* Advanced Sound-ranging Programme, a portable, passive, acoustic sensing system for detecting and locating the source of artillery fire and loud detonations, operated by the Royal Artillery

In recent times, it has become customary to invite units from France's allies to the parade ; in 2004 during the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, British troops ( the band of the Royal Marines, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, Grenadier Guards and King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery ) led the Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time, with the Red Arrows flying overhead.

Royal Artillery howitzer s at the First day on the Somme | Battle of the Somme

In 1915, Shepard received a commission in the Royal Artillery.

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Robcol — in line with normal British Army practice for ad hoc formations — was named after its commander, Brigadier Robert Waller, the Commander Royal Artillery of the 10th Indian Infantry Division.

A British 1865 Gatling gun at Firepower-The Royal Artillery Museum

After finishing his National Service in 1959 in the Royal Artillery as a B2 radar operator, he worked as a mill operative on the fourth floor at Townhead Mill in Rochdale and travelled home each weekend to Heswall on a scooter borrowed from his sister.

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Category: Royal Artillery officers

Richard Bartelot, of the Royal Artillery Institution, said that the bow was of yew, 6 feet ( 1. 83 m ) long, with a 3 foot ( 914 mm ) arrow.

Although the drawings were bought by the British Ministry of Information, his application was turned down and he was conscripted in the Army, where he served first with the Royal Artillery, then with the Royal Engineers.

During the Second World War he served with the Royal Artillery and then at Bletchley Park, reaching the rank of captain.

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He lived most of his life in England and served in the British Army in the Royal Artillery during World War II.

During World War II, he served as a signaller in the 56th Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery, D Battery, as Gunner Milligan, 954024 with the First Army in the North African campaign and then in the succeeding Italian campaign.

* October 20 – The Royal Regiment of Artillery forms the first regular Canadian army units when they create two batteries of garrison artillery, which later become the Royal Canadian Artillery.

In 1784, Lieutenant Shrapnel of the Royal Artillery began developing an anti-personnel weapon.

In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected, with his own resources, an invention of what he called " spherical case " ammunition: a hollow cannon ball filled with shot which burst in mid-air.

With the affixing of their signature to these three solemn promises, the individual is officially the governor general, and at that moment the Flag of the Governor General of Canada is raised on the Peace Tower, the Viceregal Salute is played by the Central Band of the Canadian Forces, and a 21-gun salute is conducted by the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.

Strictly speaking and uniquely a submarine is a boat as defined by the Royal Navy.

Growing from earlier defensive developments, the " torpedo boat destroyer "( TBD ) first appeared as a distinct class of warship when and were commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1894.

The Royal Navy began experiments with the " torpedo boat catcher ", a class of 17 large torpedo boats.

The first ships to bear the formal designation " torpedo boat destroyer " ( TBD ) were the Daring class of two ships and Havock class of two ships of the Royal Navy, developed in 1892 under the newly appointed Third Sea Lord Rear Admiral " Jackie " Fisher.

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.

Royal Navy World War II Motor Torpedo Boat | MTB planing at speed on calm water showing its Chine_ ( boating )# Various_types_of_chine_hulls | Hard chine hull-note how most of the forepart of the boat is out of the water

Mount Batten, a former Royal Air Force flying boat and search and rescue base, is located at the northeast corner of the Sound.

For example the Royal Norwegian Navy Sleipner-class destroyers were in fact of a torpedo boat size, while the Italian Spica-class torpedo boat were closer in size to a destroyer escort.

She requests a gondolier to sing as she is on the boat on a Royal visit.

The real U-571 was never involved in any such events, was not captured, and was in fact sunk in January 1944, off Ireland, by a Short Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

The boat was towed to port and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Graph.

She was hit by depth charges, dropped from a Short Sunderland Mk III flying boat, EK577, callsign " D for Dog ", belonging to No. 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ).

As part of this program, two Royal Australian Navy advisers are statiomed in Vanuatu Australia to assist Vanuatu in maintaining and operating the RVS Tukoro, the Pacific class patrol boat donated to Vanuatu by Australia in 1987.

In the summer of 2002 the Marist men's varsity eight boat advanced to the semifinals of the Temple Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.

As such, this boat was the only Royal Navy vessel still in foreign possession in 1914.

World War II began for the Royal Norwegian Navy on April 8, 1940, when the German torpedo boat Albatross attacked the guard ship KNM Pol III.

* HMS Trumpeter ( P294 ), a patrol boat in the Royal Navy

She was then commanded to the Royal yacht by King Edward VII where he congratulated her on her pluck and skill, and they discussed the performance of the boat and its potential for British government despatch work.

At the Royal Norwegian Navy Museum you can find many ships, including HNoMS Rap, the world's first torpedo boat from 1873.

In the nineteenth century the various Trinity boat clubs were very strong and regularly won events in Cambridge, at various regattas around the country, notably the Henley Royal Regatta, and regularly contributed rowers to the Cambridge boat for the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.

Others were ferried from the beaches to the larger ships, and thousands were carried back to Britain by the famous " little ships of Dunkirk ", a flotilla of around 700 merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats — the smallest of which was the fishing boat Tamzine, now in the Imperial War Museum — whose civilian crews were called into service for the emergency.

In 1944, the Royal Air Force began development of a small jet-powered flying boat that it intended to use as an air defence aircraft optimised for the Pacific, where the relatively calm sea conditions made the use of seaplanes easier.