"with escorting the royal yacht through Australian waters during the Royal Visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Australia. On 9 March 1954, while in Port Philip Bay, a whaler transporting 30 sailors to the carrier hit a series of freak waves and capsized. Two sailors were killed. Navy divers were involved in rescuing the survivors, with one earning the British Empire Medal for his efforts. On 3 April, while escorting ""Gothic"" to the Cocos Islands with the destroyers and accompanying, ""Vengeance""s ship's company assembled on the flight deck and positioned themselves to form the Queen's signature. After later seeing an"
"aerial photograph of this, Queen Elizabeth had a message sent to the carrier, saying ""Thank you for the original forgery."" On 5 April, after arriving at the Cocos Islands, ""Vengeance"" was involved in a collision with ""Bataan"" while the destroyer attempted to refuel from the carrier. ""Bataan""s bow made contact with ""Venegance""s side, but the damage was minor, and both ships returned to Sydney in May without assistance, after visiting Manus Island and Rabaul. In June 1954, ""Vengeance"" was removed from active service and reclassified as the RAN's primary training ship. The previous training ship, the cruiser , had been"
"HMS Vengeance (1824) HMS ""Vengeance"" was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 27 July 1824 at Pembroke Dockyard. The ""Canopus""-class ships were all modelled on a captured French ship, the ""Franklin"", which was renamed HMS ""Canopus"" in British service. Some of the copies were faster than others, though it was reported that none could beat the original. In August 1851 ""Vengeance"", commanded by Captain Lord Edward Russell, left Portsmouth for the Mediterranean. After stops at Lisbon and Gibraltar, she arrived at Malta on 2 October. The ship was nicknamed 'the wind's-eye liner',"
"HMS Vengeance (S31) HMS Vengeance is the fourth and final of the Royal Navy. ""Vengeance"" carries the Trident ballistic missile, the UK's nuclear deterrent. ""Vengeance"" was built at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd (now BAE Systems Submarine Solutions), was launched in September 1998, and commissioned in November 1999. Before she was commissioned, the British Government stated that once the ""Vanguard"" submarines became fully operational, they would only carry 200 warheads. ""Vengeance"" carries unopened ""last instructions"" (letters of last resort) of the current British Prime Minister that are to be used in the event of a national catastrophe or"
"HMS Vengeance (1758) HMS ""Vengeance"" was a 28-gun sixth rate of the Royal Navy. She had previously been a French privateer under the same name until her capture in 1758 during the Seven Years' War. ""Vengeance"" was built in 1757 at Saint-Malo. , under the command of Captain John Elliot, captured her off The Lizard on 8 January 1758 and brought her into Plymouth. An Admiralty order was issued, authorising her purchase into the navy on 11 March 1758, and she was duly acquired on 21 June that year for the sum of £2,151.3.0d. She was officially named the following"
"of , which was commissioned on 28 October 1955. ""Vengeance"" was not reactivated for RN use, and on 14 December 1956, the carrier was sold by the Admiralty to Brazil for US$9 million. From mid-1957 until December 1960, the carrier underwent a massive refit and reconstruction at Verolme Dock in Rotterdam, which cost US$27 million. Modifications included the installation of an 8.5-degree angled flight deck, a more powerful steam catapult, stronger arresting gear, reinforced hangar elevators, and a mirror landing aid. This was to allow the operation of jet aircraft, which were larger, faster, and heavier than the propeller aircraft"
"carrier for the ""Marinha do Brasil"" (MB, Brazilian Navy). Kubitschek later claimed that this was to avoid a naval rebellion during his inauguration at the start of 1956, and despite believing in the ""military uselessness"" of the second-hand warship, the sale of ""Vengeance"" to Brazil for US$9 million went through on 14 December 1956. From mid-1957 until December 1960, the carrier underwent a massive refit and reconstruction in the Netherlands. The work was carried out by Verolme Dock in Rotterdam, and cost US$27 million. The most visible change was the installation of an 8.5-degree angled flight deck. The size of"
"HMS Vengeance (R71) HMS ""Vengeance"" (R71) was a light aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II. The carrier served in three navies during her career: the Royal Navy, the Royal Australian Navy (as ""'HMAS ""Vengeance, from 1952 to 1955), and the Brazilian Navy (as ', from 1956 to 2001). Constructed during World War II, ""Vengeance"" was one of the few ships in her class to be completed before the war's end, but she did not see active service. The ship spent the next few years as an aircraft transport and training carrier before she was sent"
"day, and was fitted at Plymouth between August and September 1758 for the sum of £1,619.18.6d. ""Vengeance"" was first commissioned on 27 October 1758 under the command of Captain Gamaliel Nightingale, for service in the Irish Sea and, later, to assist with the impressment of sailors on the River Mersey in northwest England. In July 1759 she was anchored at the mouth of the Mersey when she encountered a whaler, ""Golden Lyon"", returning from Greenland. On Nightingale's orders a press gang from ""Vengeance"" boarded the whaler to search for seamen eligible for impressment. The whaler's crew were exempt by virtue"
