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	field gear
		F60 WWI German Rifle Grenade: A very nice example that is well marked.
		F67 Grenade Carrying Suitcase: A very nice case that was used as a shipping crate by and officers.
		F109 M24 Training Grenade: The paint is about 50% on the head and there is light rust.
	www.hmsbrinmaric.com /fieldgear.htm (873 words)

	EDP24 Frontline - the gateway to East Anglia's Armed Forces
		HMS Norfolk’s small boat was used to simulate that of the terrorist craft as the warship left port and entered the Solent.
		HMS Norfolk – motto Serviens Servo (Serving, I Preserve) – was the first built of the Navy’s 16 Type 23 Frigates and was designed with the lessons of the Falklands in mind.
		HMS Norfolk, a sister ship to HMS Grafton which is twinned with Ipswich, has now embarked on a series of exercises, manoeuvres and tough sea training at team and individual level as she runs up to full operational deployment.
	www.edp24.co.uk /Content/Frontline/2003/030607HMSnorfolk1.asp (2504 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaediat
		It is in consequence of this that the Grenade is worn as a badge on the forage cap, the tunic and the Colours of the Regiment.
		Like HMS Courageous, HMS Glorious was completed in 1917 as a fast cruiser for use in the Great War in the Baltic, but by the 1920s with Britain wanting to increase her aircraft carrier strength she was converted to an aircraft carrier, as was HMS Courageous.
		HMS Wasp was a British steam gunboat, which was lost in September 1887 while on a passage from Singapore to Hong-Kong.
	david-pye.com /probert/F4.php (15252 words)

	Harpoon HQ - Harpoon Classic, Harpoon II, Harpoon 3, Harpoon 4
		HMS Plymouth was involved in the operation to recapture South Georgia, and later covered the landings at San Carlos.
		HMS Antrim, Ardent, Argonaut and Broadsword were all attacked in the air strikes on 21 May. HMS Antelope was hit by several UBX's, one of the bombs detonated during the removal of its fuse.
		HMS Coventry and HMS Broadsword were attacked by several waves of Skyhawks while positioned to the north of Falkland Sound as a 42-22 missile trap.
	www.harpoonhq.com /harpoon3/scenarios/plot-falklands.html (8989 words)

	Colonial Products: Historical Colonial Products, 1776 - Russian Copper 5 Kopec Coins,1779 - Authentic Journal De Paris ...
		In 1787 the HMS Bounty was purchased by the Admiralty and recommissioned to sail halfway around the world to Tahiti to collect sapling breadfuit trees and transport them to the West Indies.
		In 1768 Lieutenant James Cook, Royal Navy, set sail on HMS Endeavour on a voyage of exploration and scientific investigation and through his journeys, Cook is considered to be one of the greatest explorers.
		The HMS Surprise was made famous by Patrick OâBrian, in his books on the adventures of Captain Aubrey and the surgeon Maturin, and in the movie Master and Commander.
	www.aurorahistoryboutique.com /ahb_colonialProducts.htm (2939 words)

	More Aussies evacuated from Beirut \| \| The Australian
		Another 200-300 were among up to 2,000 civilians aboard naval assault ship HMS Bulwark as Britain ramped up its efforts to evacuate its citizens from war-torn Lebanon.
		HMS Bulwark was due to dock at Limassol at about 6am local time (1pm AEST).
		A total of 106 Australians were taken to safety on British destroyer HMS Gloucester, which arrived in Limassol this morning.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,19861319-29277,00.html (366 words)

	HMS Glowworm
		The most famous ship of the G class Fleet Destroyers is HMS Glowworm, who encountered the German Heavy Cruiser, Admiral Von Hipper and her destroyer escorts on 8th April 1940.
		In an eerie foretaste of what was to come, she suffered moderate damage to her bow when she collided with her sister ship, HMS Grenade, on 16th May 1939, off the island of Malta during night exercises.
		On the 5th April 1940 she sailed as part of the destroyer escort to the battle-cruiser HMS Renown and the cruiser HMS Birmingham in Operation Wilfred, an attempt to intercept the expected German invasion force, and if necessary, mine Norwegian waters.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/weapons_HMSGlowworm.html (789 words)

