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	HMS Ganges Royal Navy Association - RNTE Shotley
		HMS Ganges transfers moorings from Harwich to Shotley.
		HMS Ganges II moved closer inshore, between the piers (bows facing downstream).
		HMS Ganges II put all boys ashore into Shotley and was then used as Naval Operations Ship, Harwich.
	www.hmsgangesassoc.org /rnteshotley.html (2503 words)

	HMS Liverpool (1909) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The fifth HMS Liverpool was a 4800 ton light cruiser of the Bristol-class.
		She had the distinction of being the first ship of the Liverpool lineage to be built in the 20th century, not to mention the first Liverpool to be built of steel.
		Upon the completion of that work later in the year, Liverpool was deployed to the Adriatic, where she remained until the end of the war in 1918, relatively unscathed by the potential dangers that she faced.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hms_liverpool__1909_ (435 words)

	HMS Liverpool (1909) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fifth HMS Liverpool was a 4,800 tonne Bristol-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy
		She was the first ship of the Liverpool lineage to be built in the 20th century, and the first Liverpool to be built of steel.
		She was launched on 30 October 1909 and was armed with 2 x 6-inch and 10 x 4-inch guns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Liverpool_(1909) (390 words)

	HMS Lion - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Lion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		HMS Lion - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Lion.
		Eighteen vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Lion, after the lion, an animal traditionally associated with courage, and also used in several heraldric motifs representing England and the British Monarchy.
		She was placed in reserve in 1964 and scrapped in 1975.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMS-Lion.html (540 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)

	History : HMS Echo : Multi-Role Survey Vessels : Hydrographic Vessels : Surface Fleet : Operations and Support : Royal ...
		A new HMS Echo was launched at Liverpool in October 1782, name ship of a class of 16-gun ship-rigged sloops; she was the first vessel specifically designed to carry the new carronades.
		The next HMS Echo, the fifth of the name, was a 'Cruiser' Class brig-rigged sloop, one of more than a hundred built to the same design; 100 ft length on deck, 382 tons, armed with sixteen broadside 32 pdr carronades and a pair of 6 pdr chase guns.
		She was one of the small ships of the Inshore Survey Squadron, with HMS Enterprize and HMS Egeria, and her career was spent in the vital and technically challenging task of hydrographic survey of the seas, sandbanks and coastlines of the East Coast and Eastern English Channel.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server?show=nav.1909&outputFormat=print (1607 words)

	D-92 Liverpool
		HMS Liverpool is the tenth of the class of Type 42 Destroyers and the seventh ship to bear the name.
		HMS Liverpool has fired what is believed to be the first salvo of Sea Dart missiles in over a decade and possibly only the second salvo ever.
		Liverpool scored a direct hit on the target proving the effectiveness of both the Sea Dart Missile and Liverpool’s system after an 18 month refit in Rosyth Royal Dockyard.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/d-92.htm (1091 words)

	HMS Conway
		The Admiralty decided to loan HMS Winchester to the Liverpool MMSA as a replacement for the original ship which was not large enough to accommodate the cadets.
		The Liverpool shipping company of Jones, Palmer & Co and others had, at the opening of the school, announced that two or three years on the Conway would be accepted by them as the equivalent of one year at sea, reducing their apprenticeship time.
		HM the King whilst visiting Liverpool went aboard the Mauretania (the wood paneling from her first class dining room is in a wine bar at the foot of Park Street in Bristol).
	www.hmsconway.org /history_mersey.html (2409 words)

	HMS Liverpool (1909) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The fifth HMS Liverpool of the Royal Navy was a 4800 ton light cruiser of the Bristol class.
		She was launched on 30 October 1909 and was armed with 2 x 6-inch and 10 x 4-inch guns that was a potent group of weapons if used correctly.
		On 8 November 1921, in an ironical twist, she was sold for breaking up to the very nation that she had fought against: Germany.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/HMS-Liverpool-(1909).htm (444 words)

