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	HMS Emerald
		HMS Enterprise was built by John Brown on the Clyde laid down on the 28th June 1918 and launched on the 23rd December 1919.
		HMS Emerald served on Atlantic Convoy duty 1939 to 1940, then to the East Indies 1941 -- 1942 and moving to the eastern Fleet 1942 to 1944 and in 1945 moving to reserve fleet.
		HMS Emerald and HMS Enterprise by Ivan Berryman.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_emerald.htm (443 words)

	HMS Kent
		The third Kent was a 74-gun 3rd rate launched in 1762 and sold 1784.
		The fifth Kent was a 16-gun vessel purchased in 1798 and sold in 1801.
		The eighth Kent was also a cruiser, launched in 1926, and sold in 1948.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hm/hms_kent.html (204 words)

	HMS Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Kent was a 46-gun fourth-rate launched in 1653 as the Kentish Frigate, renamed Kent in 1660, and converted to a prison hulk in 1672.
		The sixth Kent was a 16-gun vessel purchased in 1798 and sold in 1801.
		The tenth Kent was a County-class heavy cruiser, launched in 1926, and sold in 1948.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Kent (312 words)

	HMS Victory jerak.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HMS Victory is a 104-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built between 1759 and 1765.
		However on 8 October 1799 HMS Impregnable (1789) was lost off Chichester, having run aground on her way back to Portsmouth after escorting a convoy to Lisbon.
		HMS Victory is still in commission as the flagship of the admiral for the time being acting as Second Sea Lord in his role as Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy 's Home Command (CINCNAVHOME).
	www.jerak.org /en/HMS+Victory (2289 words)

	HMS Kent - TheBestLinks.com - Cruiser, Frigate, India, Royal Navy, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HMS Kent, Cruiser, Frigate, India, Kent, Royal Navy, 1926, 1948, 1901, 1863...
		The second Kent was also a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1746 and hulked in India 1760.
		The fourth Kent was also a 74-gun third-rate, launched in 1798, converted to a sheer hulk in 1856, and broken up 1881.
	www.thebestlinks.com /HMS_Kent.html (269 words)

	HMS Ganges Royal Navy Association - RNTE Shotley
		HMS Ganges transfers moorings from Harwich to Shotley.
		Admiralty order for old HMS Ganges to be renamed HMS Tenedos III and to become part of the Boy Artificers Establishment at Chatham.
		HMS Ganges figurehead (Indian Prince) given to Royal Hospital School, Holbrook.
	www.hmsgangesassoc.org /rnteshotley.html (2503 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Heavy cruiser HMS Kent of the Kent class
		On 15 September 1940 the British battlesship HMS Valiant, the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, the heavy cruiser HMS Kent and 7 destroyers left Alexandria.
		During the night of 17/18 September HMS Kent was hit in the stern by a torpedo from Italian torpedo bombers.
		Kent was out of action for a year as she didn't return to service until September 1941.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1177.html (629 words)

	Charles Darwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As HMS Beagle surveyed the coasts of South America, Darwin began to theorise about the wonders of nature around him.
		He had expected to be buried in St Mary's churchyard at Downe, but at the request of Darwin's colleagues, William Spottiswoode (President of the Royal Society) arranged for Darwin to be given a state funeral and buried in Westminster Abbey.
		He attended a Church of England school, then at Cambridge studied Anglican theology to become a clergyman and was fully convinced by William Paley's teleological argument that design in nature proved the existence of God.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_darwin (6753 words)

	Untitled Document
		Serving on HMS Britannia when it was torpedoed by a German submarine on 9th November 1918.
		HMS Orlando was anchored in Tunis Bay, 3rd November 1864.
		Action May 1812 (HMS Northumberland) drove on shore and destroyed, near the entrance of Lorient, two French frigates (Arienne and Andromaque), and the brig Mamelouck.
	www.angelfire.com /mp/memorials/AMaltalist.htm (4648 words)

	HMS Kent
		HMS Kent was reconstructed in 1935 and 1939 with a 4.5 inch cemented armour belt being increased for 6 feet below the waterline.
		HMS Kent served in the East Indies 1939 to 1940, Home Fleet v1941 - 1944 and went into the reserve in 1945.
		My Grandfather Robert Edmonds served on HMS Kent in the early forties and made his way to petty officer, I'm interested on hearing from anyone who served with or remembers him from his time in the navy.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_kent.htm (785 words)

	HMS Kent (1926) - TheBestLinks.com - Armour, Alexandria, Mediterranean, River Clyde, ...
		HMS Kent (1926) - TheBestLinks.com - Armour, Alexandria, Mediterranean, River Clyde,...
		HMS Kent (1926), Armour, Alexandria, Mediterranean, River Clyde, Tanker...
		Finally, in January 1948 she was sold and moved to Troon for breaking up.
	www.thebestlinks.com /HMS_Kent___28__1926__29__.html (285 words)

