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Arrogant-class cruiser (801 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

taking part in the Zeebrugge Raid in April 1918 before being sunk as a blockship during the Second Ostend Raid in May 1918. The 1895–96 programme of naval

Apollo-class cruiser (653 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

longer of any fighting value, and six of this class were converted into blockships to be scuttled in the entrances to enemy-occupied ports in Belgium. The

List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy (14,693 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sunk as a blockship in the Thames 1667 Golden Phoenix 70 (1665) – formerly Geldersche Ruyter, a prize captured from the Dutch, sunk as a blockship in the

Black Prince-class ship of the line (329 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

converted to screw propulsion in the 1850s when adapted as a 60-gun "blockship". HMS Wellesley Builder: Bombay Dockyard Ordered: 6 January 1812 Begun:

List of Allied warships in the Normandy landings (1,139 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Danae HMS Diadem ORP Dragon (Polish, damaged in July and then used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater) HMS Emerald HMS Enterprise Georges Leygues

USS Pilgrim (115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

refer to: USS Pilgrim (1864), a canal boat purchased to be sunk as a blockship in 1864 USS Pilgrim (tugboat), a tug in commission from 1870 to 1871

List of ships named Flandre (265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a Belgian State Railway paddle ferry, serving Dover-Ostend, sunk as a blockship in 1918. SS La Flandre (1888), an early oil tanker, sunk in 1916. SS Flandre (1889)

HMS St George (318 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

HMS St George (1622), a 60-gun ship built in 1622 and sunk in 1697 as a blockship. HMS St George (1626), a ship captured in 1626 and listed until 1632.

USS Advocate (1861) (79 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

on 1 December 1861. She was purchased by the US Navy to be sunk as a blockship at Ship Island but was apparently sunk as an obstruction in Petit Bois

List of cruisers (1,552 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1937 as blockship in Yangtze river Hai Yung class Hai Yung (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze river Hai Chou (1897) - Sunk 1937 as blockship in Yangtze

Peter Rickmers (134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ran aground in 1908 SS Peter Rickmers (1913), scuttled in 1914 as a blockship SS Peter Rickmers (1944), captured incomplete in 1945, completed as Empire

SS Britannia (158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kingdom Steamship Company at Short Brothers of Sunderland, scuttled as a blockship at Scapa Flow in 1914. SS Britannia (1887), scrapped in 1909. SS Britannia (1889)

USS Eastern Light (1,028 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Illinoian in 1939. in 1944 she was scuttled off the coast of Normandy as Blockship 485. The Osaka Iron Works Company in Innoshima, Hiroshima built Eastern

List of ships of the Chinese Navy (1644–1945) (358 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Scuttled as blockship Su (宿) or T.B. 4 Chen-class Torpedo boat Stettiner Maschinebau A.G. Vulcan 90 or 120 1895 1937/8/11 Scuttled as blockship Lieh (列)

USS Pollux (SP-2573) (563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1931 Pollux was renamed Tabarka. On 23 March 1941 Tabarka was sunk as a blockship in Kirk Sound, Scapa Flow. refloated 27 July 1944 and resunk in Burra

USS Pollux (SP-2573) (563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1931 Pollux was renamed Tabarka. On 23 March 1941 Tabarka was sunk as a blockship in Kirk Sound, Scapa Flow. refloated 27 July 1944 and resunk in Burra

Brancaster (1,530 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in 1940, Vina was requisitioned as a naval vessel for wartime use as a blockship, carrying a crew of 12. With Great Yarmouth being a strategic port on

Flinders (ship) (296 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

construction. Flinders became an accommodation ship in 1940, then was a blockship at Poole from 1942. She was broken up at Falmouth in 1945. HMAS Flinders (GS

USS Reina Mercedes (1,058 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Naval battle of Santiago the Spanish Navy sank Reina Mercedes as a blockship in the entrance channel of the harbor at Santiago de Cuba, on the southeast

HMS Warwick (D25) (2,714 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Launch ML254, packed with survivors of the blockship Vindictive and took off the survivors from the blockship and the crew of ML 245, before scuttling the

USS Merrimack (244 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

USS Merrimac (1894), a collier purchased in April 1898 and sunk as a blockship in June 1898 during the Spanish–American War USS Merrimack (AO-37), a

SMS Breslau (3,445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as a blockship in Zonguldak. Midilli quickly sank Oleg but was forced to turn away after spotting Rostislav. She then encountered another blockship, Athos

List of ships of World War II (D) (304 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Polish Navy Danae cruiser 4,850 August 1918 damaged, then used as a blockship in "Gooseberry" breakwater, July 1944 Drava Royal Yugoslav Navy Enns

HMS Gallant (165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and an air raid in 1942, being declared a total loss. She was sunk as a blockship in 1943 and the wreck dispersed in 1953. HMS Gallant was to have been

HNLMS Sumatra (1920) (881 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Sumatra sunk as a blockship, June 9, 1944. HMS Durban is in the background, also sunk.