	History : HMS Liverpool : Type 42 Destroyers : Surface Fleet : Operations and Support : Royal Navy
		The first HMS Liverpool was a Fifth Rate Frigate of 681 tons, built in the city after which she was named and launched on 19 July 1741.
		The third HMS Liverpool was a Fourth Rate Frigate of 1247 tons and 50 guns and was launched at Woolwich on 21 February 1814.
		The fifth HMS Liverpool, a 4.800 ton cruiser, was built by Vickers Sons and Maxim of Barrow and was the first ship of the name to be built of steel.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server/show/nav.1677 (992 words)

	Charles Fremantle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle (June 1, 1800 - May 25, 1869) was a Captain of the British Royal Navy.
		His 26 gun frigate HMS "Challenger" was the first ship to arrive in a fleet of 3 ships sent out from Britain to establish a colony at the Swan River in Western Australia.
		After arriving in Cockburn Sound and landing on Garden Island a few weeks earlier, on May 2, 1829 he took formal possession of the whole of the western coast of Australia in the name of King George IV.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Fremantle (221 words)

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		Günther Hessler was born in 1909, at Frankfurt an der Oder.
		She would be the last allied warship to enter or leave the harbor for 4 years 1942 - The evacuation of Singapore continued unabated, HMS Danae, HMIS Sutlej & HMAS Yarra left Singapore escorting Convoy EMU consisting of Devonshire and Felix Roussel for India & City of Canterbury for Batavia.
		After a refit for additional AA weapons, she was rammed by the Shoreham-class sloop HMS Bideford, which necessitated five weeks of repairs in Belfast.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/february/06Feb.txt (1952 words)

	Immigrant Ship Information
		Condemned in Queenstown in 1890 on passage from Quebec to Liverpool with timber.
		She resumed Liverpool - Quebec - Montreal sailings on 1/9/1948 and in 1958 was fitted with new streamlined funnels and her accommodation altered to carry 218-1st and 482-tourist class passengers.
		In March 1919 she resumed the Liverpool - St.John NB service for one round voyage and was then converted from coal to oil fuel and her passenger accommodation was modernised.
	www.fortunecity.com /littleitaly/amalfi/13/shipdf.htm (19674 words)

	Captain Johnny Walker RN - Scourge of the U Boats
		He went to sea in June 1914 as a midshipman in the battleship HMS Ajax and stayed with the ship until he was promoted to sub-lieutenant on 1st January 1916 and moved to HMS Mermaid based at Dover.
		First he went to HMS Revenge, then to Nelson and finally Queen Elizabeth and during these appointments became increasingly disillusioned with peacetime service in the big ships, but finally in 1933 he was promoted, at the last moment, to Commander and given command of HMS Shikari, an S-class destroyer fitted with Asdic.
		When HMS Starling was due for commissioning, Captain Walker requested Admiralty that as many as possible of his former ship's company should be the nucleus of his new command.
	www.mikekemble.com /ww2/walker.html (6388 words)

	Isle of Islay - HMS Otranto and HMS Tuscania Memorials
		On 5 Feb 1918 the HMS Tuscania was torpedoed by a German submarine and sank seven miles of the Mull of Oa.
		On 6 Oct 1918 the HMS Otranto was involved in a collision with the HMS Kashmir and sank in Machir Bay on the west coast of Islay.
		The Otranto was originally built as a passenger liner in 1909 but was requisitioned as an auxiliary cruiser and troop ship during the war.
	www.armin-grewe.com /islay/islay-otranto.htm (502 words)

	British 'Firsts'
		Lyell suggested that the Earth was as much as 240 million years old (in contrast to the 6,000 years of prevalent contemporary theory).
		He was first to identify a large number of irregularities in the heart's beat and establish which were caused by serious disease and which were of no consequence.
		1909 Arthur Lapworth, British chemist, one of the founders of modern physical-organic chemistry.
	www.fatbadgers.co.uk /Britain/firsts.htm (6864 words)

