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    HMS Hesperus was an H-class destroyer that had originally been ordered by the Brazilian Navy with the name Juruena in the late 1930s, but was purchased...
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    sinking her. The destroyer HMS Hesperus then arrived, drove U-99 away and turned to rescue survivors from Laurentic. Hesperus picked up Laurentic's commander...
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    anti–submarine operations in the Battle of the Atlantic, buried from HMS Hesperus. Dennis Wilson (1944–1983), American musician and cofounder of the Beach...
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    same-navy collisions in terms of loss of life was the collision between HMS Victoria and HMS Camperdown, which took place in the Mediterranean in 1893. A total...
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  • between England and Adelaide, South Australia HMS Hesperus (H57), a destroyer in the Royal Navy Hesperus (beetle), a genus of rove beetles Esperos, a modern...
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    from early 1943, after HMS Hesperus spent three months in dry dock following her sinking of U-357 in December 1942, and after HMS Harvester was torpedoed...
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    East; then they would be re-designated Force Z. They were accompanied by HMS Hesperus, loaned by Western Approaches Command, for the first part of the trip...
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    Hearty, which was commissioned and renamed Hesperus, (to avoid confusion with another destroyer, HMS Hardy). Hesperus was very similar to other H-class destroyers...
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    howitzers. By 12 April HMS Suffolk was on passage to the Faroe Islands, escorted by the destroyers HMS Havant and HMS Hesperus. An announcement was broadcast...
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    Swordfish dispatched had arrived, the U-boat (U-191) had been sunk by HMS Hesperus. Biter kept up her anti-submarine patrols over the next days and on 25...
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  • Gerald Charles Dickens. Dickens died in 1987 at Tunbridge Wells in Kent. 'HMS Hesperus' Profile Publications (1972) 'Night Action : MTB Flotilla at War' Bantam...
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    the work-up. Prince of Wales and the escorting destroyers HMS Electra, Express, and HMS Hesperus, were formed into Force G in Britain; they sailed from Greenock...
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  • Escort group B2 was led by Cdr D MacIntyre in HMS Hesperus; other ships of this group were destroyer HMS Whitehall and five corvettes. They were joined...
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    by Martlet fighters. The fighter cover was provided by the escort carrier HMS Audacity, which was sunk during the voyage along with a destroyer and two...
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    vertically to produce a complete radome. The first example was fitted to HMS Hesperus in November 1942, and the entire fleet had been modified by the end of...
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    Mayflower Books. pp. 2–85. ISBN 0-8317-0303-2. Dickens, Peter (1972). HMS Hesperus. Windsor, UK: Profile Publications. OCLC 33077697. Douglas, W. A. B.;...
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  • September 1941 HMS Leamington & HMS Veteran U-208 1941 VIIC 0 0 0 0 1 3,872 0 0 0 0 Sunk 7 December 1941 HMS Harvester & HMS Hesperus U-209 1941 VIIC...
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  • sold in 1817. HMS Hesper (1855) was an iron screw storeship, formerly the Hesperus. She was transferred to the navy from the Treasury Department in 1855 and...
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  • ISBN 0-85177-146-7. "Tug Tender Calshot Trust". Retrieved 6 March 2017. "HMS Anna Marie (FY 004)". uboat.net. Retrieved 6 March 2017. Chesneau, Roger...
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  • German submarine U-93 was depth charged and sunk by the British destroyer HMS Hesperus between Portugal and the Azores. German submarine U-577 was depth charged...
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  • U-194) U-208 7 December 1941 A Type VIIC U-boat that was sunk by HMS Hesperus and HMS Harvester west of Gibraltar. 35°51′N 07°45′W / 35.850°N 7.750°W...
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  • Nazaire on 23 December 1941. She was sunk by depth charges dropped by HMS Hesperus between Portugal and the Azores on 15 January 1942. U-93 took part in...
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  • departing form Bergen on 17 March 1943, U-191 was attacked and destroyed by HMS Hesperus, and Fiehn died along with the entire crew on 23 April 1943. Helmut Fiehn...
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  • Gerald Wynter. The destroyer HMS Hesperus then arrived, drove U-99 away and rescued survivors from Laurentic. The destroyer HMS Beagle rescued 230 survivors...
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  • H-57 Sea Ranger, a military designation for the Bell 206 helicopter HMS Hesperus (H57), a Royal Navy H-class destroyer H57, an Intel 5 Series chipset...
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  • Losses". conlapelleappesaaunchiodo.blogspot.com. Retrieved 7 May 2019. "HMS Safari". uboat.net. Retrieved 7 May 2019. "SS Gneisenau (+1943)". Wrecksite...
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  • Merchant Fleets, 1939. London: Chatham Publishing. p. 501. ISBN 1-86176-023-X. "HMS Laurentic (F 51)". Uboat. Retrieved 21 February 2012. "SS Sigrun (+1940)"...
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  • Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 4 May 2012. "Tug HMS Daisy of the Royal Navy". U Boat.net. Retrieved 2 January 2013. "USS Dapdap...
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  • Group comprised HMS Convolvulus, HMS Deptford, HMS Gardenia, HMS Marigold, HMS Pentstemon, HMS Rhodedendron, HMS Samphire, HMS Stork and HMS Vetch (all  Royal...
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  • 2020. "HMS Torbay". uboat.net. Retrieved 12 April 2023. "British Admiralty War Diary, 1 April 1943". fold3.com. Retrieved 3 April 2020. "HMS MTB 63 (MTB...
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