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	HMS BARFLEUR - Find Friends from HMS BARFLEUR at Forces Reunited
		William Muirhead was at HMS Barfleur between 1950 and 1959
		Graham Osborne was at HMS Barfleur between 1955 and 1957
		Terence watson was at HMS Barfleur between 1957 and 1965
	www.forcesreunited.org.uk /namearchive/units/HMSNames/HMS-Barfleur.html (128 words)

	HMS Barfleur (D80) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		HMS Barfleur (D80) was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN).
		Barfleur was the only ship of the to see action during the Second World War when she joined the British Pacific Fleet upon commission seeing action during the against Japan.
		Barfleur with the rest of the 19th returned to the UK in 1947 where she was subsequently placed in
	www.freeglossary.com /HMS_Barfleur_(D80) (625 words)

	Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He first served in the Baltic aboard HMS Hind, commanded by his uncle, and in 1795 was appointed acting lieutenant on HMS Thetis.
		In 1800 Cochrane was appointed to command the sloop HMS Speedy.
		The Chileans named the County Class Destroyer HMS Antrim (D18) in his honour when she was bought from the Royal Navy in 1984.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Cochrane (2705 words)

	HMS Barfleur
		HMS Barfleur was part of the Mediterranean Squadron in 1896.
		In 1897 the “Barfleur,” commanded by Captain Reginald Neville Custance, was employed in the pacification of the Island of Crete, which led to the appointment of Prince Charles of Greece as High Commissioner, under the suzerainty of the Sultan of Turkey.
		a detachment from the “Barfleur” commanded by commander David Beatty, proceeded in a Naval Brigade nearly 2000 strong, and of mixed nationalities, under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Seymour, to the relief of Peking.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_barfleur.htm (869 words)

	hms hood survivor
		HMS Victory is the only 18th Century ship of the line still to be found anywhere in the world...
		HMS Hood, the Mighty Hood' as she was popularly known in...
		HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy, is shown at various times in her service with HMS Prince of Wales and during her hunt for the Bismarck and HMS Hoods tragic sinking in May 1941 by the German battleship Bismarck.
	www.uk20.co.uk /search.php?q=hms+hood+survivor (433 words)

	Units in Suez
		HMS Defender Ship was steaming back to UK from the Baltics, where it was escort to The Royal Yacht at Stockholm and Copenhagen etc. The ship was diverted to the Mediterranean to Ammunition ship etc. and proceeded to Suez for the Hostilities.
		HMS Forth picked up LST Eempire Cymric at Malta and sailed to Port Said, joined HMS Forth in Port Said and when the operation was over took her back to Malta.
		HMS Modeste a frigate patrolled the red sea end of the canal for most of the Suez crisis of 1956 and was involved in a few incidents.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /suez/untis.html (5471 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: HMS St Albans
		The first HMS St Albans was in 1687, a fifty gun ship of the line she fought at Barfleur in 1691 before being wrecked in a gale in Kinsale harbour.
		The second St Albans was commissioned in 1706, another fifty gun warship she served in the war against Spain from 1739, mainly in the West Indies.
		St Albans is home for one of the country's oldest and finest indoor skateparks, at the Pioneer Youth Club, in Heathlands Drive, next to the fire station.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-St-Albans (585 words)

	HMS Barfleur
		The first Barfleur was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line built at Deptford in 1697, and broken up in 1783.
		The second Barfleur was built at Chatham in 1768 as a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line, but later had another eight guns added to her quarterdeck, making her a 98-gun ship.
		The fifth Barfleur (D80), launched 1943, was a Battle-class destroyer that served in World War II and was broken up in 1966.
	hms-barfleur.ask.dyndns.dk (184 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: HMS Britannia
		Seven vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Britannia, after Britannia, the goddess and later personification of Britain.
		The first Britannia was a 100-gun first-rate launched in 1682 and dismantled in 1715 for use in building the next Britannia.
		George, and Barfleur, then broken up in 1825.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Britannia (372 words)

