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	Memorials and Monuments on the Isle of Wight - Ryde Royal George memorial 1782 2
		Representatives of the Royal Naval Association, Fleet Air Arm, Ryde branch of the Royal British Legion, the IW Council, Ryde sea cadets, and the event organisers Ryde Town Management Committee were present.
		The guard of honour was provided by the Ryde sea cadets, of the TS Royal George, reflecting the fact that the name of the original vessel lives on today.
		In 1759 the Royal George under the flag of Admiral Sir Edward Hawke, achieved distinction in the Battle of Quiberon Bay where the French fleet was defeated.
	www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk /others/ryderoyalgeorge2.htm (1034 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Isle Of Wight Shipwrecks: 'Royal George'
		Isle Of Wight Shipwrecks: HMS Gladiator and the Submarine A1
		Royal George was the flagship of Rear Admiral Kempenfeldt, and under the command of Captain Waghorn.
		Isle Of Wight Shipwrecks: 'HMS Gladiator', and the Submarine 'A1'
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A894215 (3117 words)

	HMS Royal George - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line launched as Royal James in 1675, and renamed in 1714.
		The second Royal George was a 100-gun first-rate launched as Royal Charles in 1673 and renamed in 1715.
		The battleship King George V was laid down as Royal George but renamed before she was launched in 1911.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Royal_George (307 words)

	HMS Victory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The outcome of the campaign was that British Government agreed to restore and preserve her to commemorate Nelson, the Battle of Trafalgar and the Royal Navy's supremacy during and after the Napoleonic period.
		In 1928 King George V was able to unveil a tablet celebrating the completion of the work, although restoration and maintenance still continued under the supervision of the Society for Nautical Research.
		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)

	Oneida
		HMS Royal George was sighted and chased into the Bay of Quinte and lost sight of during the night.
		Royal George cut her mooring cables and attempted to make further headway up the channel, finally making fast to a wharf under the protection of troop muskets.
		Royal George suffered extensive damage and Oneida had some damage aloft with one seaman killed and three wounded, but a gale ended the engagement and the Americans returned to Sacketts Harbor.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/o2/oneida-i.htm (557 words)

	HMS Locust - HMS Mosquito - HMS Dragonfly - HMS Grasshopper - Royal Navy Gunboats
		H.M.S. Bideford was also saved from the beach at Dunkirk after being towed back home by the Locust; the Sloop Bideford had her stern blown off during a sustained air attack.
		HMS Locust, her sistership, was later sent back to destroy the wreck so as to avoid German salvage.
		HMS Dragonfly sank in the shallow waters of the Riau Archipelago (her wreck is still there and has become a dive site) and HMS Grasshopper, heavily damaged, managed to beach herself.
	www.hmsfalcon.com /locust/locust.htm (2426 words)

	HMS Viknor and HMS Racoon
		H.M.S. Racoon was a Beagle class, three funnelled coal burning destroyer displacing some 950 tons - she was built and launched from the Cammell Laird shipyard in 1910.
		During the early hours of January 9th, 1918 she was en route from Liverpool to Lough Swilly to take up anti-submarine and convoy duties in the Northern Approaches, in heavy sea conditions and while experiencing snow blizzards she struck rocks at the Garvan Isles and sank with the loss of all hands.
		H.M.S. Viknor was an 5386 ton armed merchant cruiser of the 10th Cruiser Squadron, originally a Blue Star Line vessel called the 'Viking', she was requisitioned and renamed by the Royal Navy.
	www.northantrim.com /HMSRacoonHMSViknor.htm (399 words)

	HMS Victory @ Nelson.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMS Victory is a 104 gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built in the 1760s.
		In 1928 King George V was able to unveil a tablet celebrating the completion of the work, although restoration and maintenance still continued under the supervision of the Society for Nautical Research.
		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).
	nelson.y2u.co.uk /NL-HMS-Victory.htm (2177 words)

	HMS KINSHA (SS Pioneer) - Photographs and Info - Royal Navy gunboats in China
		I was very fortunate to be contacted by David Angove whose grandfather, John Curnow, served aboard HMS Kinsha as she patrolled the Yangtze river from 1903 to 1905.
		SS Pioneer, the name of HMS Kinsha before she was purchased by the Royal Navy, had shown that she could navigate the waters from Ichang (through the gorges and rapids on the upper Yangtze) to Chungking, but the large width of the paddle wheels on each side of the ship made this a difficult task.
		As Archibald Little built the Pioneer (the name of HMS Kinsha before she was purchased by the Royal Navy), the article relates to the period in which steamships began to penetrate the upper Yangtse.
	www.hmsfalcon.com /kinsha/HMSKinsha.htm (1251 words)

	George VI
		George was the great-grandson of Queen Victoria and his father was George V, who became king of the United Kingdom in 1910.
		George's elder brother, Edward, was therefore heir to the throne.
		George was a sickly child and was often ill. He also developed an acute stammer.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /MONgeorgeVI.htm (1590 words)

