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	A Brief History of Gosport
		In 1956 the naval airfield at Rowner, HMS Siskin, was renamed HMS Sultan and was turned into an engineering training school.
		HMS Hornet was a major base of the Coastal forces (they carried out amphibious raids on German occupied Europe e.g.
		HMS Dolphin was changed into a military medical college (apart from the submarine museum).
	www.localhistories.org /gosport.html (2689 words)

	HMS Defence
		HMS Defence seen leaving the fleet anchorage in Torbay, Devon in 1794 when she was serving in the Channel Fleet.
		In 1799 the “Defence,” commanded by Captain Lord H. Paulet, was engaged in the blockade of Cadiz.
		The approach of the “Defence” and her two consorts acted as a further menace to the enemy, and assisted to induce the Danes to bring the hostilities to a conclusion.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_defence.htm (3595 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Crew Information - Biography of Biography of Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur ...
		1916 - H.M.S. (as First Lieutenant, in 1919, he was appointed temporary ADC to the Dowager Empress Marie of Russia during the evacuation of the Russian Royal Family and entourage from Yalta and Novo-Rossisk and during their journey into exile in Europe) He was given the Order of St Stanislas by HM the Dowager Empress.
		Whilst Commanding officer of H.M.S. in Malta, his eldest daughter, Anne, was married to Lieutenant-Commander James Graham (Nat) GOULD on 28 July 1937.
		He died aged 88 on 27 January 1975 and, that summer, was buried at sea off Portland from H.M.S. with the ashes of his wife, Miriam, who pre-deceased him in 1969, in the presence of his grandson, Lt Commander David GOULD and his grandson-in-law, Lt Commander John DYKES, First Lieutenant of H.M.S. at that time.
	www.hmshood.com /crew/biography/pridham_bio.htm (471 words)

	The Wreck of HMS Cricket (by Geoff Brown) - Discovery Part III
		It was decided to reconstruct the GNAT by using the bow of H.M.S. CRICKET, which had been damaged by aircraft off Tobruk on June 30.
		The convoy, the first and the last that the Cricket was to accompany, was a painfully slow one since the maximum speed of the merchantmen was in fact only four and a half knots.
		On 30 June 1941 the CRICKET, in company with HMS FLAMINGO, was escorting two supply ships to Tobruk when she was heavily bombed.
	www.hmsfalcon.com /cricket/discovery3.htm (2240 words)

	HMS Repulse crew members
		His first ship was HMS Centurion, but soon after the start of the war he was transferred to the Royal Naval Air Station at Polegate in Sussex.
		In 1944 Captain Maxwell Hyslop assumed command of the battleship, HMS Nelson, which was involved in the bombardment of the Normandy landing area's fortifications.
		In 1970, unbeknown to him, a petition was brought before the Queen, that the Albert Medal had lost it's significance in the public eye and that it was felt that the George Cross (of which the Albert Medal was the Naval equivalent) should be awarded to in its place.
	forcez-survivors.org.uk /biographies/repulsecrew/maxwell-hyslop.html (901 words)

	The Fall of Singapore (1942) - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
		In 1907, Richard (later Lord) Haldane, the then British Secretary of State for War, addressing Oxford undergraduates had urged his audience to emulate the Japanese officer corps, whose 'selfless devotion to duty exceeds even that of the German officer corps'.
		It is claimed that many pilots flew back to the sight of the battle and dropped two wreaths, one for the lost Japanese airmen and one for respect to the lost sailors.
		HMS Prince of Wales had been involved in a skirmish with the famous Bismarck in early 1941.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/The-Fall-of-Singapore-1942-129692.html (899 words)

	HMS Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Admiralty decided to loan HMS Winchester to the Liverpool MMSA as a replacement for the original ship which was not large enough to accommodate the cadets.
		A number of vessels were moored in line astern in the Sloyne: HMS Defence the Liverpool guardship, HMS Conway, the Akbar (Protestant reformatory ship), Indefatigable and the Clarence (Roman Catholic reformatory ship burnt twice by her boys and replaced!).
		HM the King whilst visiting Liverpool went aboard the Mauretania (the wood paneling from her first class dining room is in a wine bar at the foot of Park Street in Bristol).
	www.hmsconway.org /history_mersey.html (2409 words)

