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	Encyclopedia: Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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 was also vital in guarding the sea lanes that enabled British forces to fight in remote parts of the world such as North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Far East.
		The Royal Navy is established under the royal prerogative, and the head of the Royal Navy, known as the Lord High Admiral, is the Queen (who is overall head of the UK Armed Forces).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Royal-Navy (10284 words)

	Royal Navy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Royal Navy of the (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) United Kingdom is the "senior service" of the (The military forces of a nation) armed services, being the oldest of its three branches.
		The navy helped establish the United Kingdom as the dominant military power of the (additional info and facts about 19th century) 19th century, and was essential for maintaining the (Formerly the United Kingdom and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I) British Empire.
		Life in the early Royal Navy would be considered harsh by today's standards; (A branch of knowledge) discipline was severe and (Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment) flogging was used to enforce obedience to the (additional info and facts about Articles of War) Articles of War.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/royal_navy.htm (3706 words)

	Royal Navy - Biocrawler definition:Royal Navy - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In that time, the Royal Navy suffered only one major defeat - the battle of the Chesapeake against France in 1781 - and was able to defeat all challengers, as at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 where a combined Spanish and French fleet was decisively beaten (despite the British fleet being outnumbered).
		In addition, the Royal Navy was involved in enforcing the ban on the slave trade and the suppression of piracy.
		During the two World Wars, the Royal Navy played a vital role in keeping the UK supplied with food, arms, and raw materials, and in defeating the German campaigns of unrestricted submarine warfare in the first and second battles of the Atlantic.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Royal_Navy (2217 words)

	Category:Lists of Royal Navy ships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy
		List of escort carriers of the Royal Navy
		List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Lists_of_Royal_Navy_ships (138 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The navy helped establish the United Kingdom as the dominant military and economic power of the 18th century and the 19th century, and was essential for maintaining the British Empire.
		The end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union has precipitated a restructuring of the Royal Navy's role as a major naval player in the 21st century, from that of a deterrence force to a navy capable of extending British foreign policy worldwide.
		Another task the Royal navy was given during the 19th century (and before and after as well), was to map the world.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Royal_Navy (3183 words)

	Tide
		Tide (SP-953)—a tug built in 1916 at Manitowoc, Wis., by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co.—was acquired by the Navy on 14 June 1918 from the Bay State Fishing Co., of Boston, Mass., to serve as a minesweeper in the 1st Naval District.
		Though never commissioned by the Navy, she may have been armed and manned by naval reservists to patrol the waters of the 1st Naval District during the closing months of World War I. In any event, her name was struck from the Navy list sometime between November 1918 and October 1919.
		In April and May, she escorted convoys in British coastal waters and engaged in exercises with minesweepers of the Royal Navy in preparation for the invasion of Europe.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t5/tide.htm (712 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| British minesweepers diverted to Gulf
		Four Royal Navy minesweepers are to be diverted to the Gulf ready for possible military action against Iraq, it was disclosed yesterday.
		Minesweeping is one of the tasks for which US military commanders have told their British counterparts they would need help.
		The four minesweepers, HMS Blythe, Brocklesby, Bangor and Sandown, are now engaged in a Nato exercise in the Mediterranean with the navy's flagship, the aircraft carrier Ark Royal.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,815033,00.html (486 words)

	List of minesweepers of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In both World Wars trawlers were employed (in World War II this task was given to smaller trawlers of around 300 tons, larger ones being used for anti-submarine work).
		There were also some conversions of ships originally built for other purposes for special minesweeping.
		This was mainly early in World War II for sweeping of magnetic mines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_minesweepers_of_the_Royal_Navy (298 words)

	Lee Maritime Books - Naval & Royal Navy Books
		A chronological account of the merchant navy at war from 1939 to the early spring of 1943, describes in vivid detail the trials and tribulations of the merchantmen and some of the actions in which they were involved.
		Having already seen action in China during the Boxer Uprising, Keyes at the age of 32, became the youngest captain in the Royal Navy, and by the outbreak of war in 1914, was senior naval officer at Harwich.
		Examines and describes the peacekeeping role of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean after the First World War, during whicch it was involved in several tense and difficult situations in the 1920s and 1930s.
	www.leemaritimebooks.com /Books/Naval.asp (11860 words)

