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WELCOME TO THE 20th CENTURY

Not designed to be a definitive layout of the Royal Navy during the 20th Century but hopefully the information contained within this section will be of some use or interest.

UNIT INFORMATION
Type 12 Frigates A Brief Outline	Scottish Trawler men at war The loss of HMT Fraser
Type 14 Frigates A Brief Outline	The Loss of HMS Bulwark - 1914
Type 41 AA & 61 AD Frigates A Brief Outline	HMS Cyclops One of the Navy's Repair & Depot Ships
Porpoise & Oberon Class Submarines A Brief Outline	Polish Eagle Shows its Metal The Short but heroic career of the Orzel
Q-Ships (A small selection of articles relating to these units and their crews)	SMS Konigsberg A Forgotten Heroine
The Royal Naval Division (A small selection of articles relating to this Division)	HM Submarine A5 - February 1905
	The Loss of HMS Natal 1915

NAVAL OFFICERS
Rear Admiral (S) H. Rodham CMG & Rodham Family 1800 - 1973	Eng Rear Admiral L Robins & his Father Eng Rear Admiral S Robins
Lt Cdr J H Turner From Boy Seaman to Mayor	Ty S/Lt Percy Hutchison RNVR An Actor in Uniform
S/Lt Harold Blow RNR The Black Prince's dramatic end & the story of one young life lost	Matron's Memories Gillingham Naval Orphan Home
Paymaster Lt Cdr F Barritt RNVR	Paymaster Cdr James L H German
Capt G Muirhead-Gould DSC RN Naval Attaché in Berlin 1936	Commodore the Rt Hon H D King PC CD CBE DSO VD MP
Captain Henry Kendall The Man Who Caught Dr Crippen.	Commander Oliver Stillingworth Locker-Lampson, CMG, DSO
Cdr A R W Sayle RD RNR "This Charming Gentleman"

NAVAL RATINGS
HMS Amethyst Extracts from the Private log of Acting Petty Officer L. Frank (Coxswain)	P.O. Telegraphist J.W.B Phillips J10426
Royal Marine James Cockroft	SJAB James W Leather
Yeoman of Signals J L Watson Jack and his French Connection	Petty Officer J Mundy What shall we do with a drunken sailor?
The Sign of the Brotherhood A Great War tribute medal	The Story of Sailor & Policeman Frank Huntley
The Storey of P.O. Arthur Farrar	Thomas Salmon RVM A Hero of Ostend?
AB H Robinson Royal Lifesaving Award	Deck Hand R Moorcroft Motor Launches in WWI
Smn P Kirkness RNR A Q Ship Survivor	The Turney Family & Wireless at Sea
CPO William John Rathmell DSM, RVM	Bos'un Miller & CPO Hayward Related by marriage

MISC..
HMS Doris Officers & Men known to have taken part in the Syrian Coast Landings	HMS Nestor Jutland Survivors & Prisoners of War
Details of Boys' Training As per the Manual of Seamanship 1915	The Kaiser & His Navy
Royal Navy Loses during World War II	The Naval Africa Expedition 1915
Branch Badges of World War II	The Royal Navy's 2nd Cruiser Squadron visits New York City November 1905
London Fire Brigade Casualties at Sea 1914-1918	A Badge that marks USN & UK Co-Operation
Life in an Internment Camp

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