	Allied leaders of the Boer War
		The sieges of Kimberley and Ladysmith were raised, and the Boer General Cronje, flying towards the capital, was overtaken at Paardeberg and, after a fine defence, compelled to surrender, with 5000 men on the anniversary of Majuba Day, the 27th of February 1900.
		In 1905 he resigned his post on the Committee of National Defence, and devoted himself to attempting to rouse his countrymen to the necessity of cultivating rifle shooting and of adopting systematic general military training and service.
		Percy Ralph Ricardo died on 4 June 1907, in Melbourne after he suffered a fractured skull when he was thrown by a horse onto a tree stump whilst attending the 'Melbourne Hounds' near Lyndhurst in Victoria.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-leaders/allied-boer-war.htm (1949 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Crew Information - Biography of Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, ...
		It was a move that was to shape the rest of his career and have a far-reaching influence on gunnery throughout the Navy.
		He continued to serve on Exmouth until 1907 at which point he was posted, at the request of Lord Fisher, to the newly commissioned H.M.S. Dreadnought to assist with her gunnery trials.
		Unsurprisingly he used his time aboard her to improve the standard gunnery within the Squadron as well as taking the opportunity to impress his old Chief with a 15-inch night shoot when Jellicoe visited the squadron in 1928.
	www.hmshood.com /crew/biography/dreyer_bio.htm (1336 words)

	Gardening Supply, Gardening Gift, Gardening Gloves - Shopping, Services and Information at GARDENINGIWORLD.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The sixth HMS Dreadnought of the British Royal Navy was the first battleship to have a uniform main battery, rather than having a secondary battery of smaller guns.
		After further trials and construction of two turbine powered torpedo boats, HMS Viper and HMS Cobra, the Admiralty confirmed in 1905 that future Royal Navy vessels were to be turbine powered.
		Dreadnought was commissioned for trials in December 1906, and in January 1907 she sailed for the Mediterranean Sea and then to Port of Spain, Trinidad.
	www.gardeniworld.com /wiki3-HMS_Dreadnought_(1906) (2898 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		HMS York enjoys a close and active liaison with the City of York and in 1991 was granted the Freedom of the City.
		HMS York is also affiliated to the First and Third Battalions of the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment and No. 8 Squadron RAF.
		Four of HMS York's impressive tally of battle honours were won by her predecessor in the name, a cruiser built at Jarrow and launched in 1928.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/york.asp (1232 words)

	The HMS Defence Gavel
		Symbolic of the close association which existed between the Royal Navy and the Queen's Royal Regiment, there is, a handsome gavel which was presented to the Officers' Mess 1st Bn The Queen's Royal Regiment in 1911 by Captain of HMS Defence of the First Cruiser Squadron, Royal Navy.
		The inscription on the mallet explains itself but I might perhaps add that this present Defence is the 5th of her name; the mallet was turned and carved by the Carpenter of this ship.
		HMS Defence was a Minotaur Class armoured cruiser of 14,600 tons.
	www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk /museum/agq_0233.html (346 words)

	Anti-Torpedo Nets
		The defences recommended were, "patrols of 'guard' or picket boats around the fleet, electric lights concentrated in beams by dioptric projectors which can be pointed in any direction, a machine gun armament and nets of galvanised iron hung around each battleship from projecting 40ft spars".
		Flotillas attacking at night never succeeded in getting closer than 800 yards to the ironclad squadron at anchor before they were discovered and the only 2 torpedoes to travel in a straight line to their target were caught in the nets which had been swung out to catch them.
		In 1907 advances in the propelling engines of Whitehead torpedoes doubled the available propelling power of the torpedo and adding about 10 kts to the maximum speed which for the first time was to give them sufficient punch to penetrate net defences.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/nets.htm (3419 words)

