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 Britannia Sunk". The Daily Telegraph. 11 November 1918. Grant 2008, p. 291. Friedman 2015, p. 352. Grant 2008, p. 290. "Wreck of HMS Royal Oak"....
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nearest to 13 October, the date of the sinking of the battleship HMS Royal Oak (08) at Scapa Flow in 1939. At the service on 9 October 2019, eighty years...
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references to the March Past of the Royal Navy, Heart of Oak. The trio pays homage to the 20th-century battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, the only other ship...
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acres (1.0 km2). Kenneth Dewar was an aide to George V and commanded HMS Royal Oak (08). It is from this Kenneth Dewar that the present chiefs of Clan Dewar...
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Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II, from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945. See also List of ships of the Royal Navy. The Royal...
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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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new Prime Minister of Japan, replacing Kōki Hirota. The Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak (08), patrolling the Mediterranean Sea to protect Britain's...
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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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sank a total of 31 enemy vessels, including the British battleship HMS Royal Oak, and damaged nine more. U-47 ranks as one of the most successful German...
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(HMS Royal Oak (08)) San Juan de Silicia Spanish Navy 5 November 1588 A ship of the Spanish Armada that was blown up at Tobermory. HMS Sealion Royal...
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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...
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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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Ships beginning with L". Warsailors. Retrieved 26 January 2011. "HMS Royal Oak (08)". uboat.net. Retrieved 24 July 2021. "SS Sneaton (+1939)". Wrecksite...
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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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Günther Prien (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves)
200,000 gross register tons (GRT), along with the British battleship HMS Royal Oak at anchor in the Home Fleet's anchorage in Scapa Flow. Prien was one...
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is dedicated to the four ex-cadets of the Royal Naval College of Canada and men of Her Majesty's Ship (HMS) Good Hope who were killed in action in 1914...
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of Defence HMS Affray HMS A7 HMS Bulwark HMS B2 HMS Dasher HMS Exmouth HMS Formidable HMS H5 HMS Hampshire HMS Natal HMS Royal Oak UB-81 HMS Vanguard "The...
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Quercus robur (redirect from English oak)
a pollarded oak ("copped oak"). 'The Royal Oak' is the third most popular pub name in Britain (with 541 counted in 2007) and HMS Royal Oak has been 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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HMS Royal Oak was sunk in the protected anchorage of Scapa Flow by a German submarine. The first major battle between the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy...
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Royal Navy was badly affected, losing thirteen ships including the entire Channel Squadron, and upwards of 1,500 seamen drowned. The third-rate HMS Restoration...
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Kenneth Dewar (category Royal Navy vice admirals)
1920s. In 1928 he was at the heart of the "Royal Oak Mutiny", when as captain of the battleship Royal Oak he forwarded his executive officer's letter...
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pursued a career in the Royal Navy, rising to hold a number of important positions. Following early service on the training ship HMS Britannia, he was confirmed...
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his brother John, chaplain on the Royal Navy ship of the line HMS Royal Oak under Captain Sir Digby Dent. Royal Oak was stationed off North America at...
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appointed to the battleship HMS Royal Oak in the Mediterranean Fleet. In early April 1902 Forbes transferred to the armoured cruiser HMS Aboukir, also serving...
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Rowland Bourke (category Royal Navy recipients of the Victoria Cross)
rank of commander. Bourke is buried in section O, plot 10, grave 16 in Royal Oak Burial Park, Falaise Drive, Victoria, British Columbia. His medals are...
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (redirect from His Royal Highness Prince Philip)
instructor at HMS Royal Arthur, the Petty Officers' School in Corsham, Wiltshire. In 1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the Royal Naval College...
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Westminster Hall (category Royal residences in the City of Westminster)
Hall's roof measures 20.7 by 73.2 metres (68 by 240 ft). Oak timbers for the roof came from royal woods in Hampshire and from parks in Hertfordshire and...
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