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88 relations: Arctic Ocean, Armed merchantman, Atlantic Ocean, Battlecruiser, Battleship, Bay of Biscay, Bear Island (Norway), Belt armor, BL 6 inch Mk XXIII naval gun, Brest, France, British 21 inch torpedo, Bulkhead (partition), Bullion, Christmas, Cold War, Convoy PQ 13, Convoy PQ 14, Convoy QP 11, David Irving, David Loram, Deck (ship), Denmark, Denmark Strait, Depth charge, Destroyer, Faroe Islands, Fire-control system, Firth of Forth, Freetown, Gibraltar, Gold, Gun turret, HMNB Clyde, Home Fleet, Iceland, Kapitänleutnant, Keith Jessop, Kola Bay, Labour government, 1974–1979, Light cruiser, List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (T), Lofoten, Luftwaffe, Malta, Marine salvage, Middle East, Murmansk, Narvik, Naval mine, New Year's Eve, ..., Newcastle upon Tyne, North Sea, Norway, Operation Claymore, Operation Halberd, Operation Substance, Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company, Pennant number, QF 2-pounder naval gun, QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval gun, Radar, Risdon Beazley, River Clyde, River Thames, River Tyne, Rosyth, Royal Navy, Scapa Flow, Scotland, Seaplane, Sierra Leone, Simon's Town, Sister ship, South Africa, Soviet Union, Stuart Bonham Carter, Supermarine Walrus, Swan Hunter, Torpedo, Torpedo bomber, Torpedo tube, Tyne and Wear, U-boat, United Kingdom, Vickers, Vickers .50 machine gun, War grave, World War II. Expand index (38 more) »
Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans.
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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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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Battlecruiser
The battlecruiser, or battle cruiser, was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century.
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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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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.
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Bear Island (Norway)
Bear Island (Bjørnøya) is the southernmost island of the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago.
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Belt armor
Belt armor is a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships, typically on battleships, battlecruisers and cruisers, and aircraft carriers.
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BL 6 inch Mk XXIII naval gun
The 50 calibre BL 6 inch gun Mark XXIIIMark XXIII.
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Brest, France
Brest is a city in the Finistère département in Brittany.
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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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Bulkhead (partition)
A bulkhead is an upright wall within the hull of a ship or within the fuselage of an aeroplane.
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Bullion
Bullion is gold, silver, or other precious metals in the form of bars or ingots.
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Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
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Convoy PQ 13
PQ-13 was a British Arctic convoy that delivered war supplies from the Western Allies to the USSR during World War II.
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Convoy PQ 14
Convoy PQ 14 was an Arctic convoy sent from Great Britain by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Convoy QP 11
Convoy QP 11 was an Arctic Convoy of World War II, made up of merchant ships returning from the Soviet Union to Britain after delivering their cargo to the Soviet Union.
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David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English author and Holocaust denier who has written on the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany.
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David Loram
Vice Admiral Sir David Anning Loram (24 July 1924 – 30 June 2011) was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.
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Deck (ship)
A deck is a permanent covering over a compartment or a hull of a ship.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.
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Denmark Strait
The Denmark Strait or Greenland Strait ('Greenland Sound') is an oceanic strait between Greenland (to its northwest) and Iceland (to its southeast).
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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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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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Fire-control system
A fire-control system is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director, and radar, which is designed to assist a weapon system in hitting its target.
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Firth of Forth
The Firth of Forth (Linne Foirthe) is the estuary (firth) of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth.
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Freetown
Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.
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Gun turret
A gun turret is a location from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility, and some cone of fire.
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HMNB Clyde
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde (HMNB Clyde; also HMS Neptune) primarily sited at Faslane is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth).
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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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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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Kapitänleutnant
Kapitänleutnant, short: KptLt / in lists: KL, (Lang-en: Captain lieutenant) is an officer grade of the captains military hierarchy group of the German Bundeswehr.
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Keith Jessop
Keith Jessop (10 May 1933 – 22 May 2010) was a British salvage diver and successful marine treasure hunter.
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Kola Bay
Kola Bay (Кольский залив) or Murmansk Fjord is a 57-km-long fjord of the Barents Sea that cuts into the northern part of the Kola Peninsula.
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Labour government, 1974–1979
The Labour Party governed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1974–1979.
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Light cruiser
A light cruiser is a type of small- or medium-sized warship.
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List of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients (T)
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitay forces of Nazi Germany during World War II.
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Lofoten
Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway.
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Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.
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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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Marine salvage
Marine salvage is the process of recovering a ship and its cargo after a shipwreck or other maritime casualty.
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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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Murmansk
Murmansk (p; Мурман ланнҍ; Murmánska; Muurman) is a port city and the administrative center of Murmansk Oblast in the far northwest part of Russia.
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Narvik
(Norwegian) or Áhkanjárga (Northern Sami) is the third-largest town and municipality in Nordland county, Norway by population.
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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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New Year's Eve
In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve (also known as Old Year's Day or Saint Sylvester's Day in many countries), the last day of the year, is on 31 December which is the seventh day of Christmastide.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.
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North Sea
The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
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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 Claymore
Operation Claymore was the code name for a British commando raid on the Lofoten Islands in Norway during the Second World War.
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Operation Halberd
Operation Halberd was a British naval operation that took place on 27 September 1941, during the Second World War.
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Operation Substance
Operation Substance was a British naval operation in July 1941 during the Second World War to escort convoy GM 1, the first of the series from Gibraltar to Malta.
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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 XVI naval gun
The QF 4 inch Mk XVI gunMk XVI.
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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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Risdon Beazley
Risdon Archibald Beazley (1904–1979) was the founder of Risdon Beazley Ltd, a Marine salvage company that operated from 1926 to 1981 in Southampton, England.
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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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River Thames
The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.
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River Tyne
The River Tyne is a river in North East England and its length (excluding tributaries) is.
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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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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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Seaplane
A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.
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Simon's Town
Simon's Town (Simonstad), sometimes spelled Simonstown, is a town near Cape Town, which is home to the South African Navy.
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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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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Stuart Bonham Carter
Vice Admiral Sir Stuart Sumner Bonham Carter, KCB, CVO, DSO (9 July 1889 – 5 September 1972) was an officer in the Royal Navy who served in both world wars.
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Supermarine Walrus
The Supermarine Walrus (originally known as the Supermarine Seagull V) was a British single-engine amphibious biplane reconnaissance aircraft designed by R. J. Mitchell and first flown in 1933.
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Swan Hunter
Swan Hunter, formerly known as "Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson", is a shipbuilding design, engineering, and management company, based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear.
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Torpedo
A modern torpedo is a self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target or in proximity to it.
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Torpedo bomber
A torpedo bomber is a military aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with aerial torpedoes.
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Torpedo tube
A torpedo tube is a cylinder shaped device for launching torpedoes.
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Tyne and Wear
Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East region of England around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear.
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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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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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Vickers
Vickers was a famous name in British engineering that existed through many companies from 1828 until 1999.
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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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War grave
A war grave is a burial place for members of the armed forces or civilians who died during military campaigns or operations.
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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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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Edinburgh_(16)
