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X-class submarine

Index X-class submarine

The X class was a World War II midget submarine class built for the Royal Navy during 1943–44. [1]

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  1. 105 relations: Aberlady Bay, Above Us the Waves, Airlock, Alexander Fullerton, Altafjord, Amatol, Amphetamine, Avro Lancaster, Barrow-in-Furness, BBC History, Bergen, Bill Gunston, British S-class submarine (1931), British T-class submarine, British V-class submarine, Buses in London, C. E. T. Warren, Chariot manned torpedo, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chief petty officer, Colleville-sur-Mer, Combined Operations Headquarters, Condom, Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, Cruiser submarine, Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus, Detonation, Diesel engine, Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom), Distinguished Service Order, Donald Cameron (VC), Douglas Reeman, East Lothian, Electric motor, Engine room artificer, Far East, Frogman, Fuze, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, German battleship Tirpitz, Godfrey Place, Gosport, Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, HMNB Portsmouth, HMS Dolphin (shore establishment), HMS Syrtis, HMS X1, Horsepower, Huddersfield, ... Expand index (55 more) »

  2. X-class submarines

Aberlady Bay

Aberlady Bay in East Lothian, Scotland lies between Aberlady and Gullane.

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Above Us the Waves

Above Us the Waves is a 1955 British war film about human torpedo and midget submarine attacks in Norwegian fjords against the German battleship ''Tirpitz''.

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Airlock

An airlock is a room or compartment which permits passage between environments of differing atmospheric pressure or composition, while minimizing the changing of pressure or composition between the differing environments.

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Alexander Fullerton

Alexander Fullerton (19242008) was a British author of naval and other fiction.

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Altafjord

The Altafjord (Altafjorden; Álttávuonna; Alattionvuono) is a fjord in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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Amatol

Amatol is a highly explosive material made from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate.

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Amphetamine

Amphetamine (contracted from alpha-methylphenethylamine) is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), narcolepsy, and obesity.

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Avro Lancaster

The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber.

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Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.

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BBC History

BBC History is a British magazine devoted to both British and world history, and aimed at readers of all levels of knowledge and interest.

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Bergen

Bergen, historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway.

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Bill Gunston

Bill Gunston (1 March 1927 – 1 June 2013) was a British aviation and military author.

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British S-class submarine (1931)

The S-class submarines of the Royal Navy were originally designed and built during the modernisation of the submarine force in the early 1930s to meet the need for smaller boats to patrol the restricted waters of the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, replacing the British H-class submarines. X-class submarine and British S-class submarine (1931) are submarine classes.

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British T-class submarine

The Royal Navy's T class (or Triton class) of diesel-electric submarines was designed in the 1930s to replace the O, P, and R classes. X-class submarine and British T-class submarine are submarine classes.

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British V-class submarine

The British V-class submarine (officially "U-Class Long hull 1941–42 programme") was a class of submarines built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. X-class submarine and British V-class submarine are submarine classes.

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Buses in London

Buses have been used as a mode of public transport in London since 1829, when George Shillibeer started operating a horse-drawn omnibus service from Paddington to the City of London.

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C. E. T. Warren

Lieutenant Charles Esme Thornton Warren MBE (1912–1988) was a bestselling British author, a Second World War Royal Navy submariner, and one of the first Allied 'human torpedo charioteers', practising methods of clandestine attack upon enemy harbours and ships.

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Chariot manned torpedo

The Chariot was a British manned torpedo used in World War II.

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Chesterfield, Derbyshire

Chesterfield is a market and industrial town in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England.

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Chief petty officer

A chief petty officer (CPO) is a senior non-commissioned officer in many navies and coast guards, usually above petty officer.

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Colleville-sur-Mer

Colleville-sur-Mer (literally Colleville on Sea) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandie region in northwestern France.

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Combined Operations Headquarters

Combined Operations Headquarters was a department of the British War Office set up during Second World War to harass the Germans on the European continent by means of raids carried out by use of combined naval and army forces.

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Condom

A condom is a sheath-shaped barrier device used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STI).

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Conspicuous Gallantry Medal

The Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (CGM) was, until 1993, a British military decoration for gallantry in action for petty officers and seamen of the Royal Navy, including Warrant Officers and other ranks of the Royal Marines.

