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	HMS Firedrake Page 3
		Between 8-15th October 1940 the Firedrake, together with HMS Hotspur, owing to their high endurance, were allocated as extra escorts for convoy HG 45 Gib to UK.
		The corvette HMS Sunflower came to the rescue but because of the extremely bad weather they couldn’t get close enough to take the surviving men off what was left of the Firedrake, their skipper decided to circle the Firedrake hoping the weather would become better by daylight.
		HMS Sunflower, managed to rescue six officers and 20 ratings from a crew of 194.
	www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk /firedrake3.htm (1361 words)

	CHARLES BRAY's Halifa Journal
		Halifax : The Crucifixion at the Titanic Cemetery at Mount Olivet in Halifax.
		At the height of its influence in the mid-Victorian era, the Citadel was the headquarters of one of the Halifax Garrison’s two infantry regiments and an important centre of operations in the garrison.
		The location for Halifax was specifically chosen because of its huge protected harbour, its deepwater potential, and its relative proximity to Louisbourg; when a careening yard was established in 1757 to repair naval vessels, the community's future was assured.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/North_America/Canada/Nova_Scotia/Halifax (2091 words)

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		HMS York was one of two York class heavy cruisers built in the late 1920's.
		The early years of HMS York were spent on the America and West Indies Station as Flagship to the 8th Cruiser Squadron but she was recalled to Europe in 1935/1936 as a result of the Abyssinian Crisis.
		At the outbreak of war her initial duties were as escort to the North Atantic convoys from Halifax, Nova Scotia and as part of the Norwegian Campaign.
	www.geocities.com /hmsyork/index.html (391 words)

	HMS Stanley
		HMS Stanley exploded and sank with the loss of all, but 25 of her crew.
		USS McCalla decommissioned and became HMS Stanley of the Royal Navy 23 October 1940 at Halifax as one of the overage destroyers transferred to England in exchange for bases in the West Indies.
		On the 17th one of the auxiliary carrier HMS Audacity aircraft sighted a submarine 22 miles on the port beam of the convoy.
	www.hmscavalier.org.uk /I73 (396 words)

	1918
		As the Tuscania drew closer to Halifax on the 26th of January, the soldiers on deck saw that snow had arrived in Canada, and they got their first glimpse of what a war zone must be like.
		Halifax was the last stop for 21 soldiers, as they were to sick to travel.
		The British Cruiser HMS Cochrane had the instructions to attack any detected U-boat that may be lurking near the convoy, but they were not to stop to lend any assistance to any vessel that becomes a victim of a U-boat.
	renton.50megs.com /Tuscania/1918.htm (1184 words)

	H.M.S. PUNCHER
		HMS PUNCHER’s alterations and modifications were started by Burrard’s on March 15th to outfit her as a Strike carrier.
		HMS PUNCHER was the first CVE to be converted for trooping duties, but she received only minimal alterations to outfit her for trooping in the North Atlantic; several months later the Admiralty began a programme to convert 6 other CVEs ATHELING, FENCER, QUEEN, PATROLLER, RAJAH, and RANEE, for long haul trooping in tropical climates.
		HMS PUNCHER Sailed for her second trooping run to Halifax carrying personnel from all three branches of Canada's armed forces on August 28th, arriving in Halifax on September 4th.
	www.royalnavyresearcharchive.org.uk /ESCORT/PUNCHER.htm (4664 words)

	History of Nova Scotia; Book.2; Part 5; Ch. 6. "The Years Leading Up To The War Of 1812."
		August 31st: Halifax: "This morning the two seaman, who were taken from on board the Frigate Chesapeake in conformity to the sentence passed upon them last week, was inflicted, one of them undergoing the flogging thro the fleet died at nine o'clock the other was hanged on board the Halifax Sloop-of-war."
		July 1st: HMS Swiftsure, Milan, Ferret40, Martin [18 guns] and Harpy [18 guns] sail, for Portugal with the 7th Regiment on board, also the Ariel, a transport for England.
		October 2nd: HMS Regulus [44-gun, though apparently she came in, en flûte] and HMS Diadem [14-gun, also, en flûte] come in from Portsmouth with the 2nd Battalion of the 8th Regiment on board.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk2/Part5/Ch06.htm (3705 words)

