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	HMS Sikh
		HMS Sikh started her naval life with the 1st Destroyer Flotilla (1st D. Her builders trials commenced in August 1938 and after being fitted with a gyro-compass and other equipment at Chatham, England she was completed on 2 November 1938 even though she had been commissioned a month earlier.
		It was then decided that HMS Sikh and HMS Maori should return to Malta, to join HMS Zulu and form the 22nd D.F. This would act as a strike force against Axis supply convoys between Italy and North Africa.
		Sikh took a long time to die, heeling over to starboard as she sank while shells continued to hit.
	www.hmscavalier.org.uk /G82 (1135 words)

	Ships of The Royal Navy WW2
		HMS Cossack, the most famous of the British Tribals, had an embarrassing debut at Portsmouth England on 12th June 1938, when she dented her brand new bow coming alongside the jetty.
		HMS Victorious left the Clyde with the Operation "Pedestal" convoy on 3 August 1942; she left the "Pedestal" convoy on the 10th of August and took part in the North African landings in November 1942.
		HMS Victorious was refitted at Norfolk Navy Yard USA, during the winter of 1942-43, after which she was loaned to the US Pacific Fleet until being replaced by the new USS Essex.
	www.imaginationscyprus.com /wip/SOTRN_ww2.htm (3237 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Maori of the Tribal class
		On 30th November, Maori and HMS Inglefield were on one of these patrols when they were ordered to help the submarine HMS Triad which was in difficulty off the coast of Norway.
		HMS Maori, HMS Tartar and HMS Mashona were sent to the Faeroe Islands on 20 June 1940 in order to requisition the ships.
		It was therefore decided that HMS Maori, HMS Sikh and HMS Zulu should be based at Malta for the time being as the 22 Destroyer Flotilla.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4425.html (1452 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Sikh of the Tribal class
		On 21 May 1941, HMS Sikh, HMS Cossack, HMS Maori and HMS Zulu left the Clyde River to escort another troop convoy through the Western Approaches.
		On 12/13th September, HMS Sikh (Capt. St.J.A. Micklethwait, R.N.) and HMS Zulu were supporting an assault off the coast of Africa.
		Sikh took a long time to die, heeling over to starboard as she sank in position 32.05N, 24.00E while shells continued to hit.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4434.html (1244 words)

	HMS SIKH
		HMS SIKH started her naval life with the 1st Destroyer Flotilla (1st DF).
		On 21st March, SIKH sailed to Cartagena, Spain to embark refugees from the Spanish Civil War.
		Shells continued to hit SIKH but her 'X' gun kept firing until the ammunition in the ready use locker was exhausted.
	hmcshaida.ca /sikh.html (987 words)

	Bismarck - Wikipedia
		On May 24, 1941, accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, she was engaged in battle by the British battlecruiser HMS Hood and the newly commissioned battleship HMS Prince of Wales.
		On May 26, at dusk, she was attacked by British Swordfish torpedo planes from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
		The British battleships HMS King George V, HMS Prince of Wales, HMS Ramillies, HMS Revenge, HMS Rodney, HMS Repulse, HMS Hood, and HMS Renown.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bismarck (582 words)

	German battleship Bismarck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		On 24 May 1941, accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, she was engaged in battle by the British battlecruiser HMS Hood and the newly commissioned battleship HMS Prince of Wales, which was still being worked up.
		An attack was made by swordfish biplane torpedo planes from aircraft carrier HMS Victorious during the early evening of 24 May. The Bismarck sustained one hit.
		On the early morning of 27 May 1941 she was engaged in an eighty-eight minute battle with HMS King George V, HMS Rodney, HMS Norfolk, and HMS Dorsetshire.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/g/ge/german_battleship_bismarck.html (791 words)

