At this stage only individual photographs of sailors are being added and not group photographs. Sig.-Boatswain [14] Apparently, Duke of York also shared in some or all of the prize money. Over the last twenty years we have worked with hundreds of people and many archives around the world to make the largest database of . She participated in exercises with the Home Fleet and joined it in Gibraltar in September and October. Lively had two killed and four wounded. Photo source: From the Historic Collections of the Institute of Naval Medicine by kind permission of the Commanding Officer, Law, Cecil Robert De Vaux - Sub Lieutenant, Murray-Browne, Granville - Lieutenant-Commander, Randle, Rowland Lickbarrow - Engine Room Artificer 1st Class, Tanner, Charles Philip - Engineer Sub Lieutenant, Wilson, John Skinner - Lieutenant-Commander. William N. Eden. [5], The 760-foot (231.6m) armoured flight deck had a maximum width of 102 feet (31.1m). By Guest Pete Wood 24 April , 2004 in Sailors, navies and the war at sea. Indefatigable was short of water, so he put the crew of Ranger on board the schooner (though not Ranger's officers) and sent them ashore at Santa Cruz. INDEFATIGABLE. We've spent a lot of time trying to make it as clear and helpful as possible. Indefatigable joined Implacable for her annual winter visit to Gibraltar after completing her refit in February 1952. INDEFATIGABLE CREW PHOTOGRAPHS If you would like to add a photograph please email info @ jutlandcrewlists.org (remove spaces). [30] For Operation Goodwood, a series of attacks on Tirpitz, the Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters of 1840 Squadron replaced the Barracudas of 826 Squadron. She departed on 9 June and arrived at Plymouth on 7 July. Goodsell served with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on HMS Indefatigable. The stern portion had not previously been discovered.[23]. Captain The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources. Two turrets were mounted fore and aft on the centreline, identified as 'A' and 'X' respectively. Other vessels which Minerve had captured included Martinus (Bremen brig), Tagus (Portuguese brig ), Minerva (English snow), and Ann and Dorothea (aka Beata Maria, Danish schooner). By April 1946 these had been reduced to 11 Bofors guns, 6 twin and 7 single Oerlikon guns. CLIP is a not-for-profit volunteer project, set up to assist research into the records of British merchant She arrived in Wellington on 27 November and was opened for public tours, during which time the Prime Minister, Peter Fraser, also visited. Brown, David K., p. 51, fn. Harry Wallis. Master, R.N.R. On 18 January Indefatigable was at Falmouth. By 15:54, the range was down to 12,900 yards (11,800m) and Beatty ordered a course change two points to starboard to open up the range at 15:57. [64], On 7 January 1808 Indefatigable and Tribune captured the French galiot Fanny and her cargo. . 1923. [74] While there she captured two vessels, the Danish ship Neptunus on 24 March and the French ship Nymphe on 28 March. [8] During a pre-war refit, a 9-foot (2.7m) rangefinder was added to the rear of the 'A' turret roof, and this turret was equipped to control the entire main armament as an emergency backup for the normal fire-control positions. The British ships were still in the process of making their turn as only the two leading ships, Lion and Princess Royal, had steadied on their course when the Germans opened fire. Smoke and flames gushed from the forward part of the ship and large pieces were thrown 200 feet (61.0m) into the air. 9 Naval Torpedo-Bomber Reconnaissance Wing, Armoured aircraft carrier action and damage reports, 1940-1945, Maritimequest HMS Indefatigable photo gallery, Darrell V. Bumby RN Collection on MaritimeQuest, List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Indefatigable_(R10)&oldid=1120025152, World War II aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom, Cold War aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. All three battlecruisers had problems with their boilers, but Goeben and Breslau were able to break contact and reached Messina by the morning of the 5th. Set up a site giving access to images of 70 editions of the Mercantile Navy List - both our own images and sets from the Maritime History Archive in Newfoundland, (with their kind permission). Battle of Jutland Crew Lists Project. Henry G. S. Laing. Indefatigable remained in the Mediterranean until she was relieved by Inflexible on 24 January 1915 and proceeded to Malta for a refit; she then sailed to England on 14 February