HMS King George V - HMS King George V There has been been two warships to bear the name King George V, both were battleships, and both were named after King George V, each taking their place in the history of the Royal Navy. HMS King George V (1911-1926) The first HMS King George V was a King George V-class dreadnought, with a displacement of 23,400 tonnes and an armament of 10 x 13.5-inch guns in twin turrets and 16 x 4-inch guns and had a crew complement of 870, though this increased substantially by 1916 to 1,110, and had a length of 597 feet. She took part in the infamous Battle of Jutland, being the lead 'ship of the 1st Division of the 2nd Battle Squadron. Her sister-ships were Centurion,.
Victoria of the United Kingdom - 3 Mrs Brown 4 Empress of India 5 Grandmother of Europe 6 Quotations 7 Children of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert 8 Footnotes Birth and background She was born on May 24, 1819, to Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (fourth son of King George III) and Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, sister of King Leopold I of the Belgians and widow of HSH Emich, 2nd Prince of Leiningen. King Leopold's first wife, Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, was the only legitimate child of the Prince Regent (future King George IV). After Princess Charlotte's death in 1817, there was a scramble by George III's younger sons to abandon their mistresses, marry, and beget an heir to the realm. The Duke of Kent, marrying at the age of fifty, became the father of the.
HMS Victory - HMS Victory HMS Victory - Mast and Rigging HMS Victory, 100 is the oldest ship still in commission, rivaled only by USS Constitution, three decades younger and still afloat and seaworthy. Victory is permanently drydocked. Her keel was laid down in Chatham on July 23, 1759, and she was launched on May 7, 1765. She weathered at the dock for 13 years until she was commissioned in 1778 under the command of Rear Admiral John Campbell (1st Captain) and Captain Jonathan Faulknor (2nd Captain), with the flag of Admiral the Honorable Augustus Keppel. Keppel put to sea from Spithead on July 9, 1778, with a force of 30 ships of the line and, on July 23rd, sighted a French fleet of 29 sail 100 miles west.
HMS Prince of Wales - HMS Prince of Wales HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of World War II. She was laid down January 2, 1937 at Birkenhead, England. She was launched May 3, 1939, and commissioned March 31, 1941. Shortly after her commissioning, Prince of Wales joined HMS Hood in stalking and attacking the German battleship Bismarck and the accompanying cruiser Prinz Eugen. Following the sinking of the Hood and the disabling of much of her weaponry, Prince of Wales fled the scene under a smokescreen, but not before scoring several hits on Bismarck. She played no further role in the sinking of Bismarck. In December 1941, Prince of Wales arrived in Singapore, along with HMS Repulse, to serve as a deterrent to Japanese aggression. The.
HMS Vanguard - HMS Vanguard At least ten ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Vanguard, meaning the forefront of an action or movement. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 HMS Vanguard (1586) 2 HMS Vanguard (1631) 3 HMS Vanguard (1678) 4 HMS Vanguard (1748) 5 HMS Vanguard (1787) 6 HMS Vanguard (1835) 7 HMS Vanguard (1869) 8 HMS Vanguard (1909) 9 HMS Vanguard (1946) 10 HMS Vanguard (1992) HMS Vanguard (1586) The first HMS Vanguard, 32, was a galleon launched in 1586 from Woolwich. She played a key part in the action against the Spanish Armada in 1588. She was commanded by Martin Frobisher in 1594 and by Sir Robert Mansell in 1596. During actions against Algerian pirates Vanguard flew the flag of Sir Richard Hawkins.
HMS Vanguard (1787) - HMS Vanguard (1787) The fifth HMS Vanguard, 74, was a third-rate built in 1787 at Deptford for the Royal Navy. (See HMS Vanguard for other Royal Navy ships named Vanguard.) In December 1795, Captain Edward Berry was appointed flag captain, flying Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson's flag. In 1798 Nelson was detached into the Mediterranean Sea by Earl St. Vincent with Orion, Alexander, Emerald, Terpsichore, and Bonne Citoyenne. They sailed from Gibraltar on May 9 and on May 12 were struck by a violent gale in the Gulf of Lyons that carried away Vanguard's topmasts and foremast. The squadron bore up for Sardinia, Alexander taking Vanguard in tow. On May 19, while Nelson was off station repairing his storm damage, Napoleon Bonaparte sailed from Toulon with.
HMS Ajax - HMS Ajax HMCS Ajax (1912) HMS Ajax was a King George V class battleship (one of four ships of the class), built at Scotts' shipyard at Greenock on the River Clyde. She was completed in 1913 and saw action at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and in the Mediterranean and Black Seas in 1919, before being sold for scrap in 1924. Laid Down: 27 February 1911 Launched: 21 March 1912 Completed: 31 October 1913 Displacement: 23,000 tons Dimensions: 598 (overall length) x 89 (breadth) x 27.5 (depth) ft. Machinery: Turbine (Parsons) 4 screws, S.H.P. 31,000 = 21.5 knots Armour: Main belt 12 in., turrets 11 in. Armament: 10 13.5 in. guns (5x2 gun turrets), 16 4 in. guns (16x1 gun turrets); 3 21 in. torpedo.
