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    HMS Forester was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the ninth Royal...
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  • Navy have borne the name HMS Forester: HMS Forester (1657) was a 22-gun ship launched in 1657 and blown up in 1672. HMS Forester (1693) was a 7-gun hoy...
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  • Brazil. HMS Sheldrake (1875) was a Forester-class gunboat launched in 1875. Renamed HMS Drake in 1888 and WV 29 in 1893, the vessel reverted to HMS Drake...
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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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    Nomadic is a former tender of the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 at Belfast, that is now on display in Belfast's Titanic Quarter. She was...
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    HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior...
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    HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship afloat...
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    distant cover for Convoy JW 51B along with the cruiser HMS Cumberland and the destroyers HMS Forester, Icarus and Impulsive. On 23 and 24 January 1943 Anson...
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    In the book series about the naval officer Horatio Hornblower by C. S. Forester, the main protagonist starts off his career by becoming seasick in calm...
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    HMS Caroline is a decommissioned C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that was the lead ship of her sub-class. Completed in 1914, she saw combat service...
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    James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    American Revolutionary War, he saw action again, as captain of the third-rate HMS Defence, at the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794, during the...
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  • Forester HMS Atropos HMS Clorinda Estrella HMS Hotspur HMS Justinian HMS Lydia Mejidieh Natividad HMS Nonsuch HM Retribution – sloop Speedwell HMS Sutherland...
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  • of the Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers from 1955 to 1956. Forester, C.S. (2012). U97, a play in three acts. eNet Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1618860811...
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    Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    HMS Lenox, a guardship at Portsmouth commanded by Captain Robert Roddam, Collingwood sailed to Boston in 1774 with Admiral Samuel Graves on board HMS Preston...
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    HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Built in 1915, she saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia...
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    HMS Unicorn is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was...
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    Minas Geraes. Another example is a pair covering different HMS Invincibles. Elswick 1911 has been used as the cover of Armstrong's River Empire. Archives...
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    Republicans, deeming the incident "an act of God". In May 1937, she and HMS Forester escorted SS Habana, an ocean liner carrying thousands of Basque child...
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    James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    de Saumarez. In 1767, Saumarez was entered as a volunteer on the books of HMS Solebay although he never set foot in the ship, studying at a school near...
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    HMS President (formerly HMS Saxifrage) is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently...
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    Portsmouth, along with the other completed Holland boat and their tender, HMS Hazard. Together they made up the "First Submarine Flotilla", commanded by...
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    Battle of Trafalgar (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    board HMS Royal Sovereign at Trafalgar. In the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis (1967) in the Horatio Hornblower series by C. S. Forester, Hornblower...
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    Historical Foundation". Malcomson 1998, p. 74. Forester 2005, p. 136. Forester 2005, p. 143. Forester 2005, p. 137. Hitsman 1999, p. 166. Ernest A. Cruikshank...
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    HMS Erin was a dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, originally ordered by the Ottoman government from the British Vickers Company. The ship was to...
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    realised that the piers were too high, and so drew alongside the destroyer HMS Worcester and started to take on soldiers. Seventy-five men were crammed...
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    and 20th-century novelists, particularly the fictional characters C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey. Thomas Cochrane...
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    In 1909 the ship was renamed President II and in the spring of 1911, was relieved by HMS Buzzard, again placed on the list of non-effective vessels. In...
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    engines for two prototype turbine-powered destroyers for the Navy, HMS Viper and HMS Cobra, that were launched in 1899. Both vessels were lost to accidents...
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    Baroness Forester (born 1909), wife of the 7th Baron Forester since 1931. Sir Herbert Charles Perrott was created a baronet in his own right 1911 and inherited...
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    Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    command of HMS Indefatigable, the ship with which he is most closely associated. The squadron also comprised the frigates HMS Argo, HMS Concord, HMS Révolutionnaire...
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