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	HMS Valiant (1914) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Valiant was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy.
		She was one of three capital ships to take part in the Destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, and saw action at the Battle of Cape Matapan; she participated in actions during the battle of Crete, and was struck by two bombs.
		On 8 August 1944 whilst in the floating dock at Trincomalee, Ceylon, she was severely damaged when the dock collapsed with the result that repairs were stopped and she had to return to the UK, where she was decommissioned in July 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Valiant_(1914)#World_War_I (591 words)

	HMS Valiant - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Valiant, launched in 1759 at Chatham, was a third-rate ship of the line of 74 guns.
		Valiant, launched in 1914, was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship that served in World War I and World War II.
		Valiant (S102), launched in 1963, was a nuclear-powered submarine, the lead boat of her class.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/HMS_Valiant (135 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		HMS Valiant was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship">Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy.
		World War II She was one of three capital ships to take part in the Destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, and saw action at the Battle of Cape Matapan; she participated in actions during the battle of Crete, and was struck by two bombs.
		Valiant was a training ship at Devonport for the rest of her career.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=HMS_Valiant_(1914) (517 words)

	HMS Valiant
		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.
		My dad served on HMS Valiant Iam seraching for any information about the ship and her crew Iam spechialy looking for the name of the film that was made about the attempted sinking of the Valiant in Alexander Harbour.
		HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth at Alexandria by Ivan Berryman.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /valiant.htm (2037 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 Barham with HMS Eagle in Valetta Harbour in Malta during the 1930s by Ivan Berryman.
	www.naval-art.com /valiant.htm (569 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Battleship HMS Valiant of the Queen Elizabeth class
		This photograph show HMS Valiant (nearest to the camera) and HMS Resolution and is most likely taken during an Italian air attack (by SM 79 bombers) against Force H on 9 July 1940.
		Illustrious was escorted by the British battleship HMS Valiant (Capt. H.B. Rawlings, OBE, RN) the British heavy cruiser HMS Kent (Capt. D.
		HMS Ramillies (Capt. H.T. Baillie-Grohman, OBE, DSO, RN),
	www.uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4056.html (1009 words)

	Science Fair Projects - HMS Valiant (1914)
		She was one of three capital ships to take part in the Destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, and saw action at the Battle of Cape Matapan; she participated in actions during the battle for Crete, and was struck by two bombs.
		Along with her sister ship Queen Elizabeth, Valiant was mined and sunk by Italian frogmen in Alexandria harbour in December 1941.
		While in maintenance at Trincomalee, Ceylon, she was so severely damaged when a floating dock collapsed that repairs were stopped, and she was used as a training hulk at Devonport for the rest of her career; she was sold for scrapping in 1948.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/HMS_Valiant_%281914%29 (449 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		HMS Valiant was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship">Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy.
		World War II She was one of three capital ships to take part in the Destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, and saw action at the Battle of Cape Matapan; she participated in actions during the battle of Crete, and was struck by two bombs.
		Valiant was a training ship at Devonport for the rest of her career.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=HMS_Valiant_(1914) (516 words)

	Hms Valiant
		Then a gigantic hand Valiant issued from the shade and fastened on the Hms valiant throat Valiant of the captain, who uttered a stifled rattle; his outstretched arms beating the air, the torch Hms fell and was extinguished in blood.
		Hms valiant By an unreflective, instinctive, mechanical impulse the lieutenant cried, "Fire!" Immediately a volley Valiant of musketry flamed, thundered, roared in the cavern, bringing down enormous fragments from the vaults.
		Hms In addition to this principal group, scattered about the grotto as the chance of death or Hms the surprise Hms of the blow had stretched them, some isolated bodies seemed to threaten by their gaping wounds.
	miaplacidus.supox.com /article/hms%20valiant.html (833 words)

	HMS Valiant (1914)
		HMS Valiant was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy built at the Fairfield shipyards in Glasgow and launched in November 1914.
		She was one of three capital ships to take part in the Destruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, and saw action at the Battle of Cape Matapan.
		She was raised and repaired in South Africa, and then supported the landings in Sicily (Operation Husky) and at Salerno (Operation Avalanche) in 1943.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hm/hms_valiant__1914_.html (292 words)

	Derek Gardner, Naval Art
		HMS Defence seen leaving the fleet anchorage in Torbay, Devon in 1794 when she was serving in the Channel Fleet.
		Battle honours for HMS Orion: Glorious 1st June 1794, Groix 1795, Cape St Vincent 1797, Battle of the Nile 1798, Battle of Trafalgar 1805, Baltic 1807.
		The Pedestal Convoy - HMS Indomitable by Anthony Saunders.
	www.militaryartcompany.com /gardner.htm (946 words)

