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	HMS Tartar (F133) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HMS Tartar (F123) was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN).
		Tartar undertook deployments to the West Indies and Far East and in 1968, Tartar deployed to the Persian Gulf, which was, at that time, quiet a tense period for diplomatic relations between the UK and Iran, which was then ruled by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
		Tartar was in the thick of it for much of the deployment, with a number of encounters with the notorious Icelandic gunboats, specifically with Tyr, who often got entangled with RN warships and British fishing trawlers during the Cod Wars.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hms_tartar__f133_ (383 words)

	cameroon.ca - HMS Nubian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HMS Nubian (F131) was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy...
		HMS Zubian was a composite destroyer cobbled together as was her name from the forward end of HMS Zulu and the stern end of HMS Nubian.
		Turnbull was rested at HMS Valluru, a new naval air station at Tambaram, near Madras, then was sent home to the School of Naval Air Warfare at St Merryn, Cornwall.
	www.cameroon.ca /HMS-Nubian/reference/fullview/wikipedia/1239669 (220 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Tartar of the Tribal class
		On 4 March 1941, HMS Somali, HMS Eskimo, HMS Bedouin and HMS Tartar took part in a successful commando raid on the Loften Islands (Norway).
		Luckily, the \'Tartars\' were able to save their ship and the flotilla destroyed ZH 1 and Z 32 by the end of the night.
		Tartar had a boiler clean at Plymouth, England from 16th - 20th October and was then employed escorting \'monster\' troopships in and out of the Western Approaches.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4229.html (1338 words)

	HMS TARTAR
		In August 1942, TARTAR and her Tribal sisters, escorted the Pedestal Convoy from the United Kingdom to Malta.
		On 21st January 1944, TARTAR completed a major refit in which 20mm guns were installed on the bridge wings, 20mm Oerlikons replaced the quadruple 0.5 inch machine guns and internal accommodation was rearranged.
		Steaming to the Far East, TARTAR assisted in the hunting of the remainder of the Japanese Fleet and minesweeping operations until she returned home in November 1945.
	hmcshaida.ca /tartar.html (1212 words)

	Bismarck: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Bismarck
		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.
		On 26 May, at dusk, she was attacked by British Swordfish torpedo planes from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
		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[?].
	www.encyclopedian.com /bi/Bismarck.html (789 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1982
		HMS Conqueror was a Churchill-class nuclear powered submarine that served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1990.
		The Belgrano as she was in 1941 as the USS Phoenix passing Battleship row at Pearl Harbor The ARA General Belgrano was an Armada RepÃºblica Argentina cruiser sunk with significant loss of life in a controversial incident during the Falklands War.
		Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hermes, after Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology: The first Hermes was a converted cruiser that was used as an experimental seaplane tender by the Royal Naval Air Service shortly before World War I. She was sunk by a...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1982 (10975 words)

	NE Diary 1939-45; Warships Launched or Completed by N.E. Shipyards 1939-41
		'HMS Gladiolus' corvette (925t) - On 1st July 1940 the 'Gladiolus' forced 'U 26' to the surface and was, in company with another ship and a Sunderland flying boat, instrumental in forcing the U boat's crew to scuttle their vessel.
		The 'Eridge' was able to repay her debt to 'HMS Aldenham' (the ship that towed her to Alexandria) which was damaged after she ran aground, spares were taken from 'Eridge' (now classed as a hulk) to repair the 'Aldenham'.
		'HMS Pakenham' destroyer (1,540t) - Took part in the action that captured the 'U 559' on 30th October 1942 (see the entry for that date in the diary) - After being damaged during battle with Italian destroyers, she was finally sunk by enemy aircraft off Sicily on 16th April 1943.
	www.bpears.org.uk /NE-Diary/Bck/Warships1.html (2130 words)

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		HMS Tartar was eventually wrecked off San Domingo in 1797.
		Built in 1936 HMS Victorious was one of four Illustrious Class of ships which had armoured flight decks and hangars which made them able to deal with Kamikaze attacks.
		Captain Bovell, a Barbadian and son of the colony's one time attorney General, was commanding HMS Victorious in the historic battle in which the "Bismarck" was sunk.
	bps.gov.bb /index.php?ZZZ=1_1055_10_0_0_&YYY=17_46 (547 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Somali of the Tribal class
		She claimed a U-boat on 29/30th October while escorting a Norwegian convoy with HMS Tartar and HMS Ashanti.
		Around Christmas 1941, HMS Somali, HMS Ashanti, HMS Bedouin and HMS Eskimo took part in another raid on the Lofoten Islands but their assault was curtailed by the presence of the German air force.
		HMS Ashanti then took her crippled sister ship in tow, cruising at a slow 7 knots.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4435.html (1256 words)

	Code war helped by baking powder - This Is The North East archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tartar was chosen because of the vital role tartar plays in the creation of baking powder.
		On June 25, 1941, HMS Tartar was one of four warships despatched to north Iceland to capture the new codebooks.
		The Tartar's gunners opened fire and missed, as instructed, but immediately the Lauenberg's crew could be seen rowing for safety in their lifeboats.
	archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk /2001/10/31/155516.html (1805 words)

