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	Powerful Class
		HMS Powerful was built to compete against the New Russian Cruisers Rurik and Rossiya, these two Russian ships were the largest and longest warships built at the time.
		HMS powerful and her sister ship HMS Terrible were very expensive to build costing twice the cost of the Edger class built two to three years earlier.
		When clear of the ways, the Powerful was taken charge of by the tugs in attendance, and guided round by tow ropes from the tugs to the selected place where she was to be berthed for the fitting on board of her engines and boilers, and her general completion for sea.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /powerful_class.htm (1404 words)

	HMS Powerful
		HMS Powerful with her sister ship HMS Terrible made up the Powerful Class of large cruisers.
		HMS Powerful was launched 24th July 1895 and proved to be an expensive ship and spent most of its time in the Royal Navy Reserve.
		She was renamed HMS Impregnable in November 1919 and sold for breaking on 31st August 1929.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_powerful.htm (457 words)

	Australian Battle Group - A "Big-Gun" Radio Controlled Model Warship Combat Club in Australia
		Completed in 1898 HMS terrible was the world's longest warship at the time of her completion, and massing 14,200 tons, the largest cruiser in the world as well.
		Along with her sister, HMS Powerful, she was mainly used as a flagship or kept in reserve until the 1st World War when she was converted to a troop transport.
		Our HMS Terrible represents the vessel as a troop transport (she is not armed) and was built by Steven Cowan on a 'bread and butter' MDF hull.
	www.ausbg.org /ships/hms_terrible.html (267 words)

	www.walney-island.com
		Powerful Street formed part of the Vickerstown Estate constructed between 1900 and 1904 for the 'Isle of Walney Estates Company' and takes its name from the Barrow built ship HMS Powerful.
		HMS Powerful was successor to a name that had been adopted by the British navy for its warships since 1783 she was the first of her class, built at a cost of £741,870.
		HMS Powerful was designed to carry a compliment of 849 men following her commissioning during 1898, but she proved to be to expensive to run in continual service and therefore spent most of her time in the Royal Navy Reserve.
	www.walney-island.com /powerful_street_01.htm (267 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Thousands cheer on warship launch
		HMS Daring was sent down the slipway into the River Clyde in Glasgow by the Countess of Wessex.
		HMS Daring will now move a few hundred yards down river to a dry dock where the remainder of the work will be carried out.
		The six vessels - HMS Dauntless, Daring, Diamond, Defender, Dragon and Duncan - are all due to be launched from the Clyde.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/4667132.stm (713 words)

	HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As HMS Powerful she was laid down at Harland and Wolff in Belfast on 21 November 1943, and launched 27 February 1945.
		She was acquired in the early 1950s by the Royal Canadian Navy, which was looking to replace its aging WW2-vintage light carriers Magnificent and Warrior which were deemed too small and slow for the jet age.
		Several surplus US and UK ships were considered, and the then-mothballed HMS Powerful, a Majestic-class light fleet carrier, was purchased in 1952 from the Royal Navy on the condition that it be refitted with an angled flight deck and steam catapult.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMCS_Bonaventure_(CVL_22) (614 words)

	Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth City Centre (HMS Powerful) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		By the time HMS Powerful returned to Portsmouth on 11th April 1900, after the action at Ladysmith, her exploits were common knowledge in England.
		When the Boer War broke out, Alfred Arthur was serving on HMS Powerful, with her sister ship HMS Terrible they made up the Powerful class of large cruisers and were at anchor off Capetown.
		During the 1901 Census he was recorded to be a member of the crew of HMS Excellent, a Naval Training establishment based on Whale Island in Portsmouth Harbour.
	www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk /city-centre/powerful.htm (1909 words)

	Ghost HMS Victory
		Called a "Ship of the Line", at the time of her construction, the Victory was one of the most powerful warships in the world and bristled with cannons.
		The HMS Victory was the Flagship of Horatio Nelson during the battle of Trafalgar.
		Somehow, maybe it was simply time, but they found the pristine hull of the HMS Victory floating just off the dockyard where she had been just before the coming of the rifts.
	www.kitsune.addr.com /Rifts/Rifts-Earth-Vehicles/Ghost_HMS_Victory.htm (3035 words)

	Welcome to HealthCare Management Systems
		HMS was founded in 1976 to provide billing solutions to university physicians.
		HMS dedicates products and services to the needs of hospital-based specialties, recognizing the unique challenges of each branch of medicine.
		HMS consists of two divisions to serve the needs of hospital-based physicians.
	www.hms-systems.com /about.asp (330 words)

	HMS Ganges Royal Navy Association - RNTE Shotley
		Admiralty order for old HMS Ganges to be renamed HMS Tenedos III and to become part of the Boy Artificers Establishment at Chatham.
		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 (2493 words)

	List of aircraft carriers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acquired as HMS Colossus in 1946 from the United Kingdom, BU Attacker (UK): 14,400 ton Bogue class escort carrier, former USS Barnes, commissioned 30 September 1942 through 5 January 1946 when returned.
		Acquired from the United Kingdom as the incomplete HMS Powerful after 1950, commissioned 15 January 1957, decommissioned 3 July 1970, and broken up in 1971.
		Powerful (UK): 16,000 ton aircraft carrier, not completed during World War II and sold to Canada in the 1950s as the HMCS Bonaventure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers (2618 words)