and joined the 2nd BCS upon her arrival. (60 m) in the air. Claude de N. Lucas. The latter penetrated the armoured deck but failed to explode and would probably have inflicted serious damage, possibly even sinking the ship, had it done so. She returned to Sydney for the holidays and visited Melbourne on 22 January 1946 before departing for home nine days later. Grimshaw, Edmund Gunther, Reginald Haigh, Wilfred Hardie, Archibald Hardwick, Cyril John Hargreaves, Samuel Harris, William Harry, William Thomas Winstone Hedges, Charles Ivor Colin Herbert, Frederick William Hill, John Isaac Hodgkinson, Harry Simms Holman, Edwin Holt, James Hurley, Denis Jay, Francis Alfred Jelly, Henry Jenkinson, Ernest Gordon's 820 Squadron shipmates - HMS Indefatigable - BPF Ron Taplin - Fleet Air Arm Ron with friend in Australia 1946 Ron Taplin, who was a Dubliner who served on the ship during WW2. The attack was very successful at heavy cost, but the losses of Indefatigable's squadrons are not available. Victorious, one of the Illustrious-class ships upon which Indefatigable's design was based, also carried Type 279 and Type 281B early-warning radars. Harold F. Guest, R.N.R. [38], At dawn on 31 December 1798, Indefatigable captured the Minerve, five leagues off Ushant. Crew List With Additional Information. [21], On 1 October, Indefatigable, Amazon, Rvolutionnaire, Phoebe, and Jason shared in the capture of the Vrow Delenea Maria. Made the first full transcription from the shipping registers for a group of ports. Our On 11 May, Indefatigable in company with Phoebe, Cleopatra, Childers, and Duke of York captured Nouvelle Eugnie. This page was last edited on 31 January 2023, at 15:24. Lodgings . Virginie carried 44 guns, 18 and 9-pounders, and had a crew of 340 men under the command of Citizen Bergeret, Capitaine de Vaisseau. An Avenger also claimed one Zero as damaged. [24] A third survivor, Signalman John Bowyer, was picked up by another unknown German ship. The Droits de l'Homme carried 18-pounders in her upper tier, while HMS Indefatigable had an unusually powerful armament for a frigate - 24-pounders on the gun-deck and 42-pounder carronades on the poop and forecastle. Indefatigable, however, had been chosen to remain as part of the Allied occupation force. In July 1796, there was an initial distribution of 20,000 of prize money for the capture of Unite and Virginie. Two days later Captain Robert Sherbrooke, VC, relieved Grindle and Indefatigable began her sea trials on 28 June. The Implacable-class ships were significantly overweight and displaced 32,110 long tons (32,630t) at deep load. In January 1797, Indefatigable and Amazon captured the packet Sangossee. Indefatigable arrived at Colombo, Ceylon, on 10 December and Vian transferred his flag to Indomitable.[38]. [52], The Admiralty decided to recommission Indefatigable for use as a training ship in mid-1949. The commander of the British Squadron in the famous action between Droits del"homme, HMS Amazon, and HMS Indefatigable, was Sir Edward Pellew. [32], On 30 April 1798, Indefatigable captured the brigantine privateer Basque. Both British vessels arrived at Venus at almost the same time (7pm). [75] Foxhound was also in company for the capture of Nymphe. [61] This cutting out expedition resulted in the participants qualifying for the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "16 July Boat Service 1806". We are continuing to add to A single quadruple 2-pounder mount was also fitted on the port side of the hull. Crew List Name Birth Death Rank/Rate At Jutland From To ON The National Archives Citable Reference Additional Information . The design originated as an improved version of the Illustrious-class aircraft carriers and was intended to be 2 knots (3.7km/h; 2.3mph) faster and carry an additional dozen aircraft over the 30-knot (56km/h; 35mph) speed and 36 aircraft of the earlier ships. However, we know that the records of ships and seafarers are a Stuart B. N. Bolton. Douglas B. Bucham Brown. The following month, Indefatigable exercised with the Home Fleet in Scottish waters and visited Aarhus again. 