HMS Exeter - HMS Exeter Five Royal Navy warships have been named HMS Exeter. HMS Exeter ( - 1691) The first HMS Exeter was a 70-gun Third rate. She was involved in the Battle of Beachy Head against France in 1690 but was broken up as a hulk in 1691. HMS Exeter (1697-1763) The second HMS Exeter was a 60-gun Fourth rate. She was built in 1697 and survived until 1763, making her the longest serving ship to carry the name so far. She was involved in repeated actions against the French, in 1702 off Newfoundland, in 1705 when she captured the frigate Thétis, in 1711 in the Mediterranean and at the Battle of Quiberon Bay, and in 1748 at the Siege of Pondicherry. Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood.
Exeter (disambiguation) - Exeter (disambiguation) Exeter is the name of a number of places and other entities around the world, taking their names directly or indirectly from the city of Exeter in Devon, England: Places Exeter, New South Wales, Australia Exeter, South Australia, Australia Exeter, Tasmania, Australia Exeter, Ontario, Canada Exeter, England Exeter, California , United States of America Exeter, Illinois, United States of America Exeter, Maine, United States of America Exeter, Missouri, United States of America Exeter, Nebraska, United States of America Exeter, New Hampshire, United States of America Exeter (CDP), New Hampshire, United States of America Exeter (town), New Hampshire, United States of America Exeter, New York, United States of America Exeter, Pennsylvania, United States of America 3 different places called Exeter Township, Pennsylvania, United States of.
Ikazuchi - of the Japanese warships that attacked Hong Kong, sinking two British gunboats. During the first months of 1942, Ikazuchi participated in the East Indies campaign, including the invasion of Java and the Battle of the Java Sea on March 1, 1942 in which the British cruiser HMS Exeter, destroyer HMS Encounter and U.S. destroyer USS Pope were sunk. In early June 1942 Ikazuchi took part in operations in the north Pacific that resulted in the capture of Attu and Kiska islands. Later in the year, she went south to join the protracted campaign to retake Guadalcanal and on October 25 she and two other destroyers conducted a daylight raid into the waters off Guadalcanal. In the resulting action, the U.S. Navy fast minesweeper USS Zane was damaged and fleet tug Seminole.
Hans Langsdorff - given command of the Graf Spee in October 1938. On 21 August 1939 the Graf Spee left port with orders to raid enemy commercial shipping in the South Atlantic following the outbreak of the Second World War. For the first three weeks of the war the ship hid in the open ocean east of Brazil while the German government determined how serious Britain was about the war. On 20th September, Graf Spee was released to carry out its orders. Over the next ten weeks, Langsdorff and the Graf Spee were extremely successful, stopping and sinking nine British merchant ships, totalling over 50,000 tons, while avoiding killing anyone. However Langsdorff's luck ran out on the morning of 13 December when his lookouts reported sighting a British cruiser and two destroyers. It was.
Haguro - March 1928, and was commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 25 April 1929. Her service in the Second World War started in the Dutch East Indies, where she engaged the enemy off Makassar on 8 February 1942, played a role in the sinking of HMS Exeter and her escort in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942, and was engaged in another action off south Borneo on 1 March 1942. On 7 May 1942 she participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea, moving on to the Solomon Islands where she took part in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 August 1942, the evacuation from Guadalcanal at the end of January 1943, and took light damage in the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay on 2 November.
HMNZS Achilles - 1936, Improved Leander class), built in Birkenhead, England and launched (as HMS Achilles) on 1 September 1932. She was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 10 October 1933. She was transferred to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy on 31 March 1937 and recommissioned as HMNZS Achilles, with a crew approximately 60% from New Zealand and 40% Imperial. She was paid off from the Royal New Zealand Navy at Sheerness, Kent, England on 17 September 1946 and returned to the Royal Navy. She was then sold to the Indian Navy and recommissioned on 5 July 1948 as INS Delhi. She remained in service until decommissioned for scrap at Bombay on 30 June 1978. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Achilles started patrolling the west coast of South.
German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis - warships, but rather seek to sink enemy shipping, similar to the work done by submarines. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Design of Atlantis 1.1 Weapons and Aircraft 1.2 Engines 2 History of Atlantis 2.3 Atlantis, Krim, and Kasii Maru 2.4 City of Exeter 2.5 The Scientist 2.6 Cape Agulhas 2.7 Tirranna, City of Baghdad, and the Kemmendine 2.8 Talleyrand and King City 2.9 Athelking, Benarty, Commissaire Ramel, Durmitor, Teddy, and Ole Jacob 2.10 Automedon and its Secret Cargo 2.11 Antarctica and Africa 2.12 Zamzam 2.13 Bismarck is Sunk 2.14 U-68, U-126, a Nightmare, and HMS Devonshire 2.15 Sunk and Sunk Again Design of Atlantis This ship was 155m long and displaced 7,862 tons. She had a single funnel amidships. She had a crew of 349 (21 officers and 328 enlisted troops).
