Article: Naval warfare in the English Channel, 1939-1945.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Passchendaele and the Royal Navy.(Review)
The Historian;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Passchendaele and the Royal Navy. By Andrew Wiest. (Westport ... of history by studying the Royal Navy's role in the campaign ... a constant threat to the Royal Navy's control of the English Channel. The Admiralty, led by ...

Article: THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE SWIMMER; WEEKEND Only 503 ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  June 14, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... most of my working life was spent at sea, first in the Merchant Navy and then, from 1938, in the Royal Navy. So swimming the English Channel just seemed like the most natural thing in the world to me. After all, I had swum the Solent in ...

Article: Dog Boats at War: Royal Navy D Class MTBs and MGBs, ...
Naval War College Review;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Fairmile fast-attack craft. The Royal Navy entered World War II with two flotillas ... first boats entered service in the English Channel by early spring 1942. Originally ... volatile aviation gasoline. The Royal Navy found their early crews among the ...

Article: Dog Boats at War: Royal Navy D Class MTBs and MGBs, ...
Naval War College Review;  June 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Fairmile fast-attack craft. The Royal Navy entered World War II with two flotillas ... first boats entered service in the English Channel by early spring 1942. Originally ... volatile aviation gasoline. The Royal Navy found their early crews among the ...

Article: UNITED KINGDOM: FOUR ROYAL NAVY VESSELS RETURN HOME
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 4, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... ambassadors for the Royal Navy and Great Britain while ... flag for the UK and Royal Navy, HMS Portland has been ... Loyal Mariner and in the English Channel and North Sea, including ... Both HMS Brocklesby and Royal Navy frigate HMS St Albans ...

Article: When Britannia ruled the waves Once upon a time, the Royal ...
The Independent - London;  December 30, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... volume history of the Royal Navy, and concludes with ... Britain itself, the Royal Navy reached its true finale ... England crossed the English Channel in one of his warships ... made of things, the Royal Navy would do its job with ...

Article: HMS Rodney - a naval history ; Iain Ballantyne's book is actually ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  April 25, 2008 ;     580 words ... ... a history of all the Royal Navy ships that have borne ... saved Britain and the Royal Navy from disgrace and disaster ... 1943, Normandy 1944, English Channel 1944 and Arctic 1944 ... not looking after the Royal Navy." The battleship Rodney ...