1516, 1819; Friedman, pp. [76], Four months later, on 6 May Indefatigable captured two French chasse marees, Camilla and Bonne Rencontre; Scipion and Piercer were in company. In August she began transferring her training duties to the carrier Ocean and arrived at Rosyth on 2 September to be paid off, a process that took until the following month to complete. [5] One boat each from the ships of the line of the squadron, plus three boats each from Indefatigable and Iris entered the Gironde on 15 July 1806 to attack two French corvettes and a convoy. Henry E. D. H. Willoughby. She was built as a ship-of-the-line, but most of her active service took place after her conversion to a 44-gun razee frigate. [34], At daylight on 4 August, Indefatigable sighted the privateer Heureux together with a prize and gave chase. One of the survivors, Gunnery Officer Hubert Edward Dannreuther, was the godson of German composer Richard Wagner. JCL-Website-Indefatigable : Crew List At The Battle Of Jutland. [23] Of her crew of 1,019, only three survived. To remain within the 23,000 long tons (23,000t) limit allowed by the Second London Naval Treaty, these improvements could only be made by reducing armour protection. [37], On 19 September 1944, Indefatigable sortied from Scapa Flow to attack targets near Troms, but the operation was cancelled because of bad weather. which one is right? The ships were provided with 94,650 imperial gallons (430,300l; 113,670USgal) of aviation gasoline. My Grandparents War -wild Pictures Limited production for Channel 4 Television in association with WNET. She was two days out of Bordeaux and sailing for the coast of Brazil. Designed to stow 48 aircraft in their hangars, the use of a permanent deck park allowed the Implacable class to accommodate up to 81 aircraft. [5], On 9 March 1795, Indefatigable, Concorde, and Jason captured numerous French prizes: Temeraire, Minerve, Gentille, Regeneration, and a brig and sloop of unknown names. King. Harold V. Coombes, R.N.R. Crew List With Additional Information. Sub-Lieut. IMPLACABLE Class Fleet Aircraft Carrier ordered on 19 June 1939 from John Brown of Clydebank. Indefatigable sailed empty for Norfolk, Virginia, where she loaded RN personnel before returning to Portsmouth on 21 November. Fleury, presumably among others, was drowned. Duncan B 9. Ranger was armed with 14 guns and carried a crew of 70 men. SS Seydlitz after Battle of . She returned to Portland in late March and visited Bournemouth at the end of May. Become a Member Each of the pages has its own set of notes (linked from a button top-right) to explain where the data came from and any points to look out for when using it. [52] Indefatigable had been chasing Venus from the morning when in the afternoon Fisgard came in sight and forced Venus to turn. Captain Charles F. Sowerby. Harold O. [47], On 12 June 1800, Indefatigable captured the French privateer brig Vengeur. The seas moderated the next day and the visitors departed in safety. She was 36 days out of Brest and, during that time, had captured only one ship, a large American vessel named the Providence which had a cargo of cotton and sugar. -. [32], On 28 January, Indefatigable and Cambrian captured the privateer Heureuse Nouvelle. By all accounts, James Cook's HMS Endeavour sojourn in Tahiti was a pivotal moment in . Cecil R. de V. Law. Ernest Humphrey McArthur Dyer. & Home. to do your research for you - all the data we have is either on this site or for sale via findmypast and we'd like you to have the fun of doing the research. Acting Gunner John E. Gifford. ACTING LEADING ENGINEER MECHANIC Served from 1953 - 1955 Served in HMS Indefatigable Albert Cooper ABLESEAMAN Served from 1954 - 1956 Served in HMS Indefatigable John Cole Served from 1944 - 1944 Served in HMS Indefatigable Tommy Gilmore LT-CDR RNR (RTD.) She had left Saint-Malo the evening before and had not made any captures. We explain how the systems worked and how to go about research. [63], On 14 January 1809 Indefatigable captured French privateer lugger Clarisse in the Channel. It's 500crews. She was two weeks out of Bayonne but had not captured anything. A Supermarine Seafire hits the barrier on HMS INDEFATIGABLE after returning from a strike on the Japanese oil refinery at Pangkalan Brandan, Sumatra, 1 April 1945. [39] En route to Sydney to prepare for operations in the Pacific, the BPF's carriers attacked oil refineries near Palembang, Sumatra, on 24 and 29 January (Operation Meridian). She was indefatigable. [11], Indefatigable was laid down at the Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth on 23 February 1909. He then drove Canada on shore where he hoped that her cargo at least would be destroyed. The Cabinet rejected this proposal in favour of two outmoded armoured cruisers but finally acceded to a request for one battlecruiser instead, after the Admiralty pointed out the need to match the recently published German naval construction plan and to maintain the heavy gun and armour industries. CLIP data. 14445, 149, 151; Hobbs 2013, pp. Following