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'''Type 45 destroyers''', under development by the [[Royal Navy]], are among the world's most advanced warships; they will replace the [[Ty ...ed, initially, with the Lynx HMA.8, but can carry aircraft as large as the Royal Navy Merlin. They have a bow-mounted medium-frequency sonar, but neither dippin

...e served as an apprentice to a firm of shipowners at Whitby and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. During the [[Seven Years’ War]] he charted in detail the [[Saint

...ations far from bases, such as the [[Falklands War]] as conducted by the [[Royal Navy]], which calls it '''replenishment at sea (RAS)'''.

...Forester wrote about [[Horatio Hornblower]], a fictional officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. It is not first in the chronology of Hornblower's career, but follows '' ...quadron commander being the man he considers her unworthy new husband. The Royal Navy continues to recognize his ability there, promoting him to a larger and mor

...the actual deficiency, introduced the use of giving [[citrus]] juices to [[Royal Navy]] sailors. The colloquial term, "limey", for a British sailor comes from hi

...1786) was an English vice-admiral who had a distinguished career in the [[Royal Navy]],<ref name=SesWager2006> ...iral in 1775 and vice-admiral in 1778, Byron was commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy's [[West Indies Squadron]] in 1778 and 1779. In this capacity he attempted

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''Bismarck'' eluded the [[Royal Navy]] pursuers until a coded radio message from Lütjens to the navy was interc

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* Syrett, David. ''The Royal Navy in European Waters during the American Revolution.'' (1998). 213 pp. [http: * Syrett, David. ''The Royal Navy in American Waters, 1775-1783.'' (1989). 250 pp.

...nal Forces that support them, as well as Joint elements that work with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force."<ref name=BAStructure>{{citation

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...83. There are currently 7 Trafalgar-class submarines in service with the [[Royal Navy]].

...fectively, by the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]]. They were also used by the [[Royal Navy]] for special missions including an underwater attack on the battleship ''[

On the night of 11-12 November 1940, the [[Royal Navy]] launched a carrier-based night attack, '''Operation Judgement''', better | publisher = [[Royal Navy]]}}</ref>

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...rld: an anatomy of the Georgian navy. William Collins. 1986</ref>. Many Royal Navy ships still carry rum, although this is now largely more for ceremonial pur

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...l vessels, the boatswains are in the "deck division". By tradition in the Royal Navy, unless there is explicit designation of another individual, the senior boa

...referred to a drink made with water and rum, which was introduced into the Royal Navy by British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon on August 21, 1740. Vernon himself ha

'''HMS Beagle''' was the [[Royal Navy]] Brig on which [[Charles Darwin]] sailed to the Galapagos.

...the Netherlands ([[Enforcer-class]]), Singapore [[Endurance-class]], the [[Royal Navy]] ([[Albion-class]]), and the [[United States Navy]] ([[San Antonio-class]]

Nelson was blinded in one eye earlier in his [[Royal Navy]] career.<ref name=Phrases/>

...as A. "Strategic Command and Control for Maneuver Warfare: Creation of the Royal Navy's "War Room" System, 1905-1915," ''The Journal of Military History'' 69#2 A ...etsuro. "The Quest for Reach: The Development of Long-Range Gunnery in the Royal Navy, 1901–1912," in Stephen D. Chiabotti, ed., ''Military Transformation in t

...port facility taking over the entire island. Today, under the command of a Royal Navy Commander, Great Britain maintains a presence on the Island, with the Headq

...nblower''' is novel by [[C.S Forester]] about a fictional officer in the [[Royal Navy]], during the [[Napoleonic Wars]].

In the Royal Navy and U.S. Navy, respectively, the Type 23-class and Oliver Hazard Perry-clas

The '''Royal Navy''' is the official name of the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[navy]]. Its history g }},p. 35</ref> The official Royal Navy website mentions earlier events, but defines the first period of the Navy a

{{r|HMS Trafalgar (S107)|''HMS Trafalgar'' (S107)}} First [[Royal Navy]] submarine of the [[Trafalgar-class]]; decommissioned 2009

was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]],

The second ship to bear the name in the [[Royal Navy]], '''HMS Sheffield (D80)''' was a [[Type 42-class]] [[destroyer]], sunk by

...r-flung empire. Among these reforms was the deputizing of the [[Royal Navy|Royal Navy’s]] Sea Officers to help enforce customs in colonial ports.

