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	HMS Devonshire (39) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Devonshire was laid down by HM Dockyard at (Click link for more info and facts about Devonport) Devonport in (A town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620) Plymouth on 16 March 1926, launched on 22 October 1927 and completed on 18 March 1929.
		Devonshire served with the 1st Cruiser Squadron in the (The largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia) Mediterranean until 1932, on the (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China Station until 1933, and the Mediterranean again until 1939.
		Devonshire was sold for scrap on 16 June 1954 and arrived at (A port city in southeastern Wales) Newport on 12 December 1954 where she was broken up by Cashmore's.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hm/hms_devonshire_(39)2.htm (178 words)

	HMS Devonshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eight ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Devonshire, originally in honour of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, and later after the county of Devonshire (now called Devon).
		The fourth Devonshire was a fire ship purchased in 1804 and expended 3 October of that year at Boulogne.
		The eighth Devonshire (D02) was a guided missile destroyer launched 1960 and sunk as a target in 1984.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Devonshire (269 words)

	HMS Devonshire (D02) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Devonshire (D02) was the first unit of the County-class destroyers and the first Batch 1 ship of the Royal Navy.
		With a displacement of 5,440 tonnes (6,850 tonnes full load), Devonshire was named after the English county of Devon.
		Devonshire was decommisioned under defence cuts in 1978.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Devonshire_(D02) (252 words)

	HMS Devonshire - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The seventh ''Devonshire'' (C39) was a cruiser launched in 1927, converted to a training_ship in 1947, and sold 1954.
		The eighth ''Devonshire'' (D02) was a guided_missile_destroyer launched 1960 and sunk as a target in 1984.
		In the James_Bond movie, ''Tomorrow_Never_Dies'', a fictional Royal Navy frigate named HMS ''Devonshire'' is sunk in the opening sequences by a German media baron hoping to start a war between the United_Kingdom and the People's_Republic_of_China in order to boost ratings of his media network.
	www.erdmond.com /HMS_Devonshire.html (266 words)

	Devonshire Class Cruisers of the Royal Navy
		HMS Antrim was put into reserve at the Nore in 1919 but was refitted as a wireless and Asdic trials ship and recommissioned in March 1920.
		HMS Carnarvon served with the Mediterranean Fleet in the 3rd Cruiser Squadron until March 1907 three months after this she was recommissioned and joined the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet.
		HMS Devonshire was then sent to Scapa Flow where on 6th August, like her sister ships, she captured a German merchant ship.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /devonshire_class.htm (1969 words)

	HMS Devonshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The fourth Devonshire was a fireship purchased in 1804 and expended 3 October of that year at Boulogne.
		The seventh Devonshire (C39) was a cruiser launched in 1927, converted to a training ship in 1947, and sold 1954.
		In the James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, a fictional Royal Navy frigate named HMS Devonshire is sunk in the opening sequences by a German media baron hoping to start a war between the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China in order to boost ratings of his media network.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hms_devonshire (316 words)

	>HMS Devonshire (London Class Cruisers)
		Once Devonshire was within sight of the merchant ship, to frustrate any submarine attack, she manoeuvred to keep a distance of between 12,000 and 18,000 yards away, maintaining a speed of 26 knots with frequent alterations of course.
		By May 1942 Devonshire was in the Indian Ocean as part of ‘Operation Ironclad', the invasion of strategic ports in Vichy-held Madagascar, and in the follow-up to this operation she escorted troop convoys, including the giant Cunarder Queen Mary, between Suez and Simonstown.
		Devonshire's first training cruise began in autumn 1947, when she visited the Irish port of Berehaven (Castletown Bere), in the beautiful setting of Bantry Bay on Ireland's south coast, the visit being hosted by the Irish Naval Service.
	www.rjerrard.co.uk /royalnavy/devon/devon.htm (3458 words)

	This is Hampshire \| CommuniGate \| Question in the House
		HMS Glorious may well have become detached from the greater safety of the convoy because of a serious breakdown in relations among her senior officers.
		At 16.25, Devonshire's log states, "Exercised main armament"--the first time that all her 8-in turrets had been exercised in more than a month, and at almost the same time as a petty officer on Devonshire claims that he received an audible signal from Glorious.
		The MOD has suggested that the unusual behaviour demonstrated by Devonshire that afternoon was coincidental to Glorious' signals, but it seems more likely that she gleaned sufficient information from a supposedly "almost unintelligible" signal to be worried about something.
	www.communigate.co.uk /hants/glarac/page9.phtml (6248 words)

