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HMS Rodney (29)
HMS Rodney was a Nelson-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, completed in 1927 with all nine 16-inch guns mounted forward, best known for helping destroy the Bismarck.
HMS Royal Charles (1660)
HMS Royal Charles was an English first-rate ship of the line launched in 1655 as Naseby, renamed at the Restoration, and captured by the Dutch in 1667.
HMS Royal Oak (08)
HMS Royal Oak was a British Revenge-class battleship launched in 1914 and sunk at Scapa Flow in October 1939 by the German submarine U-47, with 835 dead.
HMS Scott (H131)
HMS Scott is a Royal Navy ocean survey vessel, commissioned in 1997 to map the deep ocean floor with multibeam sonar as the only ship of her class.
HMS Sheffield (D80)
HMS Sheffield (D80) was a Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, the first British warship lost in combat since World War II, sunk by an Argentine Exocet in 1982.
HMS Surprise (novel)
H.M.S. Surprise (HMS Surprise) is Patrick O'Brian's 1973 novel, third in the Aubrey-Maturin series, following Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin as the frigate Surprise carries an envoy to India and fights Admiral Linois, based on the real 1804 China Fleet action.
HMS Surprise (replica ship)
HMS Surprise is a replica 18th-century British frigate at the Maritime Museum of San Diego, known for her role in the 2003 film Master and Commander.
HMS Terror (1813)
HMS Terror (1813), Royal Navy bomb vessel built at Topsham, Devon; served in polar exploration with Back (1836-37), Ross's Antarctic voyage (1839-43), and Franklin's lost 1845 Northwest Passage expedition; wreck found in Terror Bay, 2016.
HMS Tiger
HMS Tiger is a ship name the Royal Navy has reused for 12 warships since 1546, including a battlecruiser of 1913 and a cruiser of 1959.
HMS Vanguard (23)
HMS Vanguard (23), pennant 23, the last battleship completed for the Royal Navy: John Brown, Clydebank, launched 30 November 1944, eight reused 15-inch guns, 44,500 tons, carried King George VI to South Africa in 1947, scrapped 1960.
HMS Vanguard (S28)
HMS Vanguard (S28) is a Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine, lead boat of the Vanguard class, commissioned in 1993 to carry Trident missiles for Britain's nuclear deterrent.
HMS Victorious (R38)
HMS Victorious was a Royal Navy Illustrious-class aircraft carrier launched in 1939 that attacked the Bismarck, served in the Pacific as USS Robin, and was scrapped at Faslane in 1970.
HMS Victory
HMS Victory is a 104-gun Royal Navy ship of the line launched in 1765, best known as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
HMS Warrior (1860)
HMS Warrior (1860), Royal Navy armoured frigate and world's first ocean-going iron-hulled armoured warship, built in response to France's Gloire; 4.5-inch armour, about 14 knots, never fired in anger, now a museum ship at Portsmouth.
HMS Warspite (03)
HMS Warspite was a Royal Navy Queen Elizabeth-class battleship launched in 1913 that fought at Jutland and served as Admiral Cunningham's Mediterranean flagship in the Second World War.
HMