An armed yacht was a yacht that was armed with weapons and was typically in the service of a navy. The word "yacht" ("hunter"; Dutch "jacht"; German "jagd"...
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HNoMY Norge (redirect from Royal Yacht Norge)
Navy as an armed yacht during the Second World War. The vessel was built in 1937 by Camper and Nicholsons in Gosport, Hampshire as a luxury yacht for Thomas...
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largest and most heavily armed battleships in naval history. Allen died in 2018. From December 2018 to July 2019, the yacht underwent a refit at Blohm+Voss...
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An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact. In the days of sail, piracy...
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and was later promoted to Lieutenant. As executive officer aboard the armed yacht USS Aphrodite he saw service escorting convoys and was aboard when she...
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marine artists. The earliest known illustration of a schooner depicts a yacht owned by the mayors (Dutch: burgemeesters) of Amsterdam, drawn by the Dutch...
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USS Zara (category Steam yachts)
Zoodohos Pigi. In the latter part of the war she spent a year as an armed yacht in the United States Navy. Fleming and Ferguson built Zara at Paisley...
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Merchant raider (redirect from Armed raider)
Merchant raiders are armed commerce raiding ships that disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels. Germany used several merchant raiders early...
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Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette Gunboat Harbour defence motor...
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became part of Maritime Command (MARCOM), as an element of the Canadian Armed Forces. HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22) (Majestic class) HMCS Magnificent (CVL...
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the armed yacht Gloucester guarded the east, while the west was only defended by the second-class battleship Texas, cruiser Brooklyn and armed yacht Vixen...
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Iosif Matusevich II) Bodryy (Capt. 2nd rank Pyotr Ivanov) Auxiliaries 1 armed yacht classified as 2nd class cruiser Almaz (Capt. 2nd rank Ivan Chagin) 2...
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Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette Gunboat Harbour defence motor...
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sole survivor. Johansen reports that the Emma was attacked by a heavily armed yacht named the Alert. The crewmen of the Emma killed those aboard the Alert...
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Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette Gunboat Harbour defence motor...
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It was shorter than ideal for oceangoing convoy escort work, too lightly armed for antiaircraft defense, and the ships were barely faster than the merchantmen...
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cruising endurance was not essential. A carronade-armed brig, however, would be at the mercy of a frigate armed with long guns, so long as the frigate maneuvered...
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Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette Gunboat Harbour defence motor...
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fact. In the days of sail, piracy and privateers. Armed yachts were modified yachts that were armed with weapons and were typically in the service of...
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creating an all-around warship. The early aircraft cruisers were usually armed with relatively heavy artillery, mines and a number of aircraft fitted with...
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Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette Gunboat Harbour defence motor...
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another two torpedo boats and an armed yacht were at anchor. The Italians sank both torpedo boats and seized the yacht as a prize. The Italian attacks...
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Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette Gunboat Harbour defence motor...
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Bangor-class minesweeper, two Fairmile Marine Motor Launches and an armed yacht; a clearly inadequate force for the task. The RCN's response to the attacks...
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Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette Gunboat Harbour defence motor...
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in France. This type of vessel was characterised by possessing only one armed deck, with an unarmed deck below it used for berthing the crew. Late in...
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outside the war zone around the British Isles attacks were only allowed on armed merchant ships. But on 24 March 25 Americans were killed in the torpedoing...
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Landing Ship, Tank Landing Ship Vehicle Troopship Patrol craft Armed boarding steamer Armed yacht Coastal motor boat Corvette Gunboat Harbour defence motor...
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HMS Evadne (category Individual yachts)
009) was a converted yacht, commissioned as a warship by the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She survives today as the yacht Marala. The Evadne...
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Navy called its battleships Linienschiffe until World War I. The heavily armed carrack, first developed in Portugal for either trade or war in the Atlantic...
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