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	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921- )
		Colonel-in-Chief, The Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire)
		Royal Honorary Colonel, The Trinidad and Tobago Regiment
		Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment
	www.regiments.org /biography/royals/1921phil.htm (894 words)

	Royal Navy
		The first reformation and major expansion of the Navy Royal, as it was then known, occurred in the 16th century during the reign of Henry VIII whose ships, ''Henri GrÃ¢ce a Dieu'' ("''Great Harry''") and '' Mary Rose '', engaged the French navy in the battle of the Solent in 1545.
		The Royal Navy also participated in the Gulf War, the Kosovo conflict, the Afghanistan Campaign, and the 2003 Iraq War, the last of which saw RN warships bombard positions in support of the Al Faw Peninsula landings by Royal Marines.
		The Royal Navy is established under the royal prerogative and the head of the Royal Navy, known as the Lord High Admiral, is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (who is the overall head of the UK Armed Forces).
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Royal_Navy (2811 words)

	Encyclopedia: Royal Australian Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Royal Australian Navy (RAN} is the naval branch of the Australian Defence Force.
		The Royal Navy continued to provide blue water defence in the Pacific until World War Two, when expansion of the RAN saw the acquisition of aircraft carriers, and other large surface vessels.
		One ship of the Royal Navy and two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have borne the name Australia: The first, HMS Australia, (a Royal Navy ship styled HMS as the Royal Australian Navy had not yet been formed) was an Orlando class cruiser completed in 1888 and scrapped in...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Royal-Australian-Navy (5132 words)

	Royal Navy
		The Royal Navy is the second-largest navy in NATO in terms of the combined displacement of its fleet.
		The Royal Navy was too hard-pressed in European waters to release significant forces to combat the privateers, and its large ships of the line were not very effective at seeking out and running down fast and manoueverable privateers which operated as widely spread single ships or small groups.
		The re-armament of the Royal Navy was well under way by this point however, with the 1936 King George V class of 1936, limited to 35,000 tons and 14-inch armament, the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, and the Illustrious class carriers, the Town and Crown Colony classes of light cruiser and the Tribal class destroyers.
	www.jgames.co.uk /title/Royal_Navy (6972 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Tradition Saluting and Toasting
		Admirals of Ports and Vice-Admirals of the Coast are offices held, as sinecures, whose legal functions have been merged into either the Admiralty of other Government department and whose rights were abolished by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835.
		At the funeral of the late Queen Victoria and King Edward, The Side was piped as the coffin was lowered and at both funerals the Navy with a gun carriage was responsible for the conveyance of that coffin during the last part of the journey.
		It is understood that this is merely to emphasise the honour and distinction of serving in the Royal Yacht.
	www.gunplot.net /customs/navytoastssalute1.html (3187 words)

	Royal Naval History - Royal Navy
		The great deeds and sacrifice of the smaller navies during times of war are unparalleled and is a testament to courage and valour in the face of the enemy working alongside brothers in arms of fellow navies.
		From this early time until 1859, the Royal Navy made frequent long sea voyages to the new colonies and in 1859, it was decided to form the Australia Squadron, a separate squadron that remained in Australia.
		The Royal Indian Navy became the Naval Branch of the armed forces of India on 26 January 1950 and the prefix “Royal” was dropped as India became a Republic.
	www.royal-navy.org /articles/article.php?name=1 (2017 words)

	World War II
		Luftwaffe was unable to defeat the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain and gain the air superiority needed to invade Britain.
		The weakening of China, partly through the actions of British colonialism, and the rapid modernization of Japan in the late 19th century were perhaps the first precursors to the Pacific theatre of the war.
		Australian reservists, many of them of very young and untrained, fought a stubborn rearguard action, until they were relieved by Australian regular troops returning from action in the Middle East.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/w/wo/world_war_ii.html (3757 words)

	Australian Submarine Dolphins - Submarine Badge (Royal Australian Navy)
		On 5 April 1958, the Royal Navy issued its first submarine branch badge which was to be worn on the left sleeve.
		In June 1964 a submarine project team was formed at the Australian Navy Office in Canberra, consisting of Commander (later Captain) Alan H. McIntosh RAN, a non-submariner and Lieutenant Commander (later Commander) Henry Cook RAN, an ex Royal Navy submariner.
		It was not until 1972, having assessed the value of the Australian submarine badge, that the Royal Navy issued a variation on Captain McIntosh's design.
	www.navy.gov.au /general/subbadge.html (485 words)

	Australian Colonial navies, before Federation
		The year is 1884, a year not unimportant for the naval forces of the Australian colonies that then were, and also not without import for the Royal Australian Navy, at the time but a dream which was not to be realized until some years after Federation.
		For in 1884 South Australia acquired a navy in the shape of the cruiser 'Protector', the Victorians saw their squadron of two gunboats and a first-class torpedo boat-'Victoria', 'Albert', and 'Childers', arrive in Hobson's Bay, while their fleet was also enlarged by two second-class torpedo boats, 'Lonsdale' and 'Nepean'.
		In the nineteen-twenties Admiral Creswell recalled her as, to use a land analogy, "one of those rare 'good 'uns', a sturdy, well-bred cob, equal to any journey, and always pulling up fresh and ready for another the next day, and always ready 'with a dash of foot' if called upon".
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/colonial-navy.htm (3147 words)

