HMS Tamar (Chinese: 添馬艦) was the name for the British Royal Navy's base in Hong Kong from 1897 to 1997. It took its name from HMS Tamar, a ship that was...
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Six ships and a naval station of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Tamar, after the River Tamar in South West England: HMS Tamar (1758) was a 16-gun sloop...
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Tamar (Chinese: 添馬) is a station on MTR's shelved North Island line (NIL) proposal on the north shore of Hong Kong Island. It will be located on the former...
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1941, and gave her name to the shore station HMS Tamar in Hong Kong (1897 to 1997). The 1863 incarnation of HMS Tamar was the fourth to bear that name...
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HMS Tamar (shore station) HMS Thracian (Lt. Cdr. Arthur Luard Pears) HMS Scout (Lt. Cdr. Hedworth Lambton) HMS Thanet (Lt. Cdr. Bernard Davies) HMS Tern...
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would be named Tamar for the HMS Tamar shore station (named for the HMS Tamar, a Royal Navy troopship that arrived and was used as a shore base during the...
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sub-lieutenant to HMS Spiteful in 1901. Promoted to lieutenant on 1 April 1902, he was appointed later that year to HMS Tamar, shore station at Hong Kong,...
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discharged, Kielder, Northumberland HMS Stopford, Landing craft working-up base, Bo'ness HMS Talbot, Manoel Island, Malta HMS Tamar, Base operated from 1897 to...
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50°47′38″N 1°06′25″W / 50.794°N 1.107°W / 50.794; -1.107 HMS Vernon was a shore establishment or "stone frigate" of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. Vernon...
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1°11′30″W / 50.83528°N 1.19167°W / 50.83528; -1.19167 HMS Collingwood is a stone frigate (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy, in Fareham, England...
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HMS Dryad is a former stone frigate (shore establishment). It was the home of the Royal Navy's Maritime Warfare School from the Second World War until...
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Commander-in-Chief, China (Royal Navy) (redirect from China station)
(Singapore Naval Base), HMS Tamar (1865–1941 and 1945–1997) in Hong Kong and Wei Hai (at Liugong Island) (1898–1940). The China Station complement usually...
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Gibraltar for regional operations in the Mediterranean and Gulf of Guinea. HMS Tamar is forward deployed to the Indo-Pacific region with her primary logistics...
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HMS Harrier was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, located at Kete, Pembrokeshire. It was commissioned on 1 February 1948 and was the home of the...
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in the River Tamar off Saltash. On 28 March 1912 another training ship, HMS Southampton, based in Hull, closed down. The boys aboard HMS Southampton were...
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naval base is located on the South Shore of the former Stonecutter's Island and located south of the former HMS Tamar (now the Government Dockyard). Most...
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demolished when land was reclaimed and developed northward as the naval base HMS Tamar. The Cantonese name, Kam Chung (金鐘), lit. "Golden Bell", refers to a gold-coloured...
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Patrick (film director) Tam, Patrick (actor) Tam, Roman HMS Tamar (1863) HMS Tamar (shore station) Tamar site Tan Shan River Tanaka, Hisaichi Tanka (ethnic...
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Plant is accessible by Ngong Shuen Road. This dockyard was the final Tamar shore station prior to the handover and used briefly by the Royal Navy. The base...
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(1941) HMS Sheffield (1942) HMS Aurora (1942) HMS Cleopatra (1943) HMS Venerable (1945) HMS Tamar (1945, as Administrator of Hong Kong from shore station) HMS...
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The station currently operates two lifeboats: An Tamar-class All-weather lifeboat 16-17 Alfred Albert Williams (ON 1297) which has been at the station since...
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HMS Cambridge was a Royal Navy shore establishment south of Plymouth UK, commissioned between 1956 and 2001. Formerly named HM Gunnery School, Devonport...
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HMS Mercury was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, and the site of the Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School. There was also a subsidiary...
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HMS Hibernia is the name given to a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, which serves as the headquarters of the Royal Naval Reserve in Northern Ireland...
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HMS Lochinvar was a minesweeping training "stone frigate" (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy, sited at Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth. It was established...
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HMS Standard was a British Royal Navy shore establishment between 1942 and 1945. Situated well away from the sea near Kielder in Northumberland, the base...
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16-gun sloop HMS Tamar, and a few months later, January 1771, was promoted to post rank. In August 1773 he was appointed to the 24-gun HMS Seahorse, and...
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Warlow, Ben (2000). Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy. Maritime Books. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-907771-74-6. Fray Bentos (3 March 1973). "HMS Flying Fox" (photograph)...
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HMNB Devonport (redirect from HMS Drake (shore establishment))
and Fantome) HQ Amphibious Task Group HMS Vivid RNR (relocated to the South Yard from Mount Wise in 2004) RM Tamar/47 Commando (Raiding Group) Royal Marines...
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to have been in the Admiralty area of Hong Kong Island, at the shore station HMS Tamar . Titania fielded a football team in the Hong Kong Second Division...
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