Armed Forces & Weapons - Ships

The British Navy Guards the Freedom of Us All

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Back Them Up!

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Feeding 45 Millions - Food Convoy

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Troops come ashore on one of the Normandy invasion beaches, past the White Ensign of a naval beach party, 7 June 1944.

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HMS CONQUEROR, the Churchill class nuclear-powered fleet submarine, underway in the early 1970s. In 1982, the submarine sank the Argentine cruiser ARA BELGRANO during the Falklands War.

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HMS CONQUEROR at Faslane on 3 July 1982 after her deployment to the South Atlantic during which she sank the Argentine cruiser GENERAL BELGRANO on 2 May 1982.

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HMS HERMES returns to Portsmouth from the Falklands, 21 July 1982.

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A de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk VI of No. 143 Squadron attacking merchant vessels with rocket and cannon fire in Sandefjord, Norway, 2 April 1945.

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Troops and transport of British 50th Division on the Normandy beaches, 7 June 1944.

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Home Fleet Cruisers in the Firth of Forth

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A Dazzled Oiler, With Escort

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HMS RESOLUTION, the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine to be equipped with Polaris missiles, seen underway on the surface probably off the Scottish coast c. 1970.

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