warships have been named HMS Sheffield after the city and county borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire. HMS Sheffield (C24) (1936) – a Town-class light cruiser...
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HMS Sheffield was one of the Southampton sub class of the Town-class cruisers of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She took part in actions...
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the Nation: HMS Belfast 1939–1972. London: Imperial War Museum. ISBN 1-901623-72-6. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Town class cruiser (1936)....
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Belfast's sister ship HMS Edinburgh. Belfast was ordered from Harland and Wolff on 21 September 1936, and her keel laid on 10 December 1936. Her expected cost...
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Friedrich Breme (category 1936 ships)
August 1936 for the German-American Petroleum Company in Bremen. On 12 June 1941, Friedrich Breme was spotted by the light cruiser HMS Sheffield at position...
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with HMS Sheffield and six Tribal-class destroyers landed troops near Harstad and three days later on 14 April, again in company with Sheffield and ten...
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Thos. W. Ward (category Defunct companies based in Sheffield)
Works, Sheffield. Thos W. Ward. also dismantled the Crystal Palace. HMS Akbar HMS Benbow HMS Boadicea HMS Centurion HMS Colossus HMS Devastation HMS Edinburgh...
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1936 before being upgraded to squadron status in 1938. It was charged with operating Supermarine Walrus seaplanes for the cruisers HMS Glasgow, HMS Newcastle...
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frigates HMS Chatham HMS Coventry HMS Sheffield Type 23 frigates HMS Marlborough HMS Westminster HMS Northumberland HMS Richmond Hastings-class sloop HMS Scarborough...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
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