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88 relations: Aberdeen, Aircraft carrier, Alexandria, Algiers, Allied invasion of Sicily, Anti-aircraft warfare, Armed merchantman, Åndalsnes, Barclay Curle, Barrow-in-Furness, Battle of the Atlantic, Battleship, Blackwall Yard, Blackwell, Bolsover, Bodø, British 21 inch torpedo, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, Chatham, Kent, Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches, Depth charge, Derbyshire, Destroyer, Displacement (ship), Durban, Eastern Fleet, English Channel, Faroe Islands, Flamborough Head, Flotilla, Force K, Freetown, Gan (Addu Atoll), Gibraltar, Greenock, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Harstad, Harwich, HMNB Devonport, HMS Vancouver (1917), Home Fleet, Hulk (ship type), Iceland, India, Indian Ocean, Isle of Portland, Kilindini Harbour, Length overall, London, Madagascar, ..., Mahajanga, Malta, Malta convoys, Mediterranean Fleet, Middle East, Middlesbrough, Mo i Rana, Molde, Namsos, National Savings and Investments, Naval mine, Naval trawler, Netherlands, Nore, Norway, Operation Alphabet, Operation Weserübung, Portsmouth, QF 2-pounder naval gun, River Clyde, Rosyth, Royal Navy, Scapa Flow, Sheerness, Sister ship, Sri Lanka, Steam turbine, Tanker (ship), Taranto, Three-drum boiler, Tobruk, Torpedo tube, U-boat, Vickers-Armstrongs, Warship Week, Western Approaches, World War II, 4.7 inch QF Mark IX & XII. Expand index (38 more) »
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 37th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 196,670 for the city of Aberdeen and for the local authority area.
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Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.
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Alexandria
Alexandria (or; Arabic: الإسكندرية; Egyptian Arabic: إسكندرية; Ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ; Ⲣⲁⲕⲟⲧⲉ) is the second-largest city in Egypt and a major economic centre, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country.
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Algiers
Algiers (الجزائر al-Jazā’er, ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻ, Alger) is the capital and largest city of Algeria.
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Allied invasion of Sicily
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers (Italy and Nazi Germany).
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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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Armed merchantman
An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact.
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Åndalsnes
is a town in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
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Barclay Curle
Seawind Barclay Curle is a British shipbuilding company.
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Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness, commonly known as Barrow, is a town and borough in Cumbria, England.
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Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945.
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Battleship
A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns.
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Blackwall Yard
Blackwall Yard was a shipyard on the Thames at Blackwall, London, engaged in ship building and later ship repairs for over 350 years.
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Blackwell, Bolsover
Blackwell is a village in Derbyshire, England.
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Bodø
Bodø (Bådåddjo) is a town and a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.
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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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Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Cabo da Boa Esperança) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
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Cape Town
Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.
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Chatham, Kent
Chatham is one of the Medway towns located within the Medway unitary authority, in North Kent, in South East England.
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Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches
Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches was the commander of a major operational command of the Royal Navy during World War II.
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Depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare weapon.
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Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.
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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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Displacement (ship)
The displacement or displacement tonnage of a ship is its weight, expressed in long tons of water its hull displaces.
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Durban
Durban (eThekwini, from itheku meaning "bay/lagoon") is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third most populous in South Africa after Johannesburg and Cape Town.
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Eastern Fleet
The British Eastern Fleet (also known after 1944 as the East Indies Fleet and the Far East Fleet) was a fleet of the Royal Navy which existed between 1941 and 1971.
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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.
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Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands (Føroyar; Færøerne), sometimes called the Faeroe Islands, is an archipelago between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about halfway between Norway and Iceland, north-northwest of Scotland.
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Flamborough Head
Flamborough Head is a promontory, long on the Yorkshire coast of England, between the Filey and Bridlington bays of the North Sea.
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Flotilla
A flotilla (from Spanish, meaning a small flota (fleet) of ships, and this from French flotte, and this from Russian "флот" (flot), meaning "fleet"), or naval flotilla, is a formation of small warships that may be part of a larger fleet.