	Navy News
		Navy has more than a million good reasons to demonstrate that its faith in the world of “cyber recruiting” has been well justified.
		As Navy News was going to print HMAS Warramunga (CMDR John Hielscher) and her crew of 206 returned home to Fremantle after a successful six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Catalyst.
		Future fleet proves a strong drawcard The Navy’s exciting fleet modernisation and development are among the many reasons why school leavers are choosing to join the RAN.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/navynews/editions/5001 (671 words)

	Royal Navy, warships, WW2, battleships, battlecruisers, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, escorts
		The Royal Navy would be responsible for the North Sea and most of the Atlantic, although the French would contribute some forces.
		Troop convoys were always heavily escorted, and the Commonwealth Navies played an important part in protecting the men as they left their home shores.
		"Admiral Graf Spee" in the South and "Deutschland" in the North Atlantic.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignRoyalNavy.htm (1305 words)

	Royal Australian Navy - heritage - weapons - equipment - ships
		Friday - 11 May 2007 - CPA 130/07 - The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Ship’s Townsville and Ipswich were the last of the Fremantle Class Patrol Boats (FCPB) to decommission in their homeport of Cairns today after a combined 50 years of service to the Navy.
		Thursday - 29 March 2007 - Australian - THE Navy's $1 billion Seasprite helicopters appeared headed for the scrapyard last night, with senior ministers expected to endorse a defence recommendation that the program be terminated.
		Thursday - 1 March 2007 - Australian - SPAIN is poised to win the contest to design the navy's new air warfare destroyers, destined to be the biggest and most advanced warships in its fleet.
	www.australiandefencereport.com.au /royal-australian-navy.htm (2774 words)

	Korean War--United Nations and Republic of Korea Forces
		A Royal Navy or Australian light fleet carrier was generally present, along with one or two RN light cruisers and several UK/Commonwealth destroyers and frigates.
		Royal Marine Commandos provided UN commanders with a distinctive, and extensively used, coastal raiding force.
		The Republic of Korea Navy fought hard from the beginning of North Korea's invasion, scoring some very significant successes against enemy efforts to land troops behind UN lines.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/kowar/un-rok/un-rok.htm (1440 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - The Genesis of the Royal Australian Navy
		From the very start of white settlement in Australia, the defence of the Colony rested with the Royal Navy, and it was to Captain Arthur Phillip, a Naval Officer, that command of this new Colony was given.
		This establishment of the Australian Station was indeed a landmark in the devolopment of Defence in Australia, and marked a new coming of age in that regard.
		It was generally agreed to continue with the arrangement concerning the Australian Squadron after 1901, but South Australia dissented, their Premier wanted a Royal Naval Reserve to be raised and trained in Australia, using the Colonies contribution to the Squadron.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/TheGenesisoftheRoyalAustr.html (3675 words)

	MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY HISTORY SHIPS CAREERS AND MOD CONTACT LINKS
		The Royal Navy has fewer ships today, yet its firepower is far greater than at any time in the past.
		Royal Navy training designed and delivered to meet the needs of any commercial or government organisation.
		The Royal Marines Museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of all aspects of Royal Marines history.
	www.solarnavigator.net /the_royal_navy.htm (789 words)

	navy
		The Writer Category of the Navy are the clerks and look after calculation and payment of salaries and allowances, personnel office (human resources), central registy (filing) and other clerical and staff related duties.
		In mid October 1971 MELBOURNE, with the Fleet Commander and staff embarked, sailed for the Hawaiian Islands for Exercise RIMPAC 71.
		Most of the time on SWAN we g exercised with other ships of the fleet and undertook various weapons trials etc. The ship visited Melbourne on a number of occasions and also a visited the new Fleet Base at Rockingham just to the south of Perth in Western Australia.
	www.geocities.com /moderick/navy (1149 words)

	Smearing navy latest sport for axe-grinders - smh.com.au
		It is the Royal Australian Navy which shoulders the burden of "border protection", the Federal Government's euphemism for the dangerous, sometimes gut-wrenching, task of intercepting the refugee boats from Indonesia.
		From admirals to able seamen, they feel they have been manipulated, defamed and insulted by politicians, sections of the media and other odds and sods with axes to grind.
		The conspiracy theorists have attempted to pick holes in that evidence, suggesting there are inconsistencies from admiral to admiral which blow the navy's story out of the water and demonstrate skulduggery.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/06/07/1022982769064.html (1258 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot RAN 20th Century Almanac
		The new fleet unit consisting of a battle Cruiser, three Light Cruisers, Six Destroyers and three Submarines, to be paid for and controlled by Australia.
		Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson representing Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher, arrives to advise on Naval Defence.
		Australian Fleet under the command of Rear Admiral Sir William Patey enters Sydney Harbour on 4th October.
	www.gunplot.net /randiary/ranmilennium.html (494 words)

