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    HMS Gloucester was one of the second batch of three Town-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1930s. Commissioned shortly before...
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    Many ships have sunk in the area, including HMS Greyhound (H05), HMS Gloucester (62), and SS Ivernia. The Kythira Strait represents one of the most dangerous...
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    following Italian motor torpedo boat attack HMS Gloucester (62) off Crete 22 May 1941 Sunk by German aircraft HMS Charybdis (88) Battle of Sept-Îles 23 October...
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    Gloucester (/ˈɡlɒstər/ GLOST-ər) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of Massachusetts's North Shore...
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  • Henry A Rowley Light cruisers HMS Gloucester (62) - Capt. Henry A Rowley, sunk 22 May 1941 with the loss of 722 crew HMS Fiji (58) - Capt. PBRW William-Powlett...
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    Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-59114-561-5. Otter, Ken (2001) [1999]. HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story (2nd ed.). Durham, UK: G.A.M. Books. ISBN 0-9522194-2-5...
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    UK: Maritime Books. ISBN 978-1-904-45952-1. Otter, Ken (2001) [1999]. HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story (2nd ed.). Durham, UK: G.A.M. Books. ISBN 0-9522194-2-5...
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  • C62 (redirect from C 62)
    C62 or C-62 may refer to: Caldwell 62, a spiral galaxy HMS Gloucester (C62), a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy JNR Class C62, a class of Japanese...
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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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  • Crete. 35°50′N 23°0′E / 35.833°N 23.000°E / 35.833; 23.000 (HMS Gloucester (62)) HMS Greyhound  Royal Navy 22 May 1941 A G-class destroyer that was...
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  • Southampton Football Club. He died in the controversial sinking of HMS Gloucester off the coast of Crete in May 1941. Catlin was born in Liverpool but...
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    Beirut to one of the awaiting ships, either, HMS Gloucester, HMS York, HMS St Albans, HMS Illustrious, HMS Bulwark, or RFA Fort Victoria. One civilian...
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    of Gloucester and Edinburgh, on 4 June 1770 by Lieutenant James Cook of HMS Endeavour. In the 2016 census, Cape Gloucester had a population of 62 people...
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    Missouri which was in company with the USS Jarrett and HMS Gloucester. A Sea Dart missile from HMS Gloucester shot down one Silkworm and the other missed, crashing...
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    HMS Anson was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after Admiral George Anson. She was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson...
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    Navy's HMS Augusta were laid in Red Bank Battlefield Park until they were later moved to Gloucester City. During the colonial era, Gloucester County's...
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    BALTRON project Mineships Division Armament as HMS Sandown: 1 × Oerlikon 30 mm KCB gun on DS-30B mount 2 × 7.62 mm L7 GPMG machine guns Wallop Defence Systems...
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    Court, near Gloucester on 28 April 1941, and it was defined as a tender to HMS Ganges. Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent paid a visit to HMS Ganges on 1...
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    HMS Ruler was the lead ship of her class of escort carrier of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was built in the United States as the Bogue-class...
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    HMHS Gloucester Castle (His Majesty's Hospital Ship) was a steam ship originally built for the Union-Castle Line, but requisitioned for use as a British...
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    where the Mediterranean Fleet escorted the light cruisers HMS Liverpool and HMS Gloucester as they ferried troops to Malta. During the Battle of Cape...
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    000 tonnes HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS Prince of Wales Retired: HMS Argus (1916) - scrapped 1946 HMS Furious (1916) - decommissioned 1945 HMS Vindictive (1918) –...
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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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    Fastnet Rock (51°20′N 11°50′W / 51.333°N 11.833°W / 51.333; -11.833) by SM U-62 of the German Imperial Navy. Three crew members of Storstad were lost. Lloyd's...
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    the Royal Navy had intercepted any kind of missile in combat, when HMS Gloucester shot down an Iraqi Silkworm cruise missile. It is also the first time...
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    water. Our London Letter, Page 13, The Gloucester Journal, Gloucester, England. 21 July 1928 Taffrail 1973, pp. 61–62. Gill 1957, p. 575. Campbell, N.J.M...
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    (HMS Cardiff, HMS Exeter, HMS Manchester, HMS Gloucester, HMS York) Support ships Hecla class (HMS Herald, HMS Hecla) Submarines Oberon class (HMS Opossum...
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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 Cardiff was a British Type 42 destroyer and the third ship of the Royal Navy to be named in honour of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff. Cardiff served...
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    entrance examination in July 1858, and was appointed as a naval cadet in HMS Euryalus at the age of 14. In July 1860, while on this ship, he paid an official...
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