (30), an Fiji-class cruiser commissioned in 1943 Ceylon-class cruiser, a sub-class of the Fiji-class cruisers Ceylon tea, a brand...

The Invasion of Ceylon was a military campaign fought as a series of amphibious operations between the summer of 1795 and spring of 1796 between the garrison...

HCS Bombay, later HMS Bombay and HMS Ceylon, was a teak-built fifth rate, 38-gun wooden warship built in the Bombay Dockyard for the Honourable East India...

North Africa; and HMS Indomitable was relieved of naval duties to serve as a high-speed aircraft ferry shuttling available planes to Ceylon. Japanese intentions...

of Ceylon. Ships were detached to resume previous commitments; the heavy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire were sent to Colombo, and HMS Hermes...

His (or Her) Majesty's Ship, abbreviated HMS and H.M.S., is the ship prefix used for ships of the navy in some monarchies. Derivative terms such as HMAS...

built to a slightly modified design and were sometimes also called the Ceylon class. They were built to the limitations that the 1936 Second London Naval...

of her era—her near-sister HMS Unicorn (of the modified Leda class) is now a museum ship in Dundee. After being ordered on 30 October 1812, Trincomalee...

HMS Highflyer, Trincomalee, Ceylon HMS Hornet, Coastal Forces Depot MTB, Gosport, Hampshire HMS Idaho, WWI base at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire HMS Inskip...

Ceylon was an independent country in the Commonwealth of Nations from 1948 to 1972, that shared a monarch with other dominions of the Commonwealth. In...

They were HMS Overdale Wyke (the first ship to be purchased by the Government of Ceylon), HMS Okapi, HMS Semla, HMS Sambhur, HMS Hoxa, HMS Balta and HM...

at HMS Nabthorpe. Between March and September the MONAB hosted disembarked squadrons from HMS Speaker, HMS Slinger, HMS Ruler, HMS Indefatigable, HMS Indomitable...

other 1950s cruiser reconstructions of three Town cruisers and HMS Newfoundland and HMS Ceylon had only a single main 274 director which limited their surface...

Navy HMS C30, a C-class submarine of the Royal Navy HMS Ceylon (C30), a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy C30 road (Namibia) AMD C-30, a mobile...

HMS Cornwall, pennant number 56, was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Kent sub-class built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship spent most...

HMS Uva was a Royal Navy rest camp at Diyatalawa, in British Ceylon. The camp was reportedly built as a prisoner of war camp for use in the Boer War in...

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...

Minelayer HMS Manxman Monitor HMS Erebus Seaplane Carrier HMS Albatross Destroyers HMS Active HMS Anthony HMS Arrow HMS Blackmore HMS Duncan HMS Fortune HMS Foxhound...

HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in...

London and relief on 30 December 1878, becoming admiral superintendent of naval reserves, raising his flag aboard the corvette HMS Penelope in November...

HMS Pickle was a topsail schooner of the Royal Navy. She was originally a civilian vessel named Sting, of six guns, that Lord Hugh Seymour purchased to...

Marmorice Bay within the Ottoman Empire with the aid of pearl divers from Ceylon. The operation is successful, though Hornblower has a narrow escape from...

HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the...

Whirlwind, Wager, Whelp and Wessex (from 19 January 1945) Force 69 HMS Ceylon (light cruiser) HMS Urchin (destroyer) Oilers: RFA Wave King, RFA Echodale, Empire...

Submarine Squadron October 1949: HMS Mercury – cryptographic instructor February 1950: HMS Ceylon – Korean War July 1952: HMS Mercury – signal instructors...

HMS Tarantula was an Insect-class gunboat of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1915, the gunboat saw service in both the First and Second World Wars. Tarantula...

Fleet at Colombo, Ceylon. In the first week of December, the battlecruiser HMS Repulse started on a trip to Australia with Vampire and HMS Tenedos as escorts...

re-embarked for Ceylon. After operating with the East Indies Fleet, the wing returned to the UK and then disbanded post war at RNAS Nutts Corner (HMS Pintail)...