HMS Port Napier was a British motor ship that was designed and laid down as a civilian cargo ship but completed in 1940 as an auxiliary minelayer for...
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HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an armed merchant cruiser, pennant F40. She was launched in 1922, and sunk in battle on 5 November...
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HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic)
of those remaining at Korissia. HMS Foxhound arrived at 11:45 and, after sweeping the area, anchored in the small port at 13:00 to offer medical assistance...
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HMS Agamemnon (M10) - auxiliary minelayer HMS Menestheus - auxiliary minelayer HMS Port Quebec - auxiliary minelayer HMS Port Napier HMS Southern Prince - auxiliary...
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Vancouver Island North. 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016. "Port Alice Caving And Bouldering". Village of Port Alice. 2016. Archived from the original on 5 June...
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3°33′36″N 104°28′42″E / 3.56000°N 104.47833°E / 3.56000; 104.47833 HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that...
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clear of the coast, the convoy's sole escort was the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay – a converted passenger liner that had been armed with seven outdated...
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Piłsudski SS Pioneer USCGC Point Swift Pool Fisher SS Port Kembla HMS Port Napier Preußen President Coolidge HMS Prince of Wales Q PS Queen Victoria R SS R.P....
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HMS Javelin was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Javelin was laid down by John Brown and Company, Limited, at Clydebank in Scotland on 11 October...
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HMS Repulse was one of two Renown-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Originally laid down as an improved version...
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sailed and mapped the east coast of Australia. On 11 June 1770 Cook's ship, HMS Endeavour, ran aground on a shoal south of the present-day location of Cooktown...
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HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy and was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the...
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The Napier Deltic engine is a British opposed-piston valveless, supercharged uniflow scavenged, two-stroke diesel engine used in marine and locomotive...
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Twenty-one Swordfish torpedo bombers launched from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious attacked the Italian fleet in two waves. The Italian base was...
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cruiser HMS Carlisle joined the convoy. Due to a collision in the Suez Canal, the convoy could not transit through the canal to reach the port of Alexandria...
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crew of the Italian vessel MV Bianca C., which was destroyed by fire in the port of St. George's. The sculpture was placed on October 22, 1961.[citation needed]...
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Firth of Clyde (section Ports)
Off Toward point. HMS Adept, tug, 17 March 1942, grounded and sank, Sanda Island. HMS Vandal, 24 February 1943, Sunk in an accident. HMS Dasher (D37), 27...
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Haganah of a French-built ocean liner, the 11,885-ton SS Patria, in the port of Haifa, killing 267 people and injuring 172. At the time of the sinking...
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Construction began in June 1963. In November 1964 she was launched and towed to Port-de-Bouc for completion, being finally delivered in June 1965 to the Compagnie...
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Nov: Cree 24 Nov: HMT Amethyst 25 Nov: Patria (disaster) 27 Nov: Elk, HMS Port Napier, Rangitane 28 Nov: St. Elwyn Unknown date: Quarto, U-104 Other incidents...
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witnesses from Storstad said they were approaching so as to pass red to red (port to port) while those from Empress of Ireland said they were approaching so as...
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fastest and supposedly safest. Launched on 16 June 1951, she was home-ported in Genoa, and began her maiden voyage on 14 January 1953. On 25 July 1956...
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of the 1984 film, Against All Odds. Islands portal Mexico portal Cozumel Port "Parque Nacional Arrecifes de Cozumel". Ramsar Sites Information Service...
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Scapa Flow (category Port cities and towns of the North Sea)
form an internationally acclaimed diving location. Scapa Flow hosts an oil port, the Flotta oil terminal. In good weather, its roadstead (water of moderate...
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HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. She differed from the other ships...
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