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	Encyclopedia: List of Royal Navy battleships
		HMS Magnificent was one of the nine Majestic-class battleships of the Royal Navy (RN).
		HMS Albion was a Canopus-class pre-Dreadnought battleship of approximately 14,000 tonnes, with a main armament of 4 x 12 inch guns and was built by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co....
		HMS Bellerophon was a dreadnought of the Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class, built in Portsmouth and launched 27 July 1907, and which fought at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Royal-Navy-battleships (4012 words)

	Untitled Document
		HMS valiant was badly damaged during refit in a floating dock at Trincomalee, Ceylon, so bad was the damage that repairs were stopped, and she was used as a training hulk for stockers at Devonport.
		HMS Vanguard was the last of the great Royal navy battleships, built at Clydebank, she was launched on the 30th November 1944, and did not see service during world War Two, She was the biggest British battleship with a displacement of 42.500 tons.
		HMS Eagle was built at Clydebank, and was launched on the 8th pf June 1918, a former Battleship construction suspended in 1914.
	www.naval-art.com /images/naval-art.htm (4225 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named '''HMS ''Hermes''''', after Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology: The first ''Hermes'' was originally the Dutch sloop-of-war sloop ''Mercurius'', captured in 1796 by HMS* Sylph HMS ''Sylph''.
		The seventh ''Hermes'' was a seventy-four (ship) 74-gun third-rate, originally named ''Minotaur'', launched in 1816, renamed in 1866, and broken up in 1869 The eighth HMS Hermes (1913) ''Hermes'' was a converted cruiser that was used as an experimental seaplane tender by the Royal Naval Air Service shortly before World War I.
		The tenth HMS* Hermes (R12) ''Hermes'' (R12) was the last of the postwar conventional aircraft carriers commissioned into the Royal Navy (1959), later serving in the Falklands War, then sold to the Indian Navy and recommissioned as INS Viraat ''Viraat''.
	www.mauspfeil.net /HMS_Hermes.html (355 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1982
		HMS Conqueror was a Churchill-class nuclear powered submarine that served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1990.
		The Belgrano as she was in 1941 as the USS Phoenix passing Battleship row at Pearl Harbor The ARA General Belgrano was an Armada RepÃºblica Argentina cruiser sunk with significant loss of life in a controversial incident during the Falklands War.
		Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hermes, after Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology: The first Hermes was a converted cruiser that was used as an experimental seaplane tender by the Royal Naval Air Service shortly before World War I. She was sunk by a...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1982 (10518 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Carriers: Airpower at Sea - The Early Years / Part 3
		In 1913, the cruiser HMS Hermes was converted to a seaplane carrier, becoming the first ship to set sail with the sole purpose of carrying aircraft into combat.
		The second HMS Hermes, the first ship to be designed from the outset as an aircraft carrier, was commissioned in July 1923.
		Like her earlier namesake, this HMS Hermes was also lost in action, being sunk by Japanese carrier aircraft in the Pacific in April 1942.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/carriers/cvchap1c.htm (1029 words)

	HMS Hermes aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HMS Hermes was built by Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, and laid down 21 June 1944a s one of the "Centaur" class light fleet carriers.
		The Hermes was sold to India 19 April 1986, and after a major refit at Devonport before transfer, the carrier, now renamed INS Viraat (R22), was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 12 May 1987.
		HMS Hermes Association: Reunion at Royal Fleet Club, Plymouth from 5th to 8th April, 2001.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/hermes2.html (598 words)

	Royal Navy: History
		The 690 ton, 38 gun ship was purchased by the crown and became the flag ship of the Lord High Admiral, Howard of Effingham.The ship saw action in July 1588 during the Spanish Armada and eight years later in Cadiz.
		Ark Royal II was acquired by the Navy in 1913 and was commissioned in December 1914 as a 7,400 ton seaplane carrier.
		HMS Ark Royal was accepted into service on July 1 1985.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /static/pages/2939.html (436 words)

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		HMS Monarch, 8,300 tons, mounting four 12-inch guns in two turrets, and commissioned in 1869, was perhaps the first true seagoing turret warship.
		HMS Devastation, 9,330 tons, four 12-inch guns in two turrets, and massively armoured, was completed four years later without sail and was a next step toward the ultimate 20th-century battleship, a ship with an armoured citadel around the propulsion plant, powder magazines, and handling rooms.
		In 1913 a British cruiser, HMS Hermes, was converted to carry aircraft.
	mizii.com /jesusi/peace/war/techno/naval_ships_craft.htm (14605 words)

	wiki/HMS Engadine (1911) Definition / wiki/HMS Engadine (1911) Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HMS Engadine was a seaplane tenderA seaplane tender (or seaplane carrier) is a ship which provides the facililites necessary for operating seaplanes.
		[click for more] in 1914 along with her sister ship HMS Riviera and modified by the construction of cranes and a hanger aft of the funnels so that she could carry four Short 184 seaplanes.
		Later in the battle she rescued the crew of the crippled HMS WarriorF...
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/HMS_Engadine_(1911) (1045 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Seaplane tender
		A few remained in service after the war but by the late-1950s most had been scrapped or converted to other uses such as helicopter repair ships.
		HMS Ben-my-chree was a converted ferry used in the First World War
		HMS Engadine was another converted ferry present at the Battle of Jutland
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Seaplane_carrier (617 words)

