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    HMS Defence was a Minotaur-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century, the last armoured cruiser built for...
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  • ironclad scrapped in 1935. HMS Defence (1907), launched in 1907, was an armoured cruiser sunk at the Battle of Jutland. Defence, a Minotaur-class cruiser...
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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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  • a boom defence vessel from 1902 and was sold in 1907. HMS Argus was a coastguard vessel launched in 1864 as HMS Imogene. She was renamed HMS Argus in...
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    HMS Bellerophon was the lead ship of her class of three dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She...
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    HMS Superb was one of three Bellerophon-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She spent almost...
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    HMS Temeraire was one of three Bellerophon-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She spent almost...
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    HMS Indomitable was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war....
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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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    Fortune, HMS Fame, HMS Firedrake 1940 Force H HMS Faulknor, HMS Forester, HMS Foresight, HMS Firedrake, HMS Fortune, HMS Fearless, HMS Fury, HMS Foxhound...
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    Swan Hunter (category Former defence companies of the United Kingdom)
    HMS Bolebroke HMS Border HMS Calpe HMS Eridge HMS Exmoor HMS Farndale HMS Grove HMS Hambledon HMS Heythrop HMS Hursley HMS Holderness Tribal-class destroyer HMS Somali...
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  • sold in 1870. HMS Mutine (1880) was a Doterel-class sloop launched in 1880 and used as a boom defence vessel in 1899. She was renamed HMS Azov in 1904...
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    Navy in 1991 as HMS Polar Circle, before being purchased outright and renamed HMS Endurance in 1992 as a replacement for the previous HMS Endurance whose...
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  • sold in 1907. HMS Amelia was previously HMS Hawk a coastguard gunboat launched in 1869. She was renamed HMS Amelia in 1888, HMS Colleen in 1905, HMS Colleen...
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  • 1868. HMS Grappler (1880) was a Banterer-class composite screw gunboat launched in 1880. She became a boom defence vessel in 1904 and was sold in 1907. HCS Grappler (1804)...
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    mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, boom defence workshop and floating office, being renamed HMS Minerva and Hulk C23 during her long life. She...
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    hub at the British Defence Singapore Support Unit in Singapore HMS Cutlass – Gibraltar Squadron HMS Dagger – Gibraltar Squadron HMS Blazer – Southampton...
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  • built by Laird in 1883. Tender to HMS Devastation from 1890. Became a boom defence vessel in 1903, then sold in 1907. HMS Watchful (1911), a coastguard vessel...
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    HMS Hawke, launched in 1891 from Chatham Dockyard, was the seventh Royal Navy warship to be named Hawke. She was an Edgar-class protected cruiser. After...
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    Chemical Defence, damage control and fire fighting HMS Phoenix South East Naval Military Training Centre Defence Diving School Boat Section HMS Excellent...
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    Grand Fleet, on the right side. At 5:47 p.m., the squadron flagship, HMS Defence, and Warrior spotted the German II Scouting Group and opened fire. Their...
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    HMS Caesar (at the time written Cæsar) was a Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, named after the Roman military and political...
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  • Catalonia in Spain Caterpillar C13 Engine, an engine by Caterpillar Inc. HMS C13, a 1906 British C-class submarine IEC 60320 C13, a polarised, three pole...
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    appointed to HMS Defence in the summer of 1863. Defence was one of four new ironclads serving in the Channel Squadron; Beresford was unhappy in Defence, which...
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  • Barroso (C11), a light cruiser of the Brazilian Navy HMS C11, a 1907 British Royal Navy C class submarine HMS Liverpool (C11), a 1937 British Royal Navy Town...
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  • HMS TB 9 (originally named HMS Grasshopper) was a Cricket-class coastal destroyer or torpedo-boat of the British Royal Navy. TB 9 was built by the shipbuilder...
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  • HMS TB 23 was a Cricket-class coastal destroyer or torpedo-boat of the British Royal Navy. TB 23 was built by the shipbuilder Yarrow from 1907 to 1908...
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    frigate fleet (as well as HMS Triumph, the only remaining Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered hunter-killer submarine). In 2018 the Defence Secretary announced...
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    of HMS Dolphin, the signal tower had been used by the Queen's Harbour Master as a Port Entry Control centre. In the early 2020s Ministry of Defence (MOD)...
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    A. T. L. Covey-Crump (category 1907 births)
    between 1927 and 1945, including HMS Vindictive, HMS Enterprise, HMS Duncan, HMS Faulkner, HMS Boscawen, HMS Ceylon and HMS Liverpool. He was the second son...
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