	HMS Conway
		There were several vessels called HMS Nile over the years.Details of these other vessels are at the end of this section.
		Sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia to patrol the North American and West Indies stations.
		Halifax Museum Negative 14902 is a photo of HMS Nile in Halifax Harbour.
	www.hmsconway.org /history_third.html (887 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003d Surface vessels (1905-1919) > Cruisers - Light cruisers > Canadian ...
		She was originally commissioned as HMS Aurora for the Royal Navy and later transferred to Canada.
		HMS Aurora was built by the Royal Navy at HMNB Devonport from 1911 to 1913.
		HMS Aurora was one of the ships present at the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet, in November, 1918.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/media/index.php?cat=1302 (474 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Montgomery of the Town class
		HMS Montgomery (G.95) was commissioned under the White Ensign on 23 October 1940, Cdr.
		En route, Montgomery and the other of her sister ships in company swept through the scene of the one-sided naval engagement between the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay and the German "pocket battleship" Admiral Scheer.
		On 12 December 1943, she assisted the Bowater-Lloyd Paper Co. barge Spruce Lake and, on the 27th, departed Halifax for the British Isles, carrying the surviving crew members from the torpedoed British destroyer HMS Hurricane which had been sunk by U-415 on Christmas Eve.
	www.uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4299.html (629 words)

	Rose Sailing -- Halifax to Boston
		The pictures are from Halifax - the last stop in the America's for the Tall Ships 2000 festival.
		Lunenbug is where the HMS Rose was built, as well as Bluenose.
		Later, as the sun sets and the band starts playing, there will be little room to manuever on deck.
	www.pioneernet.net /bobz3/rose.htm (475 words)

	The Halifax explosion 6th Decemeber 1917, WW1,Canada
		The Mont Blanc entered Halifax with 2,300 tons of wet and dry picric acid; (used for making lyddite foir artillery shells), 200 tons of trinitrotoluene, (TNT), 10 tons of gun cotton, with drums of Bezol; (High Octane fuel) stacked on her decks.
		Halifax was being bombed by Zeppelins, or maybe a German Naval bombardment.
		Halifax was a part of that war, not only was she a major supply line to the trenches, (in people, horses, supplies and munitions), but for one terrible day; Halifax, Nova Scotia, experienced the death and destruction of this worldwide conflict.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/kylet1/halifax.htm (1643 words)

	HMS Repulse, Revenge, Scapa, Loch Ewe, troop, convoy, North Sea
		H.M.S. Norfolk had returned to Devonport at the end of her foreign service commission, so all preparations were under way for Mabel’s sister, Lily, to be married to Gilbert Kime.
		It was in Halifax that I had my first taste of clam chowder, wonderful stuff, and my first experience of their coffee, which was drunk out of thick white china mugs.
		We sailed in convoy from Halifax, escorting several troopships containing the contingent of Canadian troops and stores, a screen of destroyers around us and planes from the aircraft carrier ranging far and wide as the eyes of the convoy.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2MemoirAndSo04.htm (4408 words)

	HMS Revenge :: The Patriot Files :: Dedicated to the preservation of military history (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The routine was to escort a convoy from Halifax which was met by destroyers off Northern Ireland escorting an outward bound convoy.
		Operating from Halifax as we did the men responsible for playing records could buy the latest American disks in advance of them reaching the UK.
		On Saturday the 24 May 1941 we were in Halifax and I had the morning watch as for'ard gangway sentry.
	www.patriotfiles.com /article.php?sid=404 (3137 words)

	American Privateers of War of 1812 buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia
		Halifax, Nova Scotia - Except for the name, there is nothing to suggest the sad history of Deadman's Island.
		But in the end it was Canadians - the people of Halifax - who saved the resting place of their former foes, and ensured that the lost fighters of a nearly forgotten war will be remembered, along with others deposited in anonymous graves on Deadman's Island during the first half of the 19th century.
		Halifax is already famous as the burial place of many steerage class victims of the Titanic shipwreck.
	www.usmm.org /halifax1812.html (1154 words)

	Halifax - Nova Scotia - Canada's City of Sails
		Founded by Governor Cornwallis in 1749, Halifax is the biggest city in Canada's Atlantic Provinces, and the capital of Nova Scotia.
		Halifax became, in the words of one doctor, “a city of funerals” as over 200 bodies were landed some to be claimed by relatives, but most to be buried in three cemeteries
		Halifax arguably has one of the most moving and intimate connections with the Titanic tragedy, playing a key role during the sinking and becoming the final resting place of many of her victims and wreckage.
	www.travellady.com /articles/article-halifax.html (1152 words)

