• HMS Audacity was a British escort carrier of the Second World War and the first of her kind to serve in the Royal Navy. She was originally the German merchant...
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  • Westergaard Audacity, a 1924 novel by Ben Ames Williams Audacity, a 2017 book by Jonathan Chait HMS Audacity (D10), a British naval vessel MV Audacity, a British...
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  • construction at the time. However, by 1940 the need had become urgent and HMS Audacity was converted from the captured German merchant ship MV Hannover and...
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    escort carrier HMS Audacity, which was sunk later on the voyage, along with a destroyer and two merchant ships. Despite the loss of Audacity, it was regarded...
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    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...
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    carrier, HMS Audacity, converted and thus named in July 1941. He flew one of the carrier's Grumman Martlets. During his service on board Audacity he shot...
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  • 14-gun sloop that HMS Magnanime captured from France in 1798, Audacieux, was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Audacieux. HMS Audacity Mitchell & Sawyer...
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    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...
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    Martlets went to sea aboard the converted former German merchant vessel HMS Audacity in September 1941 and shot down several Luftwaffe Fw 200 Condor bombers...
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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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    HMS Galatea was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Greenock, Scotland), with the...
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  • Navy in 1983 HMS E2, ordered as HMS D10, a 1912 British E class submarine HMS Audacity (D10), a 1941 British Royal Navy escort carrier HMS Intrepid (D10)...
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    destroyer in the United States Navy. She transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Stanley (I73) during World War II. Named for Bowman H. McCalla, she was laid...
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    captured German cargo ship Hannover, entered service as Empire Audacity (later HMS Audacity) in June 1941. The hybrid concept re-emerged early in 1942 when...
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    HMS Neptune was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II. Neptune was the fourth ship of its class and was the...
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  • carrier HMS Argus (I49) HMS Hermes (95) HMS Unicorn (I72) 1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier HMS Pretoria Castle (F61) HMS Audacity HMS Archer (D78) Avenger-class...
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    U-131 18 Dec: U-434 19 Dec: HMS Neptune, HNLMS O 20, HMS Stanley, U-574 20 Dec: Emidio, HMS Kandahar 21 Dec: HMS Audacity, HMS Cicala, HNLMS K XVII, U-451...
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  • the rank of Chief Dog, equivalent to Chief Petty Officer MV Sinbad or HMS Audacity 41488 Sindbad, an asteroid Simbad (disambiguation) Sindbad-Nameh Szindbád...
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    artifacts USS Texas, the only extant WWI-era US Navy battleship remaining HMS Royal Oak, another battleship sunk in harbor by a surprise attack and now...
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    a US Navy cruiser. Seaplanes and seaplane tender support ships, such as HMS Engadine, followed. The development of flat top vessels produced the first...
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    Kriegsmarine were the sinking of the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous and the British battleship HMS Royal Oak and the loss of Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle...
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    HMS Kandahar (F28) was a K-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s, named after the Afghan city of Kandahar. The K-class destroyers...
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  • commissions its first escort aircraft carrier, HMS Empire Audacity. She later will be renamed HMS Audacity and become the world's first escort carrier to...
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    Frederic John Walker, reinforced by the first of the new escort carriers, HMS Audacity, and three destroyers from Gibraltar. The convoy was immediately intercepted...
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    seven patrols with the 7th U-boat Flotilla, sinking the escort carrier HMS Audacity. The U-boat was attacked with depth charges from aircraft on 17 July...
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  • carrier HMS Audacity had helped reduce the length of time Gibraltar convoys were out of range of protective aircraft in 1941, a year later HMS Avenger...
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    U-131 18 Dec: U-434 19 Dec: HMS Neptune, HNLMS O 20, HMS Stanley, U-574 20 Dec: Emidio, HMS Kandahar 21 Dec: HMS Audacity, HMS Cicala, HNLMS K XVII, U-451...
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    into the ocean following the sinking of the aircraft carrier he was on, HMS Audacity, by a U-boat in WW2. Out of the 24 crew in his group in the water, the...
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    U-131 18 Dec: U-434 19 Dec: HMS Neptune, HNLMS O 20, HMS Stanley, U-574 20 Dec: Emidio, HMS Kandahar 21 Dec: HMS Audacity, HMS Cicala, HNLMS K XVII, U-451...
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    HMS Stork (L81) was a Bittern-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was active during the Second World War, serving in convoy escort groups, and was a successful...
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