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HMLA-367 Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 367 (HMLA-367) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopters and UH-1N Huey utility helicopters. The squadron is based at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 39 (MAG-39), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW).
HMLA-369 Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 369 (HMLA-369) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopters and UH-1N Huey utility helicopters. The squadron, also known as the "Gunfighters", is based at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and is attached to Marine Air Group 39 (MAG-39), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW).
HMLA-773 Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 773 (HMLA-773) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopters and UH-1N Huey utility helicopters. The squadron is based at Naval Air Station Atlanta, Georgia and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 42 (MAG-42), 4th Marine Aircraft Wing (4th MAW).
HMLA-775 Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775 (HMLA-775) is a reserve United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopters and UH-1N Huey utility helicopters. The squadron is based at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 46 (MAG-46), 4th Marine Aircraft Wing (4th MAW).
HMM-161 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 161 (HMM-161) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Greyhawks", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California and falls under Marine Aircraft Group 16 (MAG-16) and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW).
HMM-163 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 163 (HMM-163) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Ridge Runners", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 16 (MAG-16), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW).
HMM-165 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 165 (HMM-165) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "White Knights", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 16 (MAG-16), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW).
HMM-166 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 166 (HMM-166) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "SeaElk", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 16 (MAG-16), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW).
HMM-261 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 (HMM-261) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Raging Bulls", is based at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 26 (MAG-26), 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).
HMM-262 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 262 (HMM-262) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Flying Tigers", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 36 (MAG-36), 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW).
HMM-264 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 264 (HMM-264) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Black Knights", is based at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 29 (MAG-29), 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).
HMM-265 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 265 (HMM-265) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Dragons", is based at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 36 (MAG-36), 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1st MAW).
HMM-266 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 266 (HMM-266) was a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Fighting Griffins", was based at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina and was attached to Marine Aircraft Group 26 (MAG-26), 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).
HMM-268 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 268 (HMM-268) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Red Dragons", is based at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 39 (MAG-39), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW).
HMM-364 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 364 (HMM-364) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Purple Foxes", is based at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 39 (MAG-39), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW).
HMM-365 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 365 (HMM-365) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Blue Knights", is based at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 29 (MAG-29), 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).
HMM-561 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 561 (HMM-561) was a training squadron of the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. They were active for two years during which time they provided refresher training to UH-34 Choctaw pilots and crews heading to Vietnam.
HMM-764 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 764 (HMM-764) is a United States Marine Corps reserve helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as "Moonlight", is based at Edwards Air Force Base, California and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 46 (MAG-46), 4th Marine Aircraft Wing (4th MAW).
HMM-774 Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 774 (HMM-774) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-46E Sea Knight transport helicopters. The squadron, known as the "Wild Goose", is based at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 42 (MAG-42), 4th Marine Aircraft Wing (4th MAW).
HMMGG Festival The HMMGG Festival is an annual event held near Minocqua, Wisconsin, featuring visonary visual and performance art. The event has been held in the fall of each year since its founding in 1986 by a group of Beloit College graduates.
HMMT-164 Marine Medium Helicopter Training Squadron 164 (HMM(T)-164), is a United States Marine Corps helicopter training squadron stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Known as the Knightriders, HMM(T)-164 is part of Marine Aircraft Group 39 (MAG-39) and 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW).
HMNB Clyde Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde is the headquarters of the Royal Navy in Scotland and is best known as the home of the United Kingdom's strategic deterrent submarine force. The base consists of two separate locations:
HMNZS Endeavour (A-11) Named after Captain Cook's HM Bark Endeavour, HMNZS Endeavour is the third ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy to carry the name. The previous two ships were Antarctica support vessels leased from the United States.
HMNZS Resolution (A-14) HMNZS Resolution (A 14) is the hydrographic ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Originally a United States Naval Ship, her construction contract was awarded 20 February 1987 to Halter Marine, Inc of Moss Point, Mississippi originally to be named Intrepid.
HMNZS Taranaki (F-148) HMNZS Taranaki (F-148) was a modified Rothesay class frigate in service with the Royal New Zealand Navy from 1960 to 1982. She along with her sister ship Otago formed a core part of the RNZN attack force through out the 1960s and 1970.
HMOS HMOS, high-performance n-channel MOS, uses n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) to implement logic gates and other digital circuits. It is based on NMOS technology, achieving higher speed at the cost of greater power consumption.
HMS Abdiel (M39) HMS Abdiel (M39) was an Abdiel class minelayer that served with the Royal Navy during World War II. She served with the Mediterranean Fleet (1941), Eastern Fleet (1942), Home Fleet (1942-43), and the Mediterranean Fleet (1943).
