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HMS Seymour was a Parker-class flotilla leader of the British Royal Navy. She was built by Cammell Laird during the First World War, being launched on 31 August 1916 and completing on 30 November that year. Seymour served with the Grand Fleet for the rest of the war, which she survived. The ship was sold for scrap in January 1931.
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The second HMS Seymour (K563) was a British Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II. Originally constructed as a United States Navy Buckley class destroyer escort , she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1946.
HMS Seymour has been the name of more than one ship of the British Royal Navy: HMS Seymour (1916) , a destroyer leader launched in 1916 and sold in 1930 HMS Seymour (K563) , a frigate in service from 1943 to 1946
In 1970, Seymour appeared in her first major film role in the war drama The Only Way. She played Lillian Stein, a Jewish woman seeking shelter from Nazi persecution. In 1973, she gained her first major television role as Emma Callon in the successful 1970s series The Onedin Line .
The movie was filmed on board the chartered Italian ocean liner Irpinia, [9] which was fitted with two false funnels in order to resemble St. Louis. [ 10 ] [ 1 ] It was also shot on location in Barcelona , Spain (standing in for Cuba), [ 1 ] [ 2 ] St. Pancras Chambers in London, and at the EMI Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.
HMS Seymour, more than one ship of the British Royal Navy; Seymour baronets, two titles in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom; Seymour Airport, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador; Seymour College, a day and boarding school in Glen Osmond, South Australia; Seymour Football Club, Victoria, Australia
Seymour was born in Pallas, County Limerick on 8 November 1768, the second son of Reverend John Seymour and his wife Griselda. [1] He joined the navy at the age of 12, serving as a midshipman aboard the sloop-of-war HMS Merlin, in the English Channel, under Captain James Luttrell. Seymour moved with Luttrell to HMS Portland in 1781.