	Worldisround - The Sinking of HMS Barham, and more - by Mike Lynd
		On 27th August 1940, HMS Barham left Scapa to take part in the expedition for the landing of an Allied military force at Dakar with General de Gaulle in mid-September and, on the 25th, was slightly damaged by by 9.4-Inch and 6.1-Inch shore batteries.
		On 28th March HMS Barham took part in the Battle off Cape Matapan, in which the Italian cruisers Zara, Pola and Fiume and two destroyers were sunk and the battleship Vitorio Veneto was damaged by an aircraft torpedo.
		From 20th May she took part in the Battle for Crete and, on the 27th May she was hit on Y turret from a bomb from a Ju-88 in a dive-bombing attack off of Crete and was sent to Durban, South Africa for repairs.
	www.worldisround.com /articles/16107/text.html (4477 words)

	magoo.com: McGough Seamen—Ellis Island by Hugh McGough
		He died at the age of 18 on September 19, 1941, while serving aboard the H.M.S. President III and is buried at the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
		HMS Splendid was scuttled by her crew on April 21, 1943 in order to prevent her capture by the enemy after a depth charge attack.
		In 1942 he was appointed to command HM Submarine Splendid undertaking many highly successful active war patrols.
	www.magoo.com /hugh/seamen.html (7614 words)

	ipedia.com: Aircraft carrier Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The first ship to be designed specifically as an aircraft carrier was the Japanese Hosho, commissioned in December 1922, followed by the second HMS Hermes which was commissioned in July 1923.
		As a result of this battle, the aircraft carriers replaced the battleships as the dominant naval vessels in the war.
		More modern uses of aircraft carriers include the Falklands War, where the United Kingdom was able to win a conflict some 8,000 miles from home in large part due to the use of the carriers HMS Hermes and HMS Invincible.
	www.ipedia.com /aircraft_carrier_1.html (1218 words)

	Mick Cooper's Stephen Cribb page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HMS Barham Jan 1930, no inscription but Stephen Cribb's name and address indented into the photo.
		HMS Dreadnought at battle practice firing her aft turret 12 in guns(at 12 knots speed) S Cribb copyright real photo.
		HMS King George V S Cribb real photo, with the king's head superimposed into the sky.
	www.mcportsmouth.freeserve.co.uk /a/crib.htm (2342 words)

	Naval Sketches
		The carriers HMS Eagle and HMS Albion are pictured together during the withdrawal from Aden in 1967.
		HMS Argonaut lies at anchor to her starboard with HMS Antrim in the extreme distance.
		Viewed across the damaged stern of the 80-gun San Nicholas, Nelson drives HMS Captain onto the Spanish vessel in order that she can be boarded and taken as a prize, the British marines and men scrambling up the Captain's bowsprit to use it as a bridge.
	www.cranstonfinearts.co.uk /acrysket.htm (2835 words)

	Naval Sketches
		HMS Celandine flower class corvette escorting Atlantic convoy in the middle distance the carrier HMS Biter is shown.
		HMS Achilles engaging the Graf Spee by Ivan Berryman
		HMS Norfolk and HMS Belfast of Force I are shown engaging the Scharnhorst which has already been hit and disabled by both HMS Duke of York and the cruiser HMS Jamaica.
	www.military-art.com /pencil_acrylic_sketches.htm (2837 words)

	Acrylic Naval Paintings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HMS Glowworm, burning severely after receiving hits from the mighty Admiral Hipper, is depicted turning to begin her heroic sacrifice off the Norwegian coast on 8th April 1940.
		The heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire is brought up to sink the blazing wreck of the Bismarck with torpedoes at around 10:30 hours on the morning of May 27th 1941.
		The destroyer HMS Kelly passes close to the old carrier HMS Eagle as she escorts a convoy in the Mediterranean early in 1941.
	www.militaryartcompany.com /acrylic_paintings.htm (3160 words)

	HMS Hermes aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HMS Hermes was the first purpose built aircraft carrier in the world.
		HMS Hermes was designed as a carrier from the start, although not with the benefit of operational experience.
		Detailed summary histories and photographs of these three aircraft carriers which were involved in sinking the Hermes, took part in the attacks on Pearl Harbor and were all sunk at the Battle of Midway.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/Hermes.html (1029 words)

