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	HMS Victory; Admiral Lord Nelson's Flagship HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar
		HMS Victory's fore top sail is a unique artifact from the battle and the period, the fact it remains intact today is a testament to the skill of the Georgian sail makers who manufactured the sail over two centuries ago.
		HMS Victory's firepower alone was superior to all of Wellingtons cannons used at the Battle of Waterloo.
		HMS Victory and No 4 Boathouse were the carving took place, alongside one of the ships original 32 lb cannon under repair, along with part of the original badly decayed oak carved scrollwork that had been removed from the starboard side entrance port.
	www.sculptor-iangb.com /hms-victory.htm (8163 words)

	HMS Ocelot
		HMS Ocelot was laid down at the HM dockyard in Chatham on 17th November 1960 and was launched on 5th May 1962.
		HMS Ocelot's armament comprised 8 x 21 inch (525mm) torpedo tubes, 6 forward and 2 aft with 24 reloads and she carried a compliment of 6 officers and 62 hands.
		HMS Ocelot was finally sold for scrap in 1992 but was saved from the breaker's yard by the dockyard that built her.
	www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /maritime/ocelot.htm (375 words)

	County class cruiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kents were heavily armed, having eight 8- inch (203 mm) guns in four twin-turrets.
		The British Kents were reconstructed in the 1930s, with increases in armour and the number of 2-pounder guns increased from eight to sixteen in two octuple mounts.
		Their eight 21-inch (533mm) torpedo tubes were also removed, except for HMS Kent who retained them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/County_class_cruiser (740 words)

	HMS VANGUARD - Chatham Casualties
		Son of William and Mary Casselton of 21 Broad Lane, Wilmington, Dartford, Kent.
		Son of Lewis Thomas and Blance Cork of Ramsgate, Kent; husband of Mary Evelyn Cork of 224 Balaam St., Plaistow, London.
		Husband of Minnie E.A. Court of Kinross, Sturry, Kent.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/vancchat.htm (3437 words)

	HMS Locust - HMS Mosquito - HMS Dragonfly - HMS Grasshopper - Royal Navy Gunboats
		H.M.S. Bideford was also saved from the beach at Dunkirk after being towed back home by the Locust; the Sloop Bideford had her stern blown off during a sustained air attack.
		HMS Locust, her sistership, was later sent back to destroy the wreck so as to avoid German salvage.
		HMS Dragonfly sank in the shallow waters of the Riau Archipelago (her wreck is still there and has become a dive site) and HMS Grasshopper, heavily damaged, managed to beach herself.
	www.hmsfalcon.com /locust/locust.htm (2426 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (G-O)
		HMS Captain was a British turret ironclad of 6950 tons displacement built in 1869 and lost in 1870 when it capsized off Finisterre.
		Like HMS Courageous, HMS Glorious was completed in 1917 as a fast cruiser for use in the Great War in the Baltic, but by the 1920s with Britain wanting to increase her aircraft carrier strength she was converted to an aircraft carrier, as was HMS Courageous.
		HMS Wasp was a British steam gunboat, which was lost in September 1887 while on a passage from Singapore to Hong-Kong.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/F4.HTM (15666 words)

	Hampshire
		She lies nearly upside down in 68 metres and is nearly 500 feet long.
		At 65 plus metres to the sea bed this wreck is well and truly in the realm of the technical diver using trimix.
		HMS Hampshire is a very moving dive, the depth itself casts its own spell, the underwater visibility means that large sections of this vessel can be made out in any direction so it is possible to grasp the awesome scale of the vessel.."
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /jralston/rk/scapa/wrecks/hamp.html (475 words)

	1901
		HMS Bacchante (1901) List of cruisers of the Royal Navy...
		HMS Good Hope (1901) HMS Good Hope was a Drake-class armoured cruiser of 14,100 tons displacement, of the 1908 became th...
		HMS Kent (1901) HMS Kent was a Monmouth-class armoured cruiser of 9,800 tons displacement, of the 1913.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/1901.html (482 words)