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Cruiser submarine

A cruiser submarine was a very large submarine designed to remain at sea for extended periods in areas distant from base facilities.

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Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus

The Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus (also referred to as DSEA), was an early type of oxygen rebreather invented in 1910 by Sir Robert Davis, head of Siebe Gorman and Co. Ltd., inspired by the earlier Fleuss system, and adopted by the Royal Navy after further development by Davis in 1927.

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Detonation

Detonation is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).

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Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)

The Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) is a third-level military decoration awarded for gallantry during active operations against the enemy at sea to officers; and, since 1993, ratings and other ranks of the British Armed Forces, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and the British Merchant Navy have been eligible.

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Distinguished Service Order

The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, as well as formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth, awarded for operational gallantry for highly successful command and leadership during active operations, typically in actual combat.

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Donald Cameron (VC)

Commander Donald Cameron, VC (18 March 1916 – 10 April 1961) was a Scottish sailor and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Douglas Reeman

Douglas Edward Reeman (15 October 1924 – 23 January 2017), who also used the pseudonym Alexander Kent, was a British author who wrote many historical novels about the Royal Navy, mainly set during either World War II or the Napoleonic Wars.

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East Lothian

East Lothian (Aest Lowden; Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area.

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Electric motor

An electric motor is an electrical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.

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Engine room artificer

Engine room artificer (ERA) is a specialised position in the crews of naval vessels – especially those of the British Royal Navy (RN) and other Commonwealth navies.

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Far East

The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia.

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Frogman

A frogman is someone who is trained in scuba diving or swimming underwater in a tactical capacity that includes military, and in some European countries, police work.

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Fuze

In military munitions, a fuze (sometimes fuse) is the part of the device that initiates its function.

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Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

Gainsborough is a market town, inland port and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.

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German battleship Tirpitz

Tirpitz was the second of two s built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (navy) prior to and during the Second World War.

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Godfrey Place

Rear Admiral Basil Charles Godfrey Place, (19 July 1921 – 27 December 1994), known as Godfrey Place, was an officer in the Royal Navy and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Gosport

Gosport is a town and non-metropolitan borough, on the south coast of Hampshire, South East England.

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Hamble-le-Rice

Hamble-le-Rice, commonly known as Hamble, is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated to Hants.) is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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HMNB Portsmouth

His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport).

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HMS Dolphin (shore establishment)

The seventeenth Royal Navy vessel to be named HMS ''Dolphin'' was the Royal Naval shore establishment sited at Fort Blockhouse in Gosport.

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HMS Syrtis

HMS Syrtis was a third-batch S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

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HMS X1

HM Submarine X1 was a British submarine of the interwar period.

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Horsepower

Horsepower (hp) is a unit of measurement of power, or the rate at which work is done, usually in reference to the output of engines or motors.

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Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

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Human torpedo

Human torpedoes or manned torpedoes are a type of diver propulsion vehicle on which the diver rides, generally in a seated position behind a fairing.

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Ian Allan Publishing

Ian Allan Publishing was an English publisher, established in 1942, which specialised in transport books.

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Isle of Bute

The Isle of Bute (Buit; Eilean Bhòid or An t-Eilean Bòdach), known as Bute, is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Italian submarine Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei was one of four s built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) during the early 1930s.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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James Caan

James Edmund Caan (March 26, 1940 – July 6, 2022) was an American actor.

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James Joseph Magennis

James Joseph Magennis, VC (27 October 1919 – 12 February 1986) was a Belfast-born sailor and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Japanese cruiser Takao (1930)

was the lead vessel in the heavy cruisers, active in World War II with the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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John Elliott Smart

Lieutenant Commander John Elliott Smart (1 March 1916 – 3 February 2008) was an officer in the Royal Navy, who commanded one of the midget submarines that attacked the German cruiser ''Lützow'' and the Japanese cruiser ''Takao'' during the Second World War.

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John Mills

Sir John Mills (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 190823 April 2005) was an English actor who appeared in more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.

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Kåfjord, Nordkapp

Kåfjord is a small village in Nordkapp Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway.

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L. Gardner and Sons

L.

