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    HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the...
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  • Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Exeter after the city of Exeter in Devon. HMS Exeter (1680) was a 70-gun third rate launched in 1680....
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  • "HMS Exeter (68) of the Royal Navy - British Heavy cruiser of the York class - Allied Warships of WWII". uboat.net. Retrieved 12 April 2021. "HMS Exeter...
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    Archived from the original on 16 October 2008. "HMS Kent Wreath Laying". COFEPOW. "Heavy cruiser HMS Exeter (68)". World War II Database. Retrieved 6 April...
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    Dutch destroyer HNLMS Evertsen was also destroyed. The heavy cruiser HMS Exeter—severely damaged in the first Battle of the Java Sea—had withdrawn to...
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    27-28 February 1942 by heavy cruiser Haguro. British heavy cruiser HMS Exeter (68), 1 March 1942 by destroyer Inazuma. Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth (D29)...
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    from the British Government the help of two British cruisers HMS Ajax (22) and HMS Exeter (68) then visiting the city of Valparaíso to head south to investigate...
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    and with gunfire scored primary credit for sinking the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter, and was not damaged during the entire battle. After patrol duty, from...
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    Sunk by Japanese aircraft HMS York (90) Crete 26 March 1941 Scuttled following Italian explosive boat raid HMS Exeter (68) Battle of the Java Sea 1 March...
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    comprising the light cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles (on loan to the New Zealand Division) and the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter. Graf Spee had sailed into the...
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    Norton: 21 October 2013. HMS Defender, RN: March 2014. See List of people from Exeter and Category:People from Exeter Devon portal Exeter (HM Prison) Henry Phillpotts...
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  • Exeter City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Exeter, Devon, England. The team play in EFL League One, the third level...
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    Islands, thus depriving the force of their strongest unit. Without her, HMS Exeter, Ajax and Achilles engaged the German raider Admiral Graf Spee in the...
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    though in the end only two were constructed—HMS York, started in 1927, and HMS Exeter, started in 1928. Exeter differed in appearance from York because of...
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    used to play the cruiser HMS Exeter in the film Battle of the River Plate, in company with her wartime partner HMS Sheffield as HMS Ajax. In 1956 the ship...
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    HMS St Michael was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by John Tippetts of Portsmouth Dockyard and launched in 1669. St Michael...
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  • Philip Payton (category Academics of the University of Exeter)
    Cornwall. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. ISBN 978-0-85989-796-9. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-85989-795-2 Payton, P. (1983). The story of HMS Fisgard. Redruth:...
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    were the Elizabeth (64 guns), HMS Lenox (74), HMS Grafton (68), HMS Weymouth (60), HMS America (60), HMS Panther (60) and HMS Falmouth (50), while there...
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    Two of the attacking Skyhawks were shot down by Sea Darts fired by HMS Exeter, with HMS Avenger claiming to have shot down the missile with her 4.5" gun...
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    attacking Skyhawks were shot down by Sea Dart missiles fired by HMS Exeter, with HMS Avenger claiming to have shot down the Exocet missile with her 4...
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    the Iron Cross. She was sunk on 22 November 1941 by the British cruiser HMS Devonshire. Commerce raiders do not seek to engage warships, but rather attack...
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    HMS Plantagenet was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 October 1801 at Woolwich. She was designed by Sir William Rule...
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    Battle of the Java Sea, Pope and HMS Encounter were directed to escort the severely damaged British cruiser HMS Exeter away from the action. HNLMS Witte...
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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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  • and moved in that position to the 60-gun ship of the line HMS Exeter on 2 July 1733. Exeter had recently been laid up at Plymouth Dockyard. Hill advanced...
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    able to capture the French frigate Embuscade. He was given command of HMS Exeter in November 1746 and was sent to the East Indies to serve under Rear-Admiral...
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    USS Pecos (AO-6) - lost HMS Prince of Wales - lost HMS Repulse - lost HMS Exeter - lost HMS Dragon HMS Danae HMS Durban HMS Emerald HMS Electra - lost HMS Encounter...
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  • the Titanic and Great Disasters of the Sea. Eekelers, Dirk; Lettens, Jan. "HMS Coronation (north part) [+1691]". wrecksite. Retrieved 15 May 2021. "Harwich...
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  • HMS Hawk was an 18-gun sloop-of-war, previously the French privateer Atalante, that HMS Plantagenet captured in 1803. The Royal Navy took Atalante into...
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    light cruisers HMS Durban, Danae, Dragon and Mauritius, and the destroyers HMS Stronghold, Encounter and Jupiter. The heavy cruiser HMS Exeter, Dutch light...
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