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	HMS Devonshire (39) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Devonshire was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy, that served in World War II.
		Devonshire was laid down by HM Dockyard at Devonport in 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 Mediterranean until 1932, on the China Station until 1933, and the Mediterranean again until 1939.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Devonshire_(C39) (327 words)

	Cruiser - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cruisers were also attached to the main battlefleet and used for reconnaissance, sweeping ahead of the fleet looking for the enemy.
		Light cruisers were defined to be armed with 6.1 in (155 mm) guns or smaller and heavy cruisers to be armed with larger calibers, 8 in (203 mm) being particularly common.
		The battlecruiser HMS Hood was the pride of the British fleet, known as "The Mighty Hood".
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Cruiser (1735 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Heavy cruiser HMS York of the York class
		HMS York (Capt. R.H. Portal, RN) was badly damaged on 26 March 1941 by 2 Italian explosive motor boats in a dawn attack at Suda Bay, north Crete.
		The British submarine HMS Rover was dispatched from Alexandria to supply electrical power, but on 24 April the submarine was severely damaged by an air attack and the decision was taken to abandon any attempt at salvage.
		This convoy was escorted by the Anti-Aircraft cruisers HMS Calcutta, HMS Coventry and 4 destroyers.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1187.html (583 words)

	German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis
		Atlantis, known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 16 and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C, was a converted German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser, or merchant or commerce raider) of the Kriegsmarine, which, during World War II, travelled more than 161,000 km in 602 days, and sank 22 ships totaling 144,384 tons.
		The cruiser carried a dummy funnel, variable-height masts, and was well supplied with paint, canvas, and materials for further altering her appearance, including costumes for the crew and flags.
		Devonshire left the area and the German submarine resurfaced and picked up 300 Germans and a wounded American prisoner, whom it began carrying or towing to Brazil (1500km west).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/at/Atlantis_auxiliary_cruiser.html (1803 words)

	Royal Navy Memories - HMS Devonshire and HMS Leopard Portal - A Brief History 1926-1954
		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 09.34, however, Devonshire had received confirmation that this was false and a minute later, at a range of 17,500 yards, the cruiser opened fire with her main armament.
		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.
	www.royalnavymemories.com /hms_devonshire/ships_history_(1926-54)/a_brief_history_1926-1954 (3095 words)

	British Navy Ships--HMS Devonshire (1929-1954)
		HMS Devonshire, a 9850-ton London class light cruiser built at Devonport, England, was launched in October 1927 and completed in March 1929.
		Devonshire continued her service in northern waters until October 1941, when she was shifted to the south Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
		HMS Devonshire was sold for scrapping in 1954.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-d/devnshr7.htm (574 words)

	Chapter-30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The plane, one of the pre-production Nakajima J1N1 heavy fighter converted as a reconnaissance plane after the rejection of the type by the Navy as a fighter in October 1941, was assumed as fast enough to escape carrier-based fighters.
		Actually, her crew sighted HMS Formidable and her screen which, at this time, were steaming north (against the wind) of the main formation to recover the 4 planes CAP and launch 2 ASW Swordfish.
		By this time, Devonshire was in dire straits, being the recipient of both Atago and Ashigara fire, and had lost her "A", "B" and "X" turret and suffered serious damage to her machinery.
	users.domaindlx.com /fantasque/original/Chapter-30.htm (7143 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 Devonshire's primary weaponry consisted of 8-inch guns[?] (200mm).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMS_Devonshire_(C39).html (64 words)

	HMS Devonshire - The Accident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On the 8th of July, she was summoned from Gibraltar to join the 1st Cruiser Squadron off of Greece, under the command of Rear Admiral H.W. Parker C.B. She paused at Malta from the 11th until the 18th to replenish, before continuing to Skiathos, where she eventually arrived on the 21st of July.
		HMS Sussex and Frobisher immediately dispatched medical personnel to assist those on board HMS Devonshire, who were in danger of being overwhelmed by the sudden and unexpected scale of the casualties.
		HMS Devonshire then left the 1st Cruiser Squadron and began her return to the UK, whilst the rest of the squadron continued to carry out further exercises.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /johnhole/devonshire/accident.html (1300 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire of the London class
		Between 13-25 September 1940 HMS Devonshire (Capt. J.M. Mansfield, DSC, RN) was engaged in Operation "Menace", shelling the coastal batteries and French defeses around Dakar.
		HMS Devonshire (Capt. R.D. Oliver, DSC, RN) sailed from Scapa Flow escorting the carriers Victorious and Furious in a raid against Petsamo and Kirkenes.
		HMS Devonshire (Capt. R.D. Oliver, DSC, RN) was flying the flag of the Senior Officer when an entire Vichy French convoy was captured east of the Cape of Good Hope.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1176.html (585 words)

