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	HMS Rodney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second Rodney was a 16-gun vessel, possibly a brig-sloop, in service in 1781 and captured by the French 23 January 1782 at Demerara.
		The third Rodney was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1809, razeed and renamed Greenwich in 1827, and sold 1836.
		Rodney was to have been a 33,600 ton Hood-class battlecruiser of 810ft length, 105ft beam, armed with 8-15in and 16-5.5in guns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Rodney (232 words)

	Encyclopedia: German battleship Bismarck
		HMS Suffolk was a cruiser of the British Navy which took part in the action which led to the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in 1941.
		HMS Cossack (L-03/F-03/G-03) was a Tribal-class destroyer which became famous for the boarding of the German supply ship Altmark in Norwegian waters, and the associated rescue of sailors originally captured by the Admiral Graf Spee.
		HMS Prince Of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy, built at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/German-battleship-Bismarck (5321 words)

	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum
		In September 1743 Rodney was appointed to HMS Sheerness, and in October 1744 transferred to HMS Ludlow Castle, serving in the North Sea.
		Rodney, with HMS Achilles as his flagship, was immediately appointed to command a squadron, which on the 6th July bombarded Le Havre, destroying the stores and flat bottomed boats prepared for the contemplated invasion of England.
		Rodney’s return was welcomed since the Admiralty was finding it difficult to maintain public confidence in a navy with few naval commanders of any significant talent.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_george_rodney.htm (1082 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Light cruiser HMS Euryalus of the Dido class
		March, the German submarine U-565 managed to sink the cruiser HMS Naiad which was Vians flagship, north of Sollum, all except 82 of her crew were rescued.
		During August, HMS Euryalus, HMS Dido and HMS Sirius with four destroyers, shelled the bridge in the Gulf of Eufemia Calibria, in support of the 8th Army under Lt-General Clarke in the Bay of Solerno, in overall command of the operation was Admiral Cunningham (R.N.) in Malta.
		In April 1951, she sailed for the Persian Gulf, to relieve the cruiser HMS Mauritius of the East Indies Squadron, and make her presence known to the Iranians who were threatening to take over the Anglo Iranian oil wells.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4011.html (1487 words)

	Brian Wood, HMS Rodney
		HMS Rodney sister ship to HMS Nelson in naval art print HMS Rodney by Brian Wood, published by Cranston Fine Arts, the naval art company.
		HMS Rodney served with the home Fleet 1939 - 1942 with Force H in 1943 and the Home Fleet 1943 to 1945.
		HMS Rodney took part in the sinking of the Bismarck on the 27th may 1941.
	www.military-art.com /dhm569.htm (707 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Rodney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Repaired at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1941, in May she was escorting the troopship Britannic when HMS Hood was sunk by Bismarck.
		Detached to prevent Bismarck's return to France, at 0847 on May 27, Rodney and King George V opened fire on the German battleship at 16,000 yards, quickly closing to "point blank target practice" range.
		Assigned to Admiral Sir James Somerville's Force H based at Gibraltar, Rodney helped maintain the vital lifeline to Malta; she sailed in support of the Operation Torch landings in North Africa in November 1942, and again during the invasion of Sicily in July 1943.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_077200_hmsrodney.htm (275 words)

	Battleships of the Royal Navy
		HMS Repulse departing Singapore as part of force Z with HMS Vampire off her port bow and HMS Prince of Wales in the distance.
		Launched in January 1915, the Revenge-class battleship HMS Resolution was to enjoy a 33 year career during which she served in the Atlantic, home and Eastern Fleets as well as serving repeated spells in the Mediterranean, being both bombed and torpedoed along the way.
		HMS Rodney was launched in 1925, like her sister ship the Nelson, Rodney saw action in many theatres, scoring the first hit on the Bismarck among other memorable exploits.
	www.ivanberryman.co.uk /rn_battleships.htm (2942 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HNMS Isaac Sweers of the Gerard Callenburgh class
		During the voyage, the destroyer was ordered to escort the British battleship HMS Rodney to Gibraltar, together with the Polish destroyers ORP Garland and ORP Piorun, arriving at Gibraltar on 24 September.
		At about 15.00 hours, the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Rodney, two cruisers and six destroyers (among them the HNMS Isaac Sweers) were ordered to engage Italian warships reported about 70 miles away, but the Italians avoided contact and the ships returned to the convoy shortly afterwards.
		At 06.17 hours on the next day, HMS Gurkha got a radar contact with the surfaced Italian submarine Diaspro in 37°32N/06°45E and was shortly thereafter missed by two torpedoes, which passed under the destroyer.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/2855.html (1612 words)

