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	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The nuclear-powered submarine HMS Conqueror, captained by Commander Christopher Wreford-Brown, sank Belgrano on May 2 using Mk 8 Mod 4 torpedoes of WWII-vintage design; these were chosen as they carried a larger warhead and contact fuses and there were worries surrounding the reliability of the newer Mk 24 torpedo stock.
		Commander Christopher Wreford-Brown, commanding officer of HMS Conqueror, informed the Admiralty four hours before his attack that the Argentine cruiser had changed course, but this information was not passed to the Ministry of Defence or Rear-Admiral John “Sandy” Woodward (commander of the RN carrier group).
		At sea, the paucity of the British ships' anti-aircraft defences was demonstrated in the sinking of HMS Ardent on May 21, HMS Antelope on May 21, and MV Atlantic Conveyor, with a vital cargo of helicopters, runway-building equipment and tents on May 25.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Falklands_War (8237 words)

	Facts about hms liverpool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The fifth HMS Liverpool, a 4800 ton cruiser, was built by Vickers Sons & Maxim of Barrow and was the first ship of the name to be built in the 20th century, not to mention the first Liverpool to be built of steel.
		She was launched on 30th October 1909 and was armed with 2 x 6inch and 10 x 4inch guns that was a potent group of weapons if used correctly.
		HMS Liverpool remains a proud and venerable warship of the Royal Navy, battling on faithfully, along with her crew, regardless of her age.
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/hms_liverpool.html (1475 words)

	History : HMS Echo : Multi-Role Survey Vessels : Hydrographic Vessels : Surface Fleet : Operations and Support : Royal ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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 (1627 words)

	HMS Neptune (1909) at AllExperts
		HMS Neptune was a Royal Navy dreadnought, intended to be the lead ship of three Neptune-class battleships, but the subsequent two ships had thicker armour and were reclassified as the Colossus class.
		She was the first Royal Navy battleship that differed in her gun turret layout to Dreadnought.
		After the war she was quickly transferred to the reserve fleet and subsequently scrapped.
	en.allexperts.com /e/h/hm/hms_neptune_(1909).htm (348 words)

	H. M. S. Neptune, Ships of Brawling Battleships Steel
		Laid down on January 19, 1909, launched on September 30, 1909 and commissioned on November 11, 1911, Neptune carried a main armament of ten 12 inch main guns mounted two per turret; one centerline forward, two centerline superfiring aft and one wing turret per side that could fire fore and aft and to both sides.
		Neptune was the lone ship in her battleship class, although she was a “near” sister ship to the Colossus class ships.
		The Neptune, named after the bad-tempered Roman god of the sea, was an honored and much-used name in the Royal Navy, including a mighty 98-gun three-decker that was one ship back from Admiral Horatio Nelson’s (1758–1805) Victory in the British Weather Division at the Battle of Trafalgar (October 21, 1805).
	www.lostbattalion.com /t-bb_Neptune.aspx (259 words)

	Pancernik Agamemnon
		Nowszy okręt HMS Inflexible wypornością nie odbiegał od poprzedników, ale za to miał już działa kalibru 381 mm.
		HMS Ajax miał wyporność standardową 8 660 t, powrócono do kalibru dział 305 mm, ale zwiększono ilość dział średnich kalibrów.
		HMS "Dreadnought" jako prototyp miał wiele wad które starano się wyeliminować w następnym typie pancerników, był nim HMS Bellerophon wraz z bliźniaczymi jednostkami.
	dhost.info /pancerniki/anglia.htm (1045 words)

	HMS Neptune
		HMS Neptune was the first British Battleship to be able to fire all ten of her 12-inch guns broadside, by allowing the two wing turrets to fire across deck.
		HMS Neptune also failed to reach her contractual speed on trials, but did achieve (using Welsh coal) a speed of 21.129 knots during her acceptance trials on the 17th November 1910.
		In May 1911 HMS Neptune became the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet and in May 1912 she joined the 1st Battle Squadron.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /neptune.htm (790 words)

	Montague John Gates - Chailey 1914-1918
		HMS Hannibal was refitted and converted to burn oil fuel as well as being fitted with fire control in 1906.
		HMS Queen Elizabeth sank in shallow water, was raised and temporarily repaired.
		HMS New Zealand was taken on a cruise of the Dominions in 1913 before joining the 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron.
	www.chailey1914-1918.net /montague_john_gates.html (1861 words)

	Newsletter - The Submariners Association (Barrow)
		HMS ARTFUL commissioned on 15th December 1947 for service with the 2nd Submarine Flotilla (at Portland) but was ‘Reduced to the Reserve’ on 19th October 1948.
		HMS ARTFUL was ‘brought forward from the Reserve’ on 31st October 1952 and ‘commissioned’ for service with the 5th Submarine Squadron.
		HMS ARTFUL returned to ‘the Reserve’ at Portsmouth on 6th August 1954 ‘for Refit’ an, on completion of the Refit joining the 3rd Submarine Squadron in November 1955.
	www.submariners.co.uk /Association/Newsletter/news62.htm (5600 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)

