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5 giorni fa · Royal Navy, naval military organization of the United Kingdom, charged with the national defense at sea, protection of shipping, and fulfillment of international military agreements. Organized sea power was first used in England by Alfred the Great of Wessex, who launched ships to repel a Viking invasion.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 giorni fa · The Battle of the Atlantic pitted U-boats and other warships of the German Kriegsmarine (Navy) and aircraft of the Luftwaffe (Air Force) against the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, United States Navy, and Allied merchant shipping.
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4 giorni fa · He joined the Royal Navy during the First World War and was appointed Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, in the Second World War. He later served as the last Viceroy of India and briefly as the first Governor-General of the Dominion of India. Mountbatten attended the Royal Naval College, Osborne, before entering the ...
1 giorno fa · The United States Navy ( USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the world's most powerful navy and the largest by tonnage, at 4.5 million tons in 2021 [9] and in 2009 an estimated battle fleet tonnage that exceeded the next 13 navies combined. [10]
3 giorni fa · To give you some idea of the reduction, at the end of the Second World War, the Royal Navy had 861,000 personnel in 1945, which fell to 128,000 in 1955. That’s an 85 percent reduction in around ...
1 giorno fa · Die Royal Navy stellt im Laufe des Jahres 13 neue S-Klasse-Uboote in Dienst. Die Neubauten werden hauptsächlich im Mittelmeer gegen die Nachschublinien der Achse eingesetzt. Im Mai fällt die Festung Tobruk und die italienisch-deutschen Einheiten stoßen anschließend bis El Alamein in Ägypten vor, wo sie im Oktober zur Umkehr gezwungen werden.
5 giorni fa · Navy, a nation’s warships and craft of every kind maintained by armed forces for fighting on, under, or over the sea. A large modern navy includes aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, submarines, minesweepers and minelayers, gunboats, and various types of support, supply, and repair.
