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	HMS Albion
		The second HMS Albion was a ship-rigged sloop of just 336 tons, and was an ex-merchant vessel bought by the Royal Navy, though she was privately owned in her previous role as a hired armed ship, she was manned by a Royal Navy crew.
		The third HMS Albion was launched at Perry's Yard at Blackwall on the Thames in June 1802.
		The seventh HMS Albion was a 'Canopus' Class pre-dreadnought of approximately 14,000 tonnes, with a main armament of 4 x 12 inch guns and was built by Thames Iron Works, launched in 1898 and commissioned in 1901, serving on the China Station until 1905.
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	Sidney Ernest King
		Married in 1916 in Havant to Agnes Mary Clarke.
		1916 - Marriage solemnized at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, West Street, Havant in the District of Havant in the County of Southampton.
		Sidney Ernest King was born on the 14th of February 1894 in Donnington, Newbury, Berkshire, and married on the 22nd of August 1916 in Havant to Agnes Mary Clarke.
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	Sinking of HMS Courageous
		Launched in February 1916 and commissioned in January 1917, the HMS Courageous was originally laid down as a Battle Cruiser, being converted into an aircraft carrier between June 1924 and May 1928.
		HMS Courageous was sunk on September 17 1939 at 1940 hours at the Western Approaches (Southwest of Ireland), Grid BE3198, 150nm WSW of Mizen Head, Ireland.
		Her sister ship, the HMS Glorious and her two escorting destroyers, Ardent and Acasta was to suffer the same fate on June 8 1940, during an attack by two German battle cruisers, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.
	www.uboataces.com /battle-courageous.shtml (1221 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (G-O)
		HMS Captain was a British turret ironclad of 6950 tons displacement built in 1869 and lost in 1870 when it capsized off Finisterre.
		Like HMS Courageous, HMS Glorious was completed in 1917 as a fast cruiser for use in the Great War in the Baltic, but by the 1920s with Britain wanting to increase her aircraft carrier strength she was converted to an aircraft carrier, as was HMS Courageous.
		HMS Wasp was a British steam gunboat, which was lost in September 1887 while on a passage from Singapore to Hong-Kong.
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	HMS Courageous (50) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her secondary guns were a new type of triple 4 inch gun, intended to provide a high rate of fire against torpedo boats and other smaller craft.
		Between the wars, Courageous was converted to an aircraft carrier.
		The 15 inch turrets that were removed for Courageous in the conversion were later installed as X and Y turrets on HMS Vanguard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Courageous_(50) (1217 words)

	H. M. S. Courageous, Ships of Brawiling Battleships Steel
		If the Courageous and Glorious seemed odd, the third “sister,” the Furious, which was to be armed with only two 18 inch guns, one in each turret, was so unusual that she was converted to a “semi-aircraft carrier” with only one big gun before completion.
		Surprisingly, the Courageous name was a first in the Royal Navy, although two wooden ships of the line and one frigate had been named Courageux during the age of sail.
		Courageous served as a gunnery training ship from 1919 to 1924 and was put into the yards for conversion to an aircraft carrier in June 1924.
	www.lostbattalion.com /t-bb_Courageous.aspx (541 words)

	History
		The battle cruiser H.M.S. Courageous, built by Armstrong Whitworth, was laid down in May 1915 and she was launched on the 5th of February 1916.
		In June 1924, Courageous was taken in hand by Devonport Dockyard and she was converted to the role of aircraft carrier.
		Courageous was lost following a torpedo attack upon her by the German U Boat, U-29, commanded by Otto Schuhardt.
	www.hmscourageous.co.uk /html/history.html (687 words)

	HMS Ganges Royal Navy Association - RNTE Shotley
		Admiralty order for old HMS Ganges to be renamed HMS Tenedos III and to become part of the Boy Artificers Establishment at Chatham.
		HMS Ganges II moved closer inshore, between the piers (bows facing downstream).
		HMS Ganges II put all boys ashore into Shotley and was then used as Naval Operations Ship, Harwich.
	www.hmsgangesassoc.org /rnteshotley.html (2493 words)

	HMS Furious
		Aircraft carrier history of HMS Furious from its launch to its participation in major wars also notice board for families of ex-crew of the carrier HMS Furious.
		HMS Furious was re commissioned after her re building as a carrier in 15th march 1918 she led the Tondern raid in July 1918, sending her seven Sopwith Camels to bomb the Zeppelin sheds with a pair of 50-lb bombs each.
		The R-Class battleship HMS Revenge slips majestically past the carrier HMS Furious as she lies at anchor as three of her Fairey IIIFs fly overhead on a routine training sortie.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_furious.htm (2516 words)