	HMS Allegiance - TemeraireWiki
		The HMS Allegiance was the dragon transport that carried Temeraire to China from late 1805 to mid-1806.
		The ship was originally assigned to Captain Cartwright when the Allegiance was scheduled to sail to Halifax, as another ship was being built for Cartwright there.
		Riley was without a ship at the time because the HMS Reliant was dry-docked after suffering through the storm that occured just after the Battle of Trafalgar.
	www.temeraire.org /wiki/index.php?title=HMS_Allegiance&printable=yes (150 words)

	Do fundo do mar... Sea bottom: HMS Wager found off Chile?
		HALIFAX, Canada -- A team of British explorers claims to have uncovered part of an 18th Century warship that sank off the coast of Chile in South America.
		The divers from the Dorset-based Scientific Exploration Society (SES) said they were confident they had found "a significant chunk of HMS Wager".
		HMS Wager had on board John Byron, grandfather of the famous poet Lord Byron, when it struck rocks close to a remote island in Patagonia now named Isla Wager.
	dofundodomar.blogspot.com /2006/12/hms-wager-found-off-chile.html (330 words)

	Pocket Planet Radio: HMS Surprise with Dolphins
		A replica of an 18th Century frigate, she was first launched in 1970 as HMS Rose and used in sail training on the east coast of the United States.
		Director Peter Weir spotted her in Halifax and in suitably grand Hollywood fashion decided to make HMS Rose a star at the cost of her name...
		HMS Surprise (is a Yankee really allowed to call herself HMS I wonder) contains props from the film, fiberglass cannon, costumes, etc. The detail is wonderful, it might all be real.
	pocketplanetradio.typepad.com /pocket_planet_radio/2006/01/hms_suprise_wit.html (411 words)

	H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: H.M.S. Hood Today - Places Connected with H.M.S. Hood
		Members of the H.M.S. Hood Association gather here annually in November to pay respects to their fallen shipmates and loved ones.
		The Halifax Naval Memorial in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada serves as the official memorial to for Canadian personnel lost at sea.
		This is the site of the H.M.S. Hood Association's official service of commemoration held annually in May following the AGM and reunion.
	www.hmshood.com /hoodtoday/today2.htm (608 words)

	HMS DIANTHUS - A Short History
		On 23rd September 1943 HMS Itchen, while acting as an escort to convoy ONS 18, was struck in a magazine by an acoustic torpedo fired from U666 and sank in a matter of minutes.
		She was also carrying the rescued crews from HMS Polyanthus and HMS St. Croix, both of which had been sunk during the preceding few days.
		Built in 1941 at Saint John in Canada she survived the war and was then converted into a cable laying vessel, then into a loop layer and finally into a survey ship.
	www.cbrnp.com /RNP/Flower/ARTICLES/Dianthus-2.htm (2306 words)

	HMS William of Orange - TemeraireWiki
		William of Orange was a dragon transport ship in the Royal Navy similar to the HMS Allegiance.
		The purpose of this voyage was to the dragon Dakota from the Americas to British breeding grounds.
		Presumably, William was therefore the ship that carried Praecursoris to Halifax in exchange for Dakota.
	www.temeraire.org /wiki/index.php?title=HMS_William_of_Orange (97 words)

	Chesapeake-Leopard Affair at AllExperts
		In the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair (also referred to as the Chesapeake Affair), which occurred on June 22, 1807, the British warship HMS Leopard attacked and boarded the American frigate USS Chesapeake under the command of Commodore James Barron off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, killing or wounding 21 men and capturing four alleged British deserters.
		One was hanged and three imprisoned in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
		This event served to escalate tensions between the two countries and can be seen as one of the events leading up to the War of 1812.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/ch/chesapeake-leopard_affair.htm (198 words)