	28 April 1940
		HMS Furious, in company with HMS Isis, HMS Ilex, and HMS Imogen continues towards the Clyde.
		HMS Glorious, immersed in a weather front with zero visibility and 10/10ths cloud cover down to 200 feet was unable to operate aircraft as she proceeded towards Scapa Flow in company with the destroyers HMS Fury, HMS Fortune, HMS Escort, HMS Grenade, HMS Hasty, and HMS Encounter, arrive at Scapa at 1800 and commence refuelling.
		Meanwhile, HMS Ark Royal, in position 64.58 N, 08.07 E, was preparing to again strike at the centre of German air power in Northern Norway, Vaernes aerodrome as well as any shipping in the fjords around Trondheim harbour.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1940/04/28.htm (1106 words)

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		Destroyer HMS Grenade whilst alongside the east mole at Dunkirk is damaged and disabled by aircraft attacks.
		Minesweeper HMS Waverley, a paddle steamer, is bombed in the English Channel near Kwint Bank Buoy by German aircraft.
		Destroyer HMS Hereward is hit in an air attack 5 miles south of Crete at 35 20N 26 20E It is decided to leave her on her own rather than delay the rest of the force, and Hereward is last seen heading slowly towards Crete shrouded in smoke.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/may/29May.txt (2067 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - G class Destroyers
		HMS Gipsy (H 63) (lost 21 Nov, 1939)
		HMS Grafton (H 89) (lost 29 May, 1940)
		HMS Grenade (H 86) (lost 29 May, 1940)
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=15 (264 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Vera's Journey Home
		My husband Harold Emery was serving with the HMS Grenade and we had married quarters on this little Island paradise.
		The skies were nearly always blue, the climate never dismal like winters back home and the children seem healthy and happy, what more could a woman ask for.
		Harold worked hard, he had a good group of friends on the Grenade and they were afraid of nothing.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/69/a5982069.shtml (432 words)

	Falklands Battle compilation
		HMS Glamorgan was hit and damaged by a land based Exocet whilst supporting 45 Commando.
		HMS Avenger, Yarmouth and Glamorgan were on the gunline on the night of 11/12th June, Glamorgan supporting Captain Ian Gardiner's X-Ray Company in their attack on Two Sisters.
		Castaneda's platoon used rifles, grenades and bayonets to clear the positions with skill and dash and killing and wounding twenty-five of the paratroopers.
	fs.huntingdon.edu /jlewis/Syl/IRcomp/303-321Falklands82WarWiki.htm (14963 words)

	British navy punishes group for nude swim
		The group of about six men and one woman belong to the crew of the destroyer HMS Liverpool, which is helping rebuild the island of Grenada after Hurricane Ivan.
		The female officer, a doctor, wore a bikini and swam apart from her fellow officers, some of whom apparently were naked, a ministry spokesman said.
		The captain of the HMS Liverpool confined the officers to their ship until June 1 and removed their entitlement to drink alcohol while aboard the vessel, he said.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-05/11/content_441215.htm (181 words)

	Naval Actions and losses 1940
		HMS Ivanhoe struck a mine and sank in the mouth of the River Texel.
		Destroyer HMS Javelin of the 5th destroyer flotilla torpedoed by German destroyers Richard Beitzen, Lody and Galster in the Channel.
		Destroyer HMS Hyperion struck a mine and was torpedoed by the destroyer HMS Janus.
	www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Naval_Actions_WW240.html (1763 words)

	British Submarines of World War Two - HMS/M Seraph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Thus, as a fascinating appendix to the story of HMS Dasher, we now have a plausible theory about how it tied in with the celebrated story of The Man Who Never Was.
		Above all, the story of HMS Dasher is about people and much of it is told in the words of those who were involved, including some from the small number of survivors.
		John and Noreen Steele have performed their own heroic task in reviving the forgotten tale of HMS Dasher and in respecting the memory of the hundreds who went with her to the depth of the Firth of Clyde.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /chalcraft/sm/seraph.html (2869 words)

	commander's Xanga Site
		When the grenade is unarmed, the fuze mechanism is positioned toward the tail end, even though it has a spring pushing it toward the nose.
		As you might expect, the igniter in an impact grenade is activated by the force of the grenade landing on the ground.
		With a time-delay grenade, the thrower sets off a fuze, a mechanism that ignites the grenade after a certain amount of time has passed (generally a few seconds).
	www.xanga.com /commander (4417 words)

