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HMS Queen Mary was the last battlecruiser built by the Royal Navy before the First World War. The sole member of her class , Queen Mary shared many features with the Lion -class battlecruisers, including her eight 13.5-inch (343 mm) guns.
HMS Queen Mary underway. HMS Queen Mary was similar to the Lion-class battlecruisers, though she was slightly larger and given more powerful engines to achieve the same speed as the earlier ships. Her secondary guns were better protected and some of her belt armour was redistributed.
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.
A freighter under Republican flag at the beginning of the war, her captain and crew changed loyalties off Bone in September 1937, while returning to Barcelona from the Soviet Union. [5] She seized the last foreign cargo ship captured during the civil war, the British Stangate off Valencia on 16 March 1939, despite the opposition of HMS Sussex ...
"Gin Palace" – HMS Agincourt; originally built for Brazilian Navy and given higher standards of comfort for officers, and lesser standards of comfort for the crew than most RN ships. Also a deliberate misspelling of the name: A Gin Court. "The Gold Eagle" – USS Carl Vinson "The Golden Devil" (Dutch "Den Gulden Duvel") – Sovereign of the Seas
Mr. Justice Pilcher exonerated Queen Mary ' s crew and her owners from blame on 21 January 1947 and laid all fault on Curacoa ' s officers. The Admiralty appealed his ruling and the Court of Appeal modified the ruling, assigning two-thirds of the blame to the Admiralty and one third to Cunard White Star.
HMT Mary A. Hastie: Nov 1939: Minesweeper, auxiliary patrol, returned 1945 HMT Mary A. Purdy: Feb 1940: Balloon barrage vessel, returned Oct 1944 HMT Mary Cam: 1941: Boom defence vessel, sold May 1948 HMT Mary Herd: May 1940: Water carrier, returned Oct 1945 HMT Mary J. Masson: May 1940: Mobile wiping unit, returned 1946 HMT Mary Sturgeon: Mar 1940
In fact, the abbreviated form "HMS" was not used until nearly the end of the following century, with the term "His Majesty's Ship" (formally altered to "Their Majesties' Ship" between 1689 and 1694, when William I and Mary II were co-rulers, and to "Her Majesty's Ship" between 1702 and 1714, and again from 1837 to 1901, when there was a queen ...