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	Bute Maritime Memories
		In September 1942 HMS Varbel was commissioned at Port Bannatyne (the Hydro) as the shore base for X craft midget submarines of the 12th Flotilla, a further base was established in Loch Striven as HMS Varbel II.
		HMS Bonaventure was completed as a depot ship for the X craft in January 1943, she moved temporarily to Loch Cairnbawn for the attack on the German battleship Tirpitz in August 1943 before taking the 14th Flotilla of X craft to the Far East in February 1945.
		HMS Adamant moved with her submarines to Faslane on the Gareloch in October 1957 thus ending the permanent RN presence in Rothesay Bay.
	www.butesonsanddaughters.co.uk /navy.shtml (574 words)

	HMS Emerald
		HMS Emerald was built by Armstong and laid down on the 19th May 1920 and completed in January 1926.
		HMS Enterprise was built by John Brown on the Clyde laid down on the 28th June 1918 and launched on the 23rd December 1919.
		HMS Emerald served on Atlantic Convoy duty 1939 to 1940, then to the East Indies 1941 -- 1942 and moving to the eastern Fleet 1942 to 1944 and in 1945 moving to reserve fleet.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_emerald.htm (0 words)

	Boy Seaman Training Establishments
		HMS Caledonia (ex-HMS Impregnable, a one-time 98-gun second rate) opened in Scotland in the Firth of Forth at Queensferry in 1896 while the ironclad HMS Black Prince was established at Queenstown (Cobh) in the same year.
		In 1906, HMS Ganges was moved ashore near Shotley on the Suffolk coast.
		The original vessel was replaced by HMS Winchester in 1861 and, proving too small, this hulk was in turn replaced in 1876 by the old first rate HMS Nile.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/rnboyest.htm (0 words)

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		HMS "Caledon," 4,120 tons, built by Cammell Laird in 1916 and was converted for use as an A.A. Light cruiser.
		HMS "Caradoc," built by Scotts 1916 and HMS "Calypso," built by Hawthorn Leslie, 1917, all converted as HMS "Caledon." The three ships measured 450ft x 43ft and were armed with 5 x 6-inch guns and 2 x 3-inch guns before conversion.
		With the exception of HMS "Curacoa," of 4,290 tons, all the ex cruisers are of 4,200 tons displacement, carrying a complement of from 400 to 437.
	www.merchantnavyofficers.com /royalnavy4.html (1278 words)

	J. Tuckers drawing of HMS Emerald in a gale of wind in the North Atlantic Oct. 1861.
		In october 1861 HMS Emerald encountered severe gales by the Newfoundland banks when transporting Armstrong guns and associated stores to Halifax for the ships of the North America and West India squadron.
		The principals of the various departments connected with the Devonport Dockyard went at noon in the steamtug Pike to the Emerald in the Sound, to survey her defects.
		It appears that the frigate, which left Spithead on the 5th of October, encountered on the 10th, 11th, 13th, and subsequently a succession of heavy gales from north-north-west to south-south-west, from the effects of which she was compelled on the 22d to put back, being then in lat.
	www.pdavis.nl /EmeraldGale.htm (0 words)

	HMS Argonaut Association - Dido Class (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMS Argonaut and her company were adopted by the City of Coventry after HMS Coventry the Ceres Class Light Cruiser had been sunk in September 1942 off the cost of Egypt by German JU-87 dive-bombers.
		On December 14th 1942 HMS Argonaut was hit by two torpedoes from the Italian Submarine Mocenigo and was badly damaged with both her bow and stern blown off.
		HMS Hero developed problems with her engines and was detached by the Admiralty on April 9th and the Argonaut was left on her own to cross the Atlantic.
	www.hmsargonaut.co.uk /dido.php (1256 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Broke of the Shakespeare class
		The British cruisers HMS Newcastle (Capt. E.A. Aylmer, DSC, RN) and HMS Emerald (Capt. F.C. Flynn, RN), with the British destroyers HMS Broke (Cdr.
		On the morning of 8 November 1942 at Algiers, HMS Broke had been ordered to break through the boom, enter the harbour and land a party of soldiers whose orders were to take and hold selected positions until the main landing force arrived.
		HMS Zetland overseeing the landing of troops immediately made to place herself between the batteries and HMS Broke, made smoke and dropped smoke floats, all the while returning fire with her 4inch guns.
	www.uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4279.html (0 words)

