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	Royal Navy
		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 GrÃ¢ce a Dieu'' ("''Great Harry''") and '' Mary Rose '', engaged the French navy in the battle of the Solent in 1545.
		The Royal Navy also participated in the Gulf War, the Kosovo conflict, the Afghanistan Campaign, and the 2003 Iraq War, the last of which saw RN warships bombard positions in support of the Al Faw Peninsula landings by Royal Marines.
		The Royal Navy is established under the royal prerogative and the head of the Royal Navy, known as the Lord High Admiral, is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (who is the overall head of the UK Armed Forces).
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Royal_Navy (2811 words)

	Royal_Navy LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		The Royal Navy is the second-largest navy in NATO in terms of the combined displacement of its fleet.
		The Royal Navy was too hard-pressed in European waters to release significant forces to combat the privateers, and its large ships of the line were not very effective at seeking out and running down fast and manoueverable privateers which operated as widely spread single ships or small groups.
		The re-armament of the Royal Navy was well under way by this point however, with the 1936 King George V class of 1936, limited to 35,000 tons and 14-inch armament, the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, and the Illustrious class carriers, the Town and Crown Colony classes of light cruiser and the Tribal class destroyers.
	www.school-explorer.com /info/Royal_Navy (7001 words)

	List of Royal Navy ships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		(Redirected from List of ships of the Royal Navy)
		There are two lists of Royal Navy ships:
		lists all currently commissioned vessels in the Royal Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Royal_Navy (143 words)

	Royal Navy, October 1932
		She was widely considered the pride of the Royal Navy and was often used for ceremonial duties and showing the flag.
		By 1932, the Royal Navy had been forced to accept the idea of parity with the United States Navy, especially concerning capital ships, though the British still maintained an advantage in terms of cruisers and destroyers.
		Also, it might be interesting to comapre the Royal Navy of 1932 with the United States Navy at the same date.
	www.geocities.com /scs028a/royalnavy (386 words)

	British Navy:
		The Royal Navy is the second-largest navy in NATO in terms of the combined tonnage
		There were also significant losses of merchant shipping to American privateers, 866 merchant vessels; however, the Royal Navy gradually reinforced the blockade of the American coast, virtually halting all trade by sea, capturing many merchant ships, and forcing the US navy frigates to stay in harbour or risk being captured.
		The prestige of the Navy suffered severe blows when the battlecruiser HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck, and the Repulse and Prince of Wales were sunk by Japanese air attack.
	2place.org /wiki/British_Navy (7401 words)

	List of Royal Norwegian Navy ships Information
		A list of Royal Norwegian Navy fleet units and vessels, both past and present.
		Ships from the years 1509 to 1814 might be listed under Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy.
		The Norwegian Navy is undergoing a major modernization project to fortify its position as a modern and competent fleet.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/List_of_Royal_Norwegian_Navy_ships (1093 words)

	World Battleships List: Royal Navy Dreadnoughts
		Most ships were little modified during WWI, and the majority of the older vessels were discarded under the Washington Treaty.
		To depot ship 1939 with all main guns removed, badly damaged by bombs 17 Oct 1939, but she was repaired.
		All ships of the class were scheduled to be refitted to this standard, but the outbreak of war prevented it.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/battleships/rn_dr.htm (3135 words)

	All Hands - June 2001 - Letters
		However, I was concerned with one omission from the list of ships.
		Attached was a pull-out sheet of all of the ships in the RN and Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
		She is in commission, noted as such in the register of U.S. Navy ships, has won more battle honors than the vast majority of the ships listed, is adored by the American public - and since the Navy increasingly makes much of naval heritage - there shouldn't be any objection to listing her.
	www.mediacen.navy.mil /Pubs/allhands/jun01/pg6.htm (460 words)

	Royal Navy
		I served with the Royal Navy from 1956 to 1967 and the RNR until 1981 leaving as a CPOSA (S).
		The ship’s badge was ‘a gamecock proper’ on white background with the motto ‘spurred for the skies’
		Blake was the last cruiser in the Royal Navy and in December 1979 ended a 100 year tradition of RN Cruisers.
	home.att.net /~b.lockyer/royal_navy.htm (1515 words)