	George Fisher
		They could confirm that a George Fisher had transferred from HMS Asia to HMS Captain in April 1870, and subsequent genealogy investigations have shown this man to be my great-great-grandfather.
		George's father was from Sunderland, and worked on the coal boats, but married and settled in Greenwich, south-east London in 1807.
		George, born in 1822, was the fifth of eight children, started work at the age of 14 as an apprentice on a coal ship, and worked the rest of his life on coal and Royal Navy ships.
	www.hmscaptain.co.uk /Desc.Memories/georgefisher.htm (501 words)

	HMS Ark Royal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMS Ark Royal IV - Flagship of the Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers - a mobile airfield and a most impressive sight as she launches a Phantom from one of her catapults.
		She had a standard displacement of 43,000 tons, a beam of 168 feet, and was 846 feet long.
		She served her Nation and the Royal Navy for 23 years and sailed 800,000 miles of valuable service, finally being decommissioned in 1979.
	www.brooksartprints.com /Arkroyal.html (99 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to the version of the disaster favoured by the Admiralty, she was overturned by a breeze, and sank quickly at Spithead.
		The general opinion of the navy was that the shifting of her weights was more than the old and rotten timbers of the Royal George could stand.
		William Cowper's poem, the "Loss of the Royal George," commemorates this disaster.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Richard_Kempenfelt (426 words)

	Admiral Sir George Somers colonized Bermuda for Britain
		Sir George supervised the building of the 30 ton pinnace Patience while the 80 ton barque Deliverance was done by Sir Thomas Gates, both from spars and rigging of the wrecked "Sea Venture" and local cedar.
		Instead, he carried Sir George's preserved body (less his heart, which had been cut out and buried in Bermuda, in strict accordance with his wishes) on board the Patience, pickled in a barrel, back to Lyme Regis in Dorset, where the Admiral was buried in 1611 at Whitchurch Canonicorum in Dorset.
		On February 15, the Memorial Monument to Sir George Somers was unveiled in St. George's, with the 1st Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment in attendance.
	www.bermuda-online.org /sirgeorgesomers.htm (2074 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Durham was watch officer on the 29 August 1782 when, through no fault of his own, the Royal George, which was heeled for repairs, suddenly and catastrophically sank at Spithead.
		Anson was the biggest frigate in the Navy, cut down (razeed) from a ship of the line to oppose large French frigates, and in her fought numerous actions, especially at the Battle of Donegal in October 1798.
		He was on friendly terms with King George III, who was especially fond of Durham's long, rambling invented tales, often shouting "That's a Durham!" when he heard such a tale regardless of the raconteur.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Philip_Charles_Durham (1358 words)

	Memorials and Monuments in St Mary's Church, Portsmouth (HMS Royal George)
		Evidence is available to show that the proposed inscription on this memorial included the wording, "The original Royal George Memorial Stone, owing to it's dilapidated condition, was removed from the South-East corner when the churchyard was made into a rest garden in 1935".
		The third is a large marble monument to Richard Kempenfelt and the Royal George in Westminster Abbey.
		They were responsible for raising one of the guns from the Royal George which is now on display at Southsea Castle.
	www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk /churches/st_marys/royal_george.htm (757 words)

	Pictures of Old Sailing Ships, Art Prints and History of the Royal Charles
		Structurally almost identical to the first built of the three 100-gun ships (the HMS Royal James), the Royal Charles was nonetheless strikingly different in her outward appearance.
		During her first battle, the Royal Charles was plagued by a deep roll that interfered with cannon operations in the lower decks.
		Later, in 1715, her salvaged parts were used to build the HMS Royal George, a ship that remained in service until her sinking at Spithead anchorage in 1783.
	www.jamesaflood.com /__chasx.htm (463 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Isle Of Wight Shipwrecks: Royal George - A853706
		Work began on constructing the Royal George in 1746; the largest vessel yet to be built in Britain, and the Royal Navy's largest warship.
		The Royal George was able to redeem herself in January 1781 when escorting a convoy to Gibralter, she captured two Spanish ships of the line off Portugal.
		On the 29th August, the Royal George was signalling the traditional "Wedding Garland", and the day had been set aside for the crew to say their farewells.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A853706 (3108 words)

	All Wood Wings: HMS Victory - quality ship models crafted from wood
		HMS Victory – launched in 1765 – is the oldest commissioned warship today and is the Flagship of the Second Sea Lord, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Home Command, Royal Navy.
		A survivor of the Battle of Trafalgar (1805) the 104-gunship continues to be restored by the Royal Navy with assistance from the Society for Nautical Research and rests at her at her moorings in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, England.
		Still manned by Officers and Ratings of the Royal Navy, HMS Victory is the only remaining 18th century “First Rate Ship of the Line” anywhere in the world and will be returned to her Trafalgar configuration and condition – a project that was begun in 1922.
	www.allwoodwings.com /Ships/TallShips/HMS-Victory.htm (836 words)

