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  List of Royal Navy ships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from List of ships of the Royal Navy)
H - I - J - K - L - M - N
lists all currently commissioned vessels in the Royal Navy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Royal_Navy   (143 words)

  
 Ships of the Royal navy at Trafalgar
The majority of the ships building were being built in the southern English counties, in the neighbourhood of the large oak forests and near the chief naval ports.
The line-of-battle ship was the sole instrument for obtaining the command of the seas, and on the whole the 74 gun ship was generally accepted as the best investment of naval expenditure, the tactics proper to such vessels having been worked out in many an action.
The large tumble-home given to the ships was adopted mainly with the object of obtaining greater strength against transverse racking strains and facilitating the obtaining of suitable timber for the upper beam knees.
home.gci.net /~stall/traf.htm   (4251 words)

  
 H.M.S. Falcon - Royal Navy Gunboats in China and the Far East
The Royal Navy in China 1834-1997 is a new site (still under construction) which already has up a huge number of shots of Royal Navy vessels that served in China (they appear to be down right now due to reorganization and I sincerely hope they reappear as they have an amazing library of photographs).
The ship is currently upside-down in about 100 feet of water, but her deck is accessible due to a void that exists under the ship (Geoff, with his diving team, originally had to tunnel under the wreck to reach the deck and hatches).
HMS Sandpiper was shipped from Britain and re-assembled at the Kiangwan Dock in Shanghai in 1933.
www.hmsfalcon.com   (6637 words)

  
 List of Royal Navy ship names - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy
List of amphibious warfare ships of the Royal Navy
List of submarine depot ships of the Royal Navy
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Royal_Navy_ship_names   (215 words)

  
 Sailing ships of the Royal Navy A1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The enemy ship cut her cables and was driven ashore on the European side and although the boats were pelted by shot thrown by hand, Lieuts.
Four 18-pounders were landed from each ship on the 18th and a party of officers and seamen mounted them in batteries but their fire over a period of eight days was insufficient to overcome the defences.
H was sentenced to be placed at the bottom of the captain`s list and rendered incapable of ever serving on board a ship of the Royal Navy.
www.cronab.demon.co.uk /A1.HTM   (21538 words)

  
 
ROYAL NAVY BIOGRAPHY: This is the second part of an index to O'Byrne's Royal Navy Biography 1849; It lists details of Royal Navy officers with surnames E to G
ROYAL NAVY BIOGRAPHY: This is the third part of an index to O'Byrne's Royal Navy Biography 1849; It lists details of Royal Navy officers with surnames H to L
ROYAL NAVY BIOGRAPHY: This is the fourth part of an index to O'Byrne's Royal Navy Biography 1849; It lists details of Royal Navy officers with surnames M to P
www.angelfire.com /de/BobSanders/Site.html   (631 words)

  
 Ships List: Mailing Addresses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Ships which are named for individuals are listed by the first name of that individual.
Navy Fact File describes the characteristics of the ships.
Ships with USNS, SS and MV are those operated by the Military Sealift Command and have a civilian master and crew.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/lists/ship-fpo.html   (223 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - Ships & Passenger Lists
This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of Boston, Massachusetts from 1820-1943.
This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of New York from 1851-1891 and 1935-1938.
This database is an index to the passenger lists of ships arriving from foreign ports at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1883-1945.
www.cyndislist.com /ships.htm   (5816 words)

  
 Loss of HMS Aboukir, HMS Cressy and HMS Hogue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
During the early months of World War 1 the Royal Navy maintained a patrol of old Cressy class armoured cruisers, known as Cruiser Force C, in the area of the North Sea known as the Broad Fourteens.
Although the submarine threat at the time was not considered, even by critics of the patrol, the fact that the three ships didn't zigzag was criticised by the board of inquiry, a practice that was widely ignored at the time and even by some ships after the loss of the three cruisers.
Captain Nicholson of Hogue had stopped the ship to lower boats to rescue the crew of Aboukir, thinking that as he was the other side of Aboukir from U9 he would be safe.
www.worldwar1.co.uk /cressy.htm   (989 words)

  
 Aircraft Carrier database of the Fleet Air Arm Archive
Ship Modelers Mailing List (SMML) One of the premier sources for modeling information, the SMML web site holds not only all the Archives from the free SMML List, but also has kit reviews, hints and tips, ship walk-abouts and various photos of both models and ship details.
Ship's badges of the Royal Navy in Plymouth pubs
Royal Navy Ships of World War 2: by Andrew Arthur's guide to the Royal Navy of World War 2.
www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/Index.html   (1881 words)

  
 ANMM Royal Australian Navy Ships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
These indexes have Royal Navy vessels with Australian connections eg: convict hulks.
The Royal Australian Naval Historical Society has a list of RAN ship plans for sale.
The Royal Australian Navy website is a very useful source with information on current naval vessels including details of ships of the fleet photos and details of ships badges.
www.anmm.gov.au /lib/ausnav.htm   (841 words)

