HMS Cornwall, pennant number 56, was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Kent sub-class built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship spent most...
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HMS Cornwall after the Duchy of Cornwall. Cornwall's motto is onen hag oll (- Cornish), unus et omnes (- Latin), one and all - English). HMS Cornwall (1692)...
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HMS Cornwall was a Batch 3 Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy. She was the first Batch 3 to be built, and the last to decommissioned. Cornwall was based...
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German air attack HMS Effingham (D98) off Bodø 18 May 1940 Ran aground HMS Cornwall (56) off Ceylon 5 April 1942 Sunk by Japanese aircraft HMS Dorsetshire (40)...
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WWII: The German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin is sunk by British cruiser HMS Cornwall (56) in the Indian Ocean; 555 are killed. May 9 – WWII: German submarine U-110...
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Tabular Record of Movement". combinedfleet.com. Retrieved January 21, 2024. "HMS Stratagem (P 234)". uboat.net. Retrieved October 31, 2023. "Yasushima Maru...
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(RNAS Culdrose, also known as HMS Seahawk; ICAO: EGDR) is a Royal Navy airbase near Helston on the Lizard Peninsula of Cornwall UK, and is one of the largest...
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for the Second World War: Able-Seaman Frederick W. Blogg (d.1942), HMS Cornwall (56) Aircraftman Second-Class Frank J. Johnson (1921–1939), No. 99 Squadron...
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is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,797...
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of Delabole, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom (SX 047 848). The station was a satellite of the Fleet Air Arm base RNAS St Merryn (HMS Vulture) near...
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HMS A12 was an A-class submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. After surviving World War I, she was sold for scrap...
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battlecruisers HMS Invincible and Inflexible, the armoured cruisers HMS Carnarvon, Cornwall and Kent, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Macedonia and the...
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HMS A9 was an A-class submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. After surviving World War I, she was sold for scrap...
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Type 22 frigate (section Cornwall)
part of NATO contribution, the ships became general purpose warships. HMS Cornwall was the last Royal Navy Type 22 frigate, retired from service on 30 June...
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HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers and the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Navy. Capable of carrying 60...
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HMS A6 was an A-class submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. A6 was a member of the first British class of submarines...
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Bosleythow) is a village in west Cornwall, and a Cornish surname. The Bolitho Family own large estates in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The name...
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HMS Superb was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She had previously been Le Superbe, a 56-gun warship of the French Navy...
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Charles Cornewall (redirect from Charles Cornwall)
Vice Admiral Charles Cornewall or Cornwall (1669 – 7 October 1718), of Berrington, Herefordshire, was an officer in the Royal Navy and politician who sat...
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HMS A7 was an A-class submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She sank in a training accident in 1914 with the loss...
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HMS A10 was an A-class submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. After surviving World War I, she was sold for scrap...
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HMS A13 was an A-class submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She was the first British submarine not to use a petrol...
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service ended aboard HMS Bellerophon, a ship of the line. Matthew Quintal (baptised 3 March 1766 as Mathew Quintril, Padstow, Cornwall – 1799, Pitcairn Island)...
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ISBN 1-55750-048-7. McCart, Neil (2001). HMS Vanguard 1944–1960: Britain's Last Battleship. Liskeard, Cornwall: Maritime Books. ISBN 0-907771-83-1. Order...
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HMS Nelson (HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth) HMS Neptune (HMNB Clyde, Faslane, Dunbartonshire) HMS Seahawk (RNAS Culdrose, Cornwall) RNAS Predannack HMS Heron...
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"Missing divers off Cornwall coast presumed dead after exploring HMS Scylla shipwreck". CornwallLive. Retrieved 4 September 2021. "HMS Scylla - scuba diving...
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have become an increasingly significant issue for the navy. HMS Raleigh at Torpoint, Cornwall, is the basic training facility for newly enlisted ratings...
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George V (redirect from Duke of Cornwall and York)
joined the cadet training ship HMS Britannia at Dartmouth, Devon. For three years from 1879, the princes served on HMS Bacchante, accompanied by Dalton...
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William Bligh (category Sailors from Cornwall)
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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Delabole (redirect from Rockhead, Cornwall)
Delabole. It is said to be the third highest village in Cornwall. Treligga military airfield and HMS Vulture II, an aerial bombing and gunnery range, were...
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