	HMS Colossus
		In June 1795 HMS Colossus commanded by Captain John Monkton was one of a fleet of 25 ships in all commanded by Admiral Lord Bridport with his flagship HMS Royal George The French Fleet of 23 ships under Rear Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse were sighted at 3.30 AM.
		HMS Colossus while tacking into action, had her foreyard and foretopsail yard shot away in the slings, and her foretopmast went a little above the cap.
		In October 1798 HMS Colossus commanded by captain George Murray was one of a squadron under Rear Admiral Lord Nelson with his Flagship HMS Vanguard which took part in the Blockade of Malta, then occupied by the French, and on October 28th the neighboring and dependant island of Gozo capitulated.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_colossus.htm (1264 words)

	Military & Naval Diving
		HMS Vernon, the name eventually given to the shore establishment, was originally that of a hulk anchored in Fountain Lake.
		HMS Excellent, it was used for Torpedo and Mining training from 1872 but became an independent command on 26 April 1876 when it moved to Portchester Creek to become the home of the Torpedo Branch.
		HMS Vernon, successfully removed the fuze from a Type GC mine underwater although the mine exploded as it was towed inshore.
	www.mcdoa.org.uk /Military_and_Naval_Diving.htm (1169 words)

	Beerchurchyard war memorial (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clarke Son of George and Emily Clarke of Beer and husband of Emily Clarke of Barline, Budleigh Salterton..
		Son of Ambrose Brewin Fisher (HM Inspector of Schools) and Emily Fisher of The Cottage, Seaton.
		Son of George and Martha Harner of Beer and husband of Bessie Harner (formerly Newbury) of West Street, Colyton.
	www.devonheritage.org /Places/Beer/Beerchurchyardwarmemorial.htm (1333 words)

	HMS Firedrake Page 4
		Before the war HMS Royal Arthur had been a Butlins holiday camp and after the war was reverted back to just that, I myself stayed there in the early 60s.
		I joined HMS Sussex, a county class cruiser on 29.6.1937, she was part of the Mediterranean fleet, while serving aboard her I was awarded the Palestine medal.
		I left HMS Firedrake on the 26.6.41, after serving over 2½ years aboard her she had during the last year or so of my time on her been in the Mediterranean with force H under the command of Admiral Sir James Somerville.
	www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk /firedrake4.htm (1715 words)

	Research guide B9: The Royal Navy: HMS King George V: NMM PORT
		The King George V was launched by King George VI on 21st February 1939 and, following fitting-out and sea trials, she was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 1st October 1940. She was assigned to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, and this remained her principal base until 1944.
		In 1943 she was temporarily detached to duties in the Mediterranean, and was involved in the invasion of Sicily and attack on Taranto. In 1944 she was redeployed to the new British Pacific Fleet as the flagship of the fleet's second-in-command, Rear Admiral Sir Bernard Rawlings.
		Although both she and her sister ship HMS Howe had a much reduced role compared with the North Atlantic campaign, often providing anti-aircraft cover for the fleet's aircraft carriers, they were both involved in the bombardments of Okinawa and southern Honshu, where the King George V last fired her main armament in anger.
	www.port.nmm.ac.uk /research/b9.html (2102 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.naval-art.com /hood.htm (1488 words)

	Royal Navy - Careers/Roles
		When you apply to join the Royal Navy, you need to know which job you want to do.
		Aircrew Officers are expert aviators who fly and take tactical control of jets and helicopters, enabling the Royal Navy to deliver air power from the sea and land.
		The Royal Navy sails on its stomach – Chefs produce high quality food at sea and on land, and Stewards efficiently provide hospitality services and undertake other whole ship tasks.
	www.careers.royalnavy.mod.uk /careers (453 words)

	HMS Royal Sovereign 1892 : Ships : History : Royal Navy
		Following the collapse of the French naval challenge in the 1860s after the construction of HMS Warrior and a new fleet of British ironclads, there was little public concern over the strength of the Royal Navy for another twenty years.
		The seven Royal Sovereign first-class battleships, which became the template for capital ships until the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought in 1906, embodied this new policy.
		When the 14,150-ton Royal Sovereign was completed in 1892, she was the largest warship in the world.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server/show/nav.3908 (707 words)

	George Ettie
		George was born and raised in Gosport, Hampshire.
		His mother could not afford to raise six children by herself so George, at the age of twelve, was sent off to the Royal Hospital School, Greenwich.
		Later spending much of his pre-war time with the Mediterranean Fleet based in Malta, primarily on board HMS Hero, and participating in the Spanish Civil War, where he recalled becoming the target of a bomber while driving the Captain ashore in a launch.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~hero/george.html (414 words)

	HMS Pembroke - RNB Chatham and Medway Dockyards
		From then onwards the Captain of the Royal Navy Supply School situated in the Barracks, commanded HMS Pembroke and the term 'RN Barracks Chatham' was extinct.
		St George's Church, to the right of the main gate on entering the barracks, became St George's Centre following the RN departure but still retains the memorials and momentoes of the RN and is well worth visiting.
		Jim Williams, whose father was in the navy, was a member of the choir of St George's when the then Princess Elizabeth attended the unveiling and dedication of memorial windows in the East Nore Chapel on the 29th of October 1950.
	www.burrill12.freeserve.co.uk /RNB/HMSPembroke.htm (1266 words)

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