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	HMS Grampus
		An early HMS Grampus, 50, was commissioned at Portsmouth by Captain T. Gordon Caulfield in March 1803 and was ordered to the Downs on May 7.
		Another HMS Grampus was a Beagle-class destroyer[?] originally named Nautilus[?] when she was commissioned on March 30, 1910.
		Another HMS Grampus was a submarine of the Royal Navy built at Chatham Dockyard[?] and launched February 25, 1936.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMS_Grampus.html (905 words)

	Ship of the Month
		HMS Onyx, like her surviving sister HMS Ocelot at Chatham, is an Oberon class attack submarine.
		HMS Onyx is 295ft (89.4m) in length, 26.5ft (8m) breadth with an 18ft (5.5m) draught and the class is quite unique in the fact that the casing is constructed of glass fibre and alloy, the first time a plastic had been used in any submarine construction.
		The working life of HMS Onyx comprised of four different commissions that were to ultimately take her around the globe.
	www.north-cheshire-marine.org.uk /smApr.htm (488 words)

	RootsWeb: CHESHIRE-L Re: [CHS] : HMS WOOLSTON / HMS TANAtSIDE
		Re: [CHS] : HMS WOOLSTON by Ellen Edwards < >
		Re: [CHS] : HMS WOOLSTON / HMS TANAtSIDE by "Lawrence Ollier" < >
		RE: [CHS] : HMS WOOLSTON by "Peter Richardson" < >
	archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/CHESHIRE/2006-05/1148328214 (725 words)

	Report
		For his decision to pursue the Spaniards, the captain of HMS Ferocious: was gazetted and given 1,400 Guineas, while her 2nd lieutenant was given 1,700 Guineas for his lucky shooting.
		The captain of HMS Richard Lionheart was mentioned as well and got 800 Guineas for the assist (and a cheer from the crew of HMS Ferocious), while her 2nd lieutenant was rewarded by ”being made” (promoted to Master and Commander and his first independent command – the Revenue Service cutter HMS Snoopy).
		HMS Bellerophone fell foul of the Reconquista because a misunderstanding between her captain and her 2nd Lieutenant and now there is bad blood between them; In their wisdom, the Admiralty decided not to court-martial both but to promote the latter (he gets to comamnd another sloop, HMS Vercingetorix).
	www.brinyengarde.co.uk /turn8.htm (2796 words)

	HMS Firedrake Page 19
		HMS Firedrake the destroyer Tynemouth adopted in February last year after the towns Warship Week objective of £250,000 had been more than trebled, has been lost.
		The supplies Petty Officer aboard the destroyer HMS Firedrake was lost on 17th December 1942.
		The night of the 16/17th December 1942 was a tragedy for the families of the crew of HMS Firedrake, but for one family it was double the heartbreak, this was the Totterdell family of Essex, who had two of their sons onboard, Gerald and Ronald, both were lost that night.
	www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk /firedrake19.htm (1506 words)

	HMS Brilliant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		HMS Brilliant was the third of the new Type 22 frigates ordered by the Royal Navy and was built by Messrs Yarrow (Shipbuilders) Ltd at Scotstoun Glasgow.
		At eight o'clock in the morning of the 13th, the ten battering ships of the enemy lying at the head of the bay, under the command of Admiral Moreno, began to get under sail in order to come against the garrison; everything was in readiness for their reception.
		He announced the construction of a new HMS BRILLIANT with the words " We are building her for you" The Borough resolved to renew it's affiliation and this was approved by the Commander in Chief Naval Home Command in January 1980.
	www.hmsbrilliant.com /hmsb.cgi?page=ship (3530 words)

	'Prince, my problem is the itch'
		The Cheshire Home, which was set up in 1955, is part of an international organisation established in 1948 in England by Lord Leonard Cheshire, a World War II RAF pilot.
		HMS Kent's presence had coincided with Prince Charles' visit and that of the Royal Navy's First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Alan West.
		Jija Bhauvatane, a resident of the Cheshire Home, who sitting behind her, was upset with the woman's response.
	in.rediff.com /news/2003/nov/05spec1.htm (1118 words)

