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HMS Defender is the fifth of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy. She is the eighth ship to bear the name. Construction of Defender began in 2006, and she was launched in 2009. The ship completed her first sea trials in October and November 2011, and was commissioned during March 2013.
HMS Victorious was the third Illustrious-class aircraft carrier after Illustrious and Formidable.Ordered under the 1936 Naval Programme, she was laid down at the Vickers-Armstrong shipyard at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1937 and launched two years later in 1939.
HMS Defender was a Daring-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Built as yard number 609 [ 1 ] at Alexander Stephen and Sons , and originally intended to be named Dogstar , she was launched on 27 July 1950.
Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Defender: HMS Defender (1797), a 12-gun Courser-class gun-brig launched in 1797 and on the Navy List until 1802. HMS Defender (1804), a 14-gun Archer-class gun-brig launched in 1804 and wrecked in 1809. HMS Defender (1809), an 8-gun lugger, previously the French privateer Beau Marseille. She ...
Illustrious-class aircraft carrier [1]-WWII era HMS Victorious (R38) modernised in 1950s and in commission till 1968. Implacable-class aircraft carrier [2]-WWII era decommissioned in mid 1950s. Audacious-class aircraft carrier [3] - Served from 1951 till 1979.
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The Type 45 destroyer, also known as the D or Daring class, is a class of six guided-missile destroyers built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy in the early 21st century. The class is primarily designed for anti-aircraft and anti-missile warfare and is built around the PAAMS (Sea Viper) air-defence system using the SAMPSON Active electronically scanned array (AESA) and the S1850M long-range ...
HMS Victorious (1785), launched at Blackwall Yard, London, was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line; HMS Victorious (1808), launched at Bucklers Hard, was a 74-gun third rate; HMS Victorious (1895) was a Majestic-class battleship. She had a quiet career, spending World War I as a dockyard repair ship before being broken up in 1923. HMS ...