called HMS Hero: HMS Hero (1759), a 74-gun third rate launched in 1759, a prison ship after 1793, renamed Rochester in 1800, and broken up 1810 HMS Hero (1803)...

HMS Hero was an H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship enforced the arms blockade...

passage from Malta to Gibraltar on 23 August 1940. She was then scuttled by HMS Hero. Hostile displaced 1,350 long tons (1,370 t) at standard load and 1,883...

specifically identifies its fictional HMS Hero, a Leander-class frigate, in honor of Leander's Hero. Characters named Hero and Leander appear in the 1996-1998...

HMS Birkenhead, also referred to as HM Troopship Birkenhead or Steam Frigate Birkenhead, was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy...

HMS Hereward, named after Hereward the Wake, was an H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. She was assigned to the Mediterranean...

with the squadron. Ajax took part in the December, 1936 reburials at Punta Arenas of the dead of HMS Doterel (killed in the explosion of a magazine in...

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...

Brian Harry Freemantle (10 June 1936 – 23 December 2024) was an English thriller and non-fiction writer, known for his 1977 spy novel Charlie Muffin. Freemantle...

HMS Isis was one of nine I-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. The I-class ships were improved versions of the preceding H-class...

HMS Glowworm was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War the ship spent part of 1936 and 1937 in Spanish...

the Great Palestinian Revolt, or the Palestinian Revolution, lasted from 1936 until 1939. The movement sought independence from British colonial rule and...

(originally Philadelphia) word for "hero, large sandwich made from a long, split roll"; originally hoggie (c. 1936), traditionally said to be named for...

Islands, Falkland Islands HMS Jason, several ships in the Royal Navy Jason (ship), Norwegian whaling vessel USS Jason (AC-12), 1912–1936 USS Jason (AR-8), US...

(January 1936 – December 1939) 1 January 1940 – January HMS Glasgow (cruiser) January 1941 – May 1941 HMS Hero (destroyer) May 1941 – July 1941 HMS Valiant...

as captain of HMS Daring; on 8 June 1935, he was succeeded by Geoffrey Barnard in this role. In May 1936, he served as captain of HMS Ardent. He was...

Bellerophon (LMS Jubilee Class locomotive) built 1936 Bellerophon-class battleship, a class of British battleships HMS Bellerophon, six ships of the Royal Navy...

January] 1904 – 15 December 1938) was a test pilot awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (1936). Chkalov was born to a Russian family in 1904 in the upper...

9 February 2020. "Navy apprentices' new home at Fareham's HMS Collingwood honours war hero". The News. 18 April 2012. Archived from the original on 25...

HMS Repulse was one of two Renown-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Originally laid down as an improved version...

undeclared minefield and the S and T-class destroyer HMS Saumarez and U and V-class destroyer HMS Volage were seriously damaged. Forty-four officers and...

Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...

HMS Hunter (D80), a Bogue-class escort carrier HMS Hunter (H35), an H-class destroyer launched in 1936 Hawker Hunter, a British subsonic jet fighter from...

Beatty left HMS Alexandra in March 1889 and joined the cruiser HMS Warspite in July 1889 for manoeuvres before joining the sailing corvette HMS Ruby in September...

less than an hour sank the three British armoured cruisers HMS Aboukir, HMS Hogue and HMS Cressy. According to the report of the commander of the Cressy...

Carpathia. U-55 started approaching the lifeboats when the Azalea-class sloop HMS Snowdrop arrived on the scene and drove away the submarine with gunfire before...

Miers' career however continued, with HMS L54 his first submarine command (1936–7). He then served in the battleship HMS Iron Duke, before joining, as a lieutenant...

3°33′36″N 104°28′42″E / 3.56000°N 104.47833°E / 3.56000; 104.47833 HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that...

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...

state". He returned to England, aboard HMS Seahorse, arriving at Spithead on 1 September. He was met with a hero's welcome; the British public had lionised...