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James Carine
Rear Admiral James Carine, (14 September 1934 – 27 January 2024) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Chief of staff (military), Chief of Staff to Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command (1989–1991). Early life James Carine was born in Castletown, Isle of Man, on September 14 1934, the eldest of three children to Mr. & Mrs. Amos Carine. His father was a sailor, seeing service in the Merchant Navy with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company as well as during the Second World War in which he was engaged in the Battle of the Atlantic. In addition his father served on the maiden voyage of the troopship RMS Mauretania (1938), ''Mauretania''. Carine lived his early years in Queen Street, Castletown, with the family later moving to King William's Road on the Janet's Corner Estate. Attending Victoria Road Infants School, he subsequently passed his High School Entrance Exam and attended St Ninian's High School, Douglas, Douglas High School for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castletown, Isle Of Man
Castletown (, pronounced ) is a town in the Isle of Man, geographically within the historical parish of Malew but administered separately. Lying at the south of the island, it was the Manx capital until 1869. The centre of town is dominated by Castle Rushen, a well-preserved medieval castle, originally built for a Viking king. History Castletown is the former capital of the Isle of Man and site of the Tynwald, and can trace its roots back to 1090. The town has narrow streets and small fishing cottages. Castle Rushen (at the centre of the town) was originally built in 1265 for a Norse king, then fortified and added to by successive rulers between the 13th and 16th centuries. The castle has been used as a fortress, a residence for the Kings and Lords of Mann, the site of a mint and even a prison (past prisoners include a bishop and two newspaper editors). The town and castle were the site of a number of sieges and battles, especially during the years when control of the island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coronation Of Queen Elizabeth II
The Coronation of the British monarch, coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey in London. Elizabeth acceded to the throne at the age of 25 upon the death of her father, George VI, on 6 February 1952, being Proclamation of accession of Elizabeth II, proclaimed queen by her privy and executive councils shortly afterwards. The coronation was held more than one year later because of the tradition of allowing an appropriate length of time to pass after a monarch dies. It also gave the planning committees adequate time to make preparations for the ceremony. During the service, Elizabeth took an Oath of office, oath, was anointed with Chrism, holy oil, was invested with robes and Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, regalia, and was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, South Africa, Dominion of Pakistan, Pakistan, and Dominion of Ceylon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Girdle Ness
HMS ''Girdle Ness'' was a constructed for the Royal Navy that entered service in 1945. Originally named ''Penlee Point'', the vessel was designed as a maintenance ship for landing craft in the Pacific Theatre of World War II but used as an accommodation ship at Rosyth Dockyard. Renamed ''Girdle Ness'', the ship was taken out of service in 1953 and converted for use in support of missile trials in the development of the Seaslug missile in the early 1960s. After trials of the missile were completed, ''Girdle Ness'' was placed in reserve before becoming an accommodation ship as part of the shore establishment at Rosyth. The vessel was stricken in 1970. Description and early service Following setbacks in the Pacific theatre of operations which led to the loss of naval bases, the Royal Navy required more depot and repair ships for the fleet to replace shore facilities.Mitchell and Sawyer, p. 39 As part of the war construction programme, the Royal Navy ordered a series of vessels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beachy Head-class Repair Ship
The ''Beachy Head''-class repair ships were a class of 21 depot, maintenance and repair ships constructed for the Royal Navy during the Second World War. All of the ships in the class were constructed in Canada of which only five served in British waters during the war. Based on a modified mercantile design, five of the class were completed as merchant vessels after the war's end. Following the war, the majority were converted for mercantile use, with a further two ships ending up in service with the Royal Canadian Navy and another with the Royal Air Force. Design and description Following setbacks in the Pacific theatre of operations which led to the loss of naval bases, the Royal Navy required more depot and repair ships for the fleet to replace shore facilities.Mitchell and Sawyer, p. 39 As part of the war construction programme, the Royal Navy ordered a series of vessels based on standard mercantile designs and modified them to fit their expected roles.Lenton and Colledge, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Superb (25)
HMS ''Superb'' was a light cruiser of the Royal Navy. The ship entered service in 1945 and had a brief, quiet career before being decommissioned in 1957 after her modernisation was cancelled. She was broken up in 1960. Design and description ''Superb'' was the last of the ''Minotaur''s to be built, and was completed to a slightly different design to that of the previous members of the class, with a foot more beam than her immediate predecessor , which had introduced Type 274 lock and follow radar directors for surface action. With ''Superb'' the first Type 275 sets, modified versions of the lock and follow radar, were introduced to also control anti-aircraft fire of the twin 4-inch mounts. Unfortunately the versions of 275 fitted were the British glasshouse director version, which had higher tolerances and less reliability than the American versions of the set, which were reserved for the latter s and aircraft carriers and under construction and in particular the last batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minotaur-class Cruiser (1943)
The ''Minotaur'' class, also known as the ''Swiftsure'' class after the lead ship was sold to Canada and renamed, were a group of light cruisers of the British Royal Navy built during the Second World War. They were designed as a modified version of the incorporating war modifications and authorised in 1941. However, in spite of the heavy toll of cruisers in that year and the following one, the building of this new class had a relatively low priority and only three of the planned twelve were completed by end of World War II. They played no significant part in the Second World War, though ''Swiftsure'', as flagship of the British Pacific Cruiser Squadron, was selected by Admiral Cecil Harcourt to hoist his flag for the Japanese surrender at Hong Kong. ''Superb'' was completed to a slightly different design than the first two ships, work on another three was cancelled and the last three were eventually built to a different design as the . Design The class was originally to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Ausonia