	The Wreck of the HMS Sybille, Lambert's Bay - South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The hurried activity was in response to a report that the cruiser, HMS Sybille was aground on the rocks south of Lamberts Bay on the Cape west coast, and the Doris was rushing to her assistance.
		The HMS Sybille was a twin screw, second-class cruiser of 3400 tons, built in 1890 by R. Stephenson of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
		Both the Sybille and the HMS Partridge have been linked to this incident, but it now seems to be generally accepted that the vessel involved was in fact the Partridge rather than the Sybille.
	www.lambertsbay.info /sybil.html (1643 words)

	Ken Noble, Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He eventually arrived at HMS Lanka in Sri Lanka in the spring or summer of 1945 and probably travelled across the island to join HMS Tartar, a Tribal Class Destroyer, at Trincomalee in July 1945.
		HMS Tartar was active in the closing stages of the war against Japan assisting in the hunting of the remainder of the Japanese Fleet and minesweeping operations off Penang and Singapore.
		It was during this mission that crew members from Tartar were involved in the relief of POW's from the infamous Changi Camp in Singapore and Tartar was used to transport some of the liberated prisoners.
	www.sponend.fsworld.co.uk /gene/noble/ken/service.htm (511 words)

	HMS Tartar Association
		The HMS Tartar Association was formed during the Inaugural reunion for all who served in Tribal Class Warships of the name held at the Commodore Hotel Blackpool on 22/23rd April 2005.
		Membership is open to all who served in the Type 81 Frigate F133 and her predecessor the Tribal Class Destroyer F43/G43.
		The Tartar Talk forum is also a useful tool for finding old shipmates.
	www.hmstartar.co.uk (152 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Mashona of the Tribal class
		In September 1939, the submarine HMS Spearfish was severely damaged by enemy action while operating in the German Bight.
		HMS Mashona, HMS Matabele and HMS Somali successfully located the crippled sub on 25th/26th September.
		By this time, HMS Sherwood and HMCS St. Clair had arrived and they were ordered to fire at the hull.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4431.html (939 words)

	Ascension Island -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		So it remained uninhabited until Emperor (French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)) Napoleon I was incarcerated on (Click link for more info and facts about St Helena) St Helena in 1815 when a small British naval garrison was stationed on Ascension to deny it to the French.
		The island was designated "HMS Ascension", a "Stone sloop of War of the smaller class".
		By (French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)) Napoleon's death in 1821 Ascension had become a victualling station and sanatorium for ships engaged in the suppression of the slave trade around the (An area of western African between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea) West African coast.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/as/ascension_island.htm (1353 words)

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		At HMS St Vincent my entry consisted of three classes, one seaman and two of junior electrical ratings, we trained a full year with them.
		At HMS St Vincent in 1956 many of our instructors had come through the war, piss taking wasn't high on their agenda, they wanted us boys to survive; and have good training and education.
		To arrive in Australia at the age of 17 in 1958 was a dream come true, the boys I joined HMS St Vincent with were very much like me, from fairly poor backgrounds and from secondary modern schools where education consisted of the very basic that was on offer.
	www.rjerrard.co.uk /royalnavy/rnbooks/tartar.htm (985 words)

	ghana.ca - HMS Ashanti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		By June 1942, HMS Somali, HMS Ashanti, HMS Esk...
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	www.ghana.ca /HMS-Ashanti/reference/fullview/wikipedia/1239697 (188 words)

	Convoy HN 1 - warsailors.com
		At 16:00 that day, she proceeded with Tartar as escort, while the main body of the convoy continued at 7 1/2 knots, dispersing off Methil at 12:15 on Nov. 10, while Vina and her escort arrived at approximately 13:15.
		HMS Tartar - detached at 16:00 on Nov. 9 to escort Vina, as mentioned.
		HMS Zulu and HMS Maori were met at 09:30 on Nov. 9, in 59 02N 01 50W, and escorted Hardingham and Hetton westward through Fair Island channel.
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/hn1.html (423 words)

	Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tartar joined the Standby Squadron at Chatham in March 1981 and was placed on the disposal list in August the same year.
		In June 1983 Tartar used explosives to sink a merchant vessel that had collided with a drilling rig.
		Tartar paid off at Portsmouth on March 29th 1984 and was sold to Indonesia.
	www.xmission.com /~willis/Navy.htm (503 words)

	HMS Sutherland (F81) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Sutherland (F81) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HMS Sutherland (F81) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Sutherland (F81).
		HMS Sutherland (F81) is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy.
		See HMS Sutherland for other ships of the same name.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMS-Sutherland-F81.html (114 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Princess Royal lit a beacon at HMS Cumbria (an RNR unit) near Barry in South Wales 2005 - Mercy Ships Canada hosts a Gala Dinner & Auction "Launch" evening to help complete and celebrate the launch of the Africa Mercy, the newest and largest ship of the Mercy Ships International fleet.
		HMS CHATHAM, a Royal Navy Type 22 frigate will be alongside in Cadiz, Spain preparing to sail to Cape Trafalgar for a commemorative wreathlaying ceremony at sea in company with Spanish aircraft carrier Principe D'Asturias, Spanish Frigate Reina Sofia, and French Frigate Montcalm.
		Coincidentally, HMS Chatham's Logistics Officer is a trained campanologist (bellringer), although the eight bells peal is not expected to task his skills.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/october/21Oct.txt (1129 words)