"of Naval Personnel and Director of Personal Services. In September that year he was additionally appointed trustee of the Services Canteens Trust Fund; a position he held until October 1952 and for which he received a letter of appreciation from the Minister for Defence. The same month he assumed the position of Deputy Chief of Naval Staff. On 25 August 1954, Becher was given command of the aircraft carrier HMAS ""Vengeance"", and in October he returned with his new command to the Korean theatre to transport the aircraft, equipment and personnel of No. 77 Squadron RAAF back to Australia. In"
"oldest operational aircraft carrier in the world, and the last operational unit of the World War II Light Fleet design. Despite attempts to preserve the carrier as a museum ship, and after several failed attempts to auction the ship off (including a listing on eBay), ""Minas Gerais"" was sold for scrap in 2004 and taken to Alang for breaking up. The carrier was constructed by Swan Hunter for the Royal Navy (RN) as HMS ""Vengeance"". She was laid down on 16 November 1942, and launched on 23 February 1944. Construction was completed on 15 January 1945, and ""Vengeance"" was commissioned"
"HMS Revenge (1741) HMS ""Revenge"" (1741) was a privateering vessel commissioned by Governor of Rhode Island, Richard Ward in 1741. In his Letter of Marque, Ward names Benjamin Norton as captain, commanding him to commandeer any Spanish ship he may come across. Throughout the sloop's five month cruise, Norton kept a detailed journal of the ship's daily encounters. The ship was set to sail down the East Coast of the colonies to the Caribbean, and stop any Spanish ships from delivering supplies, or taking supplies. The story of ""Revenge"", and the surviving documents, are a huge insight into colonial privateering."
"September 1945 and delivered on 30 October 1945. She was named after the chief engineer of a United States Army freighter who had stayed below decks to shut down his engines after a 13 April 1945 explosion, an act that won him a posthumous Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal. In 1950, a ""new"" liberty ship was constructed by Industriale Maritime SpA, Genoa, Italy by using the bow section of and the stern section of , both of which had been wrecked. The new ship was named , and served until scrapped in 1962. Several designs of mass-produced petroleum tankers were"
"Revenge"" QAR on November 21, 1996. It was located by Intersal's director of operations, Mike Daniel, who used historical research provided by Intersal's president, Phil Masters and maritime archaeologist David Moore. The shipwreck lies in 28 feet (8.5 m) of water about one mile (1.6 km) offshore of Fort Macon State Park (34°41′44″N 76°41′20″W), Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. Thirty-one cannons have been identified to date and more than 250,000 artifacts have been recovered. The cannons are of different origins including Sweden, England and possibly France, and of different sizes as would be expected with a colonial pirate crew. Recognizing the"
"among that number. Notes Citations References HMS Telegraph (1813) HMS ""Telegraph was built in 1812 in New York as the American letter of marque Vengeance"". The Royal Navy captured her in 1813 and took her into service as the 14-gun schooner or gunbrig ""Telegraph"". Over a period of only about two years she took numerous small prizes and caused the destruction of a French 16-gun brig. A gale caused the wrecking of ""Telegraph"" in 1817. On 1 January 1813, the 36-gun fifth-rate 18-pounder frigate captured ""Vengeance"". ""Vengeance"" was an American letter of marquee schooner of 180 tons and a 15-man"
"carrying the British Expeditionary Force to France. Merchant ship SS ""Pakeha"" was disguised as HMS ""Revenge"" to deceive German aircraft, a role designated as fleet tender, in 1939. On 1 October ""Revenge"" was ordered to prepare to take up convoy escort duties in the South Atlantic, because of the threat posed by the German ""pocket battleship"", ; however, on 5 October 1939, in a change of orders, she was attached to the North Atlantic Escort Force based at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Fulfilling another urgent need at the same time, ""Revenge"" and her sister ship ""Resolution"" were to carry gold bullion"
"launched on 25 July 1899. Her completion was delayed by damage to the fitting-out dock, and she was not completed until April 1902. She was the first British battleship completely built, armed, and engined by a single company. HMS ""Vengeance"" was commissioned at Portsmouth by Captain Leslie Creery Stuart on 8 April 1902 for service with the Mediterranean Fleet. She left the United Kingdom early the following month, arriving at Malta on 12 May. In September 1902 she visited the Aegean sea with other ships of the station for combined manoeuvres near Nauplia. In July 1903 she transferred to the"
"and a 1983 election promise to not replace the carrier saw the end of Australian carrier-based aviation. After ""Vengeance"" was returned from her loan to Australia, she was sold to the Brazilian Navy on 14 December 1956. From mid-1957 until December 1960, the carrier underwent a massive refit and reconstruction at Verolme Dock in Rotterdam; the work performed included the installation of an 8.5-degree angled flight deck and a steam catapult, strengthening of arresting gear, and reinforcing of the hangar elevators. The carrier was commissioned into the ""Marinha do Brasil"" (MB, Brazilian Navy) as ""Minas Gerais"" on 6 December 1960."
