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    3.56000°N 104.47833°E / 3.56000; 104.47833 HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that was built at the Cammell...
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  • Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Prince of Wales, after numerous holders of the title the Prince of Wales. HMS Prince of Wales (1765) was...
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    HMS Prince of Wales (R09) is the second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. Unlike most large aircraft carriers, Prince of Wales...
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    child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra). From the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession...
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    Charles III (then the Prince of Wales) commanded the vessel between 9 February and 15 December 1976. Subsequently, under the command of his successor, Lieutenant...
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    Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine. The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Hood fought the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy...
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    Tom Phillips (Royal Navy officer) (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    command of Force Z during the Japanese invasion of Malaya, where he went down with his flagship, the battleship HMS Prince of Wales. Phillips was one of the...
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    Japanese against previously formidable Royal Navy battleships such as HMS Prince of Wales (53). During the war the Germans produced various glide bombs, which...
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    King George V-class battleship (1939) (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
    ships of this class were built: HMS King George V (commissioned 1940), HMS Prince of Wales (1941), HMS Duke of York (1941), HMS Anson (1942) and HMS Howe...
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    This is a list of Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II, from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945. See also List of ships of the Royal Navy...
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    Highness The Duchess of Cornwall and Cambridge". On 9 September 2022, the King announced the appointment of William as Prince of Wales, with Catherine thus...
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    William; Dulin, Robert; Denlay, Kevin. "Death of a Battleship: A Reanalysis of the Tragic Loss of HMS Prince of Wales" (PDF). Pacific Wrecks. Retrieved 18 May...
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    created Prince of Wales in 1343 and knighted by his father at La Hougue in 1346. In 1346, Prince Edward commanded the vanguard at the Battle of Crécy,...
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    and Princess Helena) were stillborn, and two more (Prince Alexander John of Wales and Prince Harald of Schleswig-Holstein) died shortly after birth. Their...
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  • (Singaporean TV channel) HDB Hub HIStory World Tour HMS Prince of Wales (53) HMS Repulse (1916) HMS Waterwitch (1892) HRnetGroup HSBC Women's Champions...
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    Genzan Air Group (category Groups of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service)
    participant in the sinking of the British capital ships HMS Prince of Wales (53) and HMS Repulse (1916) off the coast of Malaya on 10 December 1941,...
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    Prince Edward became Prince of Wales, with Albert second in line to the throne. Albert spent the first six months of 1913 on the training ship HMS Cumberland...
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    Lancelot Holland (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    battleship HMS Prince of Wales. On 22 May, just after midnight, Electra, Achates, Antelope, Anthony, Echo, and Icarus, escorting the Hood and Prince Of Wales, sailed...
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    Victoria, as the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra). He was third in the line of succession to the British...
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    Province House. The Prince of Wales was formally welcomed into the Province of Canada by a Canadian delegation, who came aboard HMS Hero near Percé Rock...
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    tours on behalf of his father. The Prince of Wales gained popularity due to his charm and charisma, and his fashion sense became a hallmark of the era. After...
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  • titles and honours of William, Prince of Wales List of titles and honours of Catherine, Princess of Wales List of titles and honours of Louis Mountbatten...
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  • Helmuth Brinkmann (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross)
    reversed battle order, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Hood opened fire on the Prinz Eugen instead. The commander of the Prince of Wales, Captain John Leach...
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    German battleship Bismarck (category Scuttled vessels of Germany)
    the Battle of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck...
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  • Adalbert Schneider (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross)
    force at 05:53. Vice Admiral Lancelot Holland planned on targeting Bismarck first, but due to the reversed battle order, Prince of Wales and Hood opened...
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    53/114258 ADM 53/114259 ADM 53/114260 + ADM 199/408 Middlebrook, Martin & Mahoney, Patrick (1977). Battleship: The Loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse...
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    sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going...
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    lead for Bismarck and opened fire on her; Captain Leach commanding HMS Prince of Wales realised Vice-Admiral Holland's error and engaged Bismarck from the...
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    Anglesey (redirect from Anglesey, Wales)
    (Assembly constituency) List of islands of Wales – including those around Anglesey The Royal Navy's four ships named HMS Anglesea HMS Anglesey (P277) "How life...
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    was posted to the battlecruiser HMS Renown in March 1920 and accompanied Edward, Prince of Wales, on a royal tour of Australia in her. He was promoted...
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