	Royal Navy
		I served with the Royal Navy from 1956 to 1967 and the RNR until 1981 leaving as a CPOSA (S).
		These guns gave the class the greatest fire-power of any cruiser the Royal Navy had ever built, with the water cooled 6-inch and 3-inch guns capable of firing 20 and 90 rounds per minute per gun respectively (although this rate of fire would empty the magazines in a few minutes).
		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 (1491 words)

	Articles - Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After having suffered defeats in the second and third Anglo-Dutch wars the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world from 1692 to 1940, with almost uncontested power over the world's oceans from 1805 to 1914, when it came to be said that Britain ruled the waves.
		Nicknames for the Royal Navy include "The Mob", "The Andrew", and "The Senior Service", while nicknames for British sailors include "Limeys" and "Jacktars" (as in "every man-jack of 'em"), also they are sometimes reffered to as "Matelots" (pronounced 'matlos'), after the French word for sailor.
		The Royal Navy is simply as "the Royal Navy" in English, Commonwealth navies include their national name.
	www.foreverc.com /articles/Royal_Navy (2588 words)

	List of Royal Navy ship names - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following is a list of Royal Navy ship names by name in alphabetical order, both past and present.
		Note that, in contra-distinction to many other naval services, the Royal Navy designates certain types of shore establishment (e.g.
		List of submarine depot ships of the Royal Navy
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Royal_Navy_ship_names (206 words)

	Algerine Class Fleet Minesweepers - 110 Ships
		Of the 110 completed, 98 were commissioned by the Royal Navy, some being on loan from the USN and returned after the war.
		Some of these, and also some of the RN were later sold to foreign navies, two of such going to the Republic of South Africa.
		These are alphabetically listed on each page as indicated below, 16 on each of the first five pages and 18 on page six.
	www.minesweepers.org.uk /110ships.htm (330 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.
		For trawlers used as minesweepers, movement details are restricted to transit between bases and there is little information on ship movements in the Pacific.
		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)

	The Royal Navy - Nuclear Submarines
		By that time, the United States had built up a lead in submarine technology through design, operation, build quality and missile delivery that was unmatched worldwide, except in part by the Royal Navy.
		This was the first true submarine built for the Royal Navy and endurance was proved by a 12,000 mile underwater trip to Singapore in 1967.
		They provided surveillance and intelligence gathering services and were designed to serve with the Royal Navy in fleet actions.
	www.bosun.net /page11.html (1050 words)

	HMCS (?)Earl Grey
		I have a copy of what passes for the Canadian Navy Lists and from 1910 to October 1914 but it is reprinted extracts from the Canadian section of the RN Navy lists.
		I also have copies of the Canadian sections of the RN Lists themselves beginning in Jul.(?) 1915 which includes full details of the officer complements of the ships and establishments of the RCN including auxiliary vessels.
		If the crew was "navy" at all, it is possible that the existing complement was temporarily enrolled in the RNCVR as was done with the other auxiliaries.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/earlgrey.htm (2193 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.
		Calling all shipmates who served in the Royal Navy; a list of contacts where you can get in touch once more with your old oppo's.
	www.axfordsabode.org.uk /index-rn.htm (850 words)

	Holdings - Royal Navy
		The following represents a partial list of our holdings in the above category, and is limited to books (manuscripts, logs, periodicals, artwork, charts, etc are not included).
		Please note that the term "category" is a very general classification and in no manner should be considered as exclusive.
		For example, "Arctic" might not contain titles that have been, perhaps arbitrarily, classified as biography, design, discovery, etc. "Navy" generally does not contain titles that are specific to the Royal Canadian Navy (Dept of National Defense), or the United States Navy.
	www.aandc.org /holdings/royal_navy.html (583 words)

