HMS Alliance
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Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Alliance:
- Alliance, a 20-gun ship, originally called Alliante captured from the Dutch Navy off the coast of Norway on 22 August 1795 and used as a store ship. Sold May 1802.
- HMS Alliance (W77), lead vessel of her class of 4 tugs, launched 1910 and scuttled in Hong Kong in 1941 to prevent her capture by the invading Japanese forces.
- HMS Alliance (P417), a submarine launched in 1945 but not completed until 1947, and now a museum ship and the only surviving member of her class.
[edit] References
- HMS Alliance (W 77). Uboat.net. Retrieved on 2006-12-10.
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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