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    HMS Oribi (G66) was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Following the style of her sister ships, she was named with a word beginning with O. Originally...
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  • under construction to HMS Oribi (G66) and launched in 1941. The ship was transferred to Turkey in 1946 and broken up in 1965. HMS Observateur, a French...
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    HMS Oribi in 1946 Class overview Name O and P class Operators  Royal Navy  Pakistan Navy  Turkish Navy Preceded by L and M class Succeeded by Q and R...
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    Navy destroyer HMS Oribi, when the Wrens were invited on board for drinks. After a 10-day courtship, they were engaged, but HMS Oribi, which had been...
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  • Admiralty arranged reinforcements for ONS 5 in response to this battle. HMS Oribi was detached from SC127, and destroyers Penn, Panther, Impulsive, and...
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    destroyers Inglefield, Oribi, Obedient and the Polish destroyer Orkan from 30 January. In June 1942, the pre-First World War battleship HMS Centurion was disguised...
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  • p. 469. HMS Oribi (G 66), Naval History Homepage HMS Inconstant (H 49), Naval History Homepage HMS Ithuriel (H 05), Naval History Homepage HMS Milne (G...
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    Mahratta was part of Group B. She sailed with HMS Milne and HMS Musketeer to join HMS Oribi and HMS Orwell escorting oil tanker SS Blue Ranger. Operation Lorry...
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    Malta; unable to tow it to Malta it was scuttled by HMS Oribi. In the same Operation the battleship HMS Nelson was torpedoed and damaged by a SM.79 which...
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  • Turkish Navy TCG Gayret (1941), the former British O-class destroyer HMS Oribi (G66); acquired by the Turkish Navy in 1946; scrapped in 1965 TCG Gayret (D352)...
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    comprised the minesweeper HMS Gossamer and five whalers. These were joined on 5 March by the Ocean Escort of the destroyers, HMS Oribi (Commander J. E. H. McBeath...
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  • USS O'Brien (DD-725) US combat vessel destroyer HMS Onslow (G17) UK combat vessel destroyer HMS Oribi (G66) UK combat vessel destroyer HMS Orion (85) UK combat vessel light...
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    PQ 16 beyond Bear Island. HMS Nigeria (Admiral Harold Burrough, commander cruiser covering force) and its destroyers HMS Oribi, Onslow and Marne departed...
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  • Straggled, Sunk by U-707 HMS Offa (G29)  Royal Navy Escort 2 May - 6 May Support Group EG 3 Omega (1912)  United Kingdom 3,788 HMS Oribi (G66)  Royal Navy Escort...
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  • were formed. Led by HMS Firedrake, under the leadership of Commander William Banks, B7 comprised six Flower-class corvettes; HMS Loosestrife from the...
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  • was first Ordinary Seaman on HMS Belfast, later Sub-Lieutenant on Motor Torpedo Boats (MTB 684) and Destroyer HMS Oribi. In 1945, Wilson entered the Foreign...
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  • Group comprised HMS Convolvulus, HMS Deptford, HMS Gardenia, HMS Marigold, HMS Pentstemon, HMS Rhodedendron, HMS Samphire, HMS Stork and HMS Vetch (all  Royal...
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    HMS Onslow was an O-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. The O-class were intermediate destroyers, designed before the outbreak of the Second World War...
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    29th Speedwell attempted to intercept Harpalion, but failed to find her. HMS Oribi found abandoned boats of Empire Ranger on the 29th which indicated they...
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    HMS Nigeria, with the heavy cruiser HMS London and two destroyers and a Distant Covering Force (Admiral John Tovey), comprising the battleships HMS King...
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    03:00 on 6 May 1943 U-125 was located by radar in thick fog, rammed by HMS Oribi and disabled, she was unable to dive. At 03:54 the U-boat was sighted...
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    Anti-submarine screen HMS Onslow, O-class destroyer, HMS Offa, HMS Onslaught, HMS Oribi, Melbreak, Hunt-class destroyer, Type III, HMS Brissenden, Hunt-class...
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  • 1943 HMS Stonecrop and HMS Black Swan U-125 1940 IXC Günther Kuhnke, Ulrich Folkers 0 0 0 0 17 82,873 0 0 0 0 Sunk 6 May 1943 HMS Oribi and HMS Snowflake...
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  • submarine U-124 (1940)) U-125 6 May 1943 A Type IXC U-boat that was rammed by HMS Oribi and scuttled. 52°30′N 45°20′W / 52.500°N 45.333°W / 52.500; -45.333...
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  • 1943 by Canso W/5 Sqdn; this attack struck U-209 Neistle p77 The attack by Oribi and Snowflake, previously credited with U-531, is now believed to have hit...
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    via Southampton City Council. Gröner 1993, p. 197. Gröner 1993, p. 199. "HMS Hostile (H 55)". Uboat. Retrieved 16 November 2022. "Dr. Adolf Spilker (07103)"...
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    for much of the day, and resulted in serious damage to the destroyer HMS Oribi. QP 8 was also behind schedule, as it had been scattered by gales on 4...
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  • HMS Vidette and sunk with all hands (54). The destruction of U-531 had been attributed to the destroyer HMS Oribi and the Flower-class corvette HMS Snowflake...
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    U-192 was sunk by Loosestrife on 6 May 1943 U-125 was sunk by the destroyer Oribi and Snowflake on 6 May 1943 U-634 was sunk by the sloop Stork and Stonecrop...
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    the light cruiser HMS Kenya, with the destroyers HMS Onslow, Oribi, Offa and Chiddingfold, provided fire support. The submarine HMS Tuna was in support...
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