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	HMS Warspite
		One HMS Warspite was a first-class armored cruiser, launched December 29, 1884 and commissioned in 1886.
		Another HMS Warspite was a battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class[?], launched November 26, 1913.
		Another HMS Warspite was the third of Britain's nuclear-powered[?] submarines, and the second (and final) of the Valiant class.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMS_Warspite.html (326 words)

	Battle of Narvik, HMS Warspite
		HMS Warspite during the second battle of Narvik by naval artist Randall Wilson in naval art print Shooting from the Hip.
		In April 1940 HMS Warspite took part in the Battle of Cape Matapan and in May 1941 took part in the battle of Crete, where she sustained damage by a heavy bomb hit.
		HMS Warspite is shown in Action during the 2nd battle of Narvick.
	www.military-art.com /dhm728.htm (661 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - HMS Warspite (1913)
		HMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the British Royal Navy.
		HMS Barham was sunk and Valiant and Queen Elizabeth both spent time resting on the bottom of Alexandria harbour after their hulls were holed in an attack by Italian frogmen.
		Warspite also took part in the naval portion of the Battle of Crete, where she was badly damaged by German bombers.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=HMS_Warspite_(1913) (2817 words)

	HMS Warspite print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Warspite was the ship of the watch during the initial troubles, but was at sea when the mutiny actually began and her crew did not take part.
		Warspite subsequently left the Mediterranean to join the Home Fleet where she became involved in a variety of hunts for German capital ships who were intent on acting as commerce raiders.
		Warspite made attacks on the Roeder and Giese, the former of which was blown up by its own crew, while Giese was destroyed by the RN destroyers and Warspite.
	www.tfacc.co.uk /qp/hmswarspite.htm (2443 words)

	HMS Warspite
		HMS WARSPITE was built at Devonport, Plymouth and launched 26th November 1913, Took part in the battle of Jutland and sustained 15 hits and was close to foundering.
		At the battle of Narvik in April 1940 HMS Warspite to part in the Battle of cape Matapan and in May 1941 took part in the battle of Crete, where is sustained damage by a heavy bomb hit.
		HMS Ramillies and Warspite at Normandy by Anthony Saunders
	www.naval-art.com /warspite.htm (1164 words)

	Royal Navy WARSHIP GUIDE - HMS Warspite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HMS Warspite was the second of the class to be built, and like all others (except Queen Elizabeth herself) she was a veteran of the battle of Jutland, which did so much to shape later warship designs.
		Warspite was involved in a long war, with action in the Norwegian campaign, Battle of the Atlantic, and combat in the Indian Ocean.
		Warspite provided frie in the D-day landings, and she was damaged again y a mine on 13 June 1944, but survived the rest of the war.
	pdwilson.co.uk /warships/warspite.htm (420 words)

	HMS Warspite - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The fifth Warspite was originally Waterloo, a 120-gun first-rate launched in 1833, renamed in 1876 and burned in 1918.
		The sixth Warspite, launched in 1884, was an Imperieuse-class first-class armoured cruiser, scrapped between 1904 and 1906.
		The ninth Warspite, launched in 1965, is the third of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, the second (and last) of the Valiant class.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Warspite (360 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Battleship HMS Warspite of the Queen Elizabeth class
		This convoy was escorted by the Anti-Aircraft cruisers HMS Calcutta, HMS Coventry and 4 destroyers.
		Cover was provided by the Mediterranean Fleet (Admiral Cunningham) with the battleships HMS Warspite, HMS Valiant, HMS Malaya, HMS Ramillies, the aircraft carriers HMS Illustrious, HMS Eagle, the cruisers HMS York, HMS Gloucester, HMS Liverpool, HMS Ajax, HMS Orion, HMAS Sydney and 16 destroyers.
		While the Mediterranean Fleet was still on the return trip aircraft from HMS Illustrious and HMS Eagle attacked Leros and in the evening of the 14th the British light cruiser HMS Liverpool while south-east off Crete was hit in the bow by a torpedo from an Italian aircraft.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4057.html (645 words)

	HMS Warspite 1884
		HMS Warspite was built at Chatham Dockyard and engined by Penn. and Launched 29th January 1884, while her sister ship HMS Imperious was built at Portsmouth Dockyard 1883 and engined by Maudslay.
		HMS Warspite (shown left) was commissioned in 1890 as flagship in the Pacific and on her return home, in 1893, she was selected to carry the flag of the senior naval officer on the Irish coast.
		HMS Warspite shown on left, the flagship of the station with HMS Icarus and Amphibian naval sloops and the ill-fated HMS Condor.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /hms_warspite.htm (1063 words)

	Anatomy of the Ship Battleship HMS Warspite Ross Watton
		HMS Warspite was arguably one of the finest capital ship designs of all time.
		Warspite and her four sister ships of the Queen Elizabeth class were the prototypes of the modern fast battleship, the ultimate development of the Dreadnought type.
		Her service spanned two generations from Jutland in 1916, the last great surface engagement between battle fleets where she received many hits, to the dawn of the missile age (she was badly damaged by a guided bomb in 1943), with battle honours that also included Narvik, Matapan and the D-Day landings.
	www.sailgb.com /p/anatomy_the_ship_battleship_hms_warspite_ross_watton (374 words)

