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	HMS Royal Oak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name refers to the Royal Oak in which Charles II of England hid himself during his flight from the country in the British Civil War.
		The first Royal Oak was a 76-gun second-rate launched in 1664 and burnt by the Dutch in 1667 in the Raid on the Medway.
		The next Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship launched in 1914 and sunk at anchor on October 14, 1939, in Scapa Flow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Royal_Oak (277 words)

	Royal Navy - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In that time, the Royal Navy suffered only one major defeat, the Battle of the Chesapeake against France in 1781, and was able to defeat all challengers, as at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 where a combined Spanish and French fleet was decisively beaten.
		In addition, the Royal Navy was involved in enforcing the ban on the slave trade and the suppression of piracy.
		The Royal Navy also participated in the Gulf War, the Kosovo conflict, the Afghanistan Campaign, and the 2003 Iraq War, the last of which saw RN warships bombard positions in support of the Al Faw Peninsula landings by Royal Marines.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /royal_navy.htm (1965 words)

	HMS Royal Oak (08) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Royal Oak was a Revenge-class battleship of the Royal Navy, sunk early in World War II.
		She was commissioned on 1 May 1916 having cost almost £2.5 million, the eleventh Royal Navy vessel to bear the Royal Oak name, replacing a pre-dreadnought that had been scrapped in 1914.
		Royal Oak, struck amidships, rolled onto her side and sank in around 15 minutes, killing 833 sailors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Royal_Oak_(08) (506 words)

	HMS Royal Oak (1914) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		HMS Royal Oak was a Royal Sovereign class battleship of the Royal Navy, sunk early in World War II.
		She was the 11th Royal Navy vessel to bear the Royal Oak name, replacing a pre-dreadnought that had been scrapped in 1914.
		She was refitted from 1922 to 1924, the main changes being the removal of torpedo tubes and a general upgrading of her anti-aircraft defences.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hms_royal_oak__1914_ (566 words)

	BBC News \| SCOTLAND \| Plans to protect sea graves
		The minister was told about the HMS Royal Oak which was torpedoed by a German U-boat with the loss of 833 lives at Scapa Flow, off the Orkney coast, on 14 October 1939.
		The Royal Oak was carrying over 70 tanks of oil when she was hit, which would have meant a maximum load of 3,400 tonnes.
		Royal Navy spokesman, Steve Willmot, said everything was in place for the operation to begin, but the team was waiting for weather conditions to improve.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/scotland/1169527.stm (635 words)

	HMS Royal Oak
		HMS Royal Oak was built at Devonport Dockyard laid down on the 15th January 1914 and launched 17th November 1914.
		Here HMS Royal oak is seen leading HMS Superb and HMS Canada as part of the 4th battle squadron at around 7pm on the 31st of May 1916.
		He served on the Ramillies after his ship the Royal Oak was sunk, he is actually listed on record as lost on board the Oak when she was sunk, but was actually on shore leave at the time.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /royaloak.htm (1767 words)

	St Magnus Cathedral
		HMS Royal Oak was a Royal Sovereign Class battleship that was sunk in Scapa Flow on the 13th of October 1939.
		There is a memorial to the men who lost their lives on the Royal Oak in the north choir aisle of St Magnus Cathedral.
		The memorial incorporates a plaque, a book which records the names of all the men lost, and the bell of HMS Royal Oak which was recovered from the wreck.
	sites.scran.ac.uk /stmagnus/smc036.htm (116 words)

	The Royal Navy 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Meanwhile, HMS ROYAL OAK began to make good the damage sustained on her recent sorty, during which, due to the very stormy seas, many of her lifesaving Carley rafts were washed away or badly damaged.
		HMS ABERCROMBIE, with her 15 inch guns, was used to support the army during beach landings and would get as close into shore as possible, before partially submerging onto the sea bed to give a more stable platform for her guns.
		He then joined HMS WAKEFUL where he was promoted to Chief Petty Officer Stoker before leaving her in Malta in 1956 to join the aircraft carrier HMS BULWARK that was enroute to the Eastern Mediterranean because of the worsening situation between the Arabs and the Jews.
	freepages.family.rootsweb.com /~brycefamily/royaloak.htm (5782 words)

	Royal Oak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The sinking of the Royal Oak during the early weeks of the Second World War was a national disaster.
		She was nearly 600 ft long with a maximum width of 100 ft. She was armed with eight 15 inch guns contained in 4 turrets, plus an assemblage of 6 inch, 3 inch guns and 4 torpedo tubes.
		Nobody dives the Royal Oak except for an annual remembrance dive conducted by Navy divers.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /jralston/rk/scapa/wrecks/roak.html (560 words)

