Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Bangor-class minesweeper

Index Bangor-class minesweeper

The Bangor-class minesweepers were a class of warships operated by the Royal Navy (RN), Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and Royal Indian Navy (RIN) during the Second World War. [1]

91 relations: Ailsa Shipbuilding Company, Algeria, Battle of Hong Kong, Bay of Biscay, Béjaïa, Belfast, Blyth Shipbuilding Company, Blyth, Northumberland, Bow (ship), Briton Ferry, Burrard Dry Dock, Canadian Vickers, Ceremonial ship launching, Charlestown, Fife, Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia, Corsica, Dartmouth, Devon, Davie Shipbuilding, Draft (hull), Dumbarton, Dunston, Tyne and Wear, English Channel, Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Gateshead, Granton, Edinburgh, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Harland and Wolff, Henry Robb, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock, Hull (watercraft), Imperial Japanese Navy, Keelung, Kolkata, Lauzon, Quebec, Le Havre, Lead ship, Leith, List of Allied convoys during World War II by region, List of ship classes of World War II, List of ships of World War II, Lobnitz, Marine Industries, Marine insurance, Mersa Matruh, Milford Haven, Montego Bay, Montreal, Myanmar, Naval rating, ..., Normandy, Normandy landings, North Van Ship Repair, North Vancouver (city), Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, Pembroke Dock, Philip and Son, Plymouth, Port Arthur, Ontario, Port Glasgow, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Purfleet, QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun, QF 2-pounder naval gun, Quebec, Renfrew, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Indian Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Norwegian Navy, Saint Lawrence River, Sardinia, Ship commissioning, Sorel-Tracy, Southampton, Strait of Bonifacio, Sunderland, Taikoo Dockyard, Taiwan Strait, Thornaby-on-Tees, Ton-class minesweeper, Toronto, Troon, Vickers .50 machine gun, Wallaceburg, Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company, William Denny and Brothers, William Hamilton and Company, World War II. Expand index (41 more) »

Ailsa Shipbuilding Company

Ailsa Shipbuilding Company was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Troon and Ayr, Ayrshire.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Ailsa Shipbuilding Company · See more »

Algeria

Algeria (الجزائر, familary Algerian Arabic الدزاير; ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ; Dzayer; Algérie), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a sovereign state in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Algeria · See more »

Battle of Hong Kong

The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Battle of Hong Kong · See more »

Bay of Biscay

The Bay of Biscay (Golfe de Gascogne, Golfo de Vizcaya, Pleg-mor Gwaskogn, Bizkaiko Golkoa) is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Bay of Biscay · See more »

Béjaïa

Béjaïa (بِجَايَة, Bijayah; Bgayet, Bgayeth, ⴱⴳⴰⵢⴻⵜ), formerly Bougie and Bugia, is a Mediterranean port city on the Gulf of Béjaïa in Algeria; it is the capital of Béjaïa Province, Kabylia.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Béjaïa · See more »

Belfast

Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Belfast · See more »

Blyth Shipbuilding Company

The Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Company Ltd. was a British shipyard located in Blyth, Northumberland, England.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Blyth Shipbuilding Company · See more »

Blyth, Northumberland

Blyth is a town and civil parish in southeast Northumberland, England.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Blyth, Northumberland · See more »

Bow (ship)

The bow is the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is usually most forward when the vessel is underway.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Bow (ship) · See more »

Briton Ferry

Briton Ferry (Llansawel) is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Briton Ferry · See more »

Burrard Dry Dock

Burrard Dry Dock Ltd. was a Canadian shipbuilding company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Burrard Dry Dock · See more »

Canadian Vickers

Canadian Vickers Limited was an aircraft and shipbuilding company that operated in Canada during the early part of the 20th century until 1944.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Canadian Vickers · See more »

Ceremonial ship launching

Ceremonial ship launching is the process of transferring a vessel to the water.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Ceremonial ship launching · See more »

Charlestown, Fife

Charlestown (also known as Charlestown-on-Forth) is a town in Fife, Scotland on the north shore of the Firth of Forth.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Charlestown, Fife · See more »

Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia

Chebucto Head is a Canadian headland on Nova Scotia's Chebucto Peninsula located within the community of Duncan's Cove, Nova Scotia.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Chebucto Head, Nova Scotia · See more »

Corsica

Corsica (Corse; Corsica in Corsican and Italian, pronounced and respectively) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Corsica · See more »

Dartmouth, Devon

Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Dartmouth, Devon · See more »

Davie Shipbuilding

Davie Shipbuilding is a historic shipbuilding company located in Lauzon, Quebec, Canada.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Davie Shipbuilding · See more »

Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship's hull is the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull (keel), with the thickness of the hull included; in the case of not being included the draft outline would be obtained.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Draft (hull) · See more »

Dumbarton

Dumbarton is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Dumbarton · See more »

Dunston, Tyne and Wear

Dunston is the most Westerly part of the town of Gateshead on the south bank of the River Tyne, in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, North East England (into which it was absorbed in 1974).

