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HMS Curacoa was a C-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. She was one of the five ships of the Ceres sub-class and spent much of her career as a flagship . The ship was assigned to the Harwich Force during the war, but saw little action as she was completed less than a year before the war ended.
∗ Written with the first "s" as an "ſ" in Victorian manner i.e.: "Cloẛsan"¤ First name read as "David" in Cyriax crewlist † This name appears twice in the original list
HMS Curacoa (1854), a wood screw frigate launched in 1854. She was flagship of the Australia Station during the New Zealand Wars and was broken up in 1869. HMS Curacoa (1878), a screw corvette launched in 1878 and sold in 1904. HMS Curacoa (D41), a C-class light cruiser launched in 1917 and accidentally sunk by RMS Queen Mary in 1942.
Norfolk and Suffolk were equipped with radar which was used to good advantage when they shadowed the German battleship Bismarck during the RN's attempts to hunt her down after the sinking of HMS Hood. The class saw service in nearly every theatre of the war. Norfolk, Suffolk, and Dorsetshire were involved in the pursuit of Bismarck and Prinz Eugen.
HMS Hampton Court : Action of 2 May 1707: The 70-gun third rate was captured by the French Navy's Blekoualle, Dauphine and Griffon. HMS Lion : The 4-gun hoy was captured by the French Navy. HMS Ruby : Battle at The Lizard, 21 October: The 40-gun fourth rate was captured by the French Navy's Mars.
The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinking after being torpedoed by a German submarine in November 1941, the assisting destroyer HMS Legion was sunk in 1942. This is a list of Royal Navy ships and personnel lost during World War II , from 3 September 1939 to 1 October 1945.
The ship was lost in the Saint Lawrence River with the loss of a crew member. [91] George Great Britain: The transport ship foundered in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued. she was on a voyage from New York to Georgia, British America. [53] Good Hope France: The ship was lost near Curaçao. She was on a voyage from Havre de Grâce to ...
HMS Curacoa was a 31-gun Tribune-class screw frigate launched on 13 April 1854 from Pembroke Dockyard. [ 1 ] She served in the Mediterranean Station between 1854 until 1857 and was in the Black Sea during the Crimean War .