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HMS IMPLACCABLE-1942? HMS Implacable sails under the Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver BC

HMS Sirius (F40) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN)

HMS Sirius (F40) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN) built by H.M. Dockyard Portsmouth, and was the penultimate RN warship to be built there for a period of forty years, until Vosper Thornycroft built HMS Clyde. Sirius was launched on 22 September 1964 and commissioned on 15 June 1966. The ship continuedContinue reading “HMS Sirius (F40) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN)”

HMS Andromeda was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy.

HMS Andromeda was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built at HM Dockyard Portsmouth. She was launched on 24 May 1967 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 2 December 1968. She took part in the Falklands War and was sold to India in 1995, for use as a training ship, beingContinue reading “HMS Andromeda was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy.”

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)