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HMS Drake was a Forester-class composite screw gunboat launched in 1875 as HMS Sheldrake. She was renamed HMS Drake when she became a training ship in 1888. She was renamed WV 29 in 1893, and was renamed HMS Drake in 1906 before being sold later that year. HMS Drake (1901) was a Drake-class armoured cruiser launched in 1901 and sunk in 1917.
HMS Leviathan. The ships served in the First World War with only two surviving it. Good Hope was sunk at the Battle of Coronel in 1914 and Drake was torpedoed in 1917. Drake was also used to ferry Russian bullion (gold) in October 1914 from Arkhangelsk. The gold (equivalent of $39 million) was security for western loans.
World War II: Operation Dynamo: The passenger ship was bombed and sunk in the North Sea off Dunkerque by Luftwaffe aircraft with the loss of 28 crew and at least 200 French soldiers. Survivors rescued by HMS Esk, HMT Fisher boy, HMT Fidget, and HMT Jaketa (all Royal Navy). Sivert Nielsen Norway: World War II: The coaster was bombed and sunk in ...
HMS "Hawke", a temporary naval training school based within part of the Borstal Institution, 1940-46 [27] HMS Helder, Landing craft training, Brightlingsea; HMS Helicon, Scapa Flow diversionary anchorage, 1939–40, Arctic convoys concentration point, 1942–44, Loch Ewe; HMS Highflyer, Trincomalee, Ceylon
Fighting the German invasion of Norway in 1940, Private Robert Steele is first torched by flamethrowers and then got frostbite. Unable to even pull the trigger of a gun, he fights on against the Nazis with just a bayonet. The story was a late replacement, and Finley-Day would later reflect it "wasn't the greatest strip". [6]
The barracks were renamed HMS Drake on 1 January 1934. [1] Following the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, three QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss naval guns, recovered from HMS Tamar, were installed on the quarterdeck in front of the wardroom block, and have subsequently been used for royal salutes [6] and other special occasions. [7] [8]
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HMS Drake was the lead ship of her class of armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900. She was assigned to several different cruiser squadrons in home waters upon completion, sometimes as flagship , until 1911 when she became the flagship of the Australia Station .