the end of hostilities she visited ports in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The site also provides information and data about the records of British merchant shipping with records of every British registered ship from 1855 to the 1950s - all 200,000 of them. [4], The Indefatigable class had a main armament of eight breech-loading BL 12-inch (305mm) Mark X guns mounted in four hydraulically powered twin-gun turrets. Gunner [43], On 17 August 1945, Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, commander of the BPF, came aboard and addressed the crew. British seafarers of the late 19th and early 20th century are the best documented workers that there have ever been - millions of documents survive, recording The Board of Admiralty decided that she was redundant in early 1954 and decommissioned her later that year. )1949: HMS Protector (for duty in HMS Royal Sovereign) 14.06. . Captain Ralph Fisher assumed command on 30 January 1953 and took her to sea three weeks later for exercises with the Home Fleet and her annual visit to Gibraltar. War would not actually be declared until 12 August, and the order was countermanded four hours later, but Milne gave up the hunt for Goeben, following his standing orders to guard the Adriatic against an Austrian break-out attempt. A larger design with more armour and better underwater protection was rejected as too expensive. [46] On 11 February Indefatigable captured the Vidette. Lieutenant [35] Her prize was the Canada, John Sewell Master, which had been sailing from Jamaica to London, having stopped in Charlestown, with a cargo of sugar, rum, and coffee. Acting Sub-Lieut. On 9 August 1804 Indefatigable was in sight when HMSNautilus recaptured the West Indiaman William Heathcote off Bayonne. Indefatigable was part of the squadron that shared by agreement in the prize money from the Temeraire, which Dasher had captured on 30 May. Patrick J. HMS Barham. Around 16:00, Indefatigable was hit around the rear turret by two or three shells from Von der Tann. From her, he learned that there were two privateers around Corunna, one of which had captured a brig from Lisbon with a cargo of bale goods two days earlier. Casualty list for HMS Indefatigable Remembered Today: GWF is free to use so please support the Forum. Captain Hugh Browne assumed command on 10 May after Fisher had been promoted. [71] On 1 November Indefatigable captured Bonne Louise. INDOMITABLE. 1797" for any crew surviving in 1847.[1]. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 261046 your information is still in the queue, please do not resubmit, we are working through them as quickly as possible. The turbines were rated at 43,000 shaft horsepower (32,000kW) and were intended to give the ship a maximum speed of 25 knots (46km/h; 29mph). Made the first complete record of British registered ships, from 1855 to the 1950s, with 200,000 entries from the Appropriation Books at RSS in Cardiff. Carpenter British registered ships aimed at assisting researchers to finding their crew documents. X-6's crew surrendered after dropping their cargo near the ship. Boatswain . [75], In April 1809 Indefatigable participated in the battle of the Basque Roads. We've divided them into three sections: People, Ships and Documents, For more detail on our data and the sources we have used, please click here: 1911 Indefatigable-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in May 1916, "Charles FitzGerald Sowerby - the Dreadnought Project", "John Bowyer WW1 memorial and Life Story", "Statutory Instrument 2006 No. [35] The two separated, with the prize heading directly for Bayonne. If you would like to add a photograph please. [13] The Royal Navy took Virginie into service as Virginie. [41] Damage to the ship was minimal and the flight deck was back in operation thirty minutes later. hms prince of wales crew list, royal family maid breaks her silence, cashedge transfer failure, juan ibarra political views, mac miller house address studio city, . The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, Top Speed. She had left Rochefort on 1 August, and the le de R on the 4th, where she had picked up 25 banished priests, 27 convicts, and a Madame Rovere and family, all of whom she was taking to Cayenne. photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. She was armed with 18 guns, had a crew of 86 men, and was under the command of Monsieur Louis Francois Hector Fourr, lieutenant de vaisseau. We are the largest and fastest growing community of UK forces veterans on the web with over 500,000 members! At the moment