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	HMS Victory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Victory is a 104-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built between 1759 and 1765.
		The School remained on Victory until 1904, when training was transferred temporarily to HMS Hercules, and in 1906 the whole School was moved to a permanent establishment at the Royal Naval Barracks.
		HMS Victory is still in commission as the flagship of the admiral for the time being acting as Second Sea Lord in his role as Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy's Home Command (CINCNAVHOME).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Victory (2436 words)

	HMS Argonaut Association - Dido Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		HMS Argonaut and her company were adopted by the City of Coventry after HMS Coventry the Ceres Class Light Cruiser had been sunk in September 1942 off the cost of Egypt by German JU-87 dive-bombers.
		On December 14th 1942 HMS Argonaut was hit by two torpedoes from the Italian Submarine Mocenigo and was badly damaged with both her bow and stern blown off.
		HMS Hero developed problems with her engines and was detached by the Admiralty on April 9th and the Argonaut was left on her own to cross the Atlantic.
	www.hmsargonaut.co.uk /dido.php (1256 words)

	Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He also was the main force behind the development of the HMS Dreadnought, the first all big gun ship and possibly one of the most influential ships in naval history.
		HMS Conqueror is the only nuclear-powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes, sinking the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
		HMS Invincible the former flagship of the Royal Navy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_navy (5628 words)

	HMS VICTORY
		HMS VICTORY is the only surviving warship that fought in the American War of Independance, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic wars.
		In the latter she served as Lord Nelson's flagship at the decisive Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
		In 1903 she was accidentally rammed by HMS NEPTUNE under tow to the breakers.
	www.hms-victory.com /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=38 (1874 words)

	Royal Navy: HMS Chatham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		HMS Chatham is the fourth and last of the Batch 3 Frigates and she is the seventh ship to bear the name.
		HMS Chatham’s design was modified after experience with earlier versions of the ship in the Falklands Conflict.
		The ship’s company is very proud of her battle honours from Quiberon Bay in 1759 and the Dardanelles from 1915 to 1916.
	www.royal-marines.mod.uk /static/pages/1571.html (203 words)

	HMAS QUIBERON - HMA Ship Histories (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
		HMAS QUIBERON was one of eight Q Class destroyers built for the Royal Navy, although QUIBERON was commissioned in the Royal Australian Navy at Cowes, Isle of Wight, on 6 July 1942.
		QUIBERON operated in North African waters on convoy and fleet escort duties for the remainder of December 1942 and throughout January 1943.
		QUIBERON rejoined the Eastern Fleet at Trincomalee, Ceylon, on 1 August 1944 and resumed escort duty in the Indian Ocean.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/ships/quiberon.html (1052 words)

	600-Serie Adua class submarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dessiè – sunk on 28 November 1942 by destroyers HMS Quiberon and Quentin, next Bona (Algery).
		Lafolè – sunk on 20 October 1940, north of Melilla by destroyers HMS Gallant, Hotspur and Griffin
		Uarsciek – sunk on 14 December 1942, south of Malta, by HMS Petard and HHMS Queen Olga
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/600-Serie_Adua_class_submarine (299 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-HMAS Quiberon night action in the Mediterranean 1st. and 2nd. of December 1942.-
		After disengaging from this action, the Allied force was attacked from the air, and HMS Quentin was hit by a torpedo and sunk, most of her crew were rescued.
		HMS Sirius finished off yet another destroyer with one salvo which set her afire from end to end.
		There were seven determined attacks on HMAS Quiberon after she left HMS Quentin and I was pleased to see that our fire was very accurate and time and again the Dive Bombers were turned away at the last minute, and either jettisoned their bombs or made no other attempt.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/HMASQuiberonnightactionin.html (1172 words)

	HMAS Quiberon F03, tour 1962 - 1963
		Originally laid down as destroyer HMS Quiberon, on 4th October 1940 and launched 31st January 1942.
		The vessel was commissioned as HMAS Quiberon on 6th July 1942, armed with four 4.7" guns, eight 21" torpedo tubes and light Anti-aircraft armament.
		HMAS Quiberon saw much action in WW II and was successful in a number of sea battles.
	www.gippslandlakes.com /quiberon/1962/index.htm (110 words)

	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum
		On their return to England, Duncan left HMS Monarch and was not in active command again until 1782, when Keppel became First Lord of the Admiralty.
		Duncan was appointed to HMS Blenheim and attached to Lord Howe’s fleet in the Mediterranean, where they were involved in the relief of Gibraltar and an encounter with a combined allied fleet off Cape Spartel.
		He succeeded Sir John Jervis in command of HMS Foudroyant in 1782, and after the peace, was in command of HMS Edgar, a guard ship at Portsmouth for three years.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_adam_duncan.htm (1359 words)