	HMS - references in online news media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		HMS Nottingham's commanding officers were court martialled last year for negligence after the bottom of the ship was ripped out in the collision.
		The HMS Surprise, captained by the beloved Jack Aubrey (Crowe), is on a mission to intercept a faster, larger French vessel which stands poised to round Cape...
		HMS Manchester, on patrol in the central Caribbean, homed in on a high-speed drug running vessel on Saturday, forcing the smugglers to jettison their illicit...
	www.linkmorgue.org /DRUGS/nov03-nov04/HMS.html (12789 words)

	HMS-Victory - Armament 1765
		These guns, dated either 1847 or 1848, most were manufactured by Henckle and Co. were used as the saluting battery on board the Victory when she was moored in Portsmouth harbour.
		The 32 pounders on board HMS VICTORY are long pattern Blomefield guns, designed by Sir Thomas Blomefield, Inspector General of Ordnance, at Woolwich Arsenal.
		In 1805 the maximum elevation was governed by the vertical size of the gun port and limitation of the carriage, however greater elevation could be achieved by removing the rear trucks (wooden wheels).
	www.hms-victory.com /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=57&Itemid=51 (1008 words)

	HMS Hermes, R12, Viraat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		HMS Hermes was laid down before the end of WWII but was only completed in 1959 after many changes in design to accommodate the new jet aircraft.
		HMS Hermes, with reduced ship's company, arrives at Portsmouth Harbour under her own steam for the last time on 12th April 1984 (photographs courtesy of Neil McHart and FAN Publishing from the book HMS Hermes see bottom of page).
		HMS Broadsword and the aircraft carrier Hermes battle their way through the storm on their way to the Battle for the Falklands.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_hermes1.htm (3493 words)

	HMS Ganges Association April 2006 Noticeboard Royal Navy
		After retiring from the Navy in 1951, his diving efforts to rescue the crew of HM submarine Truculent which sank in the Thames, was made into a film starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough.
		Jack Freshwater, secretary of the Grimsby branch of the HMS Ganges Association, said membership had fallen from 32 to six in the last 15 years.
		HMS Ganges (Shotley) Historian, Solent Division member and stalwart supporter of all things Ganges has been having a hard time (My words not his), which has culminated in his having a below knee amputation.
	www.hmsgangesassoc.org /apr06.html (1109 words)

	marines2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		His death was the result of wounds received on 18th March 1915 during the sinking of HMS Irresistible in the Dardanelles.
		He was serving on HMS Britannia when it was torpedoed by a German submarine on 9th November 1918.
		On 10th April 1910 Gunner Arthur A Bagley RMA drew a revolver with the intention of shooting someone and during the scuffle which followed Sergeant Garwood was wounded, and died the next day in Bighi Naval Hospital.
	website.lineone.net /~remosliema/marines2.htm (2912 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Battleship HMS Malaya of the Queen Elizabeth class
		In August 1943 HMS Malaya was reduced to Reserve due to her poor state.
		While the Mediterranean Fleet was still on the return trip aircraft from HMS Illustrious and HMS Eagle attacked Leros and in the evening of the 14th the British light cruiser HMS Liverpool while south-east off Crete was hit in the bow by a torpedo from an Italian aircraft.
		The battlecruiser HMS Renown (Capt R.R. McGrigor, RN), battleship HMS Malaya (Capt. A.F.E. Palliser, DSC, RN), aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (Capt. C.S. Holland, RN), light cruiser HMS Sheffield (Capt. C.A.A. Larcom, RN) and the destroyers HMS Fearless (Cdr.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4059.html (1070 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - On HMS Kent in the Arctic - photo collection 5
		The frozen bridge on HMS Kent on duty in the Arctic on duty in the Russian convoys
		Harry Wright was a petty officer on HMS Kent, a county class cruiser in the Russian convoys.
		HMS Kent joined the Fleet in Scapa in October 1943.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/68/a8001668.shtml (264 words)

