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	Lankalibrary.com: THE BRITISH IN SRI LANKA
		Once the British had established themselves in Sri Lanka, they aggressively expanded their territorial possessions by a combination of annexation and intervention, a policy that paralleled the approach pursued by Lord Wellesley in India in the early nineteenth century.
		British agents usurped the powers and privileges of the chiefs and became the arbitrators of provincial authority.
		He attributed this accomplishment to British grounding in liberalism, a belief in the emancipation of slaves, the absence of religious persecution, and conscious attempts to maintain good relations between the rulers and the ruled.
	www.lankalibrary.com /geo/British/history4.htm (6199 words)

	British Pacific Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fleet was comprised mainly of British Commonwealth naval vessels.
		The fleet was founded when Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser struck his flag at Trincomalee as Commander-in-Chief of the British Eastern Fleet and hoisted it in the gunboat HMS Tarantula as Commander-in-Chief British Pacific Fleet.
		In April 1945, the British 4th Submarine Flotilla was transferred to the major Allied submarine base at Fremantle, Western Australia, as part of BPF.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Pacific_Fleet (1223 words)

	Eastern Fleet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Eastern Fleet (also known as the East Indies Fleet and the Far East Fleet) was a fleet of the Royal Navy during World War II and post war until 1971.
		The Eastern Fleet was greatly augmented by units intended for the Pacific and, on 4 January 1945 two British carriers (HMS Indomitable and HMS Indefatigable) made an attack on oil refineries at Pangkalan Brandon in Sumatra (Operation Lentil).
		HMS Valiant - Battleship in Eastern Fleet 1944
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Eastern_Fleet (1265 words)

	Saratoga (CV-3)
		In the fleet problems, Saratoga continued to assist in the development of fast carrier tactics, and her importance was recognized by the fact that she was always a high priority target for the opposing forces.
		Between 27 April and 6 June 1936, she participated in a fleet problem in the Canal Zone, and she then returned with the fleet to Hawaii for exercises from 16 April to 28 May 1937.
		On 16 April, the Eastern Fleet, with Saratoga, sailed from Trincomalee, and, on the 19th, the aircraft from the two carriers struck the port of Sabang, off the northwest tip of Sumatra.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/carriers/cv3.htm (2922 words)

	WW2DB: Raids into the Indian Ocean
		Early 1942, the British were attempting to re-establish a naval presence in Asia after the destruction of Z Force off Kuantan.
		By attacking the main British fleet bases at Colombo and Trincomalee at Ceylon (the Japanese were not aware of a third major British navy base, Addus Atoll, 600 miles southwest of Ceylon in the Maldive Islands), the westward flank of the Japanese defensive perimeter would be secure.
		The entire British Eastern Fleet, after this episode, retreated all the way to East Africa in the case that this raid was the precursor to a large-scale naval assault into the rest of the Indian Ocean.
	www.ww2db.com /battle_spec.php?battle_id=7 (1147 words)

	Indian Ocean, Arakan, Queen Elizabeth, Valiant, Illustrious, Unicorn, Templar, Kitakami, Kuma, Paladin, Petard, HMS
		erville's Eastern Fleet had almost enough strength to start offensive operations although the loan of US carrier "Saratoga" was necessary for the first attack on oil installations at Sabang, together with shipping and airfields.
		At the end of November the Eastern Fleet was dissolved and Vice-Adm Sir Arthur Power appointed C-in-C of the newly formed East lndies Fleet.
		She was reported by East lndies Fleet submarines in the Malacca Strait and Adm Walker set out with his escort carriers to catch her.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsIndianOcean2.htm (3395 words)

	Aircraft Carrier, Glory, Formidable, Illustrious, Core, Santee, Bogue, Card
		The grand total of 2,590 US and British warships - major and minor were mostly allocated to their own landing sectors, but the Royal Navy total included the covering force against any interference by the Italian fleet.
		No major British units were involved and for the first time in the Mediterranean the Royal Navy was in the minority in both ships and commanders.
		As they did, newly arrived fleet carrier "Implacable" with an escort carrier and cruisers in support, launched raids on the by-passed island of Truk in the Carolines on the 14th and 15th.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsCarriers3.htm (5340 words)

	Avalanche Press
		Though in public British leaders continued to point to Singapore as the lynchpin of the Far Eastern defenses, already they had grown concerned that the “Malay Barrier” of Malaya, Sumatra and Java could not be held in the event of a Japanese attack.
		But Admiral James Somerville, the fleet commander, found the port inadequate and doubted that it could be defended from determined attack.
		The Japanese were not aware of the base’s existence during the April 1942 carrier raids in the Indian Ocean, and Somerville’s fleet used it extensively.
	www.avalanchepress.com /AdduAtoll.php (745 words)

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		Instead of hexes, Eastern Fleet uses numbered squares that are easily referenced and accommodate task force counters.
		Eastern Fleet, and the whole Second World War at Sea series, treats fog of war in a less accurate but more playable manner.
		The British R-class battleships are particularly vulnerable to damage because they only have a movement of one.
	www.wargamer.com /reviews/eastern_fleet/page2.asp (908 words)

