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  HMS London (69) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS London (69)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
HMS London (C-69) was a County class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy.
London was laid down by HM Dockyard at Portsmouth on 23 February 1926, launched on 14 September 1927 and completed on 31 January 1929.
London served with the 1st Cruiser Squadron until March 1939, was involved in the pursuit of the enemy German battleship Bismarck in May 1941, served on Russian convoy escort duties until November 1942, and with the Eastern Fleet until June 1949, where she was involved in the Amethyst incident.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMS-London-69.html   (226 words)

  
 Final Fantasy Insider Forums - Lysander [Profile Feedback]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lysander also carries a small, flat dagger, which is used with the rapier, providing an added dimension in both offense and defense.
Only a lucky few including Lysander managed to escape the city through the thieves' knowledge of the city's sewers, and with the danger that regrouping posed, they agreed to go their own separate ways and find a new adventure, a new purpose.
Distraught at the death of his friend, Roo, Lysander eventually found his way to a remote monastery, and after a welcome stay, and an invitation, decided to embark upon the life of the priesthood, not less for his belief in a higher power, but to purge his own sins and to ease his conscience.
www.ffinsider.net /forums/showthread.php?p=63180#post63180   (2760 words)

  
 HMS Lysander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first Lysander was a 4-gun brig, listed from 1842 to 1844 but with little further information available.
The second Lysander was a Laforey-class destroyer launched in 1913 as Ulysses but renamed a few weeks later, and sold in 1922.
The third Lysander (J379) was an Algerine-class minesweeper launched in 1943 as HMCS Hespeler, renamed Cornflower in 1956, and broken up 1957.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Lysander   (149 words)

  
 HMS Lynx (F27) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Lynx (F27)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
HMS Lynx (F27) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Lynx (F27).
HMS Lynx (F27), was a Leopard-class anti-aircraft frigate of the Royal Navy, named after the lynx.
She was laid down by John Brown and Company, Clydebank on 13 August 1953, launched on 12 January 1955, and commissioned on 14 March 1957.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMS-Lynx-F27.html   (150 words)

  
 HMS Lysander - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Lysander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
HMS Lysander - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Lysander.
Three vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Lysander, after Lysander, a military commander of ancient Sparta.
* The second Lysander was a Laforey-class destroyer launched in 1913 as Ulysses but renamed a few weeks later, and sold in 1922.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMS-Lysander.html   (161 words)

  
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98-gun HMS Breslaw (278) [max DCs] Rear-Admiral Lord Isaac Hull (69-120) 2A.--.--.
108-gun HMS Sakarya (899) [max DCs] Rear-Admiral Lord Isaac Hull (69-120) Escaped 2A.--.--.
84-gun HMS Thunderer (1022) [max DCs] Rear-Admiral Lord Isaac Hull (69-120) Struck Sunk 8A.--.--.
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 Order of Battle - Battle of Jutland - 31 May to 1 June 1916
HMS Lurcher,E31, E53, D6 left Harwich on the evening of 30th May to patrol positions off Southwold, midway to the Dutch coast.
HMS Talisman, G2, G3, G4, G5 left Harwich at 1200, 31st May for a patrol position on the SE side of the Dogger Bank.
HMS Hampshire, with Lord Kitchener on board, was sunk in this minefield on 5th June.
www.navweaps.com /index_oob/OOB_WWI/OOB_WWI_Jutland.htm   (3138 words)

  
 Laforey Class
with HMS Lance having fired the first naval shot of the war when it sank (along with HMS landrail) the German minelayer Konigen Luise they took part in most of the naval actions but only a few were at Jutland.
Received damage after colliding with HMS Undaunted in August 1915.
HMS Llewellyn, with the bow removed after being torpedoed, 1917.
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /laforey_class.htm   (1564 words)

  
 Final Fantasy Insider Forums - The Games: Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lysander pulled some standard revolver bullets out of his pocket and started to load them into the six chambers as he slowly progressed.
Lysander racked his brain until he was able to remember what he had read once about a race with red eyes.
He now noticed that the girl was trembling, and Lysander wasn't even sure that she knew which way she was facing.
www.ffinsider.net /forums/showthread.php?p=113521   (3782 words)

  
 Actors From The London Stage - University of Notre Dame
Egeus complains to Theseus that his daughter Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius, the man Egeus has chosen as her husband, because she is in love with Lysander, whom Egeus rejects as a suitor for her.
Lysander and Hermia agree to flee Athens through the forest to marry at his aunt’s house.
Puck, mistaking Lysander is Demetrius, anoints him with the flower’s juice.
www.nd.edu /~aftls/recent_tours/2004/a_midsummer_nights_dream.shtml   (1292 words)

