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  • have borne the name HMS Venus, after Venus, the goddess of love in Roman mythology: HMS Venus (1758) was a 36-gun fifth-rate Venus-class frigate launched...
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  • was required in The Goon Show it was often named the "Good Ship Venus" or "HMS Venus", one of several references to dirty jokes the Goons managed to get...
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    HMS Venus was an Eclipse-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s. Eclipse-class second-class protected cruisers were preceded...
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  • Look up Venus, venus, Venüs, Vénus, or Vênus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Venus is the second planet from the Sun. Venus or VENUS may also refer...
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    HMS Venus was a V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering...
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  • destroyer HMS Cheviot. On 17 May 1947, the Hatikva (1,414 passengers) was intercepted, rammed and captured by the destroyers HMS Venus and HMS Brissenden...
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    HMS Venus (renamed HMS Heroine in 1809) was the name ship of the 36-gun Venus-class fifth-rate frigates of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1758 and...
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  • pickup truck F50 (catamaran), a racing boat HMS Kimberley (F50), a K-class destroyer of the Royal Navy HMS Venus (F50), a V-class destroyer of the Royal Navy...
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  • (Leader) HMS Venus HMS Verulam HMS Virago HMS Volage HMS Brissenden , Mediterranean Fleet 1947 3rd Destroyer Flotilla HMS Troubridge (Leader) HMS Venus HMS Verulam...
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    Royal Victorian Order on 24 April 1906. He took up command of the cruiser HMS Venus in the Atlantic Fleet in 1908 before going on to be Inspecting Captain...
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    service". In early 1903 he was posted (as a retired lieutenant) to the HMS Venus as it became coastguard ship at Southampton. Prior to being appointed...
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    afloat for twenty-two years. He was appointed in 1768 to the frigate HMS Venus as governor to the Duke of Cumberland, who remained with him in all ranks...
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  • the First Sea Lord as England needs officers. He is to join the frigate HMS Venus at Plymouth. Arriving to find the crew all celebrating as they are sailing...
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    Assault Group J1, was controlled by LSH HMS Lawford (Captain Assault Group J1 - Fire Support Area ‘Y'). HMS Venus (a Hunt Class - Destroyer Escort) was...
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    part, as captain of the fifth-rate HMS Venus, in the Battle of Rhode Island and then, as captain of the fifth-rate HMS Flora, in the second relief of Gibraltar...
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  • in 1807 as HMS Venus. She was to have been renamed in 1809, but instead was reduced to harbour service that year and was sold in 1815. HMS Levant (1813)...
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    HMS Milford 1695 HMS Arundel 1695 HMS Rye 1696 HMS Scarborough 1696 HMS Looe (i) 1696 HMS Lynn 1696 HMS Fowey 1696 HMS Southsea Castle (i) 1696 HMS Gosport...
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  • maintained on the country from 1807 to 1814 during the Napoleonic Wars. HMS Venus was in pursuit of four merchant vessels that had sought refuge in the...
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  • launched at Connecticut in 1777, which HMS Venus captured in March 1779; the Royal Navy sold her in 1783 HMS Tobago (1805), a schooner purchased in 1805...
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    stern and "small-timber" form of construction: HMS Venus HMS Melampus HMS Minerva HMS Latona HMS Diana HMS Hebe A further twenty-three ships were ordered...
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