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HMS Cheshire was a passenger ship that was built in Scotland in 1927 and scrapped in Wales in 1957. She belonged to Bibby Line , which ran passenger and cargo services between Rangoon in Burma (now Yangon in Myanmar ) and various ports in Great Britain , via the Suez Canal and Gibraltar . [ 1 ]
Atlantis Kormoran in 1940, view from a German U-boat. At the outbreak of war, the Kriegsmarine requisitioned a number of fast merchantmen and immediately sent them into naval shipyards to be converted into offensive auxiliary cruisers. These ships had at the time of building been fitted with extra strong decks specifically to facilitate the ...
Patrol boat: Baylander: United States New York: Manhattan: United States: 1968 Helicopter Landing Trainer West Harlem Piers: HMS Belfast [39] United Kingdom England London: United Kingdom: 1938 Light cruiser: Imperial War Museum: RV Ben Franklin [40] Canada British Columbia: Vancouver: United States: 1966 Submersible: Vancouver Maritime Museum ...
Such ships, with a limit of 10,000 tons standard displacement and 8-inch calibre main guns may be referred to as "treaty cruisers" (the term "heavy cruiser" was not defined until the London Naval Treaty of 1930 [1] [page needed]). The thirteen Counties were built in the Kent, London and Norfolk sub-classes. They were the only 10,000-ton 8-inch ...
The Royal Yacht Britannia was the royal family's private yacht from 1953 to 1997. The luxurious cruise ship is now a public museum. ... A walkway with more photos leads to the deck of the boat ...
Amesbury, Cambridge, and Stratford, (from the 1953 Michael Rennie film Single-Handed or Sailor of the King, based on the novel Brown on Resolution by C. S. Forester; portrayed by Dido-class cruiser: HMS Cleopatra, Abdiel-class minelayer HMS Manxman, and Town-class cruiser HMS Glasgow)
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Ajax was built at Vickers' shipyard, in Barrow-in-Furness, England.She was laid down on 7 February 1933, launched on 1 March 1934 and completed on 12 April 1935. She was commissioned for service with the 8th Cruiser Squadron on the America and West Indies Station, [5] but after working up in May 1935, she was deployed instead to the Mediterranean on detached service after the Abyssinian crisis.