HMS Conqueror (S48), the Glossary
HMS Conqueror was a British nuclear-powered fleet submarine which served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1990.[1]
Table of Contents
50 relations: Aircraft carrier, ARA General Belgrano, ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2), Argentine Air Force, Argentine Navy, Birkenhead, Cammell Laird, Ceremonial ship launching, Chris Wreford-Brown, Commander (Royal Navy), Commander-in-Chief Fleet, Depth charge, Exclusion zone, Exocet, Falkland Islands, Falklands War, Gare Loch, Gosport, Hansard, Harpoon (missile), HMNB Clyde, Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse, Keel laying, Light cruiser, Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Mull of Kintyre, National Reorganization Process, Nautical mile, Northwood Headquarters, Nuclear marine propulsion, Nuclear reactor, Pakistan Navy, Periscope, Pincer movement, Rolls-Royce PWR, Royal Navy, Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Sandy Woodward, Soviet Navy, Submarine, The Daily Telegraph, Tigerfish (torpedo), Towed array sonar, Transmission (mechanical device), Use of the Jolly Roger by submarines, USS Borie (DD-704), USS Collett, 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands, 6-inch/47-caliber gun.
- Churchill-class submarines
Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.
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ARA General Belgrano
ARA General Belgrano (C-4) was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982.
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ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2)
ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2) was an aircraft carrier in the Argentine Navy from 1969 to 1997. HMS Conqueror (S48) and ARA Veinticinco de Mayo (V-2) are ships built on the River Mersey.
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Argentine Air Force
The Argentine Air Force (Fuerza Aérea Argentina, or simply FAA) is the air force of Argentina and one of three branches of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic.
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Argentine Navy
The Argentine Navy (ARA; Armada de la República Argentina).
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Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; historically, it was part of Cheshire until 1974.
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Cammell Laird
Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company.
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Ceremonial ship launching
Ceremonial ship launching involves the performance of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water.
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Chris Wreford-Brown
Christopher Louis Wreford-Brown DSO RN (born August 1945) is a retired British Royal Navy officer.
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Commander (Royal Navy)
Commander (Cdr) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.
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Commander-in-Chief Fleet
The Commander-in-Chief Fleet (CINCFLEET) was the admiral responsible for the operations of the ships, submarines and aircraft of the British Royal Navy from 1971 until April 2012.
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Depth charge
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to a destructive hydraulic shock.
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Exclusion zone
An exclusion zone is a territorial division established for various, case-specific purposes.
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Exocet
The Exocet is a French-built anti-ship missile whose various versions can be launched from surface vessels, submarines, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
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Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf.
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Falklands War
The Falklands War (Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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Gare Loch
The Gare Loch or Gareloch (An Gearr Loch) is an open sea loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland and bears a similar name to the village of Gairloch in the north west Highlands.
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Gosport
Gosport is a town and non-metropolitan borough, on the south coast of Hampshire, South East England.
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Hansard
Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.
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Harpoon (missile)
The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Defense, Space & Security).
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HMNB Clyde
His Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde (HMNB Clyde; also HMS Neptune), primarily sited at Faslane on the Gare Loch, is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth).
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Indo-Pakistani war of 1971
The Indo-Pakistani war of 1971, also known as the third India-Pakistan war, was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 December 1971.
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John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse
Admiral of the Fleet John David Elliott Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse, (12 February 1928 – 17 February 1992) was a Royal Navy officer.
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Keel laying
Laying the keel or laying down is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction.
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Light cruiser
A light cruiser is a type of small or medium-sized warship.
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Lockheed C-130 Hercules
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin).
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Mull of Kintyre
The Mull of Kintyre is the southwesternmost tip of the Kintyre Peninsula (formerly Cantyre) in southwest Scotland.
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National Reorganization Process
The National Reorganization Process (Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, often simply el Proceso, "the Process") was the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983, which received support from the United States until 1982.
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Nautical mile
A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters.
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Northwood Headquarters
Northwood Headquarters is a military headquarters facility of the British Armed Forces in Eastbury, Hertfordshire, England, adjacent to the London suburb of Northwood.
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Nuclear marine propulsion
Nuclear marine propulsion is propulsion of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor.
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Nuclear reactor
A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction or nuclear fusion reactions.
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Pakistan Navy
The Pakistan Navy (PN) (پاکستان بحریہ; ''romanized'': Pākistān Bahrí'a) is the naval warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces.
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Periscope
A periscope is an instrument for observation over, around or through an object, obstacle or condition that prevents direct line-of-sight observation from an observer's current position.
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Pincer movement
The pincer movement, or double envelopment, is a military maneuver in which forces simultaneously attack both flanks (sides) of an enemy formation.
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Rolls-Royce PWR
The Rolls-Royce pressurised water reactor (PWR) series has powered the Royal Navy's nuclear submarines since the, commissioned in 1966.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Royal Navy Submarine Museum
The Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport is a maritime museum tracing the international history of submarine development from the age of Alexander the Great to the present day, and particularly the history of the Royal Navy Submarine Service from the navy's first submarine, Holland 1, to the nuclear-powered ''Vanguard''-class submarines.
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Sandy Woodward
Admiral Sir John Forster "Sandy" Woodward, (1 May 1932 – 4 August 2013) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Task Force of the Falklands War.
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Soviet Navy
The Soviet Navy was the naval warfare uniform service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces.
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Submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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Tigerfish (torpedo)
The Mark 24 Tigerfish was a heavyweight acoustic homing torpedo used by the Royal Navy (RN) during the 1980s and 90s.
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Towed array sonar
A towed array sonar is a system of hydrophones towed behind a submarine or a surface ship on a cable.
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Transmission (mechanical device)
A transmission (also called a gearbox) is a mechanical device which uses a gear set—two or more gears working together—to change the speed, direction of rotation, or torque multiplication/reduction in a machine.
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Use of the Jolly Roger by submarines
The Jolly Roger is a symbol that has been used by submarines, primarily those of the Royal Navy Submarine Service and its predecessors.
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USS Borie (DD-704)
USS Borie (DD-704), an, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Adolph E. Borie, Secretary of the Navy under President Ulysses S. Grant.
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USS Collett
USS Collett (DD-730) was a World War II-era in the service of the United States Navy.
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1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands
The Invasion of the Falkland Islands (Invasión de las Islas Malvinas), code-named Operation Rosario (Operación Rosario), was a military operation launched by Argentine forces on 2 April 1982, to capture the Falkland Islands, and served as a catalyst for the subsequent Falklands War.
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6-inch/47-caliber gun
The 6-inch/47-caliber Mark 16 gun was used in the main batteries of several pre-war and World War II US Navy light cruisers.
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See also
Churchill-class submarines
- Churchill-class submarine
- HMS Churchill (S46)
- HMS Conqueror (S48)
- HMS Courageous (S50)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Conqueror_(S48)
Also known as Operation Barmaid.