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HMNB Clyde
Faslane Naval Base, HMNB Clyde Her Majesty's Naval Base Clyde is the headquarters of the Royal Navy in Scotland, best known as the home of the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons submarines. The base is actually two separate locations: Faslane, 25 miles from Glasgow.RNAD Coulport, west of Fasl..

HMNB Devonport
Devonport in 1909, courtesy [WW1 Archive] Devonport Dockyard and the Hamoaze from the Rame Peninsula, Cornwall Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Devonport (HMS Drake), commonly called Devonport Dockyard, is a major Royal Navy base located in Devonport, in the west of the city of Ply..

HMNB Portsmouth
Portsmouth Naval Dockyard. HMNB Portsmouth which also incorporates the area known as HMS Nelson is a large naval base to the east of the city of Portsmouth on Portsea Island in Hampshire, using the north eastern area of Portsmouth Harbour. Contents 1 Functioning base2 Portsmouth ..

HMNZS Achilles (70)
For post 1948 service in the Indian Navy please refer to article INS Delhi'' Career Built by: Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, England Laid down: 11th June 1931 Launched: 1 September 1932 Commissioned: 6th October 1933 Paid off: Fate: Sold to India , renamed INS Delhi Penant: 57 Genera..

HMNZS Canterbury (F-421)
HMNZS Canterbury was one of two broad beam Leander class frigates operated by the RNZN from 1971 to 2005. HMNZS Canterbury was laid down on 12 June 1969 and launched 11 months later on 6 May 1970. Commissioned on the 22 October 1971, Canterbury went onto see operational service in the Persian Gulf, ..

HMNZS Canterbury (L-421)
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HMNZS Charles Upham
HMNZS Charles Upham was a Royal New Zealand Navy ship commissioned in 1995 and named after Charles Upham VC & Bar. The ship's badge featured his Victoria Cross and bar. This was the first ship commissioned into the RNZN to be named after a person. The ship was to be used to move military personnel..

HMNZS Endeavour (A-11)
Named after Captain Cook's ship, HMNZS Endeavour is the third ship of the RNZN to carry the name. The previous two ships were Antarctica support vessels leased from the United States. Endeavour was built in South Korea to a commercial design and commissioned on the 8th of April 1988. Specificat..

HMNZS Leander
The HMNZS Leander was a light cruiser which served with the Royal New Zealand Navy during World War II. She was the lead ship of a class of eight ships, the Leander class light cruiser. Description Displacement: 7,270 tonsDimensions: Length: 554 ft (169 m); Beam: 55 ft (17 m)Armament: ..

HMNZS Monowai
Name Monowai is "Maori for "channel full of water" and is a glacial lake in the South Island of New Zealand. Battle Honours Pacific 1941Normandy 1944 HMNZS Monowai (i) Taken over by the Royal Navy in 1939 and converted to an armed merchant cruiser and later again to a troop ship. Attacked by t..

HMNZS Otago
Ships Name Ships carrying the name HMNZS Otago are named after the Province of Otago, in the South Island and are normally associated with the City of Dunedin. HMNZS Otago (F-111) Was a Rothesay Class Type 12 Frigate, acquired from the Royal Navy, before completion and commissioned into the RNZ..

HMNZS Resolution (A-14)
HMNZS Resolution (A 14) is the hydrographic ship of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Contents 1 Specifications2 History3 United States service4 New Zealand service Specifications Standard displacement: 2,262 tonnesLength overall: 68 mBeam: 13 mDraught:4.4 mSpeed: 11 knots (20 km/h..

HMNZS Taranaki (F-148)
--> HMNZS Taranaki Career Laid down: 1960 Launched: 1960 Commissioned: 28 March 1961 Decommissioned: 18 June 1982 Struck: 2 July 1982 Fate: sold and broken up General Characteristics Displacement: 2144 tonnes Length: 112 metres Beam: 12 metres Draught: 5 metres Propuls..

HMNZS Te Kaha (F77)
HMNZS Te Kaha (F77) is an Anzac class frigate of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Te Kaha was involved in the September 1999 landing of the United Nations International Force in East Timor. The frigate was also involved in the Solomon Islands conflict during 2000-2001, where she relieved her sister ship ..

HMNZS Te Mana (F111)
HMNZS Te Mana (F111) is an Anzac class frigate of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Specifications: Standard Displacement: 3,600 tonnesLength Overall: 118 metresBeam: 14.8 metresDraught: 6.2 metresSpeed: 27+ knotsRange: ..

HMNZS Wakakura
Two ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) have been named HMNZS Wakakura: HMNZS Wakakura (T00), transferred to the RNZN in 1941, was a Castle Class Minesweeper. She served for New Zealand in the Second World War. HMNZS Wakakura (P3555), commissioned on 26 March 1985, is a Moa class patrol boat..

HMNZS Wellington
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HMNZS Wellington (F-69)
HMNZS Wellington is a retired Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy. The Leander class frigate originally commissioned in 1969 for the Royal Navy as HMS Bacchante, she joined the RNZN in 1982. Extensive refits were required to remove asbestos resulting in th..

HMNZS Wellington (P-55)
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HM Nautical Almanac Office
The HM Nautical Almanac Office (HMNAO), now part of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, was established in 1832 on the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), where the Nautical Almanac had been published since 1767. In 1937 it became part of RGO and moved with ..

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