	Ship Modelers Association - Famous Ships
		This ship is not to be confused with the HMS BARFLEUR that was ordered and laid down in 28 October 1942, commissioned in 1944 and served with distinction in WWII, present at the formal surrender in Tokyo Bay of Japan in 1945.
		HMS BARFLEUR was part of Admiral Richard Howe’s fleet at the Glorious First of June, 1794, against France’s Rear Admiral Villaret-de-Joyeuse, when the British defeated the French.
		HMS BARFLEUR then flew the flag of Vice Admiral W. Waldegrave at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, fought on February 14, 1797.
	www.ship-modelers-assn.org /fam0411.htm (939 words)

	Holefamily: HMS Devonshire - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The HMS Devonshire site is worth a look, for more information about all of the ships.
		She was powered by oil-fired steam engines, which gave her a cruising speed of 12knots, but was capable of speeds up to 32knots on occasions.
		After the war, HMS Devonshire became a Training Ship until she was decommissioned in 1953.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /johnhole/devonshire/index.html (811 words)

	Lost Contact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Posting this message on behalf of my father in law Bill Cookson, who served on HMS Evenlode 1944/45 (radio operator) and is trying to trace any information on the ship or photographs of her.
		I am trying to find anyone who was serving on HMS Weston when she depth charged and sunk the German submarine U-13 in May 1940.
		HMS Loch Fyne 1960 - 1962,HMS Phoebe 1968 - 1971,RNH Devonport.
	www.royal-naval-association.co.uk /rna11.html (2895 words)

	Battle class
		An experimental mounting was fitted to HMS SAVAGE, a Troubridge class destroyer, in 1942.
		This trial mounting proved satisfactory but suffered some defects one of which (oil leakage through the decks) was never really solved and continued to plague at least one Battle right up until she finally paid off in 1962.
		Placed in reserve in 1947, before being commissioned, she was to languish for 23 years before being towed to Portsmouth in 1970 for conversion to become a Sonar Trials Ship.
	www.tosd.demon.co.uk /class.htm (1282 words)

	HMS Victory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		HMS Victory ist der Name eines britischen Linienschiffes.
		Die dritte Victory 1675 in Dienst gestellt bereits mit 1.486 war an der Seeschlacht von Barfleur 1692 beteiligt.
		Aus Sicht der Admiralität hatte die Victory im Gegensatz zu ihren Vorgängerschiffen ein Ende: 1734 mit 1.920 Tonnen der Navy zur gestellt ging sie zehn Jahre später in unvorstellbar starken Sturm der selbst London noch verwüstete mit der gesamten Besatzung Ärmelkanal verloren.
	www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/HMS_Victory.html (537 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS St Albans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The ship takes her name from the bastard son of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, Charles Beauclerk, the first Duke of St Albans, who was born barely two decades before the first of six HMS St Albans served the crown.
		She was wrecked 12 months later in a storm as she hurried for shelter in Kinsale harbour.
		The Dukes were originally conceived as Atlantic anti-submarine hunters for the Cold War which ended as the first two of the class, HMS Norfolk and Argyll, were entering service.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/stalbans.asp (774 words)

	Cuthbert_Collingwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Wenig später lernte er Horatio Nelson kennen, mit dessen glanzvoller Laufbahn in der Royal Navy seine eigene aufs engste verwoben blieb.
		Anfang 1799 wurde er zum Rear Admiral of the White befördert und war auf seinem Flaggschiff ''HMS Triumph'' im Mittelmeer mit der Beobachtung und Blockade der in Toulon liegenden französischen Flotte beauftragt.
		März 1810 starb er an Bord der ''HMS Ville de Paris'', die zu diesem Zeitpunkt vor Mahon auf der Insel Menorca lag.
	bodo.subdomain.de /Cuthbert_Collingwood (992 words)

