• warships have been named HMS Sheffield after the city and county borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire. HMS Sheffield (C24) (1936) – a Town-class light cruiser...
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    HMS Sheffield was one of the Southampton sub class of the Town-class cruisers of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She took part in actions...
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    the Nation: HMS Belfast 1939–1972. London: Imperial War Museum. ISBN 1-901623-72-6. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Town class cruiser (1936)....
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  • Friedrich Breme (category 1936 ships)
    August 1936 for the German-American Petroleum Company in Bremen. On 12 June 1941, Friedrich Breme was spotted by the light cruiser HMS Sheffield at position...
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    Belfast's sister ship HMS Edinburgh. Belfast was ordered from Harland and Wolff on 21 September 1936, and her keel laid on 10 December 1936. Her expected cost...
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    Thos. W. Ward (category Defunct companies based in Sheffield)
    Works, Sheffield. Thos W. Ward. also dismantled the Crystal Palace. HMS Akbar HMS Benbow HMS Boadicea HMS Centurion HMS Colossus HMS Devastation HMS Edinburgh...
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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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  • with HMS Sheffield and six Tribal-class destroyers landed troops near Harstad and three days later on 14 April, again in company with Sheffield and ten...
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  • 1936 before being upgraded to squadron status in 1938. It was charged with operating Supermarine Walrus seaplanes for the cruisers HMS Glasgow, HMS Newcastle...
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    frigates HMS Chatham HMS Coventry HMS Sheffield Type 23 frigates HMS Marlborough HMS Westminster HMS Northumberland HMS Richmond Hastings-class sloop HMS Scarborough...
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    of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the...
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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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    landing craft, and the covering force included the cruiser HMS Sheffield, the monitor HMS Roberts, Tynwald and fourteen other supporting vessels. The...
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    Captain of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1936. From 1939 to 1941 he commanded the battleship HMS Rodney and while in command he took part in the...
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    HMS Duke of York was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy. Laid down in May 1937, the ship was constructed by John Brown and Company at...
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    in 1936 before becoming Commander-in-Chief of the New Zealand Division in 1938. He also served in the Second World War as Flag Captain commanding HMS Hood...
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    3°33′36″N 104°28′42″E / 3.56000°N 104.47833°E / 3.56000; 104.47833 HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that...
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    The cruisers HMS Sheffield, Belfast, and Norfolk were positioned to block Scharnhorst. Admiral Bruce Fraser, aboard the battleship HMS Duke of York,...
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    Elizabeth II British Admiral HMS Dreadnought HMS Invincible HMS Sheffield HMS Ocean Winston Churchill HMS Indomitable Princess Diana HMS Vanguard Queen Elizabeth...
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    Leo Sheffield (15 November 1873 – 3 September 1951), born Arthur Leo Wilson, was an English singer and actor best known for his performances in baritone...
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    RMS Olympic (redirect from HMS Olympic)
    distress signals from the battleship HMS Audacious, which had struck a mine off Tory Island and was taking on water. HMS Liverpool was in the company of Audacious...
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    Peter and St Paul, Sheffield, also known as Sheffield Cathedral, is the cathedral church for the Church of England diocese of Sheffield, England. Originally...
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    off Norway, the two ships engaged the battlecruiser HMS Renown and sank the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious as well as her escort destroyers Acasta and...
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  • was mounted on the RN Signal School's tender, the minesweeper HMS Saltburn, in October 1936. This equipment used a frequency of 75 MHz and a wavelength...
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    against air and submarine attack, and was astounded to see the flagship HMS Nelson putting to sea with no destroyer escort because there were none to...
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    mounts themselves using systems that were released by the cancellation of HMS Vanguard's 1955 long refit. Slightly improved new versions of the basic twin...
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    HMS Shropshire was a Royal Navy (RN) heavy cruiser of the London sub-class of County-class cruisers. She is the only warship to have been named after...
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    Mowlam: 1999. Lord Bhattacharyya: 1 October 2015. Ratan Tata: 1 October 2015. HMS Diamond, RN: 16 October 2014. The University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire...
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    class were built: HMS King George V (commissioned 1940), HMS Prince of Wales (1941), HMS Duke of York (1941), HMS Anson (1942) and HMS Howe (1942). The...
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  • Mersey". www.balticshipping.com. Retrieved 16 August 2021. "HMS Birmingham D 86 Sheffield class Type 42 Guided Missile Destroyer Royal Navy". seaforces...
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