Category: Royal Navy
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British Battleship HMS Malaya
HMS Malaya First World War A Queen Elizabeth class battleship, HMS Malaya was built by Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Company at High Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, and launched in March 1915. She was named in honour of the Federated Malay States in British Malaya, whose government paid for her construction. She took part… Read more
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HMS Fiji (1940) British Light Cruiser
HMS Fiji (1940) British Light Cruiser HMS Fiji was the lead ship of the Fiji-class (also called the Crown Colony-class) of light cruisers, built for the Royal Navy during the early stages of the Second World War. Laid down in 1938 and commissioned in 1940, she was designed under the constraints of the London Naval… Read more
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HMS Ramillies (1892) Battleship
HMS Ramillies (1892) HMS Ramillies was a Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy, launched on 1 March 1892 at J. & G. Thompson at Clydebank, having been laid down in 1890. She was commissioned into service in 1893. The Royal Sovereign Class Ramillies was one of eight ships in the Royal Sovereign… Read more