HMS Hawke, launched in 1891 from Chatham Dockyard, was the seventh Royal Navy warship to be named Hawke. She was an Edgar-class protected cruiser. After...
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the name HMS Hawke, after an archaic spelling of the bird, the hawk. Two of the later ships were named after Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, whilst another...
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74-gun Black Prince-class ship of the line HMS Hawke launched in 1820. Edgar-class cruiser HMS Hawke built in 1891. In 1737 he married Catherine Brooke, the...
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March 1920. Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 66. Brown 2003, pp. 132–134. "H.M.S. Hawke" (PDF). The Engineer. 18 March 1892. p. 229. "Naval and Military intelligence"...
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service and all of the ships participated in the First World War. One, HMS Hawke, was lost during the war, with the other eight being scrapped in the 1920s...
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arrives on 32 ocean liners in Plymouth Sound. 15 October – World War I: HMS Hawke (1891) is torpedoed by German submarine U-9 in the North Sea and sinks in...
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RMS Olympic (redirect from HMS Olympic)
1911, when she collided with the British cruiser HMS Hawke. The collision took place as Olympic and Hawke were running parallel to each other through the...
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first parades as a unit. 15 October – World War I: Protected cruiser HMS Hawke (1891) is torpedoed by German submarine U-9 off Aberdeen, sinking in under...
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HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic)
the Titanic, and had also been on board when the Olympic collided with HMS Hawke) described the last seconds: She dipped her head a little, then a little...
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officer to the cruiser HMS Scylla for annual manoeuvres during summer 1902, then was lent to the protected cruiser HMS Hawke for a trooping trip to the...
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