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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 (1809), a 36-gun fifth rate launched in 1809. She was reduced to 24 guns in 1831 and broken up in 1849. 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 was a fifth-rate 36-gun sailing frigate of the Royal Navy. Ordered in October 1806 and launched in September 1809, she was one of a new series of Apollo-class frigates designed by Sir William Rule in 1798.
World War II: the cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk by HMS Unruffled ( Royal Navy) west of Palermo, Sicily, killing 123 British Indian Army prisoners of war and an Italian soldier. There were 321 survivors. [143] [144] Nautilus Italy: World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk off Capo Figari by HMS Utmost ( Royal Navy). There were Three ...
HMS Curacoa Royal Navy: The Tribune-class frigate ran aground on the Pelican Shoal, off Smyrna, Ottoman Empire. [112] All on board were rescued. [113] [114] She was refloated on 26 October with assistance from USS Macedonian ( United States Navy). [107] [112] Reliance United Kingdom: The ship ran aground in the Saint Lawrence River. She was on ...
HMS Monarch Royal Navy: Washington Naval Treaty: The Orion-class battleship was sunk as a target in the Atlantic Ocean off the Isles of Scilly by HMS Carysfort, HMS Caledon, HMS Curacoa, HMS Calliope, HMS Hood, HMS Repulse, HMS Ramillies, HMS Revenge, HMS Resolution, HMS Royal Oak, HMS Royal Sovereign and HMS Vectis (all Royal Navy). [24]
The HMS Hawke was torpedoed by a German U-boat on Oct. 15, 1914. ... A group of divers working off the coast of Scotland found the wreck of what's believed to be a World War I ship that sank with ...
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.