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	Iron Duke class battleship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Iron Duke class battleships of the Royal Navy were four battleships, Benbow, Emperor of India, Iron Duke, and Marlborough.
		Benbow, Iron Duke and Marlborough participated in the battle of Jutland.
		Iron Duke survived the longest after being converted to a training ship as the result of the Washington Naval Treaty, and was sold for scrap in 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iron_Duke_class_battleship (384 words)

	Prince George, Duke of Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On 29 November 1934, the Duke of Kent married Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, the daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and a great niece of Queen Alexandra, at Westminster Abbey.
		In addition to his legitimate children, the Duke is said to have had a son by Kiki Preston (née Alice Gwynne) (1898-1946), an American socialite whom he reportedly shared in a ménage à trois with, the bisexual son of the Argentine ambassador to the Court of St. James's.
		According to the memoirs of a friend,, Prince George's brother the Duke of Windsor believed that the son was (1926-1969), the adopted son of American publisher and the first husband of Lee Radziwill (sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis).
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Prince_George,_Duke_of_Kent (1171 words)

	HMS Iron Duke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Iron Duke was a battleship launched in 1870 and sold 1906
		The second Iron Duke was the name-ship of a class of battleships, launched in 1912, on harbour service from 1932 and sold 1946.
		The third Iron Duke (F234) is a frigate launched in 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Iron_Duke (142 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - Feature - Iron Duke completes 33,000-mile voyage
		When HMS Iron Duke was on route to West Africa she visited Arrecife in Lanzarotte before patrolling the waters off Sierra Leone in support of the UK and UN mission in the country, stopping for logistics breaks at Tema in Ghana and Dakar in Senegal.
		In November and early December, HMS Iron Duke was relieved by the Type 42 destroyer HMS Liverpool, allowing her to call at the Falkland Islands and Valparaiso in Chile for a high-profile diplomatic visit, the first by a British warship since the Pinochet affair.
		During the deployment sailors from HMS Iron Duke helped to build a school for orphans in Freetown and President Kabbah decreed that it should be known as Iron Duke Community School as a thank-you to the RN personnel who spent hundreds of man-hours constructing the building of its six classrooms.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2001/0102/1001022201.asp (737 words)

	Iron Duke Class
		HMS Iron Duke was converted to a gunnery training ship in 1931-32 but was badly damaged in a German air raid and was run aground on 17th October 1939.
		HMS Iron Duke was built at Cammell Laird in Portsmouth and Launched on the 12th October 1912.
		HMS Iron Duke when she was the flag ship of the Grand Fleet flying the Admiral's flag (Admiral Sir John Jellicoe), and HMS Marlborough when she was the flagship of the First Battle Squadron, flying Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly's flag.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /iron_duke_class.htm (1162 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Iron Duke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She was named in honor of the Duke of Wellington, hero of the Napoleonic Wars.
		During the "run to the south," Beatty lost the battlecruisers HMS Indefatigable and Queen Mary, and his flagship Lion was heavily damaged.
		Transferred to the Second Battle Squadron in November 1916, Iron Duke was sent to the Mediterranean in 1919 and was briefly assigned to the Black Sea during the Russian Civil War.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_049100_hmsironduke.htm (697 words)

	HMS Inflexible (1881) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMS Inflexible was a battleship laid down for the Royal Navy in 1874 to oppose the perceived growing threat from the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean.
		This was less surprising than it might seem to modern eyes, because it was expected that naval battles would be fought at a range of only a couple of thousand metres.
		Rams turned out to be a handicap in the end, as several warships were accidently sunk by them - for example HMS Vanguard by HMS Iron Duke in 1875, and HMS Victoria by HMS Camperdown in 1893.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/h/hm/hms_inflexible__1881_.html (843 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		Iron Duke and Gold Rover closed to within 1000 yards either side of the yacht with many of the ships' company on the upper deck taking photographs and admiring the courage of Ellen, the yacht she was sailing and the technology she has onboard.
		The Captain of Iron Duke said, as a fellow seaman, he was "full of admiration for what she was doing, sailing on her own, spending long, long periods at sea and braving the southern oceans".
		HMS Iron Duke is currently returning to her home port, Portsmouth via Lisbon, due back just before Christmas.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=4773 (809 words)

	KOSOVO: British Forces deployed in the region: British naval assets
		HMS NEWCASTLE is a Type 42 Destroyer which entered service in 1978 and her primary role is to provide air defence for task group operations.
		HMS IRON DUKE is a Type 23 frigate which entered service in 1993 with the primary role of conducting anti-submarine warfare.
		HMS GRAFTON is a Type 23 Duke Class frigate which entered service in 1997 and her primary role is as an anti-submarine frigate.
	www.kosovo.mod.uk /sea.htm (533 words)

