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    HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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  • Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Oak, after the Royal Oak in which Charles II hid himself during his flight from the country in...
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    "HMS Britannia Sunk". The Daily Telegraph. 11 November 1918. Grant 2008, p. 291. Friedman 2015, p. 352. Grant 2008, p. 290. "Wreck of HMS Royal Oak"....
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    nearest to 13 October, the date of the sinking of the battleship HMS Royal Oak (08) at Scapa Flow in 1939. At the service on 9 October 2019, eighty years...
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    acres (1.0 km2). Kenneth Dewar was an aide to George V and commanded HMS Royal Oak (08). It is from this Kenneth Dewar that the present chiefs of Clan Dewar...
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  • references to the March Past of the Royal Navy, Heart of Oak. The trio pays homage to the 20th-century battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, the only other ship...
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    dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. In 1907, before the revolution in design brought about by HMS Dreadnought of 1906, the United...
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    new Prime Minister of Japan, replacing Kōki Hirota. The Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak (08), patrolling the Mediterranean Sea to protect Britain's...
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    Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II, from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945. See also List of ships of the Royal Navy. The Royal...
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    (HMS Royal Oak (08)) San Juan de Silicia  Spanish Navy 5 November 1588 A ship of the Spanish Armada that was blown up at Tobermory. HMS Sealion  Royal...
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    and sank the submarine HMS L24 during training exercises, killing all aboard. Royal Oak was involved in the so-called "Royal Oak Mutiny", between her commander...
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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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  • sank a total of 31 enemy vessels, including the British battleship HMS Royal Oak, and damaged nine more. U-47 ranks as one of the most successful German...
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    Quercus robur (redirect from English oak)
    a pollarded oak ("copped oak"). 'The Royal Oak' is the third most popular pub name in Britain (with 541 counted in 2007) and HMS Royal Oak has been the...
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    Ross, arrived in Bermuda in 1814 aboard a fleet composed of the 74-gun HMS Royal Oak, three frigates, three sloops and ten other vessels. The combined force...
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  • Ships beginning with L". Warsailors. Retrieved 26 January 2011. "HMS Royal Oak (08)". uboat.net. Retrieved 24 July 2021. "SS Sneaton (+1939)". Wrecksite...
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    Günther Prien (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves)
    200,000 gross register tons (GRT), along with the British battleship HMS Royal Oak at anchor in the Home Fleet's anchorage in Scapa Flow. Prien was one...
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    Royal Navy was badly affected, losing thirteen ships including the entire Channel Squadron, and upwards of 1,500 seamen drowned. The third-rate HMS Restoration...
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    Kenneth Dewar (category Royal Navy vice admirals)
    1920s. In 1928 he was at the heart of the "Royal Oak Mutiny", when as captain of the battleship Royal Oak he forwarded his executive officer's letter...
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    his brother John, chaplain on the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Royal Oak under Captain Sir Digby Dent. Royal Oak was stationed off North America at...
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    HMS Barham was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed in 1915, she was often used as...
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  • is dedicated to the four ex-cadets of the Royal Naval College of Canada and men of Her Majesty's Ship (HMS) Good Hope who were killed in action in 1914...
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    appointed to the battleship HMS Royal Oak in the Mediterranean Fleet. In early April 1902 Forbes transferred to the armoured cruiser HMS Aboukir, also serving...
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    The General Service Medal 2008 (GSM 08) was introduced in 2015 for award to Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army, and RAF personnel to recognise specified...
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    pursued a career in the Royal Navy, rising to hold a number of important positions. Following early service on the training ship HMS Britannia, he was confirmed...
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    instructor at HMS Royal Arthur, the Petty Officers' School in Corsham, Wiltshire. In 1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the Royal Naval College...
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    John Treasure Jones (category Royal Navy officers)
    reserve training in the Royal Navy, after which he was laid off. In 1930–31 Jones served six months afloat in the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and four months...
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  • John Yelland (category Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
    moved, as acting lieutenant, to HMS Royal Oak, in time for the Battle of Chesapeake in September. In December the Royal Oak was sent to the West Indies where...
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    with the salvage of the two British X class submarines HMS X6 and X7 which had been lost by the Royal Navy during Operation Source, an attempt to sink the...
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    Westminster Hall (category Royal residences in the City of Westminster)
    Hall's roof measures 20.7 by 73.2 metres (68 by 240 ft). Oak timbers for the roof came from royal woods in Hampshire and from parks in Hertfordshire and...
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