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	HMS Albemarle (1901) - TheBestLinks.com - HMS Albermarle, Battleship, Portsmouth, Royal Navy, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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		HMS Albermarle was a Pre-Dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy.
	www.thebestlinks.com /HMS_Albermarle.html (202 words)

	Royal Navy: History
		Renamed HMS Sutherland on 2 January 1716 she was employed as a hospital ship on the Mediterranean Station from May 1741.
		In 1759 HMS Sutherland was part of a British Fleet, under the command of Vice Admiral Charles Saunders (HMS Neptune), being assembled at Louisbourg for the expedition against Quebec.
		The present HMS Sutherland, built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited on the Clyde, was launched on 9 March 1996 by Lady Christina Walmsley, wife of Sir Robert Walmsley.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/1059.html (377 words)

	HMS Albemarle (1901) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		HMS Albemarle was a pre-Dreadnought Duncan-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle.
		She was laid down on 8 January 1900 at Chatham Dockyard, launched on 5 March 1901, and commissioned on 12 November 1903.
		See HMS Albemarle for other ships of this name.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/HMS_Albermarle_%281901%29 (225 words)

	Royal Navy: History
		Among the many famous Captains who have served with the Fishery Protection Squadron is Horatio Nelson — who captained HMS Albermarle in 1781, on fishery protection duties.
		The ratification of the North Sea Convention of 1883 (an International Convention for regulating the policing of the fisheries in the North Sea) saw the majority of seafaring nations with fishing interests in the North Sea agree to regulations for maintaining good order among fishermen.
		In 1891 the gunboat HMS Hearty became the first full time fishery protection vessel.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/8423.html (342 words)

	HMS Albermarle (Albemarle) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HMS Albermarle was a Royal Naval battleship of the Duncan Class.
		HMS Albermarle had her crew reduced to a minimum in February 1910 while at the Nore, but in October of that year became flagship once again at Portsmouth.
		HMS Albermarle then joined The Grand Fleet in 1914 serving with the northern patrol.
	www.the-weatherings.co.uk /pccship0133.htm (256 words)

	AboutDarwin.com - Darwin's Timeline
		H.M.S. Beagle arrived at the Falkland Islands at Port Louis.
		H.M.S. Beagle arrived at Hobart Town, on the island of Tasmania.
		H.M.S. Beagle dropped anchor at the Cocos Islands in the Indian ocean.
	www.aboutdarwin.com /timeline/time_04.html (3748 words)

	Bristol - Master history File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HMS BRISTOL is the latest in a succession of warships to be employed as the Royal Navy, Royal Naval Reserve, National Cadet Forces (NCF) and Youth Organisations Harbour Training and Accommodation Ship.
		HMS BRISTOL was originally considered a versatile ship with 3 modern weapon systems (Ikara, Seadart and 4.5" gun) backed by the then very sophisticated Action Data Automation weapon system Mark 2 involving 4 types of radar and 2 sonar systems.
		In her current role HMS BRISTOL is the latest in a succession of warships to be employed as the National Cadet Force Training/Accommodation and RN Harbour Training Ship.
	www.southernseacadets.org /bristolhistfile.htm (2297 words)

	Legion of Frontiersmen (NZ Command)
		At the end of 1886 he joined HMS ROVER and was rated by her captain as an "intelligent and capable young officer of temperate habits".
		After nine months on the HMS ROVER, Scott went on to spend the winter of 1887-8 at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich and in March 1888 he was awarded first-class certificates in pilotage, torpedoes and gunnery, coming in with the highest marks in his class in his year of seamanship.
		HMS MINERVA towed her from Portsmouth to Gibraltar, HMS VINDICTIVE took her on to Aden and from there HMS FOX towed her to an area 120 miles off the east coast of Socotra where she was left on her own for the final leg.
	frontiersmen.homestead.com /scott.html (16998 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HM Torpedo Boat No 110 HMS Aboukir HMS Adventure HMS Africa HMS Agamemnon 1877-1903 HMS Agamemnon 1906-1927 HMS Ajax 1880-1904 HMS Ajax 1934-1949 HMS Albermarle (Albemarle) HMS Amazon HMS Andromeda...
		HMS Africa HMS Agamemnon HMS Ajax HMS Belleisle HMS Bellerophon HMS Britannia HMS Colossus HMS Conqueror HMS Defence HMS Defiance HMS Dreadnought HMS Entrepenante HMS Euryalus HMS Leviathan HMS Mars HMS Minotaur HMS...
		HMS Africa HMS Africa was one of the smallest class of two deckers in the British Navy, carrying fewer and...
	hms_africa.iqexpand.com (438 words)