	HMS Teal - HMS Widgeon - HMS Moorhen - Yangtze Gunboats in China
		If the funnel bands are consistent, she may be HMS Teal (Widgeon?) but, given the fact many of the photos are from Hong Kong, HMS Moorhen cannot be ruled out as she was stationed there (like this is helpful).
		Percy Clapperton is unusual in that he not only served on the Teal in China, but also on HMS Aphis while she was in the Mediterranean during WWII (from March 1, 1940 to December 31, 1940).
		HMS Widgeon was part of the flotilla that attempted to retake the merchant vessels Wanhsien and Wanliu from the Chinese army on September 5, 1926 (this occurred at Wanhsien - the same name as one of the vessels).
	www.hmsfalcon.com /teal/teal.htm (716 words)

	Scapa Flow Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		It torpedoed HMS Royal Oak, at anchor in Scapa Bay, and made good its escape.
		HMS Royal Oak remains on the floor of Scapa Flow as a war grave, and diving it is not permitted.
		Nearby at Lyness is the Naval cemetery in which those whose bodies were recovered from HMS Royal Oak in 1939 are buried, alongside victims of the WWI Battle of Jutland, the sinking of HMS Hampshire while taking Lord Kitchener to Russia in 1916 and many other incidents from two world wars.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /hoy/scapa (1190 words)

	Navy News - Archives - News & Features - January 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		ROYAL Navy nuclear submarines with new pipework could be back in service by the summer as a result of a repairs programme which is expected to last for most of this year.
		HMS YORK received a warm welcome at the one of the largest naval bases in Italy as she made her way back to Portsmouth at the end of a four-month deployment.
		HMS ARK Royal is approaching the final stages of her refit - just as plans are announced for the start of Invincible's.
	www.navynews.co.uk /archive/stories/2001/archive_news_0101.asp (1220 words)

	ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William Todd served as an Assistant Surgeon aboard the HMS Royal Oak #1534, under Captain Lord Beauclerc in the Basque Roads, France in 1811.
		During the attack on Baltimore between 12th and 14th September able seaman James Bishop from the Royal Oak was killed while serving on shore and a marine was wounded.
		The success of the Royal Navy during this period and its total mastery of the seas was due in no small measure to the ability of the naval medical department to give the best of current medical care to its seamen.
	modena.intergate.ca /todd/0ship.htm (1658 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Royal Oak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Two weeks after commissioning, HMS Royal Oak sailed in the Grand Fleet's 4th Battle Squadron at the Battle of Jutland on May 31, 1916.
		Royal Oak later served with the Atlantic Fleet (through 1926) and in the Mediterranean.
		Recalled to the Home Fleet in 1937, at the start of World War II, she was based at Scapa Flow, a huge naval anchorage the protection of which was made relatively simple thanks to the complex geography of the Shetland Islands.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_078100_hmsroyaloak.htm (351 words)

	"Rogers Collection" Photographs
		HMS Emperor of India - she was the only one of the Iron Duke class to have a clinker funnel cap added.
		HMS Revenge in the Norman Wilkinson-type camouflage pattern she sported between late 1917 (November?) and March 1918.
		In 1918, G89 was HMS Rosalind, in 1917, Pheasant.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/rogphoto.htm (448 words)

	The Orcadian's Guide to the 20th Century - The Royal Oak Tragedy
		It was “a remarkable exploit of professional skill and daring.” The reluctant admiration of Winston Churchill as he announced to the world that the battleship HMS Royal Oak had been sunk by U-boat was obvious.
		Built at a cost of £2.5 million, the 27,000 ton Royal Oak had been presumed unsinkable by submarine attack within Scapa Flow –; but the unsinkable became the unthinkable as German U-boat commander Lt Gunther Prien evaded the flimsy defences in the submarine U47 and attacked at the heart of the British Navy.
		It was unveiled on October 14, 1948 – the ninth anniversary of the tragedy – by Rear Admiral W. Benn, who was captain of the warship on the night she sank in just ten minutes, at a service attended by several other survivors of the terrible events of war back in 1939.
	www.orcadian.co.uk /features/20thcentury/7.htm (453 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Battleship HMS Royal Oak of the Royal Sovereign class
		At 0116 hours on 14 October 1939 the German submarine U-47 fired a spread of three torpedoes at HMS Royal Oak and the British seaplane tender HMS Pegasus lying at anchor in the harbour of Scapa Flow, turned around and fired a stern torpedo at 0121 hours.
		Prien misidentified the seaplane tender as HMS Repulse and claimed a hit, but a torpedo apparently hit the starboard anchor chain of the battleship and did not damage the ships.
		On the night of October 14 1939 Royal Oak became the first Battleship to be lost in the Second World War.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4063.html (381 words)

	HMS Ramillies
		HMS Ramillies is shown in naval art prints by Ivan Berryman and Anthony Saunders available from Cranston fine Arts.
		HMS Ramillies was launched on the 12th September 1916..
		HMS Ramillies and Warspite at Normandy by Anthony Saunders
	www.second-world-war.com /hms_ramillies.htm (878 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 (2561 words)

