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    HMS Rodney was one of two Nelson-class battleships built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship entered service in 1928, and spent her peacetime...
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  • HMS Rodney, of which at least the last five were named after the Georgian Admiral George, Lord Rodney. A seventh was planned but never completed: HMS Rodney (1759)...
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    HMS Rodney was a two-deck 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1833, she was broken up in 1884. Rodney was launched on 18...
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    of the British Home Fleet and Pacific Fleets. In May 1941, along with HMS Rodney, King George V was involved in the hunt for and pursuit of the German...
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    HMS Rodney was a battleship of the Victorian Royal Navy, a member of the Admiral class of warships designed by Nathaniel Barnaby. The ship was the last...
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  • US combat vessel destroyer escort struck mine HMS Roberts (F40) UK combat vessel monitor HMS Rodney (29) UK combat vessel battleship USS Samuel Chase (APA-26)...
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    Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, KB (bap. 13 February 1718 – 24 May 1792), was a British naval officer. He is best known for his commands...
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    sailing performance in good wind. The British flagship was HMS Formidable under Admiral Rodney. Second in command was Admiral Samuel Hood. and third was...
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    HMS Rodney was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 8 December 1809 at Deptford. The Dockyard was suffering from a shortage...
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  • revised to counter these. The class was to have consisted of HMS Hood, Anson, Howe, and Rodney — all names of famous admirals — but the other three ships...
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    carrier HMS Victorious, four light cruisers and their escorts, had already set sail from Scapa Flow before the loss of the Hood. The battleship Rodney was...
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    HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
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  • Arthur Rodney Barry Sturdee CB DSO (6 December 1919 – 6 October 2009) was a Royal Navy officer who saw active service in the Second World War on HMS Exeter...
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    53°12′14″N 4°13′01″W / 53.204°N 4.217°W / 53.204; -4.217 HMS Conway was a naval training school or "school ship", founded in 1859 and housed for most...
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  • Flagship of East Indies Station 1927–1929; HM Dockyard, Chatham 1929–1931; HMS Rodney (29), Atlantic Fleet 1931–1933; Invergordon Mutiny 1931; Assistant Naval...
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    carried only on Nelson-class battleships. This was the type of torpedo that HMS Rodney fired at the German battleship Bismarck, "the only known occasion that...
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    pardoned. The other men found guilty were hanged from the yardarm of HMS Brunswick on 29 October 1794. Following the outbreak of the French Revolutionary...
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    association with Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-39095-8. Ballantyne, Iain (2008). H.M.S. Rodney. Ships of the Royal Navy. Barnsley, UK: Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-84415-406-7...
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    40,000 troops. Rodney had been in communication with Grasse during March organising the exchange of prisoners, which were conveyed by HMS Alert under Captain...
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    European waters on 8 July, in company with the monitor HMS Roberts and the battleship HMS Rodney, as part of Operation Charnwood. On 10 July she sailed...
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    renamed HMS Prince William, in honour of Prince William, the third son of the King, who was serving as midshipman in the fleet. Rodney then detached HMS America...
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    Commissioned in 1927–29, the Nelsons served extensively in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Indian oceans during World War II. Rodney was made famous by...
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    navigator, on HMS Resolution. Bligh was born in Plymouth in 1754 into a family of naval and military tradition—Admiral Sir Richard Rodney Bligh was his...
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    escorted by HMS America and HMS Pearl. Those Spanish ships that were found to be carrying provisions were taken to Gibraltar by Rodney, and used to relieve...
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    of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the...
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    Lord. After five years ashore, Tovey was given command of the battleship HMS Rodney in April 1932. This ship had been heavily involved in the recent Invergordon...
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    3°33′36″N 104°28′42″E / 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...
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    officer who served in World War I and World War II. He was captain of HMS Rodney when it engaged the Bismarck on 27 May 1941. Dalrymple-Hamilton was the...
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    command HMS Mercury in May 1749 until 1750 and in 1751 took command of the 24-gun HMS Boston. During this time he served under Commodore Sir George Rodney at...
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  • continuing there under Sir George Rodney in 1762 during the Invasion of Martinique, when he was moved into the 50-gun HMS Rochester, which he commanded until...
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