HMS Norfolk - HMS Norfolk There have been six Norfolk's, from an 80-gun third-rate to today's powerful and sleek Type 23 frigate. The Norfolk's motto is SERVIENS SERVO (Serving, I Preserve). The ships are named after Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk. HMS Norfolk (1693) The first HMS Norfolk was an 80-gun, third-rate Ship-of-the-Line. She was built at Southampton and launched in 1693. The ship displaced 1184 tons, and was shortly afterwards re-built in Plymouth, [[UK. She gained her first battle honour at Velez Malaga in 1704. The ship conducted many important duties throughout her long career. She was the Plymouth guardship, deployed to the Mediterranean Fleet and then to the West Indies as a reinforcement and flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir John Balchen. Her final action was near France.
HMS Victorious (R38) - HMS Victorious (R38) HMS Victorious post-WWII Career "> Laid down: 4th May 1937 Launched: 14th September 1939 Commissioned: 14th May 1941 Fate: Decomissioned 13th March 1968, scrapped 1969 General Characteristics Displacement: 29,500 tons post-WWII refit 35,200 tons Length: 673ft/205m post-WWII refit 753ft/229m Beam: 95ft/29m post-WWII refit 103ft/32m Draught: 28ft/8m post-WWII refit 31ft/9m Propulsion: Steam turbines, six boilers, 3 shafts Range: 11,000 nautical miles at 14 knots Speed: 30+ knots Complement: 2,200 (including air group) Aircraft: 36 During WWII these included - Albacore, Avenger, Barracuda, Corsair, Fulmar, Seafire, Sea Hurricane, Swordfish, Wildcat Post-WWII included - Gannet, Scimitar, Sea Fury, Sea Hawk, Sea Vixen HMS Victorious (R38) (1939-1969) was an Illustrious-class fleet aircraft carrier. She was laid down in 1937, and launched just two weeks into WWII in.
HMS Revenge - HMS Revenge Career Laid down: 22nd December 1913 Launched: 29th May 1915 Commissioned: March 1916 Fate: Scrapped 1948 General Characteristics Displacement: 28,000 tons standard 31,200 tons max Length: 624ft/190m Beam: 88ft/27m Later expanded to 102ft/31m Draught: 28ft/8m Armament: 8 x 15-inch guns in twin turrets, 14 x 6-inch guns in single casemates, 2 x 3-inch guns in single mountings, 4 x 47mm guns in single mountings, 4 x 21-inch submerged torpedo tubes Propulsion: Steam turbines, eighteen boilers, four shafts, 40,000 hp Speed: 23 knots Complement: 997 HMS Revenge (1915-1948) was the nameship of a majestic looking class of dreadnoughts. Revenge was launched during the First World War in 1915. Though the class is often referred to as the 'Royal Sovereign' class, in actuality, at least from.
Prince George, Duke of Kent - Prince George, Duke of Kent Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund Wettin, later Windsor) (20 December 1902 - 25 August 1942) was the fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary. He was the father of the current Duke of Kent, Princess Alexandra, the Honorable Lady Ogilvy, and Prince Michael of Kent. In addition to his legitimate children, he is said to have had an illegitimate son adopted by a well-known American publisher.1 His Royal Highness The Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, KG, KT, GCVO, GCMG, PC, 1st Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews, and Baron Downpatrick was born at York Cottage, Sandringham House, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, to the then Prince and Princess of Wales. At.
Joseph Banks - as a full-time botanist. He soon established his name by publishing the first Linnean descriptions of the plants and animals of Newfoundland and Labrador. He was promptly elected to the Royal Society and, as a rising young figure in his field, was appointed to a joint Royal Navy/Royal Society scientific expedition to the south Pacific Ocean on the HMS Endeavour, 1768- 1771. This was the first of James Cook's voyages of discovery into that region. This voyage went to Brazil and other parts of South America, Tahiti (where the transit of Venus was observed, the primary purpose of the mission), New Zealand, and finally the New South Wales region of Australia. While in Brazil, Banks made the first scientific description of a now common garden plant, bougainvillea (named for Cook's French.
John Franklin - became the mother of Emily Tennyson (wife of the poet). He decided on a naval career at the age of fourteen, and was present at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 and the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. During the latter, he served on board the ill-fated HMS Bellerophon. One of Franklin's uncles was Captain Matthew Flinders, with whom he also travelled to Australia. In 1814, he was at the Battle of New Orleans. He first travelled to the Arctic in 1818, under the leadership of John Ross, and became fascinated by it. On an expedition into the Northwest Territories of Canada, he and his party were forced to eat lichen to survive and even attempted to eat their own leather boots. This gained him the nickname of "the man who.