	MI6 :: The Home Of James Bond 007
		The Devonshire was a British naval frigate caught in Chinese territorial waters, and threatened by two Chinese MIG 29 fighters.
		The Devonshire found itself being swarmed by two Chinese MIG 29's threatening to attack the Devonshire being in Chinese territorial waters.
		However on the Devonshire's radar it read they were in international waters, this was done by Carver's techno genius Gupta using a navigational device to set the Devonshire off course.
	www.mi6.co.uk /sections/q-branch/hmsdevonshire.php3 (204 words)

	HMS Devonshire (D02) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Devonshire (D02) was the first unit of the CountyClass destroyers and the first Batch 1 ship of the Royal Navy.
		Witha displacement of 5,440 tonnes (6,850 tonnes full load), HMS Devonshire was named after the English county of Devon.
		HMS Devonshire was decommisioned under defence cuts in 1978.
	www.therfcc.org /hms-devonshire-d02--347829.html (212 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire of the London class
		Devonshire returned to England for repairs in August with "the turret swung 'round and the guns awry".
		As a result of this incident, a new interlock was fitted, which prevented the operator from opening the breech until it had been tripped by the gun firing or manually reset by another operator inside the turret.
		During that operation, a lookout reported a warship that turned out to be the British heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire (Capt. Oliver) that arrived due to intelligence report on the rendezvous.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1176.html (553 words)

	Armoured Cruisers - WW1 Naval Combat
		HMS Endymion like most of the Edgar class started the war as part of the 10th Cruiser Squadron which was tasked with enforcing the northern blockade on Germany.
		HMS Devonshire, Antrim, Argyll, Carnarvon, Hampshire, Roxburgh Laid down 1902, completed 1905.
		She was one of the many armoured cruisers sunk during the war with many of the rest relegated to secondary tasks by the end, the type being superseded by the battlecruiser.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /armoured.htm (341 words)

	HMS Kent (68) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Kent, was a (Click link for more info and facts about County-class) County-class (Click link for more info and facts about heavy cruiser) heavy cruiser of the (Click link for more info and facts about Royal Navy) Royal Navy.
		She was laid down at (Click link for more info and facts about Chatham Dockyard) Chatham Dockyard on 15 November 1924, launched 16 March 1926.
		Finally, in January 1948 she was sold and moved to (Click link for more info and facts about Troon) Troon for breaking up.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/HM/HMS_Kent_(68)2.htm (356 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Ships hit by U-boats - HMS Dunedin (I 93) (Light cruiser)
		The HMS Dunedin (I 93) joined the 1st Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet and was then loaned to the New Zealand Division in May 1924, replacing the cruiser HMS Chatham.
		The HMS Dunedin (Captain Lambe) was allocated to the 12th Cruiser Squadron in the Home Fleet and in September to the 11th Cruiser Squadron in the Orkneys and Shetland Command, based at Kirkwall for service on the Northern Patrol.
		In December 1940, the HMS Dunedin formed part of the escort for the troop convoy WS-5A (consisting of 20 merchants and the British aircraft carriers HMS Argus and HMS Furious, used to ferry aircraft to Takoradi), together with the British cruisers HMS Berwick and HMS Bonaventure.
	uboat.net /allies/merchants/1205.html (1230 words)

	HMS Devonshire (C39) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This was also the vessel on which the Norwegian Royal Family escaped from Norway on the 6th of June 1940, after Germany had invaded two months prior.
		HMS Devonshire (C-39) was a London-class cruiser laid down by HM Dockyard at Devonport in Plymouth on 16 March 1926, launched on 22 October 1927 and completed on 18 March 1929.
		HMS Devonshire was sold for scrap on 16 June 1954 and arrived at Newport on 12 December 1954 where she was broken up by Cashmore?s.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hms_devonshire__c39_ (221 words)

	Hms Devonshire (C39) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Devonshire fue colocado por el astillero de HM en Devonport en Plymouth la 16 de marcha de 1926, lanzado el 22 de octubre de 1927 y terminado la 18 de marcha de 1929.
		Devonshire sirvió con la 1ra escuadrilla del crucero en el mediterráneo hasta 1932, en la estación de China hasta 1933, y el mediterráneo otra vez hasta 1939.
		El HMS Devonshire fue vendido para el desecho el 16 de de junio de de 1954 y llegado Newport el 12 de diciembre de 1954 donde ella estaba quebrada hacia arriba por Cashmore.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/hm/Hms%20Devonshire%20%28C39%29.htm (324 words)

	Royal Navy: Vanguard to Trident 1945-2000
		HMS Resolution, the first of the Polaris armed submarines, began operational patrols in 1968 replacing the RAF’s bombers as Britain’s strategic nuclear deterrent.
		The battleship was largely obsolete and the most modern, HMS Vanguard, was scrapped in 1960.
		HMS Devonshire, the Navy’s first guided missile armed destroyer, was completed in 1962.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/3543.html (843 words)

