High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Hero was the second and final Conqueror-class battleship. She was an ironclad who served in the Victorian Royal Navy. Hero was — like her sister-ship — designed to be an improved version of Rupert with a ram as her main armament. It was assumed by the Board of Admiralty and within Naval Architecture circles that the supremacy of armour over artillery would allow such a ship to ram an enemy vessel without being seriously damaged by enemy gunfire. This assumption was never tested in action. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-6275-1
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Invincible was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 9 March 1765 at Deptford. Invincible was built during a period of peace to replace ships worn out in the recently concluded Seven Years' War. The ship went on to serve in the American War of Independence, fighting at the battles of Cape St Vincent in 1780, the Chesapeake in 1781 and St Kitts in 1782. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1308-2666-6
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Investigator was a survey sloop of the Royal Navy. She was purchased in 1823 for service in Indian waters. Her fate is unknown. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of HM Armed Forces (and is therefore known as the Senior Service). From the beginning of the 18th century until well into the 20th century it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7090-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Isham was a Ham-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. Their names were all chosen from villages ending in -ham. The minesweeper was named after Isham in Northamptonshire. The Ham class was a class of inshore minesweepers (IMS), known as the Type 1, of the British Royal Navy. The class was designed to operate in the shallow water of rivers and estuaries. It took its name from the fact that all the ship names were British place names ending in -"ham". The parent firm who were responsible for supervising construction was Samuel White of Cowes, Isle of Wight. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7133-3
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Illustrious was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 September 1803 at Rotherhithe. Illustrious served as a gunnery ship from 1854, and was broken up in 1868. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of HM Armed Forces (and is therefore known as the Senior Service). From the beginning of the 18th century until well into the 20th century it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-6886-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Iron Duke was a battleship of the Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class, named in honour of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. She served as the flagship of the Grand Fleet during the First World War, including at the Battle of Jutland. For the majority of the Great War, she was based with the rest of the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow in Scotland. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7123-4
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Imperial (D09) was an I-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during World War II. During the Battle of Crete Imperial was attacked by German aircraft as she evacuated British forces from Crete. She was so severely damaged that she was declared a complete loss and sunk off the north coast of Crete on 29 May 1941 by HMS Hotspur. The I class was a class of eight destroyers plus a flotilla leader of the British Royal Navy ordered under the 1935 naval programme, laid down in 1936 and completed in 1937 and 1938. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-6961-3
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Isis launched in 1819 was ordered in 1811 as a 50-gun two-decker of the fourth rate Salisbury class, but was redesigned while building, being lengthened on the stocks by 11 feet, and cut down by one deck to produce a spar-deck frigate, that is, to carry extra guns on the spar deck which linked the forecastle to the quarterdeck. It was then intended for her to have carried 58 guns as shown in the table, but this weapon 'fit' was amended on 3 June 1823 to complete her as a 50-gun frigate with an unarmed spar deck, and she was later reduced in 1830 to a 44-gun frigate carrying twenty-six 32-pounder guns on the upper deck, twelve more 32-pounder guns on the quarterdeck, and two 32-pounder guns...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7138-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Ithuriel was a Marksman-class destroyer flotilla leader. Originally to have been named Gabriel, the name was changed before her launch. The Marksman class (sometimes known as Lightfoot class) were a class of flotilla leaders built for the Royal Navy. Two each were ordered in the naval programmes of 1913-14 and 1914-15 with a further three being ordered under the Emergency War Programme and all saw service during World War I. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-8519-4
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Impulsive (D11) was an I-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She has been the only ship of the Navy to bear this name. Impulsive attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-457 in the Barents Sea north-east of Murmansk in Russia on 16 September 1942. Impulsive was sold for scrap to W. H. Arnott, Young and Company, Limited on 22 January 1946 and broken up at Sunderland. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-6983-5
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Intrepid (L11) was a Royal Navy ship which served from 1967 until 1999. One of two from the Landing Platform Dock (LPD) class she was based in HM Naval Base, Devonport, Plymouth, Devon and HM Naval Base Portsmouth and saw service around the world over her 32 year life. The LPDs provided support to a Royal Marines amphibious assault force and provided a platform for a the Headquarters capability prior to, and during, the assault phase. Intrepid was the second of her class of purpose built LPDs used by Royal Navy, built in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, at the John Brown Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

