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 Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Royal Navy is established under the royal prerogative and the head of the Royal Navy is the Lord High Admiral, the overall head of the Armed Forces is the British Sovereign with the two roles currently vested in the same individual, Queen Elizabeth II.
Names are allocated to ships and submarines by a naming committee within the MOD and given by class, with the names of ships within a class being thematic e.g.
The first reformation and major expansion of the Navy Royal, as it was then known, occurred in the 16th century during the reign of Henry VIII whose ships, Henri Grâce a Dieu ("Great Harry") and Mary Rose, engaged the French navy in the battle of the Solent in 1545.
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 Royal Navy
Royal Navy was a force designed for the Cold War — with its three ASW aircraft carriers and a force of small frigates and destroyers, its purpose was to search for and destroy Soviet submarines in the North Atlantic.
Commissioned (surface) ships of the Royal Navy are accorded the prefix HMS, which stands for Her Majesty's Ship (or His Majesty's Ship), for example HMS Ark Royal.
The Royal Navy is established under the royal prerogative and the head of the Royal Navy, known as the Lord High Admiral, and overall head of the Armed Forces, is the British Sovereign.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/royal_navy.html   (3830 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Royal Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Royal Navy is the second largest navy in the world in terms of gross tonnage (the US Navy has the world’s largest) and is currently the second largest in western Europe in terms of personnel, after the French Marine Nationale.
There are currently 90 commissioned ships in the Royal Navy, including aircraft carriers and nuclear powered submarines (4 of which are SSBNs), as well as the ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Fleet support units manned primarily by civilian mariners are given the prefix RFA, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, such as RFA Sir Galahad.
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 Sea and Naval Books
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$21.50 10) Colledge, J.J. Ships of the Royal Navy.
More than 1500 ships from around the world are included and placed in the context of their time by a concise account of contemporary seafaring, trade routes and navigation methods.
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 Bibliography of Books Appearing in the Ship Name Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In addition to these 11,650-odd ship names, the index "includes the names of captains, masters, and some of the crew and passengers of many of the vessels" mentioned in the journal.
Such names are reported as they were set down in contemporary accounts, in the belief that this course will rarely mislead and, in some instances, may result in more definite identification." Also note: Some phrases, indicating a mention in an appendix, have been deleted from this index, though the page numbers have been retained.
CAPITALIZED ship names indicate entries in the "Picture Index." In the case of ship names that are always capitalized (such as "AVP-55"), I have added "(ill.)" after the page number.
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 The Mother of All Maritime Links: Page 42 of 47
The Steamboat Society, Göteborg Sweden (Maintaining the 1914 passenger steamer Bohuslän, the 1920 steam ferry Farjan 4 and the semi-diesel tugboat Stormprincess)
The Western Rivers Mailing List (devoted to the Western Rivers steamboats of North America, operating on the Mississippi and its tributaries, focusing on historical research, operational practices and archaeology of riverboats)
DutchSubmarines.com: The Submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy
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 The March Raid: Sources
Boikov 1996: Boikov, Viktor: [List of the civilian dead.] — In: Kivimäe 1997a, pp.
Includes 554 names (of which two duplicates), with birthdates, addresses and death dates.
The book is based on the war log (Kriegstagebuch) of the ship, and diaries and memories of her former crew.
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 Bismarck & Tirpitz - General Information - Latest Site Updates
Uploaded a new ship model to the ship model section.
Added new soundfiles so it is possible to hear how the names of the German WWII warships are pronounced in German.
Also added some soundfiles so it is possible to hear how the names of the large German WWII warships are pronounced in German.
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