	British Royal Navy - 17th Century
		The Royal Navy suffered a great deal at the hands of political turmoil, rampant embezzlement and the sometimes highly ineffectual administration policies of the century.
		Ships were often built so poorly that they'd be nearly useless after short periods of time and sailors, well, they were treated with less regard than even the ships - in a way.
		She was the Sovereign of the Seas, the first true three-decker ship, and her cost was a lofty 40,000 pounds (reflect if you will, that the annual charge for the navy had been 50,000 pounds a year between 1610-1618).
	www.sirclisto.com /cavalier/royal_navy.htm (2602 words)

	UKA Royal Navy Home Page
		Originally armed with 8 15" muzzle loading smooth bore guns in the casemate, it was overhauled and rearmed with two twin 5"/38 gun turrets with the machinery and magazines in the old casemate area, as well as 2 trainable triple 21" torpedo tubes on the fantail.
		While heavily armored, she was not a particularly successful ship, and was sold to the Republic of Peru in 2028, where she remains in service today as a coast defense ship.
		Royal Marine units provide local security for naval shipyards and bases, and Royal Marine antiaircraft units provide major defensive support for Naval bases in key areas.
	www.scromett.com /UkaRN.htm (461 words)

	Submarine Depot Ships
		Royal Navy depot ships for destroyers and submarines and fleet repair ships including HMS Medway, HMS Vulcan, HMS Forth, HMS Thames, HMS Bonaventure, HMS Arrogant, HMS Blenheim and HMS Diligence.
		Built as a depot Ship for Submarines and designed to tend 18 submarines of the O and P class's this number rising to 21 during world war two.
		All on navy list, July 1924, enlisted on Sandhurst from 31st March 1924, except Sweetman listed as on Diligence.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /depot_ships.htm (2957 words)

	Ships of the Old Navy, A History of Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Ships of the Old Navy, A History of Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy
		The names of two standard types of brig-sloop, which were built in large numbers, are listed in the text - 115 of the 10 gun Cherokee class and 110 of the 18 gun Cruiser class.
		The names of all ships and the surnames of British naval officers and men are in upper case.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /INTRO.HTM (729 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot RAN in the 1960s
		During 1963-64, the R.A.N. began co-operating with the United States Navy in a type of underwater “weather forecasting” that contributes to the efficiency of submarine detection.
		Supplementary list air crew training is continuing, and the first pilots trained since the re-introduction of the scheme in 1963 have obtained their wings.
		The expanding Navy is also placing a heavier work load on the civilian staff of the Department of the Navy, demanding wider technical knowledge and increased skills.
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		She was purchased to be used in the experiment to transport bread-fruit trees from the East Indies to the West Indies.
		On May 26, 1787, the Bethia was registered on the Royal Navy Ships List as HM Armed Vessel Bounty.
		The Bounty was a little enough ship to carry the frame as the setting of the world famous mutiny.
	www.pielcraftsmen.com /ships/bounty.html (286 words)

	Research - U.S. Navy Ships - Index
		This Select List describes photographs and photographs of artworks or models of ships that depict types of ships used by the Navy from the Revolutionary War period to December 7, 1941, before America's entry into the Second World War.
		Ships commissioned before the use of steel for ship construction was begun in 1883 are listed under Early Ships subdivided by method of propulsion, and listed thereunder chronologically by date of commissioning.
		Ships commissioned after 1883 are listed under Modern Ships and are subdivided by general class, such as auxiliary or destroyer, and thereunder chronologically.
	www.archives.gov /research/military/navy-ships (306 words)

	ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINE OFFICERS RECORDS
		It contains the details of all Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, and former Women's Royal Naval Service commissioned officers who were still serving in the year of publication, and also of the officers of their Reserve Forces.
		On Ships and Establishments: If given the name of any ship or establishment and a year of interest, the database can provide the surname, forenames, decorations, rank, and branch of all commissioned officers who were shown in Navy Lists as serving in that ship or establishment in that year.
		The information in Navy Lists - rank structures, rank names, specialisations etc - has changed in format and content over the years, but has been standardised in the database for convenience as far as is practical.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mike.coombes87/NAVYLISTINFORMATION.htm (1384 words)

	The US Navy
		Within each homeport listing is an alphabetical list of ships and their mailing addresses.
		Ships which are named for individuals are listed by the first name of that individual.
		Ships that are USNS are those operated with a civilian master and crew by the Military Sealift Command.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/ships/lists/shipalpha.asp (111 words)

