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  HMS Warspite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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 HMS Warspite (1913) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Warspite was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the British Royal Navy.
Warspite joined the 2nd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet and undertook a number of acceptance trials, including gunnery trials, which saw Churchill present when she fired her 15 in (381 mm) guns and suitably impressed him with their accuracy and power.
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.
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 Battle of Jutland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jellicoe tried to cut the Germans off from their base in the hope of continuing the battle in the morning, but under cover of darkness Scheer crossed the wake of the British fleet and returned to port.
The Germans continued to pose a threat that required the British to keep their battleships concentrated in the North Sea, but they never again contested control of the seas.
Warspite had been steaming near 25 knots (46 km/h) to keep pace with the 5th Battle Squadron as it tailed Beatty's battlecruisers in the run north, creating enough strain to jam her rudder.
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 Essence of the matter-Battleship. wik5.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the United Kingdom, HMS Agamemnon (1852) was ordered in 1849 as a response to rumours of the French development, and commissioned in 1853.
Instead of further attacks bу aircraft, on Mondaу 27 Maу the Roуal Navу's battleships HMS King George V (1939) and HMS Rodneу (1925) with 2 cruisers and a number of destroуers engaged her with guns and torpedoes.
The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales (1939) and her battlecruiser consort HMS Repulse (1916) were sunk bу Mitsubishi G4M while operating in the defence of Malaуa (Malaуsia and Singapore).
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 HMS Antelope oddd.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
England continued to raid Spain's ports and ships travelling across the Atlantic Ocean under the reign of Elizabeth I but was to suffer a series of damaging defeats against a reformed Spanish navy.
However, HMS Leander, 50 guns, was with Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile.
HMS Antelope was a 54-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy that served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War.
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 CHAPTER 8 Italy | NZETC
The Luftwaffe continued to be conspicuous by its absence.
Their commander, instead of ordering a swift dash inland, chose to continue with the painstaking consolidation of his bridgehead, an operation which, owing to the steeply sloping beaches and the limited capacity of the little port of Anzio, was admittedly difficult.
The attack was continued during the night when Wellingtons and Liberators, aided by Halifax flare-droppers, cast down 230 tons of bombs on troop concentrations at Pesaro while Baltimores and Bostons sought targets on the roads and railways behind the enemy's line.
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 Colonist 1913 - 1917   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
V/Apr 12, 1913, 7 - the govt grant of $100 to each survivor of the Fenian Raids was celebrated in Victoria last night by the local veterans of the 47th and 60th Companies, under the chairmanship of Capt H Treen.
May 10, 1913 - The funeral took place at Vancouver May 8, of Mr Moses Ireland, of Valdez I. The late Mr Ireland was one of the oldest pioneers on the Pacific coast, being in CA in 1849, and engaged in logging operations on the coast for 40 yrs.
V/May 11, 1913 - died recently at New Galloway, Kircudrightshire, Sct, of John McKay, f/o William McKay, at present caretaker of the PO bldg at Victoria, who was 86, was a mem/o the British Veterans’ Assn of Canada, and took a prominent part in the formation of the Burns club in Winnipeg.
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HMS Resolution was laid down at the Palmers dockyard in Jarrow-on-tyne in November 1913, completed in January 1916 and was one of five "R" class battleships, the other's being Royal Oak, Royal Sovereign, Ramillies and Revenge.
On the 25th she returned to continue fire and was hit by a torpedo fired by the French submarine Beveziers.
In October 1941 HMS Warspite arrived in America to have repairs carried out and many of her crew transferred to Resolution.
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Israel Moiseevich Gelfand (born 1913 in Okny, Kherson, then in Russia) is a prolific mathematician in the field of functional analysis, which he interprets in a broad sense as the mathematics of quantum mechanics.
If this process is continued, eventually all the ions in the trap are slowed and have the same energy level, forming an unusual arrangement of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate.
HMS Warspite (1913) was also hit, had to be towed to Malta and was out of action for six months.
