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	Probert Encyclopaedia: Ships (HMS-Hz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Hogue was powered by three Admiralty 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 34 knots and carried a crew of 250 in peace time and 337 during the Second World War.
		HMS Howe was a British battleship of the King George V Class built in 1940 as the Beatty and renamed.
		HMS Hydra was a British Hecla Class survey ship of 1915 tons displacement, which along with her sister ships HMS Hecla and HMS Hecate, was the first Royal Navy ship to be designed with a combined oceanographical and hydrographic role.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /R7D.HTM (3353 words)

	Howe Military School Privacy Statement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you.
		When an HMS service knows that a user is a child, it will not condition the child's participation in an activity, such as a purchase or a auction, on the provision of more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in that activity.
		HMS encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Howe Military School is protecting your information.
	www.howemilitary.com /home/privacystatement.htm (1776 words)

	UKAEA: Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Several tons of steel salvaged from the hull of HMS Howe after the war has been used to shield sensitive radiation monitoring equipment from natural radioactivity during regular health checks on staff who work with nuclear materials.
		HMS Howe was launched in April 1940, joining the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow and taking part in North Russian convoy protection duties until May 1943.
		After this, HMS Howe served in the Mediterranean and the East Indies before being used as a training battleship at Portsmouth until 1950.
	www.ukaea.org.uk /press/2002/24_07_02.htm (469 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a result, she was also the largest warship of her day—140 feet longer than the 120-gun three-decker HMS Howe (1860), and 82 feet longer than HMS Orlando of 1858, the longest single-deck wooden frigate (40 guns) ever built.
		HMS Warrior was commissioned as part of the Channel Fleet on August 1, 1861, by Captain A. Cochrane.
		In 1987, HMS Warrior 1860, as she is officially known, was towed to Portsmouth and put on permanent public display at the Portsmouth Naval Base.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_099000_hmswarrior.htm (876 words)

	Battleship Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On 27 May 1941 the battleships HMS King George V (1939)''King George V'', HMS Rodney (1925)''Rodney'' and a number of cruisers and destroyers ships engaged her with guns and torpedoes.
		At the Battle of Taranto in November 1940 Swordfish from HMS Illustrious attacked the Italian fleet at Taranto.
		The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales (1939)HMS ''Prince of Wales'' and its battlecruiser escort HMS Repulse (1916)HMS ''Repulse'' were sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers while in defence of Singapore.
	www.echostatic.com /Battleship.html (4096 words)

	Battleships in the Gareloch
		HMS Howe spent these years being separated from her sisters, being mothballed at Devonport.
		HMS Anson was the first to be towed from her mooring in the Gareloch on December 17th 1957 to arrive at the shipbreakers.
		The HMS King George V was towed from the Gareloch on January 20th 1958 and sold to Arnott Young and Co, Dalmuir for breaking up.
	www.rosneathpeninsula.org.uk /history/battleships.cfm (333 words)

	Hercs show Howe
		The aircraft sat at the terminal at the end of Lord Howe's small airstrip for several hours as the divers and much-needed equipment were ferried to the vessel via a Royal Navy helicopter.
		HMS Nottingham initially put out a distress signal late on Sunday, July 7, after the 3500-tonne type 42 warship - which has a crew of 249 - struck Wolf Rocks, about three nautical miles off the coast of Lord Howe Island.
		Although the weather on July 8 was fine and visibility good, a strong southerly was blowing and SQNLDR Tetley had to draw on his knowledge of the terrain gained during training flights in the area.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/raafnews/editions/4413/story01.htm (535 words)

	HMS "Nottingham" Australia 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS "Nottingham" anchored on the lee side of Lord Howe Island and, as can be seen, well down by the bow due to flooding in the forward part of the ship.
		During July 2002, the British Royal Navy type 42 missile destroyer, HMS "Nottingham" was transiting the east coast of Australia on route to New Zealand.
		Whilst in the vicinity of Lord Howe Island (300 miles east of Sydney) it was found necessary to move a sick crew member via the ship's helicopter to Lord Howe Island for subsequent transfer to a Sydney hospital for treatment.
	pages.zdnet.com /hookares/royal-navy-medic-1945/id35.html (1786 words)

	Hisotry of HMS Howe
		History of HMS Howe in naval art prints Royal Navy battleship HMS Howe of the King George V class is shown at Capetown, South Africa with the impressive backdrop of Table Mountain.
		This naval art print by Ivan Berryman of HMS Howe is published by Cranston Fine Arts, the naval and military prints company.
		HMS Howe, was built by Fairfield and launched on the 9th of April 1940 the last of her class.
	www.navalprints.com /hms_howe.htm (696 words)

	Pigeon more information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aged seventeen, he was promoted to Able Seaman and in 1786 he was transferred to HMS Sirius, the flagship in the First Fleet.
		Commanded by Arthur Phillip, HMS Sirius was the flagship of the first eleven ships that contained the convicts and marines that are now acknowledged as the founders of the European settlement of Australia.
		As an important record of a vanished bird this painting continues to be referred to by ornithologists and historians, most recently in a paper by C. Fisher and F. Warr (2003).
	www.nhm.ac.uk /nature-online/online-ex/art-themes/drawingconclusions/more/pigeon_more_info.htm (1048 words)

