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HMS Ajax (22) HMS. Ajax. (22) HMS Ajax was a Leander -class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River Plate, the Battle of Crete, the Battle of Malta and as a supply escort in the siege of Tobruk. This ship was the eighth in the Royal Navy to bear the name.
Ajax at anchor, about 1913. Ajax, named after the mythological hero, Ajax, was the fifth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy. Ordered under the 1910–1911 Naval Estimates, the ship was laid down by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering at their shipyard in Greenock on 27 February 1911 and launched on 21 March 1912.
The James Pascoe Ltd Group of Companies is a privately owned New Zealand retail group with holdings across New Zealand and Australia.JPG owns and operates chains Pascoes the Jewellers, Stewart Dawsons and Goldmark (all jewellers); department store Farmers (with Goldmark jewellery kiosks in some stores); homeware retailer Stevens; and bookshop Whitcoulls in New Zealand.
The Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939 as the first naval battle of the Second World War.The Kriegsmarine heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, commanded by Captain Hans Langsdorff, engaged a Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Commodore Henry Harwood, comprising the light cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles (on loan to the New Zealand Division) and the heavy ...
HMS Ajax was an Ajax-class 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She was built by John Randall & Co of Rotherhithe and launched on the Thames on 3 March 1798. Ajax participated in the Egyptian operation of 1801 , the Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1805 and the Battle of Trafalgar , before she was lost to a disastrous fire ...
HMS Ajax was a Leander -class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by the famous Cammell Laird company of Birkenhead. Ajax was launched on 16 August 1962 and commissioned on 10 December 1963. She was originally intended to be named HMS Fowey, and laid down as a Rothesay class, but instead became part of Batch 1 of the Leander class.
HMS Ajax (22) was a Leander -class light cruiser launched in 1934. She took part in the Battle of the River Plate and was broken up in 1949. HMS Ajax (F114) was a Leander -class frigate launched in 1962 and broken up in 1988. HMS Ajax (851F) was an Admiralty barge built in 1956. She was moored at Jupiter Point on the Lynher River, Plymouth for ...
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