	The Hindu : Prince Charles visits Cheshire Home
		Sailors of the Royal Navy's warship, HMS Kent, now on a goodwill visit to Mumbai, arrived well ahead of the Prince and gave a coat of paint to the oldest structure of the Home.
		The Cheshire Home, a global chain of service centres looking after the physically challenged and helping them rehabilitate themselves, was started by Group Captain L. Cheshire of the Royal Air Force who had played a role in dropping the atom bomb on Nagasaki.
		The Cheshire Home in Mumbai is the first such centre outside England and the third in the world.
	www.hindu.com /2003/11/06/stories/2003110604631200.htm (389 words)

	HMS Royal Sovereign (05) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Royal Sovereign, launched in May 1915, was a Revenge-class battleship of the Royal Navy.
		Displacing 27,500 tons and armed with eight 15 inch guns, she ended her service in the Soviet Navy as Arkhangelsk in 1944–1949, being returned to the UK for scrapping.
		Part of her gun turret mechanism was later reused in the 250 foot "Mark I" radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire built in 1955-57.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Royal_Sovereign_(05) (178 words)

	red-duster.co.uk Homepage for the red duster merchant navy maritime information archive
		In August 1914 she was requisitioned for trooping duties and in December 1915 was converted into the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Gloucestershire and served with the 10th Cruiser Squadron.
		She was present at the withdrawal from Narvik in April 1940 and on 6th December of the same year was bombarded from shore as her launches brought of the wounded at Tobruk.
		CHESHIRE (2) was built in 1927 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. at Glasgow with a tonnage of 10550grt, a length of 483ft 7in, a beam of 60ft 2in and a service speed of 15.5 knots.
	www.red-duster.co.uk /BIBBY13.htm (5207 words)

	Diet and Victualling
		It may be significant that the two early sources also instruct that Cheshire Cheese be issued at two thirds the weight of Suffolk, whereas none of the later sources mention any such provision.
		(Thus Cheshire was produced also in Staffs, Derbys, Leics and Wales.) Whilst there were traditional sizes and shapes for cheeses there does seem to have been quite a variation in both size and shape of the cheeses produced, determined by the size and shape of the cheese press cobbled together on each Farm.
		In addition the two thirds allowance for Cheshire suggests that when Cheshire was issued then it was the full cream variety (Being a full cream cheese it is fattier and therefore less dense than a flet cheese.
	www.hms.org.uk /nelsonsnavycheese.htm (1177 words)

	cobley-history.co.uk
		HMS Leviathan was built at Chatham dockyard and launched in 1790, being one of a class of six modelled on the lines of a captured French 74, the Courageux.
		At Trafalgar she was fourth in the column led by HMS Victory abreast of HMS Conqueror and astern of HMS Neptune, and cleared for action to give the guns freedom to fire.
		Animals were often kept on board ships at this time to provide fresh eggs and meet, and a sheep given to the ship by Nelson in the West Indies was kept, survived the battle and was taken home by Captain Bayntun to join his family farm.
	www.btinternet.com /~mark.cobley/notables/thomas1.html (344 words)

	Polar Science Station: Pop Goes Antarctica?
		We were met by David Griffiths, the Executive Officer of the HMS Endurance.
		The HMS Endurance has a great crew to help people on and off the ship.
		James Matthews is one of the hydrographic surveyors on the HMS Endurance.
	www.literacynet.org /polar/pop/html/journal/journal-2002-01-17.html (458 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Letters-HMS Edinburgh - Was there ASDIC contact?
		I had been discussing the loss of HMS Edinburgh with a member of our local club who was a survivor when the ship was lost.
		At the time of the sinking in 1942 the submarines HMS Sealion, on which he served, and HMS Trident were based at Polyarnyyo near Murmansk – they were positioned there to counter the possibility of the Germans sending large battle ships to that area.
		In his case he was transferred direct to the minesweeper HMS Gossamer which came along side and enabled many of the Edinburgh’s crew to board without getting their feet wet.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /Letters/HMSEdinburgh-WasthereASDI.html (1028 words)