	HMS Hood
		HMS Hood took part in the bombardment of Mers-el-Kibir on the 3rd July 1940.
		HMS Hood received several heavy hits and blew up and sank quickly, only 3 of her crew survived...
		HMS Hood passes beneath the forth Bridge on her way to Rosyth during one of her many visits to the Firth in the 1930s.
	www.second-world-war.com /hms_hood.htm (2131 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales
		HMS Prince of Wales, was built by Cammell Laird and launched on the 3rd May 1939.
		HMS Prince of Wales is shown firing on the Bismarck and in the background a huge fl cloud is all that is left of HMS Hood.
		Wearing her unusual fl and white disruptive colour scheme, HMS Repulse is pictured as part of Force Z in company with HMS Prince of Wales and the destroyer Vampire.
	www.navalprints.com /hms_prince_of_wales.htm (1098 words)

	The Bismarck - death of a warrior
		A direct hit from the Rodney (16" guns) on the main bridge, covered by 14 inches of armour, caused the door to be blasted from its hinges and the tremendous impact and concussion killed all inside instantly.
		HMS Hood had been the flagship of the Royal Navy and her loss was felt right down to the man in the street.
		HMS Hood, never before looked for, has been found where expected, lying at the bottom of the Denmark Straits near Iceland.
	www.mikekemble.com /ww2/bismarck2.html (1710 words)

	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum
		He was then given command of the destroyer HMS Onslow on 7th May 1916, in which he made his name at the Battle of Jutland on 31st May 1916, for his great courage.
		HMS Hood was blown up and sunk by the Bismarck and HMS Prince of Wales had to withdraw under cover of smoke, after being damaged, but was able to continue to shadow the German ship.
		At 0800 the next morning, the Bismarck faced the combined fire of HMSs King George V and Rodney and sustained heavy damage within an hour, although she was able to continue to return fire.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_john_tovey.htm (962 words)

	Royal Navy WARSHIP GUIDE - HMS Rodney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		HMS Rodney was the second and last member of the Nelson class battleships to be built under the Washington Treaty.
		Rodney was fitted with an aircraft catapult but this was removed in 1942.
		Rodney and her sister were broken up in 1948.
	www.pdwilson.co.uk /warships/rodney.htm (312 words)

	HMS Lion, HMS Princess Royal
		HMS Lion and HMS Princess Royal at the Battle of Jutland by naval artist Ivan Berryman.
		HMS Lion at the Battle of Jutland by Ivan Berryman.
		HMS Lion with her sister ship HMS Princess Royal are shown firing on the German High Seas Fleet which can be seen in the distance during the Battle of Jutland.
	www.ivanberryman.com /hms_lion.htm (956 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 /~stephaniebidmead/stlawrence.htm (1832 words)

	HMS Rodney
		Battleship website dedicated to the history of HMS Rodney from its launch to its participation in major wars also notice board for families of ex-crew of HMS Rodney.
		I know he saw service on HMS Courageous, he told me he was blown out of a porthole when the ship was struck by a torpedo in the first week of the war in September 1939.
		My father served on HMS Rodney during World War Two and as far as I know, he was there at the sinking of the Bismarck.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /rodney.htm (1918 words)

	World War II
		By now Tovey had detached HMS Victorious ahead with an escort of four cruisers of 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the hope that a strike by her aircraft would slow Bismarck down sufficiently to enable him to catch up with her the next morning.
		Tovey, who had now been joined by the battleship HMS Rodney, was not only well astern, but his ships were running short of fuel, and had a long voyage home.
		Unfortunately the signal, transmitted by light, detaching HMS Sheffield had not been repeated to HMS Ark Royal, so she was unaware that the cruiser was shadowing Bismarck.
	www.graham.day.dsl.pipex.com /ww2026.htm (1273 words)

	Ship Modelers Association - Famous Ships
		This ship is not to be confused with the HMS BARFLEUR that was ordered and laid down in 28 October 1942, commissioned in 1944 and served with distinction in WWII, present at the formal surrender in Tokyo Bay of Japan in 1945.
		HMS BARFLEUR was part of Admiral Richard Howe’s fleet at the Glorious First of June, 1794, against France’s Rear Admiral Villaret-de-Joyeuse, when the British defeated the French.
		HMS BARFLEUR then flew the flag of Vice Admiral W. Waldegrave at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, fought on February 14, 1797.
	www.ship-modelers-assn.org /fam0411.htm (939 words)

	Sink The Bismark! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		HMS Rodney was en route to Halifax, escorting the troop ship Britanic.
		Rodney was the first to draw blood, lofting a 16 inch shell between Bismarck's two forward gun turrets, knocking out four of her eight 15 inch heavy guns.
		The battle raged on, and after shelling from Rodney, King George V and the Norfolk, which had joined the battle, the Bismarck's fate was sealed.
	home.mem.net /~dalrympl/Bismarck.html (588 words)

	HMS Nelson
		HMS Nelson, British battleship of the Nelson class, sister battleship HMS Rodney.
		HMS Nelson saw service in he Mediterranean up to 1943, she again saw service off Normandy where she was again mined on 18th June 1944.
		Passing Port Said, HMS Nelson is shown transversing the Suez Canal after her tour in the pacific at the end of World War Two.
	www.world-wartwo.co.uk /nelson.htm (768 words)

