HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Oak, after the Royal Oak in which Charles II hid himself during his flight from the country in...
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HMS Ark Royal was the first ship designed and built as a seaplane carrier. She was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 shortly after her keel had been...
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HMS Royal Oak was one of seven Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1890s. Upon her completion in 1894...
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dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. In 1907, before the revolution in design brought about by HMS Dreadnought of 1906, the United...
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HMS Oak was a modified Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1912, she saw extensive service during World War I as a tender to the flagship...
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and broken up in 1794. HMS Renown (1798) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1798. She had been built under the name HMS Royal Oak, but was renamed in 1796...
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York City Football Club HMS Heart of Oak, one of three vessels named Heart of Oak that served the British Royal Navy Hearts of Oak (campaign group), a far-right...
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HMS Campania (1914), purchased in 1914, was the passenger liner RMS Campania converted to a seaplane tender. She collided with Royal Oak and Glorious in 1918 and...
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HMS Campania was a seaplane tender and aircraft carrier, converted from an elderly ocean liner by the Royal Navy early in the First World War. After her...
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Henry Blagrove (category Royal Navy admirals of World War II)
the Home Fleet when he was killed in the destruction of his flagship HMS Royal Oak by German submarine U-47. Henry Blagrove was born to Colonel Henry John...
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Revenge-class battleship (redirect from Royal Sovereign 2 class battleship)
and sank the submarine HMS L24 during training exercises, killing all aboard. Royal Oak was involved in the so-called "Royal Oak Mutiny", between her commander...
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September 17 - German U-boat U-29 sinks HMS Courageous. 1939, October 14 – German U-boat U-47 sinks HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow base. The First Lord of...
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Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
of the battleship HMS Royal Oak, Rear Admiral Bernard Collard, Second-in-command of the 1st Battle Squadron, openly lambasted Royal Marine Bandmaster...
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HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship afloat...
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sank in the Firth of Forth 5 November 1918, after a collision with HMS Royal Oak. HMS Manica, a converted tramp steamer equipped with the Navy's first kite...
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Ross, arrived in Bermuda in 1814 aboard a fleet composed of the 74-gun HMS Royal Oak, three frigates, three sloops and ten other vessels. The combined force...
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reached with 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...
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(including submarines as well as one historic ship, HMS Victory) in the Royal Navy, plus 13 ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). There are also four Point-class...
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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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HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior...
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ship for the Royal Naval Reserve at Dundee to replace HMS Brilliant (1814). Unicorn was towed on her only sea voyage by the steam sloop, HMS Salamander...
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was an 18-gun sloop, the former Massachusetts privateer Aurora, which HMS Royal Oak captured on 10 July 1781; Mentor foundered off Bermuda after 16 March...
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RMS Campania (section HMS Campania)
anchor in a sudden squall, and at 03:45 struck the bow of the battleship Royal Oak and then dragged along the side of the battle cruiser Glorious. She began...
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HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War. Designed in 1934 to fit the...
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HMS Barham was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed in 1915, she was often used as...
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Order of battle at Jutland (section Royal Navy)
Division: RAdm Alexander Duff HMS Royal Oak: Capt Crawford Maclachlan HMS Superb (flagship): Capt Edmond Hyde Parker HMS Canada: Capt William Nicholson...
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HMS Iron Duke was a dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class, named in honour of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington...
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These are the official Royal Navy Officer ranks ordered by rank. These ranks are now part of the NATO/United Kingdom ranks, including modern and past...
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Q-ship (section Royal Navy)
commissioned by the Royal Navy in September and October 1939 for work in the North Atlantic: 610-ton HMS Chatsgrove (X85) ex-Royal Navy P-class sloop PC-74...
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