	Battle of Quiberon Bay - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The naval Battle of Quiberon Bay took place on 20 November 1759 during the Seven Years' War in Quiberon Bay, off the coast of France near St.
		The British admiral Edward Hawke with 23 ships of the line caught up with a French fleet with 21 ships of the line under Marshal de Conflans, and after hard fighting, sank, captured, or forced aground most of them, thus giving the Royal Navy one of its greatest victories.
		Hawke decided to follow them in, essentially relying on the lead of the French ships and their local pilots; a daring move made even more dangerous by a rising westerly storm.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Battle_of_Quiberon_Bay (484 words)

	The Ships of Jack Aubrey
		Although the activities of the Sophie and her dimensions and armament were modeled closely on those of real-life HMS Speedy, commanded by Thomas, Lord Cochrane, the quarterdeck - unusual for a small sloop - was taken from HMS Vincejo, captured from the Spanish navy in 1799.
		Through the intervention of Stephen Maturin at the Admiralty in H.M.S. Surprise, Jack Aubrey is given the small frigate HMS Surprise of 28 guns, aboard which he had served years before as a midshipman.
		HMS Surprise is another genuine Royal Navy ship, although with a rather different history than that portrayed in O'Brian's novels.
	hometown.aol.com /batrnq (2330 words)

	The Offshore Radio Fleet
		Ship details: HMS Chatham is the fourth and last of the Batch 3 Frigates and she is the seventh ship to bear the name.
		On the 24th and 25th December 1805 she carried Vice Admiral Lord Nelson from HMS Victory, at the Nore, to Greenwich Hospital where he was to lie in state.
		HMS Chatham (pennant number F87) is a type 22 batch 3 frigate.
	www.offshore-radio.de /fleet/chatham.htm (807 words)

	Wikinfo \| Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Also during that war, HM submarines Splendid and Turbulent launched a number of Tomahawk cruise missiles on a variety of targets in Iraq.
		In UK waters, the RN's presence isn't as considerable, but the protection of fishery areas and offshore gas and oil installations is provided by the Fishery Protection Squadron which is comprised of the new River-class patrol vessels.
		HMS Conqueror- the nuclear attack submarine which was responsible for the infamous sinking of the General Belgrano during the Falklands War.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Royal_Navy (1839 words)

	WW2Ships.com: J Class Destroyers - Feature Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Due to shortages, HMS Ulysses was fitted with a four barrelled pom-pom and HMS Urchin had two additional twin 20 mm anti aircraft guns, both fitted in place of the twin 40 mm anti aircraft gun.
		The one known surviving variant, HMS Cavalier, was significantly modified during her service post-war, including the replacement of one gun with the Seacat missile system, although she is still very similar to the vessel that was built during the second world war.
		HMS Cavalier is the only world war two vintage destroyer in the UK, and can be found at the Chatham historic dockyard.
	www.ww2ships.com /britain/gb-dd-001-f.shtml (4327 words)

	Trafalgar 200 - Ship Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On qualifying as a Fighter Controller, he joined HMS Edinburgh and completed a deployment in the Middle East during the Iran/Iraq War, and a deployment to the Far East in the following year.
		Following a brief period within the Directorate of Naval Operations, he assumed command of HMS Nottingham in 1996, and deployed to the Middle East and Far East, as part of routine operations, as well as Operation Bolton.
		He was appointed to Command of HMS Chatham in December 2003.
	www.trafalgar200.com /tallships_details/chatham.html (508 words)

	Royal Navy Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Napoleonic campaigns of the navy have been the subject of many novels including Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey, C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower, Alexander Kent's Richard Bolitho.
		HMS (acronym) = Her (or His) Majesty's Ship
		HMS Beagle - carried Charles Darwin on his voyage.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/r/ro/royal_navy.html (626 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot
		In July and September 1942 QUIBERON and QUICKMATCH were respectively commissioned into the R.A.N. and the remainder, QUALITY, QUADRANT and QUEENBOROUGH were operated by the R.N. initially before being handed over to the R.A.N. after the end of the war in late 1945.
		She commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS QUEENBOROUGH and served with distinction in the Arctic, the Mediterranean and the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
		The conversion was completed at the end of 1954 and she recommissioned on 7 December 1954 as a unit of the 1st Frigate Squadron.
	www.gunplot.net /shipgallery/qships/albumqships.html (1893 words)

	THE VICTORY HMS 18TH CENTURY 104 GUN SAILING BATTLESHIP \| ADMIRAL HORATIO NELSON AND THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR \| ONLINE ...
		The outline plans arrived in June 1760 and were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich in 1756.
		In that year land victories had been won at Quebec, Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay.
		Over the last few years the ship has undergone very extensive restoration to bring her appearance to as close as possible to that which she had at Trafalgar for the bicentenary of the battle in October 2005.
	www.solarnavigator.net /history/hms_victory_plymouth_docks_england.htm (2116 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Isle Of Wight Shipwrecks: 'Royal George'
		The French army in Quiberon Bay awaited the arrival of Conflans to transport it to Britain.
		Conflans sailed straight for Quiberon to pick up the invasion army, and by 20 November was near his destination.
		The result of the Battle of Quiberon Bay was that the British fleet of 23 ships had defeated the French fleet of 21 ships in French waters, causing the loss of seven French ships and over 2,500 men.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A894215 (3117 words)