	Forgotten Futures Worldbook 2
		HMS Nova was a radically odd design, with an angular hull shaped somewhat like the blade of a chisel.
		Wireless messages from HMS Nebula gave the first warning a few hours before the event, but her guns and bombs were powerless to deflect the icy projectile.
		After HMS Nova and units of the surface fleet destroyed the flying dreadnought Bremen, the Germans became reluctant to bring their big ships close to the coast, and this severely hampered their operations.
	www.forgottenfutures.com /game/ff2/worldbk2.htm (17055 words)

	Bessants of Gordano
		Herbert James died in HMS Neptune on 19 Dec 1941, he was 31.
		Chubby was serving on HMS Neptune, a cruiser part of an escort of 4 Cruisers and 16 destroyers for supply ships to relieve the seige of Malta.
		The Neptune was sunk, the stern was blown off the destroyer, HMS Kandahar, and cruisers Penelope and Aurora were damaged.
	www.btinternet.com /~mary.mason/best/rr01/rr01_073.htm (226 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003d Surface vessels (1905-1919) > Battleships - Dreadnoughts > British ...
		Originally intended to be part of the Neptune class, the two ships had thicker armour and other differences from Neptune, and so Neptune is traditionally left as its own class.
		Main armament remained the same as the Neptune class battleships, except the stagger of the wing turrets was reduced to conserve deck space.
		The sixth HMS Dreadnought of the British Royal Navy was the first battleship to have a uniform main battery, rather than having a secondary battery of smaller guns.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/photolibrary/index.php?cat=1063 (2173 words)

	HMS Dreadnought
		HMS Dreadnaught was the flagship of the the 4th battle squadron at the outbreak of world war One and on the 18th March 1915 she rammed and sunk the German U-Boat U29in the North Sea.
		HMS Dreadnaught missed the Battle of Jutland as she was in refit due to her poor condition and in August 1917 she was transferred to the Navy Reserve.
		This vessel represented an important departure from the comtemporary battleship design, and as she was the first vessel of the twentieth century to embody the all-big-gun principle, as well as to be fitted with turbine machinery, much attention was concentrated upon her trials and subsequent behaviour.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /dreadnought.htm (1327 words)

	Sea Wing
		"HMS Victory" is the oldest commissioned warship in the world, and is still manned by Officers and Ratings of the Royal Navy.
		In 1903 she was accidentally rammed by HMS NEPTUNE under tow to the breakers.
		After the this voyage ended in February 1909, Ohio was modernized, trading her white and buff color scheme for a drab, but more practical, grey and receiving the first of what ultimately would be two "basket masts".
	www.check-six.com /Museum/Sea-m.htm (2814 words)

	Chuuk Ships
		HMS SOPHIA, on a cruise through the Pacific, anchored off Puluwat on May 25.
		After entering the lagoon, they were met by natives in canoes who seized their possessions and took them prisoners to Liman Is. Four months later, four Lascars escaped to Tol Is., another to Nama, and an Englishman to Losap.
		British man-of-war HMS BLANCHE, Capt Cortland Simpson, on a cruise to investigate charges against flbirder Carl.
	www.micsem.org /pubs/articles/historical/forships/chuuk.htm (4449 words)

	Royal Mail Line / Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
		In 1919 she passed to the ownership of the Shipping Controller, London (managed by RMSPCo.) and was eventually scrapped in Nov.1921.
		1906 purchased from Pacific Steam Nav.Co, 1909 scrapped.
		1906 transferred from Pacific Steam Nav.Co, 1914 sold to Admiralty became dummy battleship HMS Orion 1915 scuttled at Mudros as breakwater.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/royalmail.html (3083 words)

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		Among the prisoners is Ethan Allan, who has recently brought fame to himself with the capture of Ticonderoga 1776 - The Turtle, a one-man hand-powered submersible constructed by David Bushnell for the American revolutionary forces, and manned by Sergeant Ezra Lee, attempted to attack the Royal Navy flagship in New York.
		Maillard was unable to help him, and by the time he got back under cover, his clothes were found to have been peppered with shots, although miraculously he had not suffered injury.
		She was purchased for $886,847, approximately the average cost of the five C-class destroyers purchased previously by the RCN.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/september/06Sep.txt (2833 words)

	HMS Conway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Also an "honorary" Old Worcester, he was seconded to teach in HMS Worcester on the Thames in 1953-54.
		It was the ambition of former Conways that some day they would return in command of their own HM Ships to sail past and salute their training ship.
		The Navigator of the first Canadian-manned escort carrier HMS Nabob was a former Conway Cadet.
	www.hmsconway.org /sea_career.html (2061 words)

	HISTORIK ORDERS, LTD BRITISH SINLGE MEDALS - QSA - KSA MEDALS
		The guns, on mountings designed by Captain Percy Scott of HMS Terrible, had to be taken 800 miles by sea, from Simonstown to Durban, and from there on a 190 mile haul to Ladysmith.
		Within 24 hours, Captain Lambton, of HMS Powerful, had loaded three 12 pounder guns and the two 4.7” guns on board and was steaming flat out to Durban, where two special trains were waiting to carry the men and guns to Ladysmith.
		HMS Iron Duke (Flagship), HMS Agincourt, HMS Colossus, HMS Hercules, HMS Marlborough, HMS Neptune, HMS Revenge, HMS St. Vincent.
	www.historikorders.com /qsaksa.htm (2899 words)

