the Royal Navy have been named HMS Torch: HMS Torch (1804), a fireship, purchased in 1804 and sold in 1807 HMS Torch (1805), formerly the French Torche...
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standard solid fuel powered torch made of aluminium, a special butane gas torch used on board HMS Whitesand Bay, and a final torch used to enter Empire Stadium...
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Alert-class sloop (redirect from HMS Alert (1894))
Retrieved 30 August 2008. "Frank Waterfield's HMS Alert pages". Retrieved 1 September 2008. "HMS Torch at Naval Database website". Retrieved 1 September...
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HMS Torch was an Alert-class sloop of the Royal Navy, built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched in 1894. She served in Australia and New Zealand and was...
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HMS Torch was an iron steamer[clarification needed] of 350 tons which was the tender vessel for HMS Herald. In the 1850s she conducted surveying work...
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game against a team from HMS Powerful and won 3 goals to 1. In 1914, a team from Suva played against a team from HMS Torch, at Albert Park, and won by...
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Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during World War II. Torch was a compromise operation that met the...
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passage between them or not. In May 1853, Henry Mangles Denham with HMS Herald and HMS Torch surveyed the area around Lord Howe Island including Ball's Pyramid...
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French corvette Torche (1795) (redirect from HMS Torch (1805))
capturing her one-month later, in August. She was taken into service as HMS Torch but never commissioned and was broken up in 1811. From 2 June 1795, Torche...
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Colonel Stuart Newall and was later reinforced by the Royal Navy sloop HMS Torch. On 5 May 1898, the government forces marched on Waima, Hone Toia sent...
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1939 to 2nd. SEPT. 1945. Admiralty. 1952. Retrieved 27 February 2019. "HMS Torch (2) – May 1918 to August 1922, Grand Fleet, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea"...
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game against a team from HMS Powerful and won 3 goals to 1. In 1914, a team from Suva played against a team from HMS Torch, at Albert Park, and won by...
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Navy took Torche, which was a sister-ship to Mignonne, into service as HMS Torch, but never commissioned her. On 26 July 1807 Goliath sailed as a part...
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it had returned to normal (two persons) by 31 October; the destroyer HMS Torch of the 12th Destroyer Flotilla was more seriously hit, with 37 (41 per...
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game against a team from HMS Powerful and won 3 goals to 1. In 1914, a team from Suva played against a team from HMS Torch, at Albert Park, and won by...
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HMS Victorious, HMS Formidable and HMS Furious Battleships HMS Duke of York, HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson Battle cruiser HMS Renown light cruisers HMS Bermuda...
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over to the Free French Navy, and renamed HMS Largs. She took part in many operations including Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, and Operation...
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years, including the cruisers HMS Achilles and HMS Leander, the training minesweeper HMS Wakakura, and the cruiser HMS Philomel which was recommissioned...
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168°51′44″E / 46.6686°S 168.8622°E / -46.6686; 168.8622 (SS Tararua) HMS Torch Royal Navy 17 November 1924 An Alert-class sloop that ran aground in...
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Chatham on 16 February 1900 to take out reliefs for HMS Ringarooma, HMS Boomerang and HMS Torch serving on the Australia Station, and left Plymouth two...
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was promoted to lieutenant commander. he took over command of the sloop HMS Torch, the last sailing vessel in the Royal Navy. According to his Senate promotional...
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to the Royal Navy in 1906 and was sold in 1920. HMS Firebrand was a sloop launched in 1894 as HMS Torch. She was given to the New Zealand government in...
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outsiders, and when a murder was committed on Malaita, he had to appeal for HMS Torch to be sent to make a punitive raid. Much of the interest in capital investment...
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Navy HMS Buzzard (1887) HMS Goldfinch (1889) HMS Brilliant (1891) HMS Torch (1894) HMS Pelorus (1896) HMS Shearwater (1900) HMS Fantome (1901) HMS Clio...
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Operation Torch November 1942) Le Fortuné (interned in Alexandria until December 1943) La Combattante - lost 24 February 1945 Aconit (K58) (ex-HMS Aconite)...
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Gittings (ship's cook and steward). Captain Chimmo of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Torch, sailed to the island and conducted an investigation. He decided to take...
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Surgeon-zoologist. James Glen Wilson was the ship's artist. Herald, with her tender HMS Torch, a paddle steamer' left Plymouth on 10 June 1852. They travelled via Madeira...
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House, 1842, Conrad Martens Vaucluse from the Hill, 1841, Conrad Martens HMS Torch, Sydney. 1855, watercolour sketch by Conrad Martens Devonshire, ca. 1830...
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75 H.M.S. Torch 1912 74 H.M.S. Psyche 1911 73 H.M.S. Pyranus 1910 72 H.M.S. Pyranus 1909 71 H.M.S. Powerful 1908 70 S.S. Westralia 1907 69 H.M.S. Cambrian...
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Destroyer Flotilla which consisted of two destroyers, HMS Broke and HMS Malcolm, assigned to Operation Torch, the allied invasion of French North Africa. The...
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