	Pacific Fleet Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This has been our history since World War I and if you talk to the men and women of the Pacific Fleet who have worked with and gone to war with your Navy, there is nothing but praise and admiration for their professionalism, dedication, and sacrifice.
		The Royal Australian Navy’s efforts in Maritime and Leadership Interdiction Operations helped thwart oil smuggling from Iraq in defiance of U.N. Sanctions and are deterring the escape of terrorists from Afghanistan by the sea.
		Today, your Navy is widely regarded as experts in the realm of maritime interdiction operations…a critical expertise especially considering the threats discussed earlier like terrorists being transported by sea, and vessels being used as couriers for weapons of mass destruction.
	www.cpf.navy.mil /speeches/030909.htm (2380 words)

	Royal Naval Crew Message Boards
		Born 1832 in Sittingbourne Kent, served in the Royal Navy for 10 years in the African Station on HMS Castor and HMS Waterloo.
		This was also Nelsons first independent fleet command, and the author shows the development of his command style and the forging of the esprit de corps which was later to triumph at Trafalgar.
		That Malta survived was due to the courage and fortitude of her people, and to the dauntless determination of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /royal.htm (2450 words)

	RNZN - Royal New Zealand Navy
		By the end of next year this will be a Navy of 13 ships - which together bring a range of capabilities that can be applied across the spectrum of operations - and in support of coalition, joint New Zealand Defence Force and multi-agency missions around New Zealand and across the globe”, he says.
		The Navy is an innovative and dynamic organisation that makes a significant contribution in New Zealand and overseas through its people and ships.
		She was built at the Merwede Shipyard in the Netherlands, under contract to Tenix.
	www.navy.mil.nz (575 words)

	The Forefathers
		Lieutenant Ram Charan, an Indian Navy meteorologist, was the first Indian to visit the Antarctica, in the South Pole, when he accompanied an Australian polar expedition in 1960.
		INS Hamla, the Indian Navy's Supply and Secretariat School on Marve beach (Mumbai), was the scene of a passing-out parade on the morning of 04 February 1956.
		Commodore Adhar Kumar Chatterjee (later Admiral and CNS), the Commodore-in-Charge of Bombay inspected the passing-out officers.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /NAVY/Images-Fathers.html (445 words)

	PNF Figurines : Admiral of The Fleet - Winter dress uniform
		Admiral of The Fleet - Winter dress uniform
		This figure depicts the winter uniform of the Admiral of the Fleet.
		Navy-B and C Navy : AF1S : Admiral of The Fleet - Summer dress uniform
	www.pnffigurines.com.au /Store/AF1W.html (628 words)

	Articles - Royal Australian Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Sydney would later be sunk herself to much controversy after a battle with the Kormoran, a German cruiser.
		After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the RAN redeployed to home waters to protect British colonies in the Pacific, as well as the Australian mainland from Japanese attack.
		RAN ships also served in the first Gulf War, and later in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Royal_Australian_Navy (1289 words)

	Ships
		Sold by the Coast Guard in 1929 to the City of Oakland, Calif., for use as a museum, she was used (as Bear of Oakland) by Rear Admiral R.E. Byrd during his Antarctic Expedition of 1933-35.
		The corvette and its twin vessel the Paraná were built for the Argentinean navy in 1874 at the famous British shipyard of Laird Bros. of Birkenhead.
		She was re-registered as a yacht and flew the White Ensign as Scott was a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
	www.antarctic-circle.org /ships.htm (6567 words)

	Rear Admiral Davyd Thomas, AM, CSC RAN - Commander Australian Fleet (Royal Australian Navy)
		For this he was awarded a Commendation for Distinguished Service in June 2003, and received the Australian Active Service Medal in February 2002 as part of the International Coalition Against Terrorism.
		Appointed to the position of Director General Navy Capability Performance and Plans at Russell Offices Canberra in August 2002, he was also appointed Head of the Surface Warfare Community later that year.
		He was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral and appointed to the position of Commander Australian Fleet in July 2005.
	www.navy.gov.au /commanders/comausflt.html (465 words)

	World War One - The Maritime War
		Anyone interested in the details of Royal Navy gunnery and torpedo fire control systems ought to look at Tone Lovell's simulation (part of the Dreadnought Project).
		There are video clips which show the workings of the dumaresq, and torpedo director, and a link to a the beginnings of a very sophisticated simulation of the various components.
		The Fringes of the Fleet by Rudyard Kipling
	www.gwpda.org /naval/n0000000.htm (2260 words)

	Western Front Association - U.S. Branch: WWI Links Central
		Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
		Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone
		Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
	www.wfa-usa.org /new/lcnaval.htm (65 words)

	Navy books of World War 1
		Bacon, Admiral Sir R H, The Life of Lord Fisher of Kilverstone, Admiral of the Fleet
		Naval Memoirs of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes
		Marder, Arthur J, From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Royal Navy in the Fisher Era, 1904-1919 :Victory and Aftermath
	www.naval-history.net /WW1NavalBooks.htm (2885 words)

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