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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Ships (Cr-Cz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		HMS Cumberland is a British Broadsword Class frigate of 4200 tons displacement launched in 1986.
		HMS Cumberland is powered by two Rolls-Royce Spey SM1A gas turbines, two Rolls-Royce Tyne RM3C gas turbines and four diesel generators providing a top speed of 30 knots and a range of 4500 miles at 18 knots.
		HMS Cuxton has a double mahogany hull on an aluminium frame and is powered by two Paxman Deltic 18A-7A diesel engines providing a top speed of 15 knots and a range of 2500 miles at 12 knots.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /R3D.HTM (1057 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMS Cumberland
		Cumberland is one of the 39 traditional counties of England.
		HMS Cumberland, the fifteenth ship of that name was a County class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw action during the Second World War.
		HMS Cumberland (F85) is a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Cumberland (851 words)

	HMS Cumberland (C57) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Without her, HMS Exeter, Ajax and Achilles engaged the German raider (Click link for more info and facts about Admiral Graf Spee) Admiral Graf Spee in the (Click link for more info and facts about Battle of the River Plate) Battle of the River Plate on 13 December.
		Cumberland received a garbled indication that a contact was being made and moved north to reinforce, arriving at the (Click link for more info and facts about River Plate) River Plate at 22:00 14 December, after steaming for 34 hours.
		Cumberland was laid up for a second time in January 1959 and was broken up by Cashmore, (A port city in southeastern Wales) Newport, arriving there on 3 November 1959.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hm/hms_cumberland_(c57)3.htm (448 words)

	HMS Cumberland sunk by CI team
		HMS Cumberland had played the first match of their current ‘tour’ last Thursday against Key West in Florida.
		However, the HMS Cumberland chose not to heed this silent warning, and were soon brutally reminded.
		In spite of the score line, the HMS Cumberland team put up a good fight, considering that their pool of players is even smaller than that of Cayman.
	www.caymannetnews.com /2005/09/915/sunk.shtml (651 words)

	Battle of the River Plate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Achilles was of the New Zealand Division (precursor to the Royal New Zealand Navy) and captained by Edward Parry.
		A second County class cruiser, HMS Cumberland (10,000 tons, eight 8-inch (203 mm) guns) was self-refitting in the Falkland Islands at the time, though available at short notice.
		Cumberland arrived at 22:00 on 14 December after steaming at full speed for 36 hours from the Falkland Islands.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Battle_of_the_River_Plate (1982 words)

	HMS Cumberland -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The first Cumberland, built in 1695 at (Click link for more info and facts about Bursledon) Bursledon, near (Click link for more info and facts about Southampton) Southampton, was a 80-gun (Click link for more info and facts about third-rate) third-rate (A warship intended for combat) ship of the line that served until 1707.
		The fourth Cumberland, built in 1774, was a 74-gun (Click link for more info and facts about third-rate) third-rate ship of the line that served until 1804.
		The current (Click link for more info and facts about Cumberland (F85)) Cumberland (F85) is a (Click link for more info and facts about Type 22) Type 22 (A United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser) frigate.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/HM/HMS_Cumberland2.htm (275 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Heavy cruiser HMS Cumberland of the Kent class
		In October 1939 HMS Cumberland was a member of Force G part of the hunting group searching for the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, her allocated search area was along the east coast of South America.
		In company with HMS Cornwall and two sloops they she was summoned from the South Atlantic to proceed to Freetown and on the 16th September whilst patrolling south of Dakar she intercepted and sunk the French merchantman, Poitiers (4,185 tons), which was sailing for the Ivory Coast loaded with ammunition.
		In December, Cumberland was once agian tasked to find the merchant raider Thor which had given the armed merchant cruiser HMS Carnavon Castle a severe pounding south east of Rio de Janeiro, the search proved unsuccessful.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1175.html (965 words)

	Sqn Histories 712-825_P
		HMS Cornwall was added in January 1938 but it was replaced by HMS Cumberland in March 1939.
		When HMS Ark Royal was commissioned the squadron was allocated to it, in November 1938, becoming the first unit to land aboard it in January 1939, however, the Squadron was transferred to Admiralty control on 24 May 1939.
		In that month the squadron was allocated to HMS Courageous as a deck landing training unit and on the hand over of the FAA to the Admiralty it had been planned to re-number the squadron in the second line series as No 768, but instead it was absorbed by No 767 on 24 May 1939.
	www.rafweb.org /Sqn712-825.htm (1956 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMS Cumberland (F85)
		On 26 September 2000 Cumberland worked with local fishermen to aid the rescue of survivors of the Greek ferry Express Samina which ran aground two miles off the island of Paros.
		Cumberland is currently part of the 2nd Frigate Squadron based at Devonport Dockyard.
		Chris Cranmer, the first registered Satanist serving in the Royal Navy, was a technician on board this vessel as of 2004.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Cumberland-(F85) (168 words)

