• HMS Unicorn, after the mythological creature, the unicorn: HMS Unicorn (1544) was a 36-gun ship captured from Scotland in 1544 and sold in 1555. HMS Unicorn (1634)...
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    HMS Unicorn is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was...
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  • Unicorn (1794), a 32-gun fifth rate HMS Unicorn (1824), a Leda-class frigate HMS Unicorn (I72), an aircraft maintenance carrier launched in 1941 HMS Unicorn...
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    HMS Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and light aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s. She was completed during World War II and...
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    United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently in service. HMS Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and light...
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  • in 1914. HMS Cressy was the name given to the 46-gun fifth rate HMS Unicorn between 1941 and 1959 while she was serving as a drill ship for the Royal Naval...
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  • carrier HMS Argus (I49) HMS Hermes (95) HMS Unicorn (I72) 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier HMS Pretoria Castle (F61) HMS Audacity HMS Archer (D78) Avenger-class...
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    aircraft carrier HMS Unicorn, the escort carriers HMS Attacker, HMS Battler, HMS Hunter and HMS Stalker, the cruisers HMS Scylla, HMS Euryalus, HMS Charybdis...
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    In September 1943, he was given command of the maintenance carrier HMS Unicorn, which sailed for the Indian Ocean in December 1943 with reinforcements...
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    Light Fleet Carrier, HMS Triumph, on 3 October. On 26 October 1949, the aircraft repair ship and light aircraft carrier, HMS Unicorn, docked in Singapore...
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    HMS Illustrious was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy before World War II. Her first assignment after completion...
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    supported those types. Begun just before the start of World War II in 1939, HMS Unicorn was the first ship built in any navy that could "carry out the full range...
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    Aircraft carriers: HMS Furious, HMS Unicorn Escort carriers: Nairana-class escort carriers, HMS Pretoria Castle, HMS Activity HMS Hood C-class cruisers...
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    Hunt-class destroyers HMS Bolebroke HMS Border HMS Calpe HMS Eridge HMS Exmoor HMS Farndale HMS Grove HMS Hambledon HMS Heythrop HMS Hursley HMS Holderness Tribal-class...
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    scrap 1946 HMS Unicorn fleet maintenance carrier (1943) - sold for scrap 1959 Illustrious class HMS Illustrious (1939) HMS Formidable (1939) HMS Victorious...
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  • for landings in the Indian Ocean. HMS Pioneer. Perseus was not completed until after the war ended. HMS HMS Unicorn was designed with an operational flight...
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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...
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  • HMS Destiny HMS Euryalus Golden Plover HMS Gorgon HMS Hyperion Nautilus – French frigate HMS Onward HMS Phalarope HM Sparrow – sloop HMS Tempest HMS Trojan...
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    Carrington White Cradle Inn aka High Fury (1947) as Anton The White Unicorn aka Milkwhite Unicorn and Bad Sister (1947) as Philip Templar Edward, My Son (1949)...
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    during the engagement 1796, May 25 – HMS Suffisante captures the privateer Revanche 1796, June 6 – HMS Unicorn captures French frigate Tribune 1796,...
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    HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...
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    the escort aircraft carriers HMS Attacker, HMS Battler, HMS Hunter and HMS Stalker, and the maintenance carrier HMS Unicorn, acting temporarily as a light...
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  • 1944 the Eastern Fleet was reinforced by HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Renown, HMS Valiant, HMS Illustrious, HMS Unicorn and seven destroyers. The Admiralty sent...
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  • Investments, Unicorn Industries and Aurora Steel. In 1980, he was appointed Chairman of British Shipbuilders. He retired from that position in 1984. In 1941, Atkinson...
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  • carriers (HMS Attacker, HMS Battler, HMS Hunter, and HMS Stalker) along with the aircraft maintenance ship acting as a light carrier HMS Unicorn to support...
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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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  • launched 21 October 1941, completed 25 February 1942, renamed MV Belgian Airman 1942, torpedoed and sunk 14 April 1945. HMS Unicorn, aircraft maintenance...
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    she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned...
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    756 Naval Air Squadron (category Military units and formations established in 1941)
    Down (HMS Kestrel), in Hampshire, England. It was later reformed again as a Telegraphist Air Gunner Training Squadron, operating from March 1941, out of...
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  • October 1942 and was equipped with Swordfish IIs. They sailed aboard HMS Unicorn in March 1943 to provide cover for convoys to Gibraltar. Six aircraft...
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