• HMS Ford was a Hunt-class minesweeper of the Aberdare sub-class built for the Royal Navy during World War I. The Aberdare sub-class were enlarged versions...
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    Lee-on-Solent, Ford, and Worthy Down, the airbase became known as Royal Naval Air Station Ford, (RNAS Ford) and commissioned as HMS Peregrine, with Captain...
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    HMS President (formerly HMS Saxifrage) is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently...
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    renamed Wexford. HMS Fleetwood was to have been a Hunt-class minesweeper. She was renamed HMS Ford in 1918 and was launched later that year. HMS Fleetwood (U47)...
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    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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    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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    54°36′47″N 5°54′10″W / 54.61306°N 5.90278°W / 54.61306; -5.90278 HMS Caroline is a decommissioned C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw...
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    most successful took place on 19 July 1918 during the Tondern raid when seven Sopwith Camels launched from HMS Furious attacked the German Zeppelin base...
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  • 1918 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1918. 1918 (MCMXVIII)...
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    named Josephine Ford after the daughter of Ford Motor Company president Edsel Ford, who helped finance the expedition. In addition to Ford contributions...
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    launched from the seaplane carrier HMS Ben-my-Chree. The first carrier-launched airstrike was the Tondern raid in July 1918. Seven Sopwith Camels were launched...
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    HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship afloat...
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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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    Navy: a flotilla of over 20 ships including the seaplane carriers HMS Pegasus and HMS Nairana 6th Battalion Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI), British...
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    HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior...
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  • in Japan in 1918 as Beikoku Maru. The United States Shipping Board (USSB) bought her that same year and renamed her East Indian. The Ford Motor Company...
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    Ford Island (Hawaiian: Poka ʻAilana) is an islet in the center of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It has been known as Rabbit Island,...
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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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    Royal Naval Air Service (category Military units and formations disestablished in 1918)
    take off. She sank in the Firth of Forth 5 November 1918, after a collision with HMS Royal Oak. HMS Manica, a converted tramp steamer equipped with the...
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    different times, embarking on the aircraft carriers HMS Ark Royal, HMS Eagle, HMS Hermes and HMS Victorious. In 1967 RNAS Brawdy was used by 736 NAS and...
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    evolution was well underway by the early 1920s, resulting in ships such as HMS Argus (1918), Hōshō (1922), USS Langley (1922), and Béarn (1927). With these developments...
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    Lee-on-Solent, Ford, and Worthy Down. As a consequence, on 24 May 1939, HQ RAF Coastal Command moved to Northwood and Lee-on-Solent was commissioned as HMS Daedalus...
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    Royal Naval Air Station Crail (RNAS Crail, also known as HMS Jackdaw) is a former Royal Naval Air Station of the Fleet Air Arm located 4.9 miles (7.9 km)...
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    on 8 March 1918. Subsequently, many Royal Navy ships carried a catapult and from one to four aircraft; battleships or battlecruisers like HMS Prince of...
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  • Fife, and 8.7 miles (14.0 km) northwest of Edinburgh. It was also known as HMS Merlin. It grew from an emergency landing ground first established in 1917...
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    lost HMS Encounter - lost HMS Express HMS Isis HMS Jupiter - lost HMS Scout (1918) HMS Stronghold - lost HMS Tenedos - lost HMS Thanet - lost HNLMS De Ruyter (1935)...
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    success would have halted his inland march and conquest of the Aztec Empire. HMS Sapphire was a 32-gun, fifth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy in Newfoundland...
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    2019. Ford, David Nash (2020). Mid-Berkshire Town and Village Histories. Wokingham: Nash Ford Publishing. pp. 97–100. ISBN 9781905191024. Ford, David...
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    room personnel and gunners for the rapidly expanding fleet until 30 August 1918, when she departed for Bantry Bay, Ireland with Vice Admiral Henry T. Mayo...
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    maintained a carrier strike capability since the commissioning of HMS Argus (I49) in 1918. However, the capability was temporarily lost between 2010 and...
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