Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Grafton, while another one was planned: HMS Grafton (1679) was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched...
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HMS Grafton is a Type 23 frigate formerly in service with the Royal Navy. She was the ninth vessel to bear the name, and is named after the Duke of Grafton...
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HMS Grafton (H89) was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship spent considerable...
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Grafton may refer to: Grafton, New South Wales Grafton, New Brunswick Grafton, Nova Scotia Grafton, Ontario Grafton, Cheshire Grafton, Herefordshire Grafton...
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HMS Grafton was a first class cruiser of the Edgar class, launched in 1892. She served in colonial service and in the First World War. Grafton survived...
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HMS Grafton was one of a dozen Blackwood-class frigate (also known as the Type 14 class) of second-rate anti-submarine frigates built for the Royal Navy...
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1926 and sold for breaking up in 1948. A fictional HMS Suffolk, played by the Type 23 frigate HMS Grafton, appeared in the ITV drama Making Waves This article...
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vehicle Ships HMS Duncan (F80), a Blackwood-class frigate of the Royal Navy HMS Grafton (F80) a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy HMS Torrid (1917),...
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HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third rate built at Woolwich Dockyard in 1677/79. She was delivered to Chatham and placed in Ordinary in 1679. She was commissioned...
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to decommissioning, HMS Grafton was a regular visitor to the port and has special links with the town and the county of Suffolk. HMS Orwell, named after...
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HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Swallow and Fowler, of Limehouse, London, to the dimensions of...
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HMS Grafton was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Adam Hayes launched on 26 September 1771 at Deptford Dockyard. One of...
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HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment...
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arrived HMS Grafton, and was joined by Captain Keppel. Warspite returned home under the command of Captain John Locke Marx (who had arrived on Grafton), stopping...
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was portrayed by HMS Grafton). HMS Montrose and HMS Monmouth were used to portray the interior and exterior shots of the fictional HMS Monarch for the...
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She joins her sister ships in the Chilean Navy, the former HMS Norfolk and HMS Grafton, handed over in November 2006 and March 2007 respectively. Along...
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flying boat HMS Ashanti (F51), a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy HMS Grafton (F51), a Blackwood-class frigate of the Royal Navy HMS Laurentic (F51)...
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in naval debates. In 1726, he was re-appointed to active service in HMS Grafton. This ship served in the Baltic until the winter of 1727, when it was...
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Navy on the same day. Both frigates were replaced by HMS Norfolk, HMS Marlborough, HMS Grafton; three Type 23-class vessels purchased from the British...
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Dauphine, grappled HMS Hampton Court, killing her captain, George Clements, and taking her. Claude Forbin's 60-gun Mars next attacked HMS Grafton and, when joined...
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school HMS Vernon in September 1899 and qualified as a torpedo specialist in December 1901. He served as a torpedo officer in the cruiser HMS Grafton on the...
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Type 23 frigate HMS Grafton and others) Troutbridge (from the 1959–1977 radio comedy The Navy Lark; inspired by the Type 15 frigate: HMS Troubridge). Trumpton...
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Great Hurricane of 1780. He left Hector in 1782 and was given command of HMS Grafton to sail as a reinforcement to the East Indies Station. In January 1783...
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and Emily Hamilton as Lieutenant Commander Jenny Howard. The frigate HMS Grafton stood in for Suffolk and additional filming took place around HMNB Portsmouth...
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HMS Revenge was the lead ship of five Revenge-class super-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War in the mid-1910s...
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Navy around 1870. He was given command of the cruiser HMS Grafton in 1898 and the battleship HMS Collingwood in 1899. In early February 1900 it was announced...
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in North America, Hood became flag captain to Commodore Holmes in the Grafton. At the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in 1756, the navy was rapidly...
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were the Elizabeth (64 guns), HMS Lenox (74), HMS Grafton (68), HMS Weymouth (60), HMS America (60), HMS Panther (60) and HMS Falmouth (50), while there...
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the fifth-rate HMS Dolphin in 1728. He went on to take the command of the third-rate HMS Grafton in March 1734, of the fourth-rate HMS Deptford in October...
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against the French at the Second Battle of Ushant and for his death when HMS Royal George accidentally sank at Portsmouth the following year. He was born...
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