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    based in Scotland. The ship was broken up in 1908. HMS Devastation is the ship depicted on "England's Glory" matchboxes. Her badge was also issued by publishers...
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    R62 (South Africa), a road HD 32034, a star HMS Cassandra (R62), a destroyer of the Royal Navy HMS Glory (R62), an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy...
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    1918 by the Royal Navy after the Russian Revolution and commissioned as HMS Glory IV. She was based at Gareloch, Scotland but was used primarily as a depot...
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    fifth-rate HMS Andromeda in May 1795 and to the second-rate HMS Glory in Autumn 1795. In HMS Glory he escorted the troops of General Ralph Abercromby destined...
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    HMS Ark Royal (ex-Irresistible) (1950) - decommissioned 1979 Colossus class HMS Colossus (1943), to France 1946 as Arromanches HMS Glory (1943) HMS Ocean...
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    aircraft carrier, HMS Glory. This squadron remained until 14 November when they re-embarked on the British Light Fleet Carrier, HMS Venerable. Subsequently...
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    HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic)
    and was received by several other ships in the area, among them HMS Scourge and HMS Heroic, but Britannic heard nothing in reply. Unknown to either Bartlett...
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    HMS Nabob (D77) was a Ruler-class escort aircraft carrier which served in the Royal Navy during 1943 and 1944. The ship was built in the United States...
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    the Naval Board in February 1942, with the first two ships, Colossus and Glory, laid down in March. During 1942 and 1943, another fourteen Light Fleet...
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    RMS Olympic (redirect from HMS Olympic)
    distress signals from the battleship HMS Audacious, which had struck a mine off Tory Island and was taking on water. HMS Liverpool was in the company of Audacious...
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    HMS Grafton (H89) was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship spent considerable...
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    tugboat, Vulcan, came to the rescue by taking New York under tow, and Titanic's 62-year-old Captain Edward Smith, the most senior of the White Star Line's captains...
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    to decommissioning, HMS Grafton was a regular visitor to the port and has special links with the town and the county of Suffolk. HMS Orwell, named after...
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    public support for the war of the moment. — Jon Krakauer, Where Men Win Glory. NY: Bloomsbury, p. 205. Although there may well be a longstanding history...
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    HMS Sheffield was one of the Southampton sub-class of the Town-class cruisers of the Royal Navy. Completed in 1937, she was active in all major naval...
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    decommissioned, and concurrently re-commissioned as HMS Flycatcher. At the end of December, HMS Flycatcher was officially decommissioned at Kai Tak,...
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  • Mottoes in South African Universities". "Home". sggs.co.za. Naval History: HMS Venetia (D 53) – V & W-class Destroyer Additional references Adeleye, Gabriel...
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    carriers, Zuikaku's aircraft engaged and sank the heavy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire. On the 9th, Zuikaku and Shōkaku raided Trincomalee,...
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    2023. Brantley, Ben (July 8, 2011). "Enough About You; Let's Revisit My Glory Days". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 5, 2023. "R...
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  • Cruiser – HMS Argonaut Association". Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Badsworth, escort destroyer". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Beaufort...
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    tactics on his own and was soon recommended for promotion. Under fire from HMS Asia, and coordinating with Hercules Mulligan and the Sons of Liberty, he...
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  • U-Bootmuseum Hamburg ©2013". "Peenemuende.info". "HMS Otus- das U-Boot in Sassnitz auf Rügen". hms-otus.com (in German). "Museum Windstärke 10 - Nordseeheilbad...
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    trade has been the ruling principle of my people. It is the source of their glory and wealth. Their songs celebrate their victories and the mother lulls the...
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    down. 11 August – HMS Eagle sunk in action. 22 August – USS Independence launched. 24 August – Ryūjō sunk in action. 27 August – HMS Glory laid down. 31 August...
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  • mission" soon spreads throughout the South Pacific. Trouble develops when glory-hungry Binghamton tries to get in on the action. Binghamton orders McHale...
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    (2004), pp. 62, 105–07. Conner (2004), pp. 81–82. Cobban (1963), p. 29, 46. Cobban (1963), p. 52. Dodman, Benjamin (7 May 2021). "'Glory of arms and art':...
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    November 1999. Lord Bhattacharyya: 1 October 2015. Ratan Tata: 1 October 2015. HMS Diamond, RN: 16 October 2014. The University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire...
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    the command of Captain Samuel Wallis. While circumnavigating the globe in HMS Dolphin, they sighted the island on 18 June 1767 and then harbored in Matavai...
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    television series Call to Glory and on an episode of the BBC's Coast programme, during a description of the history of HMS Temeraire. It also served as...
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  • cover for landings in the Indian Ocean. HMS Pioneer. Perseus was not completed until after the war ended. HMS HMS Unicorn was designed with an operational...
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