HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Ordered by Chile during the South American dreadnought race as the Almirante Latorre-class...
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HMS Eagle, after the eagle. HMS Eagle (1592) was an ex-merchantman purchased in 1592 and in use as a careening hulk. She was sold in 1683. HMS Eagle (1648)...
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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...
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HMS Eagle (1918), sunk by U-73 11 August 1942 HMS Hermes (1923) – first purpose-designed aircraft carrier, sunk by Japanese aircraft 9 April 1942 HMS Ark...
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general. HMS Eagle (1918) Courageous-class aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (91) Illustrious-class aircraft carrier Implacable-class aircraft carrier HMS Argus (I49)...
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and Cambrai. To avoid confusion with a newer HMS Eagle (1918), the frigate was renamed HMS Eaglet in 1918. The ship was destroyed in a fire in 1926, and...
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the Isle of Arran. HMS Eaglet (1855) was a paddle vessel, hired between 1855 and 1857. HMS Eaglet (1918) was launched in 1804 as Eagle and renamed whilst...
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She was renamed HMS Eaglet in 1918, when she was the Royal Naval Reserve training centre for North West England. A fire destroyed Eagle in 1926. The prize...
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253. "HMS Britannia Sunk". The Daily Telegraph. 11 November 1918. Grant 2008, p. 291. Friedman 2015, p. 352. Grant 2008, p. 290. "Wreck of HMS Royal Oak"...
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RMS Saxonia (1954) HMS Scimitar (1918) HMS Scotsman (1918) MV Scottish Ptarmigan (1957) HMS Scout (H51) HMS Scythe (1918) HMS Seabear (1918) HMS Seafire (1918) HMS Searcher (1918)...
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Eagle Pass (disambiguation) Eagle River (disambiguation) Eagle Nebula Eagle (crater), landing spot on Mars of the rover Opportunity The Eagle (1918 film)...
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1946. HMS Phoenix was the name initially selected to replace HMS Ferret, the anti-submarine school at Londonderry. HMS Sea Eagle was used instead. HMS Phoenix (shore...
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Science. Retrieved February 18, 2022. "Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved...
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Constitución and finally HMS Eagle (1918) Armstrong Whitworth Work stopped during war, purchased by UK from builder in 1918 for conversion to aircraft...
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HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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1914 and renamed HMS Canada, repurchased 1920, broken up 1959 Almirante Cochrane (1913) - purchased by Britain 1918, renamed HMS Eagle and converted to...
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Gull (disambiguation) HMS Seagull, a list of ships of the Royal Navy Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a novel by Richard Bach Sea eagle Segal USS Sea Gull,...
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by one of the Royal Navy ships. USRC Eagle, along with two of the involved British ships HMS Narcissus and HMS Dispatch, are among six vessels celebrated...
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HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier that served in the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1944. She was converted from an ocean liner that was under construction...
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HMS M2 was a Royal Navy submarine monitor completed in 1919, converted in 1927 into a submarine aircraft carrier. She was wrecked in Lyme Bay, Dorset...
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610-ton HMS Chatsgrove (X85) ex-Royal Navy P-class sloop PC-74 built 1918 5,072-ton HMS Maunder (X28) ex-King Gruffyd built 1919 4,443-ton HMS Prunella...
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HMY Iolaire (redirect from HMS Amalthaea)
Yarmouth. In November 1918 she was transferred to Stornoway to replace an armed yacht called Iolaire (Scottish Gaelic for 'Eagle'), which was the flagship...
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The Order of the Red Eagle (German: Roter Adlerorden) was an order of chivalry of the Kingdom of Prussia. It was awarded to both military personnel and...
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HMS Cairo (D87) was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the Egyptian capital, Cairo. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal...
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ordered two battleships, Almirante Latorre and Almirante Cochrane (later HMS Eagle) from the Armstrong Whitworth company. Canada resembled the British Iron...
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aboard the training ship HMS Britannia, which he joined as a naval cadet in 1872. He was made a midshipman in the steam frigate HMS Newcastle in September...
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Hubert Edward Dannreuther (category British recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
the Flinders Naval Depot. Dannreuther commanded the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle from 1929 to 1930. Promoted to commodore, from 1931 to 1932, he commanded...
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Indochina War. The United Kingdom used carrier-based aircraft from HMS Eagle, HMS Albion, and HMS Bulwark, and France from Arromanches and La Fayette, to attack...
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base. On the same day, off Fair Isle, U-15 sighted the British battleships HMS Ajax, Monarch, and Orion on manoeuvres and fired a torpedo at Monarch. This...
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Uhtua in the autumn of 1918 from Kem. The Campania was declared obsolete in August 1919. F.16 – 250 hp (190 kW) Rolls-Royce Eagle IV F.17 – 275 hp (205 kW)...
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