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  2. Customs and traditions of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    Commissioned ships and submarines wear the White Ensign at the stern whilst alongside during daylight hours and at the main-mast whilst under way. When alongside, the Union Jack is flown from the jackstaff at the bow, but can be flown under way on only special circumstances, i.e. when dressed with masthead flags (when it is flown at the jackstaff), to signal a court-martial is in progress ...

  3. Loyal toast - Wikipedia

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    Royal Navy officers in a wardroom seated toasting the King, from a series titled 'The Royal Navy during the Second World War'. A loyal toast is a salute given to the sovereign monarch or head of state of the country in which a formal gathering is being given, or by expatriates of that country, whether or not the particular head of state is present.

  4. His Majesty's Naval Service - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Naval Special Reserve (disbanded c. 1960) The Women's Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (renamed the Women's Royal Naval Reserve in 1958, merged into the Royal Naval Reserve in 1993) The Women's Royal Naval Supplementary Reserve; The Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Reserve (incorporated within the Royal Naval Reserve in 2000)

  5. HMS St Vincent (Gosport shore establishment) - Wikipedia

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    HMS St Vincent was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, located in Gosport, Hampshire.. The name was given to the Forton Barracks site in Gosport in 1927, after the one that been set up aboard the old first rate HMS St Vincent in 1862.

  6. Uniforms of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    The uniforms of the Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, the Maritime Volunteer Service, the Sea Cadet Corps, the Navy branch of the Combined Cadet Force and the Volunteer Cadet Corps as well as modern uniforms of Trinity House, the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal New Zealand Navy, Royal Malaysian Navy and the Indian Navy are virtually ...

  7. Awards and decorations of the British Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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    Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Reserve: RD: 1908–1999: Decoration for Officers of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve: VRD: Royal Naval Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal — Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal — Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal —

  8. HMS St Vincent (Whitehall shore establishment) - Wikipedia

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    HMS St Vincent was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy, located in London during the 1990s.. There had been a previous London-based HMS St Vincent, which had been the home of the Royal Navy section at the Royal Naval Reserve's base at HMS President.

  9. HMS Lochinvar (shore establishment) - Wikipedia

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    HMS Lochinvar was a minesweeping training "stone frigate" (shore establishment) of the Royal Navy, sited at Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth. It was established in 1939. It was established in 1939. From 1943 to 1946 it was temporarily transferred to nearby Granton Harbour while Port Edgar became a training centre for the 1944 Normandy Landings .