	The Amazing Career of Lieutenant Wallis, Royal Navy - War of 1812
		A fascinating footnote to the famous action between HMS Shannon and the USS Chesapeake off Boston Harbor in June 1813 is the effect it had on the career of Provo Wallis, second lieutenant of the British frigate, who went on to establish a record in the Royal Navy for length of service.
		In 1824, Provo finally received command of HMS Niemen, a 28-gun, fir-built frigate but she was decommissioned in 1826 and he went back ashore on half-pay.
		In 1851, he was promoted rear-admiral by seniority but it was not until 1857, at the age of 66, that he hoisted his flag as the commander of a squadron assigned to anti-slavery patrol in the South Atlantic.
	www.warof1812.ca /wallis.htm (2041 words)

	Tall Ships 2000 - Halifax, NS
		Between July 19-24, the port of Halifax, NS, was invaded by a large fleet of Tall Ships, as a part of Tall Ships 2000.
		On July 24, they participated in a large sail-past of the Halifax waterfront, and then left to race for their next port of call - Amsterdam.
		The forest of masts that could be seen along Pier 21 in Halifax.
	www.hazegray.org /features/tallships2000/part2 (437 words)

	HMS Furious, HMS revenge
		The R-Class battleship HMS Revenge slips majestically past the carrier HMS Furious as she lies at anchor as three of her Fairey IIIFs fly overhead on a routine training sortie.
		HMS Furious, launched on the 15th August 1916, at Armstrong at Wallsend.
		HMS Furious served in the Home fleet between 1939 - 1944 and then in reserve 1944 to 1945.
	www.military-art.com /dhm1010.htm (465 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bande Nere escaped damaged to Benghazi, as Sydney's ammunition ran low 1940 - Minesweeping trawler HMS Crestflower bombed & sunk off Portsmouth 1940 - At 1828, the Pearlmoor, a straggler from Convoy SL-38, was hit by one torpedo from U-62, broke in two and sank 62 miles west of Malin Head.
		The ship, due to pay off in August, was in the commercial dockyard at Chatham when a fire started four to five hundred yards from her berth in a stockpile of paper in an industrial area.
		HMS Leeds Castle was able to use upper deck connections to use her fire main to provide double the pressure of the Fire Brigade’s equipment, and with two pumps to ensure no pressure loss over the distance.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/july/19Jul.txt (2294 words)

	CBC - Halifax Explosion - Collision Course (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But it made docking on the Halifax side easier for the incoming ship.
		The tug veered back in toward Halifax to avoid Imo, and Imo stayed to port[?] --in the "wrong" channel--to avoid Stella Maris.
		The blazing ship drifted in to the Halifax shoreline, up to Pier 6, and the fire spread to the pier's wooden pilings.
	www.cbc.ca /halifaxexplosion/he2_ruins/he2_ruins_collision_course.html (877 words)

	FOCUS - June 10, 2005 - NEUROLOGY: Fetal-cell Transplants Reverse Parkinson’s in Two Patients (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He has been collaborating with a clinical team in Halifax, Nova Scotia, led by Ivar Mendez, professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Dalhousie University, to improve the efficacy and safety of this experimental treatment.
		The patient in the video is one of a series to receive cells in a new form that Isacson believes may overcome problems with previous transplant methods.
		The two patients were part of a small exploratory study at Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Center in Halifax.
	focus.hms.harvard.edu /2005/Jun10_2005/neurology.shtml (1161 words)

	RMS Olympic, White Star Line
		She was escorted part way by british cruiser HMS Essex, and was met by cruiser HMS Drake off the Irish coast.
		Oct 27, she was alerted by wireless that the battleship HMS Audacious had struck a mine.
		Although the HMS Audacious was wallowing helplessly, with her stern awash, the Olympic attempted to take the Audacious in tow but the battleship could not be saved.
	www.julesverne.ca /olympic.html (1212 words)

	FOCUS - January 24, 2003
		Heffner pointed out that the HMS System of Titles and Appointments (the Purple Book) states that clinical faculty in clinical departments, including instructors, are expected to teach medical students at least 50 hours per year as an obligation of their faculty appointment, when asked to do so.
		Weitz, an HMS associate professor of neurobiology, focuses his research on the molecular biology and genetics of circadian clocks, endogenous oscillators that drive daily rhythms in behavior and physiology.
		Robert Friedlander, HMS associate professor of surgery and associate director of cerebrovascular surgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is the recipient of the Charcot Young Investigator Prize for his research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and related disorders.
	focus.hms.harvard.edu /2003/Jan24_2003/bulletin.html (2229 words)

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