	HMS Iron Duke (1912) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Iron Duke was launched on 12 October, 1912 at (A port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base) Portsmouth, England, the first of (Click link for more info and facts about her class) her class.
		Shortly before the beginning of hostilities, Callaghan was relieved by Admiral Sir (Click link for more info and facts about John Jellicoe) John Jellicoe, who made Iron Duke the flagship of the newly organized (Click link for more info and facts about Grand Fleet) Grand Fleet.
		She was sold in 1946 as scrap, and broken up in (Largest city in Scotland; a port in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world) Glasgow in 1948.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hm/hms_iron_duke_(1912)2.htm (438 words)

	Naval Technology - Duke Class (Type 23) - Frigates
		The new batch comprises: HMS Kent which was launched in May 1998 and entered service in September 2000; HMS Portland launched in May 1999 and commissioned in May 2001; and HMS St Albans launched in May 2000 and commissioned in June 2002.
		HMS Richmond was the first RN vessel to receive the HE ER round in April 2004.
		HMS Westminster, a Batch I Type 23, is the first vessel to be fitted with the sonar and the ship returned to the fleet to begin a series of operational trials in January 2005.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/t23 (1288 words)

	General News of Friday, 26 January 2001
		A British Naval Ship, HMS Iron Duke, will make her second trip to the port of Tema from Friday, January 26 to Tuesday, January 30, a statement from the British High Commission said on Thursday.
		Built by Yarrows in Glasgow and commissioned on May 20, 1993, HMS Iron Duke is named after the Duke of Wellington.
		HMS Iron Duke completes her role of Atlantic Patrol Task in March this year and will be replaced by another Royal Navy unit.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=13248 (177 words)

	ipedia.com: Prince George, Duke of Kent Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Prince George, Duke of Kent was the fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary.
		Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund Wettin, later Windsor) (20 December 1902 - 25 August 1942) was the fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary.
		The Duke of Kent was killed in a plane crash on active service in World War II at Eagles Rock near Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland.
	www.ipedia.com /prince_george__duke_of_kent.html (731 words)

	KE 97 How it All Started
		The HMS Hampshire, a cruiser of some 10,850 tons, had been at the centre of political controversy from1905 right upto the time of her salvage.
		HMS Hampshire left Scapa Flow on 5th June 1916 with Lord Kitchener and his staff aboard, steaming west around Orkney to seek shelter from a violent Easterly gale.
		HMS Pheasant (nicknamed "Partridge" for the purpose of clandestine discussions) was the only British military vessel to disappear mysteriously with all hands.
	website.lineone.net /~britannic98/prevexp/ke_start.htm (781 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - HMS Iron Duke's influence spans the Atlantic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since then, Iron Duke and her embarked Royal Marines have carried out joint exercises with the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) Maritime Wing and soldiers from the 2nd Battalion the Royal Gurkha Rifles.
		Iron Duke was last in Freetown from October 2000 to March 2001, and the crew have taken the chance to renew some old friendships.
		Iron Duke is expected to conduct counter-drugs operations in the Caribbean for a significant part of this month, as well as supporting UK interests in the region.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2003/0304/0003040801.asp (935 words)

	Articles - Prince George, Duke of Kent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is some suggestion that the duke had an affair with Indira Raje, the Maharani of Cooch Behar (1892-1968), in the late 1920s, according to British historian Lucy Moore.
		In addition to his legitimate children, the Duke is said to have had a son by Kiki Preston (nÃ©e Alice Gwynne) (1898-1946), an American socialite whom he reportedly shared in a mÃ©nage Ã trois with Jorge Ferrara, the bisexual son of the Argentine ambassador to the Court of St. James's.
		According to the memoirs of a friend, Loelia Westminster, Prince George's brother the Duke of Windsor believed that the son was Michael Canfield (1926-1969), the adopted son of American publisher Cass Canfield and the first husband of Lee Radziwill (sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis).
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Prince_George,_Duke_of_Kent (931 words)

	The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) [UK]
		The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, by Campbell Ricketts (Yorkshire Volunteers).
		The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, by Brad Chappell (The Regimental Warpath 1914-1918)
		The Duke of Wellington's Crest, with the motto 'Virtutis fortuna comes' (inherited from 33rd Regiment); An elephant with howdah and mahout circumscribed 'Hindoostan', ensigned with the Crown (inherited from 76th Regiment).
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/inf/033DWR.htm (669 words)