	Plymouth, Royal Navy Training Ships
		The old "Impregnable" ended her days first as a tender to "HMS Indus", then as a hulk under the name of "HMS Kent" to be brought into use in the event of an epidemic.
		The 56-gun "HMS Winchester" was built at Woolwich but was lent in 1861 to the Marine Society and moored at Liverpool, where she was re-named the "Conway".
		HMS Fisgard closed in 1983 and training was transferred to HMS Raleigh.
	www.plymouthdata.info /Royal%20Naval%20Training%20Ships.htm (1572 words)

	HMS Black Prince 1861
		HMS Black Prince was built on the Clyde and at the time she was the largest ship built there.
		In 1903 her name was changed to “Emerald.” She eventually became “Impregnable III.,” and acted as part of the boys Training Establishment at Devonport.
		The seventh “EMERALD” was a 9210-ton ship which had been launched at Glasgow as a broadside ironclad in 1862 under the name of “Black Prince.” In 1903 her name was changed to “Emerald,” and she acted for some years as training ship for the Irish boys at Queenstown.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_black_prince.htm (0 words)

	virgina1
		New recruits were finally procured through the auspices of the Maritime Committee of the Continental Congress, enabling Virginia to attempt another run past the blockade in mid-January.
		This latest dash went smoothly until HMS Emerald sighted Virginia near the Chesapeake capes.
		A Congressional court of inquiry into the fiasco cleared Capt. Nicholson of blame, and all the officers of the unlucky frigate saw action later during the Revolution.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/frigates/virgina1.htm (0 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)

	Symposia \| 4th Annual \| About
		The Fourth Annual Symposium of the Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Foundation was held in late June in an emerald valley at the foot of Mt. Washington, the highest peak in the Northeastern United States.
		Five leading Italian institutions conduct Armenise-sponsored research: the European Institute of Oncology in Milano, the University of Padova, the Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment at the University of Torino School of Medicine, the Dipartimento di Ricerca Biologica e Tecnologica (DIBIT) at Scientific Institute San Raffaele in Milano, and Universita' Di Roma La Sapienza.
		At HMS, the four Armenise centers are structural biology, neurobiology, cell signal transduction, and human cancer viruses.
	www.hms.harvard.edu /armenise/symposia/symp4_2000/index.html (501 words)

	RN After Action Reports
		The Emerald performed some amazing point defence fire to reduce the bolt it face to a "2" intensity and then avoided the majority of the blast via its shield, even still she was not looking good.
		The HMS Naga not to be outdone by her sister ship inflicted a devastating close range attack on the Smudger, practically shearing its thick carapace off in one go.
		The successful performance of the HMS Raleigh and the true nature of the HMS Alexandria were quickly covered up as the existence of Q-Ships is officially denied by the RN, as is the full extent of the electronic capabilities of the Drake Class.
	members.iinet.net.au /~stub/FullThrustaar.html (5306 words)

	A Midshipman's War by Frank Wade
		O’Conor was the captain of the ill-fated HMS Neptune when she was sunk by mines off Tripoli, Libya on the night of 19th December 1941.
		He was a cadet in Osborne and Dartmouth Naval Colleges from 1911 to 1914, he was a midshipman in the Battleship HMS Prince of Wales from 1914 to 1917.
		He was a sub-lieutenant in the Destroyer HMS Walpole from 1917 to 1918.
	www3.telus.net /FrankWade/stories/3_loss_nepture.html (827 words)

	British Submarines of World War Two - The Depot Ships (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMS Titania in 1937 (left) and possibly a little earlier (1930-35) with the 6th Flotilla.
		HMS Wolfe was a former Canadian Pacific liner, launched 1920, and originally named Montcalm.
		Not actually a wartime submarine depot ship, but in 1947 HMS Mull of Kintyre was moored further out in the bay as the base ship for a series of explosion trials carried out in Loch Striven and lasting into 1950.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /chalcraft/sm/depot.html (2000 words)

