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World Naval Ships Timeline - 17 May (51 matching entries)

DAY

MONTH

YEAR

SHIP

ENTRY

17thMay1897HMS AstraeaSailed Simonstown for the Mediterranean
17thMay1897HMS BriskSailed Delagoa Bay for The East Indies
17thMay1912HMS A3Used as a target and sunk
17thMay1917HMS G14Launched
17thMay1919HMS ClioArrived Port Sudan
17thMay1919HMS L71Launched
17thMay1919HMS BristolSailed Gibraltar for Portsmouth
17thMay1926HMS EnterpriseSailed Hull
17thMay1928HMS EnterpriseSailed Henjam
17thMay1928HMS EnterpriseAt Henjam
17thMay1929HMS EffinghamArrived Mauritius
17thMay1932HMS HarebellArrived St. Peter Port
17thMay1934HMS ColomboArrived Tanga
17thMay1934HMS ColomboArrived Tanga
17thMay1934HMS ColomboSailed Mombasa
17thMay1934HMS ColomboArrived Tanga
17thMay1934HMS L71Arrived Portsmouth
17thMay1934HMS LupinArrived Henjam
17thMay1934HMS GrimsbyCommissioned
17thMay1934HMS EffinghamArrived Campbeltown
17thMay1934HMS FrobisherArrived Campbeltown
17thMay1935HMS DurbanArrived Malta
17thMay1936HMS DauntlessArrived Wusung
17thMay1936HMS DauntlessArrived Wusung
17thMay1939HMS FrobisherCommander H. W. Biggsin Command
17thMay1940HMS EffinghamCapt. J.M. Howson in Command
17thMay1940HMS EffinghamWrecked
17thMay1941HMS FormidablePatrolling off Crete
17thMay1943HMS EmeraldSailed Scapa Flow
17thMay1943HMS Duke of YorkArrived Scapa Flow
17thMay1945HMS BermudaSailed Malta. Anchored Marsaxlokk
17thMay1946HMS JavelinArrived Portsmouth
17thMay1955HMS Loch KillisportAt Khor Kuwait
17thMay1958HMS AurochsMachine gunned by Indonesian aircraft between Celebes and Halmahera
17thMay1968HMS DanaeArrived Plymouth. SMP
17thMay1972HMS AuroraSailed Piraus
17thMay1972HMS JupiterSailed Piraus
17thMay2002HMS GrimsbyMalaga
17thMay2002HMS GrimsbyMalaga
17thMay2002HMS LindisfarnePortsmouth
17thMay2002HMS LindisfarnePortsmouth
17thMay2002HMS LancasterDevonport
17thMay2002HMS LancasterDevonport
17thMay2004HMS ChathamPlymouth Sound
17thMay2005HMS BulwarkDevonport
17thMay2005HMS GraftonPlymouth Sound
17thMay2005HMS CampbeltownDevonport
17thMay2006HMS ArgyllPlymouth Sound
17thMay2007HMS ArgyllDevonport
17thMay2007HMS CampbeltownSuez Canal
17thMay2007HMS ChathamDevonport
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