HMS Sceptre - HMS Sceptre Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sceptre. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 HMS Sceptre (1781-?) 2 HMS Sceptre (1802-1821) 3 HMS Sceptre (1917-1926) 4 HMS Sceptre (1943-1949) 5 HMS Sceptre (1978-present) HMS Sceptre (1781-?) The first HMS Sceptre (1781) was a third rate frigate launched on June 8, 1781, at Rotherhithe. As part of Vice Admiral Sir Edward Hughes' squadron, Sceptre saw action as part of the East India squadron. In 1782, she participated in the fourth battle of a bloody campaign between Vice Admiral Hughes and the French Admiral Suffren's squadron. In 1794, under the command of Commodore John Ford, Sceptre assisted in the capture of Port au Prince, Haiti. In 1795 Sceptre earned her second Battle Honour.
Astute class submarine - from the Cold War emphasis on anti-submarine warfare to the concept of "Maritime Contributions to Joint Operations." The proposed replacement boats were redesigned; the primary mission of the Astute class became direct support of surface forces. Original plans were for seven boats of the Astute class to replace five Swiftsure-class submarines (Sovereign, Superb, Sceptre, Spartan, and Splendid) and the two oldest Trafalgar-class boats (Trafalgar and Turbulent. Plans, however, have been scaled back. Splendid and Spartan will be left in service, and after the first three Astutes are in service, the option of two additional boats to replace the two Trafalgars will be considered. On March 17, 1997, an order was placed with Vickers for the first three boats: HMS Astute (S119), HMS Ambush (S120), and HMS Artful (S121). These names were.
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).
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.
King Ottokar's Sceptre - King Ottokar's Sceptre King Ottokar's Sceptre (Le Sceptre d'Ottokar) is a Tintin book by Hergé. Tintin goes to Syldavia, a European country invented by Hergé, and prevents a takeover by the neighboring Bordurians. Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers. Plot Synopsis Tintin finds a briefcase and returns it to the owner, Professor Hector Alembick, who is a sigilographer. He shows Tintin his collection of seals, including one belonging to a Syldavian king, and asks Tintin to help him arrange a trip to Syldavia for research. The seal contains the Syldavian motto, "Eih bennek, eih blavek", and a picture of a pelican. On the plane he begins to suspect a plot. The Alembick who rides with him doesn't smoke and has different eyeglasses than the one he met with the seal.
HMS Hood - HMS Hood There have been three HMS Hoods, named after members of the Hood family. This family produced several notable Royal Navy officers in the 18th and 19th century. The first HMS Hood, 80 was an Edgar class warship commissioned in 1859. She was named after Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood of Whitley. Constructed of wood and sail-powered, she later had a steam engine fitted. She was decomissioned in 1888. The second HMS Hood was a Royal Sovereign class battleship built at Chatham, England and commissioned in 1891. She was named after the Admiral Sir Arthur Hood, Viscount Hood's eldest son. In its day, the Royal Sovereign class were the largest warships ever built. She was mostly based in home waters although there was a.
HMS Beagle - HMS Beagle HMS Beagle was a British Royal Navy ship, made famous for the second voyage she made with Charles Darwin aboard. On May 11, 1820, HMS Beagle was launched as a 10 gun brig from the Woolwich Dockyards on the River Thames. There was no immediate need for Beagle so she was kept in reserve for five years. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 First Voyage 2 Second Voyage 3 Third Voyage 4 See also 5.
HMS Dreadnought - HMS Dreadnought Four ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dreadnought in the expectation that they would "dread nought but God." As quarantine ship, mid-1800s Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 HMS Dreadnought (1801-1857) 2 HMS Dreadnought (1875-1908) 2.1 General characteristics 3 HMS Dreadnought (1906-1922) 3.2 General characteristics 4 HMS Dreadnought (1960-1980) 4.3 General characteristics HMS Dreadnought (1801-1857) The first HMS Dreadnought, 98, was launched from Portsmouth on midday Saturday, 13 May 1801, after 13 years on the stocks. She was the first man of war launched since the 1801 Act of Union created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and at her head displayed a lion couchant on a scroll bearing the Imperial arms as emblazoned on the Standard. The launching.