	Vancouver's colleagues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Joseph Baker, the second son of the James and Nancy (née Ludlow and from Ludlow in Shropshire) Baker, was born in Bristol early in 1768.
		Broughton took command of HMS Illustrious and, in 1809, was part of the expedition under Lord Gambier against the French Brest fleet in Aix Roads.
		Henry joined HMS Orontes as a volunteer before joining his uncle, Alan Gardner, on HMS Courageux in 1790 (Vancouver was a lieutenant on the ship at the time).
	pages.quicksilver.net.nz /jcr/~vancouver2.html (19076 words)

	International Veterans Rendezvous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Service/Unit : HMS Decoy 1936 and HMS Repulse 1941
		HMS Kingston F64 was bombed 04/11/1942 and later scuttled.
		He served at HMS Arthur, HMS Drake on board the destroyer HMS Ramsay (1 April 1941 until 21 November 1942) then at HMS Ashbury in Boston USA from 13 February 1943 until 2 March 1942 when he was posted to the frigate HMS Blackwood.
	www.fortressweymouth.co.uk /navy.htm (6524 words)

	Air Rescue page. Aircraft information Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		Saxe, RF Lt, 801 squadron, seafire, 9.8.1945 of HMS Implacable, ditched in Ramrod to Matsushima.
		Crew of Walrus W3085, 10.8.1945 HMS Victorious Flt, force landed during rescue, and was subsequently sunk by gunfire from HM destroyers.
		Crew of 851 sqdn Avenger, HMS Emperor, 15.5.1945, Operation Dukedom, attack on Japanese cruiser in Malacca strait, out of fuel, ditched 30m NE of fleet, rescued by 1700 sqdn walrus.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/AirSeaRescue/FAAAirRescue.html (1647 words)

	Toon Ale Newcastle Beer: Swan Hunters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The shipyard survived until 1993 - then trading as Swan Hunter - when it was forced to call in the receivers after the UK government awarded the contract for HMS Ocean to another shipyard, for a cut down price, which later turned out to be artificial.
		The ship was based on the design of the HMS Invincible class aircraft carriers, two of which were built at Swan Hunter, but the tender process failed to take note of this fact.
		The company was an early manufacturer of Charles Parsons turbine engines, which enabled the RMS Mauretania to achieve its great speeed.
	www.toonale.co.uk /swan_hunter.htm (471 words)

	HMS Victory - definition erklärung bedeutung glossar zu HMS Victory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		HMS Victory - definition erklärung bedeutung glossar zu HMS Victory
		Die dritte Victory, 1675 in Dienst gestellt, bereits mit 1.486 Tonnen, war an der Seeschlacht von Barfleur 1692 beteiligt.
		Aus Sicht der Admiralität hatte die vierte Victory im Gegensatz zu ihren Vorgängerschiffen ein unrühmliches Ende: 1734 mit 1.920 Tonnen der Navy zur Verfügung gestellt, ging sie zehn Jahre später in einem unvorstellbar starken Sturm, der selbst London noch verwüstete, mit der gesamten Besatzung im Ärmelkanal verloren.
	www.adlexikon.de /HMS_Victory.shtml (706 words)

	Content
		HMS Cavalier - The Official Website of the HMS Cavalier Association - the last remaining World War 2 destroyer in Britain
		Click here for movie footage of HMS Vanguard This will take you to British Pathe where you can download about 70 newsreel clips showing HMS Vanguard throughout her career.
		HMS Barfleur - A very interesting site about this WW2 destroyer in the Pacific at the end of the war.
	battleshiphmsvanguard.homestead.com /Content.html (362 words)

