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	Swiftsure class submarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It originally contained six boats, but HMS Swiftsure was decommissioned in 1992 due to damage suffered to the pressure hull during trials.
		HMS Splendid followed in 2004 due to defence cuts meaning a reduction in the RN SSN fleet.
		HMS Spartan and HMS Sovereign were decommissioned in January 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swiftsure_class_submarine (184 words)

	Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He also was the main force behind the development of the HMS Dreadnought, the first all big gun ship and possibly one of the most influential ships in naval history.
		HMS Conqueror is the only nuclear-powered submarine to have engaged an enemy ship with torpedoes, sinking the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
		HMS Invincible the former flagship of the Royal Navy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_navy (5622 words)

	Tri-ang Minic Ships - HMS Swiftsure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This is the Tri-ang Minic Ships model of HMS Swiftsure one of a proposed class of eight Light Cruisers, known as the Minotaur Class, which were ordered under the 1941 and 1942 Warship Construction Programmes.
		HMS Swiftsure was the only one of the Group 1 ships to commission in the Royal Navy HMS Minotaur being transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and renamed HMCS Ontario.
		A planned modernisation of HMS Swiftsure in the late 1950's was cancelled due to cost as well as the belated commissioning of the Group 2 ships of this class HMS Lion, HMS Tiger and HMS Blake.
	www.triangminicships.com /classic_edition/navy/swiftsure.htm (293 words)

	Tri-ang Minic Ships - HMS Tiger conversion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This is a model of HMS Tiger that I created by modifying a damaged original M 761 HMS Swiftsure model.
		HMS Tiger was one of a proposed class of eight Light Cruisers, known as the Minotaur Class, which were ordered under the 1941 and 1942 Warship Construction Programmes.
		A similar planned conversion for HMS Lion was cancelled due to a lack of funds and she has the distinction of being the Royal Navy's last "all gun cruiser" decommissioning in early 1972.
	www.triangminicships.com /collectors_corner/converions/tiger.htm (444 words)

	Carnbo - Tree For All (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HMS Swiftsure was launched in 1804, replacing an earlier HMS Swiftsure, which had been taken by the French in 1801.
		HMS Swiftsure first engaged the French Achille for 40 minutes, leaving her badly damaged, before other British ships joined the action, and her boats helped rescue the crew of Achille when she caught fire.
		HMS Swiftsure was captained by William Gordon Rutherford, the son of John Rutherford of Bowland Stow, near Edinburgh, and Frances, widow of Gabriel Johnson, Governor of North Carolina.
	www.treeforall.org.uk /Scotland/News/Carnbo.htm (960 words)

	HMS Swiftsure (1804) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Swiftsure (launched in 1804 at Bucklers Hard) was a 74-gun 3rd rate ship of the line which fought at Trafalgar.
		The French ship SwiftSure (74) also took part in the battle.
		It was a myth at the time that the Swiftsure sailed faster at night.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Swiftsure_(1804) (102 words)

	turn 6
		HMS Salisbury (whose captain was the most senior) throws out a signal to let the enemy keep the weather gage, thus preventing them to run out their heaviest guns.
		Accordingly HMS Surprise signals her intention to tack, to lay herself in front of the Spanish ship and to concentrate her fire on the foremast.
		At two bells in the first dogwatch HMS Mars lets fall her anchor in the middle of nowhere and AG (with the Dutch gent) takes a party to the shore, where a tree stump breaks the regular outline of the sand dunes.
	www.brinyengarde.co.uk /turn6.htm (2111 words)

	swiftsure,tiger
		HMS Swiftsure was built by Vickers Armstrong on the Tyne and launched on the 4th February 1943.
		HMS Blake was built by Fairfield and launched on the 20th December 1945.
		HMS Blake was kept in reserve at Chatham from 1980 until shortly before the Dockyard closed in 1984, when she was sold for scrap.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /swiftsure,tiger.htm (1253 words)

	Tom Richards’ Log
		General Conturas, the fat officer who accompanied the King on board the "Swiftsure" in Ferrol, was governor of Murcia, the principal part of which is Cartagena, a very strongly fortified naval port.
		Signals were made to and from "Frederick Carl" and "Swiftsure", each manned and armed all boats, the "Swiftsure's" boats boarding the "Vittoria", the "Frederick Carl's", the "Almanza".
		When the day arrived to remove the ships, a party of men was sent from the "Swiftsure" to the "Vittoria" (the 2nd division to which I belonged) and also from the German to the "Almanza".
	www.pbenyon.plus.com /Tom's_Log/Swiftsure.html (2040 words)

