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List of Ships And Sailors Of The Royal Navyreport

  • Mary Rose: sank in 1545 off Portsmouth. (Notable ships)

  • Golden Hind: flagship of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation and raid on Spanish shipping. (Notable ships)

  • Ark Royal: flagship of English Fleet against the Spanish Armada. The last Ark Royal was an Invincible-class aircraft carrier that saw action in the 2003 Iraq conflict. (Notable ships)

  • Revenge: actively engaged Spanish Armada; later became the subject of a poem by Lord Tennyson detailing her heroic fight against a large Spanish force in 1591. (Notable ships)

  • Endeavour: Royal Navy research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of discovery. (Notable ships)

  • Bounty: scene of the famous mutiny. (Notable ships)

  • Victory: Nelson's flagship. This ship is still officially in service and is the world's oldest commissioned warship and the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. (Notable ships)

  • Beagle: carried Charles Darwin on his voyage. (Notable ships)

  • Warrior: Britain's first iron hulled, armoured battleship. (Notable ships)

  • Dreadnought: first "all big-gun" battleship. (Notable ships)

  • Warspite: fought at Jutland and through the Second World War. (Notable ships)

  • Hood: battlecruiser destroyed by the German battleship Bismarck. (Notable ships)

  • Vanguard: last battleship built for the Royal Navy & also ran aground in Portsmouth Harbour. (Notable ships)

  • Dreadnought: first British nuclear-powered submarine. (Notable ships)

  • Resolution: first British strategic ballistic missile submarine. (Notable ships)

  • Invincible: light aircraft carrier. (Notable ships)

  • Intrepid: end of the Falklands War signed aboard. (Notable ships)

  • Conqueror: The only nuclear-powered submarine to sink an enemy ship. (Notable ships)

  • Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Notable sailors)

  • Sir Martin Frobisher (Notable sailors)

  • Sir Francis Drake (Notable sailors)

  • Robert Blake (Notable sailors)

  • George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (Notable sailors)

  • James, Duke of York (later James II) (Notable sailors)

  • William Penn (Notable sailors)

  • Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich (Notable sailors)

  • George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (Notable sailors)

  • Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke (Notable sailors)

  • John Benbow (Notable sailors)

  • Edward Boscawen (Notable sailors)

  • George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (Notable sailors)

  • Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (Notable sailors)

  • Samuel Barrington (Notable sailors)

  • Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (Notable sailors)

  • Richard Kempenfelt (Notable sailors)

  • John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (Notable sailors)

  • James Cook (Notable sailors)

  • Erasmus Gower (Notable sailors)

  • James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez (Notable sailors)

  • Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (Notable sailors)

  • Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (Notable sailors)

  • The Prince William (later William IV) (Notable sailors)

  • Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet (Notable sailors)

  • Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet (Notable sailors)

  • Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (Notable sailors)

  • Admiral Sir James Stirling (Notable sailors)

  • Sir Sidney Smith (Notable sailors)

  • Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (Notable sailors)

  • Sir James Vashon (Notable sailors)

  • George Vancouver (Notable sailors)

  • William Bligh (Notable sailors)

  • Sir John Franklin (Notable sailors)

  • Charles Robert Malden (Notable sailors)

  • Jackie Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (Notable sailors)

  • Robert Falcon Scott (Notable sailors)

  • John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (Notable sailors)

  • David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (Notable sailors)

  • William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork (Notable sailors)

  • Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope (Notable sailors)

  • James Somerville (Notable sailors)

  • Bertram Ramsay (Notable sailors)

  • Max Horton (Notable sailors)

  • Philip Vian (Notable sailors)

  • Prince Albert of York (later George VI) served as midshipman during World War I. (Notable sailors)

  • Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Notable sailors)

  • Frederic John Walker (Notable sailors)

  • Sir John "Sandy" Woodward (Notable sailors)

  • Anthony Bate, English actor, possibly best known for his role as Oliver Lacon in the BBC television adaptations of the John le Carré novels Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People, served with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in 1945-47. (Famous people)

  • Peter Bull, English character actor, served as an RNVR lieutenant-commander during World War II, awarded the DSC. (Famous people)

  • James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979, was conscripted in 1942 as an Ordinary Seaman, and was promoted to Lieutenant in April 1944. (Famous people)