RMS ''Ausonia'', launched in 1921, was one of Cunard's six post-World War I "A-class" ocean liners for the Canadian service. History ''Ausonia'' was built in Newcastle by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., launched on 22 March 1921, and completed in June. She made her maiden voyage on 31 August 1921 from Liverpool to Montreal, and the following season went into service on the London-Canada route. In December 1938, the ''Ausonia'' carried about 50 American veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade returning from the Spanish Civil War from Le Havre, France, by way of England and Halifax, Nova Scotia, arriving in New York City on 20 December 1938. On 29 April 1939, English composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears sailed from Southampton for Canada on ''Ausonia'' to begin what became a three-year sojourn in North America. Britten described the voyage as at first "bloody boring", though there was later a "terrific gale" and even "ice bumping against the ship". Towards the end of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Forth (A187)
HMS ''Forth'', pennant number F04 later A187, was a submarine depot ship. ''Forth'' was completed in 1939. She served at bases in Scotland including Holy Loch on the Firth of Clyde and at Halifax in Canada during the Second World War. During the war ''Forth'' was adopted by Stirlingshire as part of ''Warship Week''. The plaque from this adoption is held by the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. During her stay in Malta in the 1950s she was moored on the east side of Msida creek. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. She left Malta in 1960. She was modified to support the Royal Navy's nuclear-powered submarines at H.M.Dockyard Chatham between 1962 and 1966. She arrived in Singapore in mid-1966 to relieve HMS ''Medway'' (former landing craft tank HMS ''LCT 1109'') as depot ship of the 7th Submarine Squadron. She left Singapore to return to the United Kingdom on 31 March 1971. In 1968, HMS ''Forth'' transp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Submarine Depot Ship
A submarine tender, in British English a submarine depot ship, is a type of depot ship that supplies and supports submarines. Development Submarines are small compared to most oceangoing vessels, and generally cannot carry large amounts of food, fuel, torpedoes, and other supplies, or a full array of maintenance equipment and personnel. The tender carries all these, and either meets submarines at sea to replenish them or provides these services while docked at a port near the submarines' operations zone. In some navies, the tenders were equipped with workshops for maintenance, and as floating dormitories with relief crews. With the increased size and automation of modern submarines, plus in some navies the introduction of nuclear power, tenders are no longer as necessary for fuel as they once were. Canada Canada's first submarine depot ship was . Chile The term used in the Chilean Navy is "submarine mother ship", as for example the BMS (buque madre de submarinos) ''Almirante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Enard Bay
HMS ''Enard Bay'' was a anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for Enard Bay in Caithness. The ship was originally ordered from the Smiths Dock Company of South Bank, Middlesbrough on 25 January 1943 as the ''Loch Bracadale'', and laid down on 27 May 1944. However the contract was then changed, and the ship was completed to a revised design as a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate, launched on 31 October 1944, and completed on 4 January 1946. Service history After sea trials in December 1945 and January 1946, ''Enard Bay'' sailed for the Mediterranean joining the Escort Flotilla at Malta on 7 February. She was first deployed in the eastern Mediterranean for the interception of merchant ships carrying illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine. In June she returned to Malta, and in August was guard ship at Trieste, returning to the eastern Mediterranean in September for further interception patrols off Haifa. In January 1947 she returned to the UK to decommission and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay-class Frigate
The Bay class was a class of 26 anti-aircraft (A/A) frigates built for the Royal Navy under the 1943 War Emergency Programme during World War II (one of which was cancelled and six completed as despatch vessels or survey ships). They were based on the hulls of incomplete Loch class anti-submarine (A/S) frigates. In 1959 and 1961, four frigates of the class (''Bigbury Bay'', ''Burghead Bay'', ''Morecambe Bay'' and ''Mounts Bay'') were transferred to the Portuguese Navy. Between 1966 and 1968, based in Mozambique, these ships were part of the Portuguese naval deterrent force against the Royal Navy Beira Patrol which was trying to enforce sanctions against Rhodesia. In 1966 the Portuguese Navy also bought the survey vessel ''Dalrymple'' which served until 1983. Design The Bay class made use of the hull, machinery, lattice mast and superstructure of incomplete Loch-class frigates. The armament was altered to suit them to the A/A role, with twin QF 4 in Mark XVI guns fore and aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Devonshire (39)
HMS ''Devonshire'', pennant number 39, was a heavy cruiser of the ''London'' sub-class built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. The ship spent most of her pre-World War II career assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet aside from a brief tour with the China Station. She spent the first two months of the Second World War in the Mediterranean until she was transferred to the Home Fleet and became flagship of a cruiser squadron. ''Devonshire'' took part in the Norwegian Campaign in mid 1940 and evacuated much of the Norwegian Government in June. Several months later, she participated in the Battle of Dakar, a failed attempt to seize the Vichy French colony of Senegal in September. The ship remained in the South Atlantic afterwards and supported Free French efforts to take control of French Equatorial Africa in addition to searching for German commerce raiders. ''Devonshire'' returned home in early 1941 and briefly rejoined the Home Fleet, during which time she escorted several a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
