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Royal Navy Ship Names
There are two lists of Royal Navy ships: * List of active Royal Navy ships lists all currently commissioned vessels in the Royal Navy. * List of ship names of the Royal Navy lists all names that Royal Navy ships have ever borne. See also *{{Portal-inline, United Kingdom *Bibliography of 18th–19th century Royal Naval history Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliograph ... * List of Royal Navy vessels active in 1981 * List of Royal Navy vessels active in 1982 List of Royal Navy ships List of Royal Navy ships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early Middle Ages, medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Kingdom of France, France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the English Navy of the early 16th century; the oldest of the British Armed Forces, UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the early 18th century until the World War II, Second World War, it was the world's most powerful navy. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Active Royal Navy Ships
The Royal Navy is the principal naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Its assets include both commissioned warships and non-commissioned vessels. As of December 2024, there are 62 Ship commissioning, commissioned and active ships in the Royal Navy. Of the commissioned vessels, sixteen are major surface combatants (two aircraft carriers, six guided missile destroyers and eight frigates) and nine are nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarines (four ballistic missile submarines and five fleet submarines). In addition the Navy possesses seven mine countermeasures vessels, twenty-six Patrol boat, patrol vessels, two survey vessels, one icebreaker and one historic warship, . The total Displacement (ship), displacement of the Royal Navy's commissioned and active ships is approximately 393,000 tonnes. The Royal Navy also includes a number of smaller non-commissioned assets. The naval training vessels and ''HMS Cromer (M103), Hindostan'' can be found based at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ship Names Of The Royal Navy
This is an alphabetical list of the 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. Names are traditionally re-used over the years, and have been carried by more than one ship. Altogether over 13,000 ships have been in service with the Royal Navy. Unlike many other naval services, the Royal Navy designates certain types of shore establishment (e.g. barracks, List of air stations of the Royal Navy, naval air stations and List of Royal Navy shore establishments, training establishments) as "ships" and names them accordingly. These establishments are often referred to in service slang as ''stone frigates''. Lists of ship names Due to the large number of names the list has been split into smaller lists: Alphabetical *List of ship names of the Royal N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibliography Of 18th–19th Century Royal Naval History
Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography'' as a word having two senses: one, a list of books for further study or of works consulted by an author (or enumerative bibliography); the other one, applicable for collectors, is "the study of books as physical objects" and "the systematic description of books as objects" (or descriptive bibliography). Etymology The word was used by Greek writers in the first three centuries CE to mean the copying of books by hand. In the 12th century, the word started being used for "the intellectual activity of composing books." The 17th century then saw the emergence of the modern meaning, that of description of books. Currently, the field of bibliography has expanded to include studies that consider the book as a material object. Bibliography, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Royal Navy Vessels Active In 1981
The following vessels were in commission, planned or under construction for Her Majesty's Royal Navy in 1981. Aircraft Carriers * – . * – , , & . Destroyers * Type 82 – . * Type 42 – , , , , , , , , & . * – , , , & . Frigates * Type 22 – , , , , & . * Type 21 – , , , , , , & . * (Type 12I) – ** Batch 1 (Ikara Group): , , , , , , & . ** Batch 2 (Exocet Group): , , , , , , & . ** Batch 3 (Broad-Beamed Group): , , , , , , , , & . * – , , , , , , , & . * – . * – . Amphibious Units * – & . * ( RFA) – , , , , & . * Logistic Landing Craft ( RCT) – HMAV ''Ardennes'' & HMAV ''Arakan''. * LCM (9) Type – 14 craft * LCM (7) Type – 2 craft * ''Avon''-class RPL – ''Avon'', ''Bude'', ''Clyde'', ''Dart'', ''Eden'', ''Forth'', ''Glen'', ''Hamble'', ''Itchen'', ''Kennet'', ''London'' & ''Medway''. * LCVP – **LCVP 1: 9 craft **LCVP 2: 8 craft **LCVP 3: 9 craft * LCP(R) – 3 craft Mine Warfare Forces *. * – , , , , , , , & . * . * – **Mine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Royal Navy Vessels Active In 1982
The following vessels were in commission, planned or under construction for HM Royal Navy in 1982. Many of these vessels took part in the 1982 Falklands War. Aircraft Carriers * – . * – , , & . The carriers ''Hermes'' and ''Invincible'' were deployed to the Falkland Islands in April 1982 as the centre piece of Rear Admiral Woodward's Carrier Battle Group. Destroyers * Type 82 – . * Type 42 – , , , , , , , , & (commissioned in December 1982) and four more fitting-out/in-build as of end-1982. * – , & . The destroyers ''Bristol'', ''Sheffield'', ''Coventry'', ''Exeter'', ''Cardiff'', ''Glasgow'', ''Antrim'' & ''Glamorgan'' were all present in the South Atlantic during the Falklands War. ''Sheffield'' and ''Coventry'' were lost to enemy action, ''Sheffield'' by air launched Exocet missile and ''Coventry'' to bombs. ''Glamorgan'' was struck by a modified air-launch Exocet from a land-based launcher causing extensive damage, however she was not crippled. Frigates * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ships Of The Royal Navy
''Ships of the Royal Navy'' is a naval history reference work by J. J. Colledge (1908–1997); it provides brief entries on all recorded ships in commission in the Royal Navy from the 15th century, giving location of constructions, date of launch, tonnage, specification and fate. It was published in two volumes by Greenhill Books. Volume 1, first published in 1969, covers major ships; Volume 2, first published in 1970, covers Navy-built naval trawler, trawlers, Naval drifter, drifters, Tugboat, tugs and requisitioned ships including Auxiliary cruiser, Armed Merchant Cruisers. The book is the standard single-volume reference work on ships of the Royal Navy, and Colledge's conventions and spellings of names are used by museums, libraries and archives. For more data on ships of the pre-1863 Royal Navy, see ''British Warships in the Age of Sail''. A revised third version of the Volume 1 work was published in 2003 which added the ships of the late 20th century. The revision was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
