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    HMS Hawke, launched in 1891, was the seventh British warship to be named Hawke. She was an Edgar-class protected cruiser. In September 1911 the Hawke...
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  • the name HMS Hawke, after an archaic spelling of the bird, the hawk. Two of the later ships were named after Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, whilst another...
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    Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, KB PC (21 February 1705 – 17 October 1781), of Scarthingwell Hall in the parish of Saxton with Scarthingwell, near Tadcaster...
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    The house was designated as HMS Mastodon from May 1942 to July 1945, HMS King Alfred January to June 1946, then HMS Hawke from August 1946 to 1955. The...
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    of twelve ships, six were laid down in 1941–1942 and the seventh unit, Hawke, in 1943. Four of the ordered cruisers were cancelled almost immediately...
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    RMS Olympic (redirect from HMS Olympic)
    1911, when she collided with the British cruiser HMS Hawke. The collision took place as Olympic and Hawke were running parallel to each other through the...
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    sister ships, the RMS Olympic, when it collided with the British warship HMS Hawke in 1911. Born on 2 October 1887, near Bahía Blanca, Argentina, Violet...
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    first major mishap occurred during a collision with a British warship, HMS Hawke, in which the warship lost her prow. Although the collision left two of...
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    HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic)
    the Titanic, and had also been on board when the Olympic collided with HMS Hawke) described the last seconds: She dipped her head a little, then a little...
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  • Hawke may refer to: Hawke (surname) Hawke (film), a 2010 Australian television film about Bob Hawke Hawke (novel), a 2003 novel by Ted Bell Hawke (Advance...
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  • HMS Hawke was a former Dutch hoy, one of 19, that the British Admiralty purchased in 1794 for service with the Royal Navy. She seems to have participated...
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    opinion after this event. On 15 October, U-9 sank the protected cruiser HMS Hawke. On 12 January 1915, Johannes Spieß relieved Weddigen, and commanded U-9...
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    command of a harbour pilot she was involved in a collision with the cruiser HMS Hawke in the port of Southampton, leading to her repair back at Harland and...
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  • HMS Hawke was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Black Prince class of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 March 1820 at Woolwich Dockyard. She was...
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    training establishment, near Dale, Pembrokeshire HMS Hawke, Landing craft, Exbury House, Hampshire HMS "Hawke", a temporary naval training school based within...
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  • voyage, 1908), RMS Olympic (collision with HMS Hawke, 1911), RMS Titanic (sunk by an iceberg, 1912), HMS Alcantara (sunk in combat with SMS Greif, 1916)...
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  • trials, and she began her maiden voyage in June. Olympic's collision with HMS Hawke was September 20, 1911 - well into the time of Titanic's fitting-out....
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  • motion drew the Hawke into her aft starboard side, causing extensive damage to the liner – both above and below its waterline (HMS Hawke was fitted with...
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    The second Royal Navy "ship" to be called HMS King Alfred was the shore establishment sited at Hove in Sussex. In 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World...
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  • reopening as HMS Hawke. HMS King Alfred II was a branch of the main King Alfred between 1940 and 1944, being renamed HMS King Alfred (M) in 1943. HMS King Alfred...
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    service and all of the ships participated in the First World War. One, HMS Hawke, was lost during the war, with the other eight being scrapped in the 1920s...
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    HMS Audacious was the fourth and last King George V-class dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. After completion in 1913...
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    On 20 September 1911, the Olympic collided with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke, badly damaging her hull. Since Murdoch was at his docking-station at...
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    September 1911, Olympic was damaged following a collision with the cruiser HMS Hawke, which led to her return to the shipyard for lengthy repairs and the postponement...
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    befell all of the Olympic-class liners: the collision of Olympic with HMS Hawke in 1911, the sinking of Titanic in 1912, and that of Britannic in 1916...
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  • Wolff in 1910 serving White Star trans-Atlantic routes and collides with HMS Hawke in 1911, serves as troop carrier in WWI, and scrapped in 1935 at Jarrow...
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  • RMS Mauretania and HMS Hawke)  – ocean liner, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2016 HMS Avenger – Billy Budd, 1962 HMS Ballantrae – British...
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    the Iron Cross, second and first class for this action. After sinking HMS Hawke and some merchant ships, Weddigen received Prussia's highest military...
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  • Nations Championship. He was killed while serving as a surgeon aboard HMS Hawke when it was torpedoed and sunk by U-9 in 1914 during World War I, and...
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    protected cruiser HMS Hawke when she did not return from patrol. Instead, Swift found one of Hawke's rafts carrying one officer, and 21 men. Hawke had been torpedoed...
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