HMS Western Isles was a command ship of the Royal Navy during World War II, serving as the flagship of the Anti-Submarine Training School at Tobermory...
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and was buried in the Antarctic. Peebles was the ship's cat aboard HMS Western Isles. Another cat who became a favourite of the ship's crew, he was known...
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World War II. The bay at Tobermory became a naval base commanded from HMS Western Isles. The base and the Restricted Area were under Commodore (later Vice...
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Outer Hebrides (redirect from Western Isles)
The Outer Hebrides (/ˈhɛbrɪdiːz/ HEB-rid-eez) or Western Isles (Scottish Gaelic: na h-Eileanan Siar [nə ˈhelanən ˈʃiəɾ] , na h-Eileanan an Iar [nə ˈhelanən...
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Tobermory, Mull (category Isle of Mull)
Second World War, Tobermory was home to the Royal Navy training base HMS Western Isles, under the command of the legendary Vice admiral Sir Gilbert Stephenson...
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Stephenson was tasked with setting up the training base HMS Western Isles at Tobermory on the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. This was to be...
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begin training at the Royal Navy's Anti-Submarine Training School, HMS Western Isles. Flint Castle ran aground while training on 18 January and was refloated...
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begin training at the Royal Navy's Anti-Submarine Training School, HMS Western Isles. Having completed training, Denbigh Castle arrived at Scapa Flow on...
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ship sailed to the anti-submarine training base in Tobermory, Mull, HMS Western Isles, for working up. Hurst Castle was assigned to Escort Group B3 on 3...
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The Western Rocks (Cornish: Karregi Gorlewen) are a group of uninhabited skerries and rocks in the south–western part of the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom...
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Operations Craft Working up base HMS Varbel, Port Bannatyne, Argyll & Bute, Midget submarine training shore base HMS Western Isles, Tobermory, Argyll & Bute...
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Scilly naval disaster of 1707 (category History of the Isles of Scilly)
the southwest of St Agnes Island in the Isles of Scilly. Four ships were lost when they struck the rocks: HMS Association, a 90-gun second-rate ship of...
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working-up exercises at the Royal Navy's Anti-Submarine Training Base at HMS Western Isles, Tobermory and was certified as suitable for ocean escort duty on...
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HMSAS Natal (redirect from HMS Loch Cree)
it was transferred by the British while fitting out. En route to HMS Western Isles in Tobermory, Mull, for working up, it sank the German submarine U-714...
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the minesweeper HMS Puttenham, equipped with twelve divers under the command of Engineer-Lieutenant Roy Graham, sailed to the Isles of Scilly and dropped...
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The list of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly is a list of ships which sank on or near the Isles of Scilly. The list includes ships that sustained a damaged...
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477°W / 54.151; -4.477 HMS Valkyrie was a shore establishment or "stone frigate" of the Royal Navy located in Douglas, Isle of Man. The establishment...
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Navy, situated at the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. It was established in 1917 on the western edge of Portland Harbour as HMS Sarepta. From 1959 the...
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attempts to reassert authority in the Isles. For instance, Rothesay Castle fell to a Norwegian-backed King of the Isles in 1230, and fell again to the Norwegians...
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(2010) Isles of Scilly Bird and Natural History Review 2009. Isles of Scilly Bird Group. Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 map Media related to St Agnes, Isles of...
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USS Thomas (DD-182) (redirect from HMS St. Albans (I15))
Simultaneously renamed HMS St Albans (I15) and commissioned the same day for service in the Royal Navy, the destroyer sailed for the British Isles on 29 September...
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Easter and Summer vacations when destinations included Norway, Paris, Western Isles etc. including at least two transits of Loch Ness. She was placed on...
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Puckpool, Ryde, Isle of Wight HMS Mentor, Lews Castle, Stornoway, Western Isles HMS Mercia, Communications Training Centre, Coventry HMS Mercury, Communications...
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Lobnitz & Co.'s dockyard at Renfrew, Scotland. After working up at HMS Western Isles in Tobermory, Mull, she sailed for home and reached Table Bay on 28...
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holidays venture further afield, Archer has visited ports from the Western Isles and east coast of Britain to the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands...
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List of air stations of the Royal Navy (redirect from RNAS Dundee (HMS Condor II))
November 2023. "British Isles". Britannica Online. 12 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023. Oxford English Dictionary: "British Isles: a geographical term for...
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Solent is a stretch of sea separating the Isle of Wight from Great Britain. Solent may also refer to: HMS Solent, two ships of the British Royal Navy...
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Sandown (redirect from Sandown, Isle of Wight)
commemorated by the Sandown railway line in the western suburbs of Sydney, which ceased passenger services in 1991. HMS Sandown, launched in 1988, was the name...
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fitting out. After working up at HMS Western Isles in Tobermory, Mull, it was assigned to the 18th Escort Group of the Western Approaches Command; it was damaged...
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patrol the western approaches to both Britain and France. He was particularly concerned at the prospect of a French invasion of the British Isles which led...
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