	Naval Technology - Visby Class - Stealth Corvette - ASW MCM and Attack Vessel
		The Visby (K31) was launched in June 2000 and was delivered to the FMV (the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration) in June 2002 for fitting with weapons and combat systems.
		The second, HMS Helsingborg (K32), was launched in June 2003 and delivered in April 2006.
		HMS Visby and Harnosand were officially delivered to the FMV in June 2006.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/visby (1197 words)

	Convoy ON 25 (U.K.-Norway 1940) - warsailors.com
		At 20:30 on Apr. 9-1940, HMS Vivien, HMS Woolston and HMS Wolsey departed Rosyth, having received instructions to proceed to Kirkwall with despatch for the returning Convoy ON 25.
		Vivien was stationed ahead to port, Woolston on the port flank and Wolsey astern, joined at 10:55 by HMS Bittern, which was stationed on the starboard flank.
		HMS Woolston rescued the surviving parachutist who turned out to be the pilot, with a cut in his head and a bullet wound in his right shoulder.
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/on25norw.html (1044 words)

	Call of Duty 2 Walkthrough - Tips, Hints and Help for Call of Duty 2 by Lisa
		Go along the outside of the field, shooting as you go, throwing grenades when you see groups of bad guys in nice little clumps.
		Grenades work very well for the bunkers - run up to one, lob in a grenade, and then clean up whoever is left over.
		If you go around the back side and from up there lob down grenades, that can help you clear out most of the problem.
	www.bellaonline.com /gaming/w/callofduty2/cod2walk_8a.html (550 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association—Battle Cruiser Hood: I was there! Where? The autobiography of crewman Alec Kelloway
		Arriving at Weymouth we were met by the naval patrol and given transport to HMS Attack on Portland Hill, there we had a late meal and just signed in until the next day.
		On arrival at Felixstowe I was taken to HMS Beehive, a shore base for coastal forces, there I was told that I was a replacement for a motor mechanic who had fallen overboard and drowned.
		HMS Beehive, our base, was a very large establishment that catered for about thirty two boats consisting of Motor Torpedo boats, Motor Gun boats and us MLs, who were a pain in the neck for the German shipping.
	www.hmshood.com /crew/biography/kellaway/chapter5.html (11418 words)

	Those formidable 'wooden walls' (regionsofmind.blog-city.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		In the case of HMS Victory (commanded by Lord Horatio Nelson), the care with which the ship had been made extended beyond military utility to include marvelous adornments.
		It was hard to sink a woodmen battleship, but a stroke of luck nearly allowed the French to do so to HMS Bellerophon: A French grenada started a fire that threatened the Bellerophon's munition stores.
		The scenes at Trafalgar seem lifted off the screen of a Hollywood swashbuckler: "[French] grenades elsewhere were inflicting heavy casualties on the [Bellerophon] crew; one wounded 25 of the Bellerophon's men.
	regionsofmind.blog-city.com /read/352885.htm (1834 words)

	Sea Kayak - The Chesapeake Affair of 1807
		In 1807 the British ship HMS Leopard demanded to board the U.S. frigate Chesapeake and muster her crew to search for deserters.
		Catching sight of the Chesapeake, one of the British vessels, the HMS Leopard, weighed anchor and followed her.
		Side by side the two ships sailed to about forty miles at sea, at which point the Leopard passed the Chesapeake, then backed a topsail and waited until the Chesapeake came down to her.
	www.seakayak.ws /kayak/kayak.nsf/NavigationList/NT0000675E (2547 words)