Falklands War Naval Forces - Royal Navy 2 Royal Fleet Auxiliary 3 Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service 4 Merchant Navy 5 Armada Republica Argentina Royal Navy HMS Hermes HMS Invincible HMS Fearless HMS Intrepid HMS Sheffield HMS Glasgow HMS Coventry HMS Exeter HMS Cardiff HMS Bristol HMS Glamorgan HMS Antrim HMS Brilliant HMS Broadsword HMS Active HMS Alacrity HMS Antelope HMS Ardent HMS Ambuscade HMS Avenger HMS Arrow HMS Andromeda HMS Argonaut HMS Minerva HMS Penelope HMS Yarmouth HMS Plymouth HMS Endurance HMS Leeds Castle HMS Dumbarton Castle HMS Hecla HMS Herald HMS Hydra Royal Fleet Auxiliary RFA Olna RFA Olmeda RFA Tidespring RFA Tidepool RFA Blue Rover RFA Appleleaf RFA Brambleleaf RFA Bayleaf RFA Plumleaf RFA Pearleaf RFA Sir Bedivere RFA Sir Galahad RFA Sir Geraint RFA Sir Lancelot RFA Sir Percivale RFA Sir Tristram RFA.
USS Houston (CA-30) - November 1940 she became flagship of Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander Asiatic Fleet. As the war crisis deepened, Admiral Hart deposed his fleet in readiness. On the night of the Pearl Harbor attack, Houston got underway from Panay Island with fleet units bound for Darwin, Australia, where she arrived 28 December 1941 by way of Balikpapan and Surabaya. After patrol duty she joined the ABDA (American-British-Dutch-Australian) naval force at Surabaya. Air raids were frequent in the area, and Houston's gunners splashed four planes 4 February as Admiral Karel Doorman, RNN, took his force to engage Japanese reported to be at Balikpapan. Houston took one hit, disabling her No. 3 turret, and cruiser Marblehead was so damaged that she had to be sent out of the battle area. Doorman was forced to.
Admiral Graf Spee - in the Indian Ocean to look for her, totalling three battleships, four aircraft carriers, and 16 cruisers. More groups were assembled later. On December 13 1939, she was found by the British Hunting Group G - the 8-inch gunned cruiser HMS Exeter, and 6-inch gunned light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles - in the Battle of the River Plate. After taking relatively superficial damage and retreating to the neutral port of Montevideo, the ship was scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff to avoid risking the crew in what he thought would be a losing battle..
Battle of the River Plate - - heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee by scuttling, ending her successful three-month campaign against British merchant shipping. The British force, comprising the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter (six 8" guns) and light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles (both eight 6" guns), engaged the German cruiser close to the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, or Silver River, between Argentina and Uruguay. Following intense gunnery action where the German cruiser had the advantage of longer range and heavier guns, while the British were able to divide fire, the Graf Spee eventually headed for Montevideo harbour in Uruguay. Exeter had been severely damaged in the battle, and British propaganda efforts were made to convince Captain Hans Langsdorff of the Graf Spee that an overwhelming British force was being assembled, when in fact.
The Battle of the River Plate (movie) - directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It portrays the eponymous naval battle of 1939, between a Commonwealth force of three cruisers (HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles) and the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. Unlike most British war movies of the time, The Battle of the River Plate is notable in treating the German sailors as honourable opponents rather than as cardboard cut-out "Huns". The ships engaged in the battle were portrayed by: HMS Cumberland portrayed herself and Exeter HMS Sheffield portrayed Ajax INS Delhi (formerly HMNZS Achilles) portrayed herself USS Salem portrayed Admiral Graf Spee. HMS Birmingham was used by the production as a camera ship..
Current Royal Navy ships - 18 Hunt class minehunters 19 Archer-class P2000 fast training boats Aircraft Carriers All of the Invincible class HMS Invincible (R05) HMS Illustrious (R06) HMS Ark Royal (R07) Amphibious Assault Ship HMS Ocean (L12) Albion Class LPD HMS Albion (L14) HMS Bulwark (L15) Type 42 Destroyers HMS Newcastle (D87) HMS Glasgow (D88) HMS Cardiff (D108) HMS Exeter (D89) HMS Southampton (D90) HMS Nottingham (D91) HMS Liverpool (D92) HMS Manchester (D95) HMS Gloucester (D96) HMS Edinburgh (D97) HMS York (D98) Type 23 frigates HMS Norfolk (F230) HMS Argyll (F231) HMS Lancaster (F229) HMS Marlborough (F233) HMS Iron Duke (F234) HMS Monmouth (F235) HMS Montrose (F236) HMS Westminster (F237) HMS Northumberland (F238) HMS Richmond (F239) HMS Somerset (F82) HMS Grafton (F80) HMS Sutherland (F81) HMS Kent (F78) HMS Portland (F79) HMS St Albans (F83).