  • Sean Connery, actor, enlisted into the Royal Navy in 1946, and served as an anti-aircraft gunner before receiving a medical discharge in 1949. (Famous people)

  • Harry H. Corbett, actor famous for Steptoe and Son, served in the Royal Marines during the latter part of World War II. (Famous people)

  • Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, served in the Naval Intelligence Division during World War II. (Famous people)

  • William Golding, novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, served as a lieutenant and was present (on board a destroyer) at the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. (Famous people)

  • John Gregson, actor, conscripted to serve on minesweepers in the Royal Navy during World War II. Used this experience playing the Captain of HMS Exeter, in the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate. (Famous people)

  • Alec Guinness, actor, served during World War II, initially as a rating, but later commissioned in 1941. He commanded a landing craft taking part in the invasion of Sicily and Elba and later ferried supplies to the Yugoslav partisans. (Famous people)

  • Jack Gwillim, served in the Navy for 20 years rising to the rank of commander, but after being invalided out in 1946 he became a noted character actor. (Famous people)

  • Michael Havers, Baron Havers, QC and Attorney General, served as a 19-year-old midshipman on Sirius in Force Q during World War II. (Famous people)

  • Michael Hordern, actor, served on Illustrious in "Operation Ironclad" (the 1942 Battle of Madagascar) and later as a Lt.-Cdr in the office of the First Sea Lord. (Famous people)

  • James Robertson Justice, joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, but after sustaining an injury in 1943 (thought to be shrapnel from a German shell), he was pensioned off. (Famous people)

  • Sir Ludovic Kennedy, journalist, broadcaster and author served in the Royal Navy during World War II. His father commanded HMS Rawalpindi, the P&O armed merchant ship in her ill-fated encounter with the powerful German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in 1939. (Famous people)

  • Laurence Olivier, actor, served in the Fleet Air Arm during World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant. (Famous people)

  • Peter O'Toole, actor, served as a radioman during his National Service in 1950-52. (Famous people)

  • Patrick Macnee, actor, served during World War II, with the rank of lieutenant. (Famous people)

  • Nicholas Monsarrat, author, served as a RNVR lieutenant-commander during World War II. (Famous people)

  • Kenneth More actor, RNVR lieutenant, on board Aurora in Force Q during World War II. (Famous people)

  • Jon Pertwee, actor, best known for his portrayal of the Third Doctor in Doctor Who, served during World War II, as an radioman, and was transferred off the Hood just before it was sunk to become an officer, and served in the security division. (Famous people)

  • Michael Redgrave, English stage and film actor, director, manager and author, served in Illustrious during World War II. (Famous people)

  • Ralph Richardson, actor, served as a lieutenant-commander during World War II. (Famous people)

  • Nevil Shute, author and engineer, served as an RNVR lieutenant-commander working on weapons development during World War II. (Famous people)

  • Patrick Troughton, actor, best known for his portrayal of the Second Doctor in Doctor Who, served in Coastal Forces during World War II, rising to the rank of lieutenant, and commanding a motor gun boat. (Famous people)

  • Godfrey Winn, a British journalist known as a columnist, and also a writer and actor. Trained at HMS Ganges. His book PQ17 was an account of his experiences on Convoy PQ 17 during the Second World War, serving in HMS Pozarica. See also 'Home from the Sea' published in 1944. (Famous people)

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Although many people attribute the strength of the Royal Navy to the sophistication of British warships and artillery, the British ships and weapons are not superior to those of the French, the real key to the English supremacy at sea was the very humble mariners in their army. Sailors were one of the main reasons the Royal Navy was able to take control of the sea from other countries. Without a “Relatively adequate” supply of sailors at home, Britain could not sail out of the harbor even with its countless warships and merchant ships, and with sailors, the British navy can make warships obey their own orders, in order to compete freely at sea.

Compared with other countries, the British people have long recognized the importance of sailors, and the British geographical environment also makes Britain rich in sailors. As an island nation, Britain has the geographical advantage which the mainland country does not have, the long coastline has nurtured many British people who live off the land. The information about the 92 sailors and ships kept in the random tool generator was important because they were important weapons of war for Britain’s naval supremacy at the time.

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