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    Admiral Sir Ragnar Musgrave Colvin, KBE, CB (7 May 1882 – 22 February 1954) was a long-serving Royal Navy officer who commanded the Royal Australian Navy...
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    HMS Courageous was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy in the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic...
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  • SS Martti Ragnar was a Finnish steam freighter own by Ragnar Nordström and named after his son Martti-Ragnar Nordström. In 1939, while carrying a cargo...
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    White Star and Thomas Ward. She served the Royal Navy as the training ship HMS Caledonia before catching fire in 1939 and sinking. She was subsequently...
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  • Thumbnail for ORP Orzeł (1938)
    identified as HMS J6. In 2017 another private expedition found a previously unknown wreck which they identified to be most likely HMS Narwhal based on...
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    sent the F-class destroyer HMS Fame on an anti-submarine sweep of the area, while Electra, another E-class destroyer, HMS Escort, the Swedish yacht Southern...
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    HMS Oxley (originally HMAS Oxley) was an Odin-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) then Royal Navy (RN). Very slightly off course, near...
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    Sep: City of Paris 18 Sep: ORP Orzeł (incident) 22 Sep: Martti Ragnar Unknown date: HMS Vanquisher, HMS Walker Unknown date: SS Toruń 1938 1939 1940 August...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Triton (N15)
    HMS Triton was a submarine of the Royal Navy named for the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, the personification of the roaring waters. She was the lead...
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    operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Ordered for the Royal Navy as HMS Phaeton, the cruiser was purchased by the Australian government and renamed...
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    Base in the Netherlands, on 22 May; along with HMS Defender and HMS Kent, which both sailed from Devonport also on 22 May. HMS Queen Elizabeth was originally...
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    Sep: City of Paris 18 Sep: ORP Orzeł (incident) 22 Sep: Martti Ragnar Unknown date: HMS Vanquisher, HMS Walker Unknown date: SS Toruń 1938 1939 1940 August...
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  • Allison, George (17 May 2021). "HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Albion meet up with USS Iwo Jima". UK Defence Journal. Retrieved 22 October 2021. "More than a thousand...
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  • Thumbnail for ORP Wicher (1928)
    harbour at 18:45, Wicher sailed for the area of operations, arriving around 22:00. Wicher's captain, Commander Stefan de Walden, did not know that the operation...
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    HMS Walker (D27) was a W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the final months of World War I, in the Russian Civil War and in...
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  • Thumbnail for Operation Archery
    the light cruiser HMS Kenya, with the destroyers HMS Onslow, Oribi, Offa and Chiddingfold, provided fire support. The submarine HMS Tuna was in support...
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    Militärhistoriskt Bibliotek, ISBN 91-974015-4-4 Westerlund, Karl-Erik (1977). "Re: The HMS Gotland". Warship International. XIV (2): 96–97. ISSN 0043-0374. Westerlund...
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  • Thumbnail for ORP Gryf (1936)
    with several close misses. Although the damages were minor, the ship lost 22 sailors, including its captain Lt Cmdr Stefan Kwiatkowski in what became known...
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    HMS Vanquisher (D54) was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War I and World War II. Vanquisher, the first Royal Navy...
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  • through her father Ragnar Hagelin, was shot and wounded by Astiz while attempting to escape capture. From the early 1980s, Ragnar Hagelin battled tirelessly...
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    Sep: City of Paris 18 Sep: ORP Orzeł (incident) 22 Sep: Martti Ragnar Unknown date: HMS Vanquisher, HMS Walker Unknown date: SS Toruń 1938 1939 1940 August...
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    HMS Courageous 18 Sep: Warszawa 20 Sep: U-27 23 Sep: Martti Ragnar 24 Sep: Phryné, Caldew 29 Sep: HMS Caledonia 30 Sep: ORP Komendant Piłsudski 30 Sep: Clement...
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    group stage, and defeated England 2–1 in the round of 16, with goals from Ragnar Sigurðsson and Kolbeinn Sigþórsson. They then lost to hosts and later finalists...
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    on. Despite the A£175,000 cost, the acquisition was opposed by Admiral Ragnar Colvin, as it would be expensive and difficult to maintain, would be unable...
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    (2004) Final Curtain (A. Irvine Lerwick Shetland) Erling Jensen; Per Ratvik; Ragnar Ulstein (1948) Kompani Linge (Oslo: Gyldendal) John MacRae (1982) Kergord...
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  • ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during December 1943. "HMS Avanturine". uboat.net. Retrieved 3 December 2019. "Avanturine". www.wildfire3...
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    build a fast minelayer as part of its 1925 Naval Programme after the British HMS Adventure made her debut in the early 1920s. Pluton was similar in many respects...
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    party from the coast which transported a naval 12-pounder gun taken out of HMS Challenger on an epic journey of 640 miles along the Niger and Benue rivers...
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  • Sep: City of Paris 18 Sep: ORP Orzeł (incident) 22 Sep: Martti Ragnar Unknown date: HMS Vanquisher, HMS Walker Unknown date: SS Toruń 1938 1939 1940 August...
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  • Thumbnail for Allan Everett (Royal Navy officer)
    Admiral Sir Allan Frederic Everett KCMG, KCVO, CB (22 February 1868 – 22 January 1938) was a Royal Navy officer who served as First Naval Member and Chief...
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