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Ships of the Royal Navy. This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England. The list also includes fictional vessels which have prominently featured in literature about the Royal Navy.
Ilya Podogin – Soviet SSN, Icebound by Dean Koontz, 1995. USS Independence – fictional Wasp -class amphibious assault ship where a large part of The Swarm by Frank Schätzing takes place, 2004. Indra – schooner, Secret Sea by Robb White, 1947. HMS Iphigenia – frigate, The Fighting Temeraire by John Winton, 1971.
United States ship naming conventions for the U.S. Navy were established by congressional action at least as early as 1862. Title 13, section 1531, of the U.S. Code, enacted in that year, reads, in part, The vessels of the Navy shall be named by the Secretary of the Navy under direction of the President according to the following rule: Sailing ...
CS Alert. Alexander (East Indiaman) Alexander (ship) Alfred (East Indiaman) SS Alice. PS Alice Dean. Almeria Lykes. MV Alpha Express. SS Alster.
USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) is an Independence -class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. [4] The ship is named after former United States Representative Gabby Giffords, who was shot along with eighteen other people during a 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona. [1] The ship's name was announced by then- Secretary of the Navy Ray ...
These ships had such distinguished records in World War II, especially in the Solomon Islands campaign, that Admiral Halsey ordered all three ships be present with USS Missouri at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. In July 1987, Nicholas, together with DESRON 6 sister ship Deyo, deployed with the Iowa Battleship Battlegroup to the Mediterranean.
Gallery of past and present naval vessels of the United Kingdom. HMS Ajax (1798) an Ajax-class ship of the line that served in the Napoleonic Wars. HMS Ajax is a Third-rate ship which formed the majority of the Royal Navy's ships of the line at that time. Ships of the line were the main ships used in naval battles at the time. HMS Paladin (1916 ...
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