	Chapter-32 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cruiser HMS Devonshire, Dorsetshire HMAS Canberra (all of Counties class).
		Despite very heavy losses the Japanese Navy was still in control of the operation area at the end of the battle and has succeeded in destroying most of the combined Allied naval striking power based in the Far-East.
		At 1304h, when trying to protect the damaged RN battleship Prince of Wales, the cruiser was hit by a large enemy twin-engine bombers which her 3in and single 40mm Bofors had apparently disabled.
	users.domaindlx.com /fantasque/original/Chapter-32.htm (3481 words)

	The Ultimate Cruiser Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The British, Germans and French used them in World War I as raiders because of their high speed (around 30kts), and they were used again as raiders in World War II by the Germans, Japanese, and in the early part of the war, as convoy escorts by the British.
		The weakness of the battle cruiser concept was further demonstrated in the Second World War, during the 2 day hunt for the German battleship Bismarck by the British fleet.
		The current Aegis cruisers were originally designed and designated as a class of destroyer, intended to provide a very powerful air-defense in these carrier-centered fleets.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Cruiser (1653 words)

	HMS Glorious
		By early June 1940, the British position in Norway had become perilous, as was the growing threat to the UK from the success of the German Blitzkrieg that an evacuation of the forces landed in Norway had become a necessity.
		Meanwhile, the German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (both of 32,000 tons, nine 11in and twelve 5.9in guns), along with the heavy cruiser Hipper (of 14,000 tons) and four destroyers had sailed from Kiel on 4 June with orders to bombard the British base at Harstadt near Narvik.
		However, five members of the Devonshire's crew maintain that enough of the message was heard that to realise that Glorious had sighted two German warships and was in trouble.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/weapons_HMSGlorious.html (1798 words)

	Cruiser - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		After World War I these terms were codified during the various naval arms limitation treaties, light cruisers were armed with 6.1 in (155 mm) guns or less, heavy cruisers with larger calibers, 8 in (203 mm) being particularly common.
		The weakness of the battle cruiser concept was further demonstrated in the Second World War, during the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck" class="a-lk">Bismarck by the British fleet in 1940.
		The Ticonderoga-class" class="a-lk">Ticonderoga-class cruisers, built in the 1980s, were originally designed and designated as a class of destroyer, intended to provide a very powerful air-defense in these carrier-centered fleets.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=7034 (1653 words)

	Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
		In 1922 he was given command of HMS Philomel, an obsolete cruiser of 2,575 tons used as a training ship for the New Zealand Navy.
		In 1932, Agar was in command of the sloop HMS Scarborough attached to the North America and West Indies Squadron.
		HM Coastal Motor Boat 4, his boat in the Baltic, is on permanent display at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford.
	www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Augustine_William_Shelton_Agar_.html (4593 words)

	Holefamily: HMS Devonshire - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The HMS Devonshire site is worth a look, for more information about all of the ships.
		This was a Heavy Cruiser of the County Class.
		On the 26th of July 1929, whilst on her maiden cruise in the Mediterranean, her 'X' turret exploded during a live-firing exercise.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /johnhole/devonshire (811 words)

	>HMS Devonshire (London Class Cruisers)
		During the naval battles at Narvik Devonshire was escorting Allied troop convoys to the port, and patrolling the northern Norwegian coastline, between Kirkenes, on the edge of the Barents Sea, to Tromso, north of Narvik.
		In late October 1941 Devonshire was in the South Atlantic, patrolling between Freetown and Simonstown, when trawlers of the South African Defence Force sighted a convoy of five French merchant ships, escorted by the French sloop D’Iberville, which was en route from vichy-held Madagascar into the South Atlantic and steaming well south of Cope Town.
		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 (3541 words)

	Today In WW II History - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Heavy naval guns had torn Maisey to pieces, and the tanks were able to deal easily with resistance from enemy machine guns.
		Glorious was in the fourth degree of readiness, at cruising stations, steaming at 17 knots on 12 of her 18 boilers.
		Glorious was cruising on a reduced number (only 12 out of 18) of boilers, consequently she could not develop full speed (from 17 till 30 knots) as fast as was required.
	forums.ubi.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/24 (14408 words)

	Warships \| Airfix On-Line ASP Shopping Cart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The largest of the British battle cruisers, HMS Hood was sunk early in the Second World War by the German battleship Bismarck in 1941.
		HMS Hood was laid down in 1915 and launched on the 22nd August, 1913 three months before the end of the first World War and too late to see action.
		HMS Fearless, the first Assault landing Ship of the Royal Navy, was launched in December 1963 and commissioned at the Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff on the 25th November 1965.
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	German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		By April, Atlantis had returned to the Atlantic where, on the 17th, KapitÃ¤n Rogge, understandably mistaking the Egyptian liner Zamzam for a British liner being used as a troop carrier or Q-ship, as she was in fact the former Bibby Liner Leicestershire, opened fire at 8.4 km.
		Devonshire left the area and the German submarine resurfaced and picked up 300 Germans and a wounded American prisoner, whom it began carrying or towing to Brazil (1500 km west).
		On December 1, while refueling two submarines, the third of the British cruisers seeking the raiders, HMS Dorsetshire, appeared.
	www.belmontcaus.com /section/Atlantis_auxiliary_cruiser (1956 words)

