Pacific Fleet attached to the 30th Aircraft Carrier Squadron. Renamed HMS Reaper (D82), the carrier operated in the Royal Navy for the duration of World...
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Look up reaper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A reaper is a farm tool or machine for harvesting grain. Reaper may also refer to: Reaper (Van Gogh...
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RAF Kai Tak (redirect from HMS Nabcatcher)
carrier HMS Reaper for its journey to Hong Kong, which commenced on 28 September. 1701 Naval Air Squadron headquarters was established at HMS Nabcatcher...
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or embarked in, at HMS Nabaron: HMS Arbiter HMS Begum HMS Formidable HMS Implacable HMS Reaper HMS Ruler HMS Unicorn HMS Vengeance "Nabaron-1". Royal Navy...
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escort aircraft carrier HMS Reaper took part in the operation, being used to ferry captured airframes. On 23 July 1945, Reaper left Cherbourg for Newark...
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000 tonnes HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS Prince of Wales Retired: HMS Argus (1916) - scrapped 1946 HMS Furious (1916) - decommissioned 1945 HMS Vindictive (1918) –...
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Mobile Naval Air Base (section MONAB I, HMS Nabbington)
at HMS Nabthorpe. Between March and September the MONAB hosted disembarked squadrons from HMS Speaker, HMS Slinger, HMS Ruler, HMS Indefatigable, HMS Indomitable...
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through the efforts of Operation Lusty, on the deck of the Royal Navy's HMS Reaper escort carrier. Reichskommissariat Norwegen Nordstern (city) See books...
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operations. In 1945, captured German aircraft brought from Europe on HMS Reaper for evaluation under Operation Lusty were off-loaded at Newark, and then...
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HMS Patroller HMS Puncher (crewed by the Royal Canadian Navy) HMS Reaper HMS Slinger HMS Smiter X HMS Speaker XX HMS Trouncer HMS Trumpeter X HMS Arbiter...
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was shipped to the United States aboard the Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Reaper together with other captured German aircraft for detailed evaluation in...
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aircraft to be shipped to the U.S. aboard the British aircraft carrier HMS Reaper. Reaper departed from Cherbourg on 20 July and arrived at Newark, New Jersey...
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the British loaned them the originally American-built escort carrier HMS Reaper, first commissioned for the US Navy as the USS Winjah. The most viable...
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21 other captured German aircraft on board the British escort carrier HMS Reaper, and was reassembled at Newark Army Air Field, Newark, New Jersey.[citation...
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HMS Puncher (D79) Winjah CVE-54 5 June 1943 22 November 1943 18 February 1944 Became HMS Reaper (D82), last ship of Bogue-class Casablanca CVE-55 Casablanca 3 November...
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services to points of delivery. In addition, escort carriers such as HMS Vindex and HMS Nairana played an important role in hunter-killer anti-submarine sweeps...
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less runway space. It features a configuration similar to that of the MQ-9 Reaper, with a low-mounted wing, bulbous nose, and Y-tail. The engine, a Rolls-Royce...
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Technical Intelligence as part of Operation Lusty for loading aboard HMS Reaper. The plane's starboard engine failed at about 9,000 feet (2,700 m), and...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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IV (HMS Nabaron) at RNAS Ponam in the Admiralty Islands in May 1945 and embarked in HMS Reaper in October 1945. 'A' Flight joined MONAB VI (HMS Nabstock)...
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HMS Bronington is a former Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, named HMS Humber between 1954 and 1958. This mahogany-hulled minesweeper was one of...
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continental United States under Operation Lusty aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Reaper. Following its arrival in the US, along with several other captured 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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of 1944, equipped with Vought Corsair fighter aircraft. It embarked in HMS Reaper for transport to the UK in November. The squadron suffered from a high...
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squadron in August 1944, with Vought Corsair aircraft before joining HMS Reaper to cross the Atlantic. On arrival in the UK it expanded its aircraft absorbing...
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HMS Cavalier is a retired C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at East Cowes on 28 March 1943, launched...
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exercise off Culebra Island the following day. After her rendezvous with HMS Reaper (D82) in Windward Passage on 3 May, the warships sailed north on an antisubmarine...
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Potomac Books, Inc. p. 553. ISBN 9781597973441. Drury, Tony. "A History of H.M.S. STRIKER". royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk. T. Drury. 11 May 2017. Retrieved...
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HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Built in 1915, she saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia...
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HMS Alliance (P417/S67) is a Royal Navy A-class, Amphion-class or Acheron-class submarine, laid down towards the end of the Second World War and completed...
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