	British Navy Ships--HMS Valiant (1916-1948)
		HMS Valiant, a 27,500-ton Queen Elizabeth class battleship, was built at Glasgow, Scotland.
		Valiant's World War II service was far-flung: the Home Fleet in 1940, Mediterranean in 1941-42, Indian Ocean in 1942, Atlantic and Mediterranean in 1943-44 and back to the Indian Ocean in 1944.
		While in the Mediterranean in 1941, Valiant participated in the Battle of Cape Matapan in March, was bombed off Crete in May, and received serious damage from a daring Italian underwater commando raid at Alexandria, Egypt, in December.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-v/valiant.htm (453 words)

	HMS Minotaur and HMS Valiant in the Royal Victoria Dock. - Trades, industries and institutions - Port Cities
		HMS Minotaur and HMS Valiant in the Royal Victoria Dock.
		Description: The 6,710 ton ironclad HMS 'Valiant' was launched on 14 October 1863 at the Westwood Bailie Yard on the Isle of Dogs.
		In 1919 she was renamed 'Valiant II' and was eventually sold for scrap in 1957.
	www.portcities.org.uk /london/server/show/conMediaFile.349/HMS-Minotaur-and-HMS-Valiant-in-the-Royal-Victoria-Dock.html (134 words)

	HMS Valiant data (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.rna-carmarthen.org.uk /gallery/hms_valiant_data.htm (153 words)

	Dreadnought, Valiant and Churchill Class Nuclear Powered Fleet Submarines
		HMS Valiant and her sister ship Warspite used reactors based on the prototype developed at Dounray in Scotland by Rolls-Royce and the Atomic Energy Authority, and hence were the first truly British nuclear submarines.
		Valiant entered a refit at Chatham Dockyard in 1970 and upon recommissioning on May 12th 1972 she became the first submarine of a new Squadron based at Devonport.
		Valiant remained in service longer than any of the early nuclear boats and in her career traveled an impressive 576,754 nautical miles, spending 53,840 hours at sea.
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/Postwar/Submarines/early.htm (1657 words)

	HMS Prince of Wales
		HMS Prince of Wales, was built by Cammell Laird and launched on the 3rd May 1939.
		HMS Prince of Wales is shown firing on the Bismarck and in the background a huge fl cloud is all that is left of HMS Hood.
		HMS Repulse by Ivan Berryman Wearing her unusual fl and white disruptive colour scheme, HMS Repulse is pictured as part of Force Z in company with HMS Prince of Wales and the destroyer Vampire.
	www.navalprints.com /hms_prince_of_wales.htm (1356 words)

	RN Cruisers, HMS Norfolk, Suffolk, Cardiff
		HMS Illustrious and HMS Kenya at Devonport by Ivan Berryman
		HMS Illustrious slips quietly away from the docks at Devonport, Plymouth with the Fiji class cruiser in the middle distance, 1941.
		HMS Dido (Light Cruiser) was launched on 18th July 1939, she took part in the evacuation of troops and defense of Crete, where she was damaged on B gun, killing 46 men.
	www.ivanberryman.co.uk /rn_cruisers.htm (923 words)

	Italian Oxygen Rebreathers
		Sir Winston Churchill, on the sinking of HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth by Italian Combat Divers
		Possibly the most famous attack was in the Egyptian harbor of Alexandria, where 6 Pigs were used to sink the HMS Valiant and the HMS Queen Elizabeth, two English battleships of 33,600 tons each.
		After the war, gold medals of bravery were awarded to the divers, and even more interestingly it was the Captain of the HMS Valiant who pinned it on the chest of Durand De La Penne, the man who had sunk his ship.
	www.nobubblediving.com /aro.htm (784 words)

	tScholars.com \| HMS Valiant (S102) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The latest HMS Valiant was the second of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, and the first of the two Valiant class.
		She was ordered on 31 August 1960, laid down 22 January 1962, launched on 3 December 1963 by Lady Thorneycroft, and finally entered service 18 July 1966.
		When the reactor can safely be stored, she will be raised out of the water and put on public display.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/HMS_Valiant_%28S102%29 (173 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 (1458 words)

	Cranston Fine Arts. Search Results : hms valiant and hms queen
		HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth at Alexandria by Ivan Berryman.
		HMS Valiant and HMS Phoebe at Alexandria, 1941 by Ivan Berryman (AP)
		HMS Valiant and HMS Phoebe at Alexandria, 1941 by Ivan Berryman (GS)
	www.directart.co.uk /mall/dynamic2.php?ProdName=hms+valiant+and+hms+queen&action=name (237 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Valiant survivors meet on ‘attacker’s ship’ (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dreadnought HMS Valiant was put out of action for six months by Italian human torpedoes or ‘chariots’ which penetrated the defences of Alexandria Harbour in December 1941.
		A man of honour, de la Penne refused to tell his captors in Valiant where he had placed the explosive charges on her hull, but with minutes to go before the timed detonation, he urged the battleship’s commanding officer to save as many of the ship’s company as possible.
		The raid on Alexandria – the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth was even more severely damaged than Valiant – wiped out the Royal Navy’s capital ships in the Eastern Mediterranean at a stroke.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2004/0409/0004092401.asp (576 words)