	George Somers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is remembered today as the founder of the English colony of Bermuda, also known officially as the Somers Isles.
		Somers commanded several British ships between 1600 and 1602, including the HMS Vanguard, HMS Swiftsure and HMS Warspite.
		He was knighted in 1603 and became Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis the same year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Somers (502 words)

	British 7.5"/50 (19 cm) Mark III and Mark IV
		In 1917, Swiftsure was decommissioned and two of her guns were then used to arm M.21 and M.23 while the other twelve were used for coast defense in Britain and Belgium.
		After HMS Triumph was sunk in May 1915, her two spare Mark IV guns were used to arm the monitors M.24 and M.25.
		Mark III was constructed of 'A' tube, breech piece, '1 B' tube and '2 B' tube, wire for 63% of length, 'B' tube and jacket with breech bush screwing into the 'A' tube, breech ring and a ring for connecting the hydraulic buffer to the barrel.
	www.navweaps.com /Weapons/WNBR_75-50_mk3.htm (493 words)

	Swiftsure International Yacht Race > History
		The Swiftsure's second tour of duty was from April, 1889 to June, 1890, with Admiral Algernon C.F. Heneage.
		The navy training ketch HMCS Oriole is Swiftsure's "Grand Old Lady." She holds the participation record for entering 48 of the 60 races to the Swiftsure Bank.
		Swiftsure held in late June, as a part of the combined PIYA and PCYA regatta - R Vic YC last hosted this double event in 1925.
	www.swiftsure.org /history.php (3565 words)

	Swiftsure Class Central battery Ironclads
		HMS Switsure was laid down on the 31st August 1868 and launched 15th June 1870.
		In march 1882 HMS Swiftsure went to the Pacific to relieve HMS Triumph as Flagship.
		She was relieved by her sister ship HMS Swiftsure in October.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /swiftsure_class2.htm (667 words)

	Royal Navy Postwar
		Nuclear powered submarine HMS Courageous is to go on public display at Devonport.
		HMS Coventry returns to Devonport following the end of her final deployment.
		The Queen Mother attends the re-dedication of HMS Ark Royal at Portsmouth.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/welcome.htm (174 words)

	Battle of Trafalgar @ Nelson.y2u.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nelson had to wait until 15 September before his ship HMS Victory was ready to sail.
		The force watching the harbour was led by Captain Blackwood, commanding HMS Euryalus.
		On June 28th, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom was involved in the biggest fleet review in modern times in the Solent, in which 167 ships from 35 nations took part.
	nelson.y2u.co.uk /NL-Battle-of-Trafalgar.htm (4650 words)

	On This Day
		In the belief that a German invasion of Norway was imminent Flag Officer Submarines ordered HMS Thistle to Stavanger with orders to sink any enemy vessel that she may spot in the harbour.
		It was later discovered that U4, the U-boat Thistle had previously attacked had, sighted the submarine on the surface and sunk her with torpedoes.
		The Schiff remained on the scene until 0500 the next morning secure in the knowledge that she had sunk the submarine.
	www.submariners.co.uk /Dits/OTD/index.php?m=4&d=15 (233 words)

	Seaman John Grimshaw
		HMS Orion, Spartiate, Aquilon, Peuple Souvrain, HMS Defence, HMS Minotaur and HMS Swiftsure
		HMS Thesius, L'Heureux, le Tonnant, HMS Akexander, L'Orient HMS Swiftsure, HMS Defence, L'Auilon and HMS Vangard
		HMS Vanguard is pictured lying near the entrance of Portsmouth harbour at sunset in company with another Nile veteran HMS Majestic.
	www.grimshaworigin.org /Webpages2/JohnGwBattleNile.htm (7013 words)

	British WWII Warships
		HMS SWIFTSURE Improved Colony Class 1945 KIT NN MD 17
		HMS SWIFTSURE Improved Colony Class 1945 Painted NN MD 17p
		HMS BELFAST Town Class 3rd Group 1943 Painted & on wooden plinth with a brass nameplate.
	www.skytrex.com /contents/en-uk/d401_02.html (194 words)

	HMS Irresistible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Irresistible Third rate ship of the line launched in 1782 and broken up in 1806.
		Irresistible was the name for the French ship Swiftsure after it was recaptured in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
		It had originally been built for the Royal Navy as HMS Swiftsure and captured by the French in 1801.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Irresistible (170 words)

