HMS Kent, pennant number 54, was a County-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. She was the lead ship of the Kent subclass....
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of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Kent, after the county of Kent and the Duke of Kent. HMS Kent (1652) was a 46-gun fourth rate launched in...
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HMS Kent was a batch-1 County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She and her sisters were equipped with the Sea Slug Mk-1 medium-range surface-to-air missile...
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Bangay (d.1939), HMS Duchess (H64) Able-Seaman Edwin G. Saunders (1921–1940), HMS Kent (54) Marine Herbert W. Hansell (1903–1942), HMS Erebus (I02) Guardsman...
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HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of...
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by a local escort group from Murmansk. A cruiser cover force comprising Kent (R.Adm AFE Palliser), Berwick and Bermuda also followed the convoy, to guard...
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HMS Kent was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line built by Sir Henry Johnson of Blackwall in 1677/79. She served during the War of English Succession 1699...
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designed by Forfait. The British captured her and recommissioned her as HMS Guerriere. She is most famous for her fight against USS Constitution. Her...
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22 April 2015. "HMS Sutherland". Royal Navy. Retrieved 22 April 2015. "HMS Kent". Royal Navy. Retrieved 22 April 2015. "FOI(A) regarding the Royal Navy"...
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brig-sloops built to the same design by Thomas King of Dover, Kent. She and her sister ship HMS Flirt were constructed to provide small, fast escort vessels...
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Chatham Historic Dockyard (category Chatham, Kent)
Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar) HMS Unicorn (54-gun fifth rate – launched 1824, preserved afloat at Dundee, Scotland, UK) HMS Ocelot (S17) ("O" class submarine...
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HMS Jersey was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. On 25 March 1937, the British Admiralty placed orders for the eight destroyers of the J class, including...
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64-gun HMS Kent, was later relieved of his command after controversy over his actions in the engagement, and Lockhart was given temporary command of Kent in...
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HMS Cornwall, pennant number 56, was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Kent sub-class built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship spent most...
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HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the...
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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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Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections...
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Chatham Dockyard (category Buildings and structures in Kent)
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently...
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Medway (redirect from Medway Towns, Kent)
a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of Kent in South East England. It was formed in 1998 by merging the boroughs of...
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HMS Invincible was the Royal Navy's lead ship of her class of three light aircraft carriers. She was launched on 3 May 1977 as the seventh ship to carry...
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HMS Glamorgan was a County-class destroyer of the Royal Navy with a displacement of 5,440 tonnes. The ship was built by Vickers-Armstrongs in Newcastle...
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until her capture off Lizard Point by HMS Kent in July 1710. Commissioned into the Royal Navy in September 1710, HMS Superb served throughout Queen Anne's...
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Bermuda Triangle (section HMS Atalanta)
Triangle for the past 15,000 years. The sail training ship HMS Atalanta (originally named HMS Juno) disappeared with her entire crew after setting sail...
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and Gotha (represented by Alfred's maternal grandmother, the Duchess of Kent); and his maternal uncle, the Prince of Leiningen (represented by the Duke...
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Hunt class HMS Ledbury HMS Cattistock HMS Dulverton HMS Bicester HMS Atherstone HMS Hurworth Submarines Oberon-class submarines HMS Opossum HMS Otus Royal...
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The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. "HMS Blenheim (+1807)". Wreck Site. Retrieved 12 October 2013. "The Loss of the...
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latter expedition named Cape Horn at Hornos Island. On his first voyage with HMS Beagle in 1830, Robert FitzRoy picked up four native Fuegians, including...
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period as lieutenant. In December 1793 he was serving as a midshipman aboard HMS Assurance when he refused an order to clear away his hammock at daybreak...
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County-class cruiser (redirect from Kent class cruiser)
Naval Treaty of 1930[page needed]). The thirteen Counties were built in the Kent, London and Norfolk sub-classes. They were the only 10,000-ton 8-inch gun...
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(Salisbury-class) air defence frigates HMS Lincoln and HMS Salisbury, and the first group of County-class destroyers. HMS Kent and HMS London updated to GWS22 in...
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