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HMS Raleigh is a stone frigate (shore establishment), serving as the basic training facility of the Royal Navy at Torpoint, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is spread over several square miles, and has damage control simulators and fire-fighting training facilities, as well as a permanently moored training ship, the former HMS Brecon.
Six ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Raleigh, after Sir Walter Raleigh: HMS Raleigh was a 32-gun fifth rate, previously the American USS Raleigh (1776). She was captured in 1778 by HMS Unicorn and HMS Experiment and was commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS Raleigh. She was sold in 1783. HMS Raleigh ...
HMS. Raleigh. (1919) HMS Raleigh was one of five Hawkins -class heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War, although the ship was not completed until 1921. She was assigned to the North America and West Indies Station when she commissioned and often served as a flagship.
HMS Daedalus (previously HMS Ariel 1959 - 1965) RNAS Lee-on-Solent, Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England. HMS Dipper RNAS Henstridge, Somerset, 1943-1958. HMS Fulmar RNAS Lossiemouth Lossiemouth, Moray 1946 -1972. HMS Godwit RNAS Hinstock, Shropshire, 1942–1947. HMS Goldcrest, three naval air stations were commissioned as Goldcrest, RNAS ...
F. HMS Ferret (1940 shore establishment) HMS Ferret (1982 shore establishment) HMS Fisgard (shore establishment) HMS Flying Fox (shore establishment) Fort Verdala. HMS Forward (1984 shore establishment) HMS Forward (1939 shore establishment)
Coordinates: 50°47′16″N 1°7′4″W. Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus training at HMS Dolphin. The seventeenth Royal Navy vessel to be named HMS Dolphin was the Royal Naval shore establishment sited at Fort Blockhouse in Gosport. Dolphin was the home of the Royal Navy Submarine Service from 1904 to 1999, and location of the Royal Navy ...
F. HMS Ferret (1982 shore establishment) HMS Flycatcher. HMS Forest Moor. HM Fort Roughs. HMS Forward (1984 shore establishment) HMS Forward (1939 shore establishment)
On 1 October 1984, the centre became a commissioned ship - a stone frigate - known as HMS Forward. [1] In early 1985, the unit moved to a former industrial unit on Sampson Rd North which, on 28 January 1986, was officially opened by The Princess Royal. The unit once again moved in April 1999, this time to a new purpose-built building.