"Avenger. The damaged Avenger had deliberately ditched next to a destroyer on the return journey. Lowden's plane was the last to return to HMS Indefatigable. Later that day, Emperor Hirohito, announced via a pre-recorded radio address that Japanese forces had surrendered to the Allies. Following the official surrender on 2 September 1945 in Tokyo Bay, HMS Indefatigable returned to Sydney. On 11 September 1945, Lowden was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions over Tokyo Bay. After the war, Lowden returned to Scotland and joined the graduate programme at Low and Bonar, the Dundee based textile and electronics group."
"HMS Telegraph (1813) HMS ""Telegraph was built in 1812 in New York as the American letter of marque Vengeance"". The Royal Navy captured her in 1813 and took her into service as the 14-gun schooner or gunbrig ""Telegraph"". Over a period of only about two years she took numerous small prizes and caused the destruction of a French 16-gun brig. A gale caused the wrecking of ""Telegraph"" in 1817. On 1 January 1813, the 36-gun fifth-rate 18-pounder frigate captured ""Vengeance"". ""Vengeance"" was an American letter of marquee schooner of 180 tons and a 15-man crew that had been sailing from"
"Royal Australian Navy on 13 November 1952. She was recommissioned as an Australian ship on this date, and received the prefix HMAS. Departing from Devonport at the end of 1952, the carrier sailed to Australia via the Mediterranean, and arrived in Fremantle on 26 February 1953. She reached Sydney in March, and was marked as fully operational in June. In late 1953, ""Vengeance"" was prepared for a deployment to Korea, to support the United Nations enforcement of the July 1953 armistice. The deployment did not go ahead: HMAS ""Sydney"" was sent instead. From February until April 1954, ""Vengeance"" was tasked"
"HMS Fidelity (D57) HMS ""Fidelity"" (D57) was a Special Service Vessel of the British Royal Navy during World War II, originally the French merchant vessel La Rhin. The 2,456 ton ship was built by H. & C. Grayson Ltd. of Garston, Liverpool, and completed in 1920 for ""Compagnie de Navigation Paquet"", Marseilles. In June 1940 ""Le Rhin"" sailed for Gibraltar under the command of ""Lieutenant de Vaisseau"" Claude Andre Michel Peri, and was turned over to the Royal Navy at Barry, Wales. The ship was converted into the special service vessel, and commissioned on 24 September 1940 as HMS ""Fidelity"""
"26 August 1766. This time an admiralty order was issued on 4 September for her to be fitted as a breakwater, and she was scuttled at Plymouth in October. HMS Vengeance (1758) HMS ""Vengeance"" was a 28-gun sixth rate of the Royal Navy. She had previously been a French privateer under the same name until her capture in 1758 during the Seven Years' War. ""Vengeance"" was built in 1757 at Saint-Malo. , under the command of Captain John Elliot, captured her off The Lizard on 8 January 1758 and brought her into Plymouth. An Admiralty order was issued, authorising her"
"carrier was listed for sale on auction website eBay by a user claiming to be a shipbroker representing the owner. Bidding reached £4 million before the auction was removed from the website under rules preventing the sale of military ordnance. An auction in Rio de Janeiro in February 2004 also failed to sell the ship. Sometime between February and July 2004, the carrier was towed to the ship breaking yards at Alang, India for dismantling. HMS Vengeance (R71) HMS ""Vengeance"" (R71) was a light aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy during World War II. The carrier served in three"
"the British torpedo gunboat . On 19 December 1898, ""Revenge"", with Noel aboard, joined the Italian battleship ""Francesco Morosini"" (carrying the admiral commanding the International Squadron′s Italian ships) and the Russian armored cruiser ""Gerzog Edinburgski"" (with the senior Russian commander, Rear Admiral Nikolai Skrydlov, aboard) in steaming to Milos with the French protected cruiser ""Bugeaud"", flagship of the International Squadron′s overall commander, Rear Admiral Édouard Pottier. At Milos, they rendezvoused with Prince George of Greece and Denmark aboard his yacht. After Prince George boarded ""Bugeaud"" on 20 December, ""Revenge"", ""Francesco Morosini"", and ""Gerzog Edinburgski"" escorted ""Bugeaud"" to Crete, where Prince"
