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  HMS Nottingham (D91) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Nottingham (D91), is a batch two Type 42 Destroyer of the Royal Navy, named after the city of Nottingham, England.
Meanwhile, the destroyer HMS Glasgow was reactivated to cover for Nottingham while she was being repaired.
Nottingham maintains a close relationship with the city which it is named for and the Nottingham public are said to be very proud of 'their ship'.
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 hms newcastle
The fourth HMS Newcastle was built to fill a requirement for fast frigates to deploy against the Americans during the War of 1812.
The seventh HMS Newcastle was a Southampton Class cruiser launched by Her Grace the Duchess of of Northumberland.
In 1998, HMS Newcastle made her way to the British territory of Montserrat to assist the population, who were very distressed after a devastating volcano eruption.
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 HMS Nottingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Four ships of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Nottingham, after the city of Nottingham in the East Midlands.
The first Nottingham was a 60 gun 4th rate, launched at Deptford in 1703.
The third Nottingham was a 2nd class cruiser, built in 1913 and sunk by U-52 in 1916.
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 HMS Nottingham - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Nottingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HMS Nottingham - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Nottingham.
The ship was rebuilt in the same yard in 1719, rebuilt again at Sheerness in 1745 and sunk as a breakwater at Sheerness in 1773.
After a relatively short career, the boat was sold in 1800.
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 Paxman History Pages - Paxman and the Royal Navy
The twelfth, HMS Shoreham M112, was formally accepted into service in November 2001 and commissioned in summer 2002.
The only one of her type built, HMS Bristol was commissioned in 1973 and withdrawn from service in 1991.
HMS Invincible was 'mothballed' in 2005, pending the construction of two new carriers for the Navy.
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 Shipping Intelligence - This Is The West Country archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HMS Severn sailed from the docks on fishery patrol.
HMS Nottingham, the Type 42 destroyer, has been working up off Falmouth this week after a major refit lasting two years at Portsmouth.
A previous HMS Nottingham, a town Class light cruiser took part in the Battle of Jutland and was sunk by the German U-boat U 52 in August 1916 along with the light cruiser HMS Falmouth sunk by U63 on the same day off Flamborough Head.
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 HMS York - My Home Page
HMS York was one of the last of fourteen Type 42 Destroyers that were built between 15 January 1970 and 9 August 1985 in one batch of six and two batches of four ships.
HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry were both sunk/destroyed during the Falklands Conflict.
HMS Birmingham was formally decommissioned on 10 December 1999 (see news desk), there now being eleven Type 42 Destroyers in service with the Royal Navy.
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 Sheffield Class Type 42 Destroyers
During the Falklands Conflict (1982) this was a major problem as HMS Sheffield was destroyed not by the detonation of the exocet missile, but by the fires that spread through the ship at a rapid rate.
H.M.S Yarmouth, thus making Sheffield the first Royal Navy vessel to sink in action for almost forty years.
H.M.S Birmingham was the venue of the 1998 St Malo Anglo-French Naval Agreement.
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 Ships of the Royal Navy - Type 42 Destroyers
HMS EXETER has recently returned to the fleet after a fifteen-month refit which overhauled every department with particular focus on the command and weapons systems.
She is one of the extended Batch 3 destroyers which increased stability and storage.
One unique characteristic of HMS EDINBURGH which allows almost immediate recognition is that she has a "fence" around her bow.
www.gillespie.ndo.co.uk /Navy/Type42.htm   (642 words)