	Pre-dreadnought Battleships - World War 1 Naval Combat
		HMS Royal Sovereign, Ramillies, Royal Oak, Repulse, Revenge, Resolution, Empress of India Laid down 1889-1891, completed 1892-1895.
		HMS Formidable, Irresistible, Implacable Laid down 1898, completed 1901-1902.
		HMS Swiftsure, Triumph Laid down 1902, completed 1904.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /pre-dread.htm (292 words)

	jolt.co.uk public forums - Royal Navy Fleets enter NAS Waters. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Backfires closed in and dropped their makeshift armnaments of assorted missiles and bombs on the Hogsweatian Fleets, Banked hard and up, and dropped their countermeasures...
		20-09-2004 5:47 PM Meltsen spun around as several dive bombers came down on the Warspite next to him, HMS Knight, their makeshift missiles and bombs smashing apart a funnel from the great battlecruiser, and causing some easy fixed superstructure damage.
		Meltsen grinned as he saw two Oerlikon's shred a nearby bomber - his grin turning into a frown as the bomber crashed into HMS Tipperary, an escort for Spitfire.
	forums.jolt.co.uk /printthread.php?t=359032 (839 words)

	The British & French Fleet at Gallipoli
		Flanking those were the Majestic and the Swiftsure.
		The Ocean and Swiftsure were still close by.
		Keyes told the Ocean and Swiftsure to withdraw.
	www.diggerhistory2.info /graveyards/pages/units/fleet.htm (2326 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Swiftsure was sent to Chatham to be docked before her trials.
		Maybe it is because of the long thin elegant lines of Swiftsure, compared to the short squat form of the typical predreadnought.
		There are a lot of bollards, plates, fittings, capstan bases, anchor chain plates on the forecastle that add great detail and interest to the model.
	www.steelnavy.com /CombrigSwiftsure.htm (4859 words)

	HMS SWIFTSURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Johnson, Stan served in HMS SWIFTSURE between 1952 and 1953
		Leary, Michael served in HMS SWIFTSURE between 1987 and 1988
		Pratt, Dave served in HMS SWIFTSURE between 1990 and 1992
	www.comradesandcolleagues.com /ROYAL_NAVY/HMS_SWIFTSURE.asp (210 words)

	Swiftsure Class Battleship - HMS Swiftsure, HMS Triumph
		As you would expect for a design originally for overseas navy these ships were quite distinctive from the normal British designs with wide spaced funnels and prominent cranes between them, smaller main gun turrets.
		18 April 1915 one of her picket boats along with one from HMS Majestic destroyed the grounded British submarine E15 to prevent capture.
		Likewise the 14 pounder anti torpedo boat guns were unique to this class.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /pre-dreadnought/hms-swiftsure.html (423 words)

	S/T - class Submarines
		S (Swiftsure) and T (Trafalgar) class submarines are British nuclear powered hunter-killers (SSN's).
		They are extremely similar, with the Trafalgar class being essentially a modernised Swiftsure class, so are grouped together.
		Fire Control is provided by either the Alenia Marconi (originally Ferranti) DCB system (which is now re-hosted on COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) UNIX technology) or the BAE SYSTEMS SMCS system.
	www.shima.demon.co.uk /stboat.htm (143 words)

	CORAL SEA - SHIPWRECKS
		The wrecksite of what was possibly the French frigate Duroc was locatd by by crewmen from the lighthouse tender Cape Pillar whilst diving on the wreck of a Taiwanese fishing boat.
		The schooner Shamrock, HMS Fly, and the cutter Prince George made their rescue.
		She was returning to England from Tahiti with fourteen captured mutineers from HMS Bounty.
	oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au /coralsea-wrecks.html (5429 words)

	Other Models
		The Bucklers Hard model, on display at the Bucklers Hard Maritime Museum in Hampshire, England, is my largest piece at 25 square feet.
		It shows the village and ship yard on the day before the launch of HMS Euryalus in 1803.
		8 - Bucklers Hard detail, HMS Swiftsure in pear and box wood.
	homepage.mac.com /gawingrove/Other_models/PhotoAlbum48.html (236 words)

	Norwich Union - Tree For All (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Swiftsure Wood is named after HMS Swiftsure (3), one of the 27 warships of the Trafalgar fleet, which was captained by a Scot, Captain William Rutherford (4).
		It is situated on the farm of the late Tony Wilks, who had a distinguished Naval career.
		Local school children and the local community have already been involved in tree planting on the site at events sponsored by Norwich Union.
	www.treeforall.org.uk /Scotland/News/Norwich+Union.htm (1095 words)

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