HMS Usk was a Yarrow type River Class destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1901 – 1902 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Usk in Wales flowing...
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borne the name HMS Usk. HMS Usk (1903) was a River-class destroyer launched on 25 July 1903, sold for breaking up on 29 July 1920. HMS Usk (N65) was a group...
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The vessel could stop from full speed in twice the length of the ship. HMS Ardent was destroyed by Argentinian aircraft in Falkland Sound in May 1982...
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HMS Triumph, originally known as Libertad, was the second of the two Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy. The ship was ordered...
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Newport, Wales (redirect from Newport-on-Usk)
[kasˈnɛwɨð]) is a city and county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, 12 mi (19 km) northeast...
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SS Kilkenny (redirect from SS Frinton (1903))
a passenger vessel built for the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company in 1903. The ship was built by the Clyde Shipbuilding Company in Port Glasgow for...
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raised piece in the eyes. Ribble Teviot Usk Welland Gala Garry Laird type; all built by Laird Brothers (from 1903 Cammell Laird), Birkenhead, including...
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obtained form the Barry Railway Company in 1911) Glen Avon 1912–1944 Glen Usk 1914–1963 Glen Gower 1922–1960 Lady Moyra 1922–1940 (built in 1905) Brighton...
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Elizabeth II British Admiral HMS Dreadnought HMS Invincible HMS Sheffield HMS Ocean Winston Churchill HMS Indomitable Princess Diana HMS Vanguard Queen Elizabeth...
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massing in the town of Vladislovovka; Lemnos and the British light cruiser HMS Caradoc bombarded the town, forcing the Soviet forces to withdraw. She then...
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aircraft used Scherman's photographs to identify Atlantis, and the cruiser HMS Devonshire sank her on 21 November 1941. The German censor had released the...
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Seven bombs damaged Pennland but she did not sink, so her destroyer escort HMS Griffin sank her by gunfire. Griffin also embarked survivors and took them...
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British-India Line-managed Khedive Ismail, were ordered with the cruiser HMS Calcutta and a number of destroyers to Nauplia and Tolon on the Argolic Gulf...
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Kilkis departed with several transport ships and the British seaplane carrier HMS Ark Royal, which provided aerial reconnaissance for the Greek forces. Operations...
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Islands. In the Second World War, some of her iron was scavenged to repair HMS Exeter, one of the Royal Navy ships that fought Graf Spee and was badly damaged...
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University Health Board. The foundation stone for the hospital was laid in May 1903. It was designed by Alfred J. Wood using a compact arrow layout and was opened...
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(1980). The Saffron Walden branch. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0860931072. Paye, Peter (1980). The Mellis & Eye Railway. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-720-4...
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Monmouthshire, another important legionary base, was known first as Caerleon on the Usk, and now as Caerleon). King Arthur is said to have fought his ninth battle...
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The Brookwood Necropolis Railway. Locomotion Papers. Vol. 143 (4th ed.). Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-655-9. Maxwell 1885. "Karl Marx 1855: Agitation...
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Originally named SMS Bodrog, she was laid down at Neupest on 14 February 1903. Like her sister ship SMS Temes, she had an overall length of 52.6 m (172 ft...
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ISBN 0-946184-26-7. Langley, RC; Jenkins, SC (2002). The West Cornwall Railway. Usk: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-589-6. MacDermot, ET (1931). History of the...
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Barry Railway Company (redirect from Barry Railway Act 1903)
Company Limited. 1920. p. 79. D S Barrie, The Barry Railway, Oakwood Press, Usk, reprinted 1983, ISBN 0 85361 236 6 D S M Barrie, revised Peter Baughan,...
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Action of 25 February 1781 – 1781 – American Revolutionary War Capture of HMS St. Fermin – 1781 – American Revolutionary War Invasion of Minorca (1781)...
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from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2007. Adam of Usk. Chronicle. Ravenhill, Mark (28 November 2006). "Confessions of a panto-lover"...
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1902, running teams in both association football and rugby football. In 1903, they joined the Newport & District Football League, having been rejected...
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career cut short. Usk: The Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-661-0. Marx, Klaus (2008). Robert Billinton: an engineer under pressure. Usk: The Oakwood Press...
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Corinthic (1902) Ionic (1903) Cedric (1903) Victorian (1903) Armenian (1903) Arabic (1903) Romanic (1903) Cretic (1903) Republic (1903) Canopic (1904) Cufic...
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heard and acknowledged by Belle Isle radio station in Canada. The rescue tug HMS Frisky and the corvette HMCS Rosthern were sent to rescue and, if possible...
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"Casualty reports". The Times. No. 43084. London. 15 July 1922. col G, p. 18. "HMS Insolent - World Naval Ships Directory". www.worldnavalships.com. "Casualty...
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