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		Served on HMS Fife (D20) March 1982-85, I remember being crash drafted to the Fife (Banana Boat) from a cushy job at PCG in HMS Vernon at the start of the Falklands only to find she was still in refit.
		There was a good documentry series here on HMS Brilliant and a run she made through the Med probably back in the late 80's early 90's It is sad to realise the old ships are either scrap or sold to third world navies especially the leanders and the County Class.
		I served aboard HMS Hermes in 1981 and aboard HMS Hecate from 1982 to 1984.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/hmsfife/comments.htm (21018 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)

	Amazon.com: To Glory We Steer (The Bolitho Novels): Books: Alexander Kent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		To those who 'go down to the sea in ships' the vessels themselves are alive, which undoubtedly they are, and this frigate is unforgettable, gallant, and as enduring as her crew.
		Alexander Kent is often compared to C.S. Forester, and the Bolitho books are a worthy successor to Hornblower's adventures.
		Alexander Kent was second after Dudley Pope to launch a naval series that followed in the wake of C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower.
	www.amazon.com /Glory-We-Steer-Bolitho-Novels/dp/0935526498 (1143 words)

	URBANOWICZ ON DARWIN/September 1996
		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)

	Wrens htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		HMS Cabbala, Mar to Sept.'44, HMS Valkyrie, Sept. '44 to Feb '45, HMS Drake Feb '45 to Mar.'45 HMS Eaglet Mar to Apl '45 HMS Caroline, Apl to Nov.'45 and HMS Forret Nov.'45 to Feb '46 Now lives in East Grinstead, West Sussex.
		LINDLEY (Taylor) Hilda.Served at HMS Marshal Soult at Portsmouth Dockyard from 1944 to 1946.
		I next went to HMS Merganser and was attached to a Barracuda squadron(!) Rattray closed down and everything was transferred to Lossiemouth where no Wrens were going so I went to Nuthatch, Anthorn until 1949 when I married CERA (subsequently one of the first Fleet Chiefs) Bill/Tom Quaye.
	home.cablerocket.com /~jplord/WRENS.htm (10533 words)

	Royal Navy Ships of World War Two
		Two ships of the class were produced, named after famous British admirals: HMS Rodney after George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent and Nelson after Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson of the Battles of the Nile and Trafalgar.
		HMS Indomitable (R92) had a second half-length hangar deck below the main hangar deck and the two ships of the Implacable class, Implacable and Indefatigable, had two hangar levels, albeit with a limiting 14 feet head room.
		HMS Indomitable (pennant number 92) was a modified Illustrious class aircraft carrier of the British Royal Navy.
	www.acepilots.com /ships/uk.html (2159 words)

	HMS Kent (CA-3) Cruiser of World War Two
		The HMS Kent was laid down November 15, 1924, her June 25, 1928 commission designated her flagship of the 5th Cruiser Squadron to China Station.
		Soon thereafter, Kent took part in a combined effort during the nights of September 16 and 17, mining and launching torpedo attacks at the harbor of Benghazi.
		Kent and two destroyers set out to bombard Bardia on the nights of Septermber 17 and 18, but her luck had run out.
	www.acepilots.com /ships/kent.html (406 words)

	Amazon.com: Sloop of War (The Bolitho Novels): Books: Alexander Kent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bolitho's First Lieutenant is an American Loyalist, and the relationship Kent builds for these officers, as well as the rest of the crew of HMS Sparrow is one of the highlights of Kent's novels.
		Kent catches the extreme difficulty of a man in this situation with accuraccy and understanding.
		Alexander Kent takes the reader back to the later part of the 18th century and accurately portrays life in the Britsh Royal Navy.
	www.amazon.com /Sloop-Bolitho-Novels-Alexander-Kent/dp/093552648X (2041 words)