	AlexanderI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The H.M. Trawler Juniper was sunk on the 8th June 1940 by the German heaver cruiser 'Admiral Hipper'.
		Meanwhile German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the heavy cruiser Hipper and four destroyers had sailed from Kiel on 4th June.
		Devonshire was carrying the King of Norway and his ministers so could not reply as they were not permitted to break radio silence to give away their whereabouts due to their Royal passengers.
	www.jacksdale.org.uk /pages/OtherMems/Selston/AlexanderI.htm (439 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Letters-HMS Volunteer
		Now to the Fiji, a light cruiser, she was built on the Clyde by John Brown and Co in 1938, launched in 1939, but not completed until May of 1940.
		HMS Fiji, was not at Dakar on the 23rd.
		HMS Volunteer, was also not present at Dakar, the 10 Royal Navy destroyers in Operation Menace were: HM ships, Echo, Eclipse, Escapade, Faulknor, Foresight, Forester, Fortune, Fury, Greyhound and Inglefield.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /Letters/HMSVolunteer.html (610 words)

	[No title]
		HMS Campobello was beyond salvage and her crew (35 men) was taken off.
		The next day, the vessel was towed to Oran by tug HMS Restive, then to Mers el Kebir, where she was beached & later declared a total loss after the vessel broke in two.
		The Canadians were pitted against an American fleet comprising the carrier Philippine Sea, battleship Missouri, five cruisers, a screen of 16 destroyers, and Bearcats, Skyraiders and Phantom jets 1951 - Destroyer HMCS Cayuga departed Korean War for Esquimalt 1959 - RCN VF 871 disbanded 1966 - Launch of Gemini 8.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/march/16Mar.txt (2590 words)

	Royal Naval and Commonwealth Navies Ship List - HMS Devonshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The seventh HMS Devonshire (39), a County class heavy cruiser launched in 1927, converted to a training ship in 1947.
		The fourth Devonshire was a fire ship purchased in 1804 and expended 3 October of that year at Boulogne.
		The seventh Devonshire (39) was a County-class heavy cruiser launched in 1927, converted to a training ship in 1947, and sold 1954.
	www.royal-navy.org /shiplist/content/view/28/16 (632 words)

	Dreadnought
		The term "Treaty Cruisers" refers to the cruisers built under the treaty restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
		As with the renamed cruisers, the name of the Princeton was immediately given to a new carrier, CV-37, which was originally supposed to be the Valley Forge.
		When, after a fashion, it was revived, as the "heavy cruiser" under the regime of the Treaty Cruisers, with CA hull numbers, these were considered cruisers proper and were given city names like other cruisers.
	www.friesian.com /dreadnot.htm (8601 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Heavy German attacks by dive-bombers on British convoys to Malta (in Sicilian channel) results in loss of 'Southampton' and damage to 'Illustrious'.
		Admiral Lutjens sails the battleship Bismarck from Gdynia in consort with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.
		However in bad weather these aircraft first attack the cruiser HMS Sheffield in error, but later a flight of Swordfish score 2 hits on the 'Bismarck', which affect her steering gear and bring her almost to a stop.
	usd316.k12.ks.us /projectfolder/WW2AA/pages/1941.htm (3027 words)

	HMS TimberWolf - Wolverine specs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fortunately for the Wolverine project, the last of the Devonshire Heavy Cruisers were entering service and their drive system was, at the time, state of the art.
		With the maneuvering engines, stardrive, and powerpile from a Heavy Cruiser, the Wolverines were easily able to meet their design objectives.
		While the Heavy Cruiser's power requirements were considerably greater then the new light ship, and the plant produced an inordinant ammount of heat for the smaller ship, requiring an overspec cooling system, it ultimately meant that the Wolverine would actually have a surplus of power in combat - A rare luxury on a warship.
	www.macdude.org /wolf/engineering.html (598 words)

	Hilfskreuzer (Auxiliary Cruiser / Raider) - Atlantis
		Sunk by the heavy cruiser HMS Devonshire with 10 casualties.
		The next morning a steam pipe on the funnel, damaged during the attack was repaired, a prize crew put on board and she was sent to a rendezvous point.
		Atlantis was no match for a heavy cruiser armed with eight 8-inch guns, and even with both engines fully operational, was slower by about 14 knots, so Rogge knew his only hope was to lure her closer, within range of his guns and torpedoes.
	www.bismarck-class.dk /hilfskreuzer/atlantis.html (3601 words)

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