	Royal Navy Community Web site - Organisations and Units - Maritime Warfare School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The intention was for the trophy to be shot for annually by sailors and marines in the port of Portsmouth.
		HMS Collingwood's famously large parade ground - reputed to have once held as many as 8,000 ratings is the perfect setting for the event.
		HMS Collingwood itself has had a good record in the competition, having won the Brickwood Trophy 15 times between 1957 and 2001.
	www.rncom.mod.uk /organisations/MWS/mws_comp_history.cfm (925 words)

	Trafalgar 200 - Ship Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Powerful and versatile with the capability to operate anywhere in the world, the type 23 frigate is the mainstay of the modern surface fleet.
		HMS Lancaster was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders on the Clyde and was launched, by Her Majesty the Queen, on 24 May 1990.
		HMS Lancaster is the fourth ship in the 'Duke' Class of frigates.
	www.trafalgar200.com /tallships_details/lancaster.html (543 words)

	Historical Articles
		HM Ships Hazard and North Star landed about four hundred infantry and seamen and, with a further four hundred native allies, set out to attack Heke.
		Plymouth Bugler W J O'Brian of HMS Doris was wounded during the assault but recovered in time to take part in the battle of Paardeberg where he had the misfortune to be wounded again.
		Three Portsmouth Division Buglers, A Duffield of HMS Monarch, and WJ Lader and L G Ranner of HMS Powerful were, with O'Brian, amongst the men referred to as 'The Bravest of the Brave'.
	www.royalmarinesbands.co.uk /history/Buglers_medals.htm (2355 words)

	3Com Solution Case Studies: HMS Capital (USA)
		A fast-growing California mortgage lender, HMS Capital has increased its employees from 35 to 200 since the year 2000 to keep pace with rising consumer demand for home refinancing.
		Today, new HMS employees are up and running on the system in minutes instead of weeks.
		HMS is even integrating a Valcom IP paging system with the NBX solution, ensuring that customers quickly reach employees away from the office.
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	Daftar kapal induk - Wikipedia
		HMS Venerable sold to the Netherlands in 1948 and renamed Karel Doorman
		HMS Warrior loaned to Canada as HMCS Warrior, sold to Argentina in 1958 and renamed Independencia
		HMS Powerful sold to Canada in 1952 and renamed HMCS Bonaventure
	ms.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daftar_kapal_induk (760 words)

	Extracts from the Illustrated London News - Boer War - 1900 - HMS POWERFUL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		HMS POWERFUL returned to Portsmouth with the naval defenders of Ladysmith
		The return of the POWERFUL to home waters was made the occasion of demonstrations that were not confined to Portsmouth.
		National feeling had its expression at the port in the cheers and other displays of feeling that marked the home-coming of the heroes of Ladysmith; but local feeling had still to have its vent in the various places where the ship's officers have their home.
	www.pbenyon.plus.com /ILN_1899-1900/Powerful.html (104 words)

	HMS Belfast, London - Reviews of HMS Belfast - IgoUgo
		HMS Belfast is one of Europe's largest preserved warships—she was launched in 1938 to serve in both World War Two and the Korean War.
		In her day she was one of the most powerful vessels of her type with the most complex machinery and equipment.
		The HMS Belfast is a few minutes walk from the London Dungeon and is about a 5 minute walk from the Tower Bridge, on the opposite side of the Thames from the Tower of London.
	www.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryActivity.asp?type=2&entryID=13459 (439 words)

	Ship Modelers Association - Famous Ships
		HMS INFLEXIBLE had 8400 horse-power using her twin screws and was capable of 14.75 knots.
		The HMS INFLEXIBLE was stationed in the Corvette Pass, 3750 yards from the Egyptian fort Mex, and the concussion of her guns smashed her boats and damaged her superstructure during the ensuing fight.
		The HMS INFLEXIBLE was the ship most injured in the bombardment, being mauled aloft, having her unarmored parts penetrated in various places and being struck outside the citadel of armor below the waterline by a 10” Palliser shot.
	www.ship-modelers-assn.org /fam0311.htm (815 words)

	White House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is, however, unfounded as the building had been painted white since its construction in 1798.
		Most of the booty was lost when a convoy of British ships led by HMS Fantome sank en route to Halifax off Prospect during a storm on the night of 24 November 1814.
		The White House remained open in other ways as well; President Abraham Lincoln complained that he was constantly beleaguered by job seekers waiting to ask him for political appointments or other favors, or eccentric dispensers of advice like “General” Daniel Pratt, as he began the business day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_House (2238 words)