	[No title]
		This is the Tiger Convoy 1941 - Submarine HMS Sea Nymph laid down 1941 - U-613, U-614 laid down 1941 - At 1717, the Dunkwa, dispersed from Convoy OB-310, was torpedoed & sunk by U-103 216 miles WNW of Freetown.
		The master, 37 crewmembers and one gunner were picked up by Dutch merchantman Polydorus and landed at Oban 1941 - MS Surat sunk by U-103 at 08.23N, 15.13W 1941 - At 1052, the Oakdene, dispersed from Convoy OG-59, was hit by one torpedo from U-105 and sank NW of St. Paul Rocks.
		HMS Dorsetshire picked up the master, 31 crewmembers and three gunners 1941 - U-556 sank steam trawler Emanuel with gunfire 1941 - At 0240, HMS Camito was hit aft of amidships by one torpedo from U-97 WSW of Cape Clear, while escorting the Sangro to the UK.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/may/06May.txt (1834 words)

	HMS Liverpool
		The fifth HMS Liverpool, a 4.800 ton cruiser, was built by Vickers Sons & Maxim of Barrow and was the first ship of the name to be built of steel.
		Then Liverpool was transferred to the 7th Cruiser Squadron and on the 12 June 1940 she and HMS Gloucester engaged small craft off Tobruk.
		The Liverpool joined the Malta convoys in June 1942 and was again torpedoed by aircraft on 14 June and had to be towed to Gibraltar.
	www.pbenyon.plus.com /18-1900/L/02753.html (1035 words)

	HMS 'Thunderer' - London in war and conflict - Port Cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		HMS Thunderer was the last Royal Navy vessel to be constructed on the Thames at Blackwall.
		This vessel was not only the largest battleship in the Royal Navy during this period, but she also saw a return in the use of 13.5 inch/45 calibre armament.
		HMS Thunderer saw action at the Battle of Jutland, as part of the British Grand Fleet.
	www.portcities.org.uk /london/server/show/ConFactFile.43/HMS-Thunderer.html (337 words)

	Kiwi Jeffs - EARLY NEW ZEALAND POSTCARDS - SHIPS Blog
		HMS Herald was a 24-class minesweeping sloop launched as Merry Hampton in 1918, renamed in 1923 and converted to a survey ship.
		On June 9th, 1917, she had another narrow escape from a torpedo attack in the English Channel, and on July 21st the same year, she was chased by a surfaced submarine, but out-distanced the enemy.
		Originally sailing in convoy from Liverpool, on the 2nd or 3rd December Ceramic detached from this convoy and began sailing independently as routed.
	www.jeffpylenz.com /Jeffs-blog/MANUSCRIPTS/SHIPS.htm (787 words)

	Immigrant Ship Information
		In 1909 accommodation for 120-1st class passengers was added, and in Sept.1910 she was further modified to carry 60-1st and 120-2nd class.
		In 1909 she lost her starboard propellor after leaving Cape Town and proceeded to Wellington at reduced speed on the remaining screw.
		She ran between Liverpool and NY from 23/7/1851 until January 1858 when she was laid up until 1859 when she was bought by North Atlantic Steamship Co who used her on the NY - Aspinwall service.
	www.fortunecity.com /littleitaly/amalfi/13/shipa.htm (19735 words)

	Aaron Ward
		Transferred to Great Britain as one of the overage destroyers traded to that nation in return for the right to establish American bases on British possessions in the western hemisphere, she was commissioned in the Royal Navy that same day as HMS Castleton, Comdr.
		There, she was assigned to the 8th Escort Group, Western Approaches Command, based at Liverpool, for convoy escort duty.
		HMS Castleton rescued six of the 11 crewmen of the Sunderland and 54 of the submarine's crew.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a1/aaron_ward-i.htm (1164 words)

	LIVERPOOL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Search the LIVERPOOL Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the LIVERPOOL Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named LIVERPOOL at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/L/LIVERPOOL.htm (73 words)

	QUB Geology alumni web page
		It was towards the end of his years in Belfast, in the late 1860s, that Thomson laid the foundations for the Challenger voyage by convincing the Admiralty to release HMS Lightning and Porcupine to explore the depths of the Atlantic off north-west Europe.
		Within two years he was off on HMS Challenger for its four year voyage, returning in 1876 to a knighthood and much popular acclaim.
		With the establishment of the Lectureship in Geology in 1909, there was at last a requirement by the new University to employ someone with proper geological credentials - for the first time since Wyville Thomson's arrival at the College over half a century before.
	www.propubs.com /qubgeology/history.html (3858 words)

