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    HMS Nabob (D77) was a Ruler-class escort aircraft carrier which served in the Royal Navy during 1943 and 1944. The ship was built in the United States...
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  • 18 August they were deployed as a screen for the escort carriers HMS Nabob and HMS Trumpeter for the planned air attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz...
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  • Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Nabob, an earlier spelling for Nawab, a deputy provincial governor in the Mughal Empire. not the current...
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    sister ship, Nabob, had been laid up at Firth of Forth due to being torpedoed off Norway in August 1944, so a gearbox was removed from Nabob and installed...
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    escort carriers HMS Trumpeter and HMS Nabob sailed to the Barents Sea to attack the German battleship Tirpitz. During this operation HMS Nabob was torpedoed...
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    HMS Ark Royal (ex-Irresistible) (1950) - decommissioned 1979 Colossus class HMS Colossus (1943), to France 1946 as Arromanches HMS Glory (1943) HMS Ocean...
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    1944 Bickerton and 5EG were escorting the escort carriers (Trumpeter and Nabob) from the Home Fleet (under Admiral Moore), which covered the convoy JW...
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    Operation Goodwood, but inflict only light damage. U-354 sank HMS Bickerton and damaged HMS Nabob from the British fleet before being sunk by escorts on 24...
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    HMS Kite (U87) was a Modified Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy, once commanded by the famous U-boat hunter Captain Frederic John Walker. She was...
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    October 1943. He was the only Canadian Commanding Officer of the escort carrier HMS Nabob (a Royal Navy ship crewed by Canadians), from 15 October 1943 until...
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    HMS Quorn was a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, built in 1940 and sunk off the Normandy coast on 3 August 1944. The class were named after British...
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    to Soerabaja. On 28 February, she picked up 58 survivors from destroyer HMS Electra, sunk the day before at the Battle of the Java Sea; and, on 1 March...
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    departing Pearl Harbor on 31 December, she sighted only one target on 21 January 1943 which fired three shells at the submarine; Pollack fired four torpedoes at...
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  • and in support of the Arctic convoys. Of the U.S.-built escort carriers, Nabob and Puncher sailed on launch from Tacoma to the port of Vancouver, where...
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    Allies. After December 1943 when Scharnhorst had been sunk in an attack on an Arctic convoy in the Battle of North Cape by HMS Duke of York, most German...
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    USS Flier (category 1943 ships)
    Connecticut. She was launched on 11 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. A. S. Pierce, and commissioned on 18 October 1943. After shakedown training, Flier departed...
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    HMS Trouncer HMS Trumpeter X HMS Arbiter HMS Ameer XX HMS Atheling X HMS Begum X HMS Emperor XX HMS Empress HMS Khedive X HMS Nabob X (crewed by the Royal Canadian...
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  • OFFSPRING RN: HMS Indefatigable (CV/R10) OR HMS Implacable (CV/86) [WHICH??? INCONSISTENT AT NAVAL HISTORY WEBSITE] HMS Trumpeter (CVE-37/D09) HMS Nabob (CVE-41/D77)...
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    services to points of delivery. In addition, escort carriers such as HMS Vindex and HMS Nairana played an important role in hunter-killer anti-submarine sweeps...
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  • The list of ship launches in 1943 includes a chronological list of some of the ships launched in 1943. Mitchell & Sawyer 1990, p. 215. Mitchell & Sawyer...
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    under the command of Rear-Admiral Rhoderick McGrigor. The escort carrier HMS Nabob was part of the task force, manned by a Canadian crew. The escort carrier...
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    to Brindisi on 6 February 1916 in company with the British light cruiser HMS Liverpool and other ships when they sighted the Austro-Hungarian Navy destroyer...
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    SS Richard Montgomery (category 1943 ships)
    launched on 15 June 1943. She was the seventh of the 82 liberty ships built by the yard. She was allocated to Agwilines Inc. on 29 July 1943. In August 1944...
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    Strasbourg and two French heavy cruisers joined the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes, based in Dakar, French West Africa. Strasbourg left Brest on 7 October...
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    LST-404 16 Aug: USS S-38 18 Aug: U-1054 20 Aug: Daronia 22 Aug: HMS Nabob 27 Aug: USS Pollack 31 Aug: U-1000 1943 1944 1945 July 1944 September 1944...
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    HMS Verulam was a V-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. Verulam was one of eight V-class destroyers...
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    HMS Hussar was a Royal Navy Halcyon-class minesweeper of World War II. As the Allied armies advanced following the invasion of Normandy, Hussar, Britomart...
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    Kulmerland (ship) (category Maritime incidents in September 1943)
    German-occupied Europe. An Allied air raid on German-occupied France in 1943 put her out of action. German forces sank her as a blockship in 1944. She...
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    LST-404 16 Aug: USS S-38 18 Aug: U-1054 20 Aug: Daronia 22 Aug: HMS Nabob 27 Aug: USS Pollack 31 Aug: U-1000 1943 1944 1945 July 1944 September 1944...
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  • air attack on the battleship Tirpitz. U-354 damaged the escort carrier Nabob with a FAT torpedo, but a second shot, intended as a 'coup de grâce', hit...
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