..., Kirkcudbright, [[Scotland]]. From a young age he dreamed of joining the Royal Navy, and at the age of 13 he sailed out of the British port of Whitehaven on th ...s of Scarborough''. The action stuck out as an embarrassing defeat for the Royal Navy, who suffered the capture of two of her vessels in her own home waters, but

...ips; this resulted in the almost complete disappearance of scurvy from the Royal Navy. ...ssay on the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen in the Royal Navy'', which threw light on the poor living conditions and diet of seamen.

| publisher = Royal Navy}}</ref> She was built between 1509 and 1511, served until an accident sank ...iron carriage guns and 52 smaller anti-personnel guns. <ref name=BBC/> The Royal Navy rates her as having 20 heavy guns and 60 light guns.<ref name=RN/>

...nce it was unclear if the conflict would spread beyond Korea. Joining a [[Royal Navy]] unit of the carrier ''[[HMS Triumph]]'', a heavy cruiser and two destroye

...allistic missile submarine|ballistic missile submarine]] operated by the [[Royal Navy]] with the designation Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear (SSBN). There are

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...al Marines of the United Kingdom were formed in 1664 and are a part of the Royal Navy.

...e a modest beginning to indigenise stores for old ships inherited from the Royal Navy. Accordingly a Technical Cell at Naval Dockyard, Bombay was created in 1950

led by ringleader [[Fletcher Christian]], anticipated that the [[Royal Navy]] would send out an expedition to capture the mutineers. ...[[HMAV Bounty|HMAV ''Bounty'']] and find a less-settled island, where the Royal Navy would be unable to find them.

====Britain and Royal Navy==== * Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. "A Matter of Timing: The Royal Navy and the Tactics of Decisive Battle, 1912–1916," ''Journal of Military His

...rts, and although his work provided strategic warning to the crown and the Royal Navy, contrary winds prevented tactical warning.<ref>{{citation

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A much more formal system was principally used by the [[Royal Navy]]. <ref>{{citation

...rations not associated with [[amphibious warfare]] were conducted by the [[Royal Navy]]. The U.S. Sixth Fleet, however, became prominent in the Cold War, as well

..., although implemented by several countries, is most associated with the [[Royal Navy]], where Admiral [[John Arbuthnot Fisher|"Jacky" Fisher]], was its champion ...bing. ''Scharnhorst'' sank in the [[Battle of North Cape]], fighting the [[Royal Navy]] battleship [[HMS Duke of York (1940)|HMS ''Duke of York'')]] , on 26 Dece

...ualified for ship command from those who are technical specialists. In the Royal Navy, the command track has been the "seaman" branch. The United States Navy cal

* Schurman, Donald M. ''The Education of a Navy'' (1965), on British Royal Navy

...Okinawa]], and [[Korea]], and exercises off [[Borneo]] with ships of the [[Royal Navy]] and [[Royal New Zealand Navy]]. She returned to [[Long Beach, California

A [[Royal Navy]] series of [[destroyer]]s optimized for [[anti-air warfare]], built in the

'''HMS Prince of Wales''' was a [[Royal Navy]] battleship of the [[King George V-class]], whose entire operational life

A [[special operations]] party of the [[Royal Navy]], led by Sublieutenant John Godwin, was imprisoned there after being captu

...rctic negatively affected penguins' habits. With the help of the British [[Royal Navy]]'s [[ice patrol]] vessel ''[[HMS Endurance]]'' and its pair of [[Lynx heli

...gnificance before the 20th century, major powers were dependent on it; the Royal Navy had begun to convert its warships from coal to oil few, and needed oil to c

...tory and fleet operations to examine the organizational superiority of the Royal Navy, especially in contrast with the French navy. He argues the British were be ...e transformed into popular uprisings and insurgency. Ultimately, Britain's Royal Navy, despite a string of naval victories, was unable to counter Napoleon's hege

As a courtesy to the United Kingdom, a member of the [[Royal Navy]] is assigned to the ship's crew at all times. Her current captain is [[Com

...nst Japan''. 4 vols. London: H.M.S.O., 1957-1965. Highly detailed official Royal Navy history.

...onstrations, to be bought by the Austrian Navy in 1869 and the (British) [[Royal Navy]] in 1870.

In 1692 [[William III]] established a [[Royal Navy|naval]] dockyard on the Hamoaze (the lower part of the River Tamar, after i

...sed for historical inaccuracy; the actual capture of the Enigma was by the Royal Navy, from U 110, and was not so much a planned mission as a case of an officer

...t not catapulted. To be used by the Italian Navy, U.K. Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, United States Marine Corps; will replace assorted versions of the Harrier

...The [[Royal Australian Navy (RAN)]] was under the command of the British [[Royal Navy]], and scored an early and significant victory when it destroyed the German

In 1936, the [[Royal Navy]] began providing their own forecasts and the Met Office no longer provides

...812]] was fought successfully defending the city from an attack from the [[Royal Navy]], on January 8, 1815.<ref name=AmericanBattlefieldTrustNoLa/>

...12 about 6,000 seamen were impressed and taken against their will into the Royal Navy.<ref> Hickey (1989) p. 11</ref> The proposed [[Monroe-Pinkney Treaty]] (180 ...ff four "deserters", of whom three were Americans thereby pressed into the Royal Navy. The American public was outraged by the incident, and many called for war

...It was recovered in 1970 and relaunched in 2005 as a maritime museum. The Royal Navy soon adopted screw propellers in place of paddle wheels. Finally came the

