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HMS Scylla (F71) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). She was built at Devonport Royal Dockyard, the last RN frigate to be built there as of 2016. Scylla was commissioned in 1970, taken out of service in 1993 in accordance with Options for Change, and sunk as an artificial reef in 2004 off Whitsand Bay, Cornwall.

HMS Good Hope was one of four Drake-class armoured cruisers built for the Royal Navy around 1900

She was originally named Africa, but was renamed before she was launched. She became flagship of the 1st Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet in 1906, and was the flagship of the 2nd Cruiser Squadron in 1908. She was reduced to reserve in 1913, but was recommissioned in mid-1914.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Good_Hope_(1901)

HMS Lincoln 1975

How it once was! HMS Victorious, HMS Ark Royal and HMS Hermes in line astern in the Channel.

HMS Manxman when she was still a fast minelayer, taken by the late Alan Green as she arrived Port Melbourne on 29 March 1946.