	Australian Colonial navies, before Federation (2)
		To satisfy the locals' desire to assist with their own defence, Spitfire, a wooden gunboat, was designed and built in Sydney during 1855.
		The ship chosen was HMS Wolverene, the outgoing flagship of the Imperial Squadron soon to be replaced by the two year old armoured frigate HMS Nelson.
		To further improve maritime defences, the small torpedo/picket boat Midge arrived in 1888 and five hopper barges, built for the Department of Harbours and River, were altered for naval duties.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-navy/colonial-navy2.htm (3930 words)

	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum
		Captain John Fisher, then Director of Naval Ordnance, requested the transfer of Jellicoe from HMS Excellent to assist him in the Act’s implementation, although such a move was contrary to precedent at that time.
		He was on board the vessel, though suffering from Malta fever, when she was rammed and sunk by HMS Camperdown, during manoeuvres off the Levant coast in June 1893.
		In February 1907, Jellicoe was promoted Rear Admiral and, in August, hoisted his flag as Second-in-Command of the Atlantic Fleet.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_john_jellicoe.htm (958 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Territorial Army: Factfile
		Established in 1907 by Army reformer R B Haldane, the TA was at the time Britain's response to the continental concept of "a nation in arms".
		Dozens of regiments were formed and in 1921, such was the gravitas placed on the volunteers that they changed their name from a Force to an Army.
		The 1998 Strategic Defence Review made it a requirement that TA volunteers are liable to be called out to operate alongside regular forces though both the volunteer and their employer may seek exemption.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2040274.stm (442 words)

	Minotaur Class
		HMS Minotaur, HMS Defence, HMS Shannon including crew and families of ex-crew members notice board for the Minotaur Class cruisers.
		HMS Defence When she was Flagship of Rear-Admiral Arbuthnot.
		In April 1909 transferred to the 2nd Cruiser squadron but in December 1909 HMS Shannon was involved in a collision with HMS Prince George in Portsmouth sustaining damage.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /minotaur_class.htm (1749 words)

	The National Archives \| Exhibitions & Learning online \| First World War \| Document packs
		White Book aimed to show that it was fighting a defensive war against Russia (and in defence of its wronged ally, Austria-Hungary).
		Germany's case for the defence rested on two main ideas: first, that the Serbian government was complicit in the murder of the heir to the Habsburg throne,
		Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914; and, second, that a general European war was ultimately provoked by Russia's unswerving support for Serbia and its subsequent decision to order a general mobilisation on 30 July.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/firstworldwar/document_packs/origins.htm (774 words)

	British Army in Bermuda from 1776 to 1977 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		They arrived from Halifax on HMS Leopard in 1808 (and were present at the famous incident with the USS Chesapeake, later).
		Colonel Arnold devised the early massive building and engineering program for HM Dockyard, that led to Bermuda being referred to later as the "Gibraltar of the West." His accomplishments, skills and obvious leadership qualities in Bermuda were such that he was marked for prompt promotion and increased military responsibilities.
		On Sunday, 24 March 1878 at 4:30 pm, as reported in the British domestic and Bermuda newspapers, the British warship, HMS Eurydice, bound from Bermuda to the United Kingdom, sank en route, from particularly heavy adverse weather.
	bermuda-online.org /britarmy.htm (5470 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		The Ministry of Defence also is considering contracting for two units of a modified version of the River class.
		The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence announced on 23 June 2003 that the Anvil Point, the sixth and final unit of the Point-class strategic sealift ships, was delivered to the Royal Navy 20 months ahead of schedule.
		The Point class was built to meet a need identified in the Strategic Defence Review to move Great Britain's Joint Rapid Reaction Forces in time of crisis, as well as for sustainability and recovery of the force.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/aug_03_42.php (1340 words)

	Ship Modelers Association - Famous Ships
		The result was that HMS DEFENCE was sunk with the loss of all of her 893 crew at 1815 in the evening, HMS WARRIOR and HMS BLACK PRINCE withdrawing.
		In mid May 2001, the remains of H.M.S. DEFENCE were found by the deep-diving technical divers of Deep Blue Expeditions, where she was sunk in the Battle of Jutland off Denmark in 1916.
		The article accompanying the announcement of the discovery indicates that the ship was of an obsolete design by the time of the battle and also states that there was a loss of live of 903 of her crew.
	www.ship-modelers-assn.org /fam0110.htm (536 words)

