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HMS Dampier was a survey ship of the Royal Navy, named after the explorer, author and privateer, William Dampier (1652–1715). Originally intended as a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate , the ship was in commission from 1948 to 1968, spending her entire career based at Singapore, carrying out survey work.
List of ship launches in 1963; List of ship commissionings in 1963; List of ship decommissionings in 1963; A. ... HMS Arethusa (F38) B. IRIS Bayandor (81) USS Belknap ...
List of shipwrecks: 20 May 1963 Ship State Description Bruce M Lebanon: The cargo ship collided with Puerto de Castillon ( Spain), which sank west of Jersey, Channel Islands. Bruce M rescued the crew of the other ship and made for Plymouth, Devon but started to take on water. Assistance was given by HMS Wakeful ( Royal Navy). [50]
On 1 April 1964, Panglima was on patrol duty off Pedra Branca when the survey ship HMS Dampier operating nearby rescued three Indonesian Chinese from their sinking sampan during a storm. Dampier's crew pumped the water out of the sampan to make it seaworthy again, and Panglima subsequently towed it back to Singapore. [21]
Erebus officers and Captain Francis Crozier. Top row left to right: Lt. Edward Couch (mate); James Walter Fairholme; Charles Hamilton Osmer (Purser); Charles Frederick Des Voeux (2nd Mate). 2nd row from top Left to right: Francis Crozier (HMS Terror); Sir John Franklin; James Fitzjames. 3rd row from top left to right: Graham Gore (Commander); Stephen Samuel Stanley (Surgeon); 2nd Lt. Henry ...
HMS Dalrymple was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, which served as a survey ship, mostly in the Persian Gulf, from 1948 until 1965. She was completed to deal with the large numbers of uncharted wrecks and mines around the British Isles as a result of World War II .
Captain Guybon Chesney Castell Damant CBE (25 July 1881 – 29 June 1963) was a British royal navy officer known for his scientific research on preventing decompression illness with John Scott Haldane, his leadership over a team of divers that salvaged 44 tons of gold bullion from the wreck of HMS Laurentic between 1917 and 1924, and the covert work he and his divers performed by entering into ...
HMAS Bungaree was a cargo steamship.She was built in Scotland in 1937 as Bungaree for the Adelaide Steamship Company of South Australia.The Royal Australian Navy requisitioned her in 1040, and had her converted into a minelayer.