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	HMS Marlborough (F233) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Marlborough (F233) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.
		In October 2004 Marlborough was dispatched to assist HMCS Chicoutimi which was adrift off the northwest Irish coast and arrived at the scene where RFA Wave Knight and Marlborough's sister-ship HMS Montrose were present.
		In June 2005, it was announced that Marlborough would be sold to the Chilean Navy, to be delivered in 2008.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Marlborough_(F233) (206 words)

	4Reference \|\| HMS Antelope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Another HMS Antelope, 14, was purchased in 1783, and in 1785 was under the command of Captain S.J. Gambier.
		She was part of the Mediterranean fleet, recommissioned at Malta on February 25, 1880, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Walter Haylton Joliffe, with a crew of about 80 including a corporal and seven privates of Marines.
		TV and stills pictures of HMS Antelope's demise became one of the defining images of the Falklands War and appear repeatedly in histories of the event.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/HMS_Antelope.html (1530 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMS Marlborough (F233)
		HMS Richmond The Type 23 frigate is a warship class of the Royal Navy also known as the Duke class.
		HMS Iron Duke (F234) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.
		HMS Portland (F79) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Marlborough-(F233) (930 words)

	HMS Nelson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HMS Nelson was an ironclad battleship of the Royal Navy.
		HMS Nelson was a battleship of the Royal Navy, one of only two to mount 16 inch (406 mm) guns.
		HMS Nelson forms the main part of the naval base at Portsmouth.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-HMS_Nelson.html (357 words)

	HMS Marlborough (1912) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and launched in 1912.
		She fought at the battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, where she was hit by a torpedo, killing two and injuring two.
		In 1919, during the Russian Civil War the Marlborough was on duty in the Black Sea and rescued members of the Russian Royal Family, including Grand Duke Nicholas.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Marlborough_(1912) (176 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - HMS Marlborough is assisting USS Cole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HMS Marlborough, a Duke-class Type 23 frigate under the command of Capt Anthony Rix, was on passage to the UK after a six-month deployment in the Gulf when the explosion ripped a 20ft by 40ft hole in the side of the USS Cole, killing as many as 17 people.
		Marlborough has a full medical and damage control team on board and when her offer of humanitarian assistance was accepted she immediately diverted to Aden and arrived there early on Friday October 13.
		HMS Marlborough will remain in Aden for as long as her assistance is required.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2000/0010/0000101303.asp (231 words)

	Encyclopedia: HMS Revenge (1915)
		HMS Revenge was the name ship of the Revenge class of battleships of the Royal Navy, the ninth to bear the name.
		Revenge was the only ship of her class to actually be operational for the battle of Jutland, where she was under the command of Captain E.
		On 8 March 1948, after so many years of dedicated service to the Royal Navy and the nations interests, she was placed on the disposal list, being sold for scrap four months later.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HMS-Revenge-%281915%29 (852 words)

	HMS Marlborough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second-rate Saint Michael, renamed Marlborough in 1706, fought in the Seven Years' War and foundered at sea in 1762.
		The fifth HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke class battleship built in 1912 fought in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and was decommissioned in 1932.
		The present HMS Marlborough is a Type 23 frigate launched in 1989.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Marlborough (217 words)

	Iron Duke Class
		HMS Benbow was scrapped in March 1931 along with HMS Marlborough and HMS Emperor of India.
		HMS Iron Duke was converted to a gunnery training ship in 1931-32 but was badly damaged in a German air raid and was run aground on 17th October 1939.
		HMS Iron Duke when she was the flag ship of the Grand Fleet flying the Admiral's flag (Admiral Sir John Jellicoe), and HMS Marlborough when she was the flagship of the First Battle Squadron, flying Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly's flag.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /iron_duke_class.htm (1162 words)

	GNN - Government News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HMS Marlborough will also be open to visitors on Saturday and Sunday, 11 and 12 June, 10am-4pm, when members of the Royal Navy Recruitment Team in the North East will be on hand to offer advice on the many career opportunities available within the Royal Navy.
		HMS Marlborough is the second of the Type 23 Duke Class frigates and the sixth ship to carry the name in the Royal Navy.
		HMS Marlborough enjoys an active affiliation with Middlesbrough and many friendships were forged during the ship's visit to the town in early 2001.
	www.gnn.gov.uk /Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=158732&NewsAreaID=2 (873 words)

	HMS Sutherland (F81) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Sutherland at Newcastle upon Tyne, September 2004
		HMS Sutherland (F81) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.
		See HMS Sutherland for other ships of the same name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Sutherland_%28F81%29 (75 words)

