by HMS Warspite and matched by two others. Orion was built by Devonport Dockyard (Plymouth, U.K), Vickers-Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK). Orion was...

of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Orion, after the hunter Orion of Greek mythology: HMS Orion (1787) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the...

May 1941 HMS Orion (85) - Capt. GRB Back - damaged HMS Dido (37) - Capt. HWV McCall - damaged Destroyers HMS Decoy (H75) - Cmdr. EG McGregor HMS Hereward...

combat vessel destroyer HMS Onslow (G17) UK combat vessel destroyer HMS Oribi (G66) UK combat vessel destroyer HMS Orion (85) UK combat vessel light cruiser...

battery (WN-41) HMS Orion (85) Light cruiser Royal Navy 122mm battery, Mont Fleury Flores Gunboat Royal Netherlands Navy Gun position WN-39 HMS Cattistock (L35)...

Assault Group J1, was controlled by LSH HMS Lawford (Captain Assault Group J1 - Fire Support Area ‘Y'). HMS Venus (a Hunt Class - Destroyer Escort) was...

Sea Battle in History. London: The Orion Publishing Group Ltd. ISBN 0-297-84622-1. Christopher, John (2010). The HMS Victory Story. Stroud: The History...

HMS Spartan was a Dido-class light cruiser of the Bellona subgroup of the Royal Navy. She was a modified Dido design with only four turrets but improved...

mascot of HMS Queen during the first bombardment of Sevastopol in the Crimean War (she was the last survivor of this war), then moved to HMS Princess Charlotte...

mounted on : HMS Captain (1869) : 4 HMS Monarch (1868) : 4 HMS Hotspur (1870) : 2 HMS Glatton (1871) : 2 HMS Belleisle (1876) : 4 HMS Orion (1879) : 4 When...

Navy. Neptune was sunk by an Italian mine off the coast of Tripoli. Orion Orion spent much of the early war in the Mediterranean providing escort to...

HMS Eagle and Illustrious, the cruisers HMS York, Gloucester and Liverpool of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron and HMS Ajax, Orion and HMAS Sydney of the 7th Cruiser...

Navy officer, who captained the Royal Navy Leander-class light cruiser HMS Orion during the Second World War, from 1943 to 1945. Gornall was born at Farnborough...

at 09:30. Of the cruisers, Ajax had 40%, Orion 38%, Fiji 30%, Dido 25% and Gloucester only 18%. Ajax, Orion and Dido were ordered to return to Alexandria...

North American Rockwell OV-10D+ Bronco (USMC) Lockheed P-3B Orion (USN) Lockheed P-3C Orion (USN) Boeing RC-135V/W Rivet Joint (USAF) McDonnell Douglas...

Orion. London (2013), p 405 M.C.Potter. Electronic Greyhounds: The Spruance Class. Naval Institute Press (1995) I. Ballantyne. Hunter Killers. Orion....

HMS Southampton was a member of the first group of five ships of the Town class of light cruisers. She was built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland...

commanded nine cruisers and around twenty-five destroyers, with his flag in HMS Orion. In his first action in the Mediterranean, Tovey commanded the 7th Cruiser...

ammunition. Of the cruisers, Ajax had 40%, Orion 38%, Fiji 30%, Dido 25% and Gloucester only 18%. Ajax, Orion and Dido were ordered to return to Alexandria...

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...

an additional 100 tonnes which also detonated. Royal Navy warships HMS Ajax and HMS Calcutta attempted to tow the stricken vessel out of harbour and succeeded...

HMAS Orion (S 61) was an Oberon-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of six submarines ordered by the RAN during the 1960s, Orion, named...

attacked and sank the nearby aircraft carrier HMS Glorious with its escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. Devonshire did not rebroadcast the enemy...

 148. Hutchings & de Kerbrech 2011, p. 86. Hutchings & de Kerbrech 2011, p. 85. Hutchings & de Kerbrech 2011, p. 96. Gill 2010, p. 127. Hutchings & de Kerbrech...

Alexandria on 30 July, and Sydney departed the same day in company with HMS Orion for a three-day patrol. Back in Alexandria, Sydney underwent a refit,...

lost: the flotilla leader HMS Hardy, which was beached in flames and HMS Hunter, which was torpedoed and sunk. A third—HMS Hotspur—was also damaged badly...

HSwMS Carlskrona (in Swedish: HMS Carlskrona) is the longest vessel in the Swedish Navy at 105.7 metres (346 ft 9 in). Only Belos, the submarine rescue...

officers, Commander Denis 'Lofty' Sprague, captain of HMS Thames, and Lieutenant Patrick Griffiths of HMS Rorqual, and French warrant officer mechanic Yves...

carrier HMS Formidable, the battleships HMS Warspite and HMS Barham, the cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Dido, HMS Orion, and HMAS Perth, the submarine HMS Rover...

battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought, had such an effect when launched in 1906 that similar battleships...