HMS Ajax was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River...
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named HMS Ajax after the Greek hero Ajax: HMS Ajax (1767) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1767 and sold in 1785. HMS Ajax (1798)...
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HMS Ajax was an Ajax-class 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She was built by John Randall & Co of Rotherhithe and launched...
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HMS Ajax was the third of four King George V-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. After commissioning in 1913, she...
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HMS Ajax was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 May 1809 at Blackwall Yard. On 11 September 1810, in a ship action off...
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HMS Ajax was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by the famous Cammell Laird company of Birkenhead. Ajax was launched on 16 August...
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comprising the light cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles (on loan to the New Zealand Division) and the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter. Graf Spee had sailed into...
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requested from the British Government the help of two British cruisers HMS Ajax (22) and HMS Exeter (68) then visiting the city of Valparaíso to head south to...
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in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area. The town is named for HMS Ajax, a Royal Navy cruiser that served in the Second World War. It is approximately...
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naval engagement in the Second World War between the British light cruiser HMS Ajax, three torpedo boats and seven destroyers of the Italian Regia Marina,...
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damaged HMS Jackal (F22) - Lt.Cmdr. MP Jonas HMS Kipling (F91) - Cmdr. A St Clair-Ford HMS Ajax Sphakia evacuation force - Rear-Admiral King HMS Phoebe...
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were built, the homes became part of a new town, which was named Ajax after HMS Ajax (22), a light cruiser of the Royal Navy during World War II. DIL's...
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the Falklands. On 11 February, those serving in the military boarded HMS Ajax (22), and the rest sailed home on Highland Monarch. James Marr at Base A...
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USS Achernar (AKA-53) US auxiliary attack cargo HMS Adventure (M23) UK auxiliary support & repair HMS Ajax (22) UK combat vessel light cruiser HMAS Albatross (1928)...
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HMNZS Achilles (redirect from HMS Achilles (70))
became famous for her part in the Battle of the River Plate, alongside HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter and notable for being the first Royal Navy cruiser to have fire...
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deployed with HMS Janus, HMS Hasty and HMS Hereward as a screen for the cruisers HMS Dido, HMS Orion and HMS Ajax. They formed Force D, and on 22 May they...
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name was confirmed in May 2018, having previously held the in-work name of Ajax. The confirmation for the seventh and final Astute-class boat was given in...
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target HMS Ajax (22) Light cruiser Royal Navy Longues-sur-Mer battery HMS Argonaut (61) Light cruiser Royal Navy 105mm battery at Vaux (WN-50) HMS Emerald (D66)...
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Governors' residence, on 2 June 1938. On Friday 3 June 1938 the crew of HMS Ajax (22) buried the Jamaican Governor's body at sea at sunset outside the three-mile...
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Islands, thus depriving the force of their strongest unit. Without her, HMS Exeter, Ajax and Achilles engaged the German raider Admiral Graf Spee in the Battle...
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Uruguay (meeting and exercising with her sister and the light cruiser HMS Ajax), Rio de Janeiro and Ceara in Brazil, Barbados (where the three cruisers...
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available for the task were HMS Canopus, HMS Standard, HMS Thunderer, HMS Glatton, and the two bomb ships HMS Lucifer and HMS Meteor, under the command...
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the mainland of Normandy during the beach landings. Chile wanted to buy HMS Ajax in 1948-9, but the opposition leader in the UK, Winston Churchill thought...
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1926. The King George V-class battleships, HMS King George V, HMS Centurion, HMS Audacious, and HMS Ajax, were larger variants of the preceding Orion-class...
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present were HMS Hotspur and Havock. Force B, under Admiral Sir Henry Pridham-Wippell, consisted of the British light cruisers HMS Ajax, Gloucester, and...
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HMS Royal George was a 120-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 22 September 1827 at Chatham Dockyard. In 1853 she was fitted...
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construction was halted on Inflexible (and two other smaller ships, HMS Ajax and HMS Agamemnon) whilst a hastily convened committee examined the design...
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Edward Albert Gibbs (section HMS Fortune)
Dakar, HMS Fortune she sank the Vichy French submarine Ajax, rescuing 76 of the crew. Gibbs was awarded the first Bar to his DSO in March 1941. HMS Pathfinder...
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HMS Sussex was one of the London sub-class of the County-class heavy cruisers in the Royal Navy. She was laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company...
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Achilles (section Achilles, Ajax and a game of petteia)
became famous for its part in the Battle of the River Plate, alongside HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter. In addition to earning the battle honour 'River Plate', HMNZS...
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