HMS Ajax was a Leander-class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II. She became famous for her part in the Battle of the River...

Islands, thus depriving the force of their strongest unit. Without her, HMS Exeter, Ajax and Achilles engaged the German raider Admiral Graf Spee in the Battle...

the mainland of Normandy during the beach landings. Chile wanted to buy HMS Ajax in 1948-9, but the opposition leader in the UK, Winston Churchill thought...

Uruguay (meeting and exercising with her sister and the light cruiser HMS Ajax), Rio de Janeiro and Ceara in Brazil, Barbados (where the three cruisers...

specialized in gunnery. In 1935 he was appointed Assistant Director of Naval Equipment at the Admiralty. He captained HMS Ajax in the Battle of the River...

captain in 1935, McCarthy was the highest ranking British officer at the Battle of Cape Passero in 1940, and he commanded HMS Ajax from 1940 and HMS Anson...

was constituted as follows: HMS King George V HMS Ajax HMS Audacious HMS Centurion HMS Conqueror HMS Monarch HMS Orion HMS Thunderer As an element in the...

Poncelet (Q141) Archimède (Q142) Fresnel (Q143) Monge (Q144) Achille (Q147) Ajax (Q148) Actéon (Q149) Achéron (Q150) Argo (Q151) Prométhée (Q153) Persée (Q154)...

on 13 October after the destroyer's engagement with the light cruiser HMS Ajax the previous evening. A month later York and the Mediterranean Fleet executed...

1926. The King George V-class battleships, HMS King George V, HMS Centurion, HMS Audacious, and HMS Ajax, were larger variants of the preceding Orion-class...