  
 Stephenson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He trained at Crosby-on-Eden (Carlisle) and then aboard the HMS Furious (Carrier) from Greenock to Gibraltar.
Half of the 69 Hurricanes on board (including mine) were transferred to the Ark Royal.
HMS Ark Royal - Night at sea, then fly-off in daylight (no previous experience) to Malta and then Egypt.
www.torontoaircrew.com /Fighter/Stephenson/stephenson.html   (398 words)

  
 Battle of Dogger Bank Order of Battle - World War 1 Naval Combat
The British leaked false details of Invincible which they believed misled the German designers into designing a ship that was slower and less powerful than the British ship.
HMS Tiger was an improved follow on to Queen Mary - the Q turret was moved, a heavier secondary armament, improved armour, and more speed.
She bore a close resemblance to the British designed Japanese Kongo class, which were laid down and completed before Tiger, although the design for Tiger was developed independently and only one aspect of her armour scheme was attributable to the Japanese ship.
www.worldwar1.co.uk /dboob.htm   (225 words)

  
 TooWrite.com. True stories from real people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The ships concerned were the minesweepers HMS Lioness, the leader of the flotilla, Lysander, Laertes, Maenad, Michael, Minstrel and Magicenne.
On the way to the football field they found the mines, in a field, apparently the natives had found a method of bringing the mines ashore, and they used the explosives to make small charges to use for exploding in the sea and blowing fish to the surface.
We returned to Singapore and after a short period, we paid off into reserve, I was drafted to HMS Maenad, as coxswain, one of the Algerians was sold to the Siamese Navy, and the crews of the remaining ships were drafted to ships in the Far East Fleet.
www.toowrite.com /toowrite_story.asp?sid=4288   (942 words)

  
 uboat.net - Allied Warships - Algerine class Minesweepers
HMS Regulus (J 327) (lost 12 Jan, 1945)
HMS Alarm (J 140) (lost 2 Jan, 1943)
HMS Squirrel (J 301) (lost 24 Jul, 1945)
uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=140   (137 words)

  
 Swa fineart - signatures - Over The Beaches
On 21 April 1940 the squadron embarked on HMS ‘Glorious’ for Norway, flying off three days later to land on a frozen lake.
From the 21st until it re-embarked on HMS ‘Glorious’ on 6 June the squadron gave a good account of itself, covering the evacuation of the Army and flying offensive patrols.
The squadron embarked on HMS ‘Argus’, before transferring to the ‘Ark Royal’, from which they flew off to Hal Far, Malta on 6 June.
www.swafineart.com /pages/signatures_over_the_beaches.htm   (1086 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The alien leviathan raced towards Lysander XI and then, as most of the Bridge crew held their breath, plunged into it.
It seemed to be swallowed up by the angry blue streaks of the gas giant's turbulent upper atmosphere, the artificial sun at its core flaring and then fading as it plowed ever-deeper within the giant planet.
To his amazement, Oakes saw Lysander XI collapse in upon itself, deflating like some monstrous alien balloon, down, down, down, its suddenly-orphaned moons careening across the sky before colliding with one another, spraying asteroid-sized rubble everywhere.
users.ev1.net /~ehcalk/monitor/newsletter28.htm   (4554 words)

  
 Section HED-HOM -- Quality Posters and Prints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hms Captain {Le} of 750 Offset {Litho} by Geoff Hunt
Hms Pickle {Le} of 750 Offset {Litho} by Geoff Hunt
Hms Temeraire {Le} of 750 Offset {Litho} by Geoff Hunt
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 Lysander  SOE Agents
Westland Lysander aircraft of the Royal Air Force, used by 161 Special operations squadron for SOE Agents, These aviation art prints of the Westland Lysander by ;leading aviation artists, Graeme Lothian, Robert Taylor, Phillip West and Gleed are available form aviation art prints a division of Cranston Fine Arts the Military art print company
A Lysander of 161 Squadron from RAF Tempsford banks to port as it circles a field somewhere in France 1943.
Most suited to these clandestine operations was the rugged Westland Lysander, operations being conducted, weather permitting, during the moon's fullest phase.
www.aviationprints.co.uk /lysander.htm   (1248 words)

  
 4 Sqn,AF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Squadron was first equipped with Lysander aircraft.
During 1942 the Squadron also operated Lysander detachments from Miranshah, a forward base in the NWEP, for action against insurgent Pathan tribals.
On 08 Apr 1946, HMS Vengeance sailed with 22 aircraft of No. 4 Sqn, berthed at Singapore for refueling and set course for Iwakuni, a port of Kyushu island.
indianairforce.nic.in /afsqnn4.htm   (1023 words)

  
 Union-Castle Line
Destroyers were summoned by radio to rescue survivors who were taken back to Plymouth where it was ascertained that 143 persons had perished.
HMS Spitfire remained in attendance and took of the skeleton crew before she finally sank.
GLOUCESTER CASTLE was built in 1911 by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. at Glasgow with a tonnage of 7999grt, a length of 450ft 7in, a beam of 56ft 2in and a service speed of 13 knots.
www.red-duster.co.uk /UNION16.htm   (2706 words)