	HMS Revenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HMS Revenge (1915-1948) was the nameship of a majestic looking class of dreadnoughts.
		The flagship of that Squadron was HMS Marlborough, flying the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney.
		During the ensuing battle, Marlborough was torpedeod, which forced the Vice-Admiral to transfer his flag to Revenge which was under the command of Captain E.B. Kiddle, thus making the battleship the flagship of a most formidable squadron.
	www.portaljuice.com /hms_revenge.html (943 words)

	Loss of HMS VANGUARD
		I was on watch on HMS Marlborough between 8pm and midnight [in] 1917 or 1918 and was facing HMS Vanguard and saw her start to explode, 1st aft 2 midships 3 foc'sle and then one huge explosion.
		William Schleihauf, "Disaster in Harbour: The Loss of HMS Vanguard" in The Northern Mariner / le Marin du Nord, Volume X, Number 3 (July 2000) - the journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society.
		The irony could not have been lost on Ben Barnes as his first ship in August 1913, had been HMS Natal that suffered a similar fate to the Vanguard when she was destroyed by internal explosion in 1915.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/vanguard.htm (1373 words)

	Alexander Palace - HMS Marlborough
		Vice Admiral Sir Francis Pridham, KBE, CB, was the First Lieutenant of the HMS Marlborough, when it arrived in Yalta on April 7, 1919 under orders of the British Royal Navy to evacuate Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and members of the Russian Imperial Family.
		The number of those who would embark in HMS Marlborough with the Empress Marie was not known, but it was evident already that we were to be asked to take many more than we had been led to expect when we left Constantinople.
		Since it is unusual for a British man of war to carry women on board for any lenght of time, HMS Marlborough recorded a unique experience in having on board for a fortnight, four ladies each of whom represented a different generation of the Emperor's family.
	www.alexanderpalace.org /palace/marlborough.html (2622 words)

	Naval Technology - Duke Class (Type 23) - Frigates
		The new batch comprises: HMS Kent which was launched in May 1998 and entered service in September 2000; HMS Portland launched in May 1999 and commissioned in May 2001; and HMS St Albans launched in May 2000 and commissioned in June 2002.
		HMS Richmond was the first RN vessel to receive the HE ER round in April 2004.
		HMS Westminster, a Batch I Type 23, is the first vessel to be fitted with the sonar and the ship returned to the fleet to begin a series of operational trials in January 2005.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/t23 (1288 words)

	Dreadnought Battleships
		HMS King George V, Ajax, Centurion, Audacious Laid down 1911.
		HMS Iron Duke, Marlborough, Benbow, Emperor of India Laid down 1912.
		HMS Queen Elizabeth, Warspite, Barham, Valiant, Malaya Laid down 1912-1913.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /battlesh.htm (255 words)

	MoD Oracle
		At 3 am on 16 Dec 04 the Royal Navy frigate HMS Marlborough rescued 12 merchant seamen from the waters of the Gulf of Arabia.
		HMS Marlborough was alerted by a “May-Day” signal and guided to the scene by a coalition helicopter.
		HMS Marlborough sailed from Portsmouth on 1st November 2004 for duties in the Arabian Gulf.
	www.modoracle.com /news/detail.h2f?id=7107&category=2&refresh=3A483766-FDBA-4F02-AFBC62EB744FE54F (218 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Pictures \| In pictures: ships facing the axe
		Previously involved in counter drugs operations, HMS Newcastle is nicknamed the Geordie Gunboat; she was launched in 1975.
		HMS Glasgow is said to be the luckiest ship, after an Argentinian bomb in the Falklands conflict passed though its hull without exploding.
		HMS Marlborough's motto is 'he goes to war'.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_pictures/3915213.stm (145 words)

	Young Engineers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HMS WESTMINSTER has been patrolling the Caribbean islands just off the coast of Venezuela.
		The islands are too close together to permit HMS WESTMINSTER passage and so a smaller, faster, more agile vessel must be deployed to catch the Mary-Jane before she reaches the coast of Venezuela.
		HMS WESTMINSTER is currently anchored 3nm west of the Venezuelan coast.
	www.youngeng.org /rn_challenge.html (1066 words)

	History of HMS Vernon
		The third ship to bear the name HMS Vernon was a fifty gun frigate that saw active service in home waters, the Americas and the East Indies between 1832 and 1848.
		On 1 October 1923, HMS Vernon (or ‘The Vernon’ as it came to be known) was established ashore on the site of the old Gunwharf (now the development known as Gunwharf Quays) and Mining, Whitehead [Torpedo] and Electrical departments were formed.
		HMS Vernon remained the home of the TAS Branch until the Summer of 1974 when it was devolved to HMS Dryad prior to the formation of the Operations Branch in early 1975.
	www.mcdoa.org.uk /History_of_HMS_Vernon.htm (1449 words)

	HMS Marlborough - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Six warships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Marlborough after the Duke of Marlborough:
		This ship evacuated surviving members of the Russian royal family, the Romanovs, from the Crimea during the Russian Civil War.
		This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/HMS_Marlborough (239 words)