	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was during this period that Nelson was promoted Commander of the brig HMS Badger, thus at the age of twenty, he became a Post-Captain, with an immediate opportunity to distinguish himself on active service.
		On 11th June 1779 he was appointed Captain of HMS Hitchingbroke, and was sent to Nicaragua as the senior officer in command of a joint expedition to attack the Spanish fort at San Juan, as Spain had joined the French in support of the American colonists.
		In 1793 with the outbreak of the French Revolutionary wars Nelson was given command of HMS Agamemnon, and appointed to Lord Hood’s fleet, which was to serve in the Mediterranean.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_horatio_nelson.htm (1416 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS Anglesey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HMS Anglesey (P277) is one of five Island-class offshore patrol vessels charged with policing fishery protection legislation around the coast of the United Kingdom - an area of around 80,000 square miles.
		The normal pattern of patrol is two periods at sea, each of ten days, separated by a port visit to enable the ship's company to relax and recharge their batteries.
		Nelson was a captain in the Squadron - in the Albermarle in 1781 - and gunboat HMS Hearty became the first full-time fishery protection vessel in 1891.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/anglesey.asp (352 words)

	POLAR/ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1910-13
		H.M.S. HMS Queen was built at Devonport Dockyard and laid down on the 12th march 1901,launched on the 8th march 1902 and finally completed 1904.
		HMS Queen (along with HMS Prince of Wales) from the rest of the London Class by having amidships open 12 pounder gun batteries.
		HMS Queen served with the Mediterranean Fleet until 1907 and was transferred to the Atlantic Fleet 1908.
	www.historikorders.com /polar.htm (14834 words)

	Order of Battle - Battle of Jutland - 31 May to 1 June 1916
		HMS Lurcher,E31, E53, D6 left Harwich on the evening of 30th May to patrol positions off Southwold, midway to the Dutch coast.
		HMS Talisman, G2, G3, G4, G5 left Harwich at 1200, 31st May for a patrol position on the SE side of the Dogger Bank.
		HMS Hampshire, with Lord Kitchener on board, was sunk in this minefield on 5th June.
	www.navweaps.com /index_oob/OOB_WWI/OOB_WWI_Jutland.htm (3138 words)

	The Tidridge Family Web Site
		He spent some time at HMS Excellent at Whale Island and after training became a Gunner’s Mate and then a Gunner on board HMS Albermarle, a British battleship of the Duncan Class.
		The diary contains many exciting descriptions of the HMS Albermarle having to plough her way through the ice during her voyage to the White Sea in Russia, a sea frozen over for six months of the year.
		In June he was appointed to HMS Princess Margaret, a minelayer that was built in 1913-14 and he joined the ship at Immingham, north-east England.
	www.compusmart.ab.ca /jtidridge/aug01.htm (2095 words)

	PATRONAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Unlike in the army where no prior experience was required and an officers rank was dependant on what he could afford to purchase, a naval officer rose in rank on merit until such a time that he became a Post Captain, after which he was guaranteed, excepting disability, of becoming an Admiral through seniority.
		They were taken on in return for a debt written off or to pay off an officers bill with a merchant, or as a favour to a senior officer, in a system of interlocking patronage and favouritism.
		In 1782, Nelson, the then young captain of HMS Albermarle,sought after the patronage of Samuel Hood, of whom the King had declared to be "the most brilliant officer of the war".
	website.lineone.net /~cherbil/Misc/patronage.htm (1304 words)