	Navy News - Jack to Jack - Reunions - April 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HMS Surprise: A reunion for all ship’s company from any period of her commission and friends will be held at The Naval Club, 38 Hill Street, London W1 on April 7 at 1200hrs.
		HMS Ladybird (Sasebo, Japan 1950-53) Association: will be holding their annual reunion April 8 to 10 at the Savoy Hotel, Bournmouth.
		HMS Tartar: After the success of the HMS Tartar website, a first reunion is being held at the Commodore Hotel, Blackpool on April 22/23.
	www.navynews.co.uk /reunions/reunion_0504.asp (1046 words)

	HMS PUNJABI HISTORY - New European Regiment Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Prior to the invasion of Russia by Germany, Force "K" consisting of Punjabi, HMS Aurora, HMS Nigeria and HMS Tartar left Scapa Flow for Spitsbergen with the intention of investigating that island's use as a naval base.
		Soon she was back at Scapa Flow and while in company with HMS Ashanti, the German air force attacked for the first time on 17th October.
		She shared the Hurd Deep patrol with HMS Ashanti and the rest of her assignments were with the 10th D.F. from June 1944 onwards.
	www.ner-clan.net /global/showthread.php?t=4134 (8262 words)

	HMS Somali
		When HMS Somali was completed, she spent most of January 1939 around Portland England carrying out torpedo and harbour exercises in severe weather.
		Somali was with HMS Afridi and other Tribals when HMS Gurkha was lost in action.
		She was also one of the ships that investigated Norwegian fiords as suitable landing spots for an Allied Expeditionary Force and later participated in many of the assaults on German held positions.
	www.hmscavalier.org.uk /G33 (1110 words)

	Convoy ON 1 (U.K.-Norway 1939) - warsailors.com
		HMS Somali, HMS Ashanti, HMS Tartar and HMS Fame provided close escort, Fame being relieved at 17:00 on Nov. 5 by HMS Punjabi, while Fame proceeded to Scapa.
		HMS Curlew joined at 08:10 on Nov. 5, zig-zagging astern of convoy as A.A. escort.
		HMS Edinburgh was sighted at 13:00 on Nov. 6, and acted as covering force.
	www.warsailors.com /convoys/on1norw.html (344 words)

	Tribal Class Destroyers
		HMS Cossack Built by Vickers Armstrong and launched on 8th June 1937 at the outbreak of War the Cossack served in Home waters and also in the Mediterranean.
		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.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /tribal_class.htm (2260 words)

	HMS Eskimo (F119) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Motto: HMS Eskimo (F119) was a Tribal class frigate frigate of the Royal Navy, built by J.S. Whites Shipbuilders of Cowes.
		Eskimo subsequently became a target vessel, and was sunk in 1986.
		See HMS Eskimo for other ships of this name.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Tribal-class-frigates/HMS-Eskimo-(F119).html (165 words)

	History
		She was commissioned by the Bishop of Newcastle on 16th December 1944 as HMS Vengeance under the Command of Captain D.M.L. Neame, and moved to the Tyne Commissioning Quay.
		She set sail from the Clyde with her sister carriers HMS Colossus, HMS Glory and HMS Venerable, and escorted by the Destroyer Escorts, HMCS Assiniboine, HMS Cotton, HMS Inman, HMS Stockham, HMS Tartar and HMS Ulysses.
		Between 29th March to 18th November 1949, HMS Contest, was a C Class Destroyer, whose duty was to be guard destroyer 'chasing' aircraft carriers to pick up any ditched pilots, HMS Illustrious and HMS Vengeance were two of the carriers involved.
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /vengeance/History_RN.html (1026 words)

	Vancouver's colleagues
		Joseph Baker, the second son of the James and Nancy (née Ludlow and from Ludlow in Shropshire) Baker, was born in Bristol early in 1768.
		The Tartar sailed from Yarmouth on 20 March and anchored off the north end of the island on the 26th, sighting the enemy off the south side of the island the next day.
		On 18 August 1811, Tartar struck on a sandbank in the Baltic and was wrecked.
	pages.quicksilver.net.nz /jcr/~vancouver2.html (15459 words)

	DKM Bismarck
		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, HMS Rodney, Norfolk, and HMS Dorsetshire.
		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.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/dk/dkm_bismarck.html (942 words)

	HMS Gurkha (F122) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Motto: HMS Gurkha (F122) was a Tribal class frigate frigate of the Royal Navy.
		She was named after an ethnic group located in Nepal, and whose people continue to serve in the British Army.
		See HMS Gurkha for other ships of the name.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Tribal-class-frigates/HMS-Gurkha-(F122).html (305 words)

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