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    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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    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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    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 (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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    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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