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  HMS Wivern
HMS Wivern, a 2750-ton ironclad turret ship built at Birkenhead, England, was one of two sisters secretly ordered from the Laird shipyard by the Confederate States of America government in 1862.
After a refit that reduced her sailing rig from a bark to a schooner, the Wivern served briefly as a coastguard ship based at Hull and then went into reserve.
One of Wivern's commanding officers was Captain Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, VC who was later appointed the commanding officer of HMS Captain.
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 HMS Wivern (1863) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Wivern was a 2750-ton ironclad turret ship built at Birkenhead, England, one of two sister ships secretly ordered from the Laird and Sons shipyard by the Confederate States of America government in 1862.
After a refit that reduced her sailing rig from a barque to a schooner, the Wivern served briefly as a coastguard ship based at Hull and then went into reserve.
Unfortunately it was lost in a storm of Cape Finisterre during the night 6/7 September 1870.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Wivern_(1863)   (305 words)

  
 V and W Class Short Range Escort Destroyers
HMS Witherington with HMS Victory to her right pictured c.1930.
HMS Wivern in dock at Gibraltar in November 1923.
HMS Wolverine was launched on 17th July 1919 and was sold for scrapping in 1946.
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 HMS Wivern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wivern, launched in 1863, was an early turret ship originally constructed for the Confederate States of America, taken into the Royal Navy after her launch.
Wivern, launched in 1919, was a W-class destroyer.
She served as a convoy escort in World War II and was broken up in 1948.
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 Civil War Warship Innovation
HMS Warrior, a 9137-ton ironclad frigate, was built at Blackwall, England, and launched on 29 December 1860.
HMS Warrior's “ultimate technology of 1860” was represented by iron hull and soft armor, broadside batteries of short-range guns, and dual propulsion of sail and box boilers to achieve a speed of fourteen knots.
HMS Wivern was sold for scrapping in June 1922.
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 uboat.net - Allied Warships - Frigate HMSAS Natal of the Loch class
This was later confirmed when a hunter-killer group, sent from the Tyne and led by HMS Ascension, depth-charge blasted the sea-bed at the exact position of the attack - 55.57N, 01.57W - and brought a considerable quantity of U-boat flotsam to the surface.
HMS Wivern claimed a share in the kill, on the basis of a depth-charge `attack' she made later that day on an oil-slick 10 miles south of Natal's encounter with U-714.
It was later learnt that the destroyer, with her outdated equipment, had at no stage been able to make Asdic contact with the submerged U-boat and that her depth-charge `attack' on an oil-slick later in the day had produced no wreckage.
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 British Navy Ships--HMS Wivern (1865-1922)
Following a refit that eliminated her square sails in favor of a fore and aft rig, the turret ship served for several months in 1870 as coastguard ship at Hull but then spent nearly a decade in reserve.
In 1880, Wivern was returned to active service and sent to Hong Kong as part of that colony's defenses.
HMS Wivern was sold for scrapping in June 1922.
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 Haze Gray & Underway Mystery Picture #147 Answer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Wivern was a powerful ironclad turret ship ordered by the Confederate States Navy in 1862 as CSS Mississippi.
Wivern was distinguished from her sister HMS Scorpion by the struts on her masts, which made her the first warship with tripod masts.
Wivern's seagoing career was short, as warship technology was advancing rapidly.
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 Second World War Books Review
HMS Vanoc, Velox, Zetland, and Wivern were slated for GUS 4; FFS La Malouine, HMS Aubretia and Boreas, HMCS Weyburn, Summerside, Pan Arthur, Alberni, and Lunenburg for MKS 8.
The destroyer HMS Wivern immediately came to her assistance, and Black Swan detached from the convoy to provide an A/S screen.
Wivern herself was badly damaged by the double explosion, but her efforts to assist the Canadian seamen were redoubled.
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 Naval Warfare: HMS Wivern
In 1864 the two ships were bought by the Royal Navy and were renamed the HMS Scorpion (ex-North Carolina) and the HMS Wivern (ex-Mississippi).
The Wivern had a complement of 153 and a top speed of 10.5 knots under steam power, although this could be increased a bit by the barque-rigged sails she carried.
The Wivern spent the rest of her career there, being reduced to a harbor support service vessel in 1904.
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 wivern - OneLook Dictionary Search
wivern : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
Wivern : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
wivern : Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
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 Good info about Hms southampton Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
3 HMS Dreadnought (1906-1922) 3.2 General characteristics 4 HMS Dreadnought (1960-1980) 4.3 General characteristics HMS Dreadnought (1801-1857) The first HMS Dreadnought, 98, was launched from Portsmouth on midday Saturday, 13 May 1801, after 13 years on the stocks.
HMS is headquartered in Halmstad, Sweden, and has sales and support offices in the United States, Germany and Japan.
HMS Enchantress was an escort for convoy KMS 4 to the depth charge attacks made by Enchantress.
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 HMS Wivern
Wivern, launched in 1863, was an early turret ship originally constructed for the Confederate States of America, taken into the Royal Navy after her launch.
Wivern, launched in 1919, was a W-class destroyer.
She served as a convoy escort in World War II and was broken up in 1948.
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 Naval Actions and losses in 1945   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
W class destroyer HMS Walpole irreparably damaged by a mine in the North Sea.
