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    HMS Resolution (pennant number: 09) was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in December...
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    the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Resolution. However, the first English warship to bear the name Resolution was actually the first rate Prince Royal...
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    HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. She participated in several battles of...
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    Incognita. Cook commanded HMS Resolution on this voyage, while Tobias Furneaux commanded its companion ship, HMS Adventure. Resolution began her career as the...
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    continent should exist. Cook commanded HMS Resolution on this voyage, while Tobias Furneaux commanded its companion ship, HMS Adventure. Cook's expedition circumnavigated...
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    expeditions to the Arctic and a survey of the coastline of Australia aboard HMS Beagle. In 1845 he served under Sir John Franklin as First Lieutenant (the...
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    Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
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    now owned by BAE Systems. All four boats are based at HM Naval Base Clyde (HMS Neptune), 40 km (25 mi) west of Glasgow, Scotland. Since the decommissioning...
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  • highly classified. The United Kingdom's first nuclear-powered submarine HMS Dreadnought, commissioned in 1963, was powered by an American Westinghouse...
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  • Harry Goodsir, HMS Erebus Adam Nagaitis as Caulker's Mate Cornelius Hickey, HMS Terror Ian Hart as Sailing Master Thomas Blanky, HMS Terror Nive Nielsen...
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    been with Bligh when he was Captain James Cook's sailing master on HMS Resolution during the explorer's third voyage (1776–80). Several others had sailed...
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    Royal Navy: HMS Battleaxe HMS Brilliant HMS Brazen HMS Campbeltown HMS Chatham HMS Cumberland HMS Edinburgh HMS Glasgow HMS Nottingham HMS Beaver RFA Orangeleaf...
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    HMS Resolute was a mid-19th-century barque-rigged ship of the British Royal Navy, specially outfitted for Arctic exploration. Resolute became trapped...
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    Cook on a voyage to discover the Northwest Passage. HMS Resolution, to be commanded by Cook, and HMS Discovery, commanded by Charles Clerke, were prepared...
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    (1776–80) in which he had served as sailing master, or chief navigator, on HMS Resolution. Bligh was born in Plymouth in 1754 into a family of naval and military...
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    HMS Royal Oak was one of five Revenge-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Completed in 1916, the ship first saw combat...
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    Royal Navy and a colonial administrator. He is best known for the mutiny on HMS Bounty, which occurred in 1789 when the ship was under his command. The reasons...
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    United Kingdom. In 1907, before the revolution in design brought about by HMS Dreadnought of 1906, the United Kingdom had 62 battleships in commission...
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  • equipment. On 2 April, Royal Navy survey vessel HMS Echo and submarine HMS Tireless arrived in the area, with HMS Echo starting immediately to search for the...
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  • carrier: HMS Triumph, HMS Ocean, HMS Theseus, HMS Glory, HMS Unicorn, HMS Warrior Cruiser: Belfast, HMS Jamaica, HMS Ceylon, HMS Kenya, HMS Newcastle, HMS Birmingham...
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    Constable & Co. ISBN 978-0-09-479530-3. Riffenburgh, Beau (2005). Nimrod: Ernest Shackleton and the Extraordinary Story of the 1907–09 British Antarctic Expedition...
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    attacked and sank the nearby aircraft carrier HMS Glorious with its escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. Devonshire did not rebroadcast the enemy...
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    and British commissioners met for the first time on board the British ship HMS Satellite, anchored in Esquimalt Harbour. The two sides met several more...
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    JOIDES Resolution will end operations in August 2024 following the non-renewal of NSF support. JOIDES Resolution is named after HMS Resolution, in which...
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    man". Like Peary, he studied Inuit survival techniques. During their 1908–09 expedition to Greenland, Henson was one of the six men – including Peary and...
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    routes west from Montreal. On 15 July 1848, the expedition reached Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake. John Bell was sent downriver to establish winter...
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    established in General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV) of 1960. Also in 1960, the General Assembly adopted Resolution 1514 (XV), promulgating the "Declaration...
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    Royal Navy HMS Hood – battlecruiser – Flagship HMS Resolution – battleship HMS Valiant – battleship HMS Ark Royal – aircraft carrier HMS Arethusa – light...
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    Baffin Munk I. Fyodorov HMS Resolution J. Cook HMS Discovery Clerke Mackenzie Kotzebue J. Ross HMS Griper Parry HMS Hecla Lyon HMS Fury Hoppner Crozier J...
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    Barry Stewart Bingham (HMS Nestor) John Travers Cornwell (HMS Chester) Francis John William Harvey (HMS Lion) Loftus William Jones (HMS Shark) In the years...
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