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	HMS Ajax (22) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The HMS Ajax was made famous for her part in the Battle of the River Plate, the Battle of Crete, the Battle of Malta, as a supply escort in the Battle of Tobruk.
		Ajax participated in the Battle of Cape Matapan and was hit by bombs from Ju 87's on 21 May. She evacuated many troops from Crete up until 29 May 1941.
		Ajax operated in the Aegean during the reoccupation of Athens and the communist uprising in Greece.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Ajax_(22) (694 words)

	HMS Ajax
		HMS Ajax was a Leander class light cruiser of the Royal Navy.
		Ajax served on the America and West Indies Station from completion, then part of South American Division on the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939.
		Ajax returned to Mediterranean again, then to Normandy with Force K at Gold Beach for the D-Day landings, and at landings in S. France.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMS_Ajax.html (307 words)

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		HMS "Caledon," 4,120 tons, built by Cammell Laird in 1916 and was converted for use as an A.A. Light cruiser.
		HMS "Caradoc," built by Scotts 1916 and HMS "Calypso," built by Hawthorn Leslie, 1917, all converted as HMS "Caledon." The three ships measured 450ft x 43ft and were armed with 5 x 6-inch guns and 2 x 3-inch guns before conversion.
		With the exception of HMS "Curacoa," of 4,290 tons, all the ex cruisers are of 4,200 tons displacement, carrying a complement of from 400 to 437.
	www.merchantnavyofficers.com /royalnavy4.html (1278 words)

	HMS Ajax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second Ajax, launched in 1798, was another 74-gun third-rate that fought at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and was burned in 1807.
		The fifth Ajax, launched in 1880, was the lead ship of her class of ironclad battleships.
		The seventh and famous Ajax (22), launched in 1934, was a Leander-class light cruiser that served in World War II, and was broken up in 1949.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Ajax (269 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Light cruiser HMS Ajax of the Leander class
		Consisting of the light cruisers HMS Ajax (flagship), HMNZS Achilles and the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter.
		HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles were both damaged and suffered casualties, HMS Ajax 7 dead and wounded and HMS Achilles 4 dead.
		This convoy was escorted by the Anti-Aircraft cruisers HMS Calcutta, HMS Coventry and 4 destroyers.
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	Sqn Histories 712-825_P
		HMS Cornwall was added in January 1938 but it was replaced by HMS Cumberland in March 1939.
		When HMS Ark Royal was commissioned the squadron was allocated to it, in November 1938, becoming the first unit to land aboard it in January 1939, however, the Squadron was transferred to Admiralty control on 24 May 1939.
		In that month the squadron was allocated to HMS Courageous as a deck landing training unit and on the hand over of the FAA to the Admiralty it had been planned to re-number the squadron in the second line series as No 768, but instead it was absorbed by No 767 on 24 May 1939.
	www.rafweb.org /Sqn712-825.htm (1998 words)

	Ajax Football -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ajax (Greek: Aîas), a Greek hero, son of Oileus the king of Locris, called the "lesser" or Locrian Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax, son of Telamon.
		Ajax the lesser was the father of Eurysaces by Tecmessa.
		Ajax later played in the stadium that was built for the 1928 Summer Olympics, held in Amsterdam.
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	Airfix 1:600 HMS Ajax British Light Cruiser WW2 (03204) \| Antics Online
		The cruiser Ajax, the eighth Royal Naval ship to bear the name, was one of the Leander class of 6" gun cruisers and was built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow and launched on1st March 1934.
		Ajax and Achilles, together with the Cumberland which had arrived from the Falkland Islands lay off the river mouth to wait the Graf Spee.
		The Ajax survived the war which she spent almost entirely with the Mediterranean fleet, being refitted in the U.S.A. in 1943 and was scrapped at Newport in 1948.
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	Admiral Graf Spee
		The Allies formed seven hunting groups in the Atlantic and one in the Indian Ocean to look for her, totalling three battleships, four aircraft carriers, and 16 cruisers.
		On 13 November, she was found by the British Hunting Group G[?] - the 8-inch gunned cruiser HMS Exeter, and 6-inch gunned light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles - in the Battle of the River Plate.
		After taking relatively superficial damage and retreating to the neutral port of Montevideo, the ship was scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff to avoid risking the crew in what he thought would be a losing battle.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gr/Graf_Spee.html (156 words)