	HMS LIVELY
		HMS Lively was dispatched to assist the Free French mine laying submarine, which had been damaged off Obrestad in Norway, and, unable to dive, was making her way back on the surface at 10 knots.
		HMS Lively was narrowly missed by a torpedo which passed astern of her and Libeccio was slightly damaged by the return fire.
		HMS Lively was damaged by fire from the Littorio, this damaged a bulkhead and resulted in her speed being reduced to 20 Knots.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /HMSLivelyBook/HMS_LIVELY_BOOK.htm (8193 words)

	Sinking of HMS Exmouth
		The bell of HMS Royal Oak was recovered from the wreck, and it hangs in St.Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, as a memorial to the 833 men who were lost when the battleship was torpedoed on the night on 13-14 October 1939.
		It would seem appropriate to recover the bell and have it hung in an equivalent suitable place in Wick, near to where the ship sank, and close to where the bodies of the crewmen who were washed ashore are buried.
		Note 1: The destroyer HMS Daring was the first Royal Navy ship acknowledged to have been sunk by a U-boat torpedo in the Second World War.
	www.geocities.com /exmouthhms1940assoc/hmsexmouthrnb.htm (2368 words)

	Navy News - Letters to the Editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		HMS Gurkha was despatched to Almeria and Cartagena to visit British Consuls, then returned to Gibraltar and was joined by HMS Sikh to sail to Palma and Malta.
		The Battleship HMS Prince of Wales was commissioned at Birkenhead, on the Mersey, on 18.1.41 and sailed to Rosyth on 28.1.41 anchoring in the Firth of Forth.
		She was eventually sunk by HMS Dorsetshire on 27,5,41, Prince of Wales later anchored off Hvalfjord, Iceland for repairs and oiling before going on to Rosyth for repairs to the Bridge from 30.5.41 to 19,7.41, when she then returned to Scapa Flow until the end of July.
	www.navynews.co.uk /letters/2006/0605/060524_01.asp (4288 words)

	HMS Zulu
		In early 1941, HMS Cossack, HMS Maori, HMS Sikh and HMS Zulu were mainly employed in escorting convoys in and out of the Western approaches.
		HMS Zulu and HMS Sikh's final operation together was the attack on Tobruk, Libya on 13/14th September 1942.
		HMS Croome came along side to take off any remaining personnel except for a towing party.
	www.hmscavalier.org.uk /G18 (628 words)

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		H.M.S. Note difference in bridge structure to her ‘Hero’ class sisters.
		HMS “Kempenfelt” by this time had transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy.
		HMS “Faulknor,” Yarrow, 1935 and HMS “Exmouth,” Portsmouth Dockyard, 1935 sunk on the 21st of January 1940 by U-22 when off Moray Firth.
	www.merchantnavyofficers.com /royalnavy5.html (1307 words)

	THORNABY ON TEES
		HMS Intrepid ordered Altmark to heave to and fired a shot across her bows but with Norwegian patrol ships hampering the British ships, Altmark slipped into JÃ¸ssingfjord.
		HMS Cossack arrived at dusk and, after a conference with the Norwegians, who insisted that the Altmark had been searched and nothing found amiss, reported by wireless to the Admiralty and awaited their reply.
		HMS Cossack sailed out of JÃ¸ssingfjord at 23.55 hours with 299 merchant seamen who had been released and they were landed at Leith after a fast passage home.
	thornabyontees.freeservers.com /thornabyairfield.html (1318 words)

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		The HMS Maori is in St Elmo Bay (Fort St. Elmo - Valletta), in front of a cafe which has its outside walls covered with a number of painted Destroyers, amongst which is the HMS Maori.
		HMS Maori was launched in 1937, and saw considerable action in the Mediterranean, the Norwegian campaign, Atlantic convoys and the North Sea.
		HMS MAORI was ordered on the 10th March 1936 at the Fairfield Shipbuilding Co, Govan.
	www.subwayscuba.com /maori.html (566 words)

