HMS Queen Emma was a commando troop ship of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Built as a civilian passenger liner in 1939 by De Schelde at Vlissingen...
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businesswoman known as "Queen Emma of New Guinea" Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1858–1934), queen of the Netherlands HMS Queen Emma, a Royal Navy troop ship...
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ships of that name HMS Queen Emma, a 1939 troopship of the Royal Navy during the Second World War USS Emma (1863), a screw steamer USS Emma (SP-1223), a patrol...
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The initial troops assigned for the landings would be transported on HMS Queen Emma. The entire force was to be supported by two squadrons of RAF fighters...
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Flotilla: HMS Somali, Bedouin, Tartar, Eskimo and Legion under the command of Captain C. Caslon. Two newly converted landing ships, HMS Queen Emma and HMS Princess...
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Weaver for some years. Emma Mærsk, a container ship HMS Queen Emma, a troopship of the Royal Navy during the Second World War USS Emma – one of two ships...
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to Troon in Scotland for an exercise. The next day the unit boarded HMS Queen Emma, but on 22 February 1941, after they anchored at Scapa Flow, their real...
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(Small) HMS Prince Charles HMS Prince Leopold HMS Princess Beatrix - Landing Ship, Infantry (Medium) HMS Princess Astrid HMS Prins Albert HMS Queen Emma Supporting...
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U-621 HMS Princess Astrid – LSI(S) HMS Princess Beatrix – LSI(M) HMS Princess Josephine Charlotte – LSI(S) HMS Prince Albert HMS Queen Emma – LSI(M) HMS Rocksand...
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raider. The light cruiser HMS Dunedin and the special service vessels HMS Queen Emma and Princess Beatrix were additionally ordered to assist in the search...
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Koningin Emma. After fleeing to Britain after the German invasion in 1940, she was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport, renamed HMS Princess...
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Christies. Retrieved 3 September 2021. "HMS Clio". Retrieved 5 August 2010. Cracroft, Sophia; Franklin, Jane; Queen Emma (1958). Korn, Alfons L. (ed.). The...
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six LCAs and 2 LCM(1)s of the newly converted Landing Ship Infantry HMS Queen Emma carried men of 4 Commando, as well as Royal Engineer demolition experts...
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regiment and a motor battalion. After embarking on the transport ships HMS Queen Emma and HMS Princess Beatrix, the force spent a month sailing off the French...
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attached to the training establishment HMS Vernon and in the next year served on the Ton-class minesweeper HMS Pollington. Laurence then served briefly...
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Emma Herbert. It was considered the "society wedding of the year" with 800 guests. Royal guests present at the ceremony and reception included Queen Elizabeth...
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1939, Queen Mary was on a return run from New York to Southampton. The international situation led to her being escorted by the battlecruiser HMS Hood...
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in a transit camp while a party of drivers was sent forward aboard HMS Queen Emma to Bône where the motor transport was unloaded from SS Inventor on 27...
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Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from...
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2021. Retrieved 1 May 2021. Ferguson, Emma (28 April 2021). "Culdrose 820 squadron leave Helston for role on HMS Queen Elizabeth". Falmouth Packet. Retrieved...
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Elizabeth II (redirect from Queen Elizabeth II)
Pimlott 2001, p. 55 Warwick 2002, p. 102 Goodey, Emma (21 December 2015), "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother", The Royal Family, Royal Household, archived...
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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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were embarked on a squadron led by Vice-Admiral Lord Keith's flagship HMS Queen Charlotte and landed on Malta. For a time, both Keith and Nelson remained...
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England aboard HMS Pickle, and when the news arrived in London, a messenger was sent to Merton Place to bring the news of Nelson's death to Emma Hamilton....
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Mary of Teck (redirect from Queen Victoria Mary The Queen Mother)
Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from...
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posted as an instructor at HMS Royal Arthur, the Petty Officers' School in Corsham, Wiltshire. In 1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the Royal...
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2008 in Nukuʻalofa. Birgitte is sponsor of two Royal Navy ships: HMS Gloucester and HMS Sandown. She is also the royal patron of the Bermuda Regiment. She...
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Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (redirect from Queen Wilhelmina)
The Hague, Netherlands. She was the only child of King William III and Queen Emma. Her childhood was characterised by a close relationship with her parents...
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Alexandra of Denmark (redirect from Queen Alexandra The Queen Mother)
Caroline Marie Charlotte Louise Julia; 1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from...
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Maud of Wales (redirect from Maud, Queen of Norway)
1869 – 20 November 1938) was Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII. The youngest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom...
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