HMS Glorious was the second of the three Courageous-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic...
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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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ships 5 carriers 9 cruisers 33 destroyers 5 submarines Enemy aircraft sank 77 warships, including: 2 capital ships 1 carrier 12 cruisers 55 destroyers 7...
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Sullivan, David M. & Sturton, Ian (2010). "Extraordinary Views of HMS Glorious and HMS Ark Royal". Warship International. XLVII (3): 257–62. ISSN 0043-0374...
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HMS Grampus (N56) was the lead ship of her class of mine-laying submarine of the Royal Navy. She was built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 25 February...
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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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HMS Illustrious (1982) HMS Ark Royal (1985) Sunk: Glorious class HMS Glorious (1916), sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneisenau 8 June 1940 HMS Courageous (1916),...
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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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(Two ships with two guns each) HMS Vanguard – battleship (Eight guns in mountings taken from Courageous and Glorious converted to Mk I (N), with additional...
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(HMS Churchill) Derzkiy (HMS Chelsea) Zhyostky (HMS Roxborough) Dostoyny (HMS St Albans) Druzhny (HMS Lincoln) Zharkiy (HMS Brighton) Zhguchi (HMS Leamington)...
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HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786...
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Norway, the two ships engaged the battlecruiser HMS Renown and sank the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious as well as her escort destroyers Acasta and Ardent...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
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...
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Tromsø on this voyage, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two screening destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent were attacked and sunk on 8 June by...
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carrier HMS Glorious with its escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. Devonshire did not rebroadcast the enemy sighting report made by Glorious as...
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great risk to his own. His career suffered however in the aftermath of the Glorious First of June, when he was heavily criticised for his conduct by several...
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Peter Heywood (category HMS Bounty mutineers)
1772 – 10 February 1831) was a British Royal Navy officer who was on board HMS Bounty during the mutiny of 28 April 1789. He was later captured in Tahiti...
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Atlantic Theater aircraft carrier operations during World War II (section Loss of HMS Ark Royal (Nov 1941))
critical functions. HMS Argus escorted convoys and ferried aircraft. HMS Courageous was on anti-submarine patrol when she was sunk. HMS Glorious was ferrying...
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sinking of HMS Glorious by German battlecruisers during the Norwegian campaign in 1940. The first British warship lost in the war was HMS Courageous sunk...
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The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, made under her newest commander...
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Sinking Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine HMS Barham Association Website HMS Barham Archived 21 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, British...
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HMS Furious was a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project...
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the Italian states. In 1797, he distinguished himself while in command of HMS Captain at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. Shortly after that battle, Nelson...
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capable of operating as a dive-bomber. During 1939, Swordfish on board HMS Glorious participated in a series of dive-bombing trials, during which 439 practice...
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Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and Ardent during Operation Juno. 9 July 1940:...
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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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Squadron RAF. HMS Britomart and HMS Hussar took direct hits and were sunk. HMS Salamander had her stern blown off and sustained heavy damage. HMS Jason was...
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on the training ship HMS Cumberland in the West Indies and on the east coast of Canada. He was rated as a midshipman aboard HMS Collingwood on 15 September...
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Castel Felice (redirect from HMS Keren)
to an armed infantry landing ship for World War II. Renamed first HMS Hydra, then HMS Keren, she was used to land troops for action in Madagascar, Sicily...
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battleship Scharnhorst achieved a hit on the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious at approximately the same range the previous month. Ammiraglio di squadra...
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