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HMS Dragon ( D35 ) | HMS Dragon ( D35 ) a Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer in May 2012 equipped with the Sylver A-50 VLS and Aster 15 and 30 missiles.
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* In July 2012, HMS Dragon ( D35 ) was the fourth Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer to successfully intercept its target with an Aster missile.
One of the ships, the frigate HMS Garland, fired a warning shot and signaled the other ships to chase down the Snap Dragon.
The three companies of the Corps were to serve alongside their ship-borne Royal Marine counterparts from the Chesapeake squadron, commanded by Cockburn ( originally comprising HMS Albion, HMS Dragon, HMS Loire, HMS Jasseur and the schooner St Lawrence ) in a series of raids.
*, a 50-gun fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1711, renamed HMS Dragon in 1715, and broken up in 1733.
In addition the communications training centre in Swansea was commissioned as HMS Dragon between 1982 and 1994.
On July 8, these attacks badly damaged the cruiser ORP Dragon ( which was scuttled on July 20 ), and sunk the destroyer HMS Isis.
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File: HMS President-geograph. org. uk-659583. jpg | Armed WW1 Q-ship lured enemy submarines by mimicking a merchantman
British heavy cruisers HMS Dorsetshire ( 40 ) | Dorsetshire and HMS Cornwall ( 56 ) | Cornwall under Japanese air attack and heavily damaged on April 5, 1942
In four descending columns, from left to right: Maestrale class frigate | MM Maestrale ( F 570 ), FS De Grasse | De Grasse ( D 612 ); USS John C. Stennis | USS John C. Stennis ( CVN 74 ), FS Charles de Gaulle | Charles De Gaulle ( R 91 ), Surcouf ( F711 ) | Surcouf ( F 711 ); USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ) | USS Port Royal ( CG-73 ), HMS Ocean ( L12 ) | HMS Ocean ( L 12 ), USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ) | USS John F. Kennedy ( CV 67 ), Hr.
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* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.
Their age and battered state meant that neither Conquérant nor Aquilon were considered fit for active service in the Royal Navy and both were subsequently hulked, although they had been bought into the service for £ 20, 000 ( the equivalent of £ as of ) each as HMS Conquerant and HMS Aboukir to provide a financial reward to the crews that had captured them.
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 Baralong Incidents were naval engagements of the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-Ship, later renamed HMS Wyandra, and two German U-boats.
The depression is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, whose expedition of 1872 – 1876 made the first recordings of its depth.
Five ships and a number of shore establishments of the ( British ) Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Daedalus.
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.
The Royal Navy named a King George V-class battleship after Beatty, but this ship was renamed HMS Howe before completion, as another battleship of the same class, intended to be named after Jellicoe, was renamed HMS Anson.
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