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aircraft observation, lost in collision at Oban 15 Oct 1940 HMT Aquamarine: Aug 1939: Armed boarding vessel, anti-submarine, returned 1944 HMT Arab: 1939: Anti-submarine, returned 1945 HMT Arabesque: Dec 1939: Auxiliary patrol, balloon barrage vessel, Esso, returned Sep 1944 HMT Aracari: Jan 1943: Esso, wrecked north of Sicily 3 Oct 1943 HMT ...
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Navy was the strongest navy in the world. It had 20 battleships and battlecruisers ready for service or under construction, twelve aircraft carriers, over 90 light and heavy cruisers, 70 submarines, over 100 destroyers as well as numerous escort ships, minelayers, minesweepers and 232 aircraft.
List of aircraft of Germany in World War II; List of aircraft of Japan, World War II; List of aircraft of Poland during World War II; List of aircraft of the Red Army Air Forces; List of Regia Aeronautica aircraft used in World War II; List of aircraft of the United Kingdom in World War II; List of aircraft of the United States during World War II
Vultee XA-41 - Prototype ground attack aircraft; Culver PQ-8/A-8 - Radio-controlled target aircraft; Culver PQ-14 Cadet - Radio-controlled target aircraft; Curtiss A-12 Shrike - Attack bomber; Curtiss XA-14/Curtiss A-18 Shrike - Attack bomber; Curtiss-Wright AT-9 Jeep - Advanced twin-engine pilot trainer; Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando - Transport
The Castle-class minesweeper was a highly seaworthy naval trawler adapted for patrol, anti-submarine warfare and minesweeping duties and built to Admiralty specifications. . Altogether 197 were built in the United Kingdom between 1916 and 1919, with others built in Canada, India and later New Zea
The Round Table class was a small class of trawlers built for the British Royal Navy in 1941–1942. [1] The class were built by two Aberdeen shipbuilding firms Hall, Russell & Company and J. Lewis & Sons Ltd. [2] All were built to a 1936 design, the Star of Orkney, [3] by Hall, Russell & Co but were commissioned as minesweepers. [4]
First introduced during the Spanish Civil War, the Messerschmitt Bf-109 became Germany’s most extensively produced fighter aircraft in WWII, with an estimated production of approximately 34,000 ...
Naval trawlers were purpose-built or requisitioned and operated by the Royal Navy (RN), mainly during World Wars I and II. Vessels built to Admiralty specifications for RN use were known as Admiralty trawlers. All trawlers operated by the RN, regardless of origin, were typically given the prefix HMT, for "His Majesty's Trawler".