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	HMS Calliope (1914) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Calliope was a British C class light cruiser of the Royal Navy under construction at the outbreak of World War I.
		Both Calliope and her sister ship Champion were based on HMS Caroline.
		Calliope was built at HM Dockyard, Chatham, Kent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Calliope_(1914) (197 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 Cairo (D87) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Cairo (D87) was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the Egyptian city of Cairo.
		She was laid down by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead on 28 November 1917, launched on 19 November 1918 and commissioned on 24 September 1919.
		During the operation she was sunk by the Italian submarine Axum north of Bizerta, Tunisia on 12 August 1942.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Cairo_(D87) (197 words)

	Convoy HN 2 - warsailors.com
		HMS Imogen and HMS Icarus sailed from Sullom Voe at 11:40 on Nov. 14-1939 in order to meet up with Convoy ON 2, while HMS Impulsive departed at 13:10 that same day, with orders to rendezvous with HMS Imogen off Hovden Channel at 10:00 on Nov. 15.
		W/T silence was broken and the position and action taken reported to HMS Cairo, before Impulsive closed the remainder of the stragglers and set them on the rigth course to catch up with the convoy, which was sighted at 09:35, and by dusk all the ships had rejoined.
		HMS Cairo then parted company; by then the convoy had been formed for the night and course set from 5' off Buchan Ness to follow the swept channels to Methil.
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/hn2.html (1079 words)

	Capetown Class
		HMS Cairo served with the Home Fleet from 1939-42 moving to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1942 where she was torpedoed by the Italian submarine, Axum, near Bizerta.
		HMS Capetown served with the Mediterranean fleet from 1939-40 and the East Indies from 1941-42, moving to the Eastern fleet from 1942-43.
		HMS Colombo served in the East Indies 1940-41, then the Eastern fleet in 1942 being converted to an anti-aircraft ship in 1943 after which she served in the Mediterranean fleet until the end of the war.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /capetown_class.htm (2425 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: HMS Zulu (F18) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The second HMS Zulu of the Royal Navy was a Tribal-class destroyer.
		Her keel was laid down on August 10, 1936.
		See HMS Zulu for other ships of this name.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Zulu-%28F18%29 (281 words)

	Convoy ON 14 (U.K.-Norway 1940) - warsailors.com
		HMS Electra was sent 30 miles to the south with orders to make the expected time of arrival of ON 14 at Kirkwall and rejoin at full speed.
		Shortly after 10:00 Cairo was sighted, giving her estimated position as 255° Utvær Light 4 miles, which fit in well with the islands that had been seen, the first island being Storsvala on the north side of the fjord.
		Cairo was turning 180° at that time, and the destroyers were regaining their stations ahead of her, Escort having lost contact.
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/on14norw.html (2076 words)

	Convoys
		HMS Argus again returned and 14 more Hurricaines were flown off but a strong headwind resulted in 9 of them running out of fuel short of Malta.
		HMS Welshman arrived ahead of the rest and was rapidly unloaded, sailing within six hours.
		From this convoy the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle, the anti-aircraft cruiser HMS Cairo, the cruiser HMS Manchester and the destroyer HMS Foresight were all sunk.
	www.killifish.f9.co.uk /Malta%20WWII/Convoys.htm (692 words)

	Chapter-49 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HMS Sikh was also hit by a 500lb bomb dropped from one of the Bf-109 fighter-bombers (JaBo) and HMS Gurkha damaged by splinters.
		HMS Gurkha tried to take Euralyus in tow, hoping to reach Limnos which was at less than 20nm.
		Radio communication between HMS Cairo and Limnos fighters was however detected by German operators, revealing that another AA cruiser was operating off the Island.
	users.domaindlx.com /fantasque/original/Chapter-49.htm (12616 words)

	Chapter-51 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HMS Bedouin and Somali entered a fight against batteries, which had opened a murderous fire against the first LCIs, sinking one and damaging two.
		HMS Somali was hit too, probably by a 6in shell, under the bridge.
		HMS Zulu had to close the beach to the point of stricking ground to silence a 120mm which had been though to be destroyed by Ramillies fire.
	users.domaindlx.com /fantasque/original/Chapter-51.htm (8431 words)

	HMS Amphion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HMS Amphion a ship of the Royal Navy is named after the Greek hero Amphion.
		Although this book deals mainly with the restoration of the HMS Victory it does delve into the history of the ship in the process.
		The Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage Of HMS Challenger by Oxford University based earth scientist and science writer Richard Corfield is the true and inherently fascinating story of one boat's 1872 journey and mission to map and sample the ocean fl...
	www.freeglossary.com /HMS_Amphion (305 words)