it contains a little over 3,600 people. She was scuttled at Scapa Flow 21st June 1919. She was the temporary flagship of the 2nd BCS during AprilMay 1916, while her half-sister HMASAustralia was under repair after colliding with Indefatigable's other half-sister New Zealand. HMS Indefatigable received a direct hit from enemy fire by the rear turret and began taking on water with a noticeable list to portside. The following day, King George VI inspected the ship; the ground crews later embarked for 820, 887, 894 and 1770 Squadrons. On 22 October Indefatigable, took the French 28-gun frigate Vnus off the Portuguese coast. They also destroyed two unnamed brigs and a chasse maree. [7][12] Indefatigable's light anti-aircraft defences included five octuple mounts for QF 2-pounder ("pom-pom") anti-aircraft (AA) guns, two on the flight deck forward of the island, one on the aft part of the island, and two in sponsons on the port side of the hull. After a chase of 32 hours on a great circular route, Indefatigable and her quarry found themselves off Bayonne where Indefatigable intercepted the prize and captured her. When the First World War began, Indefatigable was serving with the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron (BCS) in the Mediterranean, where she unsuccessfully pursued the battlecruiser Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau of the German Imperial Navy as they fled toward the Ottoman Empire. She reached the coast of Japan on 20 July and her aircraft began attacking targets near Osaka and in the Inland Sea four days later. The first Royal Navy aircraft carrier to take a hit from a kamikaze was HMS Indefatigable. On the first day, a pair of Fireflies encountered five Mitsubishi Ki-51 "Sonia" dive bombers and shot down four of them. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [46] Her air group flew aboard on 7 July (1772 Squadron and its Fireflies replacing 1770 Squadron) when she sailed for Manus. Read; View source; View history; More. Add a Name to this List The ship was laid down later that year and launched on 8th December 1942. Armour - deck. We enjoy dealing with awkward questions; we don't think there is such a thing as a silly question, and we often Her magazines exploded at 16:03 after more hits, one on the forecastle and another on the forward turret. At 0723, roughly around the same time that X-6 was struggling, X-7 was successful in approaching without being detected, and delivered its cargo toward the stern of Tirpitz. CLIP is a not-for-profit volunteer project, set up to assist research into the records of British merchant seafarers of the late 19th and early 20th century. The additional crewmen, maintenance personnel and facilities needed to support these aircraft were housed in the lower hangar. [70] Theseus and Impeteuex were in company with Indefatigable at the time. [48] After replenishing, airstrikes resumed on 28 and 30 July, the British sinking the escort Okinawa near Maizuru. The crew of the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain the Hon. Indefatigable was present at the formal surrender of the Japanese on 2 September in Tokyo Bay. A great, great, great uncle of mine, Octavius Cardew was a 14 year-old midshipman on HMS Amazon, which also ran aground. Today in Naval History - Naval / Maritime Events in History 13 January 1950 - British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men. Indefatigable aimed at Von der Tann and New Zealand targeted Moltke while remaining unengaged herself. If you have any unwanted C. F. Sowerby was appointed captain on 24 February 1913. [37] On 15 November 1798, Indefatigable captured Mercurius. Richard F. Durlacher. Type 282 and Type 285 gunnery radars were mounted on the fire-control directors. Admiral Franz von Hipper's battlecruisers spotted the Battlecruiser Fleet to their west at 15:20, but Beatty's ships did not spot the Germans to their east until 15:30. [7] The work was carried out at Portsmouth from September 1794 to February 1795 at a cost of 8,764. Born 1925, died 1986. After Indefatigable's return, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command, addressed the crew on 11 January. [73], Indefatigable arrived at the Basque Roads on 25 February. The ship was transferred to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) at the end of the year and attacked Japanese-controlled oil refineries in Sumatra in January 1945 before joining the American forces in March as they prepared to invade the island of Okinawa in Operation Iceberg. As it was, the money and ships were declared to be "Droits of Admiralty" on the grounds that war had not been declared. [39], On 14 January 1799, Indefatigable recaptured Argo, Rich, master, which had been sailing from Gothenburg for Boston when a French privateer had captured her. The ship conducted uneventful patrols of the North Sea for the next year and a half. resources which are widely used by maritime researchers. [56], Indefatigable had no casualties. His most famous humanitarian endeavour while captain of HMS Indefatigable was the rescue of hundreds of souls from the wreck of the Dutton East Indiaman, which ran aground beneath the citadel in Plymouth in January 1796. Most of the boats in the attack were so shot through that the British later abandoned them. Indefatigable was thereafter rated as a 44-gun fifth-rate frigate, along with Magnanime and Anson, which were converted at about the same time. HMS Indefatigable was one of the Ardent-class 64-gun third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade in 1761 for the Royal Navy. She was built as a ship-of-the-line, but most of her active service took place after her conversion to a 44-gun razee frigate. There at midnight she captured the French brig corvette Ranger. When the First World War began, Indefatigable was serving with the 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron (BCS) in the Mediterranean, where she unsuccessfully pursued the battlecruiser Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau of the German Imperial Navy as they fled . More direct hits were aimed at her forecastle which ultimately ignited some magazine stores. [13] She had 14 or 15 men killed, 17 badly wounded, and 10 slightly. She was recommissioned in 1950 as a training ship for service with the Home Fleet Training Squadron, participating in exercises and making several port visits overseas. [7], The ships had four Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one shaft, using steam supplied by eight Admiralty 3-drum boilers. Share by: . [26] Mount Indefatigable in the Canadian Rockies was named after the battlecruiser in 1917. Rvolutionnaire then captured the French frigate Unit after having fired two broadsides into her. She was armed with six long 4-pounders and ten 18-pounder carronades, and carried a crew of 102 men. When he died his son Ian discovered a photo album with pictures of when the ship was in Australia. Subsequently, Indefatigable or Pellew's squadron took more vessels, including privateers, primarily in the Channel. [31], Five days later, in the evening of the 16th, Pellew's squadron captured the French privateer Inconcevable. Indefatigable rescued the survivors. Range. [16], On 3 November 1914, Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered the first British attack on the Dardanelles following the commencement of hostilities between Ottoman Turkey and Russia. Maurice D. Dymocke. Indefatigable was laid down by John Brown & Co. at their shipyard in Clydebank on 3 November 1939 as Yard Number 565. HMS Indefatigable was one of two Implacable -class aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy (RN) during World War II. Crew List (Photographs) Directory of Names. Oh, and if we've helped, a thank-you is appreciated! [24] On 7 January, Indefatigable and Amazon captured the Emanuel. For the capture of Neptunus, Indefatigable was in company with the sloops Foxhound and Goldfinch. Cookies help us deliver our services. [25] The battle ended with Droits de l'Homme being driven onto shore in a gale. The ship arrived at Sydney on 18 September and began a leisurely refit that lasted until 15 November. Indefatigable alone lost two killed and 11 wounded. He also ordered the 2nd BCS, which had been leading, to fall in astern of the 1st BCS. The action earned her crew another clasp to the Naval General Service Medal: "Basque Roads 1809". Captain Charles F. Sowerby. Please note that we do not do privately commissioned research, not at any price - we'd like you to have the fun. The ship suffered a loss of 98 of her crew and 55 were wounded. Indefatigable, Sirius and Boadicea shared with Bordelais by agreement, and Shannon further shared with Bordelais.[51]. She sank immediately, with the loss of all but two of her crew. The Implacable class were ordered under the 1938 Naval Programme by the Chamberlain government as part of the general rearmament begun in response to the rise of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. H.M.S. Similarly, the same vessels shared by agreement in Dasher's capture of Bien Aim on 23 July 1801. 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