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	HMS Uganda (C66) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Uganda (C66), was a Second World War-vintage Royal Navy Colony class cruiser.
		HMS Uganda was commissioned by the Royal Navy on 17 December 1942.
		Originally she had two hangers for Supermarine Walrus aircraft that were designed for reconnaissance work, but the aircraft were later removed and the hangers used for radio and radar rooms as well as crew amenities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Uganda (1480 words)

	Mutiny on the Bounty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Bligh, 33-year-old former sailing master of HMS Resolution, was appointed commanding officer of Bounty on August 16, 1787.
		HMS Pandora, under the command of Captain Edward Edwards, was dispatched November 7, 1790 to search for Bounty and the mutineers.
		However, his career was marked by another challenge to his authority when he was a Governor of New South Wales; in 1808 the troops of New South Wales arrested Bligh in an incident known as the Rum Rebellion.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Bounty (2825 words)

	HMSFA Member Articles and Photo Gallery
		HMS Fiji was launched three months prior to the outbreak of the Second World War but not completed until May 1940.
		On the 23 August 1940 HMS Fiji was allocated to the expedition to Dakar (Operation Menace).
		HMS Fiji spent six months under repair as a result of this attack.
	www.angelfire.com /ri/georgev/hmsfijiphotos.html (1279 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMS Antelope (H36)
		HMS Antelope (H36) was an A-class destroyer built by Hawthorn Leslie.
		In August 1940, Antelope sailed in convoy to take part in Operation Menace, the raid on Dakar, but after HMS Fiji was torpedoed on September 1, 1940, she escorted her back to the Clyde, Scotland.
		HMS Achates was an A-class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched on 4 October 1929 and commissioned on 27 March 1930.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Antelope-%28H36%29 (1300 words)

	hms antelope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Another HMS Antelope, 6, a 204 ton West Indian packet ship, was attacked and captured on October 10, 1782.
		Another HMS Antelope, 14, was purchased in 1783, and in 1785 was under the command of Captain S.J. Gambier.
		In August 1940, Antelope sailed in convoy to take part in Operation Menace, the raid on Dakar, but after HMS Fiji was torpedoed on September 1, she escorted her back to the Clyde, Scotland.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /HMS_Antelope.html (1334 words)

	HMS Fiji (C58) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Fiji was a cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the island of Fiji.
		Fiji was built by John Brown and launched 13 May 1939.
		She was sunk on 22 May 1941 in an air attack southwest of Crete.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Fiji_(C58) (110 words)

	HMS Uganda (C66) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was transferred to the (additional info and facts about Royal Canadian Navy) Royal Canadian Navy and recommissioned as HMCS Uganda, and later renamed HMCS Quebec.
		HMS Uganda was commissioned by the (additional info and facts about Royal Navy) Royal Navy on 17 December 1942.
		Originally she had two (Anything from which something can be hung) hangers for (additional info and facts about Supermarine Walrus) Supermarine Walrus aircraft that were designed for reconnaissance work, but the aircraft were later removed and the hangers used for radio and radar rooms as well as crew amenities.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hm/hms_uganda_(c66)3.htm (1838 words)

	4Reference \|\| HMS Antelope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Another HMS Antelope was an iron paddle-wheel vessel of 1020 tons and 650 horsepower.
		She was part of the Mediterranean fleet, recommissioned at Malta on February 25, 1880, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Walter Haylton Joliffe, with a crew of about 80 including a corporal and seven privates of Marines.
		TV and stills pictures of HMS Antelope's demise became one of the defining images of the Falklands War and appear repeatedly in histories of the event.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/HMS_Antelope.html (1530 words)

	Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Gibraltar, was an Edgar Class cruiser launched in 1892 for service in the Royal Navy.
		HMS Gladiator, was a (second-class or) light cruiser of the Royal Navy, launched in December 1896 at Portsmouth.
		HMS Grasshopper, was the name given to several boats, stations and ships of the Royal Navy.
	www.elexi.de /en/a/ah/ahmed_omar_saeed_sheikh.html (319 words)

	memories of Leading Seaman C Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the 22nd May 1941 HMS Fiji was sunk by enemy aircraft 50 miles south west of Gavdo Island.
		The Fiji, along with HMS Gloucester, HMS Kandahar and HMS Kingston, had been sent to assist HMS Greyhound which was under air attack.
		For the next three and a half hours, as the Fiji withdrew to the west, she was relentlessly attacked from the air until finally having exhausted all her live ammunition and surviving twenty bombing attacks, was hit close to the portside amidships.
	www.warlinks.com /memories/walker.html (871 words)