	CNN.com - Bremer: Iraq 'not as safe as it must be' - Aug. 9, 2003
		Four soldiers were wounded in a rocket-propelled grenade attack at the 4th Infantry Division headquarters in Tikrit overnight, U.S. military officials said.
		Soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade on patrol in the northern city of Kirkuk were fired on by a rocket-propelled grenade overnight.
		The UAE vessel, Navstar 1, ignored three warnings from the HMS Sutherland to return to the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr, prompting the Royal Marines to board the ship and arrest the master and crew.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/08/09/sprj.irq.main (1190 words)

	TamilNet: Royal Navy war ship to visit Colombo
		Royal Navy Warship HMS YORK and her accompanying Royal Fleet Auxiliary support ship BLACK ROVER are due to arrive alongside Colombo, Sri Lanka on 5 August.
		HMS YORK'S Commanding Officer, Commander Matt Harvey, Royal Navy said: "HMS YORK is both delighted and very privileged to be visiting Colombo.
		HMS YORK, which is based in Portsmouth, England, left the UK on 20 June 05.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=15496 (535 words)

	News
		The British naval vessel HMS Richmond arrived in St George’s Habour at daybreak, has conducted initial reconnaissance of the island and sent crew ashore to provide support.
		The crew is in contact with the EOC and will facilitate a public broadcast to the nation by Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell if required.
		HMS Richmond, the British Naval patrol vessel is available to support immediate response in Grenada.
	www.grenadianconnection.com /Grenada/ViewNews.asp?NewsID=1380 (485 words)

	Can you identify these uniforms.
		She went over in the HMS Mooltan in 1917 and came home in 1919.
		Even the cannons and grenade differ, which in some countries is the result of different dies by different makers.
		This is a late-nineteenth century artillery uniform, as shown by the grenade collar badges and the 'ball' (as opposed to spike) on the helmet.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-uniforms/id-wizard.htm (1226 words)

	COMBINEDOPS Vaagso
		An accidental grenade explosion on board caused casualties amongst which were those skilled in navigation.
		The flotilla comprising the Cruiser HMS Kenya fitted with 6-inch guns, four destroyers and two landing craft, HMS Prince Leopold and HMS Prince Charles, left Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands on Christmas eve.
		The story of HMS Kenya from her build to break up including a chapter on the Vaagso raid.
	www.combinedops.com /vaagso.htm (2070 words)

	Sea Rescue page. Aircraft information Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		HMS Bulldog, the destroyer which in 1941 salvaged a German Enigma machine from a stranded German U-boat U-110.
		Crew of walrus L2299, 700 sqdn 11.1.1941, HMS Gloucester, walrus, returned ship to find it under attack by Ju87, ordered to ditch alongside HMS Diamiond and after the crew were rescued it sank the aircraft by gunfire.
		Quigg, JA Lt 813 wildcat sqdn from HMS Campania.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /ships/AirSeaRescue/FAASeaRescue.html (5925 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Showdown with Iraq -- Iraqi oil smugglers turn to wooden dhows as patrols bite into illegal ...
		ABOARD THE HMS CHATHAM – Smugglers backed by the Iraqi regime are using a new tactic to avoid U.N. rules controlling the sale of oil.
		They are hiding illegal oil on fleets of small wooden boats, known as dhows, and sending them in numbers so large that international naval patrols in the Persian Gulf cannot stop them all.
		One unexpected factor has been more aggressive policing by neighboring Iran, which at least once has fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a tanker in its waters when it refused to stop, the Royal Navy said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20030223-1253-iraq-smuggling.html (745 words)

	HMS GLOWWORM
		Her first peacetime duties were in the Mediterranean which included escort work at the time of the Spanish Civil War and the Munich Crisis.
		It seemed that Glowworm was developing a habit of colliding with things in an uncanny similarity to her destiny, after she hit HMS Grenade, her sister ship, in May 1939, whilst on night exercises and the Swedish Ship Rex in February 1940.
		April 1940 She left for the stormy waters of Norway as one of the escorts for the Battle Cruiser Renown, dispatched to intercept the expected German invasion force.
	homepages.tesco.net /~s.bell/page2.html (286 words)

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