Raylton Dixon (803 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

St. Lawrence River. In 1914 she was sold to the admiralty for use as a blockship in Dover harbour, but broke her moorings in a gale and ran aground on

Wickes-class destroyer (2,369 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

renamed HMS Campbeltown, was disguised as a German vessel and expended as a blockship in the St Nazaire Raid. (A newer Buchanan that was involved in the Japanese

Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes (956 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

shipyard, Cartagena, Spain Launched 9 September 1887 Fate Scuttled as blockship night of 4–5 July 1898; captured and salvaged by US Navy General characteristics

Magnolia Grove (Greensboro, Alabama) (873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

with name placard from the USS Merrimac, the ship scuttled as a harbor blockship by Hobson Dining room Detached kitchen and cook's house Detached office

HMS Kingston (F64) (1,819 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

floated out of the dock on 5 April 1943 and in June were scuttled as a blockship between the Selmun headland and Selmunett Island (St Paul's Island) in

Operation Albion (804 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pobeditel, Zabijaka, Grom, Konstantin Gunboats: Chivinetz, Grozyashchi Blockship: Lavwija Minelayer: Pripyat Submarines: HMS C26, HMS C27, HMS C32 German

Steen Andersen Bille (547 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1793-4 in the Danish West Indies. In 1801 he was second-in-command of the blockship Cronborg when he was wounded in the Battle of Copenhagen, but still assumed

Nanyang Fleet (1,061 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Shanghai, and the frigate Haian was filled with stones and prepared as a blockship, to be sunk across the entrance to the Huangpu river if the French showed

HDMS Elephanten (1773) (503 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

used as a storage facility for gunpowder until 1805, and thence as a blockship The ornamentation on this ship is depicted at the Royal Danish Naval Museum's

Seas Shipping Company (735 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

com. "ROBIN GOODFELLOW". Vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov. SS Robin Gray (Blockship 381) (+1944), =Wrecksite.eu,2022-06-29 Capt. Walter W. Jaffee The Liberty

HMS Vanguard (1631) (220 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

October 1630 Builder Bright, Woolwich Launched 21 April 1631 Fate Sunk as a blockship in the Upper Medway, 12 June 1667 General characteristics Tons burthen

List of ships at Dunkirk (947 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French Navy Naval trawler 1907 288 1 0 SS Edv. Nissen United Kingdom Blockship 1921 2,062 Lt. Edward John King-Wood, RNR 1 n/a Deliberately sunk Edwina

Evan Thomas, Radcliffe and Company (3,253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Radcliffe – handed over to the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) for use as a blockship on Normandy beaches. This left the company with a greatly depleted fleet

Hamburg America Line (1,058 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Transferred to British government and renamed Empire Bittern, 1941. Scuttled as blockship, 1944. Königin Luise 1913 Sunk 1914 Vaterland 1914 Seized by United States

List of cruisers of World War II (837 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Poland 15 January 1943, scuttled 20 July 1944 as Gooseberry breakwater blockship Duguay-Trouin French Navy Free French Naval Forces Duguay-Trouin light

List of cruisers of World War II (837 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Poland 15 January 1943, scuttled 20 July 1944 as Gooseberry breakwater blockship Duguay-Trouin French Navy Free French Naval Forces Duguay-Trouin light

HDMS Holsteen (957 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

squadron in Øresund and the North Sea. In 1801, she was equipped as a blockship and took part in the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April 1801 where she took

Bretagne-class battleship (3,204 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Toulon a second time, 1944. The Germans sank her remaining hull as a blockship after stripping her of everything in 1943. Wreckage scrapped in 1949 Vasilefs

Tacoma-class frigate (2,125 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

United States, 1946; Egyptian civilian passenger ship, 1950–1956; sunk as blockship, 1956 Hornby PF-82 1944–1946 Royal Navy as HMS Montserrat (K586) Returned

Battle of Moon Sound (2,119 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

losses were minor, the destroyer Grom was sunk and Slava scuttled as a blockship at the archipelago entrance, with most of the crews rescued. The other

Battle of Copenhagen (1801) (4,568 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Elephanten which was decommissioned later in 1801 and apparently used as a blockship and a powder store (Karduser), were captured by the British at the later

List of early warships of the English navy (6,106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1649 but resumed name St George 1660, hulked 1687 and then sunk as a blockship 1697. St Andrew 42 (1622) – Renamed Andrew 1649 but resumed name St Andrew

List of shipwrecks in December 1914 (945 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Scapa Flow (58°53′N 02°53′W / 58.883°N 2.883°W / 58.883; -2.883) as a blockship. The wreck was pulled parallel to shore in 1919. It was scrapped in 1923

List of ships of the Confederate States Navy (4,868 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

side-wheel river steamer, burned CSS Germantown sloop-of-war, sunk as blockship May 10, 1862 CSS Governor Moore, side-wheel steamer, schooner rigged,