	British Destroyers of World War 1
		The two Yarrow 26-knotters, HMS Hornet on the left in 1894, HMS Havoc on the right in 1905.
		One of the Portsmouth Local Defence Flotilla destroyers out on patrol when she struck a German contact mine off the Nab Light Vessel.
		Three to four German U-boats were diverted to give assistance to the Turkish Army, and coastal minelayer "UC-38" (Lt Hans Wednlandt) managed to evade the trawler patrol guarding the net defences at Deirel-Belah.
	www.naval-history.net /WW1NavyBritishDestroyers.htm (3871 words)

	Royal Naval and Commonwealth Navies Ship List - HMS Invincible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The fifth Invincible of the Royal Navy was a battlecruiser, the lead ship of her class of three, and the first battlecruiser to be built by any country in the world.
		She was laid down on 2 April 1906, and launched at 3:00PM 13 April 1907 by Lady Allendale.
		On 28 December, while still fitting out, she was hit by the collier Oden, which resulted in the buckling of beams and frames in the hull and 5 bottom plates were stove in.
	www.royal-navy.org /shiplist/content/view/4/25 (481 words)

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		The original prototypes tested aboard HMS Euryalus and subsequently deployed to the ships participating in the Falklands campaign were directed by a pair of binoculars mounted on the rear of the system.
		In 1987/1988, Royal Navy warships assigned to patrol in the Arabian Gulf were fitted with DEC systems for the duration of their duty.
		It was when HMS Beaver and HMS Brazen were photographed with their Outfit DEC systems uncovered that the existence of Outfit DEC was first revealed.
	www.forecastinternational.com /archive/ew/ew9860.doc (1838 words)

	Bermuda's History from 1900 to 1999
		More than 4,500 South African prisoners of war (men and boys) arrived on HM ships and were transported to exile on various islands in Bermuda from 1901 to 1902.
		It was the first of three visits to Bermuda by him, on the 1920 refitted Royal Navy battle cruiser Renown, on a tour of Bermuda, the Caribbean, the USA and Australia.
		HMS Renown, lead ship of a class of two 26,500-ton battle cruisers, was built at Glasgow, Scotland.
	www.bermuda-online.org /history1900-1999.htm (16482 words)

	Maritime Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tarmo (1907), icebreaker built in England, the oldest of its kind.Served as an AA-ship in WWII, and was hit by a Russian bomber.
		A museum featuring finds from HMS St George which stranded at Thorsminde Havn, Denmark in 1811 together with HMS Defence.
		HMS Plymouth (Rothesay class Type 12 anti-sub frigate, 1959) & HMS Onyx (Oberon class submarine, 1966).
	www.bibliotheca.org.uk /links/museums/museum-maritime.html (794 words)

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		HMS Black Prince (81)HMS Black Swan (L57)HMS Blake
	en.allexperts.com /e/h/hm/index.htm (498 words)

	The Nautical Fiction List: Page 10 of 15
		Gascoigne takes command of HMS TALON and attempts to match Harding's record in war patrols against the Japanese in the last year of the war.) Shadow, 1984 (Peter Harding joins his first submarine, HMS SHADOW, in 1940 as navigation officer, and rises the position of executive officer during two years of warfare.
		Focusing mainly on the Woolworth carrier HMS VISCOUNT with her Hurricanes, Swordfish and escorts; day by day -m watch by watch - we follow the convoy's progress; from the viewpoint of the convoy - there are no insights into the higher command on either the Allied or German side.
		Eveline is a startlingly forceful heroine for the time: she wields gun and sword in unsuccessful defence of her father's vicarage in Ireland when the peasantry attack, is taken and raped, later escapes and for most of the rest of the novel poses as a man and fights fiercely on sea and land.
	www.boat-links.com /books/nfl/nautfic-10.html (3635 words)

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