ISBN: 978-6-1326-1736-1
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Investigator was a merchant ship purchased in 1848 to search for Sir John Franklin's lost expedition. She made two voyages to the Arctic and had to be abandoned in 1853 after becoming trapped in the ice. Her wreckage was found in July 2010 on Banks Island, in the Beaufort Sea. She was the fourth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. Built at Scotts of Greenock and running 422 tonnes, Investigator was purchased by the Admiralty in February 1848 and was fitted for Arctic exploration by R. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7165-4
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Imaun was a 76-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built in Bombay, and launched on 10 November 1826 for the Imaun of Muscat, who presented the ship to the Royal Navy on 9 March 1836. She was placed on harbour service in 1842, and was broken up in 1863. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of HM Armed Forces (and is therefore known as the Senior Service). From the beginning of the 18th century until well into the 20th century it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s. Данное издание не является...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-6930-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Ivanhoe (D16) was an I-class destroyer that served with the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Ivanhoe attacked and sank the enemy German submarine U-45 south-west of Ireland on 14 October 1939 in company with the destroyers HMS Intrepid and HMS Inglefield. Ivanhoe scuttled the damaged British destroyer HMS Grafton in the English Channel on 29 May 1940 and picked up the survivors. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-8488-3
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Ilex was an I-class destroyer that served during World War II. She is the only ship of the Royal Navy ever to have been named after Ilex, the genus of flowering plants commonly known as holly. On the outbreak of war Ilex was deployed in the Mediterranean with the Third Destroyer Flotilla. She was immediately transferred to the Western Approaches for convoy escort duty with her Flotilla. On 13 October under the command of Lieutenant Commander Philip Lionel Saumarez she attacked and sank the German submarine U-42 south-west of Ireland in company with the destroyer HMS Imogen. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-6869-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Isis was a 50-gun Portland-class fourth-rate of the Royal Navy. She saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. She was built in 1774 on the River Medway, was involved in the Nore mutiny and fought at the Battle of Cuddalore (1783) and Battle of Camperdown (1797). She then served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Andrew Miller during the 1799 Expedition to Holland. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7259-0
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Iris II was a River Mersey ferry which was commandeered by the Royal Navy to take part in the Zeebrugge Raid of St George's Day 24 April 1918. Iris II along with another Mersey ferry, Daffodil, was towed across the English Channel to Zeebrugge by HMS Vindictive. When the ship neared the Zeebrugge Mole she cast the two ferries aside. Iris II endeavoured to pull up to the mole under heavy fire in order to off-load the Royal Marines which were on board. the first attempt failed as the grapple-hooks were not large enough. Two Marines, George Nicholson Bradford and Lieutenant Hawkins bravely climbed ashore and under heavy fire attempted to secure the ship. Данное издание не...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7115-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Islay (T172) was a British Royal Navy Isles-class Naval trawler of the Second World War. On 10 August 1942 she sank the Italian submarine Scire in Haifa bay. The Scire had previously caused the British considerable damage. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of HM Armed Forces (and is therefore known as the Senior Service). From the beginning of the 18th century until well into the 20th century it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s. In World War II the Royal Navy operated almost 900 ships. Данное издание не является...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7142-5
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS James was a 48-gun second rank ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, built by Phineas Pett II at Deptford and launched in 1634. By 1660 she had been renamed HMS Old James and her armament had been increased to 60 guns. Old James was sold out of the navy in 1682. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of HM Armed Forces (and is therefore known as the Senior Service). From the beginning of the 18th century until well into the 20th century it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s. Данное издание не является оригинальным....

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7523-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an Armed Merchant Cruiser, pennant F40. She was launched in 1922 and sunk on 5 November 1940 by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. The ship was originally the Aberdeen Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-8543-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Javelin (F61) was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by John Brown and Company, Limited, at Clydebank in Scotland on 11 October 1937, launched on 21 December 1938, and commissioned on 10 June 1939. At the end of November 1940, the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, consisting of the HMS Jupiter, Javelin, Jackal, Jersey, and Kashmir, under Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, was operating out of Plymouth, England. The flotilla engaged the German destroyers Hans Lody, Richard Beitzen, and Karl Galster. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7495-2
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS John Ericsson was the lead ship of the John Ericsson-class monitors. She was built for the Royal Swedish Navy in the mid-1860s. The John Ericsson class monitors were a group of five iron-hulled monitors; four were built for the Royal Swedish Navy and one for the Royal Norwegian Navy in the mid to late 1860s. They were designed under the supervision of the Swedish-born inventor, John Ericsson, but built in Sweden. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7609-3
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Jason was a Halcyon-class minesweeper. She was named after the hero in Greek mythology and was the sixteenth (and as of 2008[update], the final) Royal Navy ship to carry the name Jason. She was laid down on 12 December 1936, launched on 6 October 1937, and was completed on 9 June 1938. She survived the Second World War and was sold in 1946 to become a cargo ship. She was eventually broken up in 1950. Her pennant number was originally N99, but was changed to J99 in May 1940. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-8511-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Jackdaw (1806) was a Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner that William Rowe built at Newcastle and launched in 1806. She had a relatively undistinguished career, with the low point being her capture by a Spanish rowboat. She was recaptured and served as a tender at Plymouth before being sold in 1816. In June 1806 Lieut. Martin White commissioned her before turning over command to Lieut. Samuel Thomas. The newly-promoted Lieut. Nathaniel Brice took command in October. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7332-0
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Justice (W-140), a Royal Navy ship classified as a rescue tug, was built in the United States as U.S. Navy ATR-1-class rescue tug USS ATR-20. Never commissioned into the U.S. Navy, she was transferred to the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease at delivery. Returned to the U.S. after the end of World War II, she was redesignated BATR-20. Struck and sold for commercial service in 1946, she was eventually grounded at Ushuaia, Argentina and abandoned. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

ISBN: 978-6-1329-7737-3
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