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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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  • Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Royal Oak, after the Royal Oak in which Charles II hid himself during his flight from the country in...
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    HMS Royal Oak was one of seven Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1890s. Upon her completion in 1894...
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    HMS Ark Royal was the first ship designed and built as a seaplane carrier. She was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 shortly after her keel had been...
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    dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. In 1907, before the revolution in design brought about by HMS Dreadnought of 1906, the United...
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    HMS Oak was a modified Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1912, she saw extensive service during World War I as a tender to the flagship...
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    HMS Campania was a seaplane tender and aircraft carrier, converted from an elderly ocean liner by the Royal Navy early in the First World War. After her...
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  • HMS Campania (1914), purchased in 1914, was the passenger liner RMS Campania converted to a seaplane tender. She collided with Royal Oak and Glorious in 1918 and...
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  • York City Football Club HMS Heart of Oak, one of three vessels named Heart of Oak that served the British Royal Navy Hearts of Oak (campaign group), a far-right...
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  • and broken up in 1794. HMS Renown (1798) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1798. She had been built under the name HMS Royal Oak, but was renamed in 1796...
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    and sank the submarine HMS L24 during training exercises, killing all aboard. Royal Oak was involved in the so-called "Royal Oak Mutiny", between her commander...
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  • September 17 - German U-boat U-29 sinks HMS Courageous. 1939, October 14 – German U-boat U-47 sinks HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow base. The First Lord of...
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    HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship afloat...
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    Henry Blagrove (category Royal Navy admirals of World War II)
    the Home Fleet when he was killed in the destruction of his flagship HMS Royal Oak by German submarine U-47. Henry Blagrove was born to Colonel Henry John...
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    sank in the Firth of Forth 5 November 1918, after a collision with HMS Royal Oak. HMS Manica, a converted tramp steamer equipped with the Navy's first kite...
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    Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
    of the battleship HMS Royal Oak, Rear Admiral Bernard Collard, Second-in-command of the 1st Battle Squadron, openly lambasted Royal Marine Bandmaster...
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    Ross, arrived in Bermuda in 1814 aboard a fleet composed of the 74-gun HMS Royal Oak, three frigates, three sloops and ten other vessels. The combined force...
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    (including submarines as well as one historic ship, HMS Victory) in the Royal Navy, plus 13 ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). There are also four Point-class...
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    anchor in a sudden squall, and at 03:45 struck the bow of the battleship Royal Oak and then dragged along the side of the battle cruiser Glorious. She began...
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    HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War. Designed in 1934 to fit the...
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    HMS Barham was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed in 1915, she was often used as...
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  • was an 18-gun sloop, the former Massachusetts privateer Aurora, which HMS Royal Oak captured on 10 July 1781; Mentor foundered off Bermuda after 16 March...
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    reached with White Star and Thomas Ward. She served the Royal Navy as the training ship HMS Caledonia before catching fire in 1939 and sinking. She was...
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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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    ship for the Royal Naval Reserve at Dundee to replace HMS Brilliant (1814). Unicorn was towed on her only sea voyage by the steam sloop, HMS Salamander...
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    HMS Royal Sovereign (pennant number 05) was a Revenge-class (also known as Royal Sovereign and R-class) battleship of the Royal Navy displacing 29,970...
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    Timothy Laurence (category Graduates of Britannia Royal Naval College)
    the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia, and from 1980 to 1982 he was Navigating Officer of the destroyer HMS Sheffield. He took command of the patrol boat HMS Cygnet...
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    Division: RAdm Alexander Duff HMS Royal Oak: Capt Crawford Maclachlan HMS Superb (flagship): Capt Edmond Hyde Parker HMS Canada: Capt William Nicholson...
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    following the German attack on Scapa Flow and subsequent sinking of HMS Royal Oak, when the Home Fleet was temporarily based there. It was also a staging...
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    HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior...
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