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		HMS Grenadier 1942, Military Class Trawler - This summer an article on this 1:72nd scale model by Louis Elskamp of the Netherlands was mislabeled as an Admiralty Class Armed Trawler.
		HMS Agincourt - This time "The Gin Palace" is the subject of the work of Jim Baumann with his build of the 1:700 scale British battleship by Classic Warships.
		HMS Delhi, Anti-Aircraft Cruiser - John Currie presents a photographic study of the components to the recent H-P Models release of a 1:700 model of
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	Shane's Shiplist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HMS Agincourt 1914 conversion IPMS(UK) 3/96 pp 14 1996 Airfix 1/600
		HMS Ramilles conversion IPMS(UK) 5/94 pp 14 1994 Airfix 1/600
		HMS Warspite 1916 conversion IPMS(UK) 2/96 pp 14 1996 Airfix 1/600
	www.smmlonline.com /articles/shiplist.html (8743 words)

	Highflyer Class Cruiser - HMS Hermes, Highflyer, Hyacinth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		HMS Highflyer became the last Victorian era cruiser in service with the Royal Navy, being in commission until 1921.
		In 1913 she was refitted to act as an experimental seaplane carrier with a launching platform forward and stowage for three seaplanes aft.
		She was placed in reserve at the end of 1913 but brought back into service as a cruiser on the outbreak of war but sunk in October 1914 whilst acting as an aircraft transport.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /light-cruiser/hms-Highflyer.html (238 words)

	HMS Hermes - Enpsychlopedia
		The first Hermes was originally the Dutch sloop Mercurius, captured in 1796 by HMS Sylph.
		The eighth Hermes was a converted cruiser that was used as an experimental seaplane tender by the Royal Naval Air Service shortly before World War I.
		The tenth Hermes (R12) was the last of the postwar conventional aircraft carriers commissioned into the Royal Navy (1959), later serving in the Falklands War, then sold to the Indian Navy and recommissioned as Viraat.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/wiki/HMS_Hermes (391 words)

	Acrylic Paintings
		Together with her sister ship, Hercules, HMS Colossus acquitted herself well at the Battle of Jutland where she fired 93 12in rounds, but received only two hits from enemy fire which caused minor damage and left nine crew injured.
		HMS Durban Escorts the Troopship RMS Queen Mary by Ivan Berryman.
		Fully dressed and resplendent, HMS Hood is pictured preparing for King George Vs review of the Fleet in July 1935 as other capital ships take up their positions around her.
	www.ivanberryman.com /pencil_sketches.htm (3577 words)

	Wrong Answers 1999/2000
		In 1913 HMS Hermes was converted to carry aircraft.
		HMS Argus, a converted passenger liner, could land and launch planes on a flight deck extending from bow to stern.
		Construction of the Argus began in 1914, and initially it was an Italian liner; it was purchased in 1916 by the British Royal Navy and converted, work being completed in September 1918.
	www.sfquiz.org.uk /wrong99.html (846 words)

	Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 - M
		HMS President (for study of foreign languages; for 4 months' study in Italy)
		HMS Indomitable and Barham; Bombardment of Dardanelles Forts, 1914 ; Dogger Bank, 1915; Jutland, 1916
		HMS Vernon (torpedo school and experimental establishment, Portsmouth, later training establishment, Brighton):
	jnh.nce.buttobi.net /RN_officersM.html (764 words)

	The Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers of London - Gifts to the Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Chain and Badge presented to SIR JOSEPH LAWRENCE, Bart (Master, 1913), on his Election as Sheriff of the City.
		A framed coloured photograph of HMS Boxer presented by the Commanding Officer, Captain C H D COOKE-PRIEST, Royal Navy.
		A framed coloured print of HMS Hermes during the Falklands Campaign presented by Rear Admiral L E MIDDLETON, C.B., D.S.O., Liveryman.
	www.siteset.co.uk /coachmakers2/features8.html (2550 words)

	wreck archive history
		The submarine sank but the bows of the destroyer were seriously damaged as the submarine was a much bigger vessel than HMS Fairy and she, herself, later sank.
		A River class destoyer of 570 tons, built in 1905, she was rammed and sunk by HMS Attentive, a scout cruiser of 2.670 tons and built in 1904, in the North Sea near the Outer Gabbard Light vessel, off Harwich, during night exercises.
		One that is deserving of mention is the sad loss of HMS Hazard, the doughty ex-torpedo gun boat which had given such sterling service as the tender to the early submarines.
	users.pandora.be /tree/db/histories/histories_d_k.html?en (15087 words)

	Imperial Flattops
		British carrier HMS HERMES caught at sea, bombed and sunk along with escort destroyer VAMPIRE.
		Less CarDiv 5, which detaches with screen to head for New Guinea for "Operation MO" (Battleof the Coral Sea) operations, the Striking Force departs Mako in high speed attempted pursuit of the "Doolittle Raiders" - carriers USSHORNET and ENTERPRISE, which have just struck the Tokyo Bay area with aircraft on the 18th.
		At 1913 begins to sink by the stern and three minutes later upends and sinks, taking down 713 officers and men including Captain Yanagimoto Ryusaku, who had deliberately chosen to remain aboard.
	www.combinedfleet.com /soryu.htm (373 words)

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