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Laksevåg

Laksevåg is a borough of the city of Bergen in Vestland county, Norway.

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Leading seaman

Leading seaman is a junior non-commissioned rank or rate in navies, particularly those of the Commonwealth.

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Loch Striven

Loch Striven (Loch Sroigheann) is a sea loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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Long ton

The long ton, also known as the imperial ton or displacement ton,Dictionary.com - "a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (about 1016 kg) or 35 cu.

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Markham & Co.

Markham & Co. was an ironworks and steelworks company near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England.

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Marshall, Sons & Co.

Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848.

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Midget submarine

A midget submarine is any submarine under 150 tons, typically operated by a crew of one or two but sometimes up to six or nine, with little or no on-board living accommodation. X-class submarine and midget submarine are midget submarines.

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Nautical mile

A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters.

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A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Omaha Beach

Omaha Beach was one of five beach landing sectors of the amphibious assault component of Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Operation Catechism

Operation Catechism was a British air raid of World War II that destroyed the German battleship ''Tirpitz''.

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Operation Gambit

Operation Gambit was a part of Operation Neptune, the landing phase of the invasion of northern France (Operation Overlord) during the Second World War.

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Operation Guidance

Operation Guidance was an Australian-British raid during World War II in 1944.

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Operation Postage Able

Operation Postage Able was an X-class submarine-based Royal Navy operation in preparation for Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.

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Operation Source

Operation Source was a series of attacks to neutralise the heavy German warships – ''Tirpitz'', ''Scharnhorst'' and ''Lützow'' – based in northern Norway, using X-class midget submarines.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Orne

Orne (Ôrne or Orne) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne.

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Periscope

A periscope is an instrument for observation over, around or through an object, obstacle or condition that prevents direct line-of-sight observation from an observer's current position.

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Port Bannatyne

Port Bannatyne (Port MhicEamailinn), is a coastal village on the Isle of Bute, Firth of Clyde, Scotland that is home to many steamers.

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Reconnaissance

In military operations, military reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, the terrain, and civil activities in the area of operations.

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Revolutions per minute

Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min, or r⋅min−1) is a unit of rotational speed (or rotational frequency) for rotating machines.

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Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve

Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RANVR) was a reserve force of the Royal Australian Navy.

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Royal Australian Navy

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the naval force of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

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Royal Naval Reserve

The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) is one of the two volunteer reserve forces of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Royal Navy Submarine Museum

The Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport is a maritime museum tracing the international history of submarine development from the age of Alexander the Great to the present day, and particularly the history of the Royal Navy Submarine Service from the navy's first submarine, Holland 1, to the nuclear-powered ''Vanguard''-class submarines.

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Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer

Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer (literally Saint-Laurent on Sea) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance.

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Sonar

Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.

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Stickleback-class submarine

The Stickleback-class submarines were midget submarines of the British Royal Navy initially ordered as improved versions of the older s. They were designed to allow British defences to practice defending against midget submarines since it was theorised that the Soviet Union had or could develop such craft. X-class submarine and Stickleback-class submarine are submarine classes.

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Submarine X-1

Submarine X-1 is a 1968 British war film loosely based on the Operation Source attack on the German battleship ''Tirpitz'' in 1943.

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Sword Beach

Sword, commonly known as Sword Beach, was the code name given to one of the five main landing areas along the Normandy coast during the initial assault phase, Operation Neptune, of Operation Overlord.

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The Giant Behemoth

The Giant Behemoth is a 1959 British-American science fiction action horror film directed by Eugène Lourié, with special effects by Willis H. O'Brien, Pete Peterson, Irving Block, Jack Rabin, and Louis de Witt.

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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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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the British decorations system.

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Vierville-sur-Mer

Vierville-sur-Mer (literally Vierville on Sea) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy region in northwestern France.

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Warship

A warship or combatant ship is a ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare.

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XE-class submarine

The XE-class submarines were a series of twelve midget submarines that were built for the Royal Navy during 1944; four more to a slightly different design were built 1954-5 as the ''Stickleback'' class. X-class submarine and XE-class submarine are midget submarines and submarine classes.

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See also

X-class submarines

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-class_submarine

Also known as HMS X6, HMS X7, X class submarine, X craft, X-Craft.

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