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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Orion. London (2013), p 405 M.C.Potter. Electronic Greyhounds: The Spruance Class. Naval Institute Press (1995) I. Ballantyne. Hunter Killers. Orion....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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Titanic (redirect from HMS Titanic)
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...
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HMAS Sydney (D48) (redirect from HMS Phaeton (1934))
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,...
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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...
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HSwMS Carlskrona (P04) (redirect from HMS Carlskrona (M04))
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...
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officers, Commander Denis 'Lofty' Sprague, captain of HMS Thames, and Lieutenant Patrick Griffiths of HMS Rorqual, and French warrant officer mechanic Yves...
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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...
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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...
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