	Royal Naval Prints
		HMS Ramillies and Warspite at Normandy by Anthony Saunders
		HMS WARSPITE was built at Devonport, Plymouth and launched 26th November 1913, Took part in the battle of Jutland and sustained 15hits and was close to foundering.
		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.
	www.navalprints.com /rn_1.htm (2767 words)

	HMS Wren by Tony Green
		The next day HMS Howe, HMS King George V and their escort of cruisers and destroyers left Scapa Flow and headed to the North Atlantic and thence on to Gibraltar to join Force H, the British and American forces in the Western Mediterranean.
		HMS Howe had been involved in the protection of North Russian convoys until we sailed to join Force H in the Mediterranean in May ’43.
		HMS Wren was first commissioned in 1943 and all WREN’S in the service ‘volunteered’ a days pay towards the cost of the vessel.
	www.mikekemble.com /ww2/walker5.html (2898 words)

	Science Show - 3/7/1999: Lord Howe Island
		I guess given that Lord Howe Island's vegetation is so unique, we're talking about an extremely high ratio of endemism, and with some of those plants that are only found on Lord Howe Island, they in turn are very restricted in their distribution.
		The Kentia Palm is actually known as a thatch-palm here on Lord Howe Island, and the reason for that is that the early settlers used the leaf from the palm tree to thatch their cottages with.
		The Lord Howe Island Board ensures that they work very closely with the community to make sure that people still have a say in what is being done, and to make sure that people adopt management strategies and things, rather than having them enforced.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s32622.htm (7359 words)

	Royal Navy WARSHIP GUIDE - HMS Howe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS Howe was laid down on 1 June 1937, launched on 9 April 1940, and completed on 29 August 1942.
		The other King George V ships were involved in major actions against Bismark and Scharnhorst, but Howe fought a war away from the front pages.
		Along with HMS King George V, Duke of York and Anson, Howe outlasted the war and remained in the front-line service alongside her sisters into the 1950s.
	www.pdwilson.co.uk /warships/howe.htm (369 words)

	HMS Hood
		HMS Hood took part in the bombardment of Mers-el-Kibir on the 3rd July 1940.
		HMS Hood received several heavy hits and blew up and sank quickly, only 3 of her crew survived...
		HMS Hood passes beneath the forth Bridge on her way to Rosyth during one of her many visits to the Firth in the 1930s.
	www.naval-art.com /hood.htm (2561 words)

	HMS NELSON BATTLESHIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HMS DUKE OF YORK 1940 KING GEORGE V CLASS
		HMS EMPEROR OF INDIA 1913 IRON DUKE CLASS
		HMS KING GEORGE V 1939 KING GEORGE V CLASS
	www.homestead.com /nelson1/BRITISHBATTLESHIPS.html (77 words)

	Navy News - Jack to Jack - Over To You - G to I
		He was at HMS Ganges as a boy sailor some time in the 1930s, and later was at the 2nd Battle of Narvik and the Bismarck hunt (possibly in HMS Foxhound).
		HMS Hesperus: Dave Richards is looking to get in touch with any former crewmembers of the WW2 destoyer HMS Hesperus (H57) or their families if they are deceased.
		HMS Howe: The late father of Delysia Selway, Stanley George Eddy from Bristol, served in Howe 1943/5 as a gunner.
	www.navynews.co.uk /oty/otygtoi.asp (2308 words)

	A Brief History of the KGV Class Battleship
		Shortly afterward the HMS: Hood and the HMS: Prince of Wales fell under fire from the Bismarck.
		For example, the HMS: Duke of York would be vital in the famous sinking of the Scharnhorst during the battle of the North Cape in 1943.
		HMS: Duke of York - Artic 1942 - 1943, North Africa 1942, North Cape 1943.
	kgv.itgo.com /custom.html (767 words)

	HMS Howe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Howe, launched 1860, was a 121-gun ship of the line, renamed Bulwark, and then renamed Impregnable in 1886.
		Howe, a proposed Hood-class battlecruiser, was laid down in 1916 and cancelled in 1917.
		Howe, launched 1940, was a King George V-class battleship.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/HMS-Howe.htm (135 words)

	HMS Valiant
		HMS valiant joined the British eastern Fleet in January 1944 and took part in carrier raids against Japanese bases in Indonesia.
		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.
		A pair of 272 Squadron Bristol Beaufighters roar over the extensively rebuilt battleship HMS Valiant as she lies at anchor at Alexandria late in 1941, accompanied by the cruiser HMS Phoebe and Valiants sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth (in the extreme distance).
	www.naval-art.com /valiant.htm (882 words)

