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The Abercrombie-class monitors came about when Bethlehem Steel in the United States, the contracted supplier of the main armament for the Greek battleship Salamis being built in Germany, instead offered to sell the four 14"/45 caliber gun twin gun turrets to the Royal Navy on 3 November 1914, the ships were laid down and launched within six ...
List of Royal Navy ships; List of aircraft carriers; Liverpool; Lord Mountbatten; Los Angeles-class submarine; Mansfield Smith-Cumming; National flag; Ohio-class submarine; Olav V; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex; Prince William, Duke of Cumberland; Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon; Queen Elizabeth 2; RFA Sir ...
HMS M31 was an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy.. The availability of ten 6 inch Mk XII guns from the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships in 1915 prompted the Admiralty to order five scaled down versions of the M15-class monitors, which had been designed to utilise 9.2 inch guns.
RNA Bermuda Branch, HMS Malabar, and Sea Cadet Remembrance Day ceremony at HMS Jervis Bay memorial at Hamilton, Bermuda. The Royal Naval Association (RNA) is an association of current and former British Naval Service personnel (Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Women's Royal Naval Service, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Marines Reserve, Royal Fleet Auxiliary ...
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In British maritime law and custom, an ensign is the identifying flag flown to designate a British ship, either military or civilian. Such flags display the United Kingdom Union Flag in the canton (the upper corner next to the staff), with either a red, white or blue field, dependent on whether the vessel is civilian, naval, or in a special category.
HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Built in 1915, she saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia during the Allied Intervention in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, boom defence workshop and floating office, being renamed HMS Minerva and Hulk C23 ...