	Tall Ships - from the 'Mary Rose' to the modern day
		A replica of HMS Beagle, the so-called 'coffin ship' which carried Charles Darwin on his remarkable expeditions in the 1830's, is to be built in Pembrokeshire and launched in 2009.
		When HMS Beagle was commissioned in 1831 to continue survey work in the Southern Ocean, she was again refitted under the direction of Robert FitzRoy, her captain, who ensured she benefited from the latest in nautical technology.
		To one side she is flanked by the HMS Warrior - Britain's first and last iron hulled warships (1860) - on the other, the remains of King Henry V111's ship, the Mary Rose (1510).
	www.squidoo.com /tallships (4383 words)

	Historic Naval Ships Visitors Guide - HMS Ocelot
		HM Submarine Ocelot was laid down at Chatham Dockyard on the 17th of November 1960.
		HMS Submarine Ocelot was one of the thirteen Oberon Class submarines built for the Royal Navy between 1959 and 1964.
		HM Submarine Ocelot eventually paid off at Chatham Dockyard in August 1991 having been on active service for the Royal Navy for 27 years.
	www.hnsa.org /ships/ocelot.htm (487 words)

	HMS Ganges Association Noticeboard Royal Navy - August 2007
		The H.M.S. GANGES MEMORIAL is sited at the back of the Royal Naval area, which adjoins the Merchant Naval area.
		The H.M.S. GANGES Association's Committee have this task in hand and details will promulgated when arrangements are made.
		Members will be aware that since the AGM I have been undecided whether to continue as a member and webmaster of the HMS Ganges Association, I have now sent my decision and reasons to the Association Chairman.
	www.hmsgangesassoc.org /aug07.html (2057 words)

	Navy News - Jack to Jack - Ask Jack - E
		HMS Eskimo: Looking for former ships company who served on the Eskimo during her Commissions, who are willing to put pen to paper and tell what they did during their Commissions.
		HMS Egret: The grandfather of Spencer Chapman, John William Chapman was an ordinance mechanic in HMS Egret when it was sunk by the 1st guided missile on August 27, 1943 in the Bay of Biscay.
		John also served in HMS Kent and would welcome contact with anyone who knew him.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ask_jack/aj_e.asp (438 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Kent \| Asbestos widows sue for damages
		Two Kent widows whose husbands died from asbestos-related cancer have taken the first steps in High Court battles for compensation of up to £150,000.
		Mrs Sigston, 55, of Northbourne Road, Gillingham, is suing the Ministry of Defence after the death of her husband in February 2003 at the age of 68.
		The writ issued at the High Court in London says Mr Sigston was exposed to asbestos between 1949 and 1956 on board HMS Superb.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/kent/4265067.stm (223 words)

	Postcards: Ships And Planes at AC Antique Collectibles
		HMS York (Capt. Reginald Henry Portal, DSC, RN) was badly damaged on 26 March 1941 by 2 Italian explosive motor boats in a...
		HMS Kent (68) was the Kent class cruiser for the Royal Navy.
		She was built by Chatham Dockyard (Chatham, UK), with the keel being laid down on 15 November 1924.
	www.tias.com /8984/InventoryPage/1566138/1.html (710 words)

	Charlie's Photos
		HMS Eagle and spent a few months back at the only non-training
		He was drafted to a naval air station, HMS Osprey, at Portland, Dorset.
		HMS Osprey at the end of 1975 and joined the assault ship,
	members.aol.com /chazlockwood/clph01.html (718 words)

	NAVAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHIES
		John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard: A Reconstruction of the Ship and an Account of the Battle With H.M.S. Serapis.
		Bradford, James C. "The Navies of the American Revolution." In In Peace and War, Interpretations of American Naval History, 2d ed., edited by Kenneth J. Hagan, 3-26.
		Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1999.
	www.hmsrichmond.org /biblio.htm (3228 words)

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