	HMS President
		Step aboard the historic HMS President (1918) for the ultimate event experience on the River Thames, in the heart of the City of London.
		Situated opposite the OXO Tower, HMS President (1918) boasts spectacular views of the river as well as some of London's most famous landmarks such as the London Eye, The South Bank Centre, The National Theatre, St Paul's Cathedral, and The Tate Modern.
		The boat was fatally hit and sunk in Bigbury Bay by a U-boat after luring the German vessel to the surface.
	www.ceroclondon.com /hms_president.htm (1042 words)

	Submarine losses 1904 to present day
		The Light-cruiser HMS Blonde was heading K1, K3, K4 and K7 in line ahead off the Danish coast when she was forced to turn sharply to port to avoid three cruisers, that crossed her bows from starboard to port.
		HMS Undine was on her fourth war patrol in January 1940 when her asdic failed due to a leak.
		In October 1940 HMS Rainbow was on patrol in the Mediterranean, operating in the Gulf of Taranto and later in the Gulf of Otranto.
	www.rnsubmus.co.uk /general/losses.htm (11955 words)

	History of HMS Incomparable Project
		This Fisher was pleased with the Renown and Courageous Class ships, so he next turned his attention to building his ultimate capital ship.
		Designed between 1914 and 1916, this design would have been the world's largest warship, at over 50,000 tons displacement and 1000 feet in length.
		An idea was hatched to redesign this project with all-or-nothing armor, giving a central citadel of up to 16" thickness, but the entire project was abandoned.
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	HMS Courageous (50) - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The aircraft carrier HMS Courageous was a ship of the British navy.
		Together with its sister ships HMS Glorious and HMS Furious should penetrate it into the Baltic Sea and accomplish an amphibious landing operation there, in order to develop after separating Russia from the war again a second front.
		The Courageous was lost already in the first days of the Second World War.
	cleverpedia.com /HMS_Courageous_(50) (286 words)

	HMS Glorious, Battle cruiser and Aircraft carrier
		HMS Glorious is seen after being converted from a battle cruiser into an aircraft carrier with HMS Ardent during world war two.
		HMS Glorious and her sister ship HMS Courageous were converted into aircraft carriers.
		HMS Glorious and HMS Repulse fire opening salvos against the German cruiser Pillau at the Heligoland Bight 17th November 1917.
	www.naval-art.com /new_page_5.htm (997 words)

	Highland Archives:Against all Odds- HMS Rawalpindi
		A month earlier another of these underwater wolves had sent the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous to the sea bed together with 515 human beings, and Germany had embarked on a 'gloves off' campaign of destruction against all merchant shipping sailing to or from Britain.
		HMS Newcastle and HMS Delhi, wary of drifting into range of the superior firepower of the German ships, began shadowing the battle-cruisers as they headed west, all the while sending back messages to the Home Fleet.
		In June 1940, during the German invasion of Norway, the German battle-cruiser surprised and sank the old British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious together with her companions, the destroyers Ardent and Acasta, one of whose torpedoes managed to damage the Scharnhorst.
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	HMS Glorious (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Aircraft carrier history of HMS Glorious from its launch to its participation in major wars also notice board for families of ex-crew of the carrier HMS Glorious.
		She was launched on the 20th April 1916 and completed on the 14th October 1916.
		My Father was on HMS Galatea from end of 1937 to the end of 1939 when he was transferred to Bigni Hospital when discharged.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_glorious.htm (2463 words)

	37 "Courageous" Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps- Home Page
		She was launched on 5 February 1916 and commissioned January 1917.
		COURAGEOUS was converted into an aircraft carrier between June 1924 and May 1928.
		HMS COURAGEOUS (Royal Navy first generation nuclear powered submarine) was laid down 15 May 1968 and commissioned 16 October 1970.
	www.central.cadets.ca /public/LHQ-QGL/37sea/37sea_e.html (417 words)

	Royal Naval and Commonwealth Navies Ship List - HMS Courageous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Her secondary guns were a new type of triple 4-inch (102 mm) gun, intended to provide a high rate of fire against torpedo boats and other smaller craft.
		On 17 September 1939, under the command of Captain W. Mackaig-Jones, she was on an anti-submarine patrol off the coast of Ireland.
		The 15-inch (381 mm) turrets that were removed for Courageous in the conversion were later installed as X and Y turrets on HMS Vanguard.
	www.royal-navy.org /shiplist/content/view/9/13 (998 words)

