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    HMS Balfour was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy which served during World War II. She was built as a TE (Buckley) type destroyer escort in the...
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  • prime minister Gymnasia Balfour HMS Balfour (K464) Balfour v. Balfour, English contract law case Balfour Beatty L.G. Balfour Company All pages with titles...
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  • as the Royal Navy's Chief Signals Officer from 1979 to 1981. Balfour was the Captain of HMS Exeter when the Argentine Armed Forces militarily invaded the...
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    resulting in 52 dead (all hands) from U-392's crew. On 25 June 1944 HMS Affleck with HMS Balfour attacked a submarine believed to be U-1191 by the use of depth...
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  • December 1956. Balfour was educated at Eton. He took part in the Second World War, in the Merchant Navy. A master mariner, he first served on HMS Conway. From...
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    post-war period, all of the surviving Captain-class frigates except one (HMS Hotham which was used as a power station and for powerplant experiments)...
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    African-American crew in WW2 Maurice J. Manuel DE-351 McAnn DE-73 to Royal Navy as HMS Balfour (K464) McAnn DE-179 McCandless DE-1084 McClelland DE-750 McCloy DE-1038...
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  • Navy during World War II USS McAnn (DE-73), provisional name given to HMS Balfour (K464), a Buckley-class Captain-class frigate during World War II MacCunn...
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  • 0 0 0 Sunk 4 August 1944 HMS Stayner & HMS Wensleydale U-672 1943 VIIC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Scuttled 18 July 1944 HMS Balfour U-673 1943 VIIC 0 0 0 0 0...
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    HMS Exeter was a Type 42 destroyer, the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to be named Exeter, after the city of Exeter in Devon. The vessel fought in the Falklands...
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    Science. Retrieved February 18, 2022. "Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved...
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    launched on 22 April 1898, when she was named by Lady Balfour of Burleigh, wife of Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who served as Secretary of State for Scotland...
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  • August 2013.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) "HMS MMS 1019 of the Royal Navy". Uboat. Retrieved 3 July 2013. "Alaska Shipwrecks...
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  • Hugh Balfour, the commanding officer of the frigate HMS Phoebe, which was accompanied by the nuclear submarine HMS Dreadnought, the frigate HMS Alacrity...
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  • Highlanders, or namesake ships: HMS Argyll HMS Argyll (F231) Ne Obliviscaris: Dinna Forget, memoirs of Lady Frances Balfour, 1930 Ne Obliviscaris (band)...
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    Catriona (also known as David Balfour) is an 1893 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped (1886). It was first...
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    Navy Years of service 1859–1893 Rank Rear Admiral Commands HMS Jumna HMS Salamis HMS Dasher HMS Rapid Awards Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order...
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    HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War. Designed in 1934 to fit the...
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    U-1191 was sunk by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Affleck and HMS Balfour southwest of Brighton, England, ending her first and only patrol...
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    "Challenger". Macmillan. "Archive entry for journals of Andrew F. Balfour, including three from HMS Challenger voyage". AIM25 archives. Archived from the original...
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  • Bismarck, HMS Hood, HMS Prince of Wales, HMS King George V, HMS Rodney and the County-class cruisers, are generally accurate, although HMS Hood is depicted...
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    December) that Balfour and Carson had specifically recommended Jellicoe's removal at the 26 October meeting; they had not done so, although Balfour's denial was...
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    (Prue) Balfour (married in 1949 to Colin James Balfour, Commander, Royal Navy (1924 – 13 August 2009 aged 85), children Major General James Balfour CBE,...
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    captain realized they had not cleared Montauk Point. But Captain George Balfour of Culloden continued on until 4 AM, when lookouts saw breakers ahead and...
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  • under command of Capt. Thomas Graves. She was commanded by Captain George Balfour in the Battle of the Saintes, 1782. Here she was fifth in line in the attack...
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  • HMS Phoebe (F42) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). She was, like the rest of her class, named after a figure of mythology. Built by...
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    of Edinburgh. In 1850 he was attending the botany class of John Hutton Balfour at the University. In 1850 he was appointed lecturer of botany, and in...
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  • Damage Captain A.P. Hoddinott HMS Cardiff Captain M.G.T. Harris HMS Exeter Captain H.M. Balfour County-class destroyers HMS Glamorgan - hit by an Aérospatiale...
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    Three Hostages (1977) – Richard Hannay The Wild Geese (1978) – Thomas Balfour Danger on Dartmoor (1980) – Green Smiley's People (1982) – Saul Enderby...
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    the governments of the Dominions and of the United Kingdom endorsed the Balfour Declaration of 1926, which declared that the Dominions were autonomous...
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