History of the Royal Navy

fleet of Spanish ships, intended to attack England in 1588

1789 mutiny aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty

British Government ministry responsible for the Royal Navy until 1964

1922 international treaty concerning naval construction and fleet limits

1784 survey ship

1946–48 altercations between the United Kingdom and Albania

the passages between the northern Atlantic Ocean and the Norwegian Sea (Greenland - Iceland - United Kingdom)

naval engagement in World War II, part of the war in the Pacific

agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States, signed on 22 April 1930, which regulated submarine warfare and limited naval shipbuilding

inter-war arms limitation agreement between the United Kingdom and Germany

a 1940 agreement whereby the United States supplied the United Kingdom with fifty destroyers in exchange for basing rights in Newfoundland and the Caribbean.

naval blockade from December 1902 to February 1903

early 20th-century arms race between the United Kingdom and Germany

1589 fleet of warships sent to Spain by Queen Elizabeth I of England

Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is a type of conscription of people into a military force, especially a naval force, via intimidation and physical coercion, conducted by an organized group (hence "gang"). The navies of several European nations used various means of impressment starting in the late 16th century and continuing into the 19th century. The large size of the British Royal Navy in the Age of Sail meant that impressment was most commonly associated with Great Britain and Ireland. It was used by the Royal Navy in wartime, beginning in 1664 and during the 18th

escape of the Braganza royal family and its court of nearly 15,000 people from Lisbon on November 29, 1807

former Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent, United Kingdom

1910 practical joke by Horace de Vere Cole

record of ships of the English Tudor navy of the 1540s

international naval treaty in Interwar era

deceased Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise

small, fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries

1758 military operation

intelligence agency

thumb|Three lascar crew of the P&O liner A lascar was a sailor or militiaman from the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Arab world, British Somaliland or other lands east of the Cape of Good Hope, who was employed on European ships from the 16th century until the mid-20th century.

circumnavigation by George Anson and eight other ships

1918–1919 British naval intervention during Russian Civil War

history of the naval force of the United Kingdom

1587 series of attacks by Francis Drake against the Spanish

global initiative to stop trafficking of weapons of mass destruction

Canada's Pacific Coast naval base

thumb|1807 painting of HMS Anson (1781)|HMS Anson as a razee by [[Thomas Luny]]

1597 fleet of Spanish ships, intended to attack England

2007 incident between Iran and the UK

fleet of Spanish ships, intended to attack England in 1596

battleship built in the 1920s or 1930s under the terms of one of a number of international treaties governing warship construction

british-led naval force

1586 early battle in the Anglo-Spanish War

1927 British Royal Navy action against Chinese pirates

passed by the Long Parliament of England on 3 April 1645

1589 carrack of the Portuguese Navy

first English circumnavigation of the world

1586 raid during the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)

British punitive expedition in the Middle East

1797 cutter

amount of money received by the winner of a prize or award

1740 siege during the War of Jenkin's Ear