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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 ...
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 ...
PS Cheshire (1889) HMS Cheshire; TSS City of Belfast (1893) SS City of Berlin; SS City of Bradford (1903) SS City of Brussels; SS City of Glasgow (1906) SS City of Leeds (1903) SS City of London; SS City of Paris (1865) Clan Line; TSS Colleen Bawn (1903) SS Connemara; SS Coptic; RMS Corfu; MV Countess of Breadalbane; PS Countess of Erne (1868 ...
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Ulysses (from HMS Ulysses by Alistair MacLean, based on a fictional Dido-class cruiser) Vagabond (V and W-class destroyer in the 1989 novel The Fighting Spirit by Charles Gidley (Wheeler)) Vectra and Viking (escorts of the 14th Aircraft Carrier Squadron in Alistair MacLean's novel HMS Ulysses)
A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship that has historically served numerous purposes, such as identifying the vessel's mode of propulsion, purpose, or ownership/nationality.
Severn was used as part of the escort for Convoy SL16F in January 1940, along with the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Cheshire and the destroyers HMS Hardy and HMS Hostile. Convoy duty was not something that was alien to Severn and Clyde , as they would carry out this duty on a regular basis due to their long range.