HMS Duke of York was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy. Laid down in May 1937, the ship was constructed by John Brown and Company at Clydebank...
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King George V-class battleship (1939) (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
ships of this class were built: HMS King George V (commissioned 1940), HMS Prince of Wales (1941), HMS Duke of York (1941), HMS Anson (1942) and HMS Howe...
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1940-41 Malta Convoys 1941 HMCS York, Canadian Forces Naval Reserve division in Toronto, Ontario HMS Duke of York, several ships of this name Demerliac...
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HMS Iron Duke was a dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class, named in honour of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington....
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Cecil Harcourt (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
included: HMS Wessex (1931) HMS Stuart (1935; leader of the Australian Destroyer Flotilla) HMS President (1939) HMS Duke of York (1941) HMS Sheffield...
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shore establishment of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Duke: HMS Duke (1652) was a 12-gun ship in service in 1652. HMS Duke (1682) was a 90-gun second...
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until 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...
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George VI (redirect from Prince Albert, Duke of York)
and Royal Air Force during the First World War. In 1920, he was made Duke of York. He married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923, and they had two daughters...
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convoys of war materiel from the western Allies to the Soviet Union, was brought to battle and sunk by the Royal Navy's battleship HMS Duke of York with...
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Beach. The four Iron Duke-class battleships, HMS Iron Duke, HMS Marlborough, HMS Benbow, and HMS Emperor of India, were the third line of British super-dreadnoughts...
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Somerset (disambiguation) (redirect from Town of Somerset)
a 1941 ship of the South African Navy HMS Somerset (1698), a three-decker 80-gun third rate ship HMS Somerset (1731), an 80-gun third rate ship of the...
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Edward VIII (redirect from Edward, Duke of Windsor)
December of the same year. Edward was born during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria as the eldest child of the Duke and Duchess of York, later...
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Richmond SS Duchess of York (1928) SS Duke of Albany (1907) SS Duke of Connaught (1902) PS Duchess of Montrose (1902) HMS Duke of York (17) SS East River (1954)...
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islands. 1941, May 8 – The British heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall sinks German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin in the Action of 8 May 1941 off the Seychelles. 1941, November...
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Hermann Schoemann, Friedrich Ihn and Z25. The convoy covering force of HMS Duke of York, Renown, Kenya, Faulknor, Eskimo, Punjabi, Fury, Echo and Eclipse...
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George V (redirect from Duke of Cornwall and York)
inherited the title of Duke of Cornwall, and for much of the rest of that year, he was known as the Duke of Cornwall and York. In 1901, the Duke and Duchess toured...
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HMS Kelly (pennant number F01) was a K-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, and flotilla leader of her class. She served through the early years...
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social anthropologist Action of 8 May 1941: The German commerce raider Pinguin was sunk by the British heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall in the Indian Ocean...
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November 1941. On 11 December 1941, Lightning, Harvester and Highlander were ordered to leave Gibraltar and rendezvous with the battleship Duke of York, in...
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Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II...
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repairs in New York. Malaya was withdrawn from serving at the end of 1944 and used as an accommodation ship for the training establishment HMS Vernon. She...
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Duke of York, ferry for London, Midland and Scottish Railway, launched 7 March 1935 completed 4 June 1935, renamed HMS Duke of Wellington 1942, Duke of...
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were defeated. Winston Churchill arrived in Washington, D.C. aboard HMS Duke of York after a secret ten-day journey across the Atlantic. The Arcadia Conference...
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HMS Penelope was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast, Northern Ireland); her keel was laid down...
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attempt an attack on Convoy JW 55B, and put to sea in his flagship HMS Duke of York to reach a position between the convoy and the German battleship's...
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HMS Renown was the lead ship of her class of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy built during the First World War. She was originally laid down as an improved...
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April 1941. ^ The destroyer was one of HMS Boreas, HMS Duncan, HMS Highlander or HMS Velox. ^ Force D comprised HMS Ajax, HMS Dido, HMS Hasty, HMS Hereward...
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BL 14-inch Mk VII naval gun (category Naval guns of the United Kingdom)
nature of the engagement, as was the case when HMS King George V engaged Bismarck in 1941 and HMS Duke of York engaged Scharnhorst in the Battle of North...
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theatres of war, the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific, as part of the British Home Fleet and Pacific Fleets. In May 1941, along with HMS Rodney, King...
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antisubmarine duties. The cruiser HMS Devonshire and battleship King George V visited Akureyri harbour in May 1941, just prior to their sea battle with...
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