	Charles Darwin - Free Online Library
		Thus some writers thought it implied conscious choice in the animals themselves, others that it was the personification of some active power.
		In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.
		The voyage of Darwin on the HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836.
	darwin.thefreelibrary.com (1220 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : List of aircraft carriers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		NAeL Minas Gerais (ex-British HMS Vengeance, purchased 13 December 1956) - Decommissioned 2001
		The carrier is being constructed by a state-run shipyard in southern India and is expected to enter service in 2011.
		Karel Doorman (ex-British HMS Venerable, purchased 1948) - Sold to Argentina 1968 and renamed Veinticinco de Mayo, BU Hr.Ms.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /List_of_aircraft_carriers (955 words)

	FOCUS - May 3, 2002
		He told the HMS donors gathered to meet students who benefit from their financial support that the campaign goal is to raise $35 million over the next three years.
		Martin said that 70 percent of HMS students receive financial assistance and their average educational debt on graduation is more than $80,000, with many owing more than $100,000.
		This year's recipients are Antonio Chiocca, HMS associate professor of surgery, and Richard Wade-Martin, HMS instructor in surgery, both at Massachusetts General Hospital, for "Validation of the iBAC system to study the neurological significance of alternative splicing"; Hidde Ploegh, the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr.
	focus.hms.harvard.edu /2002/May3_2002/bulletin.html (2021 words)

	Sinking of HMS Barham
		The HMS Royal Oak, a Royal Sovereign class dreadnought, the HMS Prince of Wales, a King George V class and the HMS Barham, a Queen Elizabeth class, which was a modernized warship from World War One.
		The third battleship sunk was the HMS Prince of Wales, the most powerful and modern warship in the Royal Navy when she was torpedoed and bombed by Japanese aircraft.
		The HMS Barham was one of five fast battleships of the Queen Elizabeth class.
	www.uboataces.com /battle-barham.shtml (1456 words)

	HMS Good Hope
		HMS Good Hope along with HMS Drake, HMS King Alfred and HMS Leviathan made up the Drake Class of armoured cruisers.
		HMS Good Hope became the flagship to the 1st cruiser squadron, Atlantic Fleet 1906 and in 1908 became the flagship to the 2nd cruiser squadron.
		She went into the reserve fleet in 1913 but on the outbreak of world war one joined the 6th cruiser squadron, she became the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock but was sunk during the Battle of Coronel 1st November 1914 by the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_good_hope.htm (558 words)

	Extracts from Late 19th and Early 20th Century Newspapers - Naval Matters
		HMS AMPHRITRITE, 25, Captain Frederick, now fitting at Portsmouth, is ordered to be hastened, and to proceed as soon as possible to Valparaiso, but to touch at Rio and the Falkland Islands on her way out.
		HMS CUMBERLAND, 70, Captain G.H. Seymour, fitting at Chatham for the West Indies as the Flag-ship of Vice Admiral Sir G. Seymour, is to be out of the hands of the dockyard people by the 13th of next month.
		HMS JANUS steam-sloop, and the Royal Yacht Squadron schooner, CAMILLA, belonging to Mr Archdeekne were lying at Gibraltar.
	www.pbenyon.plus.com /RN/Naval_Matters.html (658 words)

	Channel 4 - Hood v Bismarck - History - The Ships
		She was improved in a number of ways but still lacked armour protection.
		Launched on 22 August 1918, HMS Hood was the 13th and final British battlecruiser.
		Big, fast and powerful, for the population at home, she was a symbol of Britain's supremacy in the world.
	www.pbs.org /hood/history/ships.html (298 words)

	HMS VENGEANCE aircraft carrier profile. Aircraft Carrier Database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945
		HMS Vengeance served with the British Pacific Fleet in 1946 and undertook an experimental Arctic cruise in 1948-49.
		In 1997 she was involved in maneouvres as an attack carrier with Argentina Naval Aviation Super Etendards attack planes, ANA Sea Kings and ANA pilots as part of the widening collaboration between Argentina and Brazil.
		She was then transferred to the Royal Australian Navy and served on the Carrier ‘Sydney’ before conversion for target towing duties in 1957 (see RNHF website).
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/VENGEANCE.html (698 words)

	A Boy Seaman - The Story Of John Hornby 1901-1974, Royal Navy 1915-1945
		This time I was in H.M.S. "Valhalla" (a destroyer) and the same treeless, forbidding, dirty grey and brown outlook of sea and land was familiar, as we worked up on exercise and drills, prior to being sent for duty in the Home Fleet.
		But in the early summer of 1939 I commissioned in H.M.S. "Repulse" as Chief Boatswain's Mate, after refit and alterations to go back to Scapa for a "working up" period and painting, before going to Canada with His Majesty King George VI and the Queen.
		HMS Temeraire was a Bellerophon Class battleship built at Devonport Dockyard and launched in August 1907.
	www.heskethbank.com /genealogy/johnhornby/chapter02.html (4309 words)

	Press Release, Corporate Info - - HMS Software
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		Cobra also features powerful and flexible reporting, and helps users build custom reports using step-by-step wizards.
		A Chart Template Designer provides a virtually unlimited number of graphical 2- and 3-dimensional charts in which every aspect of the output (such as color and rotation of a 3-D graph) can be defined.
	www.hmssoftware.ca /news/pressrelease/archive/press_04.php (494 words)

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