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have been named HMS Swordfish after the fish. HMS Swordfish (1895) was a 330-ton destroyer launched in 1895 and sold in 1910. HMS Swordfish (1916) was a...

The Fairey Swordfish is a biplane torpedo bomber, designed by the Fairey Aviation Company. Originating in the early 1930s, the Swordfish, nicknamed "Stringbag"...

HMS Swordfish was an experimental submarine built for the Royal Navy before the First World War to meet the Navy's goal of an "overseas" submarine capable...

torpedo bomber HMS Swordfish, the name of three British warships Swordfish, a 1962 U.S. Operation Dominic I and II nuclear test explosion Swordfish class destroyer...

HMS Swordfish (61S) was a first-batch S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s. Commissioned in 1932, she was given the pennant number...

high. Only one, HMS Sturgeon, survived to the end of the war. Ships: Two ordered under the 1929 Construction Programme: HMS Swordfish HMS Sturgeon Two ordered...

and sunk by HMS Onslow. Avenger's captain now had to change tactics to work around a limitation of the Sea Hurricanes and Fairey Swordfish: They were not...

HMS Ark Royal (pennant number 91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War. Designed in 1934 to fit the...

HMS Swordfish was one of two Swordfish-class destroyers which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched on 27 February 1895 by Armstrong Mitchell and...

HMS Javelin was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Javelin was laid down by John Brown and Company, Limited, at Clydebank in Scotland on 11 October...

HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an armed merchant cruiser, pennant F40. She was launched in 1922, and sunk in battle on 5 November...

(43 nmi; 80 km) away. By the time the lone Swordfish dispatched had arrived, the U-boat (U-191) had been sunk by HMS Hesperus. Biter kept up her anti-submarine...

HMS S1: HMS S1 (1914), launched in 1914, was the lead boat in her class of submarines. HMS S1 was originally an experimental submarine, HMS Swordfish...

operated with Blackburn Roc and Skua, along with Fairey Swordfish and Supermarine Walrus at HMS Daedalus and adding Fairey Albacore and Fulmar soon afterwards...

HMS Illustrious was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy before World War II. Her first assignment after completion...

raid on the harbor in Taranto. Twenty-one Swordfish torpedo bombers launched from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious attacked the Italian fleet in two...

torpedoes at an unidentified submarine, which was in fact her sister ship HMS Swordfish, but the torpedoes missed. On her third patrol, she missed the German...

Royal Naval Air Station Inskip (RNAS Inskip, also known as HMS Nightjar), was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm airbase near the village of Inskip, Lancashire...

formed that day at Palisadoes (HMS Buzzard), Jamaica as a torpedo-bomber and reconnaissance squadron of Fairey Swordfish. After patrolling the seas around...

naval attack in history, employing 21 Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in the Mediterranean Sea. The attack...