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	HMS Leeds Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Leeds Castle after Leeds Castle, near Maidstone in Kent.
		The first Leeds Castle (K384) was a Castle-class corvette (though later on re-designated a frigate), built in 1944.
		HMS Leeds Castle (P258) is a Castle-class patrol vessel launched in 1980.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Leeds_Castle (128 words)

	HMS Leeds Castle Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The first HMS Leeds Castle was a Castle Class Corvette (though later on re-designated a frigate).
		The second HMS Leeds Castle is a Castle Class patrol ship built by Hall Russell Co. Ltd of Aberdeen, Scotland.
		She was involved in the 1982 Falklands War, operating between Ascension Island, South Georgia, and the Falkland Islands, as a dispatch vessel.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/h/hm/hms_leeds_castle.html (376 words)

	Roll of Honour - Kent - Leeds including Broomfield)
		The Leeds memorials are to be found in St Nicholas's Church, leeds, and take the form of severeal wooden plaques surrounding a crucifix and flanked by of the Royal British Legion.
		HMS Cressy, HMS Aboukir and HMS Hogue were all sunk within a short space of time on the day that Walter died by the German submarine U9 commanded by Otto Weddingen, HMS Cressy was attacked at about 7.20am whilst attempting to pick up survivors from H.M.S Aboukir.
		HMS Curacoa was sunk in a collision with the liner "Queen Mary" on 2nd October 1942 which she was escorting.
	www.roll-of-honour.com /Kent/Leeds.html (1448 words)

	HMS Leeds Castle (1944) - TheBestLinks.com - Frigate, November, United Kingdom, World War II, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		HMS Leeds Castle (1944), Frigate, November, United Kingdom, World War II, 1944...
		The first Leeds Castle was a Castle-class Corvette (though later on re-designated a frigate).
		She was built in 1944, the year of the famous D-Day landings and other famous events during the Second World War.
	www.thebestlinks.com /HMS_Leeds_Castle___28__1944__29__.html (172 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		HMS Leeds Castle was launched in October 1980 by Peggy Speed, wife of the then Navy Minister.
		Leeds Castle spent three years on station from 1995, sailing into hurricane-force winds and the region’s worst winter on record.
		After the war Leeds Castle was allocated to anti-submarine training duties in Portsmouth, and was re-designated a frigate in 1947.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=6210 (1119 words)

	NE Diary 1939-45; Warships Launched or Completed by N.E. Shipyards 1942-45
		On their way there they ran into a newly laid minefield, both ships were struck by mines, the 'Adrias' was first to be hit, she had her bows blown off as far back as the bridge.
		She was returned to the RN in 1944.
		the cruiser 'HMS Swiftsure' - the destroyers 'Myngs' - 'Zephyr' - the submarines 'Varne' - 'Virulent' - 'Vivid' - 'Voracious' - 'Votary' - 'Vulpine'.
	www.bpears.org.uk /NE-Diary/Bck/Warships2.html (1967 words)

	Trafalgar 200 - Ship Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		HMS Bangor is the ninth of the Sandown class of minehunters and was built by Vosper Thorneycroft UK Ltd at Woolston, Southampton.
		HMS Bangor is the first ship to be closely affiliated to Northern Ireland for over 15 years and has other official affiliations with the town of Bangor, Bangor Combined Cadet Force and Bangor Grammer School.
		Unfortunately HMS Brave was victim to Strategic Defence Review rationalisation and was mothballed in April 1999, which meant another career decision.
	www.trafalgar200.com /tallships_details/bangor.html (577 words)

