• Thumbnail for HMS Edinburgh (16)
    HMS Edinburgh was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, which served during the Second World War. She was one of the last two Town class cruisers...
    20 KB (2,351 words) - 12:58, 25 February 2024
  • named HMS Edinburgh, for the Scottish city of Edinburgh. In addition, one ship of the Royal Navy has carried the similar name HMS Duke of Edinburgh. HMS Edinburgh (1707)...
    2 KB (352 words) - 19:22, 14 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for List of Royal Navy losses in World War II
    Alexandria 15 December 1941 Sunk by U-557 HMS Penelope (97) off Naples 18 February 1944 Sunk by U-410 HMS Edinburgh (16) Arctic Ocean 2 May 1942 Scuttled after...
    48 KB (306 words) - 12:43, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021), was the husband of...
    158 KB (13,776 words) - 14:30, 12 June 2024
  • 1941: Midshipman, HMS Ramillies, HMS Valiant 1941 – 16 July 1942: Sub-Lieutenant, HMS Wallace 16 July 1942 – October 1942: Lieutenant, HMS Wallace October...
    110 KB (5,433 words) - 20:44, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Belfast
    This modified design became the 10,000-ton Edinburgh subclass, named after Belfast's sister ship HMS Edinburgh. Belfast was ordered from Harland and Wolff...
    70 KB (8,034 words) - 04:59, 2 June 2024
  • 2018, subsequent Batch 2 ships were announced as HMS Sheffield, HMS Newcastle, HMS Edinburgh and HMS London. Of the eight names, six were previously used...
    83 KB (7,054 words) - 10:46, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Edinburgh (1882)
    HMS Edinburgh was an ironclad battleship of the Colossus class which served in the Royal Navy of the Victorian era. She was the sister ship of HMS Colossus...
    17 KB (1,799 words) - 14:31, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria. The Duke visited New Zealand in 1869 as a post captain in HMS Galatea, and twice in...
    52 KB (5,256 words) - 16:59, 30 May 2024
  • Retrieved August 1, 2023. "HMS Goodall (K 479)". uboat.net. Retrieved July 22, 2023. "M-175". uboat.net. Retrieved July 22, 2023. "HMS Matabele (G 26)". uboat...
    15 KB (190 words) - 00:20, 1 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Joppa, Edinburgh
    restored. On 16 October 1939, the Luftwaffe made a daylight air raid up the Forth to bomb British warships (HMS Edinburgh, HMS Mohawk and HMS Southampton)...
    4 KB (469 words) - 15:59, 19 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Town-class cruiser (1936)
    The ships were built in the sub-classes, Southampton, Gloucester and Edinburgh, each sub-class adding more weaponry. Like their US and Japanese counterparts...
    18 KB (1,614 words) - 11:26, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for University Royal Naval Unit East Scotland
    and its tender, HMS Express. From the 2012 academic year, Aberdeen URNU paused its recruitment in anticipation of a move to Edinburgh, which occurred...
    43 KB (4,062 words) - 18:49, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08)
    HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers and the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Navy. Capable of carrying 60...
    89 KB (7,560 words) - 17:41, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
    visit took place during the circumnavigation the Duke of Edinburgh did while commanding HMS Galatea. Tristan da Cunha post office issued four stamps in...
    15 KB (1,075 words) - 16:43, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edinburgh Castle (1910 ship)
    2020. "SS Edinburgh Castle (+1945)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 3 December 2017. Rosemary; Old Weather Transcriber; Renfrewshire (eds.). "HMS Edinburgh Castle...
    9 KB (707 words) - 11:25, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Navy
    River-class vessel, HMS Clyde, was decommissioned, with the Batch 2 HMS Forth taking over duties as the Falkland Islands patrol ship. HMS Protector is a dedicated...
    157 KB (15,941 words) - 05:52, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Victoria (1887)
    34.533; 35.833 HMS Victoria was the lead ship in her class of two battleships of the Royal Navy. On 22 June 1893, she collided with HMS Camperdown near...
    18 KB (1,846 words) - 09:12, 24 February 2024
  • Together with HMS Gambia, HMS Bermuda, HMS Eagle, seven destroyers and two frigates she escorted Queen Elizabeth II and Duke of Edinburgh on board the...
    24 KB (2,764 words) - 20:35, 13 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Arctic naval operations of World War II
    ship München near Jan Mayen while covered by cruisers HMS Edinburgh, Manchester and Birmingham. HMS Nigeria made a similar capture of the weather ship Lauenburg...
    48 KB (5,376 words) - 19:16, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Granton, Edinburgh
    Granton is a district in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland. Granton forms part of Edinburgh's waterfront along the Firth of Forth and is, historically,...
    24 KB (2,689 words) - 11:52, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Diamond (D34)
    HMS Diamond is the third ship of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence guided missile destroyers built for the Royal Navy. She was launched in 2007...
    38 KB (3,391 words) - 13:41, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Isle of Man Airport
    torpedo bombers. Commissioned as HMS Urley (Manx for Eagle) by the Admiralty on 21 June 1944, with accounts handled by HMS Valkyrie, flying recommenced on...
    20 KB (1,911 words) - 06:12, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de la Santísima Trinidad
    55 merchant ships from a convoy of 63, escorted by the ship of the line HMS Ramillies and three frigates. In 1782 she was incorporated into the Mediterranean...
    14 KB (1,387 words) - 21:00, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Death and funeral of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
    On 9 April 2021, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, and the...
    181 KB (17,759 words) - 18:35, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kirkwall Airport
    (RNAS Grimsetter). On 15 August, it was commissioned as HMS Robin, as a satellite to RNAS Hatston (HMS Sparrowhawk), located 1 mi (1.6 km) to the north west...
    13 KB (790 words) - 23:05, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Cavalier (R73)
    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...
    17 KB (1,587 words) - 10:25, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of aircraft carriers
    000 tonnes HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS Prince of Wales Retired: HMS Argus (1916) - scrapped 1946 HMS Furious (1916) - decommissioned 1945 HMS Vindictive (1918) –...
    147 KB (4,590 words) - 23:43, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS St Albans (F83)
    (9 June 2011). "HMS St Albans deploys to Indian Ocean and the Gulf". Gov.uk. Retrieved 6 April 2019. "HMS St Albans and HMS Edinburgh return to Portsmouth"...
    25 KB (2,543 words) - 15:57, 4 June 2024
  • the Admiralty. He went on to be Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in 1953 and Flag Officer, Flotillas in the Mediterranean Fleet...
    4 KB (237 words) - 20:40, 18 September 2022