	adolfhitler.ws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Harwood commanded one heavy cruiser, HMS Exeter with eight 6in guns, and two light cruisers, HMS Achilles and HMS Ajax, each with eight 6in guns (the former manned by a New Zealand crew).
		Ajax and Achilles stationed themselves on one side of the Graf Spee and Exeter on the other.
		It had been reinforced by the heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland, but the nearest battlecruiser, HMS Renown, was off the West African coast, at least a week's sailing away.
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	Thomo's Hole - Naval Wargames - Battle of Matapan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Warspite was built at Devonport, Plymouth and launched 26th November 1913.
		HMS BARHAM was build at John Brown shipbuilders, Clydebank and launched on 31 December 1914.
		HMS Barham was torpedoed and sunk by U-331 off Soloum on the 25th November 1941.
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		This ship, together with HMS Exeter and HMNZS Achilles, took part in the famous Battle of the River Plate which culminated in the scuttling of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee.
		HMS Ajax on sea trials (left) in 1935, and damaged after the Battle of the River Plate in 1939
		Sadly HMS Havock ran aground on 6th April 1942 off the Tunis Coast whilst being fired upon by the Italian Fleet.
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	Airfix 1/600 H.M.S. Ajax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The HMS Ajax was a Leander class 6" gun cruiser launched March 1, 1934.
		The Ajax, her sister ship Achilles, and the cruiser Exeter, although heavily outgunned, engaged and seriously damaged the German ship forcing her to seek refuge in Montevideo harbour.
		HMS Ajax survived WWII after serving mostly in the Mediterranean and was scrapped in 1948.
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	Warships \| Airfix On-Line ASP Shopping Cart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The largest of the British battle cruisers, HMS Hood was sunk early in the Second World War by the German battleship Bismarck in 1941.
		HMS Hood was laid down in 1915 and launched on the 22nd August, 1913 three months before the end of the first World War and too late to see action.
		HMS Fearless, the first Assault landing Ship of the Royal Navy, was launched in December 1963 and commissioned at the Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff on the 25th November 1965.
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	Sirmar Model Ship Fittings - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS HOOD - The ship was the last battlecruiser to be completed for the Royal Navy and, as such, she was considered by the British public to be all that was finest in the British fleet and because of this her loss caused considerable shock.
		HMS IRON DUKE - Flagship of the Grand Fleet (Jellicoe) 1914, she fought at Jutland 1916 and was in the Mediterranean in 1919, Atlantic 1926.
		HMS VICTORIA - This ship was the Flagship of Admiral Tryon which with the rest of the fleet was manoeuvring off the Syrian Coast on 22nd June 1893 when a collision occurred in which the CAMPERDOWN rammed her, causing her to sink.
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	Sinking of HMS Exeter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1934 she went out to the America and West Indies Station and remained there, with a temporary deployment to the Mediterranean during the Abyssinian crisis of 1935/36, until 1939.
		At the beginning of the war she was in the South American Division, and formed Force G with Cumberland off the east coast of that continent in October 1939, when raider hunting groups were formed.
		In this action, however, she was badly damaged and had to withdraw to the Falkland Islands for temporary repairs.
	www.rnzncomms.net.nz /jackharker/chapt11/HMSExeter.html (3431 words)

	Hans Langsdorff - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Following the coming to power of the Nazis, Langsdorff requested duty at sea in 1934 but was instead appointed to the Interior Ministry.
		In 1936 and 1937, while on board the new Admiral Graf Spee while on the staff of Admiral Bohen, Langsdorff participated in the German support of the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War.
		It was only when Langsdorff had committed his ship to the attack that it became apparent that the destroyers were in fact light cruisers (HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles) in addition to the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Hans_Langsdorff (831 words)

	HMS Ajax
		HMS Ajax, during a storm in the Mediterranean in 1940.
		One of our visitors has offered this information regarding HMS Ajax: I come from a town in Canada, called Ajax, it was named after HMS Ajax and during the war it had an ammunition plant with houses built for the workers.
		HMS Ajax, Notice Board for naval enthusiasts and ex Crew families of HMS Ajax.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_ajax.htm (1423 words)