	Hickson Watermen
		John Hickson, born 5 FEB 1808 in Barnton, Cheshire, married 18 SEP 1827, in Saint Peter Church Street, Liverpool, was described as a Flatman and a Waterman.
		Samuel Hickson, born 1831 in Barnton, Cheshire, was a Waterman (1881 census)
		William Hixson, born 1838 in Glamorgan, Wales, was a Mariner in 1861 and a Labourer in 1881
	www.hicksons.org /watermen.html (1264 words)

	HMS INDOMITABLE aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		HMS Indomitable was built by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow, laid down 10 November 1937, launched 26 March 1940 and commissioned 10 October 1941.
		She was involved in an unsuccessful attack on Medan, Sumatra, with HMS Illustrious on 20 December 1944.
		On 4 January 1945, she took part in a successful air strike against Medan, with HMS Indefatigable and HMS Victorious, and then immediately afterwards was involved in further strikes against refineries in Palembang, Sumatra on 24 and 29 January 1945.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/Indomitable.html (1179 words)

	HMS Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Cheshire County Council now own the 'new block' built at Plas Newydd.
		It is still used by them as a residential centre for pupils from Cheshire.
		There is a small exhibition of Conway memorabilia including a sword, the brass name plate HMS Conway from the starboard gangway and other memorabilia.
	www.hmsconway.org /tradition.html (1756 words)

	HMS Firedrake Page 15
		He had been in the Royal Navy for 23 years and was an anti submarine specialist he'd served on many ships and been commander of the ASDIC school at Dunoon.
		He served on HM Ships the Sheffield, Royal Sovereign, Illustrious and finally joined the Firedrake at Londonderry in July 1942.
		After joining the RN he was out on the China station on HMS Diana there he had a pet monkey he called Jacko.
	www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk /firedrake15.htm (1244 words)

	HMS Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The announcement that the Conway was to close came in the Summer term of 1972.
		Basil Lord, the headmaster, with some education bigwigs from Cheshire County Council, called us all in to the Mess Hall and announced that the school was to close in the Summer of 1974.
		The demand for men faded, the ship sadly closed her doors and paid off in 1974.The laying up of colours of HMS Conway took place in Liverpool Cathedral, on 12th July 1974.
	www.hmsconway.org /history_closing.html (838 words)

	RN Service Record
		HMS CHARYBDIS, a cruiser of the Dido class was authorised under the 1938 programme.
		She was laid down at Cammell Laird's yard, Birkenhead, Cheshire on 9th November 1938, launched on 17th September 1940 and completed on 3rd December, 1941 with 8-4.5in guns instead of the planned 10-5.25in.
		On 23 October 1943, Ordnance Artificer George Smith was discharged from the Royal Navy as having lost his life on war service when HMS CHARYBDIS was sunk.
	www.naval-history.net /RecordRN193843SmithGCW.htm (533 words)

	The story of the minelayer Doggerbank
		Cheshire again asked "Where from" and "Bound for", to which Schneidewind replied with "Montevideo" and "Melbourne".
		The destroyer-depotship HMS Hecla (10850 tons) was hit by a mine amidships, which put her steering gear out of action and opened the lower compartments to the sea.
		The light cruiser HMS Gambia managed to take her in tow and safely brought her to Simonstown, where it took some 18 weeks to repair Hecla.
	www.netherlandsnavy.nl /Speybank.htm (3083 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Ships hit by U-boats - HMS Cheshire (F 18) (Armed merchant cruiser)
		On 29 Aug, 1939, the motor passenger ship Cheshire from Bibby Brothers & Co, Liverpool was requisitioned by the Royal Navy as armed merchant cruiser HMS Cheshire (F 18)
		At 21.28 hours on 14 Oct, 1940, the HMS Cheshire (F 18) was struck by one torpedo from U-137 (Wohlfarth) northwest of Ireland (Grid AM 4561).
		In fact, one torpedo damaged the HMS Cheshire (F 18), another sank the Hatarana and two torpedoes sank the Balingkar.
	uboat.net /allies/merchants/ship.html?shipID=2068 (258 words)

