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77 relations: A- and B-class destroyer, Aircraft carrier, Amphion-class submarine, Armed merchantman, Atlantic Fleet (United Kingdom), Auxiliary ship, British Empire, British H-class submarine, British L-class submarine, British S-class submarine (1931), British T-class submarine, British U-class submarine, British V-class submarine, Burgee, C and D-class destroyer, Capital ship, Casting (metalworking), Chatham Dockyard, Combined Communications-Electronics Board, Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches, Commonwealth of Nations, Corvette, Cruiser, Destroyer, Dover, Drifter (fishing boat), E and F-class destroyer, English Channel, Escort carrier, Escort destroyer, Europe, Fishing trawler, Flight deck, Flotilla, Flotilla leader, Frigate, G and H-class destroyer, Gibraltar, Grampus-class submarine, HMNB Devonport, HMNB Portsmouth, Home Fleet, Hull classification symbol, Hull number, I-class destroyer, J-, K- and N-class destroyer, Lend-Lease, List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy, Mediterranean Fleet, Minelayer, ..., Minesweeper, Nazi Germany, Nore, Odin-class submarine, Parthian-class submarine, Portsmouth, Prefix, Rainbow-class submarine, RFA Argus (A135), RFA Lyme Bay (L3007), River gunboat, River-class submarine, Rosyth, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service, Royal Naval Auxiliary Service, Royal Navy, Ship prefix, Sloop-of-war, Suffix, Torpedo boat, Town-class destroyer, Tribal-class destroyer (1936), U-boat, United States Navy, V and W-class destroyer, World War I. Expand index (27 more) »
A- and B-class destroyer
The A- and B-class destroyers were a group of 18 destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s, with two additional ships built for the Royal Canadian Navy.
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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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Amphion-class submarine
The Amphion class (also known as the "A" class and Acheron class) of British diesel-electric submarines were designed for use in the Pacific War.
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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 Fleet (United Kingdom)
The Atlantic Fleet was a major fleet formation of the Royal Navy.
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Auxiliary ship
An auxiliary ship is a naval ship designed to operate in any number of roles supporting combatant ships and other naval operations.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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British H-class submarine
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British L-class submarine
The British L-class submarine was originally planned under the emergency war programme as an improved version of the British E-class submarine.
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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.
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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.
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British U-class submarine
The British U-class submarines (officially "War Emergency 1940 and 1941 programmes, short hull ") were a class of 49 small submarines built just before and during the Second World War.
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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.
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Burgee
A burgee is a distinguishing flag, regardless of its shape, of a recreational boating organization.
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C and D-class destroyer
The C and D class was a group of 14 destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s.
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Capital ship
The capital ships of a navy are its most important warships; they are generally the larger ships when compared to other warships in their respective fleet.
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Casting (metalworking)
In metalworking and jewellery making, casting is a process in which a liquid metal is somehow delivered into a mold (it is usually delivered by a crucible) that contains a hollow shape (i.e., a 3-dimensional negative image) of the intended shape.
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Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.
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Combined Communications-Electronics Board
The Combined Communications-Electronics Board (CCEB) is a five-nation joint military communications-electronics (C-E) organisation whose mission is the coordination of any military C-E matter that is referred to it by a member nation.
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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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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.
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Corvette
A corvette is a small warship.
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Cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship.
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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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Dover
Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England.
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Drifter (fishing boat)
A drifter is a type of fishing boat.
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E and F-class destroyer
The E and F-class destroyers were a group of 18 destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s.
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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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Escort carrier
The escort carrier or escort aircraft carrier (US hull classification symbol CVE), also called a "jeep carrier" or "baby flattop" in the United States Navy (USN) or "Woolworth Carrier" by the Royal Navy, was a small and slow type of aircraft carrier used by the Royal Navy, the Imperial Japanese Navy and Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, and the United States Navy in World War II.
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Escort destroyer
An escort destroyer with United States Navy hull classification symbol DDE was a destroyer (DD) modified for and assigned to a fleet escort role after World War II.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Fishing trawler
A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls.
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Flight deck
The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface from which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at 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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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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Frigate
A frigate is any of several types of warship, the term having been used for ships of various sizes and roles over the last few centuries.
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G and H-class destroyer
The G- and H-class destroyers were a group of 18 destroyers built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s.
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Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Grampus-class submarine
The Grampus-class submarines were a group of minelaying submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1930s.
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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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HMNB Portsmouth
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the British Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport).
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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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Hull classification symbol
The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) use a hull classification symbol (sometimes called hull code or hull number) to identify their ships by type and by individual ship within a type.
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Hull number
Hull number is a serial identification number given to a boat or ship.
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I-class destroyer
The I-class destroyers were a group of nine destroyers, including a flotilla leader, built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s.
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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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Lend-Lease
The Lend-Lease policy, formally titled An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was an American program to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy by distributing food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
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List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy
This is a List of squadrons and flotillas of the Royal Navy.
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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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Minelayer
Minelaying is the act of deploying explosive mines.
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Minesweeper
A minesweeper is a small naval warship designed to engage in minesweeping.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).
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Nore
The Nore is a sandbank at the mouth of the Thames Estuary, England.
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Odin-class submarine
The Odin-class submarine (or "O class") was a class of nine submarines developed and built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the 1920s.
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Parthian-class submarine
The Parthian-class submarine or P class was a class of six submarines built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s.
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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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Prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word.
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Rainbow-class submarine
The Rainbow-class submarine or R class was a quartet of patrol submarines built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s.
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RFA Argus (A135)
RFA Argus is a ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary operated by the MoD under the Blue Ensign.
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RFA Lyme Bay (L3007)
RFA Lyme Bay is a Bay-class auxiliary landing ship dock (LSD(A)) of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA).
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River gunboat
A river gunboat is a type of gunboat adapted for river operations.
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River-class submarine
The River class, or Thames class were a class of submarines built for the Royal Navy.
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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 Fleet Auxiliary
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is a civilian-manned fleet owned by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence, whose purpose is to support the Royal Navy to maintain operations around the world.
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Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service
The Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service (RMAS) was a British Government agency which ran a variety of auxiliary vessels for Her Majesty's Naval Service (incl. Royal Navy, Royal Marines) and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
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Royal Naval Auxiliary Service
The Royal Naval Auxiliary Service (RNXS) was a uniformed, unarmed, civilian volunteer service, administered and trained by the Royal Navy to operate in the ports and anchorages of the UK in an Emergency.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Ship prefix
A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship.
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Sloop-of-war
In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns.
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Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix (sometimes termed postfix) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
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Torpedo boat
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle.
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Town-class destroyer
The Town-class destroyers were a group of destroyers transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy in exchange for military bases in the Bahamas and elsewhere, as outlined in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between Britain and United States, signed on 2 September 1940.
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Tribal-class destroyer (1936)
The Tribal class, or Afridi class, were a class of destroyers built for the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Australian Navy that saw service in World War II.
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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 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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V and W-class destroyer
The V and W class was an amalgam of six similar classes of destroyer built for the Royal Navy under the War Emergency Programme during the First World War and generally treated as one class.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennant_number
