The Kingfisher class was a class of nine patrol sloops of the British Royal Navy built in three groups of three each during the 1930s, that saw service...
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HMS Kingfisher (1804) was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1804 and broken up in 1816. HMS Kingfisher (1823) was a 10-gun Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched...
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sloop[page needed] Grimsby-class sloop[page needed]1998 Kingfisher-class sloop[page needed] Bittern-class sloop[page needed] Egret-class sloop[page needed][page needed]...
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Kingfisher Shopping Centre, Reddich, Worcestershire, England HMS Kingfisher, various British Royal Navy ships Kingfisher-class sloop, a patrol sloop class...
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the fleet, sloops had a maximum speed of less than 20 knots (37 km/h). A number of such sloops, for example the Grimsby and Kingfisher classes, were built...
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HMS Kingfisher (L70) (later K70) was a Royal Navy patrol vessel and the lead ship of the Kingfisher-class sloops, laid down in 1934 and commissioned in...
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Furthermore, there is HMS Nairn, a River-class frigate, HMS Eager, a fleet minesweeper, and HMS Gannet, a Kingfisher-class sloop, nicknamed Huntley and Palmer due...
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The Grimsby class were a class of 13 sloops laid down between 1933 and 1940. Of these, eight were built in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy, four...
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HMS Mallard (L42) (category Kingfisher-class sloops)
HMS Mallard was a Kingfisher-class sloop of the British Royal Navy. Completed in 1936, Mallard served through the Second World War, carrying out convoy...
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HMS Puffin (L52) (category Kingfisher-class sloops)
HMS Puffin (L52) (later K52), was a Kingfisher-class sloop of the British Royal Navy, built in the 1930s, that saw service during World War II. The ship...
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Sixth-rate, corvette, and sloop classes of the Royal Navy. During the Age of Sail, warships were divided into ranks or classes. The English Royal Navy adopted...
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Kingfisher was a sloop engaged in merchant trading out of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to First Nations peoples around Vancouver Island and adjoining...
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Swan class were built as a 14-gun class of ship sloops for the Royal Navy, although an extra two guns were added soon after completion. The class was designed...
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HMS Kingfisher was a Doterel-class screw sloop of the Royal Navy. She was built at Sheerness Dockyard and launched on 16 December 1879. She conducted anti-slavery...
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The Bittern-class sloop was a three-ship class of long-range escort vessels used in the Second World War by the Royal Navy. The Bittern class were built...
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assigned to the Daunt Rock station from 1887-1896 HMS Puffin (L52), a Kingfisher-class sloop active 1936 to 1945 USS Puffin (AMc-29), a coastal minesweeper active...
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The Cherokee class was a class of brig-sloops of the Royal Navy, mounting ten guns. Brig-sloops were sloops-of-war with two masts (a fore mast and a taller...
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Notes HMS Shearwater Royal Navy Kingfisher-class sloop –5 September 1940 Joined en route HMS Valorous Royal Navy V-class destroyer 3–5 September 1940 HMS Westminster...
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HMS Kingfisher (also spelled King's Fisher or Kingsfisher) was the second ship in the 14-gun Swan class of ship sloops, to which design 25 vessels were...
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for LA (low-angle) gun, 1930s Crew storing fixed rounds on the Kingfisher class sloop HMS Widgeon, August 1943 List of anti-aircraft guns List of naval...
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1911 and sold for breaking up in 1921. HMS Sheldrake (L06) was a Kingfisher-class sloop launched in 1937 and sold in 1946. Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben...
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depot ship in 1915 and was sold in 1922. HMS Shearwater (L39) was a Kingfisher-class sloop launched in 1939 and sold in 1947. This article includes a list...
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HMS Shearwater (L39) (category Kingfisher-class sloops)
HMS Shearwater was a Kingfisher-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Shearwater was laid down at J. Samuel White, Cowes on 15 August 1938. She was launched on...
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Italian Spica-class torpedo boats, Japanese Chidori-class torpedo boats, French La Melpomène-class torpedo boats and British Kingfisher-class sloops. The next...
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Egret-class sloop (1938) Kingfisher-class sloop (1938) J-, K- and N-class destroyer (1939) Type I Hunt-class destroyer escort (1939) Type II Hunt-class destroyer...
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She was reclassified as a D-class destroyer in 1913 and was sold in 1920. HMS Mallard (L42) was a Kingfisher-class sloop launched in 1936 and sold in...
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gunboat launched in 1904 and sold in 1931 HMS Widgeon (L62), a Kingfisher-class sloop launched in 1938 and scrapped in 1947 This article includes a list...
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operations. Testing began in February 1942 using HMS Guillemot, a Kingfisher-class sloop, and later moved to the production model on the 271P on HMS Veteran...
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light-vessel: see Lightvessels in Ireland HMS Kittiwake (L30), a Kingfisher-class sloop of the British Royal Navy, a 1930s patrol vessel USCGC Kittiwake (WPB-87316)...
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The Merlin class was a class of twenty-one sloops of wooden construction built for the Royal Navy between 1743 and 1746. They were all built by contract...
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