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* HMS Superb was to have been a broadside ironclad battleship, but she was renamed HMS Alexandra in 1874 before being launched in 1875.
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* 1905 – 1912: Gunnery Lieutenant, HMS Drake, HMS Superb and HMS Neptune
Promoted to the rank of commander on 30 June 1976, Boyce became commanding officer of the submarine HMS Superb in 1979.
Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Superb, or HMS Superbe:
* HMS Superb was a 64-gun third rate, previously the French ship Superbe.
* HMS Superb was 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1736 and broken up in 1757.
* HMS Superb was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1760 and wrecked in 1783.
* HMS Superb was a 74-gun third rate, launched in 1798 and broken up in 1826.
* HMS Superb was an 80-gun second rate, launched in 1842 and broken up in 1869.
* HMS Superb was a battleship launched in 1875.
* HMS Superb was launched in 1907 and sold in 1923.
* HMS Superb was a Minotaur-class light cruiser launched in 1943 and sold in 1960.
* HMS Superb is a nuclear-powered hunter killer submarine launched in 1974, and decommissioned on 26 September 2008 after sustaining damage in an underwater grounding in the Red Sea.
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Robertson escaped to Helgoland ( then a British possession ) to inform Admiral Richard Goodwin Keats of the agreement, and a fleet of transports escorted by HMS Superb embarked 9, 000 Spanish soldiers.
** HMS Superb Swiftsure class nuclear attack submarine.
HMS and was
In 1778 Britain was again at war, and Phillip was recalled to active service, and in 1779 obtained his first command, HMS Basilisk.
Until the 1980s, the flagship of the ocean-going navy was the aircraft carrier Minas Gerais ( the ex-British HMS Vengeance ), which has been in service since 1945.
* The battle was used as the name of several Royal Navy ships, HMS Ramillies.
The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.
On 21 May, as Nelson's squadron approached Toulon, it was struck by a fierce gale and Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard lost its topmasts and was almost wrecked on the Corsican coast.
Troubridge's ship HMS Culloden was also some distance from the main body, towing a captured merchant ship.
The third British ship into action was HMS Orion under Captain Sir James Saumarez, which rounded the engagement at the head of the battle line and passed between the French main line and the frigates that lay closer inshore.
Peuple Souverain also remained at Gibraltar: the ship was deemed too badly damaged for the Atlantic voyage to Britain and so was converted to a guardship under the name of HMS Guerrier.
Tonnant and Spartiate, both of which later fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, joined the Royal Navy under their old names while Franklin, considered to be " the finest two-decked ship in the world ", was renamed HMS Canopus.
In the Royal Navy the battle has been commemorated by the ship names HMS Aboukir and HMS Nile and in 1998 the 200th anniversary of the battle was commemorated by a visit to Aboukir Bay by the modern frigate HMS Somerset, whose crew laid wreaths in memory of those who lost their lives in the battle.
The reburial was attended by sailors from the modern frigate HMS Chatham and a band from the Egyptian Navy, as well as a descendant of the only identified burial, Commander James Russell.
As a precaution to protect the ships against any reprisals against their crews, HMS Wyandra was transferred to the Mediterranean, and took the name of sister ship Manica, while Baralongs name was deleted from Lloyd's Register.
In November 1794, ten vessels, which were part of a convoy escorted by HMS Convert, were wrecked on the reef in Gun Bay, on the East end of Grand Cayman, but with the help of local settlers, there was no loss of life.
The Summary Report of the HMS Challenger expedition lists radiolaria from the two dredged samples taken when the Challenger Deep was first discovered.
The spectacular unauthorized demonstration of the turbine powered Turbinia at the 1897 Spithead Navy Review, which, significantly, was of torpedo boat size, prompted the Royal Navy to order a prototype turbine powered destroyer, HMS Viper of 1899.
Beatty was instead appointed to HMS Alexandra, flagship in the Mediterranean Squadron commanded by Admiral the Duke of Edinburgh's, Queen Victoria's second son.
He was transferred to HMS Cruiser.
On 20 April 1899 Beatty was appointed executive officer of the small battleship HMS Barfleur, flagship of the China Station, Captain Stanley Colville under Rear-Admiral James Bruce.
In May 1902 he was passed fit for sea duty and was appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno in June, spending two months in exercises with the Channel Fleet under Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson before joining the Mediterranean fleet.
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Five ships and a number of shore establishments of the ( British ) Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Daedalus.
The first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839.
Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hood after several members of the Hood family, who were notable Navy officers:
Several ships and one submarine of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dreadnought in the expectation that they would " dread nought ", i. e. " fear nothing, but God ".
Several ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Resolution.
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ark Royal:
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Hercules, or HMS Hercule, after the Greek and Roman hero Hercules.
The first European known to have sighted the island was Captain James Cook, in 1774, on his second voyage to the South Pacific on HMS Resolution.
The sinking of the HMS Barham in 1941 and the 1955 Le Mans disaster were both captured on film and have been widely shown since then.
Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Antelope, after the Antelope:
* Four ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Antigua
Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Sidon after Sidon, a city in Lebanon:
Three ships of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Zulu, after the African Zulu people:
Three ships and a naval base of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nelson in honour of Horatio Nelson:
* HMS Shannon, nine ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Shannon
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Invincible.
* HMS Invincible was to have been the world's second ocean-going iron-hulled armoured frigate, and sister to HMS Warrior, but she was renamed HMS Black Prince before her launch.
Marine investigations in the area have also identified new species of anemone, rediscovered the fan mussel ( the UK's largest and rarest bivalve mollusc-thought to be found only in Plymouth Sound and a few sites off the west of Scotland ) and a number of shipwreck sites, including HMS Drake ( 1901 ), which was torpedoed and sank just off the island in 1917.
Six ships that were built for the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ocean.
Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS St Albans after the English city and ducal family of St Albans:
Five ships of the British Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Sceptre, after the sceptre, a symbol of royal authority.
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