	HMS Cumberland (F85) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		HMS Cumberland (F85) is a (Click link for more info and facts about Type 22) Type 22 (A United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser) frigate of the (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Navy) Royal Navy.
		Cumberland is currently part of the 2nd Frigate Squadron based at (Click link for more info and facts about Devonport Dockyard) Devonport Dockyard.
		See (Click link for more info and facts about HMS Cumberland) HMS Cumberland for other ships of the same name.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/HM/HMS_Cumberland_(F85)3.htm (185 words)

	Other Exeters
		HMS Exeter's officers and crew are given the Freedom of the City of Exeter
		The third HMS Exeter was responsible for four Battle Honours in 1782 at Sadras, Providien, Negapatam and Trincomalee.
		During early 1941, HMS Exeter was engaged in the search for the Bismark in the Denmark Strait and then was draughted into escort duty at Greenock for a convoy heading for the Middle East.
	www.exetermemories.co.uk /EM/OtherExeters.html (1107 words)

	EADS SPACE — Media Back-Link Trials Success from HMS Cumberland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The trial on board HMS Cumberland during her deployment to the western Atlantic and Caribbean is being supported by Paradigm Services which is providing additional military satellite capacity.
		During HMS Cumberland's tour of duty she will be in a position to respond to calls for assistance during the hurricane season.
		The first live TV broadcast from HMS Cumberland took place on Friday 12 August when pictures were beamed to BBC Devon of the ship providing assistance to a lone British transatlantic rower who was in difficulties and short of food and water.
	www.space.eads.net /press-center/press-releases/media-back-link-trials-hms-camberland (572 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 4 Jul 2000 (pt 8)
		To ask the Secretary of State for Defence for what reason and for what period the crew of HMS Tireless was accommodated in hotels overseas; what has been the cost per night per person; and if he will make a statement.
		HMS Tireless arrived in Gibraltar on 19 May with a propulsion defect.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he last agreed guidelines with HM Treasury for greater commercial utilisation of MOD property and assets; and what proportion of its commercial returns may be retained by the MOD under such guidelines.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199900/cmhansrd/vo000704/text/00704w08.htm (1004 words)

	HMS Norfolk royal navy cruiser
		At the outbreak of world war two, HMS Norfolk served in the Home Fleet in 1939 till 1945 t she took part in the final action against the Bismarck firing 527 8-inch shells and eight torpedoes.
		HMS Norfolk also took part in the action against the Scharnhorst, she was hit by two, 11-inch shells, one of which went through the X ring bulkhead and went overboard without exploding.
		HMS Norfolk and HMS Belfast of Force I are shown engaging the Scharnhorst which has already been hit and disabled by both HMS Duke of York and the cruiser HMS Jamaica.
	www.ivanberryman.co.uk /hms_norfolk.htm (766 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		The vessel is a Type 22 frigate with the pennant number F85 and was built on the Clyde by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd and was commissioned in her base port of Devonport in June 1989.
		Although based in the South West of the UK, she is affiliated to the County of Cumbria, once known as Cumberland and was awarded the freedom of the County in 1998.
		HMS Cumberland, nicknamed the Mighty Sausage, is making a routine stop in Gibraltar after a 6 month deployment to the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Gulf.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=4413 (1207 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - HMS Cumberland returns from six-month deployment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Royal Navy frigate HMS Cumberland returned to Devonport this morning after a six-month deployment which took her east of Suez in the campaign against terrorism.
		During these days at sea Cumberland’s main task was to gather intelligence, to survey and reconnoitre, and to board ships where necessary in support of the Allied stand against terrorism.
		Cumberland also undertook a series of visits and events with the Indian Navy in Mumbai, formerly Bombay.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2004/0410/0004101501.asp (494 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Light cruiser HMS Ajax of the Leander class
		The subsequent battle saw the cruiser HMS Exeter badly damaged with all her guns put out of action but still seaworthy, she suffered 61 killed and 23 wounded and was forced to make for the Falkland Islands to carry out repairs.
		HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles were both damaged and suffered casualties, HMS Ajax 7 dead and wounded and HMS Achilles 4 dead.
		This convoy was escorted by the Anti-Aircraft cruisers HMS Calcutta, HMS Coventry and 4 destroyers.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4002.html (947 words)

	Royal Navy: HMS Cumberland
		HMS Cumberland is the second of four Batch 3 Type 22 frigates and the sixteenth ship of the name.
		Cumberland was built on the Clyde by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd and subsequently commissioned in her base port of Devonport in June 1989.
		The present HMS Cumberland has deployed worldwide continuing a distinguished history.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /content/1567.html (139 words)

	HMS Cumberland
		HMS Cumberland, Kent Class cruiser of the Royal Navy.
		HMS Cumberland built at Vickers Armstrong at Barrow and launched 16th March 1926.
		HMS Cumberland converted to a trials vessel in 1949 and finally scrapped in Newport on 3rd November 1959.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_cumberland.htm (623 words)

