• name HMS Worcester, after the English city of Worcester: English ship Worcester (1651) was a 48-gun ship launched in 1651. She was renamed HMS Dunkirk...
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  • takes HMS Worcester on blockade duty around Toulon, France, until the ship is sent for refitting. With Worcester refitting, he is reassigned to HMS Surprise...
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    Service Home Station, at Portland, replacing HMS Colossus. On 19 October 1876 she was renamed as Worcester, to take on a new role as a training ship at...
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    career. It was, for over a hundred years, situated aboard ships named HMS Worcester. London shipowners, marine insurance underwriters and merchants subscribed...
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    in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred...
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    The eighth HMS Worcester (D96, later I96), was a Modified W-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War II. She later served...
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    HMS Worcester was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 17 October 1769 at Portsmouth, and was the fourth ship to bear the...
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    to the area. Early in the morning on Sunday 10 May 1719 HMS Worcester, HMS Flamborough and HMS Enterprise anchored off Eilean Donan and sent a boat ashore...
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    HMS Worcester was a 52-gun 1,500 ton fourth rate frigate of the Royal Navy, the last of six Southampton class ships built, and the fifth naval ship to...
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  • 1915 Union Station (Worcester, Massachusetts), called "Worcester" by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority HMS Worcester, several ships of the...
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    Hamid Mirza enrolled in the Thames Nautical Training College aboard HMS Worcester in Greenhithe, Kent. He graduated in 1936 with a nautical degree and...
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    the Japanese cadets, Tōgō was able to gain admission as a cadet on HMS Worcester, the training ship of the Thames Nautical Training College, moored at...
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  • a training ship renamed HMS Worcester for Thames Nautical Training College[citation needed]. She was broken up in 1978. HMS Exmouth (H02) was an E-class...
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    the Royal Navy's first specially commissioned training ship; renamed HMS Worcester after 1945. Foudroyant (1798), training ship for gunnery from 1862 to...
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  • Sloop Sophie (in Master and Commander), among others. He is aboard HMS Worcester and HMS Surprise in The Ionian Mission. Like Awkward Davies/Davis, Plaice...
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  • the French Postillion. She was captured in 1702 by HMS Worcester (1698) and was wrecked in 1709. HMS Postillion (1757) was an 18-gun sloop, previously...
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  • prior to construction HMS Worcester (D96), a destroyer commissioned in 1922 and declared a constructive total loss in 1944, renamed HMS Yeoman when recommissioned...
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    three elite naval schools from the age of 12, the fixed-base HMS Conway and HMS Worcester or Pangbourne Nautical College, which would automatically lead...
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    third-rate HMS Yarmouth and then the third-rate HMS Restoration in Autumn 1697 during the Nine Years' War and then served in the fourth-rate HMS Worcester followed...
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    10 May, these latter three, the fifty-gun HMS Worcester, the forty-four-gun HMS Enterprise, the twenty-gun HMS Flamborough, anchored off Eilean Donan on...
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  • In his youth, Harrison was a sailor in the Snipe, before sailing on HMS Worcester, While in India, he caught polio, resulting in disability. His legacy...
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  • the age of nine and at sea when he was twelve. While a midshipman aboard HMS Resolution commanded by a friend of General Aubrey's, Captain Douglas, Jack...
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    Wheatley became a British Merchant Navy officer cadet on the training ship HMS Worcester. Wheatley was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the Royal Field...
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    realised that the piers were too high, and so drew alongside the destroyer HMS Worcester and started to take on soldiers. Seventy-five men were crammed into...
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    He went to sea first as a cadet in the merchant service, training on HMS Worcester and sailing around the world four times on the Loch Torridon.: 213 ...
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    off Norway, the two ships engaged the battlecruiser HMS Renown and sank the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious as well as her escort destroyers Acasta and...
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  • HMS Worcester was a 50-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, one of eight such ships authorised by the Navy Board on 24 December 1695 to...
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  • HMS Worcester was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built by Joseph Allin the younger at Portsmouth Dockyard to the 1733 proposals...
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  • Navy have borne the name HMS Valeur: HMS Valeur (1705) was a 24-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1705 by HMS Worcester. She was converted to a...
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    Admiralty was approached for a ship and allocated the "two-decker" HMS Worcester. At the time the Royal Navy was starting to replace its fleet of 'wooden...
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