	History of Ships and Navies/CV-3 USS Saratoga
		In a daringmove Saratoga was detached from the fleet with only a single cruiser asescort to make a wide sweep to the south and "attack" the PanamaCanal, which was defended by the Scouting Fleet and Saratoga's sister ship,Lexington.
		In the fleet problems, Saratoga continuedto assist in the development of fast carrier tactics, and her importancewas recognized by the feet that she was always a high priority target forthe opposing forces.
		On16 April, the Eastern Fleet, with Saratoga, sailed from Trincomalee, and,on the 19th, the aircraft from the two carriers struck the port of Sabang,off the northwest tip of Sumatra.
	www.multied.com /Navy/Saratoga.html (2506 words)

	Chapter 1: The Strategic Decision
		Fleet, was executive for the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the Pacific Ocean Areas.
		At the same time the Joint Chiefs of Staff were considering the possibility of persuading the British to use the Eastern Fleet against Timor, or against the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, in co-ordination with the offensive effort of the United States.
		The British Eastern Fleet would not be able to take part, the joint Chiefs explained, but Admiral Nimitz was sending more naval forces than had been planned originally and Army B-17's of the 11th Bombardment Group would be sent from Hawaii to Ghormley's area.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/guadc/GC-01.htm (7087 words)

	LST-21
		Proceeding to the docks, 63 British trucks were loaded on board with officers and men of a transportation unit of the British Eighth Army.
		On 1 December 1943, LST-21 was at Calcutta, India, on detached duty with the British Eastern Fleet.
		She took the British LCT(K)-514 in tow at 0710 and took station in an outbound convoy but the vibration cut her speed and she was unable to keep up with the convoy.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/WEBCUTTERS/LST_21.html (1920 words)

	The Outrages by British Warships
		The British authorities requested that the Amethyst should be allowed to leave, and its captain, acting on the orders of Brind, Commander-in-Chief of the British Far Eastern Fleet, conducted negotiations with the representative of our army.
		On April 26, 1949, British Prime Minister Attlee declared in the House of Commons that British naval vessels had been within their rights in going up the Yangtse on their "peaceful missions", because they had the permission of the Kuomintang government of China.
		It was the British government which in February 1943 gave the Kuomintang the heavy cruiser Chungking, the largest cruiser in the Kuomintang navy.
	www.marx2mao.com /Mao/OB49.html (824 words)

	South-East Asian theatre of World War II at AllExperts
		Two major British warships, HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales were sunk by a Japanese air attack off Malaya on December 10, 1941.
		Following the Japanese Indian Ocean raid in eary 1942, the British Eastern Fleet retreated to Kilindini near Mombasa in Kenya, as their more forward fleet anchorages could not be adequately protected from Japanese attack.
		During late 1944, as more British aircraft carriers came into the area a series of strikes were flown against oil targets in Sumatra to prepare British carriers for the upcoming operations in the Pacific.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/so/south-east_asian_theatre_of_world_war_ii.htm (1801 words)

	194204
		British Gen. Harold Alexander is considering abandoning the entire country.
		In eastern Burma, the Japanese are encircling a Chinese unit that's trying to defend Lashio, the eastern terminus of the Burma Road, the Himalayan highway that carries most of China's war supplies.
		Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's Chinese army and is rushing toward Lashio, the eastern terminus of the Burma Road.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /tenison/297/wwii/194204.htm (3958 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - January 18 - 24, 1942
		So are the British, who have to leave behind 16 of their excellent 25-lb.
		She will cross the Pacific Ocean to reinforce the British Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean.
		British troops, however, wearing hob-nailed boots and a steel helmet, also wear a webbing pack down the back, another dangling at the side, and a gas-mask bag strapped to the chest.
	www.usswashington.com /dl18ja42.htm (1669 words)

	The Dutch Submarine Operations in the Dutch East Indies 1941-1942
		On 7 December 1941 the Dutch submarine K-XI was patrolling in the Gulf of Siam.
		From 7 December 1941 till February 1942 she is based in Singapore and put under Command of British Eastern Fleet.
		At the beginning of war (December 1941) the submarine O-19 is based in Singapore and subordinated to the British Eastern Fleet Command.
	www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies/dutch_subs.html (2108 words)

	The Eastern Fleet Rules The Indian Ocean
		Once at sea, a fleet, or a convoy, or a single ship must be self-supporting until its journey’s end.
		It was considered wise to move the weakened Eastern Fleet to East Africa to prepare for the next phase.
		While all these troubles of supply were piling up, the Eastern Fleet which had long been massing in the Indian Ocean, moved over to the offensive.
	www.burmastar.org.uk /eastern_fleet.htm (1475 words)

