HMS Swindon was a Hunt-class minesweeper of the Aberdare sub-class built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was not finished in time to participate in the First World War and was sold into civilian service in 1921.
HMSSwindon was a Hunt-class minesweeper of the Aberdare sub-class built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was not finished in time to participate...
and parish, near the Borough of Swindon Lydiard Tregoze, a Wiltshire village and parish, near the Borough of Swindon Lydiard Park, formerly in the parish...
November 1974. He spent three years at the club before being sold on to Swindon Town for £14,000. He returned to Portsmouth in 1981 for a £50,000 fee but...
Columba. Converted to diesel power and renamed Chilliwack in 1954. Ex HMSSwindon. Ex HMS Barnstaple. Ex Deerhound. Ex Chilco. Hull built at Moodyville, BC...
required"). HMS Northumberland HMS Richmond HMS Portland HMS Somerset HMS Kent HMS Sutherland (currently completing LIFEX refit as of March 2024) HMS St Albans...
Flotilla. HMS Victory HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS Prince of Wales HMS Daring – completing refit, scheduled to return to the fleet in 2024 HMS Dauntless HMS Diamond...
Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
between March 1866 and June 1872. These were the first locomotives built at Swindon railway works, albeit with boilers supplied to the company. They were larger...
BRNC HMS Raleigh Northwood HQ Rosyth Dockyard HMS Vulcan HMNB Devonport HMNB Portsmouth HMS Jufair Mare Harbour RAF Mount Pleasant Stanley HMS Drake...
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich and the Renault Centre in Swindon; boat builder Spud Rowsell in Exmouth, with Phil Morrison; the hull cost...
Bath, Bristol, Bournemouth, Cheltenham, Exeter, Gloucester, Plymouth and Swindon. It is geographically the largest of the nine regions of England with a...
Royal Navy at that point "to break that cycle". He completed his training at HMS Raleigh. He intended to become a helicopter pilot but was rejected when it...
Halliwell Swindon, Wiltshire, U.K. 22 Murdered O'Callaghan was abducted by taxi driver Christopher Halliwell after leaving a nightclub in Swindon and driven...
1700–1914. Swindon: English Heritage. "Chatham Dockyard". Battleships cruisers. Retrieved 2 September 2016. Eastland & Ballantyne, p. 13. "HMS Unicorn:...
these days." Fleming was buried in the churchyard of Sevenhampton, near Swindon. His will was proved on 4 November, with his estate valued at £302,147...
that the troops were already travelling, allowed them to go as far as Swindon and Cardiff, but blocked their deployment; he was concerned that the use...
units from HMS Vernon and HM Signal School, Portsmouth) was itself commissioned as HMS Osprey, becoming an independent shore command. (HMS Icewhale (Z12)...
North Yorkshire Moors Railway in 2004 the locomotive was moved to the Swindon Steam Railway Museum. However, soon after it was sent on to the Tyseley...
Energy: the archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture. Swindon: English Heritage. pp. 58–59. Historic England. "Details from listed building...
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