	Some FLUELLEN Customs Men
		Married Elizabeth KNOWLES 24 Jul 1844, parish church of Charles and the Martyr, Plymouth, Devon.
		Rank or profession given as mariner, residence at time of marriage: HMS Harper.
		NOTE: From records of baptism, parish of Antony (Torpoint), Cornwall, 13 Sep 1819, Mary, daughter of George and Philippa KNOWLES (elder sister of Elizabeth, above): profession of father given as Seaman in a Revenue Cutter.
	members.tripod.com /morrab/some_fluellen_customs_men.htm (497 words)

	Group One
		HMS Barfleur, on route to breakers, August 1966.
		HMS Finisterre, as viewed from HMS Centaur over a Transport Ship.
		HMS Sluys (R60) pictured c.1950 before she was transferred to Iran.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /group_one.htm (945 words)

	HMS Britannia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Royal Naval Man of War HMS Britannia, First Rate Ship of the Line with 100 guns ordered 25th April 1751 and built at Portsmouth dockyard, launched 19th October 1762.
		Renamed in 1810 as HMS Princess Royal in 1812 renamed HMS St George and in 1819 again changed to HMS Barfleur and finally broken up in 1825.
		Maritime art print HMS Britannia by maritime artist John Ward.
	www.military-art.com /sd5665.htm (562 words)

	Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 - S
		Settled permanently at Warsash, near Southampton, where he gave many years' service as a churchwarden, and from where he sailed his small boat in the Solent.
		Assistant to Captain of Dockyard, Devonport, and Assistant King's Harbour Master, Devonport and Berehaven [HMS Drake]
		HMS King Alfred (training establishment, Hove, Sussex) *
	www.unithistories.com /officers/RN_officersS.html (517 words)

	Model Shipwright Magazine from The Model Dockyard
		HMS Lowstaff (Part 4, conclusion) by R A Lightley
		HMS Invincible (1744—1758) (Part 6, conclusion) by Mark Tindall
		HM Submarines L52 and L56 by Clive Nightingale
	www.model-dockyard.com /books/msm.asp (806 words)

	Splashdown in the Mediterranean of Hastings TG613
		One aircraft arrived on the horizon at 1200hrs GMT and saw the discharge not of the two star red distress flares that had been fired but the smoke from the cartridges and flew over the dinghies, within a very short period of time this aircraft dropped a two way portable VHF radio by parachute.
		Contact between the Albatross and the survivors was established and they were advised that a destroyer HMS Barfleur had been dispatched from Malta to pick up the survivors.
		The survivors were advised that the if the destroyer had not arrived by sundown, a Grumman Albatross would alight upon the water and pick them up rather than the possibility of losing sight of the dinghies in darkness.
	splashdown2.tripod.com /id14.html (1963 words)

	QUEEN VICTORIAS NAVY, royal navy
		Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy but it has been noted that sometimes an original is captioned wrongly....so it is easy to make a mistake, however, I hope I have not.
		HM COMPOSITE CORVETTE OPAL and COMPOSITE SLOOP FANTOME
		HMS EMPRESS OF INDIA in dry dock at Chatham Dockyard
	www.cyber-heritage.co.uk /vicnavy (375 words)

	Historic Naval Art Prints. Battle of the Saints duringthe War of the American Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		After the day's battle he surrendered his flag ship Ville de Paris to Admiral Lord Hood on HMS Barfleur.
		Admiral Rodney in his flag ship HMS Formidable engaged with other Royal Navy ships against four French ships of the line, the rest of the French fleet scattered.
		De Grasse was the first French naval commander ever to be taken in combat.
	www.cranstonfinearts.co.uk /gisd9842.htm (925 words)

	Model Shipwright No 116 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		For example there is a contemporary photograph of the Confederate commerce raider Rappahanock, that I at least found interesting.
		There is also an interesting article on the Fleet Destroyer, HMS Barfleur, one of the “Battle” Class that came into service at the end of World war II.
		A full set of plans are enclosed to enable the skilled modeler to produce the vessel for the table top.
	www.wargames.co.uk /BookReviews/Chrysalis/shipwright116.htm (197 words)

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