	Norwegian Victims of Atlantis - Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945
		She was intercepted by minelayer HMS Adventure on Apr. 10-1943, and was scuttled to avoid capture, 43 18N 14 26W.
		Believed to be a German armed merchant raider, an enemy vessel which was apparently refuelling with oil was blown up and sunk by HMS Devonshire in the South Atlantic on Nov. 22nd without damage or casualties to the British cruiser.
		The Devonshire, which was built in 1927, is a 9.850 ton cruiser of the London class.
	www.warsailors.com /raidervictims/atlantis2.html (3159 words)

	RN Cruisers, HMS Norfolk, Suffolk, Cardiff
		HMS Illustrious and HMS Kenya at Devonport by Ivan Berryman
		HMS Illustrious slips quietly away from the docks at Devonport, Plymouth with the Fiji class cruiser in the middle distance, 1941.
		HMS Dido was launched on 18th July 1939, she took part in the evacuation of troops and defense of Crete, where she was damaged on B gun, killing 46 men.
	www.ivanberryman.co.uk /rncruise.htm (1679 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His first command was HMS Laburnham on the New Zealand station in the Pacific in 1933.
		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.
		"HMS Devonshire was carrying out full calibre firing on 26th July 1929 when, at the first salvo there was a heavy explosion which blew off the roof of one of the turrets.
	www.maxwellsociety.com /Biography/Heros.htm (2761 words)

	HMS GLORIOUS aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		HMS Glorious was built by Harland and Wolff, being laid down on 1 May 1915 and launched 20 April 1916.
		Pre-war HMS Glorious was stationed in the Mediterranean Fleet, primarily at Malta, and with the impending threat of war with Italy she ultimately moved to Alexandria, Egypt.
		HMS Glorious continued to be fully employed in transporting RAF aircraft to the Norwegian Campaign, and in May 1940, 46 RAF squadron debark from HMS Glorious for Norway with 18 hurricanes.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/GLORIOUS.html (1885 words)

	HMS FIFE, and 5 years in the Royal Navy
		HMS FIFE A County Class Destroyer, there were several of these, (HMS KENT, HMS LONDON, HMS DEVONSHIRE, HMS GLAMORGAN) but they have all now been scrapped
		SCOTLAND At one point I had a year in Scotland at HMS CALEDONIA, this is a shore base near Rosyth.
		HMS Fife was sold some years ago to the Chilean Navy, follow this link to find out her new name !!.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/hmsfife (593 words)

	HMS Devonshire (C39)
		The HMS Devonshire was a heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy, during World War II.
		On November 21, 1941, under the command of Captain R.D. Oliver, and with the help of its Supermarine Walrus observation plane[?], the Devonshire located and then sunk a German merchant raider, the Hilfskreuzer (cruiser) Atlantis, at a range of 14-15km.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMS_Devonshire_heavy_cruiser.html (84 words)

	Convoy WS 12 - warsailors.com
		HMS Devonshire escorted from Freetown to Cape Town.
		HMS Repulse, from Natal to 5 50S 40 27E, then HMS Revenge from this position to Aden.
		HMS Velox, Wrestler, Calendula, Anchusa, and Mignonette joined on leaving Freetown and left on 21st and 22nd as ordered.
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/ws12.html (873 words)

	HMS DEVONSHIRE - Find Friends from HMS DEVONSHIRE at Forces Reunited
		Thomas Aspinall was at HMS Devonshire between 1946 and 1950
		Joseph Magennis was at HMS Devonshire between 1964 and 1982
		Kirk Williams was at HMS Devonshire between 1975 and 1980
	www.forcesreunited.org.uk /namearchive/units/HMSNames/HMS-Devonshire.html (1302 words)

	Holefamily: HMS Devonshire - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The HMS Devonshire site is worth a look, for more information about all of the ships.
		She was powered by oil-fired steam engines, which gave her a cruising speed of 12knots, but was capable of speeds up to 32knots on occasions.
		After the war, HMS Devonshire became a Training Ship until she was decommissioned in 1953.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /johnhole/devonshire/index.html (811 words)

	London Class
		HMS Devonshire, HMS London, HMS Shropshire, HMS Sussex including crew and families of ex-crew members notice board for the London Class cruisers.
		HMS Devonshire in 1942 with 20mm guns added forward and amidships as well as on the tops of the turrets.
		Served on HMS London as a Navigators Yeoman, he would be interested in hearing from any former crew of HMS London.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /london_class.htm (1007 words)

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