Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
HMS Chester was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, one of two ships forming the Birkenhead subtype. Along with sister ship, Birkenhead , she was originally ordered for the Greek Navy in 1914 and was to be named Lambros Katsonis .
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 ...
HMS Salopian was a motor ship that was built in 1926 as the passenger ship Shropshire. 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 ]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The scout cruiser was a smaller, faster, more lightly armed and armoured cruiser than the protected cruiser, intended for fleet scouting duties and acting as a flotilla leader. Essentially there were two distinct groups – the eight vessels all ordered under the 1903 Programme, and the seven later vessels ordered under the 1907-1910 Programmes.
One torpedo damaged the 10,552-ton armed merchant cruiser HMS Cheshire. [11] Another damaged the 7,522-ton British merchant ship Hatarana so badly that she was abandoned by her crew of 108 and was scuttled by gunfire from the corvette HMS Pentstemon. [12]
On 13 March the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Durban stopped Doggerbank. Doggerbank identified herself as the Bank Line ship Levernbank, which satisfied Durban, who let her continue. The next day the armed merchant cruiser HMS Cheshire challenged Doggerbank which again identified herself as a British freighter and Cheshire let her proceed. [8]