• The French destroyer Foudroyant was one of 14 L'Adroit-class destroyers built for the French Navy during the 1920s. The L'Adroit class was a slightly enlarged...
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  • pounds Foudroyant, a central battery and barbette battleship of the Redoutable type Foudroyant (1929), a L'Adroit-class destroyer Foudroyant (1941) a...
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    HMS Foudroyant was an 80-gun third rate of the Royal Navy, one of only two British-built 80-gun ships of the period (the other was HMS Caesar). Foudroyant...
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    entrepreneur Geoffry Wheatly Cobb, restored, and renamed Foudroyant in honour of HMS Foudroyant, his earlier ship that had been wrecked in 1897. She was...
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    specially commissioned training ship; renamed HMS Worcester after 1945. Foudroyant (1798), training ship for gunnery from 1862 to 1884, and for boys from...
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    ability. Ayanami was laid down on 20 January 1928, launched on 5 October 1929 and commissioned on 30 April 1930. Originally assigned hull designation “Destroyer...
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    with rescue efforts following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. Starting in 1929, Hiei was converted to a gunnery training ship to avoid being scrapped under...
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  • the ship was reduced to reserve. On 1 April 1941, Fleuret was renamed Foudroyant to commemorate the destroyer of that name that had been sunk during the...
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    20 July 1927 with the hull number Q149, Actéon was launched on 10 April 1929. She was commissioned on 18 December 1931. At the start of World War II in...
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    on 23 June 1927, launched on 5 May 1928 and commissioned on 21 December 1929. The name Odin refers to the 74-gun, Danish man-of-war surrendered to the...
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  • French submarine Thétis (category Maritime incidents in 1929)
    (Q134) was a Circé-class submarine in commission in the French Navy from 1929 until 1942. She saw service in World War II, first on the side of the Allies...
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    during the Corfu incident in 1923 and was reclassified as a torpedo boat in 1929. She took part in the Mediterranean campaign of World War II. After the fall...
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  • Master 2 95 ST Fossa Merchant Navy Harbour tug 1929 105 S/Lt. Martin Solomon, RNVR 1 0 Sunk Foudroyant (T52)  French Navy Destroyer 1930 1,380 C.C. Fontaine...
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    HMS Acasta (H09) (category 1929 ships)
    under the 1929 Naval Programme. She was laid down at their Clydebank, Scotland, shipyard on 13 August 1928, and launched on 8 August 1929, as the fourth...
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    on 1 March 1927 with the hull number Q140. She was launched on 10 April 1929 at the same time as her sister ship Poncelet. Henri Poincaré was commissioned...
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    2003. Lubbock, Basil: The Down-Easters. Glasgow: Brown, Son, & Ferguson, 1929, pp. 49 and 253. Great Republic, A Sailor (presumed to be Duncan McLean)...
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    followed by an intermediate design for a 23,690-ton protected cruiser in 1929; it was armed with 305 mm (12 in) guns, armored against 203 mm (8 in) guns...
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  • Thumbnail for French submarine Fresnel (Q143)
    on 7 July 1927 with the hull number Q143, Fresnel was launched on 8 June 1929. While fitting out, she suffered serious damage when, on 28 April 1930 during...
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    providing an adequate service". 1922–? Hon. Victor Albert Nelson Hood (1862–1929), younger brother of the 5th Duke, who having lived for 25 years in Australia...
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  • the class active at any one time. On 1 April 1941, Fleuret was renamed Foudroyant, Épée to L'Adroit, Le Corsaire to Siroco and Le Flibustier to Bison to...
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    USS Northampton (CA-26) (category 1929 ships)
    Corp.'s Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts; launched on 5 September 1929; sponsored by Grace Coolidge (wife of the former president); and commissioned...
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  • ashore by the same storm close to Uncle Tom's Cabin at North Shore. HMS Foudroyant, which had been used by Nelson as his flagship from 6 June 1799 until...
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     French Navy  Regia Marina Le Hardi Destroyer 1,772 10 May 1940 renamed as Foudroyant 1 April 1941, scuttled 27 November 1942, refloated as FR36 by Italy 20...
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    d'Aquitaine 64 (1754, ex-French Duc d'Aquitaine, captured 1757) Foudroyant 80 (1750, ex-French Foudroyant, captured 1758); broken up 1787 Raisonnable 64 (1756,...
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  • HMS Orpheus (N46) (category 1929 ships)
    Beardmore and Company on the Clyde on 14 April 1927, launched on 26 February 1929 and commissioned on 23 September 1930. Orpheus was declared overdue on 27...
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  • French submarine Argonaute (NN6) (category 1929 ships)
    19 December 1927 with the pennant number NN6, she was launched on 23 May 1929. She was commissioned on 1 June 1932 at Toulon, France. Argonaute served...
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    September 1927 with the hull number Q150, Achéron was launched on 6 August 1929. She was commissioned on 22 February 1932. In 1937, Achéron received orders...
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    French submarine Naïade (Q124) (category Maritime incidents in 1929)
    disappeared while she was at sea. The first two disappeared on 30 March 1929 and the third on 21 May 1935. World War II began with the German invasion...
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    in 1864 and sold for scrap in 1906. The third was a motor ship built in 1929 and destroyed by fire in Le Havre in 1938. Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence...
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    Windsor and the Royal Albert Hall. She led the singing on board the frigate Foudroyant for Princess Margaret in 1950 and served as Music Advisor on the Girl...
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