HMS Caprice was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ordered on 16 February 1942 from Yarrow, Scotstoun. She was originally to be named HMS Swallow...
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subsequently broken up. HMS Swallow was to have been a C-class destroyer. She was renamed HMS Caprice in 1942 and launched in 1943. HMS Swallow (P242) was...
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in 1957, and commanded the destroyer HMS Caprice from 1960. In 1965, Tait was given command of the frigate HMS Ajax and the 2nd Destroyer Squadron in...
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and the class were prepared accordingly. In the event only HMS Cavalier and HMS Caprice received it, in 1966 refits. GWS-20 saw active service in the...
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super-heavy bomber design DFW R.I, a 1916 German prototype bomber aircraft HMS Caprice, a destroyer originally designated with Pennant Number R01 Linke-Hofmann...
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United States Navy. Upon completion, Caprice was transferred to the Royal Navy on 28 May 1943, and commissioned as HMS Honesty. On 5 January 1946, Honesty...
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from 1917 to 1919 USS Caprice (PG-90), a patrol boat transferred to the British Royal Navy upon completion in 1943 and renamed HMS Honesty (K285) This article...
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HMS Cavalier is a retired C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at East Cowes on 28 March 1943, launched...
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Flower-class corvette (redirect from HMS Gloriosa)
Lambert and Brown 2008, p. 65. HMS Arbutus (K 86) (British Corvette) – Ships hit by German U-boats during WWII – uboat.net HMS Asphodel (K 56) (British Corvette)...
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HMS Thunderer was one of two Devastation-class ironclad turret ships built for the Royal Navy in the 1870s. She suffered two serious accidents before...
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Τομπάζης) was a Greek corvette of the Flower class, originally the British HMS Tamarisk. It was one of four corvettes of this type transferred to Greece...
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HMS Spiraea was a Flower-class corvette of the British Royal Navy. Named for a genus of shrub, Spiraea served in the Second World War as an escort. The...
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French corvette Aconit (redirect from HMS Aconite (K58))
Aconit (formerly HMS Aconite) was one of the nine Flower-class corvettes lent by the Royal Navy to the Free French Naval Forces. During World War II,...
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USS Prudent (redirect from HMS Privet (K291))
USS Prudent (PG–96), originally ordered as HMS Privet, was an Action-class patrol gunboat in the United States Navy. Prudent was laid down by the Morton...
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HMIS Assam (redirect from HMS Bugloss (K306))
the Royal Indian Navy. She was originally ordered for and commissioned as HMS Bugloss of the Royal Navy, but transferred to the Royal Indian Navy immediately...
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HMS Rosebay (previously known as Splendor (PG-97)) was a Flower-class corvette built for World War II. She was disposed of soon after the war. Splendor...
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HMS Abelia was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy and was built by Harland & Wolff in 1941. She was launched on 28 November 1940, and...
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HMS Heather was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. McCluskie, Tom (2013). The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff. Stroud: The History Press. p...
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HMS Pimpernel (K71) was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. The ship was ordered in September 1939, laid...
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HMS Dittany was a Flower-class corvette of the British Royal Navy during the Second World War. On 14 August 1942, the name Beacon was approved for PG...
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HMS Samphire was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy. She was built by Smiths Dock Company, in South Bank-on-Tees, and was commissioned...
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single 2-pounder "pom-pom" anti aircraft guns on power operated mounts. Caprice differed in having a quadruple 2-pounder "pom-pom" instead of the Hazemayer...
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This was the task of aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal and the escort forces HMS Rhyl, HMS Lowestoft and later HMS Plymouth. Stationed off Beira, directing...
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HMS Salvia (K97) was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She was ordered on the eve of the Second World War and entered service in September 1940...
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HMS Nadder was a River-class frigate of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was transferred to the Royal Indian Navy in 1945 and renamed Shamsher...
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HMS Tamar was a Royal Navy troopship built by the Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town, London, and launched in Britain in 1863. She served as a supply ship...
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HMS Borage was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Navy during World War II. Borage was ordered in July 1939 as part of the Royal Navy's...
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maritime incidents in 1876 Shipwrecks 3 Jan: HMS Warspite 3 Feb: Surprise 17 Feb: Halifax 28 Feb: Caprice 28 Feb: Nettle 3 Mar: Carrier Dove 12 Mar: Laurdal...
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HMS Warspite was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1807. She served in the Napoleonic Wars and was decommissioned in...
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maritime incidents in 1876 Shipwrecks 3 Jan: HMS Warspite 3 Feb: Surprise 17 Feb: Halifax 28 Feb: Caprice 28 Feb: Nettle 3 Mar: Carrier Dove 12 Mar: Laurdal...
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