	Maritime Prints Portfolio - LIKE GIANTS BOWED IN ANXIOUS THOUGHT — THE 3RD BATTLE SQUADRON 1928. HMS IRON DUKE, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		IRON DUKE was saved by being converted into a Gunnery and Boys’ Training ship, although her main armament was savagely reduced to gain her exemption from the Treaty limitations.
		IRON DUKE who had re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 30th June 1926 was undoubtedly the best known of the class, having been Grand Fleet flagship of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe for the first 2 years of the Great War.
		Thus she had been at the centre of events during the great sea battle off the Jutland coast in May 1916 and she had been involved in many other actions, skirmishes and alarms during those anxious and frustrating years when the Royal Navy was attempting to bring the High Seas Fleet to a decisive action.
	www.maritimeprints.com /portfolio.asp?id=1&dsp=1&MP=MP001 (572 words)

	Newsroom - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Falmouth Coastguard have requested HMS Iron Duke, a type 23 frigate, to assist them in recovering a man who has been seriously injured 500 miles south west of Lands End.
		HMS ‘Iron Duke’ was earlier assisting the Coastguard in the rescue of a shocked crew member from a dismasted Italian yacht which lost a crew member overboard early this morning.
		HMS ‘Iron Duke’ won’t be able to reach the yacht until first light tomorrow and then they’ll have to effect a transfer of the injured man to their deck.
	www.mcga.gov.uk /c4mca/lrgtxt/mcga-dops_pr_newsroom-press-releases-release.htm?mcga_news_id=1974&month=4&year=1998 (317 words)

	UK Forces Deployed to Sierra Leone
		Duke Class (Type 23) Frigate, arrived on station off Freetown 14th May 2000 and was relieved by HMS Iron Duke on 30th September 2000.
		HMS Iron Duke returned in March 2003 as part of Operation Keeling.
		Duke Class (Type 23) Frigate, Norfolk was the ship that landed the rescue squad for president Kabbah, who was evacuated out to the ship for his own safety.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /Sierraleone/forces.html (865 words)

	duke
		In 1831 The Duke of Wellington was paid £4,022 per annum with an annual pension of £13,168 for being 1st Lord of the Treasury.
		Often they were of scantily clad women (fear not the Duke was wrapped up warm) because there was a feeling that storms could be quelled by a woman revealing herself to the elements.
		The Duke of Wellington was to be the flagship until it was replaced by 'The Victory' in 1891.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Franklyn_Roberts/duke.htm (1357 words)

	iron duke: Iron Duke
		It also earned him the name 'The Iron Duke' for the iron shutters his London home was secured with after rioters smashed them in response to.
		Wellington Iron Duke, Wellington County Brewing, Guelph, Ontario.
		Read about the current Iron Duke, which is the third RN Ship to bear the name and 3rd of the Duke Class Frigates.
	www.hahnel-usa.com /iron-duke.html (372 words)

	Royal Navy
		The current IRON DUKE is the third RN Ship to bear the name and 5th of the Duke Class Frigates.
		Launched on 2 March 1991 by the Ship's Sponsor, Lady Jane King, the wife of the then Secretary of State for Defence, she was commissioned on 30 May 1991.
		IRON DUKE enjoyes strong affiliations with her home town of Kingston Upon Hull, the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and the Worshipful Company of Founders.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /rn/print.php?page=749 (99 words)

	Roll of Honour - Ships - HMS Iron Duke
		H.M.S. Built at Cammell Laird in Portsmouth Dockyard, laid down January 1912, completed March 1914, cost £1,945,824.
		Iron Duke was the first British battleship to be fitted with anti-aircraft guns in 1914 when two 12 pounder guns were fitted to the after superstructure.
		She was also the only member of her class to have torpedo nets but these were removed during trials and they were not fitted to future battleships.
	www.roll-of-honour.com /Ships/HMSIronDuke.html (225 words)

	HMS NELSON BATTLESHIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		HMS DUKE OF YORK 1940 KING GEORGE V CLASS
		HMS EMPEROR OF INDIA 1913 IRON DUKE CLASS
		HMS SIR THOMAS PICTON 1915 LORD CLIVE CLASS
	www.homestead.com /nelson1/BRITISHBATTLESHIPS.html (77 words)

	HMS Iron Duke Crew Noticeboard
		Photographs and information on historical events about HMS Iron Duke requested for a new website www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk which will be on the web by June 2001.
		Which part of Scapa Flow was HMS iron Duke berthed at during its stay in the Orkneys and what was the exact death toll and amount of survivors.
		HMS Iron Duke was hit in Scapa Flow on the 17th October 1939 by German Aerial bombing.
	www.naval-art.com /c14.htm (835 words)

	HMS Hampshire
		In this photograph he is pictured onboard HMS Iron Duke a short time before boarding HMS Hampshire.
		After what would be his final meal on the Admiral's flagship, Kitchener and his staff boarded the HMS Hampshire which was took to sea by travelling through Hoy Sound.
		The plaque on the memorial reads: "This tower was raised by the people of Orkney in memory of Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum on that corner of his country, which he had served so faithfully, nearest to the place where he died on duty.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /janestorey/lordkitchener.htm (588 words)

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