HMS Cooke (K471) was a British Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II. Originally constructed as the United States...
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HMS Queen Elizabeth is the lead ship of the Queen Elizabeth class of aircraft carriers and the Fleet Flagship of the Royal Navy. Capable of carrying 60...
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Look up Cooke in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cooke is a surname. Cooke may also refer to: Cooke County, Texas Cooke City, Montana Cooke Township,...
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Cooke is best known for his death in hand-to-hand combat with French forces during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. During the action, his ship HMS Bellerophon...
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Kingdom upon completion which served in the Royal Navy as the frigate HMS Cooke (K471) from 1943 to 1946 USS Dempsey (DE-26), a destroyer escort in commission...
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1943: HMS Cooke shared credit for sinking U-988 & U-214 1943: HMS Dacres Normandy Invasion 1943: HMS Domett shared credit for sinking U-988 1943: HMS Foley...
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Raid on Manila (section Cooke's raids)
escorted by the frigates HMS Sybille and HMS Fox and commanded by Captain Edward Cooke. After completing his mission Cooke decided to investigate the...
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HMS Bellerophon, known to sailors as the "Billy Ruffian", was a ship of the line of the Royal Navy. A third-rate of 74 guns, she was launched in 1786...
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post-war period, all of the surviving Captain-class frigates except one (HMS Hotham which was used as a power station and for powerplant experiments)...
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officer also served as the Royal Navy liaison officer to the Soviet Navy. HMS Lady Shirley was a fishing trawler requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1940...
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