  
 Bits and pieces Volume V
HMS Britannia, HMS Hero (on the right of the sailors head) and the sailor himself were formed into the current Player's Trade Mark in 1891 {see the picture in the main logo above}..
The battleship HMS Hero was launched 27th October 1885, she differed from HMS Conqueror only in that all four of her 6 inch guns were mounted on the superstructure.
HMS Invincible, one of the fast, much-vaunted battlecruisers of the post-Dreadnought era, was sunk at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, with heavy loss of life - a fact that Imperial Tobacco chose not to point out to customers used to equating tobacco and the glamour of the Navy.
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 Downside Legacy Research Project: TWA800 Hypothesis and Debate (4th Thread) [Free Republic]
The Royal Navy was embarrassed with the loss of the HMS Sheffield to an Exocet during the Falkland Island conflict.
HMS Sheffield, the lead and name ship of the class was the first to succumb to the daring attacks by the Argentinian Air Force, on the Fourth of May 1982.
Except for HMS Iron Duke, all of this class are named after Dukedoms, and although these names have come under some criticism for being 'soft' and uninspiring, they are actually far from soft in terms of historical events and figures of importance.
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 HMS Newport - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Newport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HMS Newport - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Newport.
Here you will find more informations about HMS Newport.
* HMS Newport, a Town class destroyer received from the US Navy in 1940 and scrapped in 1947.
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 HMS Northumberland - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Northumberland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HMS Northumberland - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Northumberland.
Here you will find more informations about HMS Northumberland.
The orginal HMS Northumberland article can be editet
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 Type 42 destroyer - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although claimed to be obsolete, it is still effective against most modern missile threats, as proven by the 1991 Gulf War.
HMS Cardiff in the foreground, accompanied by two other Type 42's.
The Type 42 is also equipped with a 4.5 inch (114mm) main gun, six torpedo launchers, and two Vulcan Phalanx Mk.15 Close-In Weapons Systems (CIWS) were fitted after the loss of the Sheffield to an Exocet missile.
www.unipedia.info /Type_42.html   (517 words)

  
 Type 42 Destroyers, Birmingham And Exeter Class
HMS Shefield was destroyed by an air launched MM38 Exocet and HMS Coventry was lost due to a bombing raid.
HMS Birmingham has been decommissioned already due to her bad state.
These destroyers are still a match for their contemporaries in service with other navies.
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USCGC Munro (WHEC 724), HMS Invincible (R05) and HMS Nottingham (D91)
A Visit, Board, Search and Seizure (VBSS) team from Munro boarded Sirichai Nava, while a boarding team from Nottingham boarded a second fishing vessel, Ekhwat Patana, which was with the Thai vessel.
Invincible and Nottingham are deployed to the Middle East as part of the Royal Navy Maritime Strike Force 05.
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 Ship-Pics: Halifax - Visiting Warships
HMS NOTTINGHAM D91 - is a Batch II, Type 42 British Destroyer, launched by Vosper Thorneycroft, Woolston, in February, 1978 and commissioned in April, 1983.
The NOTTINGHAM was the only Royal Navy escort attached to the carrier group.
Batch II, Type 42 air defence destroyers have a standard displacement of 4,500 tons, a length of 410 ft, a beam of 47 ft and a complement of 271 officers and men.
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 Type 42 Destroyers
Type 42 HMS Southampton (D90), Type 22 Beaver (F93), Type 42 Manchester (D95) and Type 21 Amazon (F169) formate during a World cruise on which they visited 17 countries in 9 months.
HMS Nottingham passing Rhu Narrows, 16th September 2005.
HMS Nottingham being loaded on to the heavy lift ship in July 2002 at Sydney.
www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /type_42_destroyers.htm   (1473 words)

  
 Armed Forces - Royal Navy - n3a5 - Royal Naval Vessels - Type 42 Destroyer - Type 45 Destroyer
They also carry the high-speed multi-purpose Lynx helicopter armed with anti-submarine weapons and the Sea Skua anti-ship missile which is controlled by the Sea Spray search radar.
*HMS Nottingham was very severely damaged by grounding on a charted reef off Lord Howe Island in 2002 and will be non-operational for some years.
She might have been scrapped but the fact that she had just completed a costly update and that the Type 45's are delayed probably tipped the balance in favour of repair.
www.armedforces.co.uk /navy/listings/l0014.html   (515 words)

