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The site was subsequently reduced to become part of HMS Cochrane. [1] [2] Just before the beginning of the Second World War, Boys' Training Ship Caledonia was based here. [3] By this time Admiral Sir Charles Ramsey, the Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth, responsible for naval operations in the area, was based at HMS Cochrane just down the road at the ...
HMS Caledonia (1807) was a 3-gun brig launched in 1807. She was captured by the Americans in 1812, and put into service as USS Caledonia (1812). HMS Caledonia (1808) was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line launched in 1808. She became a hospital ship and was renamed HMS Dreadnought in 1856 and was broken up in 1875.
The first meeting of the society's committee of management was on 8 March 1821 and they initially provided the Seaman's Infirmary hospital ship using the ex-naval HMS Grampus at Deptford in October 1821. [3] Founding members of the management committee included Thomas Sturge, Zachary Macaulay and Captain William Young.
Caledonia proved to be a very successful ship, and it was said that 'This fine three-decker rides easy at her anchors, carries her lee ports well, rolls and pitches quite easy, generally carries her helm half a turn a-weather, steers, works and stays remarkably well, is a weatherly ship, and lies-to very close.' She was 'allowed by all hands to ...
USS Caledonia was a brig, formerly HMS Caledonia, that the United States Navy captured during the War of 1812 and took into American service. The brig played an important role with the American squadron on Lake Erie, and was sold at the end of the war. [1] Caledonia was the first warship in the U.S. Navy to carry that name.
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Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Leslie Owen Thompson KBE FIMechE FREng (2 April 1931 - 11 December 1996) was a Royal Navy officer who served from 1946 to 1990. He acted as Chief Naval Engineering Officer from 1987-1989 and had the rare distinction of joining as an Artificer Apprentice and leaving as the head of his branch.
In 1917 the completed base was commissioned as HMS Columbine, a depot for Torpedo Boat Destroyers of the Grand Fleet. HMS Columbine and the naval hospital at Butlaw were closed in 1938. In 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, Port Edgar was commissioned as HMS Lochinvar, a training establishment for the Royal Naval Patrol Service.