	Real Story Part 2
		He served under the United States Flag until she was commissioned later that month as the HMS Walney.
		The Ohio was lashed to the Destroyers HMS Penn and HMS Ledbury, they crawled into Bighi Bay Malta.
		She was sunk on the 2nd Dec.42,north of Cape Bone Tunisia, by a torpedo from a SM79 bomber which struck the engine room.
	members.fortunecity.com /rwbrown1942/Busterssite/id12.html (1084 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Isle Of Wight Shipwrecks: 'Royal George' - A894215
		Isle Of Wight Shipwrecks: 'HMS Gladiator', and the Submarine 'A1'
		Isle Of Wight Shipwrecks: HMS Pomone and Carn Brae Castle
		Isle Of Wight Shipwrecks: HMS Gladiator and the Submarine A1
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A894215 (3236 words)

	HMS Bermuda - 1942 -1944
		In her e-mail she explained "I am pleased to say that a good deal of, if not all, the original HMS Bermuda silver is on loan to Bermuda Maritime Museum from the Royal Navy Trophy Center, some of which was passed on to us several years ago through Government House.
		It is now on proud public display in the HMS Malabar Room (a tribute to over 200 years of the RN at Bermuda) inside the restored Commissioner’s House (formerly HMS Malabar).
		H.M.S. BERMUDA was now ready for her Ship's Company to turn her into a fighting unit and to sever the umbilical cord with the Clydebank yard.
	www.zyworld.com /HMSECHO/Drews/Drew.htm (6370 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Navy Task Group joins vast NATO flotilla
		HMS ILLUSTRIOUS is leading a Royal Navy flotilla of 13 vessels during a huge NATO exercise off the coast of Portugal.
		Illustrious will be joined by the destroyers HMS Glasgow, Liverpool, and Gloucester, frigates HMS Campbeltown, Northumberland and Westminster, minesweepers HMS Chiddingfold, Quorn and Penzance, the Swiftsure-class submarine HMS Sovereign and RFAs Fort George and Sir Galahad.
		They will be operating off France and Portugal in the Bay of Biscay, Quiberon Bay, the Iberian Peninsula and the Madeira Archipelago as they play out a scenario designed to test their ability to operate in a multi-national force.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2000/0004/0000042801.asp (319 words)

	Battle of Quiberon : Battles : History : Royal Navy
		One of the finest victories in the annals of the Royal Navy was won in Quiberon Bay on France's Biscay coast near St Nazaire on a stormy November day in 1759, the 'wonderful year' of victories, immortalised in the song 'Hearts of Oak' composed to commemorate the battle.
		This was reported to Hawke who sailed in pursuit through the continuing bad weather catching the enemy at Quiberon Bay where the French planned to embark their army.
		Two British ships ran aground and were wrecked, but it was a small price to pay for the destruction of the Brest fleet and the end to the threat of a French invasion.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server/show/nav.3933 (541 words)

	HMS Vengeance through the ages
		She was 117 feet in length, with a beam of 321.5 feet, a displacement of 533bm.
		In 1760 she fought against the French in the St. Lawrence, leading up to the capture of Quebec, although she was not present at the final assault.
		Under the Command of Captain Lord Edward Russell, she assisted in the opening bombardment of the Forts at Sebastopol on 17th October 1854 in company with HMS.
	www.hms-vengeance.co.uk /hms.htm (859 words)

	Docklands News - The Newspaper for the whole London Dockland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One man’s dedication to local history was recognised at an event to mark the contribution of local people to the war effort, on the 60th anniversary of VJ Day held in Newham last Monday.
		The research revealed the destoyer, though commissioned by the Royal Navy, was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy and served with distinction during the war, especially in the closing phases of the war at sea with Japan.
		Mr Breed’s research, The Quest for the Quiberon: The Story of an Adopted Warship, has been put in a bound volume and will be available to all at Stratford Library.
	www.dockmedia.co.uk /editarticle.php?articleID=245 (458 words)

	List of Royal Navy ship names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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)
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_royal_navy_ship_names.html (116 words)

	Naval History.ca - History of the Royal Canadian Navy - Canadian Merchant Ship Losses, 1939-1945
		HMS Quiberon and Quickmatch rescued 45 crew and 6 DEMS gunners.
		HMS Anticosti rescued 25 survivors of the 26 crew.
		The survivors were rescued by HMCS Ottawa, HMS Bluebell, and Keppel.
	www.familyheritage.ca /Articles/merchant1.html (3313 words)

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