HMS Acasta (H09) The third Acasta (H09), launched in 1929, was an A-class destroyer. She served in World War II and was sunk on 8 June 1940 in action against the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, while escorting the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious.
HMS Ace (P414) HMS Ace (P414) was the name allocated to an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy which was layed down on December 3, 1943 and launched at Devonport Dockyard on March 14, 1945 during the Second World War. She was not completed because the end of the war intervened.
HMS Aetna (1803) HMS Aetna was one of the Royal Navy bomb vessels involved in the attack on Fort McHenry in the Battle of Baltimore and the bombardment of Fort Washington, Maryland in 1814, during the War of 1812. In these actions she was commanded by Richard Kenah.
HMS Affray (P421) HMS Affray (P421), a British Amphion class submarine was the last Royal Navy submarine to be lost at sea, on 16 April 1951, with the loss of 75 lives. All vessels of her class were given names beginning with the letter A; she was the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named after a particularly noisy and disorderly fight.
HMS Africa (1905) The most recent HMS Africa was a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy; the last battleship constructed at Chatham Dockyard, England (later classes of battleships were too large for the yard). She was the penultimate ship of the King Edward VII class, being commissioned in 1905.
HMS Afridi (F07) The second HMS Afridi (pennant number L07, later F07) was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by the High Walker Yard of Vickers Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 9 June 1936, launched on 8 June 1937 by Lady Foster and commissioned on 3 May 1938. Afridi served with 4th Destroyer Flotilla of the Mediterranean Fleet, and participated in sea campaigns off Norway.
HMS Agamemnon (1781) HMS Agamemnon was a Royal Navy third-rate ship of the line with an armament of 64 guns. She was built at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in the New Forest, was launched on 10 April 1781, and served until 1809 when she was lost after running aground on a shoal in the mouth of the River Plate.
HMS Agamemnon (1852) HMS Agamemnon - Royal Navy battleship ordered by the Admiralty in 1849 in response to the perceived threat from France by their possession of ships of the Napoleon class. She was the first British battleship to be designed and built from the keel up with installed steam power, although, due to the inefficiency of steam engines of the period, it was expected that she would spend much of her time travelling under sail power.
HMS Acheron (P411) HMS Acheron (P411) was an Amphion-class submarine of the Royal Navy, laid down 26 August 1944, launched 25 March 1947, completed 1948 and carried out 'General Naval Service' around the UK until the end of 1964. For the next 2 years she was loaned to the Canadian Navy.
HMS Achille (1778) Originally the French ship Annibal, she was a 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1778, and was renamed Achille in 1786. She served with the French Navy until 1794, when she was captured by the Royal Navy during the battle of the Glorious First of June.
HMS Aisne (D22) HMS Aisne (D22) was a later or 1943 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was named after one of the Battles of the Aisne, though she may indeed have been named in honour of all three battles that took place there.
HMS Ajax (1880) HMS Ajax was the first of the two Victorian Royal Navy Ajax class ironclad battleships to be laid down, but was completed one day later than her sister, HMS Agamemnon. She carried her main artillery in centrally mounted turrets.
HMS Ajax (1912) HMS Ajax was a King George V-class battleship (one of four ships of the class), built at Scotts' shipyard at Greenock on the River Clyde. She was completed in 1913 and saw action at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and in the Mediterranean and Black Seas in 1919, before being decommissioned in 1924.
HMS Ajax (22) The HMS Ajax was made famous for her part in the Battle of the River Plate, the Battle of Crete, the Battle of Malta, as a supply escort in the Battle of Tobruk. She was a Leander class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom during World War II.
HMS Alamein (D17) HMS Alamein (D17) was a Later or 1943 Battle-class fleet destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was named in honour of the Battle of El Alamein, which took place in 1942 during the Second World War, between Commonwealth forces and the German Afrika Korps.
HMS Albion There have been nine ships to bear the name of HMS Albion from a third-rate ship of the line to a commando carrier to the lead ship of today's Albion-class LPD's (Landing Platform Dock Ships). Albion is an archaic name for Great Britain, although often used to refer specifically to England.
HMS Albion (1763) HMS Albion was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built in 1763 at Deptford, being adapted from a design of the old 90-gun ship Neptune which had been built in 1719, and was the first ship to bear the name.
HMS Albion (1898) HMS Albion was a British Canopus-class pre-Dreadnought battleship of approximately 14,000 tonnes, with a main armament of 4 × 12 inch (305 mm) guns and was built by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.
