name HMS Mauritius, in reference to the former colony of Mauritius: HMS Mauritius (80) was a Crown Colony-class light cruiser launched in 1939 and scrapped...

HMS Mauritius, pennant C80, was a Fiji-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. The ship was built by Swan Hunter, Newcastle upon Tyne. She was named after...

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...

cruisers HMS Mauritius and HMS Phoebe and taken to Cyprus. On 31 January 1948, the 35 Giborei Kfar Etzion (280 passengers) was intercepted by HMS Childers...

Exbury House, Hampshire HMS Mauritius, Mauritius HMS Martelo, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Lowestoft, (1 October 1945 – April 1946) HMS Medina, Landing craft...

became famous for her part in the Battle of the River Plate, alongside HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter and notable for being the first Royal Navy cruiser to have fire...

6-inch turret, and between 1944 and 1945, those of Bermuda, Jamaica, Mauritius and Kenya were also removed. This allowed the carriage of additional light...

HMS Mauritius (1941) Acorn-class destroyer HMS Hope Battle-class destroyers HMS Barfleur HMS Corunna HMS Gabbard HMS Trafalgar Daring-class destroyer HMS Daring...

Dartmouth, Carlill joined the Royal Navy in 1939 and served in World War II in the cruiser HMS Mauritius. He became Secretary to the Flag Officer Naval...

HMS Enterprise was one of two Emerald-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy. She was built by John Brown & Company, with the keel being laid down...

to HMS Prince of Wales. Before he could take up the post, however, his father was given command, so he was reassigned to HMS Mauritius. Mauritius soon...

command of William Davis, consisting of the light cruiser HMS Mauritius and the destroyers HMS Ursa and HMCS Iroquois, departed Plymouth on 13 August to...

initially named HMS Leander. Leander was launched at Devonport on 24 September 1931. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Leander on 24 March...

offensive sweeps herself. In the course of one such sweep, accompanied by HMS Mauritius on 28 January 1945, the cruiser engaged three German destroyers, damaging...

Finally on 2 June she was attached to a flotilla composed of HMS Ramillies, Warspite, Mauritius, Frobisher, Arethusa, Danae and 24 smaller vessels and headed...

the Baltic Sea, they were intercepted by the British cruisers HMS Diadem and Mauritius. The destroyers Z31 and Z34 were damaged by gunfire but the German...

Palestinian Revolt, or the Palestinian Revolution, lasted from 1936 until 1939. The movement sought independence from British colonial rule and the end...

about 1,800 Jewish refugees whom the British autorities were deporting to Mauritius. Zionist organizations opposed the deportation, and the underground paramilitary...

Arbuthnot (1862–1933), daughter of the Hon. James Edward Arbuthnot of Mauritius; they had two daughters, Evelyn Frances and Iris. In 1949 he remarried...

Lambert and Brown 2008, p. 65. HMS Arbutus (K 86) (British Corvette) – Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII – uboat.net HMS Asphodel (K 56) (British Corvette)...

HMS Orion was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with distinction in the Royal Navy during World War II. She received 13 battle honours, a record...

Archive - Fleet Air Arm Bases 1939 - present day. Retrieved 13 May 2024. Fleet Air Arm Officers' Association, FAAOA "H.M.S. MONARA". royalnavyresearcharchive...

HMS Electra was a one of nine E-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Sunk in the Battle of the Java Sea, Electra was a witness...

Harry Andreas. On the return journey, via Mauritius, the Suez Canal, Malta and Gibraltar, their transport, HMS Renown, caught fire and they prepared to...

and scrapped in Japan in 1961. HMS Uganda was one of the Ceylon sub-class (the second group of three ships built in 1939) of the Fiji-class cruisers, and...

the battleship HMS Warspite, the aircraft carriers HMS Illustrious and Formidable, the light cruisers HMS Birmingham, Effingham, Mauritius and the Netherlander...

1907 BF Briseis, mythological Trojan slave DMP · 655 656 Beagle 1908 BU HMS Beagle, Darwin's ship DMP · 656 657 Gunlöd 1908 BV Gunnlod, mythological...

HMS Truant (N68) was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched on 5 May 1939. Truant had a relatively...

light cruisers HMS Durban, Danae, Dragon and Mauritius, and the destroyers HMS Stronghold, Encounter and Jupiter. The heavy cruiser HMS Exeter, Dutch light...

During the Second World War, the Mauritius Territorial Force was expanded to two battalions and renamed the Mauritius Regiment. The 1st Battalion went...