	COURAGEOUS CLASS
		Ready for sea in 1917, the first two were HMS Courageous and HMS Glorious (laid down in 1915, and launched in February and April 1916), but were found to be virtually unemployable in the active fleet, unprotected and, with only four of their great 381mm (15-in) guns, slow to get on to the target.
		The Courageous and Glorious had similar forward flight decks, which terminated about 20 per cent of the ship's length back from the bows.
		Her loss brought the Glorious back from the Mediterranean as a replacement and she, too, was lost only nine months later during the evacuation of Norway.
	www.xsouth.freeserve.co.uk /courageous_class.htm (370 words)

	Naval Campaigns Club - Jutland Scenarios
		Within minutes HMS Pelican and HMS Petard were raising battle ensigns and leaning into the heavy seas in response to the signal 'Enemy in Sight'.
		This scenario assumes the possibility that the British were not hampered by command issues and collisions on the night of April 23d, 1916, and were in position to intercept the High Seas Fleet on the return from the Yarmouth sortie, on the afternoon of the 26th.
		HMS Glorious and HMS Courageous are also AWOL again, replaced by HMS New Zealand and HMS Australia.
	www.navalcampaigns.org /scenarios_jutland.htm (8292 words)

	Loss of HMS Glorious
		ON THE AFTERNOON of Saturday the eighth of June, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent were intercepted in the Norwegian Sea by the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.
		Glorious' sister ship, Courageous, also escorted by a pair of destroyers, had been torpedoed and sunk by U-29 the previous September with the loss of over 500 men.
		3 Survivors taking passage in HMS Veteran reported that the German ships were disposed on on each quarter with the largest ship to starboard apparently a Hipper class cruiser "…with a cut-away bow and clinker screen." Both Gneisenau and Hipper had clipper bows and funnel cowls at the time.
	www.warship.org /no11994.htm (4931 words)

	NWS-OnLine Forum - Warship Name Listings
		HMS ERIN - Was to be Turkish Reshadieh, taken over at start of WW1.
		HMS AGINCOURT - Was to be Turkish Sultan Osman Itaken over at start of WW1.
		HMS FURIOUS Converted to a carrier in 1917.
	forums.navalwarfare.org /showthread.php?t=300 (1096 words)

	HMS Repulse
		This is the original specifications as built in 1916 and differs from that of 1939, mainly by the removal of one set of triple 4-inch guns to be part of later modernisations.
		Admiral Sir Charles Napier on board his flagship HMS Repulse and with Captain John Dumaresq in command, H.M.S. Repulse took part in the Battle of Heligoland bight, along with the Battle cruisers HMS Courageous and HMS Glorious, also the light cruisers Calypso and Caledon.
		The battle cruiser HMAS Australia was in collision with the battle cruiser HMS Repulse.
	www.forcez-survivors.org.uk /repulse.html (740 words)

	HMS COURAGEOUS aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		Courageous was built by Armstrong Whitworth, and laid down 18 March 1915.
		On 17th September 1939 Kapitänleutnant Otto Schuhart in the Type VII U-boat U29 torpedoed and sank HMS Courageous in the South-West approaches (Southwest of Ireland), 150nm WSW of Mizen Head, Ireland.
		With a tripod mast fitted in Courageous, it was now fairly simple to tell the sisters apart.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /ships/COURAGEOUS.html (480 words)

	The Zion Muleteers of Gallipoli
		The land war was a disaster, for both sides fought with great courage, suffering about a quarter of a million casualties each, the ANZAC troops suffering particularly.
		Their badge consisted of the Star of David and Patterson noted in an interview with the Jewish Chronicle on 24 March 1916 how ‘sometimes I would meet a General who would be puzzled out of his life by the Magen David but naturally would not care to admit his ignorance.
		Writing on Aug 7th 1916 from Portobello barracks in Dublin, home of the 4th battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, Col. Patterson pleads with Treasury official HW Forster "to once more look kindly on the claims of the Fatherless and Widows of the Zion Mule Corps.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/gallipoli.html (10793 words)

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		Her distress messages brought the armed merchant cruisers HMS Laurentic (Capt EP Vivian) and HMS Patroclus to the scene and the U-boat began a dramatic battle at 22.50 hours when the first torpedo struck the HMS Laurentic from a distance of 1500 meters.
		She was scheduled to join HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse as the British Far East Fleet 1941 - S/Lt Latham Brereton ‘Yogi’ Jenson, RCN, was appointed to HMCS Ottawa, a River-class destroyer.
		A sister in the Nevada-class, she was laid down in 1912 and commissioned in 1916, served in WWI, was modernized during the interwar period, and finally sent to Pearl Harbor as part of the Pacific Fleet.
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