HMS Albion (L14) The ninth and current HMS Albion (2001-present) is a state of the art Landing Platform Dock (LPD) ship of the Royal Navy. Albion is the one of the newest ships of the Navy and provides an amphibious assault capability.
HMS Alexandra (1875) HMS Alexandra was a broadside ironclad of the Victorian Royal Navy. She was the most successful battleship of her type, but, because of the development of turret-mounted naval artillery, was obsolete by the time of her completion.
HMS Alliance (P417) HMS Alliance (P147) (pennant number changed in May 1961 to S67) is a Royal Navy A-class, Amphion class or Acheron class submarine, laid down towards the end of the Second World War and completed in 1947. The submarine is the only surviving example of the class, having been a memorial and museum ship since 1981.
HMS Amazon (D39) HMS Amazon was a prototype design of destroyer ordered for the Royal Navy in 1924. She was designed and built by Thornycroft in response to an admiralty request for a new design of destroyer incorporating the lessons and technological advances of World War I.
HMS Ambuscade (D38) HMS Ambuscade (D38) was a British Royal Navy destroyer which served in the Second World War. She and her Thornycroft competitor, Amazon, were prototypes designed to exploit advances in construction and machinery since World War I and formed the basis of Royal Navy destroyer evolution up to the Tribal class of 1936.
HMS Amethyst (U16) HMS Amethyst (U16) was a Modified Black Swan-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Alexander Stephens and Sons of Linthouse, Govan Scotland on 25 March 1942, launched on 7 May 1943 and commissioned on 2 November 1943.
HMS Anchusa Her Majesty's Ship Anchusa was one of Great Britain's ubiquitous Flower class corvettes of the Second World War. She was launched in 1940 under the crash wartime construction program instituted by the Royal Navy shortly before the capitulation of France.
HMS Antelope (1546) The first HMS Antelope was a ship of the English Royal Navy that was rebuilt two times and served from the time of King Henry VIII to the English Civil War. She is mostly remembered for being a part of the fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada.
HMS Arab (1901) HMS Arab (1896 to 1897 Programme) Laid down by J & G Thomson at Clydebank and completed by John Brown & Co. who took over the yard, ran 9 trials between 11th March 1901 and 27th May but only succeeded in reaching 30.
HMS Arbiter (D31) The USS St. Simon (CVE-51) (originally AVG-51 then later ACV-51), an escort aircraft carrier originally classified as an auxiliary aircraft carrier, was laid down on 26 April 1943 at Tacoma, Washington, by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co.
HMS Ardent (H41) The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Ardent was launched on 26 June, 1929. She served in the North Atlantic, and was sunk on 8 June 1940, in a battle involving her sister ship HMS Acasta, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious (both of which were also sunk) and the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.
HMS Arethusa (1913) HMS Arethusa was the name ship of her class of light cruisers. She was laid down at Chatham Dockyard in October 1912, launched in October 1913, and commissioned in August 1914 as flotilla leader for the Harwich Destroyer flotillas.
HMS Argus (I49) HMS Argus was a British aircraft carrier from 1918 until 1944. She was the world's first example of what is now the standard pattern of aircraft carrier, with a "flush deck" enabling wheeled aircraft to take-off and land.
HMS Argyll (F231) The third and current HMS Argyll (F231) is a Type 23 'Duke' Class frigate. She was laid down in March 1987 by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Glasgow, launched in 1989 by Lady Wendy Levene, and commissioned in May 1991.
HMS Archer (P264) HMS Archer (P264) is the lead ship of the Archer-class. It is currently attached to the Aberdeen Universities Royal Naval Unit (URNU) - for students of both the University of Aberdeen and the Robert Gordon University - and allows students of the Unit to receive practical experience in Navigation, Radar, Pilotage and the other skills of seamanship.
HMS Ark Royal (1914) HMS Ark Royal was a Royal Navy ship originally laid down as a merchant vessel but completed in the builder's shipyard as an aircraft carrier, entering service a few months after the outbreak of the First World War. She was renamed HMS Pegasus in 1934.
HMS Ark Royal (91) HMS Ark Royal (91), was the third ship of the Royal Navy to carry the name and the second to be an aircraft carrier. She was designed in 1934 to meet the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty, and was built by Cammell Laird and Company, Ltd.
HMS Ark Royal (R09) HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the British Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1978, was the Royal Navy's last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing supercarrier.