	HMS Firedrake Page 17
		He was promoted to Sub-Lieutenant in 1926 and Lieutenant in 1928, he served in the destroyer HMS Wryneck and the Battleship HMS Ramillies in the Mediterranean before specializing in anti-submarine duties in 1931.
		He was promoted to Commander in June 1941, when he took command of HMS Osprey which had been moved to Dunoon in Scotland because of the danger of bombing.
		Then in April 1943, he took command of HMS Varbel the shore establishment for the experimental midget submarines and was involved in ‘Operation Source’ the attack on the German battleship Tirpitz in Norwegian waters on the 22nd September 1943, for this he received the CBE.
	www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk /firedrake17.htm (2012 words)

	HMS Cumberland
		HMS Cumberland, Kent Class cruiser of the Royal Navy.
		HMS Cumberland built at Vickers Armstrong at Barrow and launched 16th March 1926.
		HMS Cumberland converted to a trials vessel in 1949 and finally scrapped in Newport on 3rd November 1959.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_cumberland.htm (221 words)

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		The master and 37 crewmembers were picked up by destroyer HMS Walker & landed at Liverpool 1941 - A small British force captures the port of Berbera, East Africa.
		HMS Campobello was beyond salvage and her crew (35 men) was taken off.
		The next day, the vessel was towed to Oran by tug HMS Restive, then to Mers el Kebir, where she was beached & later declared a total loss after the vessel broke in two.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/march/16Mar.txt (2590 words)

	Royal Navy Memories - HMS Devonshire and HMS Leopard Portal - A Brief History 1926-1954
		In appearance, with her two tall tripod masts and three funnels, she closely resembled the units of the earlier Kent class, although she and her sisters were fitted with hangar space for three Walrus aircraft, together with a catapult.
		On 19 March 1929, 17 months after her launch, HMS Devonshire was commissioned into the Royal Navy and on 11 May, after carrying out trials at Portland, she sailed for Gibraltar.
		HMS Royal Oak is a protected war grave, and each year on the anniversary of the sinking, there are memorial services.
	www.royalnavymemories.com /hms_devonshire/ships_history_(1926-54)/a_brief_history_1926-1954 (3095 words)

	HMS Repulse crew members
		HMS Shropshire (1929-1932), HMS Achilles (1933-1935), HMS Dragon (1935-1937), HMS Southampton (1938-1941) and HMS Kent (1941-1942).
		I am looking to contact any Royal Marine veterans who may have known him or served with him on any of the ships during WW2, especially anyone who was serving on HMS Southampton when she was bombed and then sunk in the Med on 11 January 1941.
		I realise that there will be few still alive from that period but possibly there are still some of those who were in their early twenties or so who may still be around.
	www.forcez-survivors.org.uk /biographies/repulsecrew/condon.html (189 words)

	University Archives, KSU
		Kent State Normal College, Cities of Kent and Ravenna, Ohio, Panoramic Photographs, 1914-1927
		Jack Davis, Photographs, Kent, Ohio, May, 1971 [property in Kent in path of planned bridge and by-pass]
		Kent Community Chest and Welfare Association, Records, 1921-68
	speccoll.library.kent.edu /collections.html (497 words)

	HMS Chatham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fifteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Chatham after the port of Chatham, Kent, home of the Chatham Dockyard
		The first Chatham was a galliot captured in 1666 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
		The fourteenth Chatham, launched in 1911, was a Chatham-class light cruiser scrapped in 1926.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Chatham (332 words)

	URBANOWICZ ON DARWIN/September 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HMS Beagle sailed from England on the 27th of December in 1831 and Darwin did not to return to his native land for four years, nine months and two days.
		HMS Beagle departed the Galápagos and headed across the Pacific Ocean to Australia, then across the Indian Ocean, and back to England, and the "mixed-up finches" were handed over to John Gould, an ornithologist.
		HMS Beagle landed in England on the 2nd of October 1836 and Darwin went to Shrewsbury on the 4th.
	www.csuchico.edu /~curban/Darwin/DarwinSem-S95.html (17104 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Heavy cruiser HMS Suffolk of the Kent class
		HMS Suffolk (Capt. J.W. Durnford, RN) sinks the German tanker Skagerak (6044 tons) northwest of Bodö, Norway in position 64.05N, 08.00E.
		HMS Suffolk (Capt. J.W. Durnford, RN) bombards a German station for sea planes at Stavanger, destroying four aircraft and badly damaging the installations, but was in return badly damaged by bombs from German Ju88 aircraft of II./KG 30.
		HMS Suffolk was out of action until February 1941.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1181.html (179 words)

