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List Of Ship Names Of The Royal Navy (M–N)
This is a list of Royal Navy ship names starting with M and N. M * * * * ''M13'' * ''M14'' * ''M15'' * ''M16'' * ''M17'' * ''M18'' * ''M19'' * ''M20'' * ''M21'' * ''M22'' * ''M23'' * ''M24'' * ''M25'' * ''M26'' * ''M27'' * ''M28'' * ''M29'' * ''M30'' * ''M31'' * ''M32'' * ''M33'' * ''MI'' * ''MII'' * ''MIII'' * ''MIV'' * ''MV'' * ''MVI'' * ''MVII'' * ''MVIII'' * ''MTB102'' * ''MV1'' * ''MV2'' * ''MV3'' * ''MV4'' * ''MV5'' * ''MV6'' * ''MV7'' * ''MV8'' * ''MV9'' * ''MV10'' * ''MV11'' * ''MV12'' * ''MV13'' * ''MV14'' * ''MV15'' * ''MV16'' * ''MV17'' * ''MV18'' * ''MV19'' * ''MV20'' * ''MV21'' * ''MV22'' * ''Macassa'' * ''Macduff'' * ''Macedonian'' * ''Machine'' * ''Mackay'' * ''Mackerel'' * ''Madagascar'' * ''Maddiston'' * ''Madras'' * ''Maeander'' * ''Maenad'' * ''Maesterland'' * ''Magdala'' * ''Magdalen'' * ''Magic'' * ''Magician'' * ''Magicienne'' * ''Magnanime'' * ''Magnet'' * ''Magnificent'' * ''Mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority globally. Owing to this historical prominence, it is common, even among non-Britons, to ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS M29
HMS ''M29'' was a Royal Navy monitor of the First World War. The ship was constructed by Harland & Wolff, in Belfast and launched on 22 May 1915, she was completed in June 1915. During World War I, the monitor served in the Mediterranean Sea at the Battle of Jaffa in 1917 and took part in operations in support of British and White Russian forces in the White Sea during the Russian Civil War in 1919. The ship was then converted to a minelayer and renamed HMS ''Medusa'' in 1925. In 1941 ''Medusa'' was converted to a repair and depot ship and was renamed HMS ''Talbot'', then renamed HMS ''Medway II'' in 1944. In 1946, the vessel was sold for scrap. However, the ship was given a reprieve and acquired by a Greek shipowner who rebuilt the vessel as a cargo ship in 1950–1951. The ship, renamed ''Gerogeorgakis'' was used for smuggling and was seized off Cavallo Island in 1971. The ship was then sold at auction and broken up for scrap in 1974. Construction and career The availabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS MTB102
''MTB 102'' is one of few surviving motor torpedo boats that served with the Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy in the Second World War. She was built as a prototype, but was purchased and taken into service by the Admiralty. She was the smallest vessel to ever serve as a flagship for the Royal Navy.CBC Newsworld; Queen Elizabeth II, Diamond Jubilee, River Pageant, televised coverage; airdate: 2012 June 3 Construction Designed by Commander Peter Du Cane, the Managing Director of Vosper Ltd, in 1936. She was completed and launched in 1937, she was bought by the Admiralty and taken into service with the Royal Navy as ''MTB 102'', the 100 prefix denoting a prototype vessel. She had an all-wood hull, described as "double diagonal Honduras mahogany on Canadian rock elm". Besides the torpedo tubes she was built with, depth charges, machine guns and the Swiss Oerlikon 20 mm anti-aircraft cannon were all tested on her. ''MTB 102'' was the fastest wartime British naval vessel in servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS M33
HMS ''M33'' is an of the Royal Navy built in 1915. She saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia during the Allied Intervention in 1919. She was used subsequently as a mine-laying training ship, fuelling hulk, boom defence workshop and floating office, being renamed HMS ''Minerva'' and Hulk ''C23'' during her long life. She passed to Hampshire County Council in the 1980s and was then handed over to the National Museum of the Royal Navy in 2014. A programme of conservation was undertaken to enable her to be opened to the public. HMS ''M33'' is located within Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and opened to visitors on 7 August 2015 following a service of dedication. She is one of only three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War and the only surviving Allied ship from the Gallipoli Campaign, the other being the Ottoman minelayer Nusret, preserved in Çanakkale. Construction ''M33'' was built as part of the rapid ship construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