	Tenerife News
		In an exclusive interview with Tenerife News, her captain, Lieutenant Commander John Garratt, said that the visit had been at the request of his crew, whose members were looking forward to seeing the island and sampling its scenery, entertainment and local colour.
		The current Dumbarton Castle, launched by Princess Diana on 3 June 1981 and accepted into service with the Royal Navy on 9 March 1982, is the third ship of that name to see service with the Royal Navy.
		The Dumbarton Castle is one of two Castle class ships, designed for a dual role with the ability to carry out fishery protection and offshore patrols with the added flexibility of being able to operate helicopters as big as the Sea King from the large flight deck.
	tenerifenews.blogspot.com (1295 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Castle class Corvettes
		HMS Hedingham Castle (i) (K 491) (To the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Orangeville)
		HMS Rising Castle (K 494) (To the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Arnprior)
		HMS Shrewsbury Castle (K 374) (To the Royal Norwegian Navy as Tunsberg Castle)
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=4 (309 words)

	Portsmouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was at this time that Robert Brygandine and Sir Reginald Bray, with the support of the king, commenced the building in Portsmouth of the country's first dry dock.
		In 2005, Portsmouth was a focus for Sea Britain, a series of events to mark the bicentenary of Lord Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.
		Among the attractions are the D-Day museum (which holds the Overlord embroidery) and, in the dockyard, HMS Victory, the remains of the Mary Rose raised from the sea-bed in recent years, HMS Warrior and the Royal Naval Museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portsmouth (3440 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Seagoing Castle is back in the Fleet
		Dumbarton Castle will spend three years on her patch based at the Falkland Islands, with her crew being rotated every six months.
		The current Dumbarton Castle is the third ship in the Royal Navy to bear the name.
		The second was a Castle-class corvette, built in Dundee in 1944, which spent much of her service in the North Atlantic hunting U-boats, going into reserve in 1946 and being scrapped.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2004/0409/0004090702.asp (338 words)

	A Touring Guide for Visitors to Hursley, England
		Leeds Castle is one the most frequently photographed castles in England.
		The castle is well maintained and has exhibits illustrating the Tudor strategy for defending the coastline at that time.
		There are castles throughout Great Britain and the whole of Europe, so you would be wise to limit how many of these you might tour, because after a while they begin to look and seem pretty much the same.
	www.yelavich.com /hursley/hurbook.htm (24638 words)

	Patrol Craft
		HMS Shalford (P3101) was a Ford Class Seaward Defence Boat, constructed 1951 - 1957.
		In 1977 she was returned to her previous owner, when HMS Jersey was commissioned.
		HMS Dumbarton Castle, passing under the Forth Rail Bridge.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /patrol_craft.htm (1987 words)

	Royal Navy - Dic.blogopt.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		On one such voyage, Charles Darwin traveled around the world on the HMS Beagle, making scientific observations which later influenced his development of the theory of evolution.
		Life in the early Royal Navy would be considered harsh by today's standards; discipline was severe and flogging was used to enforce obedience to the Articles of War.
		Commissioned (surface) ships of the Royal Navy are accorded the prefix HMS which stands for Her Majesty's Ship (alternatively, His Majesty's Ship), like HMS Ark Royal.
	dic.blogopt.com /Royal_Navy (3020 words)

	20 Feb History
		Les missionnaires et les communautés chrétiennes sont alors perçus comme les agents de l'Occident pervers et "barbare".
		Le christianisme s'est acclimaté en Chine dès les premiers siècles de notre ère sous sa forme nestorienne (de Nestorius, un patriarche de Constantinople).
		Les missionnaires et les communautés chrétiennes sont perçus comme les agents de l'Occident pervers et «barbare» et font les frais des ressentiments éprouvés par beaucoup de Chinois.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4feb/h4feb20.html (10688 words)

	Castle Class Corvette (Frigate) Association
		I am the daughter of robert tyldesley who served on the castle tintagle f399 unfortunatley my dad died august 3rd 2005 i found all his ships log papers and decided to find out more about my dads ship i found your site most imformative and intertesting and will be logging on again in the future.
		I served on HMS Leeds Castle January 1955 to June 1956.
		I joined HMS Morpeth Castle as an Able Seaman 1994 and left her after the war ended as a Petty Officer.
	castlecorvette.co.uk /guestbook (1867 words)