HMS Arno (1915) HMS Arno was a unique destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service and was lost during World War I. She was building in Genoa, Italy for the friendly Portuguese Navy as Liz in 1914 when she was bought by the Royal Navy for service in the Mediterranean.
HMS Artful (S121) HMS Artful (S121) (possibly S22) is a proposed Astute-class nuclear attack submarine of the Royal Navy. Artful was ordered from GEC's Marconi Marine (now BAE Systems Submarines) on March 17, 1997 and is expected to enter service in 2012.
HMS Association HMS Association was a 96 gun second-rate ship of the line, launched at Portsmouth dockyard in 1697. She served as the flagship of Cloudesley Shovell in the Mediterranean during the War of the Spanish Succession, in engagements including the capture of Gibraltar on 21 July 1704.
HMS Atheling (D51) The second USS Glacier (CVE-33) (originally designated AVG-33 then later ACV-33) was an escort aircraft carrier built by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co. (later Todd Pacific Shipbuilding) of Tacoma, Washington, under Maritime Commission Contract.
HMS Audacious (1869) The ironclad battleship HMS Audacious was the nameship of an experimental class of armoured battleships designed to expand on the success of HMS Warrior built ten years before. The ships were intended to act as the frontline of the modern battlefleet, but being such a recent innovation, they were fraught with difficulties.
HMS Badger (1911) HMS Badger was an Acheron class torpedo boat destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I. She was with the 1st Destroyer Flotilla from 1911–12, before joining the British Grand Fleet in 1914 until 1916.
HMS Barfleur (1768) The second HMS Barfleur was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, designed by Sir Thomas Slade on the lines of the Royal William, 100, of 1719, and launched at Chatham Dockyard on 30 July 1768. She cost ÂŁ49,222 and measured 1,947 tons burthen, with a gundeck of 178 ft and breadth of 50 ft 6 inches.
HMS Belfast (C35) HMS Belfast, the Royal Navy's heaviest ever cruiser in terms of displacement, was one of the two ships forming the final sub-class of British Town-class cruisers, the other being HMS Edinburgh. Belfast is now a museum ship in London.
HMS Belleisle (1876) HMS Belleisle was one of the four ships currently under construction for foreign navies in British shipyards which were purchased by the British government for the Royal Navy in 1878, at the time of the Russian war scare.
HMS Bellerophon (1786) The first HMS Bellerophon of the Royal Navy was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched on 6 October 1786 at Frindsbury on the River Medway, near Chatham. She was built at the shipyard of Edward Greaves to the specifications of the Arrogant class, designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1758.
HMS Bellerophon (1865) HMS Bellerophon was a Victorian central battery ironclad battleship of the Royal Navy; she was a major step forward in design technology as compared to previous classes in terms of engine power, armament, armour, hull design and seaworthiness.
HMS Bellona (1760) The second HMS Bellona was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, used in the Napoleonic wars. Designed by Sir Thomas Slade, she was a prototype for the iconic 74-gun ships of the latter part of the 18th century.
HMS Ben-my-Chree HMS Ben-my-Chree was built as a fast passenger ferry, the third to bear her name, in 1908 by Vickers for the England–Isle of Man route and taken over by the Royal Navy as a seaplane carrier during World War I. Her name means Lady of My Heart in Manx.
HMS Benbow (1913) HMS Benbow was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named in honour of Admiral John Benbow and launched in 1913. On 10 December 1913 she joined the 4th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow.
HMS Birmingham (D86) HMS Birmingham (D86) was a Type 42 destroyer laid down by Cammell Laird and Company, Limited, at Birkenhead on 28 March 1972, launched on 30 July 1973 by Lady Empson, wife of Sir Derek Empson and commissioned on 3 December 1976.
HMS Biter (D97) HMS Biter (D97) was an escort carrier of the Royal Navy. She was laid down in 1939, under Maritime Commission contract (Hull Sun-60), by the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Chester, Pennsylvania, launched on 18 December 1940, and transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy in 1940.
HMS Black Prince (1861) HMS Black Prince, launched 27 February 1861, was the third ship of that name to serve with the British Royal Navy. She was the world's second ocean-going iron-hulled armoured battleship, following her sister ship, HMS Warrior in the two-ship Warrior class.
HMS Black Prince (1904) HMS Black Prince was a Duke of Edinburgh class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy (RN) during World War I. At the beginning of the war, the Black Prince was one of the four armored cruisers serving in Ernest Troubridge's British Mediterranean Fleet.