	Eagles Only - hms eagle - bird, eagles, american eagle, owls, parrots (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMS Eagle recovered 5 bodies from the ocean on the 9th April 1954 and a 6th body was found...
		By HMS Eagle A sequel to the movie that focuses on the amulet and it's history; giving it a bit of a sci-fi element as opposed to the typical mythical one.
		HMS 'Eagle', Repro ID D5445, ¬© NMM London There will also be a rare opportunity to see inside some of these fascinating models using endoscope technology and, in the afternoon, to go 'behind the...
	www.eaglesonly.com /2/hmseagle (1121 words)

	Extracts from the log of HMS Emerald
		The wooden screw frigate Emerald was only commissioned once - from 14 May 1859 to 7 November 1863, by Captain Arthur Cumming.
		After visiting Bermuda, Barbados, Jamaica, Navy Bay (Panama), Greytown (Mosquito coast) and Havanna in Emerald, Milne transferred his flag to HMS Nile at Bermuda on 4 June, and Emerald returned to Plymouth on 4 July.
		Manned the yards and fired a Royal Salute on the Prince of Wales embarking on board HMS Hero [Albert Edward (Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Queen Victoria, and the future King Edward VII), was then 19 years of age, and en route to Newfoundland, Canada and the United States.
	home.planet.nl /~pdavis/Log_Emerald.htm (1197 words)

	RN Cruisers, HMS Norfolk, Suffolk, Cardiff
		HMS Orion or HMS Blake or HMS Euryalus or HMS Achilles or HMS Phoebe or HMS Naiad
		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.
		HMS Dido took part in the second Battle of Sirte during 1942, she sank three supply ships off North Africa.
	www.ivanberryman.co.uk /rncruise.htm (1320 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Voyages of the Enterprise - A World at War / Part 2
		Based on information obtained from a gentleman in England who's father served about the HMS Enterprise and had received a plaque in recognition of his role in rescuing Emperor Sellassie, it appears that the "British war vessel" mentioned in the One World Magazine was the E-class cruiser Enterprise.
		Twelve Swordfish bombers were launched from the carrier HMS Ark Royal, under cover from the Enterprise and other British cruisers, and attacked installations in the port of Cagliari.
		The cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire were sunk, but miraculously, the Enterprise and two destroyers were able to rescue 1,122 of the 1,546 crewmen of the two unfortunate ships.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/enterprise/voych08b.htm (1516 words)

	The Victoria Cross: Jervis Bay - Ross Memorial Park: Heritage Resources Saint John
		London, Nov. 17 - (C.P.) - A sturdy Irish captain - Fogarty Fegen - who went down with his ship, H.M.S. Jervis Bay, her guns blazing and her colors flying, was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously yesterday.
		The Jervis Bay was sunk Nov. 5 as she challenged a powerful German raider in the mid-Atlantic.
		1939.Jul - HMS EMERALD, Cruiser, 7,550 tons, Reserve Fleet at the Nore (Incidentally, the Capt of HMS EMERALD was Capt A.W.S.Agar, VC, DSO.)
	www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca /JervisBay/vcmedal.htm (0 words)

	Extracts from the log of HMS Emerald
		Extracts from the log of HMS Emerald for the period 4 July 1860 - 13 April 1861
		After a period with the Channel Squadron, she sailed on 16 January 1860 from Portsmouth to take Rear Admiral Alexander Milne out to the West Indies, where he replaced Vice Admiral Sir Houston Stewart as Commander-in-Chief on the North America and West Indies station from 13 January 1860 (until 7 January 1864).
		The "Naval Intelligence" column of the "Times" newspaper gives some extra information on the activities of Emerald (links to individual entries in the day-of-week column) and of the Channel Fleet.
	home.wxs.nl /~pdavis/Log_Emerald.htm (0 words)

	British Navy Ships--HMS Black Prince (1862-1923)
		HMS Black Prince, a 9250-ton ironclad frigate, was the sister ship of the Royal Navy's first seagoing ironclad, HMS Warrior.
		Built at Glasgow, Scotland, her completion was delayed until September 1862 by a drydock accident during outfitting.
		Identifiable ships, all dressed with flags) include: HMS Minotaur (extreme left), HMS Agincourt (with five masts, in left distance), HMS Glatton (left center), HMS Black Prince (center, with three masts), and HMS Prince Albert (right center, nearest to camera).
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-b/bk-prnc3.htm (0 words)

