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    HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic...
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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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    ships 5 carriers 9 cruisers 33 destroyers 5 submarines Enemy aircraft sank 77 warships, including: 2 capital ships 1 carrier 12 cruisers 55 destroyers 7...
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    HMS Illustrious (1982) HMS Ark Royal (1985) Sunk: Glorious class HMS Glorious (1916), sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau 8 June 1940 HMS Courageous (1916),...
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    Sullivan, David M. & Sturton, Ian (2010). "Extraordinary Views of HMS Glorious and HMS Ark Royal". Warship International. XLVII (3): 257–62. ISSN 0043-0374...
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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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    (Two ships with two guns each) HMS Vanguard – battleship (Eight guns in mountings taken from Courageous and Glorious converted to Mk I (N), with additional...
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  • (HMS Churchill) Derzkiy (HMS Chelsea) Zhyostky (HMS Roxborough) Dostoyny (HMS St Albans) Druzhny (HMS Lincoln) Zharkiy (HMS Brighton) Zhguchi (HMS Leamington)...
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    HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in...
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  • HMS Grampus (N56) was the lead ship of her class of mine-laying submarine of the Royal Navy. She was built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 25 February...
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    HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786...
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    Tromsø on this voyage, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two screening destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent were attacked and sunk on 8 June by...
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    Norway, the two ships engaged the battlecruiser HMS Renown and sank the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious as well as her escort destroyers Acasta and Ardent...
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    Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
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    Peter Heywood (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
    1772 – 10 February 1831) was a British Royal Navy officer who was on board HMS Bounty during the mutiny of 28 April 1789. He was later captured in Tahiti...
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    carrier HMS Glorious with its escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. Devonshire did not rebroadcast the enemy sighting report made by Glorious as...
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    the Italian states. In 1797, he distinguished himself while in command of HMS Captain at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. Shortly after that battle, Nelson...
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    sinking of HMS Glorious by German battlecruisers during the Norwegian campaign in 1940. The first British warship lost in the war was HMS Courageous sunk...
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    great risk to his own. His career suffered however in the aftermath of the Glorious First of June, when he was heavily criticised for his conduct by several...
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    The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, made under her newest commander...
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    Sinking Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine HMS Barham Association Website HMS Barham Archived 21 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, British...
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    HMS Furious was a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project...
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    Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and Ardent during Operation Juno. 9 July 1940:...
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  • critical functions. HMS Argus escorted convoys and ferried aircraft. HMS Courageous was on anti-submarine patrol when she was sunk. HMS Glorious was ferrying...
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    capable of operating as a dive-bomber. During 1939, Swordfish on board HMS Glorious participated in a series of dive-bombing trials, during which 439 practice...
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    flagship, HMS Victory (the world's oldest naval ship still in commission), and HMS Warrior, the Royal Navy's first ironclad warship. The former HMS Vernon...
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    on the training ship HMS Cumberland in the West Indies and on the east coast of Canada. He was rated as a midshipman aboard HMS Collingwood on 15 September...
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    HMAS Albatross (later HMS Albatross) was a seaplane tender of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), which was later transferred to the Royal Navy and used...
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    losses in the first two years of the war, including the carriers HMS Courageous, Glorious and Ark Royal, the battleships Royal Oak and Barham and the battlecruiser...
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    Ireland. Although the monarchy was restored, the Interregnum along with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the subsequent Bill of Rights 1689 in England and...
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