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		Served at the siege and fall of Sebastopol, and the bombardment and capture of Kinburn.
		HMS Orlando was anchored in Tunis Bay 3rd November 1864.
		He was a Lieutenant (HMS Active) at the destruction of a Turkish squadron in the Dardanelles in 1807; served on HMS Spartan, in boat actions in the Adriatic, and at the reduction of Zante and neighbouring islands.
	www.angelfire.com /mp/memorials/AMaltalist2.htm (3965 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer ORP Piorun of the N class
		Piorun and HMS Keppel are forced to return to base due to damages caused by a storm.
		The convoy was also protected by the battleships HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson and the light cruisers HMS Edinburgh and HMS Cairo, this was due to the fact that the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were operating in the North Atlantic.
		HMS Rodney, HMS Legion, Piorun and Garland composed the escort of two troop ships heading from Iceland to the Clyde.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/5423.html (1283 words)

	The Wartime Memories Project - H.M.S. Cairo
		H.M.S. Cairo was launched in 1918, she was built by the Cammell Laird Shipyard in Birkenhead, U.K. In 1938/9 she was converted to Anti-Aircraft cruiser at Chatham dockyard in 1938-1939.
		HMS Cairo was sunk by a torpedo from the Italian submarine "Axum" on the 12th of August 1942, whilst escorting the Pedestal convoy, in the Mediterranean, north of Bizerta, Tunisia.
		With Cairo's Captain Hardy in command we left Gibraltar with an escort of seven destroyers and in the convoy six merchant ships, and very soon came the first of the air attacks.
	www.wartimememories.co.uk /ships/cairo.html (1778 words)

	Definition of cairo declaration
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	www.wordiq.com /search/cairo+declaration.html (661 words)

	Operation Pedestal
		Joining her are her sister HMS Rodney, and three large carriers, HMS Victorious, HMS Eagle, and HMS Indomitable, Britain's first multi-carrier task force.
		HMS Branham suggests the tanker be moved by towing alongside.
		HMS Ledbury turns up to assist with the tow, and sends Sailors aboard to hook in cables.
	geocities.com /mike_buhagiar/ohio/ohio.html (2694 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - A Life at Sea, part 1 of 2
		I was at Portsmouth for about 3 months and then I went on HMS Cairo and finished up on the Atlantic convoys; Going half way to America and then coming back, escorting other ships.
		HMS Eagle was with us and the Manchester and Liverpool — all these other ships.
		One of them said that the Cairo had sunk a sister ship and I am still trying to figure out how we did it because we opened fire, we had semi-armour piercing, they were for air craft only and we only had 40 rounds of that.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/88/a7949488.shtml (2656 words)

	World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HMS Prince of Wales's gunnery radar was jammed by her own high-power radio transmitting the enemy movement reports to the Admiralty.
		HMS Hood fired about six salvos before the Bismarck replied, the Bismarck's gunnery was extremely accurate, the shells made a noise like an express train going through a tunnel.
		HMS Hood then gave one last puff of smoke up her funnel before she broke in half, it didn't take very long before she sank completely out of sight.
	www.graham.day.dsl.pipex.com /ww2025.htm (560 words)

	HMS Cairo (D87) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HMS Cairo named after the Egyptian city of Cairo was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy launched in 1918 and sunk by an Italian submarine in August 1942.
		During the Great Depression Cecilia (Mia Farrow) is trapped in a dreary life with a soulless husband (Danny Aiello), so she escapes to the movies.
		This video is one of the "Super Cities" series produced by the International Video Network, which consists of one-half hour tapes of 22 of the more interesting cities in the world.The approach that the producers take is to mix aerial and ground footage in...
	www.freeglossary.com /HMS_Cairo_(D87) (408 words)

	HMS Curlew. Royal Navy Ceres Class Cruiser, 1917 - 1940
		HMS Curlew along with HMS Coventry were used as prototype conversions to anti-aircraft cruisers.
		HMS Curlew was sunk due to bombing from German aircraft near Ofot fjord Norway, 26th May 1940.
		Certificate of my father Henry Walter Lesslie who is shown to have served as a Stoker Class 1 on the HMS Curlew from 31st August 1939 to 26th May 1940 and was a survivor when she was sunk off Norway.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_curlew.htm (974 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - August 10th - 12th, 1942
		HMS Furious launches her Spitfires, which reach Malta, then returns to Gibraltar, mission accomplished.
		Vichy French minister Pierre Laval tells radio listeners that "the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the war." This announcement comes as little joy to the scores of Frenchmen who are rounded up that day to be deported to Germany as slave labor.
		The Germans torpedo the destroyer HMS Foresight, blasting off her rudder and screws.
	www.usswashington.com /dl12au42.htm (3031 words)

