HMS Southampton was a member of the first group of five ships of the Town class of light cruisers. She was built by John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland...
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60-gun fourth rate Southampton-class frigate launched in 1820 HMS Southampton (1912), a 1910 Town-class cruiser HMS Southampton (83), a 1936 Town-class...
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and then by German destroyers HMS Southampton (83) off Malta 11 January 1941 Scuttled following German air attack HMS Manchester (15) Cap Bon 13 August...
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Congress. January 11 – WWII: The British Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Southampton (83) is bombed, catches fire and has to be sunk off Malta, with the loss...
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ship-of-the-line HMS Howe and then the fifth-rate frigate HMS Aigle. Paget attempted to enter Parliament as a Liberal for Southampton in 1837, but was...
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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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RMS Olympic (redirect from HMS Olympic)
of the damage was able to return to Southampton under her own power; no one was killed or seriously injured. HMS Hawke suffered severe damage to her bow...
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showing'. Her most glamorous operation was when together with her sister HMS Southampton she escorted the liner Empress of Australia on the outward and the...
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Titanic (redirect from HMS Titanic)
April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers...
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20, he completed six months training as a midshipman in HMS Hood, followed by HMS Velox and HMS Ajax. Jones then joined Hall Bros of Newcastle in 1926...
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fourth-rate HMS Ruby, before transferring to the third-rate HMS Monmouth. Promoted to lieutenant on 17 March 1716, he was assigned to the fourth-rate HMS Hampshire...
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Southampton is a city in Hampshire, England. The area has been settled since the Stone Age. Its history has been affected by its geographical location...
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HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...
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when on 6 July 1812 the British ship of the line HMS Dictator and the Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Calypso sank her during the Battle of Lyngør. The...
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aboard on 20 September 1911, when Olympic left from Southampton and collided with the British warship HMS Hawke. There were no fatalities and, despite damage...
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encountered the 32-gun British frigate Southampton, under the command of Captain James Lucas Yeo. Southampton chased, intercepted, and captured Vixen...
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HMS Pallas was a 36-gun fifth-rate Apollo-class frigate of the Royal Navy. Placed in ordinary when completed in 1816, Pallas was commissioned for the...
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Southampton on 25 March 1912, and then travelled to Belfast to oversee the crew that was assembling there for the ship's delivery trip to Southampton...
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HMS Queen Mary was the last battlecruiser built by the Royal Navy before the First World War. The sole member of her class, Queen Mary shared many features...
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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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Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he commanded the destroyer HMS Kelly and the 5th Destroyer Flotilla. He saw considerable action in Norway...
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HMS Minion was an Admiralty M-class destroyer which served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. The M-class ships were an improvement on those...
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University Royal Naval Unit. HMS Trumpeter was commissioned close to her builder's yard in Southampton, early in 1989 at HMS WESSEX the Solent Division...
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HMS Munster was an Admiralty M-class destroyer which served in the Royal Navy during the First World War. The M class was an improvement on those of the...
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USS Mason (DD-191) (redirect from HMS Broadwater)
Navy during World War II. She was later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Broadwater (H81). The first Navy ship named for Secretary of the Navy John...
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HMS Gloucester was one of the second batch of three Town-class light cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1930s. Commissioned shortly before...
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weeks of rough seas". ForcesNet. 5 February 2024. Wikimedia Commons has media related to HMS Blazer (P279). "HMS Blazer". Royal Navy. "Southampton URNU"....
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Edward Smith (sea captain) (category People from Southampton)
Liverpool to Southampton in 1907, the family moved to a red brick, twin-gabled house, named "Woodhead", on Winn Road, Highfield, Southampton, Hampshire...
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Edward Shackleton, Baron Shackleton (category People associated with the University of Southampton)
Pro-Chancellor of the University of Southampton, in which role he was deeply interested in the development of geography at Southampton. A portrait photograph of...
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