HMS Arethusa was the name ship of her class of light cruisers built for the Royal Navy. She was built by Chatham Dockyard, with the keel being laid down...
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borne the name HMS Arethusa after the Greek mythological nymph Arethusa who was transformed by Artemis into a fountain. HMS Arethusa (1759) was a 32-gun...
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HMS Arethusa was the name ship of her class of eight light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She saw a considerable amount of action during...
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HMS Arethusa was a 50-gun fourth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy launched in 1849 from the Pembroke Dockyard. The fourth naval ship to bear the...
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HMS Galatea was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland), with the...
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HMS Arethusa was a 38-gun Minerva-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy built at Bristol in 1781. She served in three wars and made a number of notable...
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She was captured by the Royal Navy in 1759 and became the fifth-rate HMS Arethusa. She remained in Royal Navy service for twenty years until she was wrecked...
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transport SS Antenor (1924) UK auxiliary transport HMS Arethusa (26) UK combat vessel light cruiser HMS Argonaut (61) UK combat vessel light cruiser USS Arkansas (BB-33)...
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The Arethusa class was a class of four light cruisers built for the Royal Navy between 1933 and 1937 and that served in World War II. It had been intended...
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HMS Penelope was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast, Northern Ireland); her keel was laid down...
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depart at dawn on 27 August. Tyrwhitt, aboard the brand new light cruiser HMS Arethusa, would command the 3rd Flotilla of 16 modern L-class destroyers, whilst...
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RMS Alcantara (1913) (redirect from HMS Alcantara (1915))
large liferaft floated clear. The C-class light cruiser HMS Comus and M-class destroyer HMS Munster then arrived. Comus proceeded to rendezvous with...
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and the king knighted him. Pellew transferred to HMS Arethusa in December 1793. In 1794, Arethusa was part of the western squadron of frigates based...
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June she was attached to a flotilla composed of HMS Ramillies, Warspite, Mauritius, Frobisher, Arethusa, Danae and 24 smaller vessels and headed for Normandy...
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HMS Undaunted was one of eight Arethusa-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. The Arethusa-class cruisers were intended to lead destroyer...
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the light cruiser HMS Arethusa; six destroyers (HMS Somali, Ashanti, Bedouin, Eskimo, Lamerton and Wheatland); three minesweepers (HMS Speedwell, Harrier...
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This turret was later worked into the design of the Leander, Amphion and Arethusa classes. The turret installation occupied less space than the superimposed...
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HMS Glowworm was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War the ship spent part of 1936 and 1937 in Spanish...
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French frigate Aréthuse (1791) (redirect from HMS Arethusa (1793))
city fell, and was brought into Royal Navy service as HMS Arethuse. In July 1795, she was renamed HMS Undaunted. On 9 February 1796, she sailed for the Leeward...
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HMS Invincible was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the twentieth century and the...
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December 1932. From May 1935 he served as commanding officer of the cruiser Arethusa as part of the 3rd Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean, then from July...
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foul of the Nott cancellations. A fifth Leander, the Ikara-carrying HMS Arethusa, was fitted with a towed array in 1985, the year the towed-array trials...
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escorted the light cruisers Arethusa and Galatea as they provided naval gunfire support for the 30th Motor Brigade on 26 May. The following day she evacuated...
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HMS Penelope was one of eight Arethusa-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She fought in the First World War, following the war...
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HMS Liverpool, named after the port city of Liverpool in north-west England, was a Town-class cruiser of the Royal Navy in service from 1938 to 1952....
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HMS Queen Mary was the last battlecruiser built by the Royal Navy before the First World War. The sole member of her class, Queen Mary shared many features...
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designed by Edward Hunt HMS Minerva 1780 – broken up 1803 HMS Arethusa 1781 – broken up 1814 HMS Phaeton 1782 – Sold 1827 HMS Latona 38-gun fifth rate...
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and a barrel 43 calibres long. This was tested in the Arethusa-class light cruisers HMS Arethusa and Undaunted but did not enter full service, being replaced...
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eighteen in 1765. In 1770 Graves was lieutenant of HMS Arethusa, and in 1773 was appointed to HMS Racehorse with Captain Constantine Phipps for the voyage...
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HMS Tiger was a battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy during the 1910s. The ship was the most heavily armoured British battlecruiser at the start of...
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