	Fiji Class
		HMS Fiji, HMS Kenya, HMS Mauritius, HMS Nigeria, HMS Trinidad, HMS Ceylon, HMS Gambia, HMS Jamaica, HMS Uganda, HMS Bermuda, HMS New Foundland including crew and families of ex-crew members notice board for the Fiji Class cruisers.
		HMS Fiji was built at Clydebank by John brown ship builders and laid down on the 30th march 1938, launched 31st May 1939 and completed 17th may 1940.
		HMS Kenya was involved in the Hunt for the German battleship Bismarck.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /fiji_class.htm (1600 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Letters-HMS Volunteer
		In a record of her movements that I have managed to trace there is a mention of the volunteer being a local escort for operation medium august 1940, escort to hms fiji sept 1st after she was torpedoed,and sept 23rd ship damaged in Dakar area.
		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 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.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /Letters/HMSVolunteer.html (610 words)

	A Midshipman's War - Stories
		HMS Vanguard of the same class was Nelson’s flagship at the battle of the Nile..
		It was HMS Nile built in 1839, a 2,600 ton converted sailing/screw ship with an armament of 10X8inch guns and 82x30 pounders with a length of 205 feet and depth of 54 feet.
		The cruiser HMS Fiji was sunk by air attack with 241 killed or drowned.
	www3.telus.net /FrankWade/stories.html (9094 words)

	Maritime Disasters of WWII 1939, 1940, 1941
		At that moment she was on a secret mission, transporting King Håkon of Norway, his staff, diplomatic corps, and the national gold reserves, from Tromsó to the safety of the British Isles, there to spend the next five years in exile.
		The 11,636 ton Dutch passenger liner was taken over for service as a troop transport and while engaged in the evacuation of British and New Zealand troops from Crete, she was attacked for the second time by German aircraft of Luftwaffe JG-77 and sank with the loss of 193 men.
		Severely damaged by salvos from the battleships HMS King George V, HMS Rodney, and by torpedoes from the cruiser HMS Dorsetshire, she was finally scuttled by her crew.
	members.iinet.net.au /~gduncan/maritime-1.html (7273 words)

	Historical Timeline - Fiji Government Online
		A confederacy of native kingdoms was first mooted and Fiji's first constitution was drawn up and signed by seven independent chiefs of Fiji, representing the states of Bau, Lakeba, Rewa, Bua, Cakaudrove, Macuata and Naduri, each to form part of the General Assembly.
		Cakobau was elected president for two years in a row, and when Ma'afu sought the seat in the third year, the Fijian chiefs refused to be governed by a Tongan and withdrew causing the confederacy to collapse.
		Fiji had to have two general elections this year after the first, which was won by the National federation Party could not get started because of internal bickering amongst NFP members, notably Siddiq Koya and Karam Ramrakha.
	www.fiji.gov.fj /publish/historical_timeline.shtml (2616 words)

	H.M.S. Fiji Association
		H.M.S. The H.M.S. Fiji association welcomes aboard relatives and friends of the Fiji, whereby we can exchange information and items concerning this Royal Naval Cruiser.
		We have recently been honored to receive an excellent narrative from the steady pen of 87 year old Fiji survivor, Charlie Pyles, who was the HMS Fiji cook.
		Pyles laid a wreath, commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Fiji's demise, at Suda Bay Cemetary, in Crete.
	www.angelfire.com /ri/georgev/hmsfiji.html (633 words)

	1940 September 1st
		Cruiser HMS Fiji is torpedoed by U-32 off Rockall as she escorts troop transports for the Dakar expedition.
		Early in September the new fleet carrier HMS Illustrious, with an armoured flight deck, battleship HMS Valiant and two cruisers are transferred in this way in Operation 'Hats'.
		The arrival of HMS Illustrious allows Adm. Cunningham to go ahead with his plans to attack the Italian battlefleet at Taranto.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1940/09/01.htm (409 words)

	Sharp Rise in Eating Disorders in Fiji Follows Arrival of TV
		In her 1998 survey, taken 38 months after TV came to Nadroga, Fiji, 15 percent of girls, aged 17 on average, reported that they had vomited to control weight.
		The Fijian diet, in fact, is extremely high in fat, and Becker and her colleagues found that 84 percent of village women in their sample were overweight or obese.
		Fiji is developing from a traditional, kinship-based society, where cash was once rarely used and possessions were widely shared, into one that participates in the global economy, where salaried employment and private property are becoming increasingly common and the older generation's values are questioned by the younger.
	www.hms.harvard.edu /news/releases/599bodyimage.html (884 words)

	World InfoZone - Fiji Facts
		After being forced off the HMS Bounty by mutineers, William Bligh, the British Captain, and his loyal crew set out for Tonga (Tofua) and then on through the Fiji archipelago (1789).
		Coups in Fiji and suspensions from the Commonwealth occurred in 1987 and 2000.
		The Fiji School of Medicine aspires to be "a center of Excellence in quality health education, training and research, serving the communities of the Pacific".
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=Fiji (379 words)

	Royal Navy WARSHIP GUIDE - HMS Jamaica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fiji class cruisers were to be the best available to the Royal Navy in the early years of the war.
		HMS Jamaica was best known for her clashes with larger German ships.
		HMS Jamaica continued to serve into the 1950s, and was finally broken up in 1960.
	www.pdwilson.co.uk /warships/jamaica.htm (233 words)

