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Marine Services. v. t. e. His Majesty's Naval Service (or, when the reigning monarch is female, Her Majesty's Naval Service) is the United Kingdom 's naval warfare and maritime service. [1] [2] It consists of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Marines Reserve and Naval Careers Service. [3] The Naval ...
Warsash Maritime School, formerly Warsash Maritime Centre and Warsash Maritime Academy, is a maritime training college that is part of Solent University. [3] The college provides education, training, consultancy and research to the international shipping and off-shore oil industries. It is one of the United Kingdom's colleges responsible for ...
Gallery of past and present naval vessels of the United Kingdom. HMS Ajax (1798) an Ajax-class ship of the line that served in the Napoleonic Wars. HMS Ajax is a Third-rate ship which formed the majority of the Royal Navy's ships of the line at that time. Ships of the line were the main ships used in naval battles at the time. HMS Paladin (1916 ...
The Naval Intelligence Division ( NID) was created as a component part of the Admiralty War Staff in 1912. It was the intelligence arm of the British Admiralty before the establishment of a unified Defence Intelligence Staff in 1964. It dealt with matters concerning British naval plans, with the collection of naval intelligence.
The United Kingdom alone suffered the loss of 11.7 million tons, which was 54% of the total Merchant Navy fleet at the outbreak of the Second World War. 32,000 merchant seafarers were killed aboard convoy vessels in the war, but along with the Royal Navy, the convoys successfully imported enough supplies to allow an Allied victory.
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