HMS Matchless (1914) (3,184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

again taking part of the operation. The operation was a failure, with the blockship Vindictive failing to block the main shipping channel. On the night of

SMS Zähringen (4,341 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Converted to target ship, 1928 Stricken 11 March 1920 Fate Sunk as a blockship 26 March 1945. Broken up 1949-1950 General characteristics Class and type

List of corvette and sloop classes of the Royal Navy (6,103 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Later Seaford — 2 ships, with 20 x 9pdrs. 1757. Rose (1757) – sunk as blockship 1779. Glasgow (1757) – burnt by accident 1779. Sphinx class — 10 ships

History of Torquay (9,725 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1944 and the D-Day landings. In March 1942 a small vessel, intended as a blockship across Torquay Harbour, was sunk in an air-raid. In May a British Typhoon

Robert Spencer Robinson (2,492 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Steam Reserve at Devonport, flying his flag in the 60-gun screw 'blockship' Ajax. from 1 February 1858 until May 1859, he was captain of the 90-gun

HMS Faulknor (1914) (3,199 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

serving as Roger Keyes' flagship. The operation was a failure, with the blockship Vindictive failing to block the main shipping channel. Faulknor remained

List of shipwrecks of the United States (1,272 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Columbus. USS Noble United States Navy 1862 A bark that was scuttled as a blockship near Savannah. USS Phoenix United States Navy 5 December 1861 A whaler

List of shipwrecks in December 1915 (1,261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Winsmore United States The schooner was abandoned during a storm off the coast of Florida. Wood United Kingdom The vessel was sunk as a blockship.

HMS Melpomene (1915) (2,740 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

successful, with the entrance to the Zeebrugge docks partially obstructed by blockships, the parallel raid on Ostend was a failure, and a second attempt to block

Chang Feng-class destroyer (880 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Yuen (飛雲) / Fei Hung / Yen Yung 5 July 1912 7 November 1912 Scuttled as blockship on 18 December 1937, later refloated by the Japanese in December 1939

Norddeutscher Lloyd (6,238 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Flensburger Schiffbau, Flensburg 1934 became cargo ship, 1941 scuttled as blockship at Massawa 1922 Sierra Nevada (II) 8,736 GRT AG Vulcan, Stettin 1925 renamed

List of Empire ships (Sa–Sh) (6,175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

To MoWT and renamed Empire Seaman. Scuttled on 4 December 1940 as a blockship in a Channel port. Empire Seaman was a 2,905 GRT cargo ship which was

List of Empire ships (F) (7,363 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

To MoWT in 1941 and renamed Empire Flamingo. Sunk on 9 June 1944 as a blockship as part of "Gooseberry 4" at Juno Beach, Arromanches, Calvados. Bow section

Order of battle at the Battle of Lowestoft (758 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Battle of Lowestoft, 3rd June 1665". became HMS Horseman; sunk 1667 as blockship in the Thames. "Dutch Second Rate ship of the line 'Liefde' (1661)". "Dutch

Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company (1,661 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

towed to UK later on June 8, 1944. Sunk as part of Gooseberry Harbor blockship off Normandy beachhead. Later destroyed by storms. James W. Nesmith on

List of ocean liners (184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

commissioned USS Artemis April–October 1919. Scuttled in 1944 as an additional blockship for Operation Overlord. HMT Empire Windrush 1930 MV Monte Rosa (1930-1947)

73rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (3,280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Detachment 63/20 LAA Bty manning Bofors and 20 mm guns on 'Gooseberry' blockships sunk off the beach as breakwaters A/139 LAA Rgt manning Bofors on five

List of shipwrecks in March 1944 (2,865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to Manila for repairs, these were not completed. She was scuttled as a blockship in Manila Bay on 5 February 1945. HMS LCS(M) 69 Royal Navy The landing

List of shipwrecks in March 1918 (2,239 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

German Navy World War I: The Anneliese-class Vorpostenboot was sunk as a blockship. HMS Tithonus Royal Navy World War I: The armed boarding steamer was

List of Russo-Ukrainian War military equipment (8,606 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

FPV Project 1134B Berkut B [Kara-class] (Ochakov). Scuttled, used as blockship.Refloated towed to Inkerman to await scrapping a few months later. Project

Plan W (4,386 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

demolished by explosives (as would the harbour quays and railway), a blockship would be sunk in the harbour channel and the Haulbowline oil refinery

List of sail frigates of France (17,029 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

later 4 x 4-pounder) guns; launched early 1748 at Rochefort) – sunk as blockship at Louisbourg June 1758. Topaze class, (24/26-gun design by Jean-Joseph

List of shipwrecks of Cornwall (20th century) (14,620 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Royal National Lifeboat Institution). The Empire Flamingo was sunk as a blockship on one of the Normandy beaches in February 1944. 1 November – motor tanker