HMS Edinburgh was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, which served during the Second World War. She was one of the last two Town class cruisers...
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This modified design became the 10,000-ton Edinburgh subclass, named after Belfast's sister ship HMS Edinburgh. Belfast was ordered from Harland and Wolff...
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HMS Vindex King George V-class battleship HMS Anson (1942) Town-class cruiser HMS Edinburgh (1938) Crown Colony-class cruisers HMS Gambia (1940) HMS Mauritius...
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HMS Duke of Edinburgh was the lead ship of the Duke of Edinburgh-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the early 1900s. She was stationed...
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assigned to the destroyer HMS Wallace as a sub-lieutenant. They became close friends. In 1947, when Philip was created Duke of Edinburgh in the Peerage of the...
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HMS Claverhouse was a shore establishment of the British Royal Navy, based at Granton, Edinburgh. It is a listed building, used as a training centre for...
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David Hart Dyke (category 1938 births)
(born 3 October 1938) is a retired Royal Navy officer, former aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II, and former commanding officer of HMS Coventry, which...
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HMS Lothian, was a former cargo ship launched in 1938, as MV City of Edinburgh, which was requisitioned during the Second World War as a troop transport...
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Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (redirect from Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Edinburgh)
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria. The Duke visited New Zealand in 1869 as a post captain in HMS Galatea, and twice in...
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Type 26 frigate (redirect from HMS Edinburgh (Type 26 frigate))
2018, subsequent Batch 2 ships were announced as HMS Sheffield, HMS Newcastle, HMS Edinburgh and HMS London. Of the eight names, six were previously used...
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Town-class cruiser (1936) (redirect from Edinburgh class cruiser)
The ships were built in the sub-classes, Southampton, Gloucester and Edinburgh, each sub-class adding more weaponry. Like their US and Japanese counterparts...
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2020. "SS Edinburgh Castle (+1945)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 3 December 2017. Rosemary; Old Weather Transcriber; Renfrewshire (eds.). "HMS Edinburgh Castle...
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HMS Black Prince was a Duke of Edinburgh-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the early 1900s. She was stationed in the Mediterranean when...
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000 tonnes HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS Prince of Wales Retired: HMS Argus (1916) - scrapped 1946 HMS Furious (1916) - decommissioned 1945 HMS Vindictive (1918) –...
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Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (category People educated at Edinburgh Academy)
June 2007. "No. 13409". The Edinburgh Gazette. 25 February 1919. p. 1023. Michael Simpson pp. 14–15 "Cowan biography". HMS Hood association. 11 June 2007...
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Duke of Edinburgh, named after the capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh, is a substantive title that has been created four times since 1726 for members...
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HMS Calliope and HMS Calcutta and then the battleship HMS Barham before being appointed Senior Naval Officer, Harwich in 1925. He then commanded HMS St...
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HMS Trinidad was a Royal Navy Fiji-class light cruiser. She was lost while serving in the Arctic on convoy duty after being damaged escorting PQ 13 in...
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Portobello in north-east Edinburgh, Scotland. The area is mainly commercial, and has little housing. The area is home to Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home, which...
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Port Edgar (section HMS Temeraire)
Road Bridge and the town of South Queensferry, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally a naval base, HMS Lochinvar, Port Edgar is now a busy marina with a...
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United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently in service. HMS Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and...
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Harry Stileman (category 1938 deaths)
vessel HMS Salamis and served in the 1882 Egyptian Campaign. Until 1888 he successively served in the despatch vessel HMS Lively, the battleship HMS Temeraire...
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HMAS Vampire (D68) (redirect from HMS Vampire (D68))
the Royal Navy (RN) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Launched in 1917 as HMS Wallace, the ship was renamed and commissioned into the RN later that year...
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HMS Cossack was a Tribal-class destroyer named after the Cossack people of the Eurasian steppe. She became famous for the boarding of the German supply...
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until March 1929, serving on HMS Iron Duke and later on the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet (renamed the Home Fleet in 1932), HMS Nelson. He served on the...
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50°47′38″N 1°06′25″W / 50.794°N 1.107°W / 50.794; -1.107 HMS Vernon was a shore establishment or "stone frigate" of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. Vernon...
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Kriegsmarine were the sinking of the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous and the British battleship HMS Royal Oak and the loss of Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle...
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HMS Dorsetshire (pennant number 40) was a County-class heavy cruiser of the British Royal Navy, named after the English county, now usually known as Dorset...
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attacked and sank the nearby aircraft carrier HMS Glorious with its escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. Devonshire did not rebroadcast the enemy...
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William J. Watson (category Academics of the University of Edinburgh)
the Celtic Review. In Edinburgh he lived at 17 Merchiston Avenue. In 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were...
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