	ON WATCH: The Deck Officers and Wireless Operators of the R.M.S. Titanic
		Among the new cadets ferried out to the venerable training institution HMS Conway for the 1902 Easter Term was a fourteen year old boy from Scarborough in North Yorkshire.
		James graduated from HMS Conway in December 1903, and was soon to find a berth as an apprentice in a steel-hulled barque registered to a Welsh Liverpool-based shipping company.
		Blue eyed and with light brown hair, by this time he had attained his full height of 5’11” and, although developing into a broad shouldered youth with a certain lithe athleticism, he was still very slimly built.
	www.nautical-papers.com /onwatch/moody/moody.html (7119 words)

	Marine Listing2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Her served on HMS Aboukir from 6th November 1906 to 14th November 1906, and HMS Irresistible from 27th November 1906 until his death on 4th December 1907.
		HMS Ramillies was off Gozo preparing to enter Grand Harbour, when one of the davits broke loose whilst making ladders ready to hoist out and Sergeant Charles Young was thrown overboard.
		HMS Ramillies was off Gozo preparing to enter Grand Harbour, when one of the davits broke loose whilst making ladders ready to hoist out and he was thrown overboard.
	website.lineone.net /~stephaniebidmead/marine_listing2.htm (10595 words)

	RMS Lusitania
		He was a Liverpool man who first went to sea when he was just 13 on board the sailing ship White Star.
		On a voyage leaving Liverpool on 16 January 1915 the Lusitania was involved in an international incident which gave the ship's presence in the North Atlantic a very high profile.
		Captain Turner took all possible precautions ordering all the lifeboats to be swung out, all the bulkhead doors to be closed, look-outs to be doubled and steam pressure to be kept high to give the ship all possible speed in case of emergency.
	www.ocean-liners.com /ships/lusitania.asp (1757 words)

	Cunard Line
		Cunard sailed from Liverpool to New York and Boston with a stop, for some years in Halifax.
		1914 converted to aircraft carrier, 1918 broke her moorings in gale in the Firth of Forth and was sunk in collision with HMS REVENGE.
		1909 destroyed by fire in Liverpool dock and scrapped.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/cunard.html (3613 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Royal Navy Category
		From Chatham I was posted to HMS Hornet the coastal forces base in Hampshire and assigned to M.L 907 an...
		After a spell at HMS Victory in Portsmouth I was sent to Liverpool to HMS Rosemary, an LSD...
		JAMES HENRY WEALE was born 1909 in Liverpool and it was told through the family that he died at sea during...
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/categories/c1184/index_76.shtml (638 words)

	Historical Encyclopedia of WA - WA Snapshots
		The 443 ton barque, escorted by HMS Sulphur, left Plymouth on 8 February 1829 and entered Table Bay, Cape Town, on 16 April where she remained for thirteen days.
		WALTA gained the right to conduct three Australasian Open Men’s Championships in 1909, 1913 and 1922, yet it was not until 1994 that a permanent tennis centre was established at Burswood.
		In the post World War II era Clive Wilderspin became a household name in Western Australia, as did Margaret Court (Smith) who had moved to the State after the divide between amateur and professional tennis was broken in 1968.
	www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /wa_snapshots (9969 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log - "Cammell Laird: Shipbuilders to the World" at Birkenhead, England by Alex Naughton
		However, those on the Liverpool side of the river were hampered by lack of space, restrictive leases and a dependence on the booms and slumps of merchant shipping so by 1900 they had all closed.
		Between 1911 and 1919, Laird built nine light cruisers and the last, HMS Achilles of 1932 was one of the three cruisers that cornered the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in 1939.
		The first HMS Ark Royal was sunk in the Mediterranean in 1941 and the second was a major component of the Royal Navy into the late 1970s.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/CammelLairdShipbuildersat.html (3378 words)

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