The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Ardent was launched on 26th June, 1929. She served in the North Atlantic, and was sunk on 8 June 1940, in a battle involving her sister ship HMS Acasta, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious (both of which were also sunk) and the German battlecruisers Gneisernau and Scharnhorst. All but one of her complement of 138 were lost. Jump to: navigation, search The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... HMS Acasta was a 40 gun, 18 pounder frigate of the napolionic wars. ... Jump to: navigation, search HMS Glorious was a warship of the Royal Navy. ... Gneisenau was a 31,100 ton Gneisenau class battlecruiser of the German Kriegsmarine, named to commemorate the World War I armored cruiser SMS Gneisenau, which was in turn named after the Prussian general August von Gneisenau. ... Scharnhorst was a 31,500 tonne Gneisenau class battlecruiser of the German Kriegsmarine, named the Prussian general and army reformer Gerhard von Scharnhorst and to commemorate the World War I armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst. ...
For other Royal Navy ships named HMS Ardent, see the disambiguation page. Four ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ardent, three of which were sunk in action: Ardent, launched in 1894, was the lead ship of her class of torpedo boat destroyers. ...
HMS Onyx, like her surviving sister HMS Ocelot at Chatham, is an Oberon class attack submarine.
HMS Onyx is 295ft (89.4m) in length, 26.5ft (8m) breadth with an 18ft (5.5m) draught and the class is quite unique in the fact that the casing is constructed of glass fibre and alloy, the first time a plastic had been used in any submarine construction.
The working life of HMS Onyx comprised of four different commissions that were to ultimately take her around the globe.
On the afternoon of Saturday the eighth of June, 1940, the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMSArdent were intercepted in the Norwegian Sea by the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.
The WW I destroyer HMSArdent was Sunk by gunfire from the German Battle Fleet during the Battle of Jutland on the 1st June 1916 with a loss of 78 lives.
The Torpedo Boat HMSArdent was attached to the Mediterranean Fleet during the 1890s as tender to the flagship HMS Ramillies, with the idea of being used among other things, for the training of as many as possible of the stokers of the Fleet in the management of water tube boilers.
Feeds |
Contact