	The Nautical Fiction List: Page 5 of 15
		He is blocked in his efforts by the admiral commanding the nuclear submarine program.) Neptune, 1976 (The American navy, using a civilian ocean exploration ship for a cover, attempt to salvage a Soviet nuclear submarine wrecked on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.) Liner, A Novel About a Great Ship, 1977.
		The scene is set when he has sent HMS PATINA, commanded by a captain in whom he has little confidence, away on a difficult patrol.
		He spends the next 56 years as a "guest" of the navy.) Hale, John The Grudge Fight, 1964 (The fight in the title is between two young men from different backgrounds who find themselves at loggerheads in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a training establishment for Royal Navy artificers during the early years of WW II.
	www.boat-links.com /books/nfl/nautfic-05.html (2866 words)

	Challenger Medal (1895)
		My intention is to provide anyone who seeks it, useful information regarding the medal commemorating the 1872-76 worldwide voyage of HMS Challenger, which (in hindsight) celebrates the beginning of the modern science of oceanography.
		Figures from the sea include the Roman god of the sea, Neptune, who is grasping what appears to be a bottom sampler trawl in his right hand (disclosing treasures from the deep).
		He was Chief Scientist for the dredging voyages of HMS Porcupine and Lightning, and authored The Depths of the Sea in 1873, which summarized the findings of these voyages and presented a case for a global oceanographic voyage of exploration.
	www.19thcenturyscience.org /HMSC/Chall-Medal/ChallengerMedal.html (4189 words)

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		One other quirk with the 1909 Estimates is the manner in which it mushroomed in size.
		However, not only did the 1909 Program call for a doubling in the quantity of capital ships laid down but it also removed all constraints on the size or quality of the individual ships.
		Around 1909 the type ceased to be called armored cruisers and were called cruiser battleships or dreadnought cruisers, although the Admiralty still called them armored cruisers.
	www.steelnavy.com /NNTQueenMary.htm (6640 words)

	Royal Navy Battleships
		Since time immemorial, British warship names have been prefixed with "HMS", which stands for His Majesty's Ship or Her Majesty's Ship, depending on whether a king or queen is currently reigning.
		The Germans claim a tactical victory, but the battle is a strategic victory for the Royal Navy, which forced the High Seas Fleet had to retreat, and maintained their blockade of Germany.
		10 December 1941:HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers near Singapore.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/RNBBtable.html (1177 words)

	Maritime Prints - HMS TEMERAIRE AT SUNSET
		This magnificent painting of the battleship TEMERAIRE, the fourth of the name to serve in the Royal Navy, and which was first commissioned in the summer of 1909 evokes, with its wild sunset colours, JMW Turner’s immortal ‘The Fighting Temeraire’.
		Cull’s TEMERAIRE, - painted here in 1912 — was a dreadnought of the Bellerophon Class and had recomissioned in Devonport on 11 May 1911 under the command of Captain Reginald Allenby RN whose brother was to become a distinguished general of the Great War.
		Appropriately for a ship which bore a famous name from Trafalgar days, her second-in-command was a Commander Charles Hardy.
	www.maritimeprints.com /portfolio/?mp=80 (200 words)

	Marine Listing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		When HMS Vanguard was returning to Grand Harbour, he died in an accident in 5.2 inch gun turret.
		Matthew BULL, Marine, HMS Phoebe, died 25th August 1803 from a thigh wound, in the General Military Hospital, Valletta.
		While off Tunis the ship’s cutter with a party of officers and seamen on board capsized after being struck by a squall and all were drowned except for one seaman who managed to swim to the shore.
	website.lineone.net /~stephaniebidmead/marine_listing.htm (8893 words)

	World Battleships List: Royal Navy Dreadnoughts
		Laid down 19 Jan 1909, launched 30 Sept 1909, completed 1/1911.
		Laid down 30 July 1909, launched 10 May 1910, complete 8/1911.
		Laid down 23 Feb 1909, launched 28 Oct 1909, completed 4/1911.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/battleships/rn_dr.htm (3135 words)

	The Shipwreck Ring
		Some are found accidentally, some are sought for their treasures, and some others — their story is their treasure.
		HMS Guadian built 1784 wrecked 1790 The bow of the ship struck on an invisible iceberg, underwater part of the ice and her stern swung round, knocking off the rudder and badly damaging the stern frame, the ship becoming embedded under the terrific bulk of ice.
		This website discusses the story about the loss of a shipment of $1 billion in gold, destined for the Czar of Russia, but which apparently never arrived - and the consequent political considerations that impacted the world and precipitated the loss of White Star Line's Titanic.
	q.webring.com /hub?ring=shipwreckring&id=9&hub (483 words)

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