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Dunston, Tyne and Wear · See more »

English Channel

The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and English Channel · See more »

Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers

Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (IAST: Gārḍen rīc șipabilḍars limiṭeḍ), abbreviated as GRSE, is one of India's leading shipyards, located in Kolkata, West Bengal.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers · See more »

Gateshead

Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Gateshead · See more »

Granton, Edinburgh

Granton is a district in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Granton, Edinburgh · See more »

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax, officially known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Halifax, Nova Scotia · See more »

Harland and Wolff

Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries is a heavy industrial company, specialising in ship repair, conversion, and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Harland and Wolff · See more »

Henry Robb

Henry Robb, Limited, known colloquially as Robbs, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based at Leith Docks in Edinburgh.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Henry Robb · See more »

Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Hong Kong · See more »

Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock

Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock was a Hong Kong dockyard, once among the largest in Asia.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock · See more »

Hull (watercraft)

The hull is the watertight body of a ship or boat.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Hull (watercraft) · See more »

Imperial Japanese Navy

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, "Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 until 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's defeat and surrender in World War II.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Imperial Japanese Navy · See more »

Keelung

Keelung, officially known as Keelung City, is a major port city situated in the northeastern part of Taiwan.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Keelung · See more »

Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Kolkata · See more »

Lauzon, Quebec

Lauzon is a former city in southern Quebec, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River northeast of Lévis.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Lauzon, Quebec · See more »

Le Havre

Le Havre, historically called Newhaven in English, is an urban French commune and city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northwestern France.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Le Havre · See more »

Lead ship

The lead ship, name ship, or class leader is the first of a series or class of ships all constructed according to the same general design.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Lead ship · See more »

Leith

Leith (Lìte) is an area to the north of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, at the mouth of the Water of Leith.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Leith · See more »

List of Allied convoys during World War II by region

This is a List of Allied convoys during World War II by region.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and List of Allied convoys during World War II by region · See more »

List of ship classes of World War II

The List of ship classes of the World War II is an alphabetical list of all ship classes that served in World War II.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and List of ship classes of World War II · See more »

List of ships of World War II

This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and List of ships of World War II · See more »

Lobnitz

Lobnitz & Company was a Scottish shipbuilding company located at Renfrew on the River Clyde, west of the Renfrew Ferry crossing and east of the confluence with the River Cart.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Lobnitz · See more »

Marine Industries

Marine Industries Limited (MIL) was a Canadian ship building and rail car manufacturing company, in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, with a shipyard located on the Richelieu river about 1 km from the St. Lawrence River.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Marine Industries · See more »

Marine insurance

Marine insurance covers the loss or damage of ships, cargo, terminals, and any transport or cargo by which the property is transferred, acquired, or held between the points of origin and the final destination.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Marine insurance · See more »

Mersa Matruh

Mersa Matruh (مرسى مطروح) is a seaport in Egypt, the capital of the Matrouh Governorate.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Mersa Matruh · See more »

Milford Haven

Milford Haven (Aberdaugleddau, meaning "mouth of the two Rivers Cleddau") is a town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Milford Haven · See more »

Montego Bay

Montego Bay is the capital of the parish of St. James and is also Jamaica's only other officially incorporated city, referred to as The Second City or more widely known as MoBay in local lingo and sometimes Bay by the locals.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Montego Bay · See more »

Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Montreal · See more »

Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Myanmar · See more »

Naval rating

A naval rating is an enlisted member of a country's navy, subordinate to warrant officers and officers, and hence not conferred by commission or warrant.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Naval rating · See more »

Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Normandy · See more »

Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Normandy landings · See more »

North Van Ship Repair

North Van Ship Repair, later known as Pacific Dry Dock was a shipyard in the city of North Vancouver, British Columbia which built many of the and Victory ships for Britain and Canada during World War II.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and North Van Ship Repair · See more »

North Vancouver (city)

The City of North Vancouver is a waterfront municipality on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, directly across from Vancouver, British Columbia.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and North Vancouver (city) · See more »

Oerlikon 20 mm cannon

and --> The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon is a series of autocannons, based on an original German 20 mm Becker design that appeared very early in World War I. It was widely produced by Oerlikon Contraves and others, with various models employed by both Allied and Axis forces during World War II, and many versions still in use today.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Oerlikon 20 mm cannon · See more »

Pembroke Dock

Pembroke Dock (Doc Penfro) is a town in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, northwest of Pembroke on the banks of the River Cleddau.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Pembroke Dock · See more »

Philip and Son

Philip and Son (also Philip & Son) was a shipbuilder in Sandquay, Dartmouth, Devon, England.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Philip and Son · See more »

Plymouth

Plymouth is a city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately south-west of Exeter and west-south-west of London.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Plymouth · See more »

Port Arthur, Ontario

Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario, Canada, located on Lake Superior.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Port Arthur, Ontario · See more »