	More Battleships
		HMS Repulse departing Singapore as part of force Z with HMS Vampire off her port bow and HMS Prince of Wales in the distance.
		HMS Rodney was launched in 1925, like her sister ship the Nelson, Rodney saw action in many theatres, scoring the first hit on the Bismarck among other memorable exploits.
		The destroyer HMS Kelly passes close to the battleship HMS Royal Sovereign as she escorts a convoy in the Mediterranean near Malta.
	www.rna-carmarthen.org.uk /gallery/photo_gallery6.htm (707 words)

	HMS Valiant (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Valiant (1863), a Hector-class ironclad launched in 1863 and scrapped in 1957.
		Valiant (1914), a Queen Elizabeth class battleship which entered service in 1916 and was scrapped in 1948.
		Valiant (S102), a nuclear-powered Valiant class submarine launched in 1963 and paid off in 1994.
	www.infobadger.com /articles/HMS_Valiant (138 words)

	HMS VALIANT - Find Friends from HMS VALIANT at Forces Reunited
		George Cottrell was at HMS Valiant between 1943 and 1942
		Alfred Harvey was at HMS Valiant between 1943 and 1946
		Ernest Shepherd was at HMS Valiant between 1942 and 1945
	www.forcesreunited.org.uk /namearchive/units/HMSNames/HMS-Valiant.html (503 words)

	Ivan Berryman Naval Prints - HMS Valiant
		HMS Valiant was build by Fairfield Ship Builders, and launched 4th November 1914.
		A pair of 272 Squadron Bristol Beaufighters roar over the extensively rebuilt battleship HMS Valiant as she lies at anchor at Alexandria late in 1941, accompanied by the cruiser HMS Phoebe and Valiants sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth (in the extreme distance)
		HMS Kelly passes HMS Royal Sovereign by Ivan Berryman.
	www.ivanberryman.com /hms_valiant_battleship_naval_art_print.htm (323 words)

	Nuclear Fleet Submarines
		Although the name originally chosen for her was Inflexible, Britain's second nuclear submarine was commissioned as HMS Valiant on 18th July, 1966.
		Derived directly from HMS Dreadnought, Valiant's near-perfect streamlining gives maximum underwater efficiency, whilst her fin-like conning tower is intended to reduce 'drag' to a minimum.
		As early as April 1967, Valiant set a record submerged passage for a British submarine when she completed the 12 000-mile homeward voyage from Singapore in 28 days.
	www.submariners.co.uk /Boats/Barrowbuilt/Nuclear_Fleet (1306 words)

	Art prints o fthe Battle of Jutland
		HMS Agincourt is shown alongside HMS Erin with ships of the 1st Battle squadron of the Grand Fleet, on the eve of the Battle of Jutland.
		HMS Lion at the Battle of Jutland by Ivan Berryman.
		HMS Lion with her sister ship HMS Princess Royal are shown firing on the German High Seas Fleet which can be seen in the distance during the Battle of Jutland.
	www.first-world-war.com /jutland.htm (2370 words)

	Peter Behague - Diary from HMS Cockchafer on the Yangtze - 1930-32
		After initial training he joined HMS Impregnable at Devonport, where life was tough and spartan and left him with a loathing for apricot jam, which was served with most meals.
		Peter Behague was posted to HMS Vivid in Devonport, where he stayed for two enjoyable years, renting a small house at St. Budeaux, just outside Plymouth, touring around Devon in a long-bonnetted Morris Cowley, camping and picnicking.
		In February, 1930, he left England, home and beauty in HMS Vindictive for the Far East after being appointed First Lieutenant of the Yangtse gunboat HMS Cockchafer on the China Station, and to what was to be a two-year stint.
	www.hmsfalcon.com /behague/behague.htm (4909 words)

	HMS Colossus, Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier, HMS Anson
		HMS Anson is shown with HMS Colossus at Sydney 1945.
		The King George V class battleship HMS Anson is pictured in Sydney Harbour where she joined the Pacific Fleet in July 1945, viewed across the flight deck of HMS Vengeance, where ten of her Vought F4.U Corsairs are ranged in front of a single folded Fairey Barracuda.
		HMS Anson, was built by Swan Hunter, and launched on the 24th February 1940, She spent most of her time in the Home Fleet on Convoy Duty on the Murmansk Convoy Route.
	www.navalprints.com /hms_anson.htm (421 words)

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