HMS Teme a River class frigate irrepareably damaged by U-boat off Falmouth.
HMS Ludlow a town class destroyer expended as a target.
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 Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-1945  -  A
Anderson then jumped on the back of the Chinese and began to grapple with the man, who managed to fire another round, grazing the leg of Detective Sergeant Hillhouse, who manoeuvred for position and fired two shots at the assailant, who then dropped his pistol and was arrested.
HMS Porpoise (submarine) (01.1936 in Mediterranean for Abyssinian crisis)
HMS Stag (naval HQ, Haifa) (as Staff Officer to Commodore Palestine and First Lieutenant of RN HQ, Haifa)
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 Colonial Wargames - Victorian Artillery Data - Muzzle Loading Artillery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Used aboard HMS Sultan, HMS Hercules, HMS Alexandra, HMS Temeraire, HMS Superb, HMS Cerberus, HMS Magdala, HMS Abyssinia, HMS Rupert, HMS Cyclops, HMS Gorgon, HMS Hecate, HMS Hydra, HMS Shannon, HMS Nelson, and HMS Northumberland.
Used aboard HMS Ajax, HMS Blenheim, HMS Edinburgh, HMS Hogue, HMS Cornwallis, HMS Hastings, HMS Hawke, HMS Pembroke, HMS Russell, HMS Mersey, and HMS Orlando.
Used aboard HMS Goliath, HMS Collingwood, HMS Centurion, HMS Mars, HMS Lion, HMS Majestic, HMS Meeanee, HMS Colossus, HMS Brunswick, HMS Irresistible, HMS Sans Pareil, HMS Ajax, HMS Blenheim, HMS Edinburgh, and HMS Hogue.
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 G - Royal Canadian Navy World War II
Garrard was the First Lieutenant in HMCS Weyburn and while he was crossing between his ship and HMS Wivern, which had arrived to rescue survivors, his leg was caught between the two ships and his ankle severely crushed.
To HMS Leviathan, HMS Carnarvon and HMS Roxborough in 1917.
In September 1944, HMS Formidable sailed for the Pacific theatre.
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HMS Venetia (in service 1917) (sunk in WWII)
HMS Vimiera (in service 1917) (sunk in WWII)
HMS Vortigern (in service 1918) (sunk in WWII)
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 RNPS Guest Book Page1
I am also trying to find information on HM Drifter Regent Bird, where he served from Feb 1918 to may 1919.
Hello My father Douglas Parnell served on the Northern Gem in 1942 and was mentioned in dispatches He died in 1959 at the age of 42 and I have just found this information when I had to clear my mothers house and found all his navy papers.
His service record states that he was at HMS Europa from 27th July - 1st August 1940, and on 2nd August - 31st December 1940 was posted to the "Beaver" as Engineman.
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 uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Wivern of the Admiralty Modified W class
uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Wivern of the Admiralty Modified W class
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 18 February 1947.
HMS Wivern was damaged by exploding depth charges from the sinking Canadian corvette HMCS Weburn.
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During the combat, the destroyer fell behind the convoy and was sunk by two torpedoes from U-204 at 02.05 hours on 19 Aug 1941.
The commander and 88 crewmembers were lost 1941 - U-201 sank SS Aguila & Ciscar in Convoy OG-71 1942 - Minesweeper HMS Brixham commissioned 1942 - During an aircraft attack on U-155 a man was lost overboard.
The Hunt-Class destroyer HMS Berkeley was damaged during an air attack and was sunk by her sister ship HMS Albrighton.
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 Some ships and boats of J. Samuel White, Cowes, Isle of Wight England
HMS ELFIN (20.8.1941 renamed NETTLE and given the Pendant number T.94)
HMS Havelock Requisitioned by the Royal Navy on 4 September 1939 while being built for the Brazilian Navy
HMS Vixen Never commissioned in the Royal Navy.
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With six instead of eight 8-inch (205mm) guns and a lighter displacement compared to the Type A County Class, the Type B heavy cruiser was designed to be an effort to get more cruisers for a shrinking defense budget.
Neptun HMS Norfolk 1941, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 - (N-1132) Famous County Class heavy cruiser.
Neptun HMS Berwick 1941, #2, #3, #4 - (N-1134b) One of the original Kent Class of the County Class heavy cruisers, which had prominent waterline bulges.
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 uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Wivern of the Admiralty Modified W class
uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Wivern of the Admiralty Modified W class
HMS Wivern was damaged by exploding depth charges from the sinking Canadian corvette HMCS Weburn.
The German submarine U-714 was sunk in the North Sea near the Firth of Forth, in position 55º57'N, 01º57'W, by depth charges from the South African frigate HMSAS Natal and the British destroyer HMS Wivern.
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 Royal Naval Battleships
Major historical naval website detailing short histories of each battleship and battleship class from pre-dreadnought battleships to the very last HMS Vanguard.
Included on each web page are battleship data detailing displacement, armaments, complement, speed and range.
SUNK IN COLLISION WITH HMS CAMPERDOWN 22ND JUNE 1893.
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 HCGL Manuscripts: GLMS-4, Erik Heyl Collection
USS DESPATCH, 1855 - see CITY OF BOSTON, 1852
EL MOUNASSIR, 1863 - see HMS WIVERN, 1863
EL TOUSSON, 1863 - see HMS SCORPION, 1863
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