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    HMS Cairo (D87) was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the Egyptian capital, Cairo. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal...
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  • municipality Monte Cairo, a mountain in the Lazio region of Italy Cairo (surname) Cairo Santos (born 1991), American football placekicker HMS Cairo (D87), a 1918...
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    20 May 1940, and served aboard the cruiser HMS Cairo from June 1940 to December 1941, then the battleship HMS Howe (named after his illustrious ancestor...
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    HMS Arrogant (1896) HMS Bonaventure (1892) HMS Bonaventure (F139) HMS Cairo (1918) HMS Cyclops (F31) HMS Dolphin (1882) HMS Forth (A187) HMS Hazard (1894) HMS Lucia...
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    twenty-eight men killed on HMS Bedouin, fifteen on HMS Liverpool, thirteen on ORP Kujawiak, nine on HMS Badsworth, two on HMS Cairo, one on HMS Partridge, three...
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    Fleet – a group that included the battlecruiser HMS Renown and the anti-aircraft cruisers HMS Cairo and Charybdis. Madison and Lang also served in Wasp's...
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    Admiralty in 1923. He was given command of the cruiser HMS Cairo in November 1926 and of the battleship HMS Revenge in June 1930. He went on to be Captain of...
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    during its passage in the western Approaches together with HMS Cairo, and the destroyers HMS Cossack, Bridge, Maori, Ottawa (RCN), ORP Piorun (Polish)...
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  • He became Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS Cairo in 1936 and Commanding Officer of the cruiser HMS Aurora in 1937 and then Staff Officer (Plans)...
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  • Akermann 2002, p. 165 "HMS Cairo, British light cruiser, WW2". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 8 August 2021. "HMS Capetown - RN Cairo class cruiser". www...
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    HMS Cairo (D87) off Bizerte 12 August 1942 Sunk by Italian submarine Axum HMS Calcutta (D82) off Alexandria 1 June 1941 Sunk by German aircraft HMS Galatea...
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    their combined fire crippled the destroyer HMS Bedouin and damaged the cruiser HMS Cairo and the destroyer HMS Partridge; only two ships from the convoy...
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    carriers: Eagle, Ark Royal Five cruisers: HMS Cairo, Hermione, Manchester, Neptune, Southampton 19 destroyers: HMS Airedale, Bedouin, Fearless, Foresight...
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    1932-February 1936); HMS Cairo (June 1922-December 1926); and HMS Chatham (October 1924-January 1926) assigned from the Navy's old light cruisers; HMS Effingham...
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    The Cairo Conference (codenamed Sextant) also known as the First Cairo Conference, one of the 14 summit meetings during World War II, took place on November...
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    Science. Retrieved February 18, 2022. "Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved...
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    War initially as a gunnery instructor at HMS Excellent and then as gunnery officer on the cruiser HMS Cairo operating on the Western Approaches and in...
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    struck HMS Cairo moving at 8 knots, blowing off the stern with one of the propellers, killing 24 crew members. After the crew was evacuated, HMS Cairo (376...
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  • light cruisers – HMS Arethusa, Aurora, Enterprise, Galatea and Penelope (grounded 11 April, damaged) 6 anti-aircraft cruisers – HMS Cairo (damaged 28 May)...
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    American carrier USS Wasp, escorted by the battlecruiser Renown, cruisers HMS Cairo and Charybdis and six British and US destroyers. Most of the aircraft...
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    (8.1 mph; 13 km/h). The torpedoing of HMS Nigeria and Cairo (eventually sunk by the British), the diversion of HMS Ashanti to become Burrough's new flagship...
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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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    aircraft carriers, HMS Hermes - HMS Courageous, 3 Cruisers 3 September - 7 October 1939 2 CL, HMS Ceres, HMS Caradoc - 1 CAA, HMS Cairo 4 12th Destroyer...
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    French in the interior of the country that lead towards Cairo. The British fifty gun ship HMS Leopard under Commodore John Blankett anchored in the road...
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    USS Cairo /ˈkeɪroʊ/ is the lead ship of the City-class casemate ironclads built at the beginning of the American Civil War to serve as river gunboats...
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    War of the Second Coalition: Egypt and Syria 800km 500miles 6 5 Jaffa 4 Cairo 3 Alexandria 2 Malta 1    The French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1798–1801)...
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  • Capetown Castle and Union Steam Ship Co's Aorangi. The light cruiser HMS Cairo led an escort of seven Royal Navy and four Canadian destroyers. TC 14...
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    and moving to their new positions. Four minutes before 20:00, HMS Nigeria and HMS Cairo and the tanker Ohio were torpedoed. The convoy carried out an...
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    The Cairo bus attack was a military attack on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Cairo, Egypt that occurred on February 4, 1990. The attack was claimed...
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    War. HMS Alexandra HMS Superb HMS Sultan HMS Temeraire HMS Inflexible HMS Monarch HMS Invincible HMS Penelope HMS Hecla HMS Helicon HMS Bittern HMS Beacon...
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