	HMS Ganges Association Reunions Royal Navy
		HMS Ganges Association holds many reunions around the world.
		HMS Glasgow (C21/D88) are holding their reunion and social weekend at Mill Ryth, Hayling Island from Friday 9th to Monday 12th March 2007.
		Any ex shipmates are welcome at £100 per person for three nights half board, all accommodation ensuite, colour TV and hospitality tray.
	www.hmsgangesassoc.org /reunion.html (2409 words)

	Steffan cooks up a storm on HMS Raleigh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A FORMER cook who's moved from the kitchen to the high seas aboard HMS Raleigh has celebrated a stellar performance during his basic training.
		Operator mechanic Steffan Latham, aged 21, from Birchwood, is pictured accepting the Ganges Trophy on behalf of his division, Drake 20 Entry, from Commodore Laurie Brokenshire, at a passing-in parade at Torpoint, Cornwall.
		The former Birchwood High pupil has now been posted to HMS Collingwood, in Fareham, Hampshire, to complete specialist training.
	archive.thisischeshire.co.uk /2003/8/7/166942.html (112 words)

	Guestbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		December 2005 01:22 PM I always asked drafty for a gunned Leander (as they always seemed to do Windies Guard Ship) - never got one.
		Instead only Frigate I ever had was HMS Argyll (the 23).
		Long may the ships company who served on HMS Yarmouth keep their memories alive.
	www.hms-yarmouth.com /guestbook/comment.php?gb_id=538 (136 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - A Wireless Operator/Signaller at the Normandy Landings by Arthur Berry
		All of this suddenly came to an end when we were moved in closed lorries to the East India Docks, London, where we boarded the HMS Cheshire, a troop ship.
		We were not allowed on the open decks until arrival off the beaches at Bernieres sur Mer, and what a sight it was with all the ships large and small manoeuvring about through the smoke screens and intermittent shellfire.
		The landing craft which I was on ran aground on a sand bank and after much cursing and swearing broke free with the tide coming in and dropped us all off into over five feet of water.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/26/a2352926.shtml (2060 words)

	Carl's Cam: Memorial to HMS Thetis, Birkenhead, Cheshire.
		The clock tower overlooks Cammell Laird shipyard where the submarine was built, and the workplace of many of those who lost their lives.
		H.M.S. This plaque is erected in memory of
		HMS Thetis, a new submarine, got into difficulty when undergoing sea trials.
	www.carlscam.com /warmem/thetis.htm (592 words)

	Town Players of Pittsfield : Fall Production 2000 : 81st Season : HMS Pinafore
		HMS Pinafore sprang to instant popularity in the United States and its popularity is well deserved for it contains some of Gilbert's most clever sallies of wit and some of Sullivan's most charming melodies.
		The satire on matters nautical in England during victorian days and the parody of "sea music" can be as well appreciated and enjoyed now as ever.
		HMS Pinafore : Sir Joseph's Greeting Banner Design
	www.berkshire.net /townplayers/TP-HMS.HTM (1133 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Armed Merchant Cruisers (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		HMS Hector (F 45) (lost 5 Apr, 1942)
		HMS Pretoria Castle (F 61) (converted to the escort carrier HMS Pretoria Castle)
		HMS Salopian (F 94) (lost 13 May, 1941)
	www.uboat.net.cob-web.org:8888 /allies/warships/class.html?ID=145 (193 words)

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