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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.
HMS Curacoa (D41) off Ireland: 2 October 1942: Rammed in poor weather by RMS Queen Mary: HMS Curlew (D42) off Narvik: 26 May 1940: Sunk by German aircraft HMS Cairo (D87) off Bizerte: 12 August 1942: Sunk by Italian submarine Axum: HMS Calcutta (D82) off Alexandria: 1 June 1941: Sunk by German aircraft HMS Galatea (71) off Alexandria: 15 ...
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.
There many references to the disasters TV series but the episode link is dead, and the claims supported by it are contradicted by the book review of (* D. Thomas, Patrick Homes and P. Holmes: "Queen Mary" and the Cruiser: "Curacoa" Disaster (1997) ISBN 0-85052-548-9 Summary/review). Not clear if Curacoa also zig-zagging, or where the blame was ...
The Bombardment of Curaçao refers to a 1942 German naval bombardment of a Bullen Baai Company petroleum storage facility on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao during World War II.
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An invasion of Curaçao was launched by French forces against the Dutch colony in 1800 during the War of the Second Coalition.French forces landed on the island on 22 July, and on 5 September attacked and captured a fort protecting the town of Willemstad.