Who once owned the Royal Navy HMS Carrick?
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Devitt and Moore Devitt and Moore was a British shipping company formed by Thomas Henry Devitt and Joseph Moore in 1836. They became shipowners and entered the passenger and cargo trade to Australia managing and owning many clipper ships such as the "City of Adelaide" and the "South Australian". With the advent of steam, they developed a training scheme for cadets and formed Pangbourne College.
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City of Adelaide (1864) City of Adelaide is a clipper ship, built in Sunderland, England, and launched on 7 May 1864. The ship was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS "Carrick between 1923 and 1948 and, after decommissioning, was known as Carrick" until 2001. At a conference convened by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in 2001, the decision was made to revert the ship's name to "City of Adelaide", and the duke formally renamed her at a ceremony in 2013.
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HMS Lorna HMS "Lorna" was a British armed yacht which served in the Royal Navy. Originally built in 1904 as a luxury steam yacht, she served in both the First and Second World Wars and destroyed a German U-boat in 1918. After the war, she was became a passenger vessel in Greece, but sank in 1966 and was scrapped two years later.
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Royal Admiral (East Indiaman) Royal Admiral was the name of one vessel that served the East India Company (EIC), and one vessel that was going to serve the EIC, but that the Royal Navy purchased before she launched.
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Naval Stores Department (Royal Navy) The Naval Stores Department also known as the Department of the Director of Naval Stores was the British Admiralty department responsible for managing and maintaining naval stores and the issuing of materials at naval dockyards and establishments for the building, fitting and repairing of Royal Navy warships from 1869 to 1966,
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HMS Cotillion HMS "Cotillion" has been the name of two Royal Navy vessels of the 20th century:
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Carrick Castle Carrick Castle is a 15th-century tower house on the west shore of Loch Goil on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is located between Cuilmuich and Carrick, 4 mi south of Lochgoilhead.
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Admiral (gambling) Admiral is a British gambling company, with high street venues and gambling websites. It is a subsidiary of Luxury Leisure (previously known as Nobles), which is owned in turn by Novomatic.
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HMS Montrose (F236) The current HMS "Montrose" is the eighth of the sixteen ship Type 23 or Duke class of frigates, of the Royal Navy, named after the Duke of Montrose. She was laid down in November 1989 by Yarrow Shipbuilders on the Clyde, and was launched on 31 July 1992 by Lady Rifkind (when, as Mrs Edith Rifkind, her husband Sir Malcolm Rifkind was Secretary of State for Defence). She commissioned into service in June 1994.
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HMS Queen Emma HMS "Queen Emma" was a commando troop ship of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Built as a civilian passenger liner in 1939 by De Schelde at Vlissingen, she was named the MS "Koningin Emma", after Queen Emma of the Netherlands, and operated by Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland (SMZ) (The Zealand Steamship Company) between Flushing and Harwich, along with her sister ship, MS "Prinses Beatrix". After fleeing to Britain after the German invasion in 1940, she was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport, renamed HMS "Queen Emma" and converted to a troopship at Harland and Wolff's yard in Belfast. During the war her main role was transporting British Commandos, and she participated in the Lofoten Islands Raid and the Dieppe Raid. She had the advantage of a high speed that allowed hit and run operations. Later designated as a Landing Ship, Infantry (Medium) she took part in the landings in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy. She operated in the Indian Ocean, and in the Dutch East Indies after the end of the war. In 1946 "Queen Emma" was returned to her owners and continued to operate as ferry from the Hook of Holland until 1969, when she was scrapped in Antwerp, Belgium.
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HMS Loch Fada (K390) HMS "Loch Fada" was the lead ship of the Loch-class frigate s of the British Royal Navy, built by John Brown & Company of Clydebank, Scotland, and named after Loch Fada in the Inner Hebrides.
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HMS Knaresborough Castle (K389) HMS "Knaresborough Castle" (K389) was a Castle-class corvette of the Royal Navy, built under the 1943 War Programme, and named after Knaresborough Castle in Yorkshire, England.
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HMS Dolphin (1914) HMS "Dolphin" was originally the steam merchant ship "Seti". She was purchased by the Admiralty for the Royal Navy in November 1914, renamed "Pandora", and used as a depot ship. She was renamed "Dolphin" in 1924 and was sunk by a mine laid by German submarine U-22 in 1939.
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HMS Porpoise (1804) HMS "Porpoise" was the former quarter-decked sloop, the mercantile "Lord Melville", which the Royal Navy purchased in 1804 to use as a storeship. Her early career was much bound up with William Bligh and Australia's history. She was sold in 1816.
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Pembroke Dockyard Pembroke Dockyard is a former Royal Navy dockyard in Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was founded in 1814, although not formally authorized until the Prince Regent signed the necessary Order in Council on 31 October 1815, and was known as Pater Yard until 1817. The Mayor of Pembroke had requested the change 'in deference to the town of Pembroke some 2 mi distant'.
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Carrick, Scotland Carrick (Scottish Gaelic: "A' Charraig" , ] ) is a former comital district of Scotland which today forms part of South Ayrshire.
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HMS Carron (R30) HMS "Carron" was a C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, ordered in February 1942 from Scotts of Greenock. She was originally to be named HMS "Strenuous" but this was changed to "Carron" before launch to fit her revised class name. She was laid down on 26 November 1942 and launched on 28 March 1944.
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HMS Cavalier (R73) HMS "Cavalier" is a retired C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at East Cowes on 28 March 1943, launched on 7 April 1944, and commissioned on 22 November 1944. She served in World War II and in various commissions in the Far East until she was decommissioned in 1972. After decommissioning she was preserved as a museum ship and currently resides at Chatham Historic Dockyard.
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Ulick Alexander Sir James Ulick Francis Canning Alexander {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (10 February 1889 – 4 April 1973) was a British Army officer, businessman and courtier in several of the Royal Households of the United Kingdom.
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Caledonian Maritime Assets Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (usually shortened to CMAL or CMAssets; Stòras Mara Cailleannach Earr in Scottish Gaelic) owns the ferries, ports, harbours and infrastructure for the ferry services serving the west coast of Scotland and the Firth of Clyde.
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HMS Royal Charles Two ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS "Royal Charles", both after King Charles II.
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HMS Cholmondely HMS "Cholmondely" was a 4-gun single-masted cutter of the Royal Navy, purchased in the last days of the Seven Years' War with France. She was stationed off the Port of Liverpool for eight years from 1763, and was briefly under the command of Lieutenant (and future Admiral) Skeffington Lutwidge.