	Fair Play Games - Eastern Fleet: Naval Action in the Indian Ocean, 1942 - Discounted Board Games and Card Games - ...
		Eastern Fleet, the second game in the Second World War at Sea series, is based on this third stage of Japanese aggression and also covers parts of the second.
		The operational map depicts the eastern half of the Indian Ocean, including all the major ports and airbases of 1942.
		Operational Scenarios Seven and Eight are based on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's demands for American forces to bolster the British hold on South Asia.
	www.fairplaygames.com /gamedisplay.asp?gameid=2189 (722 words)

	Virtual Eastern Airlines
		This was seen unacceptable to Eastern at the time, and when Eastern reminded the British that they wanted to fly to Heathrow instead of Gatwick, the route was given to Air Florida.
		In 1980 Eastern took pre-emptive action to secure the route authority when it purchased two used 747-200 aircraft from QANTAS; at the time, Eastern had no aircraft in its fleet capable of flying the Miami - London route.
		In the spirit of the 747s that almost joined the real Eastern fleet, and a significant demand for the aircraft by our senior pilots, Virtual Eastern Airlines has decided to add the 747-200 to the fleet as a special aircraft for members with at least 500 hours.
	www.eastern-va.com /fleet/747200_1.htm (412 words)

	WW2DB: Hermes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Due to the world's inexperience with carriers, which type is extremely new at the time of her building, Hermes suffered from some problems such as a small hangar and instability at high seas caused by the large starboard island.
		The HMS Repulse, a battlecruiser, was a symbol of British seapower.
		With the assignment of the Hermes, along with the fleet carriers Indomitable and Formidable, the Hermes was supposed to provide the airpower necessary to challenge their Japanese counterparts.
	ww2db.com /ship_spec.php?ship_id=160 (1039 words)

	History of Diego Garcia
		The British experiment in growing food plants on Diego is a failure, especially considering that they have an extra 250 mouths to feed from the ATLAS, and they pack up and sail away, having learned, as thousands of others have since, that a 6 month tour of duty on Diego is long enough.
		From Diego Garcia she proceeded to Colombo to join the British Eastern Fleet, with which she was to serve for some two years on Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf convoy escort duty.
		The British government designates the lagoon and east arm of the atoll as a 'Ramsar Site' (conservation of wetlands), because it is 'a particularly good example of a relatively unpolluted coral reef system in a near-natural state, of special value for maintaining the genetic and ecological diversity of the region, especially its marine life.
	www.zianet.com /tedmorris/dg/realhistory.html (12682 words)

	Sanjula
		Though the British wanted Trincomalee and sent an emissary, John Pybus, to the Kandyan court, they were reluctant to take on the Dutch because they were at peace with the Dutch in Europe at that time.
		The British were ready to go from Ceylon, but only if they were able to continue using Trincomalee and other military bases built during the War, which they considered essential for the defense of their possessions in South East Asia and the Far East, and also their trade in the region.
		Its goals are analogous to the British east of Suez in the nineteenth century - a policy essentially shaped by the Viceroy's Office in New Delhi.
	sanjula.spaces.live.com (2366 words)

	Carriers & Battle Groups
		After World War I, major carrier fleets were built by the United States, Japan, and Britain; in the 1930s tactical exercises were held by the U.S. Navy to study and improve efficiency of its carrier operations.
		By World War II, however, Japan's carrier fleet was numerically and qualitatively superior to the American and British fleets in the Pacific.
		All the present U.S. fleet is of the attack class, with capabilities for conversion to use as submarine warfare, utility, and assault helicopter aircraft carriers.
	www.scenery.org /carriers.htm (1261 words)

	Imperial Submarines
		At this time British forces in the Middle East are supplied and reinforced by convoys using the Cape of Good Hope route.
		The fleet concentrates at Durban, Union of South Africa, awaiting the War Cabinet's final approval of the invasion.
		Vichy submarine BEVEZIERS is attacked and sunk by a flight of British Fairey "Swordfish" and Fairey "Albacore" torpedo-bombers from ILLUSTRIOUS.
	www.combinedfleet.com /Madagascar.htm (2011 words)

	Commodore John Augustine Collins
		With the outbreak of the Great World War in 1914 naval cadet training was quickened and by 1916 he had graduated with accolades in seamanship and engineering into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
		HMAS Sydney exited the Mediterranean theatre of opeartions during the new year of 1941 enroute to the city of the warship’s namesake on eastern seaboard of Australia, where tumultuous welcome rewarded the courage and competance of Collins, and his crew.
		Joined the US naval forces and the British Pacific Fleet in the advance on the Imperial Japanese capital of Tokyo.
	www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies/collins.html (791 words)

	CV-3 Saratogo
		Between 17 May and 31 July 1943, she was reinforced by the British carrier, HMS Victorious, and, on 20 October, she was joined by USS Princeton (CVL 23).
		On 4 March 1944, Saratoga departed Majuro with an escort of three destroyers, and sailed via Espiritu Santo; Hobart, Tasmania; and Fremantle, Australia, to join the British Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean.
		She rendezvoused at sea on 27 March with the British force, composed of carrier, HMS Illustrious, and four battleships with escorts, and arrived with them at Trincomalee, Ceylon, on 31 March.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/cv-3.htm (2972 words)

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