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HMS Rooke was a shore establishment of the British Armed Forces in Gibraltar from 1946 to 1990. Located on Queensway near King's Bastion, the base replaced...

One ship and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Rooke after Admiral Sir George Rooke: Ship HMS Rooke was a Thornycroft-type...

This is a list of shore establishments (or stone frigates) of the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve. Portsmouth establishments HMNB Clyde RNAS Culdrose...

Eleven ships and a shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Cormorant, after the seabird, the cormorant: HMS Cormorant (1757) was...

South-East Asia, 1943-1946 (1st ed.). London: William Collins Sons & Co. ISBN 0-00-217607-6.  ——— , ed. (1989). From Shore to Shore: The Tour Diaries of...

Lebanon, when the fleet's flagship, the battleship HMS Victoria, collided with the battleship HMS Camperdown. Victoria sank within fifteen minutes, taking...

the experimental staff at the shore establishment HMS Excellent and in 1948 he became executive officer in the cruiser HMS Superb. He was promoted to captain...

forming part of Western Approaches Command. Included: Gibdock HMS Rooke (1946 shore establishment) Axelrod, Alan (2007). Encyclopedia of World War II 2-Volume...

the shore establishments HMS Excellent and HMS Vernon on half-pay, on HMS Cambridge, very briefly at Milford Haven in August 1886, and on board HMS Dreadnought...

decided to gain his qualifications as a gunnery specialist at the shore establishment HMS Excellent. After qualifying, he remained at the school as a gunnery...

redeployed as Flag Officer, Taranto and Adriatic (based at the shore establishment HMS Nile in Alexandria) until the end of 1943. Appointed a Companion...

by German aircraft off Dover in July 1940. Pollock joined the shore establishment HMS Excellent to train as a gunnery specialist in January 1941, and...

the flagship of the First Sea Lord has nominally been the ship of the line HMS Victory, which used to be Lord Nelson's flagship. The following table lists...

vessel: HMS Trent – permanently deployed at Gibraltar since April 2021 Cutlass-class patrol vessels (replaced previous Archer-class boats 2021/22): HMS Cutlass...

altogether. This situation described was further exacerbated by the disaster of HMS Captain in 1870, a poorly-designed new vessel for the navy. The responsibility...

Gibraltar Territorial Waters (BGTW). The shore establishment at Gibraltar is called HMS Rooke after Sir George Rooke, who captured the Rock for Archduke Charles...

given command of the cruiser HMS Canterbury in 1927, the shore establishment HMS Excellent in 1930 and the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1933. He went...

Moses Kekūāiwa, Alexander Liholiho, Lot Kamehameha, Victoria Kamāmalu, Emma Rooke, William Lunalilo, David Kalākaua, Lydia Kamakaʻeha, Bernice Pauahi, Elizabeth...

(He [Rooke] had the Spanish flag hauled down and the English flag hoisted in its stead; Rooke's men quickly raised the British flag ... and Rooke claimed...

under Rooke's command and a force of Dutch and English marines under the command of Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt and Captain Edward Whitaker of HMS Dorsetshire...