  
 Royal Navy: HMS Nottingham
Please take the time to explore our site and learn more about HMS Nottingham.
She is currently undergoing a Repair Period in Portsmouth Naval Base which is bringing her material state and systems up to date.
HMS Nottingham's close relationship with Nottingham city is typified by affiliations with the Lambley Ward at the City Hospital, The Shepherd and Woodlands Special Needs Schools, Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce and RNR Sherwood, to name but a few.
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 Networking and Network Security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HMS Nottingham (D91), is a batch two Type 42 Destroyer of the Royal Navy, named after the city of Nottingham,
Sydney, Australia, towed stern-first because of the damage to her bow.
MV Swan and welded to her deck for transport.
www.subnetworking.com /wiki/HMS_Nottingham_(D91)   (449 words)

  
 HMS Nottingham (D91)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) turbines, 2 shafts
Launched: 18th February 1980 by Lady Leach (wife of the then First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Henry Leach)
In 2001 Nottingham she took part in a NATO exercise near Scotland and in RN exercises near Oman in the Middle East.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hms_nottingham__d91_   (536 words)

  
 Current Royal Navy ships - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This is a list of the current Royal Navy ships, complete and correct as of 2005.
HMS Example (P165) on the River Tyne at HMS Calliope, Gateshead
HMS Archer (P264) and HMS Example (P165) on the River Tyne at HMS Calliope, Gateshead
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In January of 2005, the guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) rescued a sailor suffering from a life-threatening illness on a Japanese-owned tanker in the Gulf of Oman.
And just last month, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Munro (WHEC 724), working with the British ships HMS Invincible (R05) and HMS Nottingham (D91), intercepted a hijacked Thai fishing vessel in the Gulf of Aden.
Since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom, CTF 150 has boarded nearly 1,500 ships within its area of responsibility.
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 World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Hm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Hm Events Encyclopedia Localities Companies Surnames Shop
INDEX OF ARTICLES: Hm Articles are indexed by the first word of the title, including "A," "The," etc.
HM Armed Forces in the Twenty First Century
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GULF OF ADEN: The Thai-flag fishing vessel (SIRICHAI NAVA 12) was seized 16 Mar at 0400 UTC underway in position 12:45.35N, 051:33.18E by 3 Somali crew who were working aboard as crew.
The 3 held another 26 crew hostage, demanding a ransom of $800,000, until intercepted by the (USCGC MUNRO- WHEC 724), (HMS INVINCIBLE-R05) and (HMS NOTTINGHAM-D91) at about 1200 local time 17 Mar. One crew member suffered minor injuries and the Somali's were detained without incident (INFO, IMB).
GULF OF ADEN: An unidentified general cargo ship reports being chased 15 Mar at 1330 UTC while underway in position 11:59.1N, 051:16.6E off Somalia, by three persons armed with guns in a white-hulled speedboat.
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 Shipping, shipbuilding, offshore news
What's your opinion of the proposal to award the DD(X) destoyer program to just one yard?
The U.S. Navy's Navy News Service reports that U.S. Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Munro (WHEC 724), working with British ships HMS Invincible (R05) and HMS Nottingham (D91) in the Gulf of Aden, intercepted a hijacked Thai fishing vessel at around noon March 17.
Munro is currently on deployment in the region and is assigned to CTF 150, which is the coalition maritime task force conducting Maritime Security Operations (MSO) in the vicinity of the Horn of Africa, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, North Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman.
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 Port Security, Maritime Security, and Homeland Security Blog: March 2005
Permalink posted by Port Security Blogger : 12:19 PM
USCGC MUNRO, At Sea (March 17, 2005) � U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) Munro (WHEC 724), working with British ships HMS Invincible (R05) and HMS Nottingham (D91) in the Gulf of Aden, intercepted a hijacked Thai fishing vessel, at around noon March 17.
Commander, Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, under the direction of COMUSNAVCENT, tasked British Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Invincible, destroyer HMS Nottingham and USCGC Munro to investigate the situation.
www.whisprwave.com /archive/2005_03_01_archive.html   (6320 words)

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