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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.
The site was subsequently reduced to become part of HMS Cochrane. [1] [2] Just before the beginning of the Second World War, Boys' Training Ship Caledonia was based here. [3] By this time Admiral Sir Charles Ramsey, the Commander-in-Chief, Rosyth, responsible for naval operations in the area, was based at HMS Cochrane just down the road at the ...
9 December 1940. Decommissioned. 21 June 1947. Fate. Decommissioned, re-established as HMS Sea Eagle. General characteristics. Class and type. Stone frigate. HMS Ferret was a shore establishment and naval base of the Royal Navy during the Second World War, located in Derry.
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USS San Francisco in a dry dock, after an allision with an underwater mountain 350 miles (560 km) south of Guam in 2005 This article describes major accidents and incidents involving submarines and submersibles since 2000. 2000s 2000 Kursk explosion Main article: Kursk submarine disaster In August 2000, the Russian Oscar II-class submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea when a leak of high-test ...
The second Royal Navy "ship" to be called HMS King Alfred was the shore establishment sited at Hove in Sussex. In 1939 on the outbreak of the Second World War, the Navy was searching for a site for a training depot for officers of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve (RNVR). The Sussex Division of the RNVR was based in Hove and its Motor Launch, ML ...
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 ...
Loch Fyne (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Fìne, pronounced [l̪ˠɔx ˈfiːnə]; meaning "Loch of the Vine/Wine"), is a sea loch off the Firth of Clyde and forms part of the coast of the Cowal Peninsula. Located on the west coast of Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland. It extends 65 kilometres (40 mi) inland from the Sound of Bute, making it the longest ...