	Research guide N1: Horatio Nelson: NMM PORT
		The Trafalgar Roll - a list of all the men who were eligible to receive the Trafalgar medal, the ship they served in, and any other medals they were entitled to.
		HMS Victory - Nelson's flagship at the battle of Trafalgar is the oldest commissioned Royal Navy warship.
		An appointment must be made to use the library, and gain access to their collection of manuscripts relating to Nelson.
	www.port.nmm.ac.uk /research/n1.html (2407 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - HMS Recruit - Part 2 - A5386016 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I was a Sub-Lieutenant RNVR in Recruit which was 2nd Senior Officer of 7th Minesweeping flotilla, thus being 4th ship in line behind the S.O’s ship Pelorus which has been described in the literature on D-Day as “the point of a very large arrow aimed at the Normandy coast”.
		The signalman on watch with me, a fine active service rating who had served his twelve years previous to the war in every type of ship and who now passed as the foremost authority on board on aeroplanes, would vie with me to be the first to recognise the aeroplanes.
		One Middle watch when things were particularly hot and rocket projectiles were bursting overhead and shrapnel landing on the deck, the ship immediately ahead of us in the line suddenly appeared to be moving.
	www1.thny.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A5386016 (2386 words)

	HMS Albemarle - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		HMS Albemarle - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Albemarle after George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (sometimes the spelling Albermarle is seen).
		The first Albemarle was a ship in service in 1664.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/HMS_Albermarle (228 words)

	Vignettes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HMS ALBEMARLE, overloaded with massive two ton shells, sailed for the Dardanelles, only to meet a ferocious storm, which burst the shells from their mountings, to kill and maim men and almost destroy the ship.
		As a torpedoman on the destroyer HMS ONSLAUGHT, he participated in a night attack on the German fleet.
		It was a lovely summer's evening as the brand new destroyer HMS Onslaught steamed through the night of May 30 towards the scene of action.
	firebuilder.com /wainfordnet/vignettes.htm (7591 words)

	SkyscraperCity Forums - Were your ancestors at Trafalgar? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Comments: HMS Captain was at the Battle of St Vincent on 11 June 1797.
		Comments: HMS Vanguard was at the Battle of the Nile on 1 August 1798.
		Comments: HMS Elephant was at the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=227192 (772 words)

	The National Archives \| Research, education & online exhibitions \| Exhibitions \| Nelson, Trafalgar, and those who ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Nelson remained unemployed until 23 August 1781, when he took command of HMS Albermarle, tasked with convoy duties in the Baltic and North Sea.
		On 13 November 1782, en route to New York, Nelson met Lord Samuel Hood on HMS Barfleur, which was anchored at Staten Island.
		Sailing to Jamaica in HMS Albermarle and accompanied by three other ships, Nelson, acting without orders, unsuccessfully attacked a French garrison on Turks Island on 8 March 1783.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nelson/gallery3/sanjuan.htm (839 words)

	eBay.co.uk - hms, h.m.s., h.m.s, naval items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HMS HERMES 2 (RN warship Naval Aircraft Carrier)
		HMS HERMES 3 (RN warship Naval Aircraft Carrier)
		HMS ARK ROYAL (warship Naval Royal Navy Carrier)
	collectables.search.ebay.co.uk /hms_Collectables_W0QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ19... (484 words)

