• named HMS Jaguar, after the feline jaguar. The first HMS Jaguar (F34) was a J-class destroyer launched in 1938 and sunk 1942 by U-652. The second HMS Jaguar (F37)...
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    HMS Jaguar was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Commissioned in September 1939, she was present at the Dunkirk evacuation the following year, during...
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    Bermuda. 30 March 1938. p. 1. H.M.S. EXETER 1936–1939. London: HMS Exeter, Royal Navy. 1939. H.M.S. EXETER 1936–1939. London: HMS Exeter, Royal Navy...
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    at the Dutch shipyard De Schelde, as Job No. 205; launched on 15 January 1938, and commissioned on 2 February 1939. She was a modern design (designed by...
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    Kriegsmarine were the sinking of the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous and the British battleship HMS Royal Oak and the loss of Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle...
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    On 11 October Jackal, together with the battleship HMS Revenge and the destroyers Javelin, Jaguar, Jupiter, Kelvin, Kipling and Kashmir, shelled Cherbourg...
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    boats were lost during the war, three mined by the submarine mine-layer HMS Rorqual, three sunk by submarines, seven by aircraft, seven by ships and...
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  • 1904 Löwe (1938): Norwegian Sleipner-class destroyer HNoMS Gyller captured on 9 April 1940, re-designated as torpedo boat. Löwe (S12): Jaguar-class (Type...
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    Kaiserin Elisabeth and the Jaguar in Qiaozhou Bay with bombs. Early in the siege, the Kaiserin Elisabeth and German gunboat Jaguar made an unsuccessful sortie...
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    HMS Afridi was one of 16 Tribal-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy shortly before the beginning of Second World War in 1939. Completed in 1938...
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    N class consisted of 24 destroyers built for the Royal Navy beginning in 1938. They were a return to a smaller vessel, with a heavier torpedo armament...
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    including the first full road tests and independent performance tests of the Jaguar XJ220, McLaren F1, and the Porsche 911 GT1. It was also the first magazine...
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    USS Sargo (SS-188) (category 1938 ships)
    Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 6 June 1938, sponsored by Mrs. Catherine V. Nimitz, the wife of Captain (later Fleet...
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  • Greek destroyer Vasilissa Olga (category 1938 ships)
    back in Alexandria on 22 February. Together with the British destroyer HMS Jaguar, Vasilissa Olga was escorting the oil tanker RFA Slavol off Mersa Matruh...
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    launched a second and sank the destroyer HNLMS Kortenaer. HMS Exeter and the destroyer HMS Electra were hit by gunfire, Electra sinking shortly after...
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    HMS Good Hope was one of four Drake-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900; she was originally named Africa, but was renamed before...
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    RAF Lossiemouth (redirect from HMS Fulmar)
    Jaguar Conversion Team (designated No. 226 Operational Conversion Unit on 1 October 1974) arrived in May 1973 to train the RAF's first SEPECAT Jaguar...
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    HMS Kandahar (F28) was a K-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s, named after the Afghan city of Kandahar. The K-class destroyers...
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    Squadron HMS Emperor, first operational unit 804 Naval Air Squadron HMS Ameer, HMS Emperor, HMS Shah, HMS Ravager 808 Naval Air Squadron HMS Khedive 888...
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    by Force B, comprising the light cruisers HMS Ajax and Neptune and the destroyers HMS Kandahar and Jaguar. The combined force was so effective that in...
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    and past. It was first used by The New York Times in 1938, in an article about the Royal Navy's HMS Ark Royal, that had a length of 800 feet (244 m), a...
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  • consisting of 31 merchants escorted by light cruiser HMNZS Leander, destroyer HMS Kimberley and 5 sloops. Despite all the efforts, the submarines could not...
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    HMS Effingham was one of five Hawkins-class heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. She was not finished during the war and...
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    on 26 February 1932. On 23 March, Stewart collided with the British sloop HMS Sandwich and two Chinese barges. While Sandwich and one of the barges received...
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    May, with HMS Griffin, HMS Havock, HMS Hereward, HMS Hero, HMS Hotspur, HMS Jervis, HMS Juno, HMS Kandahar, HMS Kingston HMS Nizam and HMS Nubian, as...
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    The French destroyer Mistral was crippled by bomb damage the same day. Jaguar and Verity were badly damaged while the trawlers Calvi and Polly Johnson...
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  • Scotland. Renamed Irma in 1938. Shelled and sunk off Zuara, Italian Libya by the British destroyers HMS Kelvin and HMS Jaguar on 20 January 1941. SS Irma (1911)...
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    HMS Seal was one of six Grampus-class mine-laying submarines of the Royal Navy. She served in the Second World War and was captured by the Kriegsmarine...
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    Hryniewiecki - January 25, 1937 - June 20, 1938 Commander Aleksander Hulewicz - March 13 or. June 20, 1938 - May 4, 1940 On 30 August 1939, the Polish...
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  • Archived from the original on March 9, 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2013. "Jaguar XKR convertible". National Motor Museum Trust - Museum in Beaulieu, UK....
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