named HMS Ajax after the Greek hero Ajax: HMS Ajax (1767) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1767 and sold in 1785. HMS Ajax (1798)... 3 KB (355 words) - 11:10, 9 August 2023 |
the destroyers were in fact light cruisers (HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles) in addition to the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter. His ship outgunned all his opponents... 13 KB (1,559 words) - 06:55, 4 March 2024 |
2nd Battle Squadron (category Military units and formations established in 1912) was constituted as follows: HMS King George V HMS Ajax HMS Audacious HMS Centurion HMS Conqueror HMS Monarch HMS Orion HMS Thunderer As an element in the... 8 KB (659 words) - 21:18, 20 November 2023 |
Duncan Lewin (category 1912 births) Edgar Duncan Goodenough Lewin in Farnham, Surrey on 9 August 1912. Lewin, a pilot on HMS Ajax during the Battle of the River Plate where he reported on the... 4 KB (312 words) - 07:10, 10 April 2024 |
HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic) and was received by several other ships in the area, among them HMS Scourge and HMS Heroic, but Britannic heard nothing in reply. Unknown to either Bartlett... 63 KB (7,151 words) - 22:54, 9 April 2024 |
March 1890, he transferred to the battleship HMS Ajax later that year. He joined the training brig HMS Pilot at Portsmouth in March 1892 and, having... 15 KB (1,469 words) - 15:25, 25 April 2024 |
HMS A3 was an A-class submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She sank in 1912. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed... 10 KB (910 words) - 20:06, 25 April 2024 |
completed in August 1904 under the name Spir but was renamed Bøilefos in 1912 and Ajax in 1915. The ship was 70.6 metres (231 ft 8 in) long, with a beam of... 3 KB (230 words) - 07:03, 2 June 2022 |
"Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved 22 April 2022 – via British... 172 KB (1,404 words) - 12:50, 25 April 2024 |
into a self-contained community which was named after the British warship HMS Ajax. After the plant shut down in 1945, its site was used as a war surplus... 55 KB (7,307 words) - 16:52, 15 January 2024 |
J. Tynan, renamed F-1 on 17 November 1911, and commissioned on 19 June 1912. Assigned to the First Submarine Group, Pacific Torpedo Flotilla, F-1 operated... 5 KB (367 words) - 17:21, 1 June 2023 |
passengers, and converted in 1912 into a whaling factory ship. She was built as Runic, renamed Tampican in 1895, Imo in 1912 and Guvernøren (The Governor)... 19 KB (1,990 words) - 06:00, 1 March 2024 |
to the Cunard Line on 12 December 1911, and began service on 20 January 1912. She was the first Cunard ship of that name. She was torpedoed and sunk on... 9 KB (881 words) - 20:10, 6 March 2024 |
Cruiser – HMS Argonaut Association". Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Badsworth, escort destroyer". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Beaufort... 96 KB (4,577 words) - 00:03, 4 November 2023 |
collaborationist Government of Vichy France. The town of Ajax, Ontario is named for HMS Ajax, which fought in the Battle of the River Plate in the Second... 32 KB (2,657 words) - 04:31, 19 April 2024 |
ship SS Exodus, carrying 4,515 immigrants, was intercepted by the cruiser HMS Ajax and a flotilla of destroyers. She was rammed and boarded but the immigrants... 40 KB (4,651 words) - 04:48, 24 April 2024 |
USS F-3 (category 1912 ships) 17 November 1911, launched on 6 January 1912 sponsored by Mrs. M. F. Backus, and commissioned on 5 August 1912. F-3 completed her trials in the Puget Sound... 4 KB (345 words) - 12:45, 4 July 2023 |
American general John McNeil Boyd (1812–1861), Royal Navy captain of HMS Ajax, died in the "Boyd disaster" 1861 John Boyd (photographer) (1865–1941)... 3 KB (456 words) - 00:29, 2 December 2023 |
HMS Orion was the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her career... 30 KB (3,673 words) - 14:04, 2 February 2024 |
HMS Attack was an Acheron-class destroyer built in 1911, which served during the First World War and was sunk in 1917 in the Mediterranean by a German... 16 KB (1,496 words) - 04:29, 7 January 2024 |
HMS Wolverine was a Beagle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched on 15 January 1910. She was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. Wolverine was... 15 KB (1,532 words) - 05:01, 22 August 2023 |