	HMS Firedrake Page 23
		He was then transferred to HMS Berkeley one day as she was returning to Chatham she set off an ‘acoustic’ mine which fractured the feed pipes to the turbines.
		In January the following year, he was on board HMS Trinidad when she was ordered to escort convoy PQ8 to North Russia, it was then that he was involved in an extraordinary incident which was later related to in a book entitled "The Ship That Torpedoed Herself".
		The second occasion was his very next ship, HMS Firedrake, which was lost with 168 of her crew in the Atlantic in December 1942, of which he wrote an article for the Seagoer in the 1950s called "North Atlantic Rescue" that article will follow this biography.
	www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk /firedrake23.htm (2184 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Kit Tanner: A Hero of the Battle of Crete - A2082494
		John Cookson was serving on the Fiji when it was sunk and witnessed Kit Tanner's bravery and wanted to commemorate it.
		The Fiji was one of the many British warships which were sunk at the Battle of Crete.
		HMS Gloucester had been bombed and sunk and we went to pick up their survivors.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A2082494 (517 words)

	HMS Superb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although this book deals mainly with the restoration of the HMS Victory it does delve into the history of the ship in the process.
		The Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage Of HMS Challenger by Oxford University based earth scientist and science writer Richard Corfield is the true and inherently fascinating story of one boat's 1872 journey and mission to map and sample the ocean fl...
		The problem with this book is that anyone who picks it up must be an admirer of Nelson, and must have already read at least a c...
	www.freeglossary.com /HMS_Superb (657 words)

	Australian seizure of HMS Repulse bell sparks international row - DIVERNET News for Divers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Repulse is designated as Protected - 'look but don't touch' - under the wreck protection legislation.
		HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales were the capital ships of Force Z, and are considered to be at great risk of interference.
		It was after a prolonged campaign by the survivors' association that the issue of wreck protection was addressed by the Ministry of Defence.
	www.divernet.com /news/stories/repulse280403.shtml (724 words)

	HMS Mauritius - The Royal Navy Ships of Victor Johns
		H.M.S. Mauritius was commissioned by Captain L. Curzon-Howe, M.V.O., late in 1940.
		It was during this stay at Singapore that some of us saw M. Litvinoff on his way to take up the post of Russian Ambassador to the United States of America.
		The local papers of December the 2nd heralded in large type the arrival of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse, with four destroyers, and within a few days we were busily working on our 0.5-inch machine guns and so were ready for the Japanese air attack on the 8th.
	home1.swipnet.se /~w-11578/hms_mauritius.htm (3217 words)

	Fiji Guide: The Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aside from the main island of Kadavu, which is the fourth-largest in the Fiji archipelago, the group includes the island of Ono and a number of smaller islands lying within the Great Astrolabe Reef and making up its northern extension.
		It is an island known for its headstrong, independent thinkers: its chiefly system is different from other parts of Fiji, allowing affairs to be run by stronger local chiefs rather than by a few 'big chiefs'.
		Fiji Air has flights on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for F$47 one way.
	www.fijiguide.com /cgi-bin/fijicon.pl?15-kadav.fij (3236 words)

	Cruisers of WW2 - HMS London
		HMS London byla postavena v loděnicích Portsmouth Dockyard, její kýl byl položen 23.
		Od března 1938 do února 1941 byla HMS London v Chathamu kompletně přebudována, což výrazně pozměnilo její vzhled.
		Po vzoru lehkých křižníků Fiji, které byly stavěny ve válečném období, obdržela novou kompaktnější nástavbu velitelského můstku, kouřovody byly vyvedeny do dvou komínů a byl pozměněn systém pancéřování.
	www.military.cz /ww2_ships/GB/ca/London/london.htm (817 words)

	Focus \| May 28, 1999
		Editor Robert Kane is an HMS associate professor of radiology, director of ultrasound in the Radiology Department at Beth Israel Deaconess, and a contributor.
		In this volume, editors Baruch Krauss, HMS instructor in pediatrics, and Robert M. Brustowicz, HMS assistant professor of anesthesia, both at Children's Hospital, present a practical approach to pediatric procedural sedation, one that can be applied in a wide variety of clinical situations, not just the operating room.
		Layton, HMS assistant clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess, takes as her theme the tension between these views as expressed in the area of gender identity.
	focus.hms.harvard.edu /1999/May28_1999/books.html (1199 words)

	HMS Travel Group - Fiji Special
		The Fiji archipelago consists of tiny coral atolls and mountainous forest-clad islands of volcanic origin, and is famed for its aquamarine waters and white sand beaches.
		Beyond experiencing Fiji's perfect physical environment, it is sharing the warmth and friendliness of the Fijian people and their special living culture that makes this a holiday as it should be—a life-enhancing experience.
		This resort is famous for blending the timeless ambiance of the islands with sophisticated holiday pleasures.
	www.hmstravel.com /html/fiji.html (223 words)

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