Semper fidelis - Latin motto translating to "always faithful". It is the motto of: The City of Exeter, in Devon, England; the motto signifies the city's loyalty to the English Crown, and was suggested by Elizabeth I in a letter of 1588 to "The Citizens of Exeter", in recognition of a gift of money towards the fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada. HMS Exeter, a Royal Navy warship named after the City of Exeter. The United States Marine Corps, the ground fighting element of the United States Navy, who often reduce it to Semper Fi; the motto signifies the dedication that individual Marines have to the Corps and to their fellow fighting men and women, for the rest of their days and beyond..
Richard Antrim - Japanese convoy and thus inflicting damage to several enemy ships. After the Battle of Badoeng Strait, Pope's commanding officer, Commander Welford C. Blinn, reported that his executive officer was "highly deserving of commendation for the meritorious performance of his several duties before and throughout the action." Citing Antrim as a "ready assistant in navigation fire control, and torpedo fire," Blinn recommended him not only for a destroyer command but for a "decoration deemed appropriate." Antrim later received a Navy Cross for this service. The Battle of the Java Sea (27 to 28 February, 1942) ended all Allied hope of stemming the Japanese onslaught. In the wake of that action, the smashed Allied fleet attempted to escape the cordon of Japanese warships rapidly tightening the noose around Java. Among the small groups.
Phony War - a debate in the House of Commons during which the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was under constant attack. A vote of confidence in his government was won by 281 to 200, but 41 of Chamberlain's Conservative colleagues had voted against him whilst 60 had abstained. The humiliated Chamberlain found it impossible to continue to lead a Conservative government or form a government of national unity (in Britain called a "national government") around him. On May 10 Chamberlain resigned his premiership whilst retaining his leadership of the Conservative Party. The King, George VI, appointed Winston Churchill, who had been a consistent opponent of Chamberlain's policy of appeasement, as his successor and Churchill formed a new coalition government which included Conservative, Labour and Liberal representatives. Later that same day, German troops marched.
Nachi - commissioned into the Imperial Navy on 26 November 1928. Her service in the Second World War started in the Dutch East Indies, where she engaged the enemy off Makassar on 8 February 1942, played a key role in the sinking of HMS Exeter and her escort in the Battle of the Java Sea on 27 February 1942, and was engaged in another action off south Borneo on 1 March 1942. She then moved to the Aleutian Islands where she was engaged in the diversionary attack on the islands on 3 June 1942; she was back in the Aleutians when she was damaged on 26 March 1943 in the Battle of the Komandorski Islands, and was engaged in an action at Kiska in July 1943. By October 1944 she was in the.
May 2 - over Eritrea 1900 - Oscar II of Sweden declares support of Great Britain at the time of the Boer War 1920 - The first game of the National Negro Baseball League is played in Indianapolis, Indiana 1933 - The first modern sighting of the Loch Ness monster is reported. 1933 - Adolf Hitler bans trade unions 1939 - Lou Gehrig's streak of 2130 consecutive Major League Baseball games played comes to an end. The record will stand for 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr breaks it. 1940 - The British passenger liner City of Exeter encounters the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis, but without incident. 1945 - The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin. Soviet soldiers hoist the red flag over the Reichstag building. German forces surrender in Italy. 1945 -.
List of Naval Vessels of World War II - Spee Royal Navy Cruisers Light Cruisers Emerald-class HMS Enterprise Leander-class HMS Ajax HMNZS Achilles Heavy Cruisers HMS Devonshire York-class HMS Exeter.
List of Royal Navy ship names - 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 E 6 F 7 G 8 H 9 I 10 J 11 K 12 L 13 M 14 N 15 O 16 P 17 Q 18 R 19 S 20 T 21 U 22 V 23 W 24 X 25 Y 26 Z A HMS Abdiel HMS Abercrombie HMS Acasta HMS Achates HMS Acheron HMS Achilles HMS Acorn HMS Active HMS Activity HMS Adventure HMS Aeneas HMS Affleck HMS Affray HMS Africa HMS Afridi HMS Agamemnon HMS Agincourt HMS Airedale HMS Ajax HMS Alacrity HMS Alaric HMS Alarm HMS Albacore HMS Albatross HMS Albermarlee HMS Albion HMS Alcantara HMS Alcide HMS Aldenham HMS Alderney HMS Alert HMS Alliance HMS Alnwick Castle HMS Alynbank HMS Amazon HMS Ambuscade HMS Ambush HMS Ameer HMS.
