• HMS Kingston was a K-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Kingston was laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at Cowes on the Isle...
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  • Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Kingston. HMS Kingston (1697) was a 60-gun fourth rate, launched in 1697, rebuilt in 1719 and 1740...
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  • HMS Audacity was a British escort carrier of the Second World War and the first of her kind to serve in the Royal Navy. She was originally the German...
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    HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London...
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    May, with HMS Griffin, HMS Havock, HMS Hereward, HMS Hero, HMS Hotspur, HMS Jervis, HMS Juno, HMS Kandahar, HMS Kingston HMS Nizam and HMS Nubian, as...
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    Sind; ex-HMS Betony, in service Aug 1945 to 1946. Transferred to Royal Thai Navy. Group 1: Pre-war orders of 56 vessels ordered on 25 July 1939 first 26...
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    1938. p. 1. H.M.S. EXETER 1936–1939. London: HMS Exeter, Royal Navy. 1939. H.M.S. EXETER 1936–1939. London: HMS Exeter, Royal Navy. 1939. p. 84. Rohwer...
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  • Steam Trawling Company of Kingston upon Hull as a North Sea fishing trawler. She was acquired by the Admiralty in August 1939 and converted into an anti-submarine...
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  • HMS Khartoum was a K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, named after the capital of Sudan, Khartoum. Khartoum was launched on 6 February 1939. Her initial...
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    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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    cruisers HMS Dido HMS Euryalus (slightly damaged) HMS Cleopatra (seriously damaged) 14th Destroyer Flotilla HMS Jervis HMS Kipling HMS Kelvin HMS Kingston (severely...
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    Lambert and Brown 2008, p. 65. HMS Arbutus (K 86) (British Corvette) – Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII – uboat.net HMS Asphodel (K 56) (British Corvette)...
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    HMS Campbeltown was a Town-class destroyer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was originally US destroyer USS Buchanan, and was one of...
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  • renamed HMS President in 1911 and sold in 1921. HMS Buzzard (UK shore base) was a Royal Naval Air Station at Lympne, Kent commissioned in 1939 and paid...
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    BRNC HMS Raleigh Northwood HQ Rosyth Dockyard HMS Vulcan HMNB Devonport HMNB Portsmouth HMS Jufair Mare Harbour RAF Mount Pleasant Stanley HMS Drake...
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    HMS Upholder (P37) was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 30 October 1939, launched...
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  • Edward Kennedy (Royal Navy officer) (category 1939 deaths)
    August 1879 – 23 November 1939) was a Royal Navy officer who is remembered as the captain of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi who engaged the...
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  • commercial fishing, and was renamed Kingston Sapphire in 1947. The trawler was scrapped at Bruges, Belgium in October 1954. HMS Cambridge for other ships of...
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  • HMS Juno was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, at Govan in Scotland on 5...
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    strategy proved a disaster within days. On 14 September 1939, Britain's most modern carrier, HMS Ark Royal, narrowly avoided being sunk when three torpedoes...
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  • harvester HMS Gleaner (1809), a mercantile ketch HMS Gleaner (J83), a survey vessel launched in 1937 and converted into a minesweeper in 1939 HMSML Gleaner...
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  • HMS Icarus was one of nine I-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. The I-class ships were improved versions of the preceding H-class...
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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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  • War he commanded the destroyer HMS Miranda, the destroyer HMS Tipperary, the cruiser HMS Centaur and then the cruiser HMS Curacoa. After the war, he became...
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    survived. The tug HMS St. Mellons attempted to salvage her, however Gustaf E. Reuter eventually had to be sent to the bottom by HMS Kingston Beryl on 28 November...
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    50°47′58″N 1°05′47″W / 50.79944°N 1.09639°W / 50.79944; -1.09639 HMS Nelson is a stone frigate (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy on Queen Street...
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    October 1937, launched on 4 April 1939 and commissioned on 26 October 1939. In company with the destroyers Kingston and Icarus, Kashmir attacked the German...
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    River-class vessel, HMS Clyde, was decommissioned, with the Batch 2 HMS Forth taking over duties as the Falkland Islands patrol ship. HMS Protector is a dedicated...
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    Kingston upon Hull, usually shortened to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River...
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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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