HMS General Wolfe, also known as Wolfe, was a Lord Clive-class monitor which was built in 1915 for shore-bombardment duties in the First World War. Her...
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name HMS Wolfe, after General James Wolfe, victor of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. A fourth was laid down but never launched: HMS Wolfe (1813)...
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Lord Clive-class monitor (redirect from General Wolfe class monitors)
ships, HMS General Wolfe, Lord Clive and Prince Eugene, were to be converted to take the BL 18-inch guns that had originally been allocated to HMS Furious...
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Clive class monitors were fitted with an 18-inch (457 mm) gun, and HMS General Wolfe fired 33 km (21 mi) at a railway bridge in Belgium). All of the major...
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James Wolfe (2 January 1727 – 13 September 1759) was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly...
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ships, HMS General Wolfe, Lord Clive and Prince Eugene, were converted to take the BL 18 inch Mk I naval gun that had originally been allocated to HMS Furious...
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HMS Wolfe (later HMS Montreal, originally HMS Sir George Prevost) was a 20-gun sloop-of-war, launched at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard at Kingston...
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enemy in port. The monitors could also operate into the river mouths. HMS General Wolfe, one of the Lord Clive-class monitors, which had a single 18-inch...
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(1904) HMS Wear Royal Navy (1905) HMS Whiting Royal Navy (1896) HMS Wryneck Royal Navy (1918) HMVS Cerberus Victorian Navy (1868) HMS General Wolfe Royal...
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male tanks and one female tank, were to be embarked on each monitor. HMS General Wolfe and the other monitors would push the pontoons up the beach, the tanks...
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captain of the depot ships Cyclops and Wolfe. He spent most of 1943 based at the Combined Training Headquarters (HMS Monck) at Largs, then served as Chief...
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HMS Prince (also referred to as Royal Prince) was a 100-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett the Younger at Deptford...
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Construction of Sir Isaac Brock began at York. The new ship was a sister ship to HMS Wolfe, which was constructed at Kingston. Although construction on both ships...
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against Quebec, General James Wolfe was given command of an army of about 7,000 men. When he arrived before Quebec on 26 June, Wolfe observed that the...
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the investment company the Sons of Gwalia Limited. HMS Hussar, torpedo gunboat. HMS General Wolfe, monitor. "Marriages". Marriages. The Times. No. 30789...
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troops commanded by General James Wolfe successfully resisted the column advance of French troops and Canadian militia under General Louis-Joseph, Marquis...
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of capturing the fortress to Major General Jeffery Amherst. Amherst's brigadiers were Charles Lawrence, James Wolfe and Edward Whitmore, and command of...
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HMS General Craufurd was the one of eight Lord Clive-class monitors built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Their primary armament was taken from...
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of the fleet tasked with carrying James Wolfe to Quebec in January 1759 and consolidated the dead general's victory after the Battle of the Plains of...
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the two squadrons came together again and Royal George, along with HMS Wolfe and HMS Lord Melville, forced the surrender of two American schooners, Julia...
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John Mordaunt (British Army officer) (redirect from John Mordaunt (general))
James Wolfe, who had gone ashore at Rochefort with a scouting party and concluded that the French garrison as too weak to prevent the landing. Wolfe urged...
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HMS Lord Melville (also known as HMS Melville) was a brig of the Royal Navy launched at Kingston, Ontario, on 20 July 1813. Initially designed as a schooner...
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William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (redirect from General William Howe)
position and earned Howe a commendation from Wolfe. Howe commanded a light infantry battalion under General Wolfe during the 1759 Siege of Quebec. He was in...
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evacuate it when the mission was over. James Wolfe was appointed as the expedition's Quartermaster General and the Army's chief of staff. The expedition...
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Lake Ontario, the 102-gun HMS St Lawrence, but also included a quarterdeck or poopdeck. The two ships of the class, Wolfe and Canada, were laid down...
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HMT Warwick Deeping (redirect from HMS Warwick Deeping)
Wight, in company with HMS Listrac (former French armed merchant ship), when she encountered five German torpedo boats; Falke, Wolfe, Greif, Kondor and Seeadler...
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DeWolf Hopper (redirect from De Wolfe Hopper)
Opera] March 22, 1913, General Ollendorf The Mikado [Revival, Musical, Operetta] April 21, 1913 – May 3, 1913, Ko-Ko H.M.S. Pinafore [Revival, Musical...
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to Basel to meet with French General Lazare Hoche. Their efforts were supported by Protestant Dublin lawyer Theobald Wolfe Tone, who travelled to Paris...
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(1758), providing shore bombardment for the forces of Brigadier-General James Wolfe. Sutherland was sold out of the navy in 1770. Lavery, Ships of the...
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HMS Malabar was a 56-gun fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She had previously been the East Indiaman Cuvera, launched at Calcutta in 1798. She made one voyage...
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