• one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Merlin, after Merlin, the wizard in Arthurian legend (the shore establishment RNAS Donibristle...
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  • Look up Merlin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Merlin is a Welsh wizard in Arthurian legend. Merlin may also refer to: Mr. Merlin, a 1981-82 American...
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    Merlin (Welsh: Myrddin, Cornish: Merdhyn, Breton: Merzhin) is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a magician...
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  • HMS Merlin was a sloop of war, bearing sixteen guns, commanded by Samuel Reeve, and saw service during the American Revolutionary War. As part of the advance...
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    "HMAS Fantome". Sea Power Centre Australia. Retrieved 15 September 2008. "HMS Merlin at Naval Database website". Retrieved 7 September 2008. "The Annals of...
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  • Scheveningen and Porto Fina. She was incorporated into the Royal Navy as HMS Merlin in May 1660. She continued her duties in trade protection and convoy escort...
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    HMS Merlin was the name ship of her class of three 2-gun paddle packet boats built for the Royal Navy during the 1830s. She was converted into a survey...
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    HMS Merlin was an 8-gun yacht of the Royal Navy, best known for its use as a pretext for the 1672 to 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War. In August 1671, Lord Arlington...
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    HMS Merlin was a 10-gun snow-rigged sloop-of-war, the first of 21 Royal Navy vessels in the Merlin class. Launched in 1744, she was the first Royal Navy...
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    HMS Merlin was one of the two original Merlin-class sloops that served the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. She was launched in 1796 and...
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  • and 8.7 miles (14.0 km) northwest of Edinburgh. It was also known as HMS Merlin. It grew from an emergency landing ground first established in 1917 on...
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  • O'Malley – Capt. William Bourke of HMS Merlin Phil Dix - Lt. Bandelwine of HMS Merlin Frederick Warder – Bosun of HMS Merlin Gavin Molloy / Steven Morphew –...
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    Fife Satellite airfield of Crail HMS Kestrel, World War II Royal Naval Air Station at Worthy Down, Hampshire HMS Merlin, Fife 1917–1959 RNAS Donibristle...
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    both Augusta and HMS Merlin (16) went aground on one of the several sandbars around that location. Despite attempts during the night by HMS Roebuck (44) to...
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  • HMS Merlin was launched in 1801 in South Shields as the collier Hercules. In July 1803, with the resumption of war with France, the Admiralty purchased...
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    aboard HMS Pegasus, a Royal Navy aircraft carrier/seaplane carrier, in the Irish Sea. Week eight was then a return to RNAS Donibristle (HMS Merlin). The...
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  • Spaniard ships approached and anchored approximately one mile away from HMS Merlin, the leading vessel that was relocated from Jamaica to assist the Baymen...
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    European waters. Of five Merlins deployed, two were in the AEW configuration. The carrier was escorted by HMS Diamond, HMS Kent and RFA Tideforce. On...
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    Training Section Merlin Depth Maintenance Facility Naval Flying Standards Flight (Rotary Wing) School of Flight Deck Operations HMS Seahawk Volunteer...
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    after a Royal Navy Merlin Mk. 4 helicopter ditched in the English Channel near Dorset while conducting night flying exercises with HMS Queen Elizabeth....
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    HMS Prince of Wales (R09) is the second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Unlike most large aircraft carriers, Prince of Wales...
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  • Royal Navy have been named HMS Zephyr after Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind: HMS Zephyr, originally the sloop HMS Merlin, was captured by a French...
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    (1952–1965) HMS Gleaner (1983–2018) HMS Merlin (1666–1698), the Navy's first hydrographic survey vessel HMS Hecate (1839–65) HMS Myrmidon (1867–88) HMS Triton...
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    II A Merlin Mk2 flying alongside Queen Elizabeth Wildcat HM2 operating over the English Channel Apache and Chinook at sea on HMS Ocean A Merlin HM2 Crowsnest...
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  • Merlin, and more than a dozen different British warships each called HMS Merlin. He was one of eight British magical figures that were commemorated on...
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  • HMS Cormorant he served in HMS Zephyr and HMS Merlin on the Newfoundland Station before being promoted to post captain in 1766. Given command of HMS Lizard...
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    anti-submarine warfare, at RNAS Donibristle (HMS Merlin), in Fife. A second three-week block was spent at RNAS Dundee (HMS Condor II), a seaplane base / repair...
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    anti-submarine warfare, at RNAS Donibristle (HMS Merlin), in Fife. A second three week block was spent at RNAS Dundee (HMS Condor II), a seaplane base / repair...
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    HMS Swallow was a 10-gun Merlin-class sloop of the Royal Navy that prior to her commissioning was briefly known as HMS Galgo. Launched in 1744, the ship...
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    Carrier Strike Group has, particularly the GR9 Harrier and Merlin ASW helicopters operating from HMS Ark Royal". As an example of the size and composition...
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