	News - Technology brings watery graveyard to life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		They have also produced similar images of the HMS Vanguard, which exploded in 1917, and the HMS Royal Oak, torpedoed by a German submarine in the Second World War.
		The seabed images and details of the operations are to be made available to universities and industrial institutes to assist in training marine technology students.
		HMS Royal Oak was sunk in October 1939 by torpedoes from a German U-boat which penetrated the defences at Scapa Flow.
	www.bsac.org /news/scapa060300.htm (400 words)

	Le Paradis Massacre World War II Massacres and WWII Disasters
		A company of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, trapped in a cowshed, surrendered to the 2nd Infantry Regiment, SS 'Totenkopf' (Death's Head) Division under the command of 28 year old SS Obersturmfuhrer Fritz Knoechlein.
		In the area immediately north of the canal they were held by the Norfolk Battalion in much depleted strength because of the previous fighting and the physical exhaustion of the men.
		The Battalion and the Royal Scots were holding the villages of Riez du Vinage, Le Cornet Malo and Le Paradis.
	www.mackillers.8m.com /paradis.html (2343 words)

	HMS Royal Oak
		Pre Dreadnaught Battleship of the Royal Navy, built by Laird at Birkenhead, HMS Royal Oak was launched on the 5th November 1892 and commissioned at Portsmouth in January 1896.
		HMS Royal Oak was the only ship of the class (the others being HMS Royal Sovereign, Empress of India, Repulse, Ramillies, Resolution and Revenge) not to have been fitted with steam pipes abaft the Funnels, this made her easily distinguished from the sister ships.
		The Royal Oak was commissioned at Portsmouth in January 1896 as one of the ships of the Special Flying Squadron.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_royal_oak.htm (604 words)

	Scuba Diving: HMS Royal Oak video : Submerged Productions
		The wreck of the Royal Oak is a designated war grave and all diving is prohibited.
		But a special permission was granted by the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Navy for the wreck to be filmed as a moving tribute to all those who lost their lives.
		The finale is the unfurling of a battle ensign by a Royal navy diver on the upturned hull on the anniversary of her sinking.
	www.submerged.co.uk /hmsroyaloakvideo.php (310 words)

	HMS Valiant
		During World War Two, HMS valiant was badly damaged by delayed action mines, set by Italian Frogmen at Alexandria, She made her way to Durdan, South Africa for repairs.
		HMS valiant joined the British eastern Fleet in January 1944 and took part in carrier raids against Japanese bases in Indonesia.
		HMS valiant was badly damaged during refit in a floating dock at Trincomalee, Ceylon, so bad was the damage that repairs were stopped, and she was used as a training hulk for stockers at Devonport.
	www.naval-art.com /valiant.htm (882 words)

	Scapa Flow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Surrounded by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy, it is best known as the site of the United Kingdom's chief naval base during the First and Second World Wars.
		Already used by warships in the Viking era, the base remained in use by the Royal Navy until 1956.
		They badly damaged the elderly battleship HMS Iron Duke, but one bomber was shot down by an anti-aircraft battery on Hoy.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Scapa_Flow (761 words)

	The Orcadian Features - Memories of HMS Royal Oak
		Royal Oak proceeded on a training, and shake-down cruise, finally joining the Fleet in Scapa Flow.
		My last view of Royal Oak was of her keel, silhouetted against the dark skyline.
		One harrowing story was how the boy seamen's mess-deck became a mass of flame from the burning cordite, many of the boys, aged around 15, had joined the ship about three weeks before from training shore establishment.
	www.orcadian.co.uk /features/articles/royaloaksurvivormemories.htm (2050 words)

	Royal Sovereign Class Battleship - HMS Royal Sovereign, Revenge, Resolution, Ramillies, Royal Oak
		Royal Sovereign Class Battleship - HMS Royal Sovereign, Revenge, Resolution, Ramillies, Royal Oak
		HMS Ramillies in late 1917 complete with multi coloured dazzle camouflage.
		The stripes were a mix of yellow, fl, light and dark blue, green, and purple and the pattern was different on the other side of the ship and form those of HMS Revenge which was also dazzle painted.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /battleship/hms-revenge.html (491 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		"Only HMS Royal Oak, which in a biting force-nine velocity gale had lost contact with her escorts, turned to home water, to the serenity of her protective ring of islands around her anchorage in the northeast corner of the Flow.
		As such, the class was meant to be part of the line of battle, which was the traditional mission of all battleships of the Royal Navy.
		With limited inter-war funding, the Royal Navy was very constrained in what it could fund for modernization of its battleships.
	www.steelnavy.com /WSWRoyalOak.htm (2929 words)

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