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The Royal Navy was an important component of the Allied forces during the Second World War and made a significant contribution to the victory over the Axis powers. Its main tasks included the protection of merchant ships in the Atlantic against German U-boats and the defence of British territories.
This is a list of the military equipment of the Royal Navy and other British naval forces of World War II. This list shows the equipment for British naval and naval aviation forces like naval artillery on board British ships and boats as well as the weapons used by British naval forces such as torpedoes and naval mines.
Sailor of the King. The Silent Enemy (1958 film) Sink the Bismarck! Submarine X-1.
Green beret [4] - worn by British Commandos. Maroon beret [5] - from 1942 by airborne units. Tan beret [6] - Special Air Service from 1942 till 1944. Black beret [7] - by armoured units, including the Royal Tank Corps from 1924. Service Dress [8] - the field uniform at the start of the war until replaced by battledress.
Lanchester submachine gun – British submachine gun, developed from the German MP28, used by the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. Sten – simple design, low-cost British submachine gun in service from late 1941 to the end of the war. Around four million produced.
Up the Creek (1958 film) Categories: Works about the Royal Navy. Films about navies. Films about the British Armed Forces.
2 depth charge rails with 70 depth charges. The Flower-class corvette[1][2][3] (also referred to as the Gladiolus class after the lead ship) [4] was a British class of 294 corvettes used during World War II by the Allied navies particularly as anti-submarine convoy escorts in the Battle of the Atlantic. Royal Navy ships of this class were named ...
Plot. During the First World War, Lieutenant Richard Saville, a young Royal Navy officer on five days' leave, and Miss Lucinda Bentley, a merchant's daughter from Portsmouth, get talking on the train up to London. Halfway through their journey, they miss their rail connection and spend a romantic holiday in the countryside of southern England.