"Retribution (2002 film) Retribution is the sixth episode of the British film series Hornblower. It was released on 25 March 2002, nearly three years after the first four films and the day after the fifth episode, ""Mutiny"", of which it is a continuation. It is based on the book ""Lieutenant Hornblower"" by C.S. Forester. In January 1802 in Kingston, Jamaica, Hornblower and the other lieutenants of the HMS ""Renown"", Buckland, Bush and Kennedy, face a court-martial on the charge of mutiny. The tribunal consists of Commodore Pellew, Captain Hammond, and Captain Collins. Pellew is very fond of Hornblower, his former"
"patrol, who were later picked up by , and two crewmen of a seaplane that had crashed on take off on 28 December and been picked up by . To this day 40 Commando has never reused T as a company designation in memory of the loss. 5. Heroisme, Jean AYRAL, Compagnon dela Liberation, (By Xavier Jean REYES-AYRAL) Editions l'Harmattan HMS Fidelity (D57) HMS ""Fidelity"" (D57) was a Special Service Vessel of the British Royal Navy during World War II, originally the French merchant vessel La Rhin. The 2,456 ton ship was built by H. & C. Grayson Ltd. of"
"HMS Revenge (1805) HMS ""Revenge"" was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 13 April 1805. Sir John Henslow designed her as one of the large class 74s; she was the only ship built to her draught. As a large 74, she carried 24-pounder guns on her upper gun deck, rather than the 18-pounder guns found on the middling and common class 74s. Newly commissioned, and captained by Robert Moorsom, she fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, where she sailed in Collingwood's column. ""Revenge"" was engaged at the Battle of Basque Roads in"
"and was faster than all the other ships except . ""Vengeance""s commander during 1851 and 1852 was William Robert Mends. ""Vengeance"" returned to England at Christmas 1852, before returning to the Mediterranean with a new second in command, Commander George Le Geyt Bowyear (1818–1903), in the spring. By June she had rejoined the fleet at Malta, and then accompanied the whole Mediterranean fleet under Vice-Admiral James Dundas to Bashika Bay outside the Dardanelles as political tension increased before the Crimean War. In October the fleet moved through the Dardanelles to the Bosphorus and moored at Beikos Bay. In January she"
"two years after the capture of ""Sarah"". In all of the trials, the judge would rule that there would be no prize awarded. HMS Revenge (1741) HMS ""Revenge"" (1741) was a privateering vessel commissioned by Governor of Rhode Island, Richard Ward in 1741. In his Letter of Marque, Ward names Benjamin Norton as captain, commanding him to commandeer any Spanish ship he may come across. Throughout the sloop's five month cruise, Norton kept a detailed journal of the ship's daily encounters. The ship was set to sail down the East Coast of the colonies to the Caribbean, and stop any"
"the ship themselves (the version recounted, for example, by Arthur Koestler). For years Britain believed the Irgun was probably responsible. The Haganah's role was finally publicly disclosed in 1957 when Munya Mardor, the operative who had planted the bomb, wrote an account of his activities in the Jewish underground. He recounted, """"There was never any intent to cause the ship to sink. The British would have used this against the Jewish population and show it as an act of sabotage against the war effort"""". He said that it was in the highest interest of the Haganah to fight the sanctions"
"the war ""Vengeance"" was ordered to Hong Kong, and on 3 September was used as the venue for the Japanese surrender of the territory. She remained in the area until the end of 1945, sailed to Australia for a refit, then returned to Hong Kong. In April 1946, ""Vengeance"" delivered No. 11 and No. 17 Squadrons of the Royal Air Force to Miho, Ibaraki in Japan, where they were assigned as part of British Commonwealth Occupation Force. ""Vengeance"" remained in Eastern waters until 20 July 1946, when she departed for England. The ship arrived at Devonport on 13 August after"
"March 1946 ""Vengeance"" and her squadrons returned to the UK, via Ceylon, and arrived at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS ""Daedalus"") on 12 August 1946, where 812 Squadron was disbanded. The squadron was reformed again on 1 October 1946 at RNAS Eglinton (HMS ""Gannet"") in Derry, Northern Ireland, and joined 804 Squadron, flying the Supermarine Seafire, to form the 14th Carrier Air Group. In February 1947, 14 CAG sailed aboard on a lengthy Far Eastern cruise, eventually returning in December. In August 1948 the group sailed for the Mediterranean aboard , where Hal Far was used as a shore base. The group"