...ansports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. The Royal Navy was so powerful it blockaded the American coast and moved the British army ...e War of 1812, there has been a special bond between the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy, with considerable technology exchange. The USN, however, probably was more

===(British) Royal Navy=== Perhaps the most important role SIGINT played for the Royal Navy, and the merchant ships it protected, was in the Battle of the Atlantic. By

'''Horatio Hornblower''' is a fictional officer in the [[Royal Navy]], created by [[C.S. Forester]], apparently drawn, in part, on [[Horatio Ne

...ly at the same time when oil became a critical world commodity; when the [[Royal Navy]] made every other [[battleship]] in the world obsolete with ''[[HMS Dreadn

...fficials refused entry to the vessel, and to [[HMS Spey|HMS ''Spey'']] a [[Royal Navy]] vessel also participating in those joint exercises. Observers attributed

...fic basis for the cause of scurvy was by a ship's surgeon in the British [[Royal Navy]], [[James Lind]]. While at sea in May 1747, Lind provided some crewmembers

...; Steenkirk, in August 1692; and Neerwinden (or Landen), in July 1693. The Royal Navy's victory over the French fleet at [[Battle of La Hogue|La Hogue]] (May 169

...the family, [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]] ordered that the [[Royal Navy]] vessel, [[HMS Calypso (D61)|HMS ''Calypso'']], evacuate the family, and P In 1952, the Duke was given the rank and titles [[Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)|Admiral of the Fleet]], [[Field Marshal (UK)|Field Marshal]], and [[Marsha

...national slave trade was illegal after about 1815, enforced by the British Royal Navy. However, overland slave trading continued into the twentieth century, with

...] who commanded the ''[[KMS Bismarck]]'' on its final voyage against the [[Royal Navy]], had been doing exercises, in the UK, with [[USS Winston S. Churchill (DD

* Schurman, Donald M. ''The Education of a Navy'' (1965), on British Royal Navy

...ansports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. The Royal Navy was so powerful it blockaded the American coast and moved the British army ...with 226 guns. It was the French navy that was decisive, by defeating the Royal Navy off Yorktown in October 1781 it forced the surrender of besieged General Ch

...in negotiating an end to the [[impressment]] of American sailors into the Royal Navy, which later became one of the key issues that led to the [[War of 1812]]. ...he concession on the West Indies trade. In addition, reports Perkins, the Royal Navy treated American commerce with "relative leniency" during the wars, and man

[[Royal Navy]] Admiral [[John Jellicoe]], commanding the British Grand Fleet, received r

...f 1942. The ''Caroline'' was a U.S. ship in Canadian waters, sunk by the Royal Navy because it was believed to be supporting rebels. The criteria, to give the

...built and financed by British interests and operated by the British (using Royal Navy officers on leave) and ran between Confederate-controlled ports and the neu ...rs, equivalent to about $2.5 billion in 2006 dollars). The pay was high: a Royal Navy officer on leave might earn several thousand dollars (in gold) in salary an

|quote = The Tongan Royal Navy's Ngahau Koula was received by His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Tupouto’a |quote = The Tongan Royal Navy has taken delivery of a Guardian-class patrol vessel from Australia.

...hat the rate of working was extremely slow by British standards, while the Royal Navy interpreters were particularly critical of the poor standard of grammar and

In the mid 1990s, both the [[United States Navy]] and the [[Royal Navy]] developed [[amphibious transport dock]]s which took on this unique amphib

* Schurman, Donald M. ''The Education of a Navy'' (1965), on British Royal Navy

...execution was not immediate, the principles of the Order were applied to a Royal Navy team, led by Sublieutenant John Godwin, was imprisoned at [[Sachsenhausen C

...orts, which arrived shortly after an Axis air raid, were fired on by the [[Royal Navy]]; 33 were shot down and 37 damaged, resulting in 318 casualties to [[fratr

...less powder made of [[nitrocellulose]] (gun-cotton). Four years later, the Royal Navy began using smokeless powder made from a nitroglycerine base. Both these co

| [[File:The Pelican was original a Royal Navy vessel, in this WW1 image she is owned by the HBC.jpg | 100px]] || ''[[Peli

...to be American citizens; if they had been born in the British Empire, the Royal Navy considered them still British, seized them and put them in their navy.

...ntive. The ''Caroline'' was a U.S. ship in Canadian waters, sunk by the [[Royal Navy]] because it was believed to be supporting rebels. The criteria, to give th

...favored Congress. Yet it was an isolated island, easily controlled by the Royal Navy from its powerful base in Halifax. Protests were put down, and the people

...ctBioElizabethRussell/> While he was able to secure employment with the [[Royal Navy]] in [[Harwich]], the ''Dictionary'' reported ''"Elizabeth grew up with lit

...The [[Royal Australian Navy (RAN)]] was under the command of the British [[Royal Navy]], and scored an early and significant victory when it destroyed the German

...te. Elsewhere, the British were normally only in control through Army and Royal Navy activity.