	1/600 HMS Ajax (arx03204) Airfix Plastic Model Ship Military
		Info: The HMS Ajax was a Leander class 6'' gun cruiser launched March 1, 1934.
		Info: HMS Belfast was one of the most active ships in the Royal Navy during WWII.
		Info: Prototype Information; HMS Hood, Royal Navy Battlecruiser Intended to be the first of in a class of several large fast battlecruisers, construction on HMS Hood was started in 1915.
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	Maritime Disasters of the Second World War
		Leading the contingent was the battleship HMS Rodney followed by the battleships HMS Nelson and HMS Hood, all surrounded by a protective screen of destroyers.
		German battleship, damaged during the Battle of the River Plate off the coast of Uruguay, in which the British cruisers HMS Exeter, Ajax and the New Zealand light cruiser Achilles took part, is forced to take refuge in the neutral port of Montevideo where she was granted only a temporary stay.
		Severely damaged by salvos from the battleships HMS King George V and HMS Rodney, she was finally sent to the bottom, 400 miles west of Brest, by torpedoes from the destroyer HMS Dorsetshire.
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	CHAPTER 13 The Loss of HMS Neptune \| NZETC
		ON 15 January 1941 the Prime Minister was informed by the Admiralty through the High Commissioner in London that the steadily increasing requirements of naval ratings arising from the building of new ships, in addition to heavy unforeseen commitments all involving a severe strain on the resources of trained ratings, were causing some concern.
		On 27 November the Ajax (flag of Rear-Admiral H. Rawlings) and Neptune, with the destroyers Kimberley and Kingston, sailed from Alexandria to reinforce Force ‘K’ which, on 1 December, sank an ammunition ship, a tanker, and a destroyer.
		HMS Ajax was out of action with defects.
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	1/600 HMS ARK ROYAL (arx04208) Airfix Plastic Model Ship Military
		HMS Ark Royal was one of the most famous British ships of WWII.
		She was in action against German U-boats and aircraft almost from the beginning of the war and was instrumental in the chase of the German battleship Bismark.
		HMS Ark Royal was finally sunk by U-boat U-81 in the Mediterranean in late 1941.
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	Hamburg South American Line
		1934 chartered from HAPAG, 1936 purchased from HAPAG, 1937 renamed Tucuman (2), 1945 bombed and sunk at Kiel.
		1934 chartered from HAPAG, 1935 purchased from HAL, 1945 bombed and sunk at Kiel, 1947 scrapped.
		ex- Grandon, 1934 chartered from North German Lloyd, 1938 purchased from NGL renamed Patagonia, 1945 captured by Britain and scuttled with cargo of gas ammunition.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/hamburgsouth.html (2895 words)

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		HMS Suffolk HMS Prince of Wales HMS Norfolk *HMS Hood ?Only eight minutes into the attack on the Bismarck by the British warships Hood and Prince of Wales, the Hood was hit amidships by a shell from the Bismarck.
		HMS King George V and HMS Valiant HMS Repulse and HMS Ramilles HMS Hood and HMS* Repulse HMS Hood and HMS Rodney ?HMS Hood was sunk by the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen on May 24, 1941, HMS Prince Of Wales was badly damaged.
		The Prince Of Wales and the Battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by Japanese air attack on December 10, 1941.
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	Pocket battleship - Wikipedia Light! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The three ships in the class were launched between 1931 and 1934.
		In the ensuing battle of the River Plate she damaged the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter so severely that it had to break off the action.
		However, the German ship was also slightly damaged, and after spending several days trapped at Montevideo, she was deliberately scuttled on 17 December 1939, rather than risk a battle with the blockading heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland and light cruisers HMS Ajax and Achilles or a supposed large Royal Navy force approaching.
	godseye.com /wiki/index.php?title=Pocket_battleship (593 words)

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		Submarine HMS Sidon sanl after a torpedo explosion in the forward torpedo compartment while in Portland harbour, killing 13.
		Submarine HMS Sidon sank after a torpedo explosion in the forward torpedo compartment while in Portland harbour, killing 13.
		Submarine HMS Sidon sank after a torpedo explosion in the forward torpedo compartment in Portland harbour, killing 13.
	www.angelfire.com /mp/memorials/Portscem.htm (4029 words)

	HMS Ajax art print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Ajax was finally scrapped at Newport November 1949.
		Eight 4 inch anti-aircraft guns in pairs and eight 2pdr anti-aircraft guns in pairs as well as twelve 0.5 inch machine guns in fours.
		HMS Ajax was built as a light cruiser at Barrow and launched in 1935.
	www.military-prints.com /hms_ajax.htm (607 words)

	Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 - D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Raised funds for the Samaritans, and was president of the Coastal Forces Veterans' Association.
		Sir Frederic Dreyer, GBE, KCB; married 1st, 1934, Elisabeth (died 1958), daughter of late Sir Henry Chilton, GCMG; one son, one daughter (and one son deceased); 2nd, 1959, Marjorie Gordon, widow of Hon.
		CO HMS Iron Duke (Fleet Flagship of the Grand Fleet), as Flag Captain to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe (Jutland Battle)
	jnh.nce.buttobi.net /RN_officersD2.html (1104 words)

	Photos of Furness Abbey
		HMS Indomitable - Aerial view of the flight deck.
		HMS Ajax Completed 1934 - Job No. 682.
		HMS Tiptoe - in a Plymouth breakers yard.
	www.southlakes-uk.co.uk /ships.html (976 words)

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		The master, 36 crewmembers & eight gunners from Fresno City were picked up by HMS Azalea & landed at Gourock.
		The USS Abele is the first destroyer to be sunk by a Baka suicide aircraft 1945 - 5 Japanese ships are sunk at sea - - Submarine USS Silversides sinks an auxiliary submarine chaser east of Tanega Jima south of Kyushu.
		The frigates attempted to tow her to port but the boat sank while underway on 13 April 1945.
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