• ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Aurora or HMS Aurore, after the Roman Goddess of the dawn. HMS Aurora (1757) was a 36-gun fifth rate, formerly...
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    HMS Aurora was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Portsmouth Dockyard, with the keel being laid down on 27 July 1935....
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  • Narvik in Norway from the Germans: he flew his flag from the cruiser, HMS Aurora. Cork was in favour of an immediate storming of Narvik using both military...
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  • 1946, decommissioned 1958 British Arethusa class Chung King (1948) - ex-HMS Aurora of the Royal Navy, sold on 19 May 1948 to the Nationalist Chinese Navy...
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  • SS Antrim (1904) HMS Antrim (1905) SS Antwerp (1919) RMS Aquitania SS Arcadia (1954) SS Argyllshire (1911) SS Arnhem (1946) SS Atalanta (1906) HMS Aurora (F10)...
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  • being posted to the cruiser HMS Aurora operating in the Home Fleet as gunnery officer in December 1939. While aboard Aurora, he was mentioned in despatches...
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    HMS Havock was an H-class destroyer built for the British Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, the ship enforced the...
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    HMS Protector is a Royal Navy ice patrol ship built in Norway in mid 2000. As MV Polarbjørn (Norwegian: polar bear) she operated under charter as a polar...
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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...
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    HMS Penelope was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast, Northern Ireland); her keel was laid down...
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    HMS Gurkha was a Tribal-class destroyer that saw active service in the Norway Campaign in 1940, where she was sunk. The Tribals were intended to counter...
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    HMS Sheffield was the third of ten Town-class light cruisers of the Royal Navy. The ship was laid down in January 1936, launched in July 1936, and commisioned...
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    became Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS Cairo in 1936 and Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS Aurora in 1937 and then Staff Officer (Plans) on...
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    land. During their stay, they also wrote, illustrated and printed the book Aurora Australis. Mawson contributed with the science fiction short-story Bathybia...
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    Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe (category 1936 deaths)
    – 21 January 1936) was a Royal Navy officer. As a captain he became commanding officer, successively, of the troopships HMS Jumna and HMS Malabar, which...
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  • HNoMS Vale (1978–2003) Donated to Latvia in 2003. ORP Gryf (1936) – 1 ship NMS Aurora – 1 ship NMS Alexandru cel Bun – 1 ship NMS Amiral Murgescu –...
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    never happened. Aurora completed without aircraft facilities, and had a deckhouse for accommodation in lieu for service as commodore. Aurora received an unrotated...
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  • HMS Destiny HMS Euryalus Golden Plover HMS Gorgon HMS Hyperion Nautilus – French frigate HMS Onward HMS Phalarope HM Sparrow – sloop HMS Tempest HMS Trojan...
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    HMS Buffalo was a storeship of the Royal Navy, originally built and launched at Sulkea, opposite Calcutta, in 1813 as the merchant vessel Hindostan. The...
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    would begin the crossing of the continent; meanwhile, a second ship, the Aurora, would take a supporting party under Captain Aeneas Mackintosh to McMurdo...
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    HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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  • HMS Cachalot (N83) was one of the six-ship class of Grampus-class mine-laying submarine of the Royal Navy. She was built at Scotts, Greenock and launched...
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    small steam-powered cruisers were built for the British Royal Navy with HMS Mercury launched in 1878. Such second and third class protected cruisers...
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    HMS Punjabi was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service in the Second World War, being sunk in a collision with the battleship King...
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    HMS Resolution (pennant number: 09) was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in December...
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    Ersatz battleships; within the Royal Navy, only battlecruisers HMS Hood, HMS Repulse and HMS Renown were capable of both outrunning and outgunning the Panzerschiffe...
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    to be in Cirebon, a force was landed there from HMS Lion, HMS Nisus, HMS President, HMS Phoebe and HMS Hesper on 4 September, causing the defenders to...
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  • MV Walmer Castle was a UK cargo liner. She was launched in 1936 in Northern Ireland, and was the smallest ocean-going ship in the Union-Castle Line fleet...
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    HMS Abdiel was a Marksman-class flotilla leader of the Royal Navy, built by Cammell Laird during the First World War. She was converted to a minelayer...
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    escorted by two Royal Navy cruisers, HMS Nigeria and HMS Aurora and three destroyers: HMS Icarus, HMS Anthony and HMS Antelope and several smaller ships...
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