HMS Resolution - HMS Resolution Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Resolution: An early Resolution was the vessel of Captain James Cook in his explorations. Resolution (09) was a World War II battleship. Resolution (S22) was the lead ship of the Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
HMS Dunraven - HMS Dunraven HMS Dunraven was a Q-Ship of the British Navy during World War I. On August 8, 1917, 130 miles southwest of Ushant in the Bay of Biscay, disguised as the collier Boverton and commanded by Captain Gordon Campbell V.C., Dunraven spotted UC-71, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Reinhold Saltzwedel. Saltzwedel believed the disguised ship was a merchant vessel. The U-boat submerged and closed with Dunraven before surfacing astern at 11:43am and opening fire at long range. Dunraven made smoke and sent off a panic party (a small number of men who "abandon ship" during an attack to continue the impersonation of a merchant). Shells began hitting Dunraven, detonating her depth charges and setting her stern afire. Her crew remained hidden letting the fires burn..
HMS Ark Royal - HMS Ark Royal HMS Ark Royal is a name that has been borne by 5 ships in the British Royal Navy. The first HMS Ark Royal was built at Deptford on the River Thames in 1587, to the order of Sir Walter Raleigh. Originally named Ark Raleigh, she was bought by Queen Elizabeth's navy for £5000 ("money well given," according to her new commander, Lord Howard of Effingham) and, as Ark Royal, was the flagship of the English fleet during the Spanish Armada campaign of 1588. In 1608, under the new monarch James I, she was rebuilt and renamed Anne Royal. She was broken up in 1636. The second HMS Ark Royal, after a gap of almost 300 years, was a merchant ship converted on the.
HMS Hercules - HMS Hercules Five (at least) ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hercules. Hercules was a 74-gun ship of the line. Captain John Porter was in command in early 1759. Hercules was a 78-gun ship of the line taken prize by the British in 1798 and broken up in 1810. On December 26, 1852 Hercules departed on her way to Hong Kong to take up duties as a hospital ship. The gold rushes had put a premium on passenger ships to Australia, so she took 756 Scots civilian passengers to South Australia and Victoria for the Emigration Commissioners. Many of these were emigrating under duress from the trustees of the Boreraig, Suishnish and North Uist estates of Lord Macdonald. The voyage proved disastrous,.
HMS Antelope - HMS Antelope At least twelve ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Antelope, a name of zoological origin given to any deer-like ruminant species. Little information about early Antelopes is available. In 1681, James Story, Captain of HMS Antelope conducted a census of the Avalon colony (now Ferryland, Newfoundland) and on September 1, 1681, wrote "An Account of what fishing Ships, Sack Ships, Planters and Boatkeepers from Trepassey to Bonavista..." HMS Antelope, 54 was launched in 1741 at Woolwich. On June 16, 1756, she sailed from England for Gibraltar with Vice Admiral Sir Edward Hawke and Rear Admiral Charles Saunders. She arrived there on July 3 with an order to supersede Admiral John Byng. Antelope returned to England with Byng, sailing on July.
HMS Pinafore - HMS Pinafore H.M.S. Pinafore, or "The Lass that Loved a Sailor," is a comic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta in two acts, with music by composer Arthur S. Sullivan and libretto by William S. Gilbert. The first performance was at the Opéra Comique, London, on the 28th of May, 1878. Given the operetta's mockery of the "Queen's Navee" and the aristocracy in general, it is perhaps unsurprising that its initial reception was somewhat cool. Queen Victoria is said to have summed up her reaction to the performance with the famous phrase, "We are not amused". Gilbert was to insert a backhanded sort of apology in his next work, The Pirates of Penzance, in which he mentions "That infernal nonsense Pinafore." Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers Plot Place: aboard.
