The Bulwark class were the final class of wooden line-of-battle ships laid down for the Royal Navy. They were laid down after HMS Warrior. In March 1861...
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HMS Bulwark is the second ship of the Royal Navy's Albion-class assault ships. She is one of the United Kingdom's two landing platform docks designed to...
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two-deckers. The class consisted of HMS Duncan and HMS Gibraltar. The Bulwark class had identical hulls. HMS Gibraltar was the last wooden steam line-of-battleship...
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list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The list starts from 1660, the year...
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HMS Albion (L14) (category Albion-class landing platform docks)
sister ship, Bulwark, was launched in November 2001, also from Barrow. Affiliated to the city of Chester and based in Plymouth, she is the ninth ship to carry...
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HMS Bulwark was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 April 1807 at Portsmouth. She was designed by Sir William Rule...
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assault ships not to be 'scrapped or mothballed'". UK Defence Journal. "Royal Navy LPD capability gapped as HMS Albion bows out before HMS Bulwark is available"...
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HMS Royal Oak (1862) (category Bulwark-class battleships (1859))
90-gun Bulwark-class ship of the line. She was ordered to be converted to an ironclad on 14 May 1861 and was launched on 10 September 1862. The ship was...
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London, Bulwark, Venerable, Queen, and Prince of Wales. The ships of the London class were very similar to the preceding Formidable class, with the main...
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HMS Howe (category Royal Navy ship names)
gun ship of the line, built in 1815 and broken up in 1854. HMS Howe (1860), launched 1860, was a 121-gun steam line-of-battle ship, renamed Bulwark, and...
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HMS Ocean (category Royal Navy ship names)
originally ordered to be built as a Bulwark-class wooden screw line-of battle ship intended to carry 91 guns. However, the order was changed and she was eventually...
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reserve) Bulwark - extended readiness (available for reactivation if required) Landing platform helicopter ship Ocean Landing platform dock ships Fearless...
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the use of lightweight railings around the edges of the decks, replacing the old and heavy bulwarks. The ships also featured a single deck structure,...
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The Gato class of submarines were built for the United States Navy and launched in 1941–1943. Named after the lead ship of the class, USS Gato, they were...
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(converted from Bulwark class 2-decker) - Laid up 1871; sold for BU 1885 Royal Alfred (1864) central-battery ironclad (converted from Bulwark class 2-decker)-...
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flagships, HMS Bulwark and HMS Invincible. Abdül Hamid (the first submarine in the world to fire a live torpedo underwater), HMS Upholder (the most successful...
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HMS Caledonia (1862) (category Bulwark-class battleships (1859))
ironclad of the Prince Consort class. Originally laid down as a two-decker steam ship of the line of the Bulwark class, Caledonia was converted on the building...
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HMS Triumph (category Royal Navy ship names)
screw propelled Bulwark-class second rate. She was renamed HMS Prince Consort (1862) before her launch in 1862 as a Prince Consort-class armoured frigate...
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respectively. The remaining seven ships of the Bulwark class were less complete state and were converted into 'ironclad frigates'. Of these Triumph (later...
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have been incorporated into the Formidable class design, with inclined hull sides and bulwarks as well as concealment of ship boats and replenishment-at-sea...
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on 30 June 1975, in the 1975 ship reclassification plan and their hull designation changed from 'DE' to 'FF'. The Knox class was the Navy's last destroyer-type...
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November 1948. SS Schiedyk, cargo ship for Holland America Line, launched 10 June 1948, completed 19 February 1949. HMS Bulwark, aircraft carrier for British...
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An opening in the bulwark of a ship to allow passengers to board or leave the ship. gantline A rope running through a block at or near the masthead, with...
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HMS Tamar (P233) (category Ships of the Fishery Protection Squadron of the United Kingdom)
Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol vessel of the Royal Navy. Named after the River Tamar in England, she is the fourth Batch 2 River-class vessel to be...
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platform amidships, the galley beneath them; and a bulwark added between the galley and the bridge. The standard displacement of the flush deck destroyers...
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knuckle line compared to the Batch 1 ships, lack of the distinctive forward and aft bulwarks of the Batch 1 vessels). The class is also fitted with the Kelvin...
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HMS Impregnable (1810) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
three-decker ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 1 August 1810 at Chatham. She was designed by Sir William Rule, and was the only ship built to...
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HMS Blake (C99) (category Tiger-class cruisers)
the emotional withdrawal from Malta, supporting the commando carrier Bulwark. In 1977 she took part in the Fleet Review of the Royal Navy during the Silver...
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fully operational. The two ships of the Queen Elizabeth class are each expected to be capable of carrying forty aircraft, a maximum of 36 Lockheed Martin...
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RFA Mounts Bay (category Bay-class landing ships)
is a Bay-class auxiliary landing ship dock (LSD(A)) of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary. She is named after Mount's Bay in Cornwall. As of 2024, Mounts...
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