HMS Aurora was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Portsmouth Dockyard, with the keel being laid down on 27 July 1935....
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ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Aurora or HMS Aurore, after the Roman Goddess of the dawn. HMS Aurora (1757) was a 36-gun fifth rate, formerly...
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Chungking bristle, alternative name for hog bristle artist's brushes HMS Aurora (12), a British cruiser renamed to Chonq Qing while under Chinese service...
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HMS Aurora was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). Like other ships of the class, Aurora was named after a figure of mythology, Aurora being...
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Marinefährprahm, sinking all but one MFP. After bombarding Kos Harbour with HMS Aurora (12) on 17 October, Sirius came under sustained air attack off the island...
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HMS Aurora was an Arethusa-class light cruiser that saw service in World War I with the Royal Navy. During the war, the cruiser participated in the Battle...
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PLANS Chongqing, a light cruiser of ROCN of same name, which was ex-HMS Aurora (12). Defected to PLA on February 25, 1949, and sunk by RoCAF in the following...
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Tachibana Hatsukoi Time Capsule (2011), Mio Kiwada Azur Lane (2017), HMS Aurora (12) Akanaeru Sekai no Owari ni (yyyy), Chifuyu Oumi Asanagi no Aquanauts...
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French frigate Clorinde (1808) (redirect from HMS Aurora (1814))
by Sané. The British Royal Navy captured her in 1814 and renamed her HMS Aurora. After serving 19 years as a coal hulk she was eventually broken up in...
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HMS Aurora was a 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy, that saw service during the American and French Revolutionary wars, and...
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Permit for Taiwan Resident Cross-strait language database ECFA Debate HMS Aurora (12) China and the United Nations China and the World Bank Chinese intelligence...
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HMS Aurora was one of seven Orlando-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1880s. The ship spent a brief time in reserve before she...
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HMS Ocean was a Landing Platform Helicopter, formerly the UK's helicopter carrier and the fleet flagship of the Royal Navy. She was designed to support...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 246 years of service as of 2024, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...
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HMS Durban and as gunnery officer aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth. In October 1940 he was transferred to the cruiser HMS Aurora as commanding officer. His command...
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HMS Albion is a landing platform dock of the Royal Navy, the first of the two-ship Albion class. Built by BAE Systems Marine in Barrow-in-Furness, Albion...
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SY Aurora was a 580-ton barque-rigged steam yacht built by Alexander Stephen and Sons Ltd. in Dundee, Scotland, in 1876, for the Dundee Seal and Whale...
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training at the Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, and was posted to HMS Aurora, a Plymouth-based frigate. He was promoted to lieutenant 10 months early...
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HMS Bronington is a former Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, named HMS Humber between 1954 and 1958. This mahogany-hulled minesweeper was one of...
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until on 12 February 1916, having travelled a distance of around 1,600 miles (2,600 km), she reached open water and limped to New Zealand. Aurora carried...
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Admiral Graf Spee engages with three Royal Navy cruisers: HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles and HMS Exeter. 1943 – World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German...
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Passage in 1845, during which she was lost with all hands along with HMS Erebus. On 12 September 2016, the Arctic Research Foundation announced that the...
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HMS Pickle was a topsail schooner of the Royal Navy. She was originally a civilian vessel named Sting, of six guns, that Lord Hugh Seymour purchased to...
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HMS Erebus was a Hecla-class bomb vessel constructed by the Royal Navy in Pembroke dockyard, Wales, in 1826. The vessel was the second in the Royal Navy...
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HMS Neptune was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II. Neptune was the fourth ship of its class and was the...
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survey work. Some other notable early research vessels were HMS Beagle, RV Calypso, HMS Challenger, USFC Albatross, and the Endurance and Terra Nova...
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HMS Nigeria (pennant number 60) was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy completed early in World War II and served during that conflict. She...
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HMS Penelope was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast, Northern Ireland); her keel was laid down...
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The ship passed to British control in 1793 and was taken into service as HMS Lutine. She sank among the West Frisian Islands during a storm in 1799. She...
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of Aurora sent 200 men in boats to capture the stockade. They were able to do so, though not without the loss of Major Mears. That same year, HMS Phoenix...
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