HMS Scorpion - HMS Scorpion HMS Scorpion, a 2750-ton ironclad turret ship built at Birkenhead, England, was one of two sisters secretly ordered from the Laird shipyard by the Confederate States of America government in 1862. Her true ownership was concealed by the fiction that she was being constructed as the Egyptian warship El Tousson. To have been named North Carolina upon delivery to the Confederates, she would have been superior for offshore warfare to all but one of the United States' Navy warships, and thus represented a most serious danger to the Union's control of the seas. However, effective Federal diplomacy prevented the emergence of this threat. The British government seized the pair of ironclads in October 1863, a few months after their launch and before they could.
HMS Sidon - HMS Sidon Two ships of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sidon, named for Sidon, a city in Lebanon. The first HMS Sidon (1846) was a first-class paddle frigate designed by Sir Charles Napier. Her keel was laid down May 26, 1845 at Deptford Dockyard. She was launched May 26, 1846. She had a fairly short career for a warship, but it included and the rescue of the crew of the sinking Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation vessel Ariel on May 28, 1848, and a trip up the Nile that same year. She was broken up in July 1864. General Characteristics Displacement: 1316 tons Length: 211 feet Beam: 37 feet Draught: 27 feet Engines: two direct-acting Seaward engines making 560 horsepower Speed: 10.
HMS Zulu - HMS Zulu At least three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Zulu, in honor of the African Zulu tribe. The first was a First World War destroyer The second was a Second World War destroyer. The third was a Cold War frigate. The first HMS Zulu was an F-Class destroyer launched September 16, 1909 at Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard and commissioned in March, 1910. She was mined during the First World War, on October 27, 1916 off Dover, England. The stern was blown off and sank, but the forward section remained afloat. It was towed into port and attached to the stern of HMS Nubian, which had been torpedoed, to form a new destroyer named HMS Zubian. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 General.
HMS Bounty - HMS Bounty HMS (in actuality -- HMAV -- His Majesty's Armed Vessel) Bounty was a collier (a coal-carrying merchant ship) named Bethia until she was purchased by the Royal Navy of the UK on May 26, 1787. She was a tiny ship at 215 tons, mounting only four four-pounders and ten swivels. (By way of comparison, Cook's Endeavour displaced 368 tons, and Resolution 462 tons.) She was purchased for a single mission, an experiment: to travel to Tahiti, pick up breadfruit plants, and transport them to the West Indies in hopes that they would grow well there and become a cheap source of food for slaves. In June 1787, Bounty was refitted at Deptford. The great cabin was converted to house the potted breadfruit plants and.
HMS Hampshire - HMS Hampshire The HMS Hampshire was a armoured cruiser of the Devonshire class built for the Royal Navy. She was constructed at the Chatham Dockyard in Kent and commissioned in 1905 at a cost of around £900,000. Just returned from the Battle of Jutland she was directed to carry Lord Horatio Kitchener from Scapa Flow on a diplomatic mission to Russia. Sailing for Archangel in a gale she struck a mine at around 19.40 hrs on June 5, 1916 off Mainland Orkney between Brough of Birsay and Marwick Head. The ship sank very rapidly. Kitchener, his staff and most of the crew perished, only twelve men survived. The mine is believed to by one of those laid by U-75 on May 23. The wreck was declared.
HMS Nelson - HMS Nelson HMS Nelson was a battleship of the Royal Navy active in World War II. Built under the constraints of the Washington Naval Treaty (1922) the design was limited to 35,000 tons and showed certain compromises. In order to accommodate 16-inch main guns in three turrets all the turrets were placed forward and the vessel's speed was reduced and maximum armour was limited to vital areas, as a consequence the crew were forbidden from firing all the main guns simultaneously as this would buckle the deck. Nelson was laid down in December 1922 and built at Newcastle by Armstrong. Launched in September 1925, she was commissioned in August 1927 and joined by her sister ship HMS Rodney (built by Cammell Laird) in November. Nelson was.