  
 Index of Shipping Losses and Accidents
HMS Acheron - RoP of passage to Sydney - 1848.
HMS Dido - Concern for loss of crew of the Vanguard - maybe murdered by natives - 1947.
HMS Pantaloon - Capture of a Slaver - 1846.
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 Lysander (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lysander Spooner, an American political activist and legal theorist of the 19th century
Lysander, New York, a town in the USA named after the general
Westland Lysander, a British aircraft of the 1930s and 1940s
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Lysander-(disambiguation).htm   (133 words)

  
 The Royal Air Force - Squadron Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
During the Chanak crisis in 1922, the Squadron deployed to Turkey aboard HMS Ark Royal and then HMS Argus with FE2Bs.
A move to Odiham in 1937 was followed by re-equipment with Lysanders with which the unit returned to France in October 1939.
The red and fl segmented sun suggests round-the-clock operations, while the lightning flash is a reference to the units early use of wireless telephony for artillery co-operation.
www.raf.mod.uk /squadrons/h4.html   (458 words)

  
 Commonwealth biplane fighter aces - Peter Wykeham-Barnes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Stormo continued alone towards the border arriving over Bir Sheferzen (around thirty kilometres south and slightly east of the position where the escort left it) at 17:20, where they discovered numerous British vehicles that were immediately attacked by the Bredas and Fanali’s trio of CR.32s while Rossi’s stayed at 1000 meters as cover.
At 13:10 on 25 May the First Battle Squadron (including HMS Queen Elisabeth, HMS Barham, HMS Formidable and eight destroyers) was 150 miles from the Kaso Strait when a formation of Ju87s was detected approaching from the North African coast.
HMS Formidable was not the only ship hit, for the escorting destroyer HMS Nubian also had her bows blown off and her aft guns put out of action, 15 of her crew being killed and six others seriously wounded.
www.bahnhof.se /~surfcity/commonwealth_wykeham.htm   (7637 words)

  
 UNITE HERE!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The suit, filed in March, contends that some $613,000 in subsidies awarded to Cintas by the IDA are invalid because the IDA failed to consider environmental consequences raised by citizens.
The case will go ahead, with plaintiff Gerald Lotierzo, a Lysander resident, advancing a claim that the proposed plant poses a significant risk of harm to the wetlands and to the Seneca River.
Wetlands on the proposed Cintas site drain to the nearby Three Rivers Wildlife Management Area, and the sewage treatment plant that would receive Cintas' wastewater discharges to the Seneca River, which is on the state's list of most environmentally impaired water bodies.
www.unitehere.org /frontpagedetail.asp?ID=125   (253 words)

  
 "Arrowsmith" List of Pendant Numbers - part 4
H 26 [HMS Paragon Dka/cl B:TH, L:21/02/13, (t/rnd:10/13 HMS Katrine), (H26:06/12/14), su:18/03/17, by Ger.
H 93 [HMS Ulysses Dla/cl, B:SH, L:18/08/13, rnd:30/09/13 HMS Lysander, (H93:06/12/14), see-(H68:01/04/18)]
H 68 [HMS Lysander ex-HMS Ulysses ex-(H93), see-(H81:early 1919)]
www.gwpda.org /naval/s0450000.htm   (1738 words)

  
 Fort William HMS St Christopher
Between October 1940 and December 1944 HMS St Christopher comprised a Coastal Forces Training Base in and around Fort William.
Apparently HMS ST CHRISTOPHER was never given an official badge but a carved wooden plaque bearing a resemblance to a traditional St Christopher Charm Medallion can be seen in St Andrews Episcopal Church in Fort William which, during World War II, was used as the naval Church.
In all, it is estimated that some 55,000 personnel of various nationalities passed through the base during its four years of operation.
www.users.zetnet.co.uk /mbriscoe/PAGES/StChristopher2.htm   (268 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His wingman was forced to return immediately with a stuck undercarriage, so Partridge continued alone.
He met no aerial opposition and returned safely 1940 - HMS Illustrious departed the Clyde for Devonport.
She was destined to remain there until 21 June, at which point she departed for her shakedown cruise to the West Indies.
www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/june/03Jun.txt   (1342 words)

  
 List of Royal Navy ship names   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
HMS Iron Duke[?] - Jellicoe[?] flagship at Jutland
HMS Thunderbolt[?] - (submarine HMS Thetis renamed and recommissioned following salvage[?])
HMS Tututankhamen[?] - (intended for submarine P.311, but the boat was lost before name formally assigned)
www.factbase.info /li/list-of-royal-navy-ship-names.html   (78 words)

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