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    HMS Ursula was a Modified Admiralty R-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy. The Modified R class added attributes of the Yarrow Later M class...
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  • Navy have been named HMS Ursula: HMS Ursula (1917) was a modified R-class destroyer launched in 1917 and sold in 1929. HMS Ursula (N59), a Second World...
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    Ney-class monitor), HMS Lord Clive, HMS Prince Eugene, HMS General Craufurd (Lord Clive-class monitors), HMS M24, HMS M26 and HMS M21 (M15-class monitors)...
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  • class K class HMS K1 HMS K2 HMS K3 HMS K4 HMS K5 HMS K6 HMS K7 HMS K8 HMS K9 HMS K10 HMS K11 HMS K12 HMS K13 HMS K14 HMS K15 HMS K16 HMS K17 HMS K26 L class...
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    Women's Royal Naval Service (category Military units and formations established in 1917)
    was the women's branch of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. First formed in 1917 for the First World War, it was disbanded in 1919, then revived in 1939 at...
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    HMS Unbeaten, HMS Upholder, HMS United, HMS Upright, HMS Una, HMS Unseen, HMS Unbending, HMS Unbroken, HMS Urge, HMS Utmost, HMS P38 and HMS Ursula (N59)...
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  • the ‘mother’ aircraft. On 9 October 1917 the Deputy Director of Naval Construction, William Henry Gard assessed HMS Carron for use as a D.C.B. blocking...
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    Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford (category 1917 births)
    from shore leave in the middle of the afternoon and, with HMS Ursula, HMS Unbeaten and HMS Upright, sailed within a few hours to pursue intelligence reports...
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  • Cruiser – HMS Argonaut Association". Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Badsworth, escort destroyer". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Beaufort...
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    the enemy camp at Bir Asiso. Learning that the crews of HMT Moorina and HMS Tara were being held in poor conditions at Bir Hakeim, he led the nine armoured...
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  • 1856 – A group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrives at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the...
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    August 2014. Buchan, Ursula (2019). Beyond The Thirty-Nine Steps. London: Bloomsbury. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-4088-7081-5. Buchan, Ursula (2019). Beyond The...
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  • warship for 14,000 tons. On 9 January 1917, to the East of Malta, U-32 sank the British pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Cornwallis, with the loss of 15 lives...
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    islands were named "Santa Úrsula y las Once Mil Vírgenes" by Christopher Columbus in 1493 after the legend of Saint Ursula and the 11,000 virgins. The...
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    Mornington became HMS Drake. Other examples include: HMS Calcutta HMS Glatton HMS Hindostan (1795) HMS Hindostan (1804) HMS Malabar HMS Buffalo Their design...
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    a son Robert Vere Darwin (7 May 1910 – 30 January 1974), and daughters Ursula Mommens (20 August 1908 – 30 January 2010), and Nicola Mary Elizabeth Darwin...
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    Anastasia. Irene Worth portrays her in the 1971 epic Nicholas and Alexandra. Ursula Howells played the role in one episode of the 1974 drama Fall of Eagles...
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    closely followed by the events of 9 July 1917, when 843 men were killed in the UK's worst ever explosion on board HMS Vanguard. The most recent Barrow-built...
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    The first R class were a class of 62 destroyers built between 1916 and 1917 for the Royal Navy. They were an improvement, specifically in the area of fuel...
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    After the outbreak of the Second World War, Wanklyn was given command of HMS H31 which he commanded from February until August 1940. Wanklyn sailed on...
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    15-inch gun; the oldest capital ship in the fleet was HMS Indomitable (commissioned in June 1908) while HMS Dreadnought was put in reserve in July 1918. Five...
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    complemented German Kriegsmarine U-boat operations as part of Operation Ursula. At least two Republican freighters, one Soviet and another Panamanian were...
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  • DMP · 373 374 Burgundia 1893 AK Burgundy, region of France DMP · 374 375 Ursula 1893 AL Unknown origin of name DMP · 375 376 Geometria 1893 AM Geometry...
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    Arthur C. Clarke (category 1917 births)
    Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea...
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    Schauer; and Germans Michael Dacher, journalist, Jochen Hölzgen, and doctor Ursula Grether, who was injured during the approach and had to be carried to Askole...
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    two daughters: Rüdiger (1921–1940), Arnd (1922–1941), Heloise (1923), and Ursula (1927). Both his two sons, Rüdiger and Arnd von Lettow-Vorbeck, and his...
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    submarine-to-submarine combat kill of World War II. This occurred when the crew of HMS Venturer engaged the U-864, manually computed a successful firing solution...
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  • SS Aguila was a British steam passenger liner. She was built in Dundee in 1917 and was sunk by enemy action in the North Atlantic in 1941. She belonged...
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  • large tsunami. 1770 – Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook, in command of HMS Endeavour, sights the east coast of Australia and lands at Kurnell. 1779...
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  • significant part of their lives there. Sir Frederick Borden KCMG PC (1847–1917), Minister of Militia and Defence (Canada) (1896-1911) Sir Robert Borden...
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