	F-233 Marlborough
		HMS MARLBOROUGH was built by Swan Hunter Shipbuilders at Wallsend on the Tyne, where she was launched by Lady Black on 21 January 1989.
		HMS MARLBOROUGH is the second of the Type 23 'Duke' Class frigates
		The first was a second-rate of 1,131 tons originally named the St Michael, which was renamed MARLBOROUGH in 1706 in honour of the Duke of Marlborough after his victories at the Battles of Blenheim, Ramilles and Malplaquet.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/f-233.htm (213 words)

	Scoop: Royal Navy Frigate HMS Marlborough Visit To Auck
		HMS MARLBOROUGH sailed from her homeport of Portsmouth, on the south coast of England 17 January 2003 to take part in the long-planned world deployment known as Naval Task Group 03 (NTG03).
		HMS MARLBOROUGH is closely affiliated to the town of Marlborough in the County of Wiltshire in Southern England and she is carrying a loyal greeting from Mrs Margaret Boulton the Mayor of Marlborough in UK to the Mayor and People of Marlborough in New Zealand.
		Captain Anderson has kindly allowed HMS MARLBOROUGH be opened for visits from the Auckland public between the hours of 10.00am and 3.00pm Sunday 18 May. Visitors will be guided around the upper deck of the ship and will be able to meet members of the crew.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PO0305/S00110.htm (866 words)

	TYPE 23 FRIGATE FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Sixteen of this class have been built, with the final vessel, HMS ''St Albans'' (F83) launched in May 2000.
		HMS ''Norfolk'' (F230) was the first of the class to enter service, commissioned on June 1, 1990 at a cost of Â£135.449 million.
		On July_21 2004, in a review of defence spending, Defence Secretary Geoff_Hoon announced HMS ''Norfolk'', HMS ''Marlborough'' (F233) and HMS ''Grafton'' (F80) were to be paid off.
	www.palfacts.com /Type_23_frigate (353 words)

	stlawrence
		McSweeney was brought to Malta on HMS Childers in February for his Court Martial on the 25th and 27th February 1837, on board HMS Revenge, which was moored in Grand Harbour.
		The Court heard how McSweeney joined HMS Rodney when she was first commissioned in 1835, and that he was quartered at the after main deck Quarter, under the charge of Lieutenant Payne.
		HMS Rodney was being refitted in Port Mahon, Minorca, when ordered to proceed to Malta for the express purpose of McSweeney’s execution.
	website.lineone.net /%7Estephaniebidmead/stlawrence.htm (1832 words)

	Guardian \| Bunkers feel the power of the navy's big guns
		It took only 20 seconds for HMS Marlborough's main gun to fire 10 rounds at the Iraqi bunker complex six miles away on the Faw peninsula.
		The shock wave of each high explosive round exiting the barrel might have shaken the 3,500 tonne ship to the core, but it was nothing to the effect the shells had when they hit their target 25 seconds later.
		After the next three shots had been "walked" progressively closer, and with still no sign of submission despite a misfire that had given those inside the bunker a few precious extra minutes, the spotter had asked for the full force of the warship to be released.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4630840-111385,00.html (537 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS Marlborough (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Once Type 23 HMS Marlborough had made her way home from last year's Exercise Saif Sareea, she was handed over to the tender mercies of the fleet support teams at Portsmouth Naval Base for a six-month stretch of overhaul and updates.
		Marlborough is now in the throes of a tough training schedule.
		The Type 23 is the sixth HMS Marlborough to serve with the Royal Navy.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/marlborough.asp (499 words)

	Royal Navy: News & Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HMS Ocean sailed in May with Royal Marines from Bickleigh based 42 Commando embarked along with helicopters from the Fleet Air Arm including Sea Kings, Gazelles and Lynx.
		During the exercise HMS Ocean worked alongside the USS John F Kennedy Carrier Group offloading the Royal Marines and their equipment by landing craft and air.
		On her return to Devonport, HMS Cornwall is due to undergo a short maintenance period.
	www.royal-marines.mod.uk /rn/content.php?page=1&article=813 (417 words)

	Guardian \| Crew member of Iraqi dhow shot dead as Kuwaitis enforce blockade
		A Kuwaiti gunboat opened fire on an Iraqi dhow killing a member of its crew on Saturday night, as tensions grew between coalition and Iraqi forces operating in the waters of the northern Gulf.
		The captain of HMS Marlborough, Mark Anderson, said he was sure the Kuwaiti gunboat had not meant to hit the dhow.
		HMS Malborough and other British vessels have hugely reduced the amount of oil smuggled out of Iraq, thus depriving Saddam Hussein of revenue the allied coalition believes is being used to fund his military.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4626655-103681,00.html (581 words)

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