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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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Freetown
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.
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Gan (Addu Atoll)
Gan (Div: ގަން) is the southernmost island of Addu Atoll (previously also known as Seenu Atoll), as well as the southernmost island of the Maldives.
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
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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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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax, officially known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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Harstad
is the second-most populated municipality in Troms county, Norway.
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Harwich
Harwich is a town in Essex, England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east.
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HMNB Devonport
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport), is the largest naval base in Western Europe and is the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Royal Navy.
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HMS Vancouver (1917)
HMS Vancouver was a British V-class destroyer.
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Home Fleet
The Home Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy that operated in the United Kingdom's territorial waters from 1902 with intervals until 1967.
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Hulk (ship type)
A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea.
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Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).
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Isle of Portland
The Isle of Portland is a limestone tied island, long by wide, in the English Channel.
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Kilindini Harbour
Kilindini Harbour is a large, natural deep-water inlet extending inland from Mombasa, Kenya.
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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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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Madagascar
Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.
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Mahajanga
Mahajanga (French: Majunga) is a city and an administrative district on the northwest coast of Madagascar.
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Malta
Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Malta convoys
The Malta convoys were Allied supply convoys of the Second World War.
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Mediterranean Fleet
The British Mediterranean Fleet also known as the Mediterranean Station was part of the Royal Navy.
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Middle East
The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).
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Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough is a large post-industrial town on the south bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, north-east England, founded in 1830.
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Mo i Rana
Mo i Rana a town and administrative centre of the municipality of Rana in Nordland county, Norway.
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Molde
Molde is a town and municipality in Romsdal in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
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Namsos
is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
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National Savings and Investments
National Savings and Investments (NS&I), formerly called the Post Office Savings Bank and National Savings, is a state-owned savings bank in the United Kingdom.
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Naval mine
A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines.
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Naval trawler
A naval trawler is a vessel built along the lines of a fishing trawler but fitted out for naval purposes.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Nore
The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Thames Estuary, England.
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Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
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Operation Alphabet
Operation Alphabet was an evacuation, authorised on May 24, 1940, of Allied (British, French and Polish) troops from the harbour of Narvik in northern Norway marking the success of Operation Weserübung the Nazi Germany invasion of April 9 and the end of the Allied campaign in Norway during World War II.
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Operation Weserübung
Operation Weserübung was the code name for Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway during the Second World War and the opening operation of the Norwegian Campaign.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.
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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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River Clyde
The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland.
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Rosyth
Rosyth (Ros Fhìobh, "headland of Fife") is a town on the Firth of Forth, three miles (4.8 km) south of the centre of Dunfermline.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Scapa Flow
Scapa Flow viewed from its eastern end in June 2009 Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray,S.
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Sheerness
Sheerness is a town beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England.
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Sister ship
A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.
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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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Tanker (ship)
A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk.
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Taranto
Taranto (early Tarento from Tarentum; Tarantino: Tarde; translit; label) is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy.
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Three-drum boiler
Three-drum boilers are a class of water-tube boiler used to generate steam, typically to power ships.
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Tobruk
Tobruk or Tubruq (Αντίπυργος) (طبرق Ṭubruq; also transliterated as Tóbruch, Tobruch, Tobruck and Tubruk) is a port city on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border of Egypt.
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Torpedo tube
A torpedo tube is a cylinder shaped device for launching torpedoes.
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U-boat
U-boat is an anglicised version of the German word U-Boot, a shortening of Unterseeboot, literally "undersea boat".
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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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Warship Week
Warship Weeks were British National savings campaigns during the Second World War, with the aim of a Royal Navy warship being adopted by a civil community.
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Western Approaches
The Western Approaches is an approximately rectangular area of the Atlantic ocean lying immediately to the west of Ireland and parts of Great Britain.
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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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4.7 inch QF Mark IX & XII
The 4.7 inch QF Mark IX and Mark XIIMark IX.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Arrow_(H42)