	Ship Modelers Association - Famous Ships
		By midafternoon, the HMS ROYAL CHARLES was in danger of being sunk or surrendered to the EENDRACHT when the Dutch flagship exploded, killing all but five of her 400 crew, including the Dutch Admiral Wassenaer van Obdam.
		In the spring of 1666, command of the English fleet was divided between Prince Rubert and George Monck, Duck of Albermarle, in HMS ROYAL CHARLES.
		During the withdrawal (or tactical retreat), the HMS ROYAL PRINCE (90 guns) ran aground on Galloper Shoal and was burned by the Dutch.
	www.ship-modelers-assn.org /fam0304.htm (937 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Confederate Ram CSS Albemarle (1864) - Apr 28th, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The fact that the ironclad casemate ram CSS Albermarle was built at all is a tribute to the ingenuity and determination of her contractors and the Confederate navy.
		She was manned for Albermarle Sound inside North Carolina's Outer Banks, a region that had been under federal control for two years, and she was designed and built for the mission of regaining that area for the Confederacy.
		In spite of her humble beginning, the Albermarle was a serious threat to Union warships in Albermarle and neighboring sounds.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1125751/posts (9486 words)

	Nelson’s Ships : Book reviews : Journal for Maritime Research
		In the build up to the bicentenary of Trafalgar there can be few aspects of the life of the Hero that will escape notice, and this handsome, beautifully produced book might at first sight appear to be merely another contribution to the outpouring of emphemera that accompanies every major event of the modern age.
		Peter Goodwin, Curator of HMS Victory, is an expert on the ships of the 18th century Royal Navy, combining a wealth of 'hands on' experience with extensive archival research.
		In fact Suckling had died in July 1779, and Nelson was accompanied on this occasion by his elder brother Maurice, confusingly named for the late Controller, while his letter reported a recent correspondence with the dead man’s brother on another matter.
	www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk /server/show/conJmrBookReview.35 (1249 words)

	Ecuador & Galapagos
		Darwin in Galapagos: on September 15, 1835, the visitor that gave fame to the Galapagos, Charles Darwin, arrived aboard the HMS Beagle, commanded by Captain Robert FitzRoy.
		The Beagle spent just five weeks in the archipelago, during which time the 26-year old naturalist was able to visit four of the principal islands — San Cristóbal (Chatam), Floreana (Charles), Isabela (Albermarle) and Santiago (James).
		He spent 19 days on land, collecting and observing the flora and fauna of this "living laboratory of evolution," a term often used to describe the islands.
	library.thinkquest.org /27995/english/galapagos5.html (1714 words)

	Blackburn Roc
		They found their way to the Mediterranean and Bermuda, the latter the result of them serving with 806 Sqdn aboard HMS Illustrious during her shake-down cruise.
		To prove that Roc trainers also operated from carriers a photo in the Public Records Office shows a Roc target tug upended on the flight deck of the carrier HMS Formidable (reproduced in the book "The Fleet Air Arm in Camera 1912-1996" by Roger Hayward).
		The two lines behind the landing light on the wing are two small strakes, a permanent feature on both the Roc and Skua, it was to these that the light bomb carriers were attached when needed.
	freespace.virgin.net /john.dell/blackburn_roc.htm (1698 words)

	Antique Pocket Watches - Silver Explorer's Watch - Pieces of Time
		His Naval career saw him serving in the Europan War from 1914 to 1919 and in 1915 serving as Captain of HMS Albermarle.
		In 1916 he became Captain of HMS Burham, the flagship of the 5th battle squadron at the Battle of Jutland and for which he received a C.B. The Battle of Jutland was one of the most complicated in history, with the involvement of some two hundred and fifty ships.
		The Battle took place under such bad weather conditions, that it was a rare moment when more than a few ships at a time could follow the movements of their own forces and thousands of lives were lost.
	www.antique-watch.com /des/w5799.html (550 words)

	Royal Navy Battleships
		Since time immemorial, British warship names have been prefixed with "HMS", which stands for His Majesty's Ship or Her Majesty's Ship, depending on whether a king or queen is currently reigning.
		The Germans claim a tactical victory, but the battle is a strategic victory for the Royal Navy, which forced the High Seas Fleet had to retreat, and maintained their blockade of Germany.
		10 December 1941:HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers near Singapore.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/RNBBtable.html (1177 words)

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