	HMS Emerald and HMS Enterprise by Ivan Berryman. (GS) - Cranston Fine Arts
		Of the three E-Class cruisers proposed at the end of World War 1, only two were ever completed, Euphrates being cancelled when the war with Germany ended in 1918.
		The two sisters, Emerald and Enterprise, enjoyed long and varied careers, the former remaining largely unchanged from her original appearance, the latter being much modified.
		HMS Emerald and HMS Enterprise by Ivan Berryman.
	www.directart.co.uk /mall/more.php?ProdID=12768 (545 words)

	HMS Bounty (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMS Bounty, one of the most celebrated ships in the world, will arrive on Thursday, July 14, after the filming of “Pirates of the Caribbean II,” starring Johnny Depp.
		Visitors are invited to board and tour the HMS Bounty from Friday-Sunday, July 15-17, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
		Pepsi Americas’ Sail 2006 and the HMS Bounty visit are hosted by the N.C. Maritime Museum.
	www.bluewatergmac.com /HMSBounty (278 words)

	Naval Actions and losses
		HMS Hardy a V class destroyer leader of a JW convoy, torpedoed by a U-boat off Bear Island, sunk by RN.
		HMS Mahratta an M class destroyer sunk in the Barentz Sea by U-956.
		The German battleship Tirpitz was attacked by Fairey Barracuda torpedo-bombers from HMS Furious and HMS Victorious.
	www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Naval_Actions_WW244Res.html (1997 words)

	The National Archives \| Search other Archives \| Accessions to Repositories \| Major Accessions to Royal Naval Museum, ...
		Alexander Acheson, surgeon (b1782): typed transcript of journal incl rules for the sick bay of HMS Pompee 1799-1842 (2001/57)
		HMS Enterprise: manuscript describing her actions in the Norwegian campaign 1940 (2001/27)
		HMS Fiji: book of rememberance listing the men who died 22nd May 1941 (2001/7)
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /accessions/2001/01returns/01ac1070.htm (0 words)

	HMS Broke
		9 Ratings killed and sank while under tow from Hms Zetland the next day.
		The British cruisers HMS Newcastle and HMS Emerald, with the British destroyers
		and HMS Wanderer of the 17th DF and the Polish destroyers Garland and Burza act as a screen to the British battleship HMS Revenge during a bombardment of Cherbourg.
	www.hmscavalier.org.uk /D83 (0 words)

	A History of Ships Named Enterprise
		Light cruisers HMS Enterprise and HMS Glasgow intercepted a squadron of 10 German destroyers sent to escort a German blockade runner into France.
		HMS Enterprise is assigned to Task Force 122 Western Naval Forces, under the command of Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk.
		HMS Repulse was sunk 10 December 1941 by Japanese torpedo bombers near Singapore.
	starchive.cs.umanitoba.ca /?SNE (6524 words)

	Matchbox 1/72 Seafox by Julien Dixon
		Orion (700, 718 sqns), Pretoria castle (702 sqn), Ajax (718 sqn), Arethusa (713 sqn), Penelope (713 sqn), Asturias (702 sqn), Alcantara (702 sqn), and HMS Emerald (700 sqn).
		HMS Asturias was an armed Merchant Cruiser, a civilian ship converted to a Military role in times of need (Taken up from Trade was the official term).
		For a time HMS Asturias was flagship of the South American Division but in July, 1943 she was torpedoed while escorting a slow-moving floating dock.
	modelingmadness.com /reviews/allies/gb/dixonsfox.htm (1865 words)

	Call of Fate Forums: Scharnhorst
		Two British ships shadowed the German battleships as they made their escape while HMS Warspite, Hood and Repulse raced to the forward track of the Germans, but without radar lost them in a viscious squall.
		HMS Glorious burns, surrounded in a smoke screen from her destroyers.
		Meanwhile Admiral Fraser (British C-in-C Home Fleet) decides to increase the escort to the convoys and to prepare a trap for the German battleship in case the Scharnhorst was going to leave the safety of the fjords she was hiding in.
	www.calloffate.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=46030&get=last (4393 words)

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