June 14 - remaining. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances Events 1381 - King Richard II of England meets the leaders of Peasants Revolt 1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby 1775 - The United States Army is established 1777 - Stars and Stripes adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States 1789 - HMS Bounty mutineers reach Timor. 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a Difference engine 1834 - Isaac Fischer, Jr. patents sandpaper 1841 - The first Parliament of Canada meets, in Kingston, Ontario 1846 - Foundation of the California Republic 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Second Winchester 1872 - Trade unions legalised in Canada 1881 - John McTammany, Jr. patents the player piano 1900 - The Republic of Hawaii.
June 5 - that lightning is electricity (kite + key + lightning) 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers demonstrate publicly their montgolfière (hot air balloon) 1817 - First Great Lakes steamer launched. 1829 - HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba 1833 - Ada Lovelace meets Charles Babbage 1837 - Houston, Texas is granted a city charter. 1849 - Signing of the Danish constitution 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont 1895 - Nicholas Flood Davin's motion to enfranchise women defeated in Canadian House of Commons. 1900 - Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria, South Africa 1916 - Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first gig under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band 1916 - Louis Brandeis becomes Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1917.
Georgia (U.S. state) - what is now Georgia. Though it is unknown exactly who was the first European to sight Georgia, it is possible that Juan Ponce de Leon sailed along the coast during his exploration of Florida. In 1526, Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon attempted to establish a colony there, possibly near St. Catherine's Island. Over the next few decades, a number of Spanish explorers visited the inland region, leaving a trail of destruction behind them. The local moundbuilder culture, described by Hernando de Soto in 1540, had completely disappeared by 1560. The conflict between Spain and Britain over control of Georgia began in earnest in about 1670, when the British, moving south from their Carolina colony in present-day South Carolina met the Spanish moving north from their base in Florida. In 1724, it was.
German battleship Bismarck - on her maiden voyage, leaving port on 18 May 1941. Three days later, she was spotted by Allied reconnaissance while refueling in a Norwegian fjord and was soon acquired by the patroling British cruisers Norfolk and Suffolk. On 24 May 1941, accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, she was engaged in battle by the British battlecruiser HMS Hood and the newly commissioned battleship HMS Prince of Wales, which was still being worked up. It is believed that one of Bismarck's shells penetrated the relatively thin deck armor of Hood and struck a powder magazine, though alternate scenarios are available as to the cause of the cordite fire. Hood burned catastrophically, reminiscent of the battlecruiser losses during the Battle of Jutland, and rapidly sank, taking all but three of the 1,418.
Gilbert and Sullivan - series of internationally successful and timeless operettas. Their first major hit was HMS Pinafore (1878), satirizing the Royal Navy and the British obsession with social status. The Pirates of Penzance (1879), written in a fit of pique at American copyright pirates, also poked fun at romantic melodrama, sense of duty, family obligation, and the relevance of a liberal education. Patience (1881) satirized the aesthetic movement in general and the poet and aesthete Oscar Wilde in particular. Iolanthe (1882) pokes fun at English law and at the House of Lords. Ruddigore (1887) is a topsy-turvy take on the Victorian Melodrama, and viciously satirizes that entire genre. The Gondoliers (1889) pokes fun at the plot devices of opera in the setting of a kingdom run by a pair of kings who believe in.
Unterseeboot 74 - loss. The U-74 conducted eight patrols, sinking five ships totalling 25,619 tons and damaging two others totalling 11,499 tons. On 24 May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood, and heavily damaged the accompanying battleship HMS Prince of Wales, beginning a three-day battle that would involve nearly a hundred ships. That concentration of ships was a very attractive set of targets, and Kapitänleutnant Kentrat was ordered to attack the British forces in this area. In the evening U-74 dived in order to listen for contact, and detected another U-boat. Kentrat surfaced and a hundred meters away another U-boat appeared -- U-556, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Wohlfarth. Earlier, Flottenchef Admiral Lütjens requested that Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote (Commander-in-Chief for Submarines, Karl Dönitz) to provide a.
Force H - the French commander was to blame. The result of action was that the remains of the French fleet escaped to Toulon, a French base on the Mediterranean coast of metropolitain France. They did so at heavy cost. An old French battleship blew up under British gunfire, killing over 1,000 French sailors. Convoy Operations After this unpleasant operation, Force H settled down to its more normal operations. These involved general naval tasks in the western basin of the Mediterranean. Prominent amongst these tasks was fighting convoys through to Malta. The early convoys came through with relatively light losses. That changed in 1941, when the Germans sent the Luftwaffe unit Fliegerkorps X to Sicily. Its bombers took a dreadful toll of both warships and merchantmen. Sink the Bismarck! The most famous incident involving.