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Both had continued in 1914 and 1915 at the rate of their pre-war programs, but in 1916 the United States conceived a program of laying down 10 battleships and 6 great battlecruisers over three years and Japan looked ahead to 8 battleships and 8 battlecruisers over seven years.
To clean out the others, the Warspite, battlescarred veteran of Jutland (and which would triumph in the Mediterranean at Matapan, 29 March 1941), was sent up the fjord (which I find cited as the Vestfjord or Ofotfjord) with nine destroyers under Admiral Whitworth.
The Civil War navy continued the tradition of all these kinds of names, including some that may not have been seen since, either was warships or auxiliaries, like the Monongahela (a steam sloop commissioned in 1863).
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 Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945  -  F
Admiralty Compass Observatory (ACO) at Slough in 1960, and was
They continued to hand over documents and equipment until suddenly the vessel sank like a stone without warning and took both to their deaths.
HMS Shoreham (escort vessel) (and for divisional gunnery and minesweeping duties) (East Indies)
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 Narvik cwap.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The light is often intense in March and April, with long daylight hours and snow cover - the snow melts in lowland areas in April, but stays in the mountains for several months.
The (midnight) sun is above the horizon from May 25 to July 18, and the periode with continuous daylight lasts a bit longer, from approximately May 10 to the end of July.
The British Navy quickly dispatched ships, including the battlership HMS Warspite (1913), to Narvik and during the Battles of Narvik took control of the coast, destroying the German destroyers that had brought the invasion force to Narvik as well as other German ships in the area.
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By 1913 the Lords of the Admiralty looked around and noticed two of the world’s naval powers producing battleships armed with 14-Inch guns.
The Royal Navy opened bidding for construction of the new design of the four ships of the class in June 1912 and all four were laid down by February 1913.
In November 1912 the Federated Malay States offered to pay for the construction of a capital ship and the Admiralty decided to use this donation to build a fifth member of the class.
www.steelnavy.com /WEMQE1918.htm   (4420 words)

  
 PART II ORGANISATION AND ADMINISTRATION | NZETC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the meantime, these men should continue in their ordinary occupations, unless they wished to volunteer for military service, which they were quite free to do.
This was accepted by the Naval Board, who informed Admiralty that, in view of increased operational activity due to the presence of a raider in the Pacific and minelaying in New Zealand waters, it was not possible to release St. Aubyn immediately.
Parry felt very strongly that a commanding officer should not have to leave his ship for prolonged periods, especially when she was normally at four hours' or even shorter notice for steam and he had to take immediate action in an emergency.
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 Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) officers 1939-1945
Son of Charles Rueben Roe and Ethel Mary Roe; husband of Edith Roe, of Hendon, Middlesex.
HMS Seaborn (RN Air Station, Dartmouth, Halifax, NS)
* On 7 June 1917 in the Atlantic, Lieutenant Stuart was serving in HMS Pargust (one of the 'Q' or 'mystery' ships) which was inviting an attack by U-boats.
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 Model Shipwright Author Title Keyword Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ainsworth M. HMS Hawkins : a miniature model of the 1919 light cruiser.
HMS Rodney : restoration of a sailor-made model c1860-75.
Abstract: Vesuvius was launched in 1874, built at HM Dockyard, Pembroke.
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Donald Collingwood served in the Royal Navy on HMS Cubitt during 1943, protecting convoys in the Atlantic and the English Channel.
HMS Warspite fought off the entire German fleet at Jutland, survived a mutiny between the wars, and covered herself in glory during World War II.
As the war continued, the tankers were forced to lie stopped in mid-ocean, hoses connected to the suckling U-boat, hatches open and guns manned, to ward off an attack from which they could not escape.
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 The Ultimate HMS Warspite (1913) Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
The Ultimate HMS Warspite (1913) Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
Steam turbines, 24 boilers, 4 shafts, 56,500 hp
Eight 15-inch guns, twelve 6-inch guns, two 3-inch guns, four 47mm guns, four 21-inch submerged torpedo tubes
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