	HMS Kent
		HMS Kent, armoured cruiser of the Monmouth Class, launched 6th March 1901 and served in the China Station 1906 -1913.
		At the outbreak of World War One she was sent to the Falklands and took part in the Battle of the Falklands, 8th December 1914, sinking the German light cruiser, Nurnberg.
		HMS Kent returned in May 1915 and was sent to Vladivostok in January 1919 to support American and Japanese operations against the Bolshevik Red Army.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_kent.htm (576 words)

	HMS CHATHAM SAILS TO RELIEVE HMS CUMBERLAND
		HMS Chatham deploys on Monday 13 January to relieve her sister ship HMS Cumberland as part of the UK's commitment to the international fight against terrorism.
		This is HMS Chatham's third operational tour contributing to the "War on Terrorism" since January 2002.
		Commanding Officer of HMS Chatham, Captain The Honourable Michael Cochrane, said: "As Chatham deploys away from the UK once more, her Ship's Company are in good spirits, fully refreshed after the holiday period but most importantly of all we are ready for any operation that may arise."
	globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/01/mil-030120-rn01.htm (158 words)

	New Zealand Serials - Supermarine Walrus Mk I
		Embarked on HMS Achilles in April 1936 and arrived in Auckland on 06 September of that year.
		Embarked on HMS Leander in April 1937 and arrived in Auckland on board the ship on 18 August of that year.
		Taken aboard HMS Leander and disembarked in Australiaduring 1942 but 2 months later was crated up and returned to New Zealand on SS Rimutaka.
	www.adf-serials.com /nz-serials/nz151.shtml (1620 words)

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		Harwood gambled that the raider's captain would prefer to intercept merchantmen sailing to the UK that to avenge his ship's namesake by attacking the Falklands, and further deduced that the traffic off Montevideo/ Buenos Aries was more tempting that that off Rio, so he planned to concentrate his ships off the River Plate.
		He sent his orders out on December 3: Ajax and Cumberland were to seek and capture the SS Ussukuma, a German freighter in the area capable of resupplying German raiders.
		Following this interception on the 5th, where the German ship was intercepted but managed to scuttle itself to avoid capture, Cumberland would return to Port Stanley in the Falklands to perform refit and repairs to herself as best she could due to boiler problems.
	www.bobhenneman.info /bhbrp.htm (6701 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - HMS Cumberland returns from deployment
		HMS Cumberland is due back in Devonport next month after a six-month deployment to the Indian Ocean and Arabian Gulf.
		Taking over from HMS St Albans north of Suez, where the usual handover steam-past was accompanied by several hundred gallons of seawater (and the odd egg), Cumberland – nicknamed the Mighty Sausage – proceeded through the Suez Canal to the first of many operational patrols.
		Cumberland’s rugby and football teams were kept busy, enjoying the experience of playing in the Middle East.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2004/0409/0004092701.asp (427 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| 'Ecstasy find' on Royal Navy ship
		A "single individual" was helping with inquiries into the find on HMS Cumberland but no-one had been charged, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said.
		"The special investigation branch are conducting an investigation on HMS Cumberland in relation to the alleged possession of a suspect controlled substance," the spokesman said.
		In May, HMS Cumberland played a major role in finding 3.5 tonnes of cocaine on a former torpedo boat in the mid-Atlantic.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4259349.stm (232 words)

	Cumbria Online - The English Lake District and Cumbria's favourite website
		It has been claimed that a sailor left 30 tablets of the drug in HMS Cumberland’s mess room after a “night on the town in Plymouth”.
		“The special investigation branch are conducting an investigation on HMS Cumberland in relation to the alleged possession of a suspect controlled substance,” an MoD spokesman said last night.
		It was revealed in October last year that a naval technician on the Cumberland had been officially recognised by the ship’s captain as a Satanist.
	www.cumbria-online.co.uk /viewarticle.asp?id=180618 (430 words)

	Great British Cruisers
		HMS Broadsword and the aircraft carrier Hermes battle their way through the storm on their way to the Battle for the Falklands.
		the destroyer HMS Ashanti is shown in the foregound with the carrier HMS Indomitable 9with her Hurricanes circling the convoy) and the3 cargo Ship "Port Chalmers" to the right of the picture.
		HMS Celandine flower class corvette escorting Atlantic convoy in the middle distance the carrier HMS Biter is shown.
	www.navalprints.com /rn_5.htm (1523 words)

	William Loney RN - Documents
		A Passport issued to William Loney by the British Embassy in Brussels in 1860, two days after HMS Emerald, in which he was serving, arrived in Antwerp (because he was a member of Queen Victoria's entourage when she visited Coburg?).
		Later ones consist of preprinted forms, with per day a whole page (or half a page if in port); in HMS Penelope a preprinted log was in use from 6 April 1845 (a typical page from the log of HMS Apollo).
		HMS Dolphin (8 January 1841 - 29 November 1842, Cabinda - Ascension - Bight of Benin - Ascension - Bight of Benin - Bight of Biafra - Bight of Benin - Ascension - Cabinda - Ascension - Portsmouth)
	home.wxs.nl /~pdavis/Documents.htm (1858 words)

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