• the name HMS Defender: HMS Defender (1797), a 12-gun Courser-class gun-brig launched in 1797 and on the Navy List until 1802. HMS Defender (1804), a...
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    HMS Defender is the fifth of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy. She is the eighth ship to bear the name. Construction...
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    HMS Defender was an Acheron-class destroyer which was built in 1911, served throughout World War I and was broken up in 1921. She was the fifth ship of...
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    HMS Defender was a Daring-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Built as yard number 609 at Alexander Stephen and Sons, and originally intended to be named...
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    between Russia and the United Kingdom involving the British destroyer HMS Defender while it transited from Odesa, Ukraine, to Batumi, Georgia. In 2014,...
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  • Look up defend, defender, or defenders in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Defender(s) or The Defender(s) may refer to: Defense (military) Defense (sports)...
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    HMS Defender was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she...
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    responded: “HMS Diamond, HMS Duncan and HMS Dauntless are all currently available for operations. HMS Daring, HMS Dragon and HMS Defender are all currently...
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    22 April 2015. "HMS Diamond". Royal Navy. Retrieved 22 April 2015. "HMS Dragon". Royal Navy. Retrieved 22 April 2015. "HMS Defender". Royal Navy. Retrieved...
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    countries. Joining lead ship HMS Queen Elizabeth were Type 45 destroyers HMS Diamond and HMS Defender, Type 23 frigates HMS Kent and HMS Richmond, Astute-class...
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    Missile Defense Test Site in the Marshall Islands, US. In May 2019, HMS Defender successfully used her Sea Viper system to destroy an incoming drone target...
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    their respective ports on 1 May: HMS Diamond, HMS Defender, HMS Kent, and HMS Queen Elizabeth from HMNB Portsmouth; HMS Richmond from HMNB Devonport; RFA...
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    a frigate and three corvettes. On 23 June 2021, the United Kingdom's HMS Defender undertook a freedom of navigation patrol through the disputed waters...
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    HMS Dragon is the fourth ship of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy. She was launched in November 2008 and commissioned...
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    HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers, currently under the command of Captain Claire Thompson since 2024...
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    HMS Defender was the French privateer lugger Bon Marcel (Beau Marseilles in British records), that Royalist captured in 1809. Defender served without distinction...
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  • Launched on 21 May 1797, GB No. 21 was renamed HMS Defender on 7 August the same year. She was a 12-gun Courser-class gun-brig built for the British Royal...
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    HMS Duncan is the sixth and last of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy and launched in 2010. Duncan is named...
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  • the final act where Stirling is repeatedly attacked by dive bombers . HMS Defender, Invader, Wrestler and Blue Ranger, are smaller American-built escort...
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    45 destroyers HMS Diamond and HMS Defender Type 23 frigates HMS Richmond and HMS Kent Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine HMS Artful Fort Victoria-class...
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    HMS Dauntless is the second ship of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the British Royal Navy. She is currently under the command...
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    warships attached to convoys were available: HMS Defender, Jaguar, and Juno waited in the Kithira Channel and HMS Decoy, Carlisle, Calcutta, and Bonaventure...
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    (planned) Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring (D32) HMS Dauntless (D33) HMS Diamond (D34) HMS Dragon (D35) HMS Defender (D36) HMS Duncan (D37) Type 83 destroyer...
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  • with celebrity friend Uri Geller, who was also a director. The crew of HMS Defender (D36) also adopted Exeter City as their home team and use their strip...
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    HMS Daring is the lead ship of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy, and the seventh ship to hold that name. She...
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    HMS Dainty, HMS Diamond, HMS Decoy, HMS Defender 11th Destroyer Flotilla: 1939 Home Fleet HMS Vanquisher, HMS Vansittart, HMS Vimy, HMS Walker, HMS Warwick...
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    In 2009, the ship was affiliated with HMS Defender, having hosted the official dignitary party at Defender's launch on the River Clyde. And in 2011 the...
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    acting as diplomats. In June 2021, a confrontation occurred between HMS Defender and the Russian Armed Forces in the 2021 Black Sea incident. Following...
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  • around Crimea: the Kerch Strait incident on 25 November 2018, and the HMS Defender incident on 23 June 2021. a Russian private firm, without any authorization...
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  • HMS Defender was a 12-gun Archer-class gun-brig built in Chester in 1804 and employed in the English Channel. On 14 December 1809, she was wrecked near...
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