HMS Onslow was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. The O-class were intermediate destroyers, designed before the outbreak of the Second World War to...
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Fleet. HMS Onslow was a destroyer launched in January 1941, but its name was exchanged with an O-class destroyer under construction in August 1941 was commissioned...
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Onslow, Iowa, U.S. Onslow County, North Carolina, U.S. Onslow Bay, North Carolina, U.S. HMS Onslow (1916), an Admiralty M-class destroyer HMS Onslow (G17)...
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The second HMS Pakenham was an O-class destroyer. She was renamed HMS Onslow (G17) shortly after being launched in 1941. The third HMS Pakenham (G06)...
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Royal Navy officer. During the First World War he commanded the destroyer HMS Onslow at the Battle of Jutland and then commanded the destroyer Ursa at the...
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Onslow, KCB, DSO & Three Bars, DL (15 April 1904 – 16 December 1975) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. Onslow was...
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destroyers HMS Achates, Orwell, Oribi, Onslow, Obedient and Obdurate; the Flower-class corvettes HMS Rhododendron and Hyderabad; the minesweeper HMS Bramble;...
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Sukhona. U-457 sank 8992-ton Atheltemplar on 14 September; and HMS Onslow sank U-589. HMS Impulsive sank U-457 on 16 September. The 5446-ton Kentucky was...
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foreign port, in Rotterdam. Also there were the cruiser HMS Bellona, and the destroyer Onslow as well as the submarine Tuna. Foreign vessels included...
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arrived safely. The escort consisted of the cruiser HMS Berwick, the destroyers HMS Offa and HMS Onslow, two minesweepers and two armed trawlers. The following...
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Operation Archery (category Conflicts in 1941)
the light cruiser HMS Kenya, with the destroyers HMS Onslow, Oribi, Offa and Chiddingfold, provided fire support. The submarine HMS Tuna was in support...
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Sumner, The Royal Navy 1939–45, p. 12 Richards & Smith, Onslow's Jolly Roger, p. 11 Photo of HMS Conqueror's Jolly Roger in the Royal Navy Submarine Museum...
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minesweeper HMS Bramble, two corvettes and two armed trawlers. The close escort was supported by six Home Fleet destroyers led by HMS Onslow (Capt Robert...
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HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy and was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the...
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HMS Hindustan (1905) HMS Hood (51) HMS Hornet (1912) SS Hororata (1941) HMS Hydra (1912) HMS Icarus (D03) HMS Ilex (D61) SS Imperio (1947) HMS Indefatigable (R10) HMS Inflexible (1907)...
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(1805–1865), commander of HMS Beagle, on board which the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) also sailed, lived at 38 Onslow Square. Nicholas Freeman...
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HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of...
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beyond Bear Island. HMS Nigeria (Admiral Harold Burrough, commander cruiser covering force) and its destroyers HMS Oribi, Onslow and Marne departed from...
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January 1942. Out of the ship's crew, 27 were lost, 23 were picked up by HMS Onslow and a further 10 crew members by Sabre and landed at Reykjavík, Iceland...
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Emergency Programme, and laid down as Onslow on 6 February 1940. She was launched on 28 January 1941. In August 1941, during construction, her name was changed...
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U-589 at 09:40; this submarine also dived, but was located and sunk by HMS Onslow. Avenger's captain now had to change tactics to work around a limitation...
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survived the war. Five of them were involved in the Battle of the Barents Sea, Onslow being badly damaged. After the battle, the ships were refitted with tall...
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action aboard HMS Onslow against the German cruiser Admiral Hipper and the Deutschland-class cruiser Lützow on 31 December 1942. Onslow was holed during...
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foreign port, in Rotterdam. Also there were the cruiser HMS Bellona and the destroyers Garth and Onslow. Foreign vessels included two of the Dutch Navy submarines...
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Eskimo, Faulknor, Foresight, Icarus, Inglefield, Ledbury, Marne, Middleton, Onslow, Punjabi, Tartar and Wheatland. This force was intended to accompany PQ...
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aboard HMS Avenger where they covered the Arctic convoys to Russia. They attacked six U-boats, and shared credit with the destroyer HMS Onslow for sinking...
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among others, and an ocean escort of eight Home Fleet destroyers led by HMS Onslow. Also in the area was convoy RA 55A, returning to the United Kingdom from...
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sunk on 14 September 1942 by depth charges from the British destroyer HMS Onslow. U-88 took part in three wolfpacks, namely: Strauchritter (29 April -...
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HMS Achates was an A-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Completed in 1930, she initially served with the Mediterranean Fleet...
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November 1941. ^ Force K comprised HMS Aurora, HMS Lance, HMS Lively and HMS Penelope (all Royal Navy). ^ The 4th Destroyer Flotilla comprised HMS Legion...
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