	HMS MAORI
		That night, Nasmos was evacuated although HMS BISON and HMS AFRIDI were sunk during the subsequent withdrawal.
		MAORI, HMS TARTAR and HMS MASHONA were sent to the Faeroe Islands on 20th June in order to requisition the ships.
		It was therefore decided that MAORI, SIKH and ZULU should be based at Malta for the time being as the 22 Destroyer Flotilla.
	hmcshaida.ca /maori.html (1296 words)

	Old R+S Class Destroyers
		Destroyer website dedicated to the history of HMS Skate, HMS Sabre, HMS Saladin, HMS Sadonyx, HMS Scimitar, HMS Scout, HMS Shikari, HMS Stronghold, HMS Sturdy, HMS Tenedos, HMS Thanet and HMS Thracian from their launch to their participation in major wars also notice board for descendents of ex-crew of R and S Class destroyers.
		The pictures show Sabre in 1939 just before the start of the war, the engine room 'staff' in 1939 - my uncle is top left in the photo, and taking soldiers aboard from the mole during one of her ten trips to Dunkirk in 1940.
		I looking for the circumstances of his loss in 1942 on HMS Stronghold (minelayer Singapore), I do not know if he was lost in the action or died as a prisoner.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /old_r+s_class.htm (2810 words)

	Günther Lütjens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		During the brief battle that followed, HMS Hood was sunk with nearly all hands lost, and HMS Prince of Wales was heavily damaged.
		Throughout the following night she was the target of incessant torpedo attacks by the destroyers HMS Cossack, HMS Sikh, HMS Maori and HMS Zulu, along with the Polish destroyer Piorun.
		The battleships HMS King George V and HMS Rodney, accompanied by several cruisers and destroyers, inflicted severe damage on the Bismarck.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Admiral_Lutjens.htm (869 words)

	Paxman History Pages - Paxman and the Royal Navy
		HMS Prince of Wales lost in action in December 1941.
		The only one of her type built, HMS Bristol was commissioned in 1973 and withdrawn from service in 1991.
		HMS Invincible was 'mothballed' in 2005, pending the construction of two new carriers for the Navy.
	www.nelmes.fsnet.co.uk /paxman/paxmanRN.htm (2242 words)

	Tribal Class Destroyers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		HMS Bedouin sustained gunfire damaged and was eventually sunk by an aircraft.
		Was HMS Ashanti involved in the towing of a merchant vessel the Empire Might to Dakar in march 1943.
		HMS Cossack, one of the fast Tribal class destroyers will always be remembered for the daring rescue of 300 prisoners of war from the German Altmark in Norwegian waters.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /tribal_class.htm (2575 words)

	Isaac Sweers history
		In the early morning, HMS Gurkha gets a radar-fix on a surfaced submarine, and is narrowly missed by two torpedoes shortly afterwards (the torpedoes ran too deep).
		Sikh was leading the group, then Legion, Maori and finally Isaac Sweers.
		HMS Gurkha is hit by a torpedo from the German U-boat U-133 (Kapitän-Leutnant Hesse) in the early morning.
	www.netherlandsnavy.nl /Sweers_his.htm (1905 words)

	4 May 1940
		Mark Horan adds: HMS Ark Royal departs Scapa Flow at 1620, escorted by the AA cruiser HMS Curlew, and six destroyers, HMS Inglefield, HMS Sikh, HMS Mashona, HMS Tartar, HMS Jaguar, and HMS Encounter.
		Meanwhile HMS Glorious arrives at Greenock at 1630, for reprovisioning, rearming, and to prepare for her new mission - ferrying 18 Hurricane Is of 46 Squadron, RAF, to Norway.
		At the same time, HMS Furious, completing the repairs on her battered turbines, is perparing to re-embark the reconstituted 263 Squadron, RAF with 18 Gladiator IIs for the same task.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1940/05/04.htm (253 words)

	Convoy HN 23A - warsailors.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the evening of Apr. 1, the Finnish Signe stopped her engines, and HMS Gurkha was sent to enquire if she needed assistance, but no reply was received.
		At 23:15 HMS Sikh heard an explosion which she thought might be from Cossack.
		HMS Afridi arrived off the entrance to Hovden at 19:00 on March 30, which was the time appointed for Convoy HN 23A to show up.
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/hn23a.html (1070 words)