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	www.gurunet.com /cm-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-22101 (99 words)

	Sea Mines & Countermeasures in the 20th Century : A Bibliography : Minesweepers And Minesweeping : Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		List, William F. History of the First USS Dextrous with Collateral Notes on Minesweepers, Minesweeping and Collateral Events.
		Maher, Brendan A. A Passage to Sword Beach: Minesweeping in the Royal Navy.
		Washington, DC: Dept. of the Navy, Naval Historical Center, 1991.
	library.nps.navy.mil /home/bibs/seamines/sweepbook.htm (629 words)

	Minesweepers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Some trawlers were also converted to minesweepers click here to see any messages.
		Completed as a survey vessel she was converted to minesweeper in 1939 but was mined and sunk on 27th May 1942.
		She was repaired and refloated by the German Navy - renamed UJ2109 but sunk on 17th October 1943.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /minesweepers.htm (801 words)

	IMO Discussion Board - Fleets of the Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I would check the Royal Navy website but the powers that be at work have set the Websense to restrict sites that come under the category military.
		What people refer to as the Royal Navy is often in fact a number of organisations grouped under one command.
		The website lists 99 active vessels,but this includes the small University Boats,Research ships,and the Fearless class LPDs, Survey ships, Frigates, submarines, Minesweepers and Patrol vessels that were recently sold.
	www.irishmilitaryonline.com /board/showthread.php?t=155 (447 words)

	List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Polish version (Article: List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy)
		Original article: List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy
		List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy
	www.ee.pw.edu.pl /~kochanor/wiki/english/index.php/List_of_squadrons_and_flotillas_of_the_Royal_Navy (81 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Image:RN-White-Ensign.png (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		List of air stations of the Royal Navy
		List of fleets and major commands of the Royal Navy
		List of all ships of the Royal Navy, C
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Image:RN-White-Ensign.png (768 words)

	Royal Navy Ship of the Line
		Naval Art Catalogue showing over 270 naval ships of the Royal Navy, United States, German and Japanese Fleets between 1900 and 2004.
		History of the Ship of the Line of the Royal Navy from the galleons of 1650 to the First Rate 120 gun Ship of the Line of 1845, including Caledonia Class, Queen Charlotte, Trafalgar, Victory, Leviathan, Royal Sovereign, Vengeur and Black Prince Class.
		I have learned that the British Navy has had several ships named Ajax over the years, and at this point I am not sure which ship these bowls are related to.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /sailship.htm (951 words)

	Royal Australian Navy Gun Plot
		Once again it seemed that the Navy was to be denied its chance of a decisive engagement.
		Dirty little minesweepers had been out in the grey dawn, sweeping a lane for the Fleet.
		Already a boom-net layer had begun to lay submarine nets the entrance, and a British minesweeper had begun to sweep a safe channel.
	www.gunplot.net /matapan/scrapironflott5.html (3139 words)

	Royal Australian Navy World War II Second World War Fleet WWII Ship List Auxilliaries Manoora Kanimbla Westralia Z ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Royal Australian Navy played an active part in World War II, yet was small enough so that every ship could be listed easily.
		In the Mediterranean, the Royal Navy took centre stage; in the Pacific, the US Navy.
		Even in Australia, the Navy and its achievements seem second in public awareness to the Army.
	ftp.newave.net.au /~lenshome/about.htm (482 words)

	HMS Mauritius - The Royal Navy Ships of Victor Johns
		Beyond them, on either bow, a fireworks display of flak and great red glows showed that the Allied Air Forces were at work on the defences; and overhead there was the drone of many more bombers on their way.
		On the night of 15th/16th August 1944, a force consisting of Mauritius and the destroyers Ursa and Iroquois was patrolling in the vicinity of the enemy-occupied base of La Rochelle, when contact was made with enemy shipping.
		A running fight ensued, as a result of which five enemy ships, consisting of two minesweepers and three merchant ships, were destroyed.
	home1.swipnet.se /~w-11578/hms_mauritius.htm (3217 words)

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