Port Glasgow

Port Glasgow (Port Ghlaschu) is the second largest town in the Inverclyde council area of Scotland.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Port Glasgow · See more »

Prince Rupert, British Columbia

Prince Rupert is a port city in the province of British Columbia, Canada.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Prince Rupert, British Columbia · See more »

Purfleet

Purfleet is a town in the Thurrock unitary authority in Essex, England.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Purfleet · See more »

QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun

The QF 12-pounder 12-cwt gun (abbreviated as Q.F. 12-pdr. (12-cwt.), the War Office, 1925) was a common, versatile calibre naval gun introduced in 1894 and used until the middle of the 20th century.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun · See more »

QF 2-pounder naval gun

The 2-pounder gun,British military of the period traditionally denoted smaller guns in terms of the approximate weight of the standard projectile, rather than by its bore diameter, which in this case was 40 mm.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and QF 2-pounder naval gun · See more »

Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Quebec · See more »

Renfrew

Renfrew (Rinn Friù) is a town west of Glasgow, and the historical county town of Renfrewshire.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Renfrew · See more »

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Royal Air Force · See more »

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC), "Royal Gendarmerie of Canada"; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as "the Force") is the federal and national police force of Canada.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Royal Canadian Mounted Police · See more »

Royal Canadian Navy

The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN; French: Marine royale canadienne) is the naval force of Canada.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Royal Canadian Navy · See more »

Royal Indian Navy

The Royal Indian Navy (RIN) was the naval force of British India and the Dominion of India.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Royal Indian Navy · See more »

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Royal Navy · See more »

Royal Norwegian Navy

The Royal Norwegian Navy (Norwegian: Sjøforsvaret, "the naval defence (forces)") is the branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces responsible for naval operations of the state of Norway.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Royal Norwegian Navy · See more »

Saint Lawrence River

The Saint Lawrence River (Fleuve Saint-Laurent; Tuscarora: Kahnawáʼkye; Mohawk: Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning "big waterway") is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Saint Lawrence River · See more »

Sardinia

| conventional_long_name.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Sardinia · See more »

Ship commissioning

Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service, and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Ship commissioning · See more »

Sorel-Tracy

Sorel-Tracy is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Lake Champlain Valley at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre downstream and east of nearby Montreal.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Sorel-Tracy · See more »

Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Southampton · See more »

Strait of Bonifacio

The Strait of Bonifacio (Fretum Gallicum, Bouches de Bonifacio, Bocche di Bonifacio, Bucchi di Bunifaziu, Gallurese: Bocchi di Bunifaciu, Buccas de Bonifatziu, Bocche de Bunifazziu) is the strait between Corsica and Sardinia, named after the Corsican town Bonifacio.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Strait of Bonifacio · See more »

Sunderland

Sunderland is a city at the centre of the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 10 miles southeast of Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 miles northeast of Durham, 101 miles southeast of Edinburgh, 104 miles north-northeast of Manchester, 77 miles north of Leeds, and 240 miles north-northwest of London.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Sunderland · See more »

Taikoo Dockyard

Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company was a dockyard in what is now Taikoo Shing, MTR Tai Koo Station and part of Taikoo Place of Quarry Bay on the Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Taikoo Dockyard · See more »

Taiwan Strait

The Taiwan Strait, or Formosa Strait, is a -wide strait separating the island of Taiwan from mainland China.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Taiwan Strait · See more »

Thornaby-on-Tees

Thornaby-on-Tees is a royal charter town, civil parish and former borough in North Yorkshire, England.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Thornaby-on-Tees · See more »

Ton-class minesweeper

The Ton class were coastal minesweepers built in the 1950s for the Royal Navy, but also used by other navies such as the South African Navy and the Royal Australian Navy.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Ton-class minesweeper · See more »

Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Toronto · See more »

Troon

Troon is a town in South Ayrshire, situated on the west coast of Ayrshire in Scotland, about north of Ayr and northwest of Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Troon · See more »

Vickers .50 machine gun

The Vickers.50 machine gun, also known as the 'Vickers.50' was basically similar to the Vickers machine gun but scaled up to use a larger-calibre round.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Vickers .50 machine gun · See more »

Wallaceburg

Wallaceburg (2016 population 10,098) is an unincorporated community in the municipality of Chatham-Kent in Southern (Southwestern) Ontario, Canada.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Wallaceburg · See more »

Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company

The Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company was a shipyard that operated at Port Arthur, Ontario, now part of Thunder Bay, on Lake Superior from 1911 to 1993.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company · See more »

William Denny and Brothers

William Denny and Brothers Limited, and often referred to simply as Denny, was a Scottish shipbuilding company.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and William Denny and Brothers · See more »

William Hamilton and Company

William Hamilton and Company was a British shipyard in Port Glasgow, Scotland.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and William Hamilton and Company · See more »

World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

New!!: Bangor-class minesweeper and World War II · See more »

Redirects here:

Bangor Class Minesweepers, Bangor class, Bangor class minesweeper.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangor-class_minesweeper

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »