Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Antelope, after the Antelope: English ship Antelope (1546) was a galleass carrying between 38 and 44...
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HMS Antelope was a Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy that participated in the Falklands War and was sunk by Argentine aircraft. Her keel was laid down...
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HMS Antelope was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Rotherhithe on 13 March 1703. She was rebuilt once during her career...
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HMS Antelope was a British A-class destroyer, which was completed for the Royal Navy in 1930. Antelope served throughout the Second World War, taking part...
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HMS Antelope was a Royal Navy Alarm-class torpedo gunboat. She was launched in 1893, reduced to harbour service from 1910 and was sold for scrapping in...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
defences were demonstrated in the sinking of HMS Ardent on 21 May which was hit by nine bombs, and HMS Antelope on 24 May when attempts to defuze unexploded...
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Antelope was a West Indian packet ship launched in 1780. The French captured her in 1781, 1782, and finally, in 1794. She is most famous for a desperate...
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named Antelope Antelope, Kansas Antelope, Montana Antelope, Oregon Antelope, South Dakota Antelope, Texas Antelope Canyon, canyon in Arizona Antelope, Newfoundland...
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two of the ship's landing craft were involved in rescuing crew from HMS Antelope after it had been bombed. Royal Marine Coxswain Corporal Alan White received...
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return fire from armed coaster ARA Monsunen. Commander C.J.S. Craig HMS Antelope - sank 24 May due to unsuccessful defusing attempt of unexploded bombs...
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Escort force: HMS Antrim, HMS Coventry, HMS Broadsword, HMS Brilliant, HMS Ardent, HMS Antelope, HMS Argonaut, HMS Plymouth and HMS Yarmouth. This is...
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involving USS Belknap and HMS Amazon and other ships that had aluminium alloy superstructures. The sinking of the Type 21 frigates Antelope and Ardent, both of...
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Dagger of FAA Grupo 6 and shared an Douglas A-4C Skyhawk kill with HMS Antelope's SeaCat, land-based Rapiers and Blowpipe surface to air missiles. Captain...
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HMS Antelope was a ship of the line in the Royal Navy launched in 1802 during the Napoleonic Wars. She was designed by Sir John Henslow and built by Nicholas...
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HMS Coventry was a Type 42 (Sheffield-class) destroyer of the Royal Navy. Laid down by Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, at Birkenhead on 29 January...
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HMS Antelope was a 14-gun brig of the Royal Navy. She was originally a mercantile brig, purchased in April 1784 at Jamaica by Vice-Admiral Gambier and...
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survivors. HMS Firefly (1808) was a 14-gun schooner, the ex-Spanish prize Antelope captured in February 1808 and purchased. She was renamed HMS Antelope in 1812...
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Rovers. Foxtrot 7, one of four carried by HMS Fearless (L10), rescued 41 crew members from the burning HMS Antelope (F170) on 24 May 1982 during the Falklands...
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The Antelope was a ship of the English Tudor navy, launched in 1546. She was rebuilt three times, in 1558, 1581 and 1618. She thus served in various forms...
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Oerlikon from the wreck of HMS Antelope which was remounted to increase her anti-aircraft capability, referred to on board as "Antelope's Avenger". She also assisted...
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Maritime Organization (IMO) is established. May 23 – Falklands War: HMS Antelope is lost. May 24 Iranian troops retake Khorramshahr. KGB head Yuri Andropov...
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carriers; the GR.3s going to HMS Hermes while the Sea Harriers were divided amongst the existing squadrons on Hermes and HMS Invincible. With the additional...
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(HMS Glamorgan, HMS Antrim) Type 22 frigate (HMS Brilliant, HMS Broadsword) Type 21 frigate (HMS Active, HMS Alacrity, HMS Antelope, HMS Ardent, HMS Ambuscade...
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HMS Glamorgan was a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy with a displacement of 5,440 tonnes. The ship was built by Vickers-Armstrongs in Newcastle...
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the name HMS Preston: HMS Preston was a 40-gun ship launched in 1653 as Preston. She was renamed HMS Antelope in 1660 and was sold in 1693. HMS Preston...
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Anglo–Spanish War (1654–1660). Five English ships, HMS Henry, HMS Ruby, HMS Antelope, HMS Greyhound and HMS Bryan, appeared at six in the morning in the Bay...
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HMS Ardent was a Royal Navy Type 21 frigate. Built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland. She was completed with Exocet launchers in 'B' position...
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forced to abandon ship, all of her crew being taken off by a passing HMS Antelope before she sank. Her Captain Thomas Burnett was court martialled as a...
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Tony Pugsley (section HMS Fearless and HMS Paladin)
College, Osborne, and thence to the Royal Naval College Dartmouth. He joined HMS Warspite as a midshipman in time to witness the surrender of the German High-Seas...
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her name was changed to Antelope. By 1677 her armament had been increased to 48 guns. In 1681 James Story, captain of Antelope, conducted a census of the...
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