	Hissem_Garnets of Kirkby Lonsdale
		The house in Kendal, known as "The Castle Dairy," can legitimately be considered as the ancestral home of many different Garnett families that arose in Westmorland during the 16th and 17th centuries.
		A grandson of Anthony Garnet, who owned "The Castle Dairy" in the late 1500s, is believed to have bee among the very earliest settlers in Virginia.
		A Thomas Garnett is recorded in the parish registers of Kirkby Lonsdale as the son of Robert Garnett, a descendant of Anthony Garnett of Castle Dairy.
	balder.prohosting.com /shissem/Hissem_Garnets_of_Kirby_Lonsdale.html (15782 words)

	AUGUST
		1944: A field-marshal and four generals were subjected to a slow and agonizing death when they were hanged by piano wires after a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler.
		1944: PLUTO (Pipe Line Under the Ocean), which ran under the Channel, began supplying petrol from the Isle of Wight to the Allied forces in France.
		1944: Birth of Rajiv Gandhi, son of Indira.
	www.camelotintl.com /365_days/august.html (7955 words)

	Audio/Video History
		In 1944 while her husband was serving in the South Pacific with the Merchant Marines, Norma Jeane was discovered by photographer David Conover.
		HMS Invincible: On the occasion of today's decommissioning of the light aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, the Royal Navy's flagship vessel, Lord Frank Judd and former Rear Admiral Richard Cobbold comment on the history of this ship -- and the future of such ships.
		She met General Juan Domingo Peron in 1944 when he was minister of state for war and the couple were married in 1945.
	hnn.us /articles/3143.html (18468 words)

	Trafalgar 200 - Ship Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He then moved to HMS Quorn as Executive Officer in early 1994, overseeing the ship’s conversion to fishery protection duties.
		A Baltic deployment onboard HMS Cardiff prepared him for navigation training and subsequent appointment to navigate HMS Liverpool for the Captain Third Destroyer Squadron.
		Assuming command of HMS Leeds Castle, the Falkland Islands Patrol Vessel, in March 2004 he completed her final South Atlantic winter patrol and return passage to home waters.
	www.trafalgar200.com /tallships_details/shoreham.html (416 words)

	M A Kinnear
		Following the sinking of HMS Ark Royal in November the squadron was reformed at Lee-on-Solent in January 1942.
		In June 1944 with other 616 pilots he was sent to Farnborough for a conversion course to fly the new Gloster Meteor.
		In July 1944 616 moved to RAF Manston and was involved with the interception of German V-1 flying bombs and on 29th August he flew EE227 on an operational sortie.
	www.militaryartcompany.com /kinnear.htm (9392 words)

	Example of "Genealog*" Catalog Database Search - Using the Melvyl® Legacy System: Section "R"
		Les plus anciennes familles du monde : repertoire encyclopedique des 1400 plus anciennes familles du monde, encore existantes, originaires d'Europe /, J.-H. de Randeck ; preface de Ian Roderick Macneil of Barra.
		Les Boussairolles : chronique d'une famille montpellieraine sous l'Ancien Regime et les deux Empires /, Jeannine Redon.
		Les principales familles de Touraine et leur implantation geographique aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles : etat portant sur 230 paroisses /, Pierre Robert.
	www.academic-genealogy.com /melvylcatr.htm (15015 words)

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		H.M.S. _Surprise_ BR 8740 by Patrick O'Brian 3 volumes Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin have orders to escort an English envoy to India aboard the _Surprise_.
		The Surgeon's Mate BR 8770 by Patrick O'Brian 3 volumes Captain Jack Aubrey, accompanied by surgeon and spy Stephen Maturin, is aboard HMS _Ariel_ on a mission to persuade Spanish troops under Napoleon to abandon the Baltic islands under their control and join British forces.
		Montana Women BR 9120 by Toni Volk 3 volumes In 1944, twenty-five-year-old Pearl and her younger sister Etta live together, supported by dead-end jobs.
	www.loc.gov /nls/catalogs/braille/1993-1994/fiction.txt (20538 words)

