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65 relations: Admiralty, Alexander Stephen and Sons, Anti-aircraft warfare, Battle of Dunkirk, Birkenhead, Black Swan-class sloop, Bofors 40 mm gun, Boiler, British 21 inch torpedo, Cammell Laird, Depth charge, Destroyer, Dive bomber, Dual-purpose gun, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Flotilla leader, Force K, Fuze Keeping Clock, German submarine U-990, Govan, Greenock, Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn, HMS Ark Royal (91), HMS Impulsive (D11), Imperial Japanese Navy, J-, K- and N-class destroyer, Length overall, Linthouse, List of World War II British naval radar, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Mediterranean Sea, Military aircraft, Norwegian Campaign, ORP Orkan (G90), Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Pennant number, QF 2-pounder naval gun, QF 4 inch Mk V naval gun, QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval gun, QF 4.7 inch Mark XI gun, Radar, Radio, Royal Navy, Scotstoun, Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Ship class, Sloop, Sonar, Spanish Civil War, ..., Squid (weapon), Steam turbine, Torpedo tube, Town-class cruiser (1936), United Kingdom, United States Navy, Vickers .50 machine gun, Vickers-Armstrongs, W and Z-class destroyer, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, War Emergency Programme destroyers, World War II, Yarrow Shipbuilders, 3"/50 caliber gun, 5"/38 caliber gun. Expand index (15 more) »
Admiralty
The Admiralty, originally known as the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs, was the government department responsible for the command of the Royal Navy firstly in the Kingdom of England, secondly in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1964, the United Kingdom and former British Empire.
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Alexander Stephen and Sons
Alexander Stephen and Sons Limited, often referred to simply as Alex Stephens or just Stephens, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Linthouse, Glasgow, on the River Clyde.
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Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action."AAP-6 They include ground-and air-based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons).
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Battle of Dunkirk
The Battle of Dunkirk was a military operation that took place in Dunkirk (Dunkerque), France, during the Second World War.
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Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.
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Black Swan-class sloop
The Black Swan class and Modified Black Swan class were two classes of sloop of the Royal Navy and Royal Indian Navy.
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Bofors 40 mm gun
--> The Bofors 40 mm gun, often referred to simply as the Bofors gun, is an anti-aircraft/multi-purpose autocannon designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors.
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Boiler
A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.
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British 21 inch torpedo
There have been several British 21-inch (533 mm) diameter torpedoes used by the Royal Navy since their first development just before the First World War.
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Cammell Laird
Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company.
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Depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare weapon.
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Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers.
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Dive bomber
A dive bomber is a bomber aircraft that dives directly at its targets in order to provide greater accuracy for the bomb it drops.
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Dual-purpose gun
A dual-purpose gun is a naval artillery mounting designed to engage both surface and air targets.
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Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited was a Scottish shipbuilding company in the Govan area on the Clyde in Glasgow.
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Flotilla leader
A flotilla leader was a warship suitable for commanding a flotilla of destroyers or other small warships, typically a small cruiser or a large destroyer (known as a destroyer leader).
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Force K
Force K was the name of three British Royal Navy task forces during the Second World War.
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Fuze Keeping Clock
The Fuze Keeping Clock (FKC) was a simplified version of the Royal Navy's High Angle Control System analogue fire control computer.
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German submarine U-990
German submarine U-990 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II.
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Govan
Govan (Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of south-west City of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Greenock
Greenock (Grianaig) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
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Hawthorn Leslie and Company
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Hebburn
Hebburn is a small town situated on the south bank of the River Tyne in North East England sandwiched between the towns of Jarrow and Gateshead and to the south of Walker.
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HMS Ark Royal (91)
HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that served during the Second World War.
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HMS Impulsive (D11)
HMS Impulsive was an built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s.
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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.
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J-, K- and N-class destroyer
The J, K and N class was a class of 24 destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1938.
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Length overall
Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline.
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Linthouse
Linthouse is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
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List of World War II British naval radar
This page is a List of World War II British naval radar.
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Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British Royal Navy officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.
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Military aircraft
A military aircraft is any fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is operated by a legal or insurrectionary armed service of any type.
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Norwegian Campaign
The Norwegian Campaign (9 April to 10 June 1940) was fought in Norway between Norway, the Allies and Germany in World War II after the latter's invasion of the country.
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ORP Orkan (G90)
ORP Orkan, formerly HMS Myrmidon was an M-class destroyer of the Polish Navy during World War II.
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Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company
Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based in Wallsend, North East England, on the River Tyne.
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Pennant number
In the Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations, ships are identified by pennant number (an internationalisation of pendant number, which it was called before 1948).
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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.
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QF 4 inch Mk V naval gun
The QF 4 inch Mk V gunMk V.
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QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval gun
The QF 4 inch Mk XVI gunMk XVI.
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QF 4.7 inch Mark XI gun
The 4.7 inch QF Mark XIMark XI.
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Radar
Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Scotstoun
Scotstoun is an area of Glasgow, Scotland, west of Glasgow City Centre.
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Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, often referred to simply as Scotts, was a Scottish shipbuilding company based in Greenock on the River Clyde.
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Ship class
A ship class is a group of ships of a similar design.
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Sloop
A sloop (from Dutch sloep, in turn from French chaloupe) is a sailing boat with a single mast and a fore-and-aft rig.
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Sonar
Sonar (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española),Also known as The Crusade (La Cruzada) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War (Cuarta Guerra Carlista) among Carlists, and The Rebellion (La Rebelión) or Uprising (Sublevación) among Republicans.
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Squid (weapon)
Squid was a British World War II ship-mounted anti-submarine weapon.
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Steam turbine
A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.
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Torpedo tube
A torpedo tube is a cylinder shaped device for launching torpedoes.
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Town-class cruiser (1936)
The Town class was a 10-ship class of light cruisers of the Royal Navy.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
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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.
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Vickers-Armstrongs
Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927.
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W and Z-class destroyer
The W and Z class was a class of sixteen destroyers of the Royal Navy launched in 1943–1944.
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Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne
Walker is a residential suburb and electoral ward just east of the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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War Emergency Programme destroyers
The War Emergency Programme destroyers were 112 destroyers built for the British Royal Navy during World War II.
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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.
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Yarrow Shipbuilders
Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited (YSL), often styled as simply Yarrows, was a major shipbuilding firm based in the Scotstoun district of Glasgow on the River Clyde.
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3"/50 caliber gun
The 3″/50 caliber gun (spoken "three-inch fifty-caliber") in United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile in diameter, and the barrel was 50 calibers long (barrel length is 3 in × 50.
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5"/38 caliber gun
The Mark 12 5"/38 caliber gun was a United States naval gun.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L_and_M-class_destroyer
