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	Wikipedia: HMS Sidon
		The first HMS Sidon (1846) was a first-class paddle frigate designed by Sir Charles Napier.
		The second HMS Sidon was launched in September 1944, one of the third group of S-class submarines built by Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead.
		Sidon was refloated, and sunk as an ASDIC target on June 14, 1957.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/h/hm/hms_sidon.html (532 words)

	Sidon: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Sidon Sidon Sidon, sometimes spelt Zidon, and known to its inhabitants as...was a king of the Sidonians, probably in the 3rd century BC, and that his mother was a priestess...
		...Antipater of Sidon Antipater of Sidon Antipater of Sidon (2nd century BC) is an ancient...
		Sidon, sometimes spelt Zidon, and known to its inhabitants as Saida, is the third-largest city in Lebanon.
	www.encyclopedian.com /si/Sidon.html (536 words)

	HMS Sidon - TheBestLinks.com - Frigate, Lebanon, May 26, Royal Navy, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Sidon, Frigate, Lebanon, May 26, Royal Navy, Sidon, 1944, 1846...
		The first HMS Sidon was a first-class paddle frigate designed by Sir Charles Napier.
		The second HMS Sidon was launched in September 1944, one of the third group of S-class submarines built by Cammell Laird and Co Limited, Birkenhead.
	www.thebestlinks.com /HMS_Sidon.html (161 words)

	HMS Seraph (P219) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Seraph (pennant number P219) was an S-class submarine of the British Royal Navy.
		She carried out a number of intelligence and special operations during World War II, the most famous of which was Operation Mincemeat.
		Seraph was ordered to patrol up and down the coast until she received a signal giving her the name of the port from which she was to pick up her passengers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Seraph_(P219) (1139 words)

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		In the case of this boat because of the difficulties experienced with the explosive charges in E8 and C35, which had failed to explode, it was decided to allow her and C35 to flood.
		A River class destoyer of 570 tons, built in 1905, she was rammed and sunk by HMS Attentive, a scout cruiser of 2,670 tons and built in 1904, in the North Sea near the Outer Gabbard Light vessel, off Harwich, during night exercises.
		HMS Lighting was returning from a sweep with Force Q in the Mediterranean, when she was attacked by a German S-boote.
	users.telenet.be /tree/db/other/royalnavylossesright.html (5864 words)

	Submarine losses 1904 to present day
		The Light-cruiser HMS Blonde was heading K1, K3, K4 and K7 in line ahead off the Danish coast when she was forced to turn sharply to port to avoid three cruisers, that crossed her bows from starboard to port.
		HMS Undine was on her fourth war patrol in January 1940 when her asdic failed due to a leak.
		In October 1940 HMS Rainbow was on patrol in the Mediterranean, operating in the Gulf of Taranto and later in the Gulf of Otranto.
	www.rnsubmus.co.uk /general/losses.htm (11966 words)

	S Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Safari was launched on 18th November 1941 and was wrecked while en-route to the breakers on 7th January 1946.
		HMS Saga was launched on 14th March 1945 and in 1948 was transferred to the Portuguese navy as Nautilo.
		HMS Sanguine was launched on 15th February 1945 and was transferred to the Israeli navy in 1958 and renamed Rahav.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /s_class1.htm (1328 words)

	Vessels operating in Weymouth and Portland area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Belle Poule, with the fleet under convoy for the Mediterranean, sailed from Portland Roads on Monday.
		HMS Venerable, with a fleet under her convoy, running to the southward with a fair wind.
		Portsmouth Sept 29 HMS Prometheus was very nearly swamped in the Race of Portland last Tuesday evening ; her stern and quarter boats were torn from the davits by the violence of the sea.
	www.pbenyon.plus.com /RN/Dorset.html (16383 words)

	Royal Navy submarines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Motto: The HMS Splendid (S106) is a nuclear powered submarine of the Swiftsure class.
		HMS Splendid was launched at Barrow on October 5, 1979, by Lady Ann Eberle, wife of Admiral Sir James Eberle, then Commander-in-Chief Fleet.
		Unlike HMS Conqueror, Splendid did not fire in anger, she did however provide valuable reconnaissance to the British Task Force on Argentine aircraft movements.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Royal-Navy-submarines (241 words)

	Submarines of the Royal Navy in Alphabetical Order... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On 14th June 1957 Sidon was towed from Portland and sunk for use as an A/S target on the sea bed.
		Left Trincomalee on 25th February 1944 to patrol in the northern part of the Malacca Straits, the area between Sumatra and the Nicobar Islands.
		Sailed from Trincomalee on 10th November 1944 to patrol in the vicinity of Malacca where it was believed the Japanese were loading ships with bauxite ore.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /rnsubmarines/name/s.html (4185 words)

	Today In WW II History - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On August 8, 1944, he is sentenced to death by the People's Court in the first trial of the conspirators and murdered the same day in Berlin-Plötzensee.
		On July 20, 1944, Stauffenberg is in the Bendler Block, the focal point of the conspiracy in Berlin, where he is responsible for liaison with the navy.
		By mid-July 1944 the conspirators are all painfully aware that Germany's military situation on all three fronts ranges from critical to catastrophic and that Germany itself is in danger of being annihilated unless Stauffenberg can destroy Hitler and the Nazi regime.
	forums.ubi.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/30 (12195 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Submarine HMS Sidon of the S class
		At 0825 hours on 16 June 1955 HMS Sidon (Lt. H.T. Verry) was lying alongside the depot ship HMS Maidstone at Portland when one of her torpedoes exploded.
		On the 16th June 1955 the Submarine HMS Sidon suffered a torpedo explosion whilst alongside HMS Maidstone at Portland Harbour.
		In the Sidon accident 13 men lost their lives, they are buried at the Royal Naval Cemetery at Portland, but apart from their headstones there is no other memorial.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/3473.html (444 words)

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		Over 4 consecutive days from 10 through 13 June 2004, memorial dives were conducted on the wrecks of the LST 531 and LST 507 as well as the HMS Boadicea by three teams.
		The wrecks are at 52 metres (170ft) depth in the English Channel and the dives were facilitated by Breakwater Diving Centre and Underwater Explorers.
		LST-507 was sunk by a German E-boat torpedo attack in the English Channel on 28 April 1944.
	www.divedorset.com /dday (904 words)

	Wreck sites in Dorset (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This British submarine was sunk as a target after colliding with the HMS Hazard.
		This WWII destroyer is a war grave and was lost to German aircraft torpedo attack in June 1944 with 150 souls on board.
		In the past this wreck was called both the HMS Hazard and the HMS Bittern.
	www.divedorset.com /wreckinfo.htm (2533 words)

	Today In WW II History - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In June 1944, the German army began the use of what would be a very unique, very deadly, and historical weapon called the V1.
		Between June 1944 and March 29, 1945, a total of 9,251 V1 flying bombs were launched against England.
		However, both to the west on the coast, where Sidon is taken by Austrialian forces and to the east in the approaches to Damascus, where Kiswe falls, the Allied advance is still going well.
	forums.ubi.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/25 (11820 words)

	British Submarines of World War Two - HMS/M Tally-Ho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tally-Ho had been having a particularly successful war in the area and her victims included the Japanese cruiser Kuma on 11 January 1944 and the ex-Italian submarine UIT-23 (ex-Giuliani) on 15 February 1944, on the way to recover secret agents around the 18th.
		Tally-Ho had one narrow escape, however, on 24 February 1944, when an enemy torpedo boat was encountered at night too close to avoid by diving.
		This did not prevent the submarine from diving to shake off her pursuer but the return passage to Trincomalee was made on the surface, in bad weather, with a heavy list to port.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /chalcraft/sm/tallyho.html (463 words)

	U.S. Navy Torpedoes (part three)
		HMS Sidon was lost in 1955 to just such an accident.
		Overall, it was concluded that "...if in 1944 all U.S. submarines had carried full loads of Mk.18 torpedoes the enemy would have lost about 100 fewer merchant ships...
		About 9000 Mk.18's were produced and they accounted for 30% of the torpedoes fired by US submarines in 1944 and 70% of those fired in 1945.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/1592/ustorp3.htm (4617 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - S class Submarines
		HMS Sturgeon (N 73) (To the Royal Netherlands Navy as HrMs Zeehond)
		HMS Sidon (P 259) (lost 16 Jun, 1955)
		HMS Sterlet (N 22) (lost 18 Apr, 1940)
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=52 (504 words)

	Portland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Silhouette: 3 masts, 2 funnels The second HMS Sidon was launched in September 1944, one of the third group of S-class submarines built by Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead.
		From February 3 to February 29, 1944 Enterprise was docked at Devonport for refit, and from March 27 to March 31 she was fitted for missile jamming gear at Devonport.
		HMS Leeds CastleCastle (P258) The second HMS Leeds Castle is a Castle Class patrol ship built by Hall Russell Co. Ltd of Aberdeen, Scotland.
	bonose.com /Portland-168.html (1071 words)

