HMS Bonaventure was the lead ship of the Dido-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the 1930s and during the Second World War. Completed...
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name HMS Bonaventure, and another was planned: English ship Bonaventure (1489) was a warship built in 1489, and gone by 1509. English ship Bonaventure (1551)...
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HMS Bonaventure was a submarine depot ship of the Royal Navy. She was initially built for civilian service with the Clan Line, but on the outbreak of...
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destroyers HMS Hermione (74) off Crete 16 June 1942 Sunk by U-205 HMS Bonaventure (31) off Crete 31 March 1941 Sunk by Italian submarine Ambra HMS Naiad (93)...
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and launched in 1650. After the Restoration in 1660, she was renamed HMS Bonaventure after a previous ship built in 1653 that had been blown up three years...
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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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Scotland in 1965 HMCS Bonaventure : Majestic-class carrier in service from 1957 to 1970; ordered by Royal Navy, but sold as HMS Powerful and delivered...
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Jaguar, and Juno waited in the Kithira Channel and HMS Decoy, Carlisle, Calcutta, and Bonaventure and HMAS Vampire were nearby. The Italian fleet was...
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Royal Navy during the Second World War and died on 31 March 1941, while stationed on HMS Bonaventure, which was sunk south of Crete. D'Oyly was educated...
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United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently in service. HMS Unicorn was an aircraft repair ship and...
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Dido-class ships HMS Bonaventure, HMS Charybdis, HMS Hermione and HMS Naiad were lost in the war. The sole survivor, name ship HMS Dido, was put into...
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HMS York was the lead ship of her class of two heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. She mostly served on the North America and West...
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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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in Altafjord, September 1943. In 1944 he was appointed to command HMS Bonaventure, depot ship for midget submarine operations. In 1945 the unit was deployed...
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X-class submarine (redirect from HMS X6)
Excalibur, commanded by Lt. Hudspeth RANVR The depot ship for X craft was HMS Bonaventure. The numbering sequence of the X class began with X3 because the designations...
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predecessors nickname of "Lady Lex" "Bonnie" – HMCS Bonaventure "Bonnie Dick" – USS Bon Homme Richard CV/CVA-31 and USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) "Buckin' Bronco"...
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Irish patrol vessel Muirchú (redirect from HMS Helga)
U-889 Other incidents 1 Jan: Jan Steen 19 Jan: Wanganella 21 Jan: HMS Bonaventure 17 Mar: RFA Wave Laird 28 Mar: Clio 4 Apr: USS Ernest G. Small 5 Apr:...
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German battleship Tirpitz. From July 1943, the craft worked up from HMS Bonaventure at Port HHZ. Capital ships of the Home fleet acted as target ships...
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HMAS Melbourne (R21) (redirect from HMS Majestic (R77))
as the lead ship of the Majestic class in April 1943, and was launched as HMS Majestic (R77) in February 1945. At the end of the Second World War, work...
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1681, he commanded the fourth-rate HMS Reserve, and in May 1683 was appointed to the fourth-rate HMS Bonaventure. Soon after he was appointed Commodore...
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English ship Revenge (1577) (redirect from HMS Revenge (1577))
the following year. In early 1588, Drake moved his flag from Elizabeth Bonaventure to Revenge, which was considered to be the best by far of the new ships...
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1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier (redirect from HMS Leviathan (R97))
instead of their British equivalents. She was commissioned in 1957 as HMCS Bonaventure. The carrier's design could not keep up with the advances in naval aircraft...
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XE-class submarine (redirect from HMS XE3)
were attached to the target by the diver. They and their depot ship HMS Bonaventure arrived at Labuan in July 1945. Four of them managed to take part in...
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(launched as HMS Peony) HMS Periwinkle HMS Pickle HMS Picotee HMCS Bonaventure (launched as HMS Powerful) Pretoria Castle HMS Loyalty (launched as HMS Rattler)...
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decommissioned, started modernisation. 17 January – HMS Powerful commissioned as HMCS Bonaventure. 15 February – Foch (France) laid down. 24 May – USS...
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HMCS Magnificent (redirect from HMS Magnificent (R36))
decommissioning. She was replaced in RCN service by Bonaventure, another Royal Navy Majestic-class carrier (HMS Powerful) that had not been completed at the...
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Mornington became HMS Drake. Other examples include: HMS Calcutta HMS Glatton HMS Hindostan (1795) HMS Hindostan (1804) HMS Malabar HMS Buffalo Their design...
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Cape was named by the Englishman Steven Borough, captain of the Edward Bonaventure, which sailed past in 1553 in search of the Northeast Passage. The North...
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Mar: Britannia 26 Mar: HMS York, HMCS Otter 27 Mar: Faraday 28 Mar: Fiume 29 Mar: Pola, Zara 30 Mar: Umona 31 Mar: HMS Bonaventure, Pier Capponi Unknown...
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U-889 Other incidents 1 Jan: Jan Steen 19 Jan: Wanganella 21 Jan: HMS Bonaventure 17 Mar: RFA Wave Laird 28 Mar: Clio 4 Apr: USS Ernest G. Small 5 Apr:...
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