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 Ark Royal (91) south east of Gibraltar 13 November 1941 Sunk by U-81 HMS Hermes (95) Sri Lanka 9 April 1942 Sunk by Japanese aircraft HMS Eagle (94)...
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HMS Victorious (1939) HMS Indomitable (1940) Implacable class HMS Implacable (1942) HMS Indefatigable (1942) Audacious class HMS Eagle (ex-Audacious) (1946)...
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HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War. Designed in 1934 to fit the...
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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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HMS Orestes was an 18-gun Dutch-built brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was originally built as the privateer Mars, which the British captured in 1781...
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until March 1929, serving on HMS Iron Duke and later on the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet (renamed the Home Fleet in 1932), HMS Nelson. He served on the...
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803 and 809 Naval Air Squadrons. Buccaneers were embarked on HMS Victorious, Eagle, HMS Ark Royal, and Hermes. The Buccaneer was retired from FAA service...
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HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic)
and was received by several other ships in the area, among them HMS Scourge and HMS Heroic, but Britannic heard nothing in reply. Unknown to either Bartlett...
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HMS Nelson (pennant number: 28) was the name ship of her class of two battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1920s. They were the first battleships...
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HMS Cheshire was a passenger ship that was built in Scotland in 1927 and scrapped in Wales in 1957. She belonged to Bibby Line, which ran passenger and...
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HMS Ardent was a Royal Navy Type 21 frigate. Built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland. She was completed with Exocet launchers in 'B' position...
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HMS Dorsetshire (pennant number 40) was a County-class heavy cruiser of the British Royal Navy, named after the English county, now usually known as Dorset...
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The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was taken into service as HMS Lutine. She sank among the West Frisian Islands during a storm in 1799. She...
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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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Kriegsmarine were the sinking of the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous and the British battleship HMS Royal Oak and the loss of Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle...
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the first-rate HMS San Josef, in 1848 and in that role he had to contain an outbreak of cholera on the United States ship American Eagle passing through...
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comprising the light cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles (on loan to the New Zealand Division) and the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter. Graf Spee had sailed into...
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HMS Manchester was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s, one of three ships in the Gloucester subclass. Completed in...
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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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Two aircraft carriers: Eagle, Ark Royal Five cruisers: HMS Cairo, Hermione, Manchester, Neptune, Southampton 19 destroyers: HMS Airedale, Bedouin, Fearless...
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HMS Argus, HMS Sirius and destroyers sailed from Scapa to rendezvous with HMS Eagle and HMS Charybdis from Gibraltar and HMS Indomitable and HMS Phoebe,...
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HMS Avenger was a Type 21 frigate of the Royal Navy. Built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland, she was completed with Exocet launchers in 'B'...
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cruisers and battleships, and with wheels, from the aircraft carriers HMS Furious, Eagle, Courageous, Glorious and Hermes. The IIIF remained in front line...
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Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, HMS Shannon...
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HMS Foresight was one of nine F-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. She was assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion. Unlike...
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on HMS Eagle (Film). British Pathé. 8 June 1969. Archived from the original on 20 January 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2016 – via YouTube. HMS Eagle 1969-1970...
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HMS Linnet was a 16-gun brig, built in 1814 by the Royal Navy at Ile aux Noix, Canada, as Niagara. Renamed Linnet and commanded by Commander Daniel Pring...
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1981 on board the first Invincible-class ship HMS Invincible, and further aircraft joined the ageing HMS Hermes aircraft carrier later that year. In 1984...
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(HMS York, HMS Gloucester, HMS Exeter, HMS Manchester, HMS Cardiff) Leander-class frigate (HMS Jupiter) Type 22 Broadsword frigate (HMS Battleaxe, HMS Brazen...
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