	Listing of British Submarines of WW2
		Truculent was sunk at approx 51 degrees, 31 mins north, 1 degree 5 mins east which puts her in a region known as the Oaze Deep to the north of Whitstable.
		Admiralty Statement: "On the evening of 12th January 1950 HMS Truculent was proceeding on the surface from the submarine exercise area to Sheerness on completion of Dockyard trials, for which a party of Chatham dockyard officers and men were also on board.
		The SS Divina, with a Trinity House pilot on board, was on passage from the Port of London to Ipswich and at the time of the collision, shortly after 7pm, was in the vicinity of the West Oaze Buoy, a narrow part of the Thames estuary.
	www.mikekemble.com /ww2/britsublist.html (10936 words)

	BARRACKS
		The HMS Poseidon was a British submarine that operated in the China Sea until 1931.
		Also included are HMS Doris (Greek sea nymph), HMS Hercules (Greek strongman that performed the 12 great labours), and the former aircraft carrier HMS Hermes (Greek messenger and herald of the gods).
		In this manner the new sailors are deemed to have performed essential rites of passage when crossing certain parallels, straits and narrow passages in the oceans and seas of the world.
	www.dawodu.com /barrack8.htm (7347 words)

	Ship Descriptions - M
		In 1861 she was acquired by William Denny in part payment for the SIDON and in 1863 went to S and S.Isaac.
		MENIFEE reported to ComPhibsTraPac for intensive amphibious training 8 December 1944 and within a month was underway for Hawaii with Navy and Marine personnel and cargo.
		Sold to the British Admiralty in 1914, she was disguised as the Battlecruiser HMS TIGER and on 30th May 1915 was torpedoed and sunk by the German Submarine UB.8 in the Aegean Sea.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/descriptions/ShipsM.html (16947 words)

	Mariner's Mirror
		HM present fleet 1672 [Trevanion but no Saudadoes].
		HMS Kent (steamer 1796 - ref MM33 pp111-2).
		Thomas Howard's vaporiser - trial in HMS Comet [1834].
	home.clara.net /rabarker/bibl-mm-Luso.htm (3272 words)

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		Total loss 1939 - AMC HMS Esperance Bay commissioned 1939 - The German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau attempted to break out into the Atlantic to raid convoys.
		The ship became fast some 200 yards to the East of the floating dock 2004 - HMS Goucester deploys to South Atlantic for six months 2004 - Turkish firefighters extinguished a fire onboard the Liberian-flagged tanker Genmar Prokres after it cleared Dardanelles and entered the Aegean Sea.
		The Master of the Genmar Progress received clearance from the Turkish Authorities to resume passage and the vessel was underway at 1730 hrs local time.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/november/23nov.txt (723 words)

	Losses
		Rammed and sunk by the HMS Hazard on 2nd February 1912.
		Rammed and sunk by HMS Petard in error off the Norwegian coast on 16th September 1917 in error.
		Sunk during the same night exercise as K4 was sank after colliding with another vessel HMS Fearless off May Island on 31st January 1918.
	www.submariners.co.uk /Boats/Losses (2297 words)

	NucNews - November 10, 2001
		HM: In your statement of Oct 7, you expressed satisfaction over the Sept 11 attacks, although a large number of innocent people perished in them, hundreds among them were Muslims.
		HM: The head of Egypt's Jamia Al-Azhar has issued a fatwa (edict) against you, saying that the views and beliefs of Osama bin Laden have nothing to do with Islam.
		In the autumn of 1944, the terror and destruction of German V-2 rockets, traveling faster than the speed of sound and slamming one-ton-explosive loads into British neighborhoods, marked the dawn of the missile age.
	nucnews.net /nucnews/2001nn/0111nn/011110nn.htm (21086 words)

	Dorset
		She was towed to Weymouth where she sits today at 38m with her conning tower at 32m.
		A 7,191 tonne American Liberty Ship was torpedoed in 1944.
		Also referred to as The Spaniard, this 3000 ton Spanish Steamship has very little history prior to her sinking.She has broken up considerably and is badly silted but has an abundance of marine life.
	www.wrecksandreefs.co.uk /ds_uk_dorset.htm (653 words)

	Broadmining: 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The number 1944 is a triple factorial, being equal to 12!
		The story of the Normandy Invasion through the spoken recollections of veterans who fought it, the...
		The World at War in the year 1944, Surrender in Europe 1944, The Allied invasion in Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge.
	lowide.com /1944&t= (212 words)

	A Welsh View: On This Day
		1944: Civil war breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between Communists and royalists.
		1944: Japan launches first kamikaze attacks, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
		1836: Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England aboard the HMS Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
	xo.typepad.com /blog/on_this_day (4941 words)

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