	CNN.com - U.K. Navy ship rescue delayed - August 4, 2002
		LORD HOWE ISLAND (CNN) -- Salvage experts are battling uncooperative weather in a bid to rescue the UK warship Nottingham after it hit a rock in the Tasman Sea almost a month ago.
		HMS Nottingham has been stranded since it hit Wolf Rock, just off the coast of Australia's Lord Howe Island, on July 7.
		Attempts by tugboats to begin moving the warship were planned for Monday, but have had to be postponed because of windy conditions making the seas too rough.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/04/australia.nottingham (337 words)

	British Battleships
		HMS Lion at the Battle of Jutland by Ivan Berryman.
		HMS Lion with her sister ship HMS Princess Royal are shown firing on the German High Seas Fleet which can be seen in the distance during the Battle of Jutland.
		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.
	www.cranstonart.co.uk /british_battleships.htm (1988 words)

	The Wartime Memories Project - HMS Nelson
		HMS Nelson was a Royal Navy battleship, built by Vickers-Armstrong at the Walkers Yard, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
		On D-Day - 6th June 1944 - HMS Nelson provided covering fire for the landing parties and also anti-aircraft fire, so was not at the forefront of the battle, but they could see the carnage unfolding.
		Raymond Harrison (Stoker) of the HMS Nelson is trying to contact any comrades from this period (May 1944 to August 1945).
	www.wartimememories.co.uk /ships/nelson.html (974 words)

	Class50.com :: Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The names of two other warships: HMS Orion and HMS Colossus, were also ineligible as Class 47's 47083 and 47086 already carried them; albeit with a non-naval context.
		However HMS Leviathan, which gave its' name to 50040, was not built until 1945, at the very end of WW2, and was never commissioned.
		A word of warning however: no matter how, or from whom, you attempt to buy a nameplate, you should ensure that it is accompanied by the relevant documentation, including a certificate of authenticity.
	www.rail-photos.com /class50/c50_names.php (2334 words)

	Howe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Howe is the name of several places in the United States:
		A Howe is also a type of barrow.
		There were several British warships names HMS Howe.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Howe.htm (151 words)

	HMS Anson
		HMS Anson, was built by Swan Hunter, and launched on the 24th February 1940, She spent most of her time in the Home Fleet on Convoy Duty on the Murmansk Convoy Route.
		HMS Anson was a Guard ship at Tokyo and saw duty off Australia from January to July 1946.
		The King George V class battleship HMS Anson is pictured in Sydney Harbour where she joined the Pacific Fleet in July 1945, viewed across the flight deck of HMS Vengeance, where ten of her Vought F4.U Corsairs are ranged in front of a single folded Fairey Barracuda.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /anson.htm (2126 words)

	History of Gambier Island - Rick Gustavson
		Captain Vancouver was in command of the HMS Discovery and HMS Chatham.
		In 1889, the HMS Plumper, under the command of Captain George Richards, undertook the first hydrographic survey of the Sound and also named additional features including Gambier Island after a British Admiral of the fleet, Lord James Gambier.
		The three prominent bays on the south side of Gambier West, Centre and Long Bays were named by early settlers to the sound.
	www.rickgustavson.com /historyGambier.html (256 words)

	BDJ \| John Hunter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A picture taken at that time shows the newly entered Hunter sporting a full set, a feature that was to remain with him throughout life although at that time this physiognomy was jet fl rather than the white beard which most of us remember.
		Appointed to the light cruiser HMS KENYA in January 1941, John took part in the hunt for the BISMARCK and was involved in supplying a covering force for convoys in the Arctic.
		In 1946 Acting Surgeon Lieutenant Commander Hunter got his 'straight stripes' and met his future wife Anne on the quarterdeck of HMS HOWE during a wardroom cocktail party.
	www.nature.com /cgi-taf/dynapage.taf?file=/bdj/journal/v197/n5/full/4811625a.html (627 words)

	King George V Class Battleships
		Operated in 1943 with Force H. In July 1944, HMS King George V underwent a long refit, and in the autumn of 1944, went to the Pacific theatre to operate with the US Navy.
		In 1946 HMS King George V went into Reserve Fleet, and on the 20th January 1958 was scrapped at Dalmuir and Troon.
		My grandfather served on HMS King George V and took many photographs of the crew and ship which are still in the family.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /kinggeorge.htm (1927 words)

	Research guide B9: The Royal Navy: HMS King George V: NMM PORT
		In 1943 she was temporarily detached to duties in the Mediterranean, and was involved in the invasion of Sicily and attack on Taranto. In 1944 she was redeployed to the new British Pacific Fleet as the flagship of the fleet's second-in-command, Rear Admiral Sir Bernard Rawlings.
		Although both she and her sister ship HMS Howe had a much reduced role compared with the North Atlantic campaign, often providing anti-aircraft cover for the fleet's aircraft carriers, they were both involved in the bombardments of Okinawa and southern Honshu, where the King George V last fired her main armament in anger.
		1 May 1942: Collides in fog with HMS Punjabi. The destroyer is sliced in two by the battleship, and sinks. Punjabi's depth-charges explode, blowing 40ft from the bows of the battleship, requiring repairs and refitting at Liverpool.
	www.port.nmm.ac.uk /research/b9.html (2102 words)

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