• HMS Devonshire, originally in honour of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, and later after the county of Devonshire (now called Devon). HMS Devonshire (1692)...
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    HMS Devonshire, pennant number 39, was a County-class heavy cruiser of the London sub-class built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. The ship spent...
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    cruisers of the Royal Navy. She and her sisters; Sussex, Shropshire, and Devonshire differed from the earlier group of Counties, (known as the Kent class)...
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    (1948) HMS Delhi (1948) HMS Frobisher (1949) HMS Ajax (1949) HMS Leamington (1951) HMS Devonshire (1954) HMS Magicienne (1956) HMS Start Bay (1958) HMS Cleopatra...
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    "HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour" by Nicholas Monsarrat; based on a 1927 sloop) Nairn (River-class frigate in Alistair MacLean's 1955 novel HMS Ulysses)...
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    Diary of a Devonshire Squire, John Were Clarke and William Percival Authers, Authers Publishing, 1982, p. 28 "Sidgwick, John Benson (1835–1927) clergyman...
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    utilising the massive Devonshire Dock Hall. Some of the most notable vessels to be built in Barrow include the current Royal Navy flagship HMS Albion and the...
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    SMS Karlsruhe. In 1917 he was based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, commanding HMS Devonshire on Atlantic convoy support. One incident he describes from this period...
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    unsuccessfully attacked by high-altitude bombers. On 25 September, Australia and HMS Devonshire shelled French ships anchored at Dakar. They damaged a destroyer and...
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    HMS Dorsetshire (pennant number 40) was a County-class heavy cruiser of the British Royal Navy, named after the English county, now usually known as Dorset...
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    Royal Marines from HMS Renard. Much larger numbers of troops of the 20th (East Devonshire) Regiment of the Foot arrived on troopship HMS Vulcan in January...
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    and sank the nearby aircraft carrier HMS Glorious with its escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. Devonshire did not rebroadcast the enemy sighting...
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  • with the cruisers HMS Newcastle and later HMS Dunedin and HMS Devonshire. For a while they were joined by the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle. Their task was...
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  • the Devonshire-class cruiser HMS Argyll from May 1912 to June 1914. Bernard saw active service in World War I. In August 1914, he took command of HMS Venerable...
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    1961. HMS Penelope RN: 1990. 12th Regiment Royal Artillery: 2005. The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment: 2017. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. HMS Triumph...
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    Navy took over the Provincial Marine in 1814 and so acquired Nancy. After HMS Nancy was blocked in by an American fleet near the mouth of the Nottawasaga...
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  • unseen to starboard. Kelly became commanding officer of the cruiser HMS Devonshire in the Grand Fleet in March 1916 and was appointed a Commander of the...
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    she captured HMS Frolic, but was immediately herself captured. The British took her into service first as HMS Loup Cervier and then as HMS Peacock. She...
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  • Castle Line". National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved 15 August 2021. "HMS Devonshire". Retrieved 15 August 2021. Moore 1977, p. 490 Maund, TB (1991). Mersey...
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    Mornington became HMS Drake. Other examples include: HMS Calcutta HMS Glatton HMS Hindostan (1795) HMS Hindostan (1804) HMS Malabar HMS Buffalo Their design...
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    Islands as part of the Northern Patrol maintaining the blockade of Germany. HMS Alsatian became flagship for Rear-Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair. Later, Alsatian...
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    SS Arandora Star (category 1927 ships)
    Arandora, was a British passenger ship of the Blue Star Line. She was built in 1927 as an ocean liner and refrigerated cargo ship, converted in 1929 into a cruise...
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  • and other structures, the most famous being HMS Warrior. The last ship built there was the dreadnought HMS Thunderer in 1912 and the yard shut soon after...
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  • 1986 - Devonshire Dock Hall is completed 1990 - Barrow A.F.C. win the FA Trophy 1992 Commercial operations cease at Barrow/Walney Island Airport HMS Vanguard...
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  • "HMS Devonshire". SERVICE HISTORIES of ROYAL NAVY WARSHIPS in WORLD WAR 2. Naval-History.Net. Retrieved 10 August 2008. Mason, Geoffrey (1997). "HMS Cockchafer"...
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    HMS Natal was a Warrior-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She escorted the royal yacht in 1911–1912...
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    up to 300 tons. The second group, the four ships of the London class (Devonshire, London, Shropshire and Sussex), closely followed the design of the Kents...
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    with the Royal Navy decommissioning its last three (HMS London, HMS Cumberland, and HMS Devonshire) by the early 1950s. Some existing US heavy cruisers...
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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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    never again threatened the capital. From 1758 until 1929 the Dukes of Devonshire owned Chiswick House, and their legacy can be found in street names all...
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