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 was built at the Cammell...
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Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Prince of Wales, after numerous holders of the title the Prince of Wales. HMS Prince of Wales (1765) was...
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ships of this class were built: HMS King George V (commissioned 1940), HMS Prince of Wales (1941), HMS Duke of York (1941), HMS Anson (1942) and HMS Howe...
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John Leach (Royal Navy officer) (category Companions of the Distinguished Service Order)
officer. He was the only captain of the battleship HMS Prince of Wales during its short period in service. The son of Charles Rothwell Leach, a solicitor...
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was the Prince of Wales (later King George V), the only surviving son of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. His mother was the Princess of Wales, later...
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nautical miles; 110 kilometres) east of Kuantan, Pahang. The Royal Navy battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by land-based...
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Tom Phillips (Royal Navy officer) (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
command of Force Z during the Japanese invasion of Malaya, where he went down with his flagship, the battleship HMS Prince of Wales. Phillips was one of the...
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Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine. The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood fought the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy...
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Wales: The sinking of HMS Thetis in 1939". North Wales Live. Retrieved 13 August 2021. "HMS Trident (N 52) of the Royal Navy - British Submarine of the...
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a list of fleet aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. There are two carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, currently...
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Edward VII (redirect from Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales)
leisured elite. He married Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863, and the couple had six children. As Prince of Wales, Edward travelled throughout Britain performing...
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and looting of multiple WW2 wrecks including HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse". https://news.usni.org/2024/07/04/chinese-ship-suspected-of...
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witness to many naval battles, including the Battle of the Denmark Strait and the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse. The ship's wreck was discovered in...
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George VI (redirect from Prince Albert of Wales)
Prince Edward became Prince of Wales, with Albert second in line to the throne. Albert spent the first six months of 1913 on the training ship HMS Cumberland...
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Hood Esmond Knight as Captain Leach of HMS Prince of Wales. (Knight served as a gunnery officer on board Prince of Wales, and was seriously injured and blinded...
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of the Prince of Wales, he joined HMS Serapis, which conducted the Prince on an official tour of India, 1875–76. Louis sketched some of the events of...
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and Princess Helena) were stillborn, and two more (Prince Alexander John of Wales and Prince Harald of Schleswig-Holstein) died shortly after birth. Their...
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Lancelot Holland (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
battleship HMS Prince of Wales. On 22 May, just after midnight, Electra, Achates, Antelope, Anthony, Echo, and Icarus, escorting the Hood and Prince Of Wales, sailed...
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blundered: the story of the 'Repulse' and the 'Prince of Wales'. London: Joseph. — HMS Prince of Wales (Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse) Bennett...
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021), was the husband of...
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HMAS Vampire (D68) (redirect from HMS Vampire (D68))
in the Mediterranean as part of the Scrap Iron Flotilla, and was escorting the British warships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse during their loss to...
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Edward, Prince of Wales, and Alexandra, Princess of Wales. Albert Edward was the eldest son of Queen Victoria, and Alexandra was the eldest daughter of Christian...
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Edward VIII (redirect from Prince David, Prince of Wales)
tours on behalf of his father. The Prince of Wales gained popularity due to his charm and charisma, and his fashion sense became a hallmark of the era. After...
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William Tennant (Royal Navy officer) (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
with HMS Prince of Wales in the South China Sea on 10 December 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He later aided in the setup of the Mulberry...
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monarch in the male line, and a son of the Prince of Wales, he was formally styled His Royal Highness Prince John of Wales from birth. John was christened...
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HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
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The Prince of Wales Building was completed in 1978 and became the headquarters of the new naval base, HMS Tamar. Shortly before the departure of British...
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Apollo-class fifth rate, that the British East India Company built at Prince of Wales Island as Penang. She was renamed to Malacca before launch in 1810...
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Helmuth Brinkmann (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross)
reversed battle order, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Hood opened fire on the Prinz Eugen instead. The commander of the Prince of Wales, Captain John Leach...
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Ted Briggs (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
Atlantic and also served as part of Force H in the Mediterranean Sea. In May 1941, Hood was dispatched with HMS Prince of Wales to intercept the German battleship Bismarck...
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