	Mounts Warspite And Invincible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HMS Invincible was a battle cruiser that was sunk with the loss of nearly the entire crew of over a thousand men.
		Warspite Cascades is a good spot to rest on the way up to the hanging valley north of Mount Warspite.
		This is the 2850-metre summit of Mount Warspite.
	members.shaw.ca /ssbou2003/warspiteinvincible.html (593 words)

	H.M.S. Warspite - Icons of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thousands of men and boys served in her - Warspite was their home as well as a weapon of war - and the Warspite played a key role in many key events, tipping the balance in the cause of democracy rather than dictatorship.
		HMS Warspite gave the best value for money spent on her then any Capital Ship.
		i have a photo of warspite taken within a few seconds of hitting a mine on the 13/6/1944, a canadian officer on one of the escorts took the photo & later came on board warspite asking who would like a copy at a small price, in all she was a happy ship.
	www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/hmswarspite/comments (762 words)

	HMS Warspite
		The eighth and current Warspite is the nuclear submarine which started her career stalking nuclear vessels during the Cold War and later patrolled the waters around the Falkland Islands and the Argentinian coast following the war in 1982.
		Warspite was retired from service at the end of the Second World War and in 1947 was being towed to the breaker's yard when, during a storm, she broke free from her tugs and ran aground in Prussia Cove, off the Cornish coast.
		My Grandfather was a CPO on HMS Warspite during WW2, Unfortunately he passed away in 1993, I and my family would be eternally grateful to hear from anyone who may have known Eric Sussex or even better have some pictures of the crew which may include him aboard the Warspite or any information.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /warspite.htm (4780 words)

	Royal Navy: HMS Warspite 1915 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		in 1916, Warspite was hit 13 times after her steering gear jammed and she circled in front of the German fleet.
		Warspite was severely damaged by a German radio-controlled bomb off Salerno while covering the landings in Italy on 16 September 1943.
		Warspite’s aircraft were launched from a catapult amidships and recovered using cranes.
	www.royal-marines.mod.uk /static/pages/3515.html (365 words)

	1/700 Warspite1
		Her successor, HMS Warspite, the post-war submarine, was adopted by Hereford City, WEM's home town, Warspite being an old English name for Woodpecker, linked with the woodpeckers found in the cider orchards of Herefordshire.
		On 22nd May she was hit by a 500 lb bomb which, together with a later near miss, necessitated repairs in the U.S. The repairs were followed by a spell with the Eastern Fleet, before returning to the Med in June 1943, where she was employed in bombardment duties in support of the Italian campaign.
		They have also produced HMS Queen Elizabeth 1918 (WEM K 721), and we eventually hope to add HMS Barham 1941, representing her at the time of her sinking, and HMS Warspite 1916, the only accurate representation of her at Jutland.
	whiteensignmodels.com /brochure/1_700_warspite1.htm (1113 words)

	Barking Moonbat Early Warning System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HMS Warspite had helped make history at the time she was laid down (October 1912), as one of a class of five battleships, or dreadnoughts, as they were then known.
		HMS Warspite was soon in the thick of the fray.
		In May 1940, HMS Warspite went to the “Med,” to which she was no stranger, having served there for extended periods in the interwar years.
	www.barking-moonbat.com /index.php/weblog/comments/in_memoriam_hms_warspite (2581 words)

	More Battleships
		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 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.
	www.rna-carmarthen.org.uk /gallery/photo_gallery6.htm (707 words)

	HMS Ganges Association April 2006 Noticeboard Royal Navy
		After retiring from the Navy in 1951, his diving efforts to rescue the crew of HM submarine Truculent which sank in the Thames, was made into a film starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough.
		Jack Freshwater, secretary of the Grimsby branch of the HMS Ganges Association, said membership had fallen from 32 to six in the last 15 years.
		HMS Ganges (Shotley) Historian, Solent Division member and stalwart supporter of all things Ganges has been having a hard time (My words not his), which has culminated in his having a below knee amputation.
	www.hmsgangesassoc.org /apr06.html (1109 words)

	HMS battleship Warspite
		Although only the sixth Warspite to feature in the Royal Navy her battle honours went back to 1596, and she bore one of the Navy's proudest names.
		Warspite was the fifth unit of the Queen Elizabeth class, which were outstanding among British battleships, and the most far-sighted design of their day.
		Warspite was laid down at Devonport in 1912, and commissioned for the 5th Battle Squadron in March 1915.
	warship.all-model.com /HMS%20Warspite.html (1080 words)

	Type 82 General Purpose Destroyer
		His early experience was gained as a Midshipman and Sub Lieutenant in the Destroyers HMS Agincourt and HMS Carysfort which took him to the Mediterranean, the Far East and the South Pacific.
		In 1980 he was appointed in command of the general purpose frigate HMS Avenger as Captain of the 4th Frigate Squadron of 'Type 21s'.
		HMS Avenger herself conducted several bombardments of the Argentine positions, landed special operations forces and survived a combined Super Etendard/Exocet and Skyhawk bomber attack of which she was the focus.
	www.hmsbristol.plus.com /cos.htm (966 words)

