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...
31 KB (3,514 words) - 11:26, 21 April 2024
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...
17 KB (1,684 words) - 01:40, 17 December 2023
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...
46 KB (5,602 words) - 10:01, 23 August 2024
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...
5 KB (281 words) - 07:11, 7 July 2024
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...
3 KB (159 words) - 21:30, 28 December 2023
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...
11 KB (1,087 words) - 23:40, 30 April 2023
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...
8 KB (659 words) - 21:18, 20 November 2023
Poncelet (Q141) Archimède (Q142) Fresnel (Q143) Monge (Q144) Achille (Q147) Ajax (Q148) Actéon (Q149) Achéron (Q150) Argo (Q151) Prométhée (Q153) Persée (Q154)...
25 KB (1,506 words) - 02:19, 10 April 2024
(1948) HMS Delhi (1948) HMS Frobisher (1949) HMS Ajax (1949) HMS Leamington (1951) HMS Devonshire (1954) HMS Magicienne (1956) HMS Start Bay (1958) HMS Cleopatra...
8 KB (790 words) - 03:16, 14 July 2024
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...
21 KB (2,447 words) - 09:47, 25 August 2024