ships of the Royal Navy have been called HMS Aurora or HMS Aurore, after the Roman Goddess of the dawn. HMS Aurora (1757) was a 36-gun fifth rate, formerly...
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HMS Aurora was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Portsmouth Dockyard, with the keel being laid down on 27 July 1935....
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Narvik in Norway from the Germans: he flew his flag from the cruiser, HMS Aurora. Cork was in favour of an immediate storming of Narvik using both military...
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1946, decommissioned 1958 British Arethusa class Chung King (1948) - ex-HMS Aurora of the Royal Navy, sold on 19 May 1948 to the Nationalist Chinese Navy...
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SS Antrim (1904) HMS Antrim (1905) SS Antwerp (1919) RMS Aquitania SS Arcadia (1954) SS Argyllshire (1911) SS Arnhem (1946) SS Atalanta (1906) HMS Aurora (F10)...
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being posted to the cruiser HMS Aurora operating in the Home Fleet as gunnery officer in December 1939. While aboard Aurora, he was mentioned in despatches...
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HMS Havock was an H-class destroyer built for the British Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, the ship enforced the...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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HMS Penelope was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast, Northern Ireland); her keel was laid down...
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HMS Protector is a Royal Navy ice patrol ship built in Norway in mid 2000. As MV Polarbjørn (Norwegian: polar bear) she operated under charter as a polar...
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