The Queen Elizabeth class battleship was a class of five Royal Navy Battleship. They came in the First and Second World War for use. The class was superior to their predecessors in firepower, armor, and speed, which is why it is often referred to as the first representative of the new type of fast battleship. [...]
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Queen Elizabeth-class battleship
May 23rd, 2013 
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No Comments »HMS Terror
May 17th, 2013 admin The HMS Terror (I 03) was a heavily armored gunship monitor which served the Royal Navy in the two World Wars. Class was the Erebus and were noted for their particular profile. Its particular name as well as your class is in memory of HMS Terror that made an Antarctic expedition in 1840 led by [...]
Posted in Allied Army, Forces, Royal Navy, United Kingdom Army Tags: artillery support, hms terror, royal navy, world war ii No Comments »HMS Aphis
May 17th, 2013 admin HMS Aphis was a Royal Navy Insect class gunboat. The vessel was ordered Ailsa Shipbuilders and it was launched on 15 September 1915 the British Royal Navy’s HMS Aphikseksi the first named vessel. The ship was completed in the same year in November. Service HMS Aphis support the cannon fire of the Army’s operations on [...]
Posted in Allied Army, Forces, Royal Navy, United Kingdom Army Tags: british empire, british royal navy, hms No Comments »RMS Lancastria
May 14th, 2013 admin Type of ship: Passenger Ship Original Purpose (Before conversion): Passenger traffic (North Atlantic) Cruises Shipping company: Anchor Line, in 1924: Cunard Line Launched: 31, May 1920 Maiden voyage: 13th June 1922 Shipyard: William Beardmore and Company (Glasgow) Machines: Diesel Engine Measurement 16,243 GRT Length (oa): 176 m Width (oa): 21 m Draught: 11.9 m Speed [...]
Posted in Allied Army, Forces, Royal Navy, United Kingdom Army Tags: northern european waters, royal navy, world war ii No Comments »Flower class corvette
November 21st, 2012 admin The Flower class corvettes, taken in the period 1940-42, were completed in no less than 145 copies in Britain, and113 in Canada, were patrol boats operating characteristics of modest but adequate to the task. Many of these corvettes were assigned or transferred to other navies during the war: the Dutch navy, the Greek navy, marine [...]
HMS Exmouth
November 16th, 2012 admin HMS Exmouth (Pennant number H02), fourth British warship to bear that name, was a destroyer class conductor and the Royal Navy. Built in the shipyards ofPortsmouth motors Fairfields, it was set to 15 March 1933, launched February 7, 1934 and entered service on 11 November. Service At the time of service in the Exmouth it [...]
Posted in Allied Army, Forces, Royal Navy, United Kingdom Army Tags: british warship, destroyer class, royal navy No Comments »HMS Ark Royal
November 15th, 2012 admin The HMS Ark Royal (91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy during World War II and the only ship of the Ark Royal – class. The end of 1938 was put into service on 13 carriers November 1941Gibraltar torpedoed by the German submarine U 81 and sank the following day. Technik Fuselage and [...]
Posted in Allied Army, Forces, Royal Navy, United Kingdom Army Tags: hms, hms ark royal, royal navy No Comments »HMS Cossack
November 13th, 2012 admin HMS Cossack (F03/G03/L03) was a Tribal-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The ship was known for his role in the so-called Altmark incident. The keel of the ship was on 9 June 1936 on the High Walker Yard of Vickers-Armstrongs in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on 8 June 1937 was followed by the launching, on 7 Commissioned [...]
Posted in Allied Army, Forces, Royal Navy, United Kingdom Army Tags: hms, hms cossack, tribal class destroyer No Comments »SS Athenia
November 6th, 2012 admin The SS Athenia was a steamboat, the protagonist of the first sinking by a German submarine during theBattle of theAtlantic. The ship, launched in 1923, was used on the line betweenEngland andCanada, and in winter as a cruise ship. It was equipped with steam turbines through its two propellers that gave it a top speed [...]
Posted in Allied Army, Forces, Royal Navy, United Kingdom Army Tags: athenia, merchant ships, passenger ship No Comments »HMS Royal Oak
November 5th, 2012 admin The HMS Royal Oak, a British battleship and the eleventh ship of the Royal Navy with this name. She belonged to the (sometimes referred to as the Royal Sovereign class) Revenge-class and ran on 17 November 1914 by the Devonport naval dockyard inDevon stack. History World War I It saw service in the First World [...]
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