	Worldisround - The Sinking of HMS Barham, and more - by Mike Lynd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		HMS Barham and HMS Valiant taken from HMS Malaya en route to Southend..
		HMS Barham, with HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson, July 1935.
		HMS Barham (dark grey) & HMS Resolution (light grey)with M/V...
	www.worldisround.com /articles/16107 (764 words)

	British Navy Ships--HMS Argus (1918-1946)
		Begun as the Italian passenger liner Conte Rosso, the ship's construction was suspended after the outbreak of World War I. She was purchased unlaunched in 1916 and converted into an aircraft carrier, the World's first to have a full-length flight deck upon which wheeled aircraft could land and take-off with relative safety.
		HMS Argus was sold for scrapping in December 1946.
		Photographed from HMS Rodney, whose "White Ensign" is in the foreground.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-a/argus11.htm (459 words)

	ModelWarships reveiw
		Much of the design work went into the later HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson that were 35,000 baby versions of this ship.
		A Tamiya Rodney or Nelson kit is required for some of the parts needed to complete this ship.
		The walkways on the turret top are cast on, and are an improvement over those in the HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson kits.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/hms/invincible/700-ihp/g-3.html (612 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Battleship HMS Rodney of the Nelson class
		HMS Rodney as seen before the Second World War.
		HMS Rodney, HMS Legion, Piorun and Garland composed the escort of two troop ships heading from Iceland to the Clyde.
		Rodney went on to become involved in the bombardment of "British" D-Day beaches.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4069.html (134 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Boy Seaman at War 1939 - U235181
		Rodney proceeded at full speed ahead to get in range but the weather deteriorated and the Deutchland escaped in a blizzard.THe Walrus had to land in Greenland
		In 1940 Rodney took part in the First and Second Battles of Narvik during the Norwegion Campaign.During the 1st there was no air cover Rodney received a direct hit from a Stuka Dive Bomber.
		Early in 1940 an Admiralty Fleet Order stipulated that all boys were to be advanced to Ordinary Seaman and that all sea time was to count for promotion and it was to be made retrospective.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/U235181 (626 words)

	::TS LEGION:: History of HMS Legion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Polish destroyers Piorun, Garland Piorun and the British destroyer HMS Legion conduct an offensive patrol against enemy submarines.
		Around 1030hours on 30 September 1941 the Italian submarine Adua was sunk north-west of Algiers by the British destroyers HMS Gurkha and HMS Legion.
		HMS Legion was damaged by aircraft bombs and suffered hull breaches in Malta on March 24th 1942, and later sunk on March 26th 1942.
	www.cheltscc.co.uk /History-lo.htm (166 words)

	Italian biplane fighter aces — Corrado Santoro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		At 13:00 Maggiore Buri and Tenente Amante attacked HMS Rodney (Buri thought it was HMS Nelson) but their torpedoes narrowly missed the battleship.
		HMS Nelson was out of commission for six months due to the damages suffered.
		Italian Intelligence stated that, apart from HMS Nelson, also HMS Ark Royal and a destroyer was damaged, and another destroyer, a cargo ship (Imperial Star) and a cruiser did not enter in Valetta harbour.
	www.bahnhof.se /~surfcity/italy_santoro.htm (2299 words)

	Web Directory: Browse - InfoSpace
		A History of HMS Attacker - Illustrated history of the longest-surviving Lend-Lease aircraft carrier.
		HMS Hood Association - Battle Cruiser Hood - Official web site of the HMS Hood Association.
		Royal Navy Carrier in World War Two - HMS Arbiter, built in the USA on "lend-lease" to the British Royal Navy for the duration of World War Two.
	kevdb.infospace.com /info/kevdb?KCFG=dmoz&otmpl=dmoz/dmoz-out.htm&qk=50&qcat=Top/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century/Wars_and_Conflicts/World_War_II/Naval_Forces/United_Kingdom (325 words)

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		The Squadron re-equipped with 9 Seafire IIc fighters in March, operated from HMS Illustrious off Norway in July and during the Salemo campaign in September; re-equipping with 12 Seafire F-III's.
		In January1945 the Wing operated from HMS Indefatigable carrying out attacks on Japanese forces in Sumatra and in the Pacific, from March until the last day of the war, later disembarking in Australia.
		Squadron returned to Machrihanish; deck landing practice HMS Illustrious in the Clyde.
	www.894rnsquadron.homestead.com /page2.html (1372 words)

	Photo Gallery - Action
		A short time after D-Day, HMS Swift was scheduled to participate in Operation Decoy.
		Once spotted, the battleship HMS Rodney, which was about five miles away, would open up with a broadside and destroy the German guns.
		The bearing of the shore guns was given to HMS Rodney.
	www.jproc.ca /r17/action.html (614 words)

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