  
 Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy, S1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The squadron captured one ship, six brigs and four sloops, all armed and laden with supplies for the various islands during March and April as well as accepting the surrender of the islands of Saparoua, Harouka and Nasso-Laut.
FOOTE presiding, Capt. BISSELL was dismissed his ship for neglect in failing to keep a regular reckoning from the time of his last departure from land, great neglect in failing to heave the lead and failing to ensure that his officers performed their tasks.
The enemy ships attempted to run them on board but Capt. STEWART manoeuvred to avoid this and dropped alongside the smaller ship and poured shot into her for about a quarter of an hour at half pistol-shot range.
www.cronab.demon.co.uk /S1.HTM   (19294 words)

  
 AGOR Numeric List
Several no longer appear on easily checked lists for the country indicated in the NVR custodian information and are presumed scrapped, sold or otherwise disposed of by their secondary owners.
However, on April 3rd, 1996, the untimely death of Ronald H. Brown, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce and an ardent supporter of the NOAA fleet, gave cause to the memorial action of naming the new ship in his memory.
It appears that the little ships of the Conrad class are being replaced in their second life worldwide by the more recent first generation AGOS Ocean Surveillance Ship class.
patriot.net /~eastlnd2/Agor.htm   (2288 words)

  
 New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1893 New Zealand became the first nation to grant women the right to vote on the same basis as men; however women were not eligible to stand for parliament until 1919.
Under the New Zealand Royal Titles Act (1953), Queen Elizabeth II is Queen of New Zealand and is represented as head of state by the Governor-General, currently Dame Silvia Cartwright.
The New Zealand military has three branches: the New Zealand Army, the Royal New Zealand Navy, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand   (5051 words)

  
 Royal Navy WebRing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Personal pages,detailing service in Royal Navy with photos of ships served on.Links to other sites that may be of interest.
A listing of slang terms used by members of the Royal Navy.
A series of hand drawn charts illustrating the history of the ships of the Royal Navy from the earliest named ships at the end of the 11th century to the last sailing ‘men of war’ ships at the end of the 19th Century.
n.webring.com /hub?ring=royalnavy   (1914 words)

  
 bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Navy Department, Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation.
U.S. Department of the Navy, Appendix to the Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation.
U.S. Naval Institute, "Historic Naval Ships Association of North America", (pamphlet that is a reprint of an article from the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings), Annapolis: 1978.
www.spanamwar.com /biblio.htm   (4914 words)

  
 The Maritime Heritage Project: Gold Rush Books, 19th Century Reading, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Mark Twain
In 1850 Santiago Socia found the bow of a ship projecting from the desert and in 1933, Myrtle and Louis Botts found an ancient vessel near Aqua Caliente, only to claim that an earthquake buried their find.
The wrecks are organized by date and by location, and includes ocean and bay steamers, as well as other ships that wrecked between the years 1500 and 1957.
The list includes the number of passengers and sometimes the number of crew, but not their names.
www.maritimeheritage.org /books.htm   (3630 words)

  
 Royal Navy Cruisers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A total of 1525 British Warships were lost, including 224 surface ships of Corvette size and up.
Lieutenant Richard Turner, the gunnery officer of H.M.S. Pegasus, was one of the first to be hit, both his legs being shattered by a shell.
But as he lay bleeding to death his thoughts were for the honour of his ship and the Service.
www.naval-art.com /royal_navy_cruisers.htm   (1759 words)

  
 Ships List: Alphabetical by Name   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The following is an alphabetical list of U.S. Navy ships with their homeports.
Ships designated USNS, SS and MV are those operated by the Military Sealift Command and have a civilian master and crew, many have no assigned homeports.
To find a ship, select the first letter of the ship's name:
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/lists/shipalfa.html   (351 words)

  
 Battle of Jutland: RN Ships and Commanding Officers
Battle of Jutland - Royal Navy Ships and Commanding Officers
Taken from (and ships listed in the same order as) Battle of Jutland Official Despatches with Appendicies, Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty, His Majesty's Stationary Office, 1920.
Captain Walter H. Cowan, M.V.O., D.S.O. (Flying the Flag of Rear-Admiral Osmond de B.
www.gwpda.org /naval/jut03lst.htm   (278 words)

  
 Portsmouth Historic Dockyard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Live and breathe our nation's naval heritage through three of the most important warships ever built - Mary Rose, HMS Victory and HMS Warrior 1860.
See, touch, hear and smell the history of the Royal Navy at the Royal Naval Museum.
See the Navy, and be the Navy with the latest in multimedia entertainment at Action Stations, our new multimillion pound experience.
www.flagship.org.uk   (95 words)

  
 Former Ships of the Royal Australian Navy (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
Former Ships of the Royal Australian Navy (Sea Power Centre - Australia)
Select from the list below to view ship data and historical facts of past R.A.N. vessels.
This list is not complete and further ship histories will be added as they become available.
www.navy.gov.au /spc/history/shiphistorymain.html   (44 words)

  
 The American Civil War Homepage
Ships of the Confederate Navy (from the Naval Historical Center)
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebllion
List of the Prisoners of the CSS Atlanta, Captured on June 17, 1863
www.oars.utk.edu /civil-war/warweb.html   (4235 words)

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