	HMS Cairo, HMS Nubian, HMS Auckland
		Page 4 of Admiralty report, H.M.S. Nubian No. 5/16 of 23 April 1940, confirms that my grandfather and his crew were taken aboard this Flotilla Class Destroyer during the course of the evening, Sunday 21 April 1940 and returned to Scapa Flow on Tuesday, 23 April 1940.
		Commissioned with a Portsmouth crew on the 19th November 1938, Auckland worked up at Portland and sailed for her first assignment on 4th January 1939, arriving at Simonstown on the 17th February and cruised on the eastern coast of southern Africa during that summer.
		On the 8th April 1941 Auckland arrived at Alexandria and transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet being based at Alexandria and covering convoys and operations along the Libyan coast until sunk by air attack off Tobruk on the 24th June 1941.
	www.royal-naval-reserve.co.uk /cairo-and-nubian.htm (1204 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Cairo class Light cruisers
		Cairo and Calcutta were rearmed as Anti-Aircraft cruisers shortly before the war.
		HMS Cairo (D 87) (lost 12 Aug, 1942)
		HMS Calcutta (D 82) (lost 1 Jun, 1941)
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=407 (108 words)

	HMS Liverpool - The Royal Navy Ships of Victor Johns
		The bows and roof of 'A' turret were blown off and she was taken in tow, stern first by HMS Orion.
		Along with this convoy was the covering force of the battleship HMS Malaya, the aircraft-carriers HMS Argus and HMS Eagle, three cruisers and eight destroyers.
		Nevertheless the Polish destroyer Kujawiak hit a mine and was sunk and two other destroyers HMS Badsworth and HMS Matchless and the supply ship Orari were damaged by mines, the latter at the very entrance to Grand Harbour.
	home1.swipnet.se /~w-11578/hms_liverpool.htm (776 words)

	Egyptian Tours
		At the top is MS Triton, fitted out at the highest level of luxury and taking at most 20 couples on each trip.
		The ancient ports of the Egyptian Red Sea are among the world's best diving and fishing resorts, and expansive white sand beaches provide for relation in the sun.
		It is recommended that you take the steps down, as they will lead you past the fountain of Moses, a small chapel of the Virgin, and two arches, the Gate of St. Stephen and the Gate of the Law.
	www.capecairo.com /egypt/egypt.html (1226 words)

	Jumna
		HMS Serapis is in the background of this picture of HMS Dreadnought
		There was a pleasant sequel to the voyage, for at the first regimental dinner after their return the Commanding Officer of the 10th Hussars presented to the officers' mess a picture of H.M.S. Jumna, as a memento of all they owed to the ship and its company.
		Some of the Union and Castle ships were chartered as transports for the campaign, and of these the 3,000-ton Arab of 1879 became headquarters ship at Suakim; a function which was to become common enough in the Second World War, but which was unusual in these early days.
	www.barnardf.demon.co.uk /pictures/jumna.htm (810 words)

	wrecks tunisia HMS Cairo
		The HMS Cairo was a C-class British light cruiser, bulit in Birkenhead by Cammell Laird Shipyard during 1917, and launched during 1918.
		On August 12, 1942, the HMS Cairo was cruising in Central Mediterranean off the coasts of Tunisia.
		The HMS Cairo was hit by a single torpedo, but she was so badly damaged thet she sank after a few hours, when she was North of Bizerta.
	www.sportesport.it /wrecksTS010.htm (196 words)

	Cairo (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cairo (operating system), the internal Microsoft code name for a 1990s technology project
		Cairo (graphics), the free software vector graphics library
		HMS Cairo, the ship of the Royal Navy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cairo_(disambiguation) (116 words)

	Naval Actions and losses 1942
		HMS Gurkha (ex HMS Larne) due to be part of a Malta convoy torpedoed by a U-boat.
		Fiji class cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes herself and is then sunk by German planes in the Barents sea.
		Cruiser HMS Nigeria torpedoed and forced to retire by the Italian submarine Axum.
	www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Naval_Actions_WW242Res.html (2272 words)

	Operation Harpoon - June 1942
		The covering fore to the Sicilian Channel consists of two carriers Argus and Eagle, a battleship, four cruisers Cairo, Kenya, Liverpool and Charibdis, and ten destroyers.
		The main aim of the convoy was to supply the island with fuel oil.
		HMS Cairo takes two hits, and two British destroyers (Bedouin and Partridge are disabled), while the Italian Vivaldi is set on fire.
	geocities.com /mike_buhagiar/convoy/convoy.html (1052 words)

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