• ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bristol, after the English port city of Bristol: HMS Bristol (1653) was a 48-gun ship launched in 1653,...
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    HMS Bristol (D23) was a Type 82 destroyer, the only vessel of her class to be built for the Royal Navy. Bristol was intended to be the first of a class...
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  • ship, renamed HMS Bristol in 1812 HMS Bristol (1861), a wooden screw frigate HMS Bristol (1910), a Town-class light cruiser HMS Bristol (D23), a unique...
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    for air defence entered service as the Type 42 destroyer. One Type 82, HMS Bristol, was ordered to act as a testbed for the various technologies to be used...
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    HMS Bristol was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth-rate ship of the line, built for the Royal Navy in the 1770s. She served as a flagship during the Battle...
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    HMS Bristol was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was the lead ship of the five in her...
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    Kent, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Macedonia and the light cruisers HMS Bristol and Glasgow had arrived in the port the day before. Visibility was at...
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  • 1796. She became a prison ship in 1812 and was renamed HMS Bristol. She was sold in 1814. HMS Agincourt (1817) was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1817...
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  • of the frigate HMS Hermione in 1971 and of the destroyer HMS Bristol in 1975. He went on to be Commanding Officer of the frigate HMS Ajax as well as...
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    during the War of the Austrian Succession. As captain of the fourth-rate HMS Bristol he took part in the Invasion of Guadeloupe during the Seven Years' War...
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  • 4 Sea King HC.4 (not embarked) Type 82 destroyer HMS Bristol Captain A. Grose Type 42 destroyers HMS Sheffield - set on fire by an Aérospatiale AM39 Exocet...
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    1973 on the sole Type 82 destroyer HMS Bristol before widespread deployment on the Type 42 destroyer commencing with HMS Sheffield in 1976. The missile system...
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    1809 and converted to a troop ship on 6 January 1812 under the name HMS Bristol. Bristol was sold on 15 December 1814 on condition that she be broken up immediately...
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  • (HMS Fearless, HMS Intrepid) Type 82 destroyer (HMS Bristol) Type 42 destroyer (HMS Sheffield, HMS Coventry, HMS Glasgow, HMS Cardiff, HMS Exeter) County-class...
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    Dart missile system, particularly as the intended Sea Dart trials ship, HMS Bristol, suffered serious fires and problems with its steam systems restricting...
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  • large, multi-role fleet escort, akin to the sole Type 82 destroyer, HMS Bristol (in commission from 1973 to 1991). The latter was a large, multi-role...
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  • HMS Bristol was the name ship of her class of wooden screw frigates built for the Royal Navy during the 1860s. Bristol was 250 feet (76.2 m) long between...
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  • Bristol was a 44-gun fourth rate vessel of the Commonwealth of England built under the 1651 Programme. She arrived too late for the First Anglo-Dutch...
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    HMS Bristol was a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 18th century. Bristol had a length at the gundeck...
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  • CVA-02 were intended to replace HMS Victorious and HMS Ark Royal, while CVA-03 and CVA-04 would have replaced HMS Hermes and HMS Eagle respectively. The planned...
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  • Guided-missile destroyers Type 42 destroyer-In service 1975 to 2013 HMS Bristol (D23)- Served from 1973 to 1991. Whitby-class frigate Rothesay-class...
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    of: Destroyers HMS Bristol (D23), Type 82 HMS Cardiff (D108), Type 42 joined group en route having started in Gibraltar Frigates HMS Active (F171), Type...
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    last three-funnelled destroyers ordered by the Royal Navy (although HMS Bristol commissioned in 1973 had three funnels, these were not all on the centreline)...
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  • took up his first sea appointment as the Weapons Section Officer in HMS Bristol. He later attained an MSc in Electronics at Southampton University and...
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  • frigate HMS Eskimo in 1974 and of the destroyer HMS Bristol in 1980 commanding the latter ship in the Falklands War. He commanded the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious...
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    Jan: HMS Cadmus 14 Jan: HMS Geyser 14 Jan: HMS Terrible 3 Mar: HMS Niger 13 Jul: HMS Eclipse 9 Aug: Ipswich 10 Oct: HMS Sepoy 10 Nov: HMS Bristol 1 Dec:...
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    three diesels. Royal Navy HMS Exmouth — one Olympus derated to 15,000 shp (11,000 kW), two Proteus. Type 82 destroyer, HMS Bristol — two Olympus, two steam...
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    destroyer HMS Bristol Type 42 destroyers HMS Newcastle HMS Glasgow HMS Exeter HMS York Type 14 (or Blackwood-class) anti-submarine frigates HMS Russell HMS Pellew...
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    eligible for promotion to flag rank. In 1987 he was given command of HMS Bristol and the Dartmouth training squadron in March of that year and led the...
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    Jamaica, Sir Peter Parker. Parker duly took Nelson onto his flagship, HMS Bristol. The entry of the French into the war, in support of the Americans, meant...
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