HMS Black Swan (L57) HMS Black Swan (L57), named after the Black Swan, was the name ship of the Black Swan-class of sloops of the British Royal Navy. She was laid down by Yarrow Shipbuilders on 20 June 1938, launched on 7 July 1939, and commissioned on 27 January 1940.
HMS Blake (C99) HMS Blake (C99) was a guided missile cruiser of the Tiger class of the Royal Navy; the only class to have ever served in Royal Navy and the last of the RN cruisers. She was named after Admiral Robert Blake, a 17th century admiral who was the "Father of the Royal Navy".
HMS Bramham (L51) HMS Bramham (Pennant L51) was a Hunt class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down in Alexander Stephen and Sons shipyards Govan, Scotland on 7 April 1941. She was launched on 29 January 1942 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 16 June 1942.
HMS Bristol (1910) The fifth HMS Bristol was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, displacing 4,800 tons, with a crew of 376, and capable of 27 knots. She was launched in 1910, and carried two 6 inch (152 mm) and ten 4 inch (102 mm) guns.
HMS Britannia (1904) The sixth HMS Britannia of the British Royal Navy was a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the King Edward VII class, launched in 1904. She became the last Royal Navy vessel to be sunk during World War I when she was torpedoed off Cape Trafalgar by UB 50 on 9 November 1918, only two days before the Armistice was signed.
HMS Bronington (M1115) HMS Bronington (M1115) is a Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, launched on 1953-03-19, the former command of Charles, Prince of Wales. This mahogany-hulled minesweeper is one of the last of the "wooden walls" (wooden-hulled naval vessels).
HMS Bulldog (H91) HMS Bulldog was a "B" class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served in World War II. The ship made the first Naval capture of a complete Enigma machine, which was seized from the German submarine U110 on 9 May 1941.
HMS Bulwark (L15) HMS Bulwark is an Albion-class landing platform dock, the UK's newest class of amphibious assault warship. For numerous reasons, delays caused the delivery date to be put back, with the ship entering service in December 2004.
HMS Byard (K315) HMS Byard was a Buckley class destroyer escort originally built for the US Navy. She was laid down by Bethlehem Hingham, Hingham, Massachusetts in October 1942, launched on 6 March 1943 and subsequently sent to Britain under the Lend-Lease agreement.
HMS Cadiz (D79) HMS Cadiz (D79) was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was named after the Battle of Cádiz, in which the French besieged the British- and Allied-controlled town in 1810, which was eventually lifted in 1812 after the French defeat at the Battle of Salamanca.
HMS Cairo (D87) HMS Cairo (D87) was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the Egyptian city of Cairo. She was laid down by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead on 28 November 1917, launched on 19 November 1918 and commissioned on 24 September 1919.
HMS Campania (1914) Originally built for Cunard Line's Liverpool-New York service in 1893, Campania was holder of the Blue Riband 1893-94, losing to her sister ship, Lucania. A collision with barque Embleton 21 July 1900 sank the latter with loss of 11 lives.
HMS Camperdown (D32) HMS Camperdown (D32) was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named after the Battle of Camperdown, a naval engagement between the British and Dutch that took place in 1797, and which resulted in a British victory.
HMS Canada (1913) HMS Canada was a battleship, sometimes identified as a member of the Iron Duke class originally ordered by the government of Chile as Valparaiso. Before launching, the ship's name was changed in honour of Juan José Latorre Benavente.
HMS Canopus (1898) HMS Canopus was a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy, built at Portsmouth Dockyard and laid down on 4 January 1897, launched 21 June 1898 and completed in December 1899. She was named after Canopus, the second brightest star in the sky after Sirius.
HMS Captain (1869) HMS Captain was a revolutionary masted turret ship designed for the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1869 and capsized the following year with the loss of nearly 500 lives because of design flaws that led to a low freeboard.
HMS Cardiff There have been three warships of the Royal Navy to bear the name HMS Cardiff, after the capital of Wales. The ships motto is "Agris in cardine rerum" which translates as "Keen in emergency".
HMS Carnarvon (1903) HMS Carnarvon was a Devonshire-class armoured cruiser (10,850 tons displacement) of the Royal Navy, named after the town of Caernarfon in Wales. Launched in 1903, she served with the Mediterranean Fleet in the 3rd Cruiser Squadron until March 1907, and then joined the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet.
HMS Caroline (1914) HMS Caroline is a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy (RN). She is the second-oldest ship in RN service – the oldest being HMS Victory – and acts as a static headquarters and training ship for the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR), based in Alexandra Dock, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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