	Royal Navy ships & ditties, Old Ship's Contacts, Commissioning Books, Cassandra Association, Bronington, Slops, In ...
		A brief log of David Axford's career in the Royal Navy during the "swinging sixties" (they were quite literally 'rocking and rolling' at times during the many stormy seas) onboard the warships I served.
		List of shipmates who served in HMS Cassandra during any one of her commissions and are now part of the Cassandra Association.
		These ships were built between 1953 and 1960 - a total of 118 "Ton" class were built, named after villages and hamlets in the UK; 116 for the Royal Navy and 2 for the South African Navy.
	www.axfordsabode.org.uk /index-rn.htm (850 words)

	Honorverse Ships List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The ships listed in Part One are primarily ones identified by type and class in the Honor Harrington novels, short stories, and Universe Background articles by David Weber — as filtered through my own perceptions.
		Ships of the Royal Manticoran Navy, Grayson Space Navy (except pre-Alliance ships), and Harrington Yards are shown with Maximum Acceleration figures that reflect upgrades to the most modern (5th Generation) Inertial Compensators, Impellers, Warshawski Sails and Hyper Generators — or at least what my careless procrastinations (I mean careful calculations) suggest those figures would be.
		Ships of non-Alliance Navies are shown with Maximum Acceleration figures reflecting the best performances possible for drive systems which do not have the benefits of Alliance technological improvements.
	www-2.cs.cmu.edu /~tpope/misc/harrington/nefarious-list.html (556 words)

	MINISTRY OF DEFENCE AND THE BRITISH ROYAL NAVY HISTORY SHIPS CAREERS AND MOD CONTACT LINKS
		The Royal Navy has fewer ships today, yet its firepower is far greater than at any time in the past.
		Royal Navy training designed and delivered to meet the needs of any commercial or government organisation.
		The Royal Marines Museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of all aspects of Royal Marines history.
	www.solarnavigator.net /the_royal_navy.htm (789 words)

	Research guide B7: The Royal Navy: Ship records: NMM PORT
		The official Navy List shows Royal Navy ships, their commanders and officers, coastguard vessels, hired vessels and packet ships.
		The National Maritime Museum holds the largest collection of ship plans in the world and almost every type of Royal Navy ship is represented: aircraft carriers, battleships, submarines, frigates and tugs.
		The National Maritime Museum houses the largest ship models collection in the world The Navy Board models were made from 1655-1715 and are an accurate representation of the various types of warship and provided a practical way of illustrating their construction, decoration and layout together with variations in rigging.
	www.port.nmm.ac.uk /research/b7.html (900 words)

	Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy, D1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The three ships battled against the gale for five days in the North Sea until, on the morning of the 24th, ST. GEORGE and DEFENCE were driven ashore on the coast of Jutland, in the district of Ringkobing.
		The ship was unable to bring any of her guns to bear and was forced to engage the privateer with small arms for an hour and a quarter until four of her men were killed.
		The two ships then sailed to Manilla in January 1809 to rescue the crew of the frigate GREYHOUND which had been wrecked in the Philippines on 4 October 1808 and were being released on parole.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /D1.HTM (14637 words)

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		Royal Navy Ships in service/reserve in 1894 ------------------------------------------- This list of ships should be read in conjunction with the accompanying file SHIP1894.TXT which lists the Officers.
		Ships that have an asterisk "*" after their names means that they were sailing vessels.
		Ships shown as being "Reserve at....." were stationed at the named ports as drill ships for the Reserves.
	thor.prohosting.com /~hughw/ship.txt (836 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
		List of all USN carriers with additional fact files for individual ships..
	www.fleetairarmarchive.net /Ships/Index.html (1881 words)

	Research guide B7: The Royal Navy: Ship records : The Royal Navy : Research guides : Enquiries : Collections & ...
		The official Navy List shows Royal Navy ships, their commanders and officers, coastguard vessels, hired vessels and packet ships.
		The National Maritime Museum holds the largest collection of ship plans in the world and almost every type of Royal Navy ship is represented: aircraft carriers, battleships, submarines, frigates and tugs.
		The National Maritime Museum houses the largest ship models collection in the world The Navy Board models were made from 1655–1715 and are an accurate representation of the various types of warship and provided a practical way of illustrating their construction, decoration and layout together with variations in rigging.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /server/show/conWebDoc.584/setPaginate/No (986 words)

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