HMS York was the lead ship of her class of two heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. She mostly served on the North America and West...
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Royal Navy have borne the name HMS York after the city of York, the county seat of Yorkshire, on the River Ouse. HMS York (1654), 52-gun Speaker-class frigate...
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Raid on Souda Bay (redirect from Sinking of hms york)
heavy cruiser HMS York and the Norwegian tanker Pericles (8,324 GRT). Two MTM hit York, which took on a list and was towed by the destroyer HMS Hasty and...
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April 1942 Sunk by Japanese aircraft HMS York (90) Crete 26 March 1941 Scuttled following Italian explosive boat raid HMS Exeter (68) Battle of the Java Sea...
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Egypt. 25 March: Italian MTMs of the Decima MAS sink the heavy cruiser HMS York (90), a large tanker (the Norwegian Pericles), another tanker and a cargo...
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HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
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Archive Catalogues : Military Archives". HMS York (90) HMS Volunteer (D71) HMS Cassandra (R62) HMS Chevron (R51) "HMS Devonshire's Captains | Royal Navy Memories"...
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HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London...
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HMS Prince of Wales (R09) is the second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Unlike most large aircraft carriers, Prince of Wales...
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Bounty (1960 ship) (redirect from HMS Bounty (1960, ship))
an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1960. She sank off the coast...
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HMS Malaya was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. Shortly after commissioning in early 1916, she...
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HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the...
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HMS Namur was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Chatham Dockyard to the draught specified by the 1745 Establishment as...
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Horatio Hornblower (redirect from HMS Crab (fictional Hornblower vessel))
the matter by forcing a duel with his tormentor. He is then transferred to HMS Indefatigable under Edward Pellew and distinguishes himself. He fends off...
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HMS Ajax was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River...
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HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the...
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SS Empire Comfort (redirect from HMS York Castle)
Comfort was a 1,333 GRT convoy rescue ship which was launched in 1944 as HMS York Castle a Castle-class corvette, but was renamed Empire Castle and converted...
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HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of...
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000 tonnes HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS Prince of Wales Retired: HMS Argus (1916) - scrapped 1946 HMS Furious (1916) - decommissioned 1945 HMS Vindictive (1918) –...
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the Royal Navy have been called HMS Duke: HMS Duke (1652) was a 12-gun ship in service in 1652. HMS Duke (1682) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1682...
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Bermuda Triangle (section HMS Atalanta)
Triangle for the past 15,000 years. The sail training ship HMS Atalanta (originally named HMS Juno) disappeared with her entire crew after setting sail...
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HMS Renown was the lead ship of her class of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy built during the First World War. She was originally laid down as an improved...
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HMS Sheffield was a Type 42 guided missile destroyer and the second Royal Navy ship to be named after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. Commissioned...
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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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only two were constructed—HMS York, started in 1927, and HMS Exeter, started in 1928. Exeter differed in appearance from York because of late changes in...
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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...
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George VI (redirect from Prince Albert of York)
on the training ship HMS Cumberland in the West Indies and on the east coast of Canada. He was rated as a midshipman aboard HMS Collingwood on 15 September...
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River-class vessel, HMS Clyde, was decommissioned, with the Batch 2 HMS Forth taking over duties as the Falkland Islands patrol ship. HMS Protector is a dedicated...
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the news to cross the Atlantic. On 28 June 1812, HMS Colibri was dispatched from Halifax to New York under a flag of truce. She anchored off Sandy Hook...
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Wager Island (section Wreck of HMS Wager)
casts new light on mutiny aboard HMS Wager". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 22 April 2023. Layman 2015, pp. 89–90. Layman 2015, pp. 87–89. Bulkeley...
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