HMS Gloucester was one of the second batch of three Town-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1930s. Commissioned shortly before...
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Many ships have sunk in the area, including HMS Greyhound (H05), HMS Gloucester (62), and SS Ivernia. The Kythira Strait represents one of the most dangerous...
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following Italian motor torpedo boat attack HMS Gloucester (62) off Crete 22 May 1941 Sunk by German aircraft HMS Charybdis (88) Battle of Sept-Îles 23 October...
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Town-class cruiser (1936) (redirect from Gloucester class cruiser)
UK: Maritime Books. ISBN 978-1-904-45952-1. Otter, Ken (2001) [1999]. HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story (2nd ed.). Durham, UK: G.A.M. Books. ISBN 0-9522194-2-5...
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Henry A Rowley Light cruisers HMS Gloucester (62) - Capt. Henry A Rowley, sunk 22 May 1941 with the loss of 722 crew HMS Fiji (58) - Capt. PBRW William-Powlett...
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Gloucester (/ˈɡlɒstər/ GLOST-ər) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of Massachusetts's North Shore...
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Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-59114-561-5. Otter, Ken (2001) [1999]. HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story (2nd ed.). Durham, UK: G.A.M. Books. ISBN 0-9522194-2-5...
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Science. Retrieved February 18, 2022. "Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved...
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Crete. 35°50′N 23°0′E / 35.833°N 23.000°E / 35.833; 23.000 (HMS Gloucester (62)) HMS Greyhound Royal Navy 22 May 1941 A G-class destroyer that was...
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Southampton Football Club. He died in the controversial sinking of HMS Gloucester off the coast of Crete in May 1941. Catlin was born in Liverpool but...
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Navy's HMS Augusta were laid in Red Bank Battlefield Park until they were later moved to Gloucester City. During the colonial era, Gloucester County's...
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HMS Anson was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after Admiral George Anson. She was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson...
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Beirut to one of the awaiting ships, either, HMS Gloucester, HMS York, HMS St Albans, HMS Illustrious, HMS Bulwark, or RFA Fort Victoria. One civilian...
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Court, near Gloucester on 28 April 1941, and it was defined as a tender to HMS Ganges. Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent paid a visit to HMS Ganges on 1...
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EML Admiral Cowan (redirect from HMS Sandown (M101))
BALTRON project Mineships Division Armament as HMS Sandown: 1 × Oerlikon 30 mm KCB gun on DS-30B mount 2 × 7.62 mm L7 GPMG machine guns Wallop Defence Systems...
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Missouri which was in company with the USS Jarrett and HMS Gloucester. A Sea Dart missile from HMS Gloucester shot down one Silkworm and the other missed, crashing...
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HMS Cardiff was a British Type 42 destroyer and the third ship of the Royal Navy to be named in honour of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff. Cardiff served...
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Spragge's expedition against the corsairs of Algiers. He commanded the Gloucester (62 guns) in the attack on the Dutch Smyrna fleet in 1672, which opened...
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of Gloucester and Edinburgh, on 4 June 1770 by Lieutenant James Cook of HMS Endeavour. In the 2016 census, Cape Gloucester had a population of 62 people...
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HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in...
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HMS Ruler was the lead ship of her class of escort carrier of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was built in the United States as the Bogue-class...
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000 tonnes HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS Prince of Wales Retired: HMS Argus (1916) - scrapped 1946 HMS Furious (1916) - decommissioned 1945 HMS Vindictive (1918) –...
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Fastnet Rock (51°20′N 11°50′W / 51.333°N 11.833°W / 51.333; -11.833) by SM U-62 of the German Imperial Navy. Three crew members of Storstad were lost. Lloyd's...
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water. Our London Letter, Page 13, The Gloucester Journal, Gloucester, England. 21 July 1928 Taffrail 1973, pp. 61–62. Gill 1957, p. 575. Campbell, N.J.M...
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where the Mediterranean Fleet escorted the light cruisers HMS Liverpool and HMS Gloucester as they ferried troops to Malta. During the Action off Cape...
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HMS Greyhound was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. Greyhound participated in the Norwegian Campaign in April 1940, the Dunkirk...
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HMS Manchester was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s, one of three ships in the Gloucester subclass. Completed in 1938...
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HMHS Gloucester Castle (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) was a steam ship originally built for the Union-Castle Line, but requisitioned for use as a British...
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armour over the top of the armour box around the four main magazines (In HMS Gloucester and the third 'Belfast' group, the extra deck armour belt also extended...
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