HMS Princess Royal was the second of two Lion-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before the First World War. Designed in response to the Moltke-class...
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Royal Navy have been named HMS Princess Royal: HMS Princess Royal (1728) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1682 as HMS Ossory. She was renamed HMS...
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(LJStJ) 1911: Lady Sponsor of HMS Princess Royal 1914: Colonel-in-chief of the 7th Dragoon Guards 1922: Colonel-in-chief of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon...
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HMS Princess Irene was a 5,394 GRT ocean liner which was built in 1914 by William Denny and Brothers Ltd, Dumbarton, Scotland for the Canadian Pacific...
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be named HMS Royal George, but renamed in 1910, before her launch in 1911. She was sold for scrapping in 1926, and was broken up in 1927. HMS King George...
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assigned for special duty as a temporary royal yacht, for example the steamship Ophir in 1901 and the battleship HMS Vanguard in 1947.[citation needed] Since...
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of the Royal Victorian Order Foreign honours 8 January 1866: Dame of the Order of Queen Saint Isabel 3 July 1911: Honorary Colonel, 5th Princess Louise...
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Prince Louis of Battenberg (category Royal Navy admirals of the fleet)
aboard HMS Victory, Nelson's old flagship, then used as a permanently moored receiving ship. In January of the following year, the Prince and Princess of...
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2019. "Recent Conservation". HMS Unicorn. Archived from the original on 14 June 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2019. "Princess Royal steps on board Dundee's Frigate...
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HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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Maule Ramsay (29 May 1881 – 8 October 1972) was a Royal Navy officer. He was the husband of Princess Patricia of Connaught, the youngest child of Prince...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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Elisabetta di Sasso Ruffo (redirect from Princess Elisabetta Romanovskya)
in Kharkov to Don Fabrizio Ruffo, Duke of Sasso-Ruffo (1846-1911) and his wife, Princess Natalia Alexandrovna Mescherskaya (1849-1910). Her father, member...
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HMS New Zealand was one of three Indefatigable-class battlecruisers. Launched in 1911, the ship was funded by the government of New Zealand as a gift...
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had sponsored the construction of the world's first "all big gun" warship, HMS Dreadnought. He visualised a new breed of warship with the armament of a...
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sentenced to banishment, and Prince and Princess Andrew and their children fled Greece aboard a British cruiser, HMS Calypso, under the protection of the...
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Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Καικιλία, romanized: Kaikilía; 22 June 1911 – 16 November 1937) was by birth a Greek and Danish princess...
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HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior...
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Haakon VII (category Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order)
Princess of Denmark (later King Frederick VIII and Queen Louise). Prince Carl was educated at the Royal Danish Naval Academy and served in the Royal Danish...
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Mary of Teck (redirect from Princess Victoria Mary, Princess of Wales)
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel. The infant was baptised in the Chapel Royal of Kensington Palace on 27 July 1867...
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Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
jewels. In 1862, Queen Victoria wrote to Victoria, Princess Royal, that she wanted Alfred to marry Princess Dagmar of Denmark. She wrote: "I hear that the...
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officer of the cruiser HMS Weymouth in the Grand Fleet in September 1916 and commanding officer of the battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal also in the Grand Fleet...
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Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Μαργαρίτα; 18 April 1905 – 24 April 1981) was a Greek and Danish princess by birth and Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg...
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HMNB Portsmouth (redirect from Portsmouth Royal Dockyard)
latter being renamed Princess Royal Jetty on completion of the works), so as to enable both carriers to lay alongside at the same time. HMS Queen Elizabeth...
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Fleet review (redirect from Royal Fleet Review)
Columbia's entry into Canadian Confederation; the Royal Canadian Navy review was conducted by Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. June 1959 - Held at...
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SS Princess Alice, and SS Princess Mary, Princess Sophia was one of four similar ships built for CPR during 1910-1911. On 25 October 1918, Princess Sophia...
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Canada, as well as Newfoundland, while serving aboard the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Cumberland. From 1911 to 1916, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn...
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HMS Caroline is a decommissioned C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that was the lead ship of her sub-class. Completed in 1914, she saw combat service...
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List of titles and honours of George V (category Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order)
September 1877: Cadet, HMS Britannia 8 January 1880: Midshipman, HMS Bacchante and the corvette HMS Canada 3 June 1884: Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Navy 8 October 1885:...
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HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship afloat...
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