New Providence's harbour could easily accommodate hundreds of ships, and was too shallow for the Royal Navy's larger vessels to navigate.

The Battle of the Nile remains one of the Royal Navy's most famous victories, and has remained prominent in the British popular imagination, sustained by its depiction in a large number of cartoons, paintings, poems and plays.

Before U-27 came round Nicosians bow, Baralong hauled down the American flag, hoisted the Royal Navy's White Ensign, and unmasked her guns.

In the Royal Navy, the position was introduced to combat the cost of appointing more admirals — a costly business with a fleet as large as the Royal Navy's at that time.

On the outskirts of the town is the Royal Navy's officer training college ( Britannia Royal Naval College ), where all officers of the Royal Navy and many foreign naval officers are trained.

The 1906 ship was one of the Royal Navy's most famous vessels, battleships built after her were referred to as ' dreadnoughts ', and earlier battleships became known as pre-dreadnoughts.

In 1943, he also directed two Allied propaganda films for the National Film Board of Canada, including Action Stations, about the Royal Canadian Navy's escorting of convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Following the Royal Navy's revenge at the Battle of the Falkland Islands a month later, the only surviving German cruiser, SMS Dresden, was finally hunted down and cornered at Más a Tierra early in 1915, where she was scuttled after a brief battle with British cruisers.

The Omani Arabs had no interest in resisting the Royal Navy's efforts to enforce anti-slavery directives.

In the Nineteenth century, Fortress Bermuda would become Britain's Gibraltar of the West, heavily fortified by a Regular Army garrison to protect the Royal Navy's headquarters and dockyard in the Western Atlantic.

The French Navy won some important victories near the end of the 17th century but a focus upon land forces led to the French Navy's relative neglect, which allowed the Royal Navy to emerge with an ever-growing advantage in size and quality, especially in tactics and experience, from 1695.

After the end of World War Two, the Supermarine division built the Royal Navy's first jet fighter, the Attacker, which served front line squadrons aboard aircraft carriers and RNVR squadrons at shore bases.

In June 1667 they conducted their Raid on the Medway, broke the defensive chain at Gillingham, and towed away the, one of the Royal Navy's most important ships.

* 1939 – World War II: The submarine is mistakenly sunk by the submarine near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.

The Royal Navy's blockade of German ports prevented Germany from importing food and hastened German capitulation by creating a food crisis in Germany.

The trackball was invented by Tom Cranston and Fred Longstaff as part of the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR system in 1952, eleven years before the mouse was invented.

The world's first trackball invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy | Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project in 1952.

The Royal Norwegian Navy's HNoMS Rap — the name meaning ' fast '— was ordered from Thornycroft, England in 1873, but was not equipped with self-propelled torpedoes until 1879.

The Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boats ( MTBs ), Kriegsmarine ' S-Boote ' ( Schnellboot or " fast-boat ": British termed them E-boats ), ( Italian ) M. A. S.

The film's producers did not agree to his request for a message, making it clear that the film was a work of fiction, but agreed to include a message at the film's end mentioning the Royal Navy's role in the capture of U-110.

In 1901 the Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, was launched at the Naval Construction Yard.

In 1199, following the commissioning of a bridge over the River Can by Maurice, Bishop of London, William of Sainte-Mère-Eglise was granted a Royal Charter for Chelmsford to hold a market, marking the origin of the modern town.

* is the Northern Irish base of the Royal Naval Reserve, commissioning in Lisburn in 2010.

The charter of the Royal Military College, Duntroon is " to produce officers capable of commanding platoon-sized elements in the Hardened and Networked Army concept, and to prepare specialist candidates for commissioning.

In the Royal Navy, the commissioning pennant is a small St George's Cross with a long tapering plain white fly.

MacLean may have been anticipating the excitement of his British readers regarding the upcoming commissioning of the, the Royal Navy's first nuclear submarine.

His trip was a success and the Royal Philharmonic Society made Dvořák an honorary member a few months later, also commissioning another symphony from him.

The Royal Navy's commissioning pennant

In the Royal Navy the commissioning pennant is flown continuously in every ship and establishment in commission unless displaced by a senior officer's Rank flag.

Commissioned Officers in the specialisation, are drawn from within, with candidates considered suitable for commissioning via the Senior upper Yardman scheme as officers of the warfare branch of the Royal Navy or as officers of the Royal Marines.

On commissioning Manekshaw was first attached to the 2nd Bn The Royal Scots, a British battalion as per the practices of that time, and later to the 4th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment.

The outcome of this dictated whether students should attend the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst's Rowallan Company ( now called the Sandhurst Development Course ) or the commissioning course of the day.

The Construction Industry Project Information Committee ( CPIC ), representing the four major sponsor organisations ( the Construction Confederation, the Royal Institute of British Architects, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers ), and the Department of the Environment Construction Sponsorship Directorate were responsible for commissioning and steering the project, which was developed by NBS on behalf of CPIC.

The system is somewhat analogous to a system of pennant numbers the Royal Navy and some European and Commonwealth navies ( 19 in total ) use.

Each navy has its own system: the United States Navy uses hull classification symbols, and the Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth use pennant numbers.

** Broad pennant, flown from the masthead of a Royal Navy ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board

The Pennant ( church ) | church pennant of the Royal Navy and the Royal Netherlands Navy

* A church pennant, as used by the Royal Navy, European Navies and Commonwealth Navies, is a broad pennant flown on ships and at establishments ( bases ) during religious services, and has the George Cross and Dutch flag incorporated ; chosen after the English Dutch Wars where both sides stopped for Church on a Sunday.

She was decommissioned from the Royal Canadian Navy on 27 November 1945, then recommissioned by that navy as a Prestonian class frigate with pennant number 319 on 26 November 1953, and decommissioned again on 14 April 1956.

The pennant, is an evolution of old " pennoncell ", that in the Royal Navy used to consist of three colours for the whole of its length, and towards the end left separate in two or three tails, and so the tradition continued until the end of the Napoleonic Wars when the Royal Navy adopted the style of pennants used by the service to this day.

Any vessel designated as RMS has the right to both fly the pennant of the Royal Mail when sailing and to include the Royal Mail " crown " logo with any identifying device and / or design for the ship.

* M30, the pennant number for the Royal Navy ship, HMS Ledbury

: This article is about Royal Navy and European ship pennant numbers.

In the modern Royal Navy, and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth, ships are identified by pennant numbers ( an internationalisation of the term " pendant numbers " which is what they were called prior to 1948 ).

The name pennant number arises from the fact that ships were originally allocated a flag identifying a flotilla or particular type of vessel: for example, in the Royal Navy, the red burgee for torpedo boats, H for torpedo boat destroyers.

HMS Lancaster was initially allocated the pennant number F232, until it was realised that in the Royal Navy, form number 232 is the official report for ships that have run aground ; sailors being superstitious, it was quickly changed to F229.

After World War II, in 1948, the Royal Navy adopted a rationalised " pennant " number system where the flag superior indicated the basic type of ship as follows.

She was originally laid down as a Royal Navy Castle-class corvette, Rayleigh Castle, pennant number K695, but was renamed and converted before completion.