	WEM 1/700 HMS Warspite Ca.1942
		HMS Warspite, one of the five Queen Elizabeth class of battleships is one of those ships that need little introduction.
		As such, lets move right on to the White Ensign Models 1:700 resin kit of Warspite as she appeared in 1942.
		A picture of the ship in Raven and Roberts, 'British Battleships of World War Two' convinced me her decks were painted medium gray because the shade of the deck was the same as the turret tops.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2001/june/ships/warspite.htm (2279 words)

	Amazon.com: Hms Warspite: The Story of a Famous Battleship (Classics of Naval Literature): Books: Stephen Wentworth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Roskill was writing this history of the Warspite's in the 1950 and as such some views on the histories have changed (Hindsight is a wonderfull thing), and the new introduction to this edition gives a very fair and even analysis of the strength and waeknesses of Roskill work.
		Warspite was without doubt the most sucessful Battleship of the most successfull Class in History.
		HMS Warspite was the most successful British capital ship of the 20th century - you have to go back to Nelson's Victory to find comparable distinction.
	www.amazon.com /Hms-Warspite-Battleship-Classics-Literature/dp/1557507198 (1247 words)

	HMS Warspite (S103) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The latest HMS Warspite was the third of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, and the second (and final) of the Valiant class.
		In October 1968, Warspite rather embarrassingly collided with a Russian Echo 2 submarine it had been shadowing in the Barents Sea, causing serious damage to its large central fin.
		She subsequently took part in the Falklands War, and was decommissioned in 1991 following the discovery of hairline cracks in the primary coolant circuit during a refit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Warspite_(S103) (362 words)

	British Navy Ships--HMS Valiant (1916-1948)
		HMS Valiant, a 27,500-ton Queen Elizabeth class battleship, was built at Glasgow, Scotland.
		She was completed in February 1916 and served with the Grand Fleet in the North Sea for the remainder of World War I. As one of the important components of British seapower, Valiant was twice modernized during the inter-war period, in 1929-30 and again in 1937-39, greatly enhancing her combat effectiveness.
		HMS Valiant leads the line as the Italian fleet steams into Malta, under the terms of the Italian Armistice.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-v/valiant.htm (453 words)

	HMS Warspite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Warspite, launched in 1884, was a first-class armoured cruiser scrapped between 1904 and 1906.
		Warspite, launched in 1913, was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship.
		Warspite, launched in 1965, is the third of Britain's nuclear-powered submarines, the second (and last) of the Valiant class.
	hms-warspite.kiwiki.homeip.net (263 words)

	H.M.S. Warspite - Icons of England
		H.M.S. Warspite demonstrated true English fighting spirit – she never gave up.
		She was one of the most decorated ships of the twentieth century (25 battle honours) and served in both world wars.
		Contrary to the opinion that Victory and Ark Royal are THE icons of Britain's defence of democracy against dictatorship etc., the Warspite is the most legendary naval vessel in British history with more battle honours that any other and having fought against fascism in two world wars.
	www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/hmswarspite (597 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Donald Delves' War, Part 10 : Postscript, Home & HMS Warspite "The Grand Old Lady"
		At the end of July, 1950, she was refloated to go to a breakers yard in South Wales, but shortly sprang a leak in her boiler room and had to be towed to Marazion, quite close to St. Michaels Mount, and beached.
		She was taken away piece by piece and by the end of August 1956, HMS Warspite was no more.
		A fine granite stone memorial to HMS Warspite and those who served in her, stands by the slipway to the Mounts Bay Yacht Club's dinghy park, in the shadow of the new Lifeguard Lookout Station at Marazion.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/99/a4464399.shtml (496 words)

	Maritime Prints - HMS WARSPITE IN ACTION AT JUTLAND, 31 MAY 1916 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One of a pair, this shows the 5th Battle Squadron and WARSPITE at about 1800 on 31 May in the race to the north whilst engaging the High Seas Fleet to the south east.
		A lowering, sultry sky with patchy visibility and heavy with gun and funnel smoke, the painting is charged with atmosphere.
		WARSPITE (Captain E M Phillpotts RN) is sporting 3 large battle ensigns and following an earlier hit was shortly to suffer a steering gear failure which led to her coming under renewed and very heavy fire as Not Under Command, she lurched towards the HSF.
	www.maritimeprints.com /portfolio/?mp=6 (162 words)

	The British Postal Museum & Archive - Viscount Cunningham & HMS Warspite
		Cunningham is pictured with HMS Warspite, one of nine Royal Navy ships to bear the name.
		Warspite fought in the Battle of Jutland in the First World War, and in many theatres, including supporting the D-Day landings, during World War 2.
		Cunnigham and Warspite are part of the ‘Maritime Heritage’ stamp issue from 1982.
	www.postalheritage.org.uk /exhibitions/ww2stamps/cunningham (310 words)

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