HMS Hostile (H55) was an H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s. She was the first and so far only Royal Navy ship to bear the name Hostile...
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Hostile may also refer to: Hostile (2022 film) Hostiles (film) "Hostile" (Runaways), an episode of Runaways HMS Hostile (H55), an H-class destroyer One...
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RMS Transylvania (1925) (redirect from HMS Transylvania)
armed merchant cruiser, pennant F56 during World War II. On 10 August 1940, HMS Transylvania was torpedoed and sunk by the German U-boat U-56. Transylvania...
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HMS Express was an E-class minelaying destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Although assigned to the Home Fleet upon completion, the...
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German E-boat HMS Havock (H43) Cap Bon 6 April 1942 Ran aground HMS Hereward (H93) off Crete 29 May 1941 Sunk by German aircraft HMS Hostile (H55) off Cap...
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harbour and entered along with HMS Hunter and HMS Havock, leaving HMS Hotspur and HMS Hostile to guard the entrance and watch the shore batteries. The fog...
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He returned to the navy on 16 June 1936 and joined the minesweeping sloop HMS Salamander (J86) on 18 July, receiving promotion to lieutenant on 16 September...
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January 1940, along with the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Cheshire and the destroyers HMS Hardy and HMS Hostile. Convoy duty was not something that was alien...
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11°8′24″E / 36.87167°N 11.14000°E / 36.87167; 11.14000 (HMS Havock (H43)) HMS Hostile Royal Navy 23 August 1940 A H-class destroyer that struck a...
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HMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was a British merchant ship that the Royal Navy purchased in 1787 for a botanical mission. The ship...
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her half-sisters HMS Hostile, HMS Hereward, and HMS Hasty rendezvoused with the battlecruiser HMS Renown, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, and the...
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HMS Esk was an E-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. She was designed to be easily converted into a fast minelayer by removing...
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HMS Spearfish was a second-batch S-class submarine built during the 1930s for the Royal Navy. Completed in 1936, the boat participated in the Second World...
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with the registration PG 105. On 7 April 1940, she was captured by HMS Hostile off the Lofoten Islands, Norway (69°05′N 14°30′E / 69.083°N 14.500°E...
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HMS Dunvegan Castle was a UK ocean liner that was converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC) in the Second World War. Harland and Wolff built her...
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Aug: HMS Corfu 20 Aug: U-51 21 Aug: Anglo Saxon 22 Aug: Iride 23 Aug: HMS Hostile 24 Aug: USS Peacock, HMS Penzance 25 Aug: Stakesby 28 Aug: HMS Dunvegan...
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HMS Iron Duke is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy, and the third ship to bear the name. Iron Duke has intercepted several large consignments of illegal...
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HMS Invincible was the Royal Navy's lead ship of her class of three light aircraft carriers. She was launched on 3 May 1977 as the seventh ship to carry...
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The third HMS Penzance (L28) was a Hastings-class sloop launched in 1930, and torpedoed and sunk in 1940 whilst on convoy protection duty by the German...
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Aug: HMS Corfu 20 Aug: U-51 21 Aug: Anglo Saxon 22 Aug: Iride 23 Aug: HMS Hostile 24 Aug: USS Peacock, HMS Penzance 25 Aug: Stakesby 28 Aug: HMS Dunvegan...
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HMS Ajax was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River...
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HMS Oswald was an Odin-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the 1920s. She was laid down by Vickers-Armstrongs at Barrow-in-Furness on 30 May...
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Aug: HMS Corfu 20 Aug: U-51 21 Aug: Anglo Saxon 22 Aug: Iride 23 Aug: HMS Hostile 24 Aug: USS Peacock, HMS Penzance 25 Aug: Stakesby 28 Aug: HMS Dunvegan...
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Valldemosa, and Norwegian motor ship Olaf Fostenes. The fourth was the destroyer HMS Sabre, which rescued 32 people from one boat, including a number of children...
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Aug: HMS Corfu 20 Aug: U-51 21 Aug: Anglo Saxon 22 Aug: Iride 23 Aug: HMS Hostile 24 Aug: USS Peacock, HMS Penzance 25 Aug: Stakesby 28 Aug: HMS Dunvegan...
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charges on the sonar location. British destroyers HMS Active, HMS Hyperion and HMS Hotspur, and a cruiser HMS Galatea joined in, and continued the attack for...
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Friendly fire (redirect from Non-hostile fire)
troops while attempting to attack enemy or hostile targets. Examples include misidentifying the target as hostile, cross-fire while engaging an enemy, long...
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Mutiny on the Bounty (redirect from HMS Bounty mutineers)
The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789. Disaffected crewmen, led by acting-Lieutenant Fletcher...
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HMS Exeter was the second and last York-class heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s. Aside from a temporary deployment with the...
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