board HMS Kelly. On the afternoon of 14 December 1939, the tanker Atheltemplar struck a mine laid by German destroyers off the Tyne Estuary. Kelly and the...

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he commanded the destroyer HMS Kelly and the 5th Destroyer Flotilla. He saw considerable action in Norway,...

of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was in command of the destroyer HMS Kelly when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete. Coward composed the music...

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...

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...

Admiral Graf Spee's Arado floatplane spotted the British heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland approaching the two German ships. Langsdorff ordered both vessels...

of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the...

HMS Greyhound was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. Greyhound participated in the Norwegian Campaign in April 1940, the Dunkirk...

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Holdworth Kelly of the Royal Marine Artillery and Elizabeth Kelly (née Collum), Kelly joined the training ship HMS Britannia as a cadet on...

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...

HMS Encounter HMS Greyhound HMS Imogen HMS Imperial HMS Jackal HMS Jervis HMS Kale HMS Kelly HMS Legion HMS Lightning HMS Mansfield HMS Marksman HMS Mentor...

1966, p. 350 Mountbatten of Burma (December 1979). "Destroyer Design – HMS Kelly". Naval Historical Society of Australia. originally printed in Naval Historical...

and Bengore Head, but the escort vessels responded. The British corvette HMS Aubrietia located the U-boat with ASDIC (sonar). Aubrietia and British destroyer...

The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking after being torpedoed by a German submarine in November 1941, the assisting destroyer HMS Legion was sunk in...

light cruisers (HMS Gloucester and Fiji) and six destroyers (HMS Kelly, HMS Greyhound, HMS Kashmir, HMS Hereward, HMS Imperial and HMS Juno). Seven other...

Association, detachments of the Royal Navy Association, survivors of the HMS Kelly (which had been under Mountbatten's command), and the standards of the...

at Portland in 1940. He then served as Anti-Submarine Officer aboard HMS Kelly, under Lord Mountbatten, from February 1941 until her sinking off Crete...

craft of its kind to survive postwar. One ship built at the shipyard was HMS Kelly, launched in 1938 and commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten. The ship, a...

destroyers at Kya Light and sent cruiser HMS York, five destroyers and three transports in. Mountbatten led in HMS Kelly at 26 knots as the sun was going down...

HMS Gloucester was one of the second batch of three Town-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1930s. Commissioned shortly before...

Fokker F.I, a German fighter triplane HMS F1, an F-class submarine of the Royal Navy, launched in 1915 HMS Kelly (F01), a 1938 British Royal Navy K-class...

southward. The 5th Destroyer Flotilla, consisting of HMS Kelly, HMS Kipling, HMS Kelvin, HMS Jackal and HMS Kashmir (Captain, Lord Louis Mountbatten), was ordered...

HMS Fiji was the lead ship of her class of 11 light cruisers built for the Royal Navy shortly before the Second World War. Completed in mid-1940, she...

HMS Mashona was one of 16 Tribal-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy shortly before the beginning of Second World War in 1939. Completed in that...

and Duchess were brought back to Britain by Louis Mountbatten on board HMS Kelly, and Edward, although he held the rank of field marshal, was made a major-general...

Reserve during World War II, surviving the torpedoing of the destroyer HMS Kelly in 1941. He was the Labour Party candidate for the constituency of Westminster...

Lord Louis Mountbatten, along with Lieutenant Randolph Churchill, aboard HMS Kelly (which was based at Plymouth at the time) to Cherbourg to bring the Duke...

8 May 1941, Pinguin was sunk in a battle with the British heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall. She was the first auxiliary cruiser of the Kriegsmarine to be sunk...

HMS Jersey was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. On 25 March 1937, the British Admiralty placed orders for the eight destroyers of the J class, including...

Mountbatten had faced a rough patch at sea captaining the British Navy's HMS Kelly as commander of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, where his performance was...