	Naval Actions and losses 1942
		HMS Gurkha (ex HMS Larne) due to be part of a Malta convoy torpedoed by a U-boat.
		Fiji class cruiser HMS Trinidad torpedoes herself and is then sunk by German planes in the Barents sea.
		Cruiser HMS Nigeria torpedoed and forced to retire by the Italian submarine Axum.
	www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Naval_Actions_WW242Res.html (2272 words)

	Contents 4
		His ship, for part of the time, was H.M.S. Sikh, which was sunk at Tobruk on September 14th, 1942.
		Sikh perhaps being the most famous as it took part on the attack on the Bismarck and was involved in a fierce battle off the coast of North Africa in which it was sunk.
		Whilst there is no record here of the Sikh, there are several of the Anti-aircraft Cruiser HMS Coventry that was being bombed and sunk in the attack in which the tribal Class destroyers, HMS Sikh and Zulu were lost off Tobruk in September 1942.
	www.rickmaybury.com /O2y/02y05/236.htm (827 words)

	Sikh navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The HMS Sikh was a Tribal class British Destroyer built in Glasgow.
		At the beginning of World War II she was based in Malta.
		In 1941 she took part in the chase to hunt down the German battleship Bismark.
	www.info-sikh.com /HMSPage1.html (39 words)

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		On 28 April U-108 was attacked by USS Porter but once again escaped destruction to later surrender at the end of the war.
		The master, 15 crewmembers and six gunners were picked up by armed trawler HMS Falk & landed at Mersa Matruh 1942 - At 1120, the unescorted Reinholt (Master Hans Nielsen) was attacked by U-752 with gunfire for about 20 minutes.
		The damage to her port engine was considered to be beyond economical repair and was declared a constructive total loss 6 Jun 45 1945 - Frigate HMCS Meon paid off & returned to RN at Southampton.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/april/23Apr.txt (1693 words)

	Convoy WS 12 - warsailors.com
		HMS Devonshire escorted from Freetown to Cape Town.
		HMS Repulse, from Natal to 5 50S 40 27E, then HMS Revenge from this position to Aden.
		HMS Velox, Wrestler, Calendula, Anchusa, and Mignonette joined on leaving Freetown and left on 21st and 22nd as ordered.
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/ws12.html (882 words)

	Wikinfo \| DKM Bismarck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Throughout the following night she was the target of incessant torpedo attacks by the destroyers Cossack, Maori, O.R.P. Piorun (Polish), Sikh, and Zulu, led by Captain Vian.
		On the early morning of 27 May 1941 she was engaged in an eighty-eight minute battle with HMS King George V,
		After being struck by in excess of 300 shells and five or six torpedo hits, the crew introduced measures to sink their own ship to prevent capture.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=DKM_Bismarck (960 words)

	eBay.co.uk - hms, h.m.s, h.m.s., naval items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		AIRFIX HMS ARK ROYAL 1/600 New with paints n glue
		HMS Victory Victory oak piece with copper sheet corner
		HMS Sea Lion ships plaque (badge or crest)
	search.ebay.co.uk /hms_W0QQfrtsZ200QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ19 (306 words)

	HMS SIKH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Here is our current member listing for HMS SIKH.
		Ward, Ernest served in HMS SIKH between 1938 and 1941
		You can search for more HMS SIKH Units, Photos and Messages here.
	www.comradesandcolleagues.com /ROYAL_NAVY/HMS_SIKH.asp (129 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - Sept. 13th-19th, 1942
		The Royal Navy moves in with destroyers and the AA cruiser HMS Coventry.
		Two destroyers, HMS Sikh and HMS Zulu, sail in to unload their troops at 3 a.m.
		The British are happy to oblige, and despatch HMS Victorious to Norfolk.
	www.usswashington.com /dl13se42.htm (5639 words)

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