	HMS Devonshire (39) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HMS Devonshire was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy, that served in World War II.
		Devonshire was laid down by HM Dockyard at Devonport in Plymouth on 16 March 1926, launched on 22 October 1927 and completed on 18 March 1929.
		Devonshire was sold for scrap on 16 June 1954 and arrived at Newport on 12 December 1954 where she was broken up by Cashmore\'s.
	www.bohemianyus.com /section/HMS_Devonshire_(39) (402 words)

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		Saguenay was declared a constructive total loss and was assigned to harbor training duties for the remainder of the war at Cornwallis, NS.
		U-155 conducted ten patrols and compiled a record of 26 ships sunk (including the British escort carrier HMS Avenger) for a total of 140,449 tons and one ship damaged for a further 6,736 tons.
		In all, Piening compiled a record of 26 ships sunk for a total of 140,449 tons (including the HMS Avenger) and one ship damaged for a further 6,736 tons.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/november/15nov.txt (1347 words)

	Maritime Prints Portfolio
		HMS RENOWN wearing the Standard of HRH The Prince of Wales arrives in Plymouth Sound 22 June 1922
		HMS THUNDERER entering Portsmouth 1921; HMS VICTORY in the background.
		HMS VICTORY AFLOAT IN PORTSMOUTH WITH HM YACHT ALBERTA
	www.maritimeprints.com /portfolio (1155 words)

	HMS Glasgow - The Coronel Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In company of AMC Otranto she took part in the Battle of Falkland Islands in December 1914 and helped HMS Cornwall sink the SMS Leipzig.
		Along with HMS Kent she caught and helped sink SMS Dresden at Juan Fernandez Island in March 1915.
		She was then moved to the Mediterranean and took part in the hunt for the raider SMS Mowe from February to September 1916.
	www.coronel.org.uk /glasgow.php (174 words)

	WW1-Related Articles in WARSHIP INTERNATIONAL
		HMS Kent (1914-1915), Portsmouth to the Falkland Islands - Early Days number 1 1998.
		A very informative paper describing the cruiser actions of the Battle of the Falkand Islands (8 December 1914), and the chase and eventual destruction of SMS Dresden.
		This letter, refering to the article on HMS Kent in NUmber 1, 1998, is actually a small paper describing the evolution of the RN's armoured cruisers.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/bwi20000.htm (1906 words)

	Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945 - W
		He at once closed with her, and engaged her with Lewis guns to such good effect that she withdrew and left the channel clear for the approach of the blockships.
		HMS Douglas (submarine flotilla leader) (for submarines) (Mediterranean)
		HMS Caledon (cruiser) (for minesweepers in reserve) (for torpedo duties) (Reserve Fleet, The Nore)
	unithistories.com /officers/RN_officersW2.html (920 words)

	Oppo search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		My father has always mentioned his days in the Marines and is very proud to have been on board the HMS Tiger and to have served with all of his old ship mates.
		I do have a colleague who is currently building a model of the HMS Tiger that I hope to mount inside a cabinet of some sort.
		Pops date of birth is 7 June 1926, but I believe he may have fudged his age to join the Marines.
	www.royalmarines.org /family_search1.htm (3572 words)

	Royal Navy Memories - HMS Devonshire and HMS Leopard Portal - Sports Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The result was a draw on a time basis, but thanks to a good innings by R.O. Thomas.
		Our highest score by a batsman was 83; P.O. Bagley had the honour against H.M.S. HAMPSHIRE, and the most successful bowler L.R.O. Osbiston.
		The team was never down-hearted, they always came back with high spirits, in them, topic of conversation was the afters not the scores.
	royalnavymemories.com /hms_devonshire/.../sports_section (942 words)

	ConnorThomas
		She was buried in 1926 in PA, USA.
		A major event each grammar school year was the "play," an annual fund raiser held each spring in the basement hall of the church.
		According to the Polk Directory for the City of Pawtucket Frank and Agnes McGill lived at 140 Anthony Avenue in 1925; Frank and Agnes McGill at 12 1/2 Kimball Avenue in 1926; and Frank and Agnes V at 255 Glenwood Avenue in 1928.
	www.rootsweb.com /~ussnei/ConnorThomas.htm (16061 words)

	HMS Norfolk - The Royal Navy Ships of Victor Johns
		Two other ships of this class, Australia (completed 24th April 1928, broken up 1955) and Canberra (completed 10th July 1928, sunk 9th August 1942) were built for the Royal Australian Navy.
		Modified Kents with internal bulges and slight layout changes.
		Sunk 5th April 1942, with Cornwall, by bombs from Japanese carrier aircraft, west of Ceylon (227 lost).
	home.swipnet.se /ew-11578/hms_norfolk.htm (515 words)

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