HMS Telemachus was a R-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that took part in the First World War. She was built in 1916–1917 by the Scottish shipbuilder...
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name HMS Telemachus, after Telemachus, a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer's Odyssey: HMS Telemachus (1917)...
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operational magnetic bottom mines when she joined the destroyers HMS Abdiel, Tarpon, Telemachus, Vanoc, and Vanquisher, escorted by eight other destroyers,...
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April, when Tarpon, Telemachus, Abdiel, Legion, Ariel and Sandfly laid 318 mines. On 15 May 1918, Tarpon, together with Abdiel, Telemachus, Venturous, Ariel...
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RMS Sylvania HMS Tarpon (1917) HMS Telemachus (1917) SS Thalassa (1924) HMS Tiger (1913) HMS Tiger (C20) RMS Transvaal Castle (1961) HMS Troubridge (R00) HMS Tumult (R11)...
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night of 13–14 July 1918, Vehement and the destroyers HMS Telemachus, HMS Vanquisher, and HMS Venturous laid a field of 224 mines in the North Sea. On...
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speed her sinking and abandoned ship, and Vanquisher and the destroyer Telemachus then sank Vehement with gunfire. Vanquisher took part in history's first...
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Second Battle of Heligoland Bight (redirect from Battle of Heligoland (1917))
naval engagement fought between British and German squadrons on 17 November 1917 during the First World War. The British used sea mining defensively to protect...
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August 1945, King was commanding officer of the T-class submarine Telemachus. Telemachus dropped off a special forces unit in western Malaya in October 1944...
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north-west of Heligoland, Ferret in company with Ariel, Abdiel, Legion and Telemachus came upon three armed German trawlers. All three vessels were sunk and...
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