	Navy News - Jack to Jack - Calling Old Shipmates - J to L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		HMS Llandaff: Calling all ex shipmates, especially the last commission who would like to attend a reunion, the Association was formed about five years ago.
		HMS London: On behalf of his dad, Robbie is trying to make contact with one Bob Powell who served in HMS London during the war.
		HMS Ledbury 81/83: Gary (Tommo) Thomas was the steward on board and he would like to get in touch with anyone else who was on board at the time.
	newwww.navynews.co.uk /cos/cosjtol.asp (1883 words)

	The Addison Family - Page 2
		After getting his degree he went to Leeds Clergy School, from where he was ordained deacon in 1897 and priest (for Rochester) in 1898.
		Having been working overseas, after the deaths of her brothers she took passage for South Africa in the SS "Galway Castle" to be with her father.
		As it turned out the submarine did not continue the attack and the "Galway Castle" floated for another three days, by which time destroyers were at hand to take off the skeleton crew before she finally went down.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/gkarmstrong/add04.htm (2296 words)

	Veterans Ads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He was killed on Wednesday 20th September 1944, at Oosterbeek whilst trying to move one of the guns to safety with a jeep whilst under fire.
		As with most veterans they do not speak of their experiences, however, I do recall my father relating about being on HMS Abdiel which I believe was crossing from North Africa to Italy when it was hit by a mine.
		He was in 506th PIR and 101st Airborne was KIA 17th September 1944 near Son in Holland. Prior to this he was in Wootton Basset, Nr.
	www.arnhemarchive.org /veterans.htm (6909 words)

	Feeder Lines, pt 1
		Richborough, Kent - Dunkirk, 1924 Harwich - Zeebrugge, 1939-1946 HMS Princess Iris, 1946 renamed Essex Ferry, 1956 renamed Essex Ferry II, 1957 scrapped.
		Holyhead-Dublin, 1915 became HMS Tara, torpedoed and sunk in Mediterranean.
		Heysham-Belfast, 1942 became HMS Duke of Wellington, 1945 reverted to Duke of York, 1948 Harwich-Hook of Holland, 1963 sold to Greece, renamed Fantasia.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/feeders.html (3006 words)

	1 JUNE
		1909: The ballet Les Sylphides was performed for the first time in Paris with choreography by Fokine to music by Chopin, and the leads danced by Nijinsky and Pavlova.
		1944: The Café Gondrée was the first place to be liberated from the Germans on the eve of the D-Day landings when paratroopers from the 6th Brigade dropped on the town of Benouville to seize the vital canal bridge.
		1944: D-Day: Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in the biggest land, sea and air operation ever seen, under the command of General Dwight D Eisenhower.
	www.camelotintl.com /365_days/june.html (9687 words)

	February Log (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Unlike the Castle Class ships, which have to return to the UK every three years for major repairs, the new OPV's greater reliability and more modern design means she will be able to remain in the South Atlantic until 2012 and will save the taxpayer £2 million in support costs over a seven year period.
		HMS Daring, HMS Dauntless, HMS Diamond, HMS Defender, HMS Dragon and HMS Duncan have been announced as the names of the first six ships.
		In 2001, another British nuclear submarine, HMS Tireless docked in the Gibraltar base with a faulty reactor, eventually spending almost a year in the British colony and causing considerable indignation in Spain owing to fears that local waters may have been contaminated by radioactivity.
	submarinesaustralia.com /log_archives/log_02_05.htm (10204 words)

	Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) Officers 1940-1945
		Son of Lyle Douglas Firminger, and of Bessie Louise Firminger, of Bromley, Kent.
		Son of E. Fradgley, and of Edith M. Fradgley, of Yateley, Hampshire; husband of Evelyn A. Mary Fradgley (nee Sellar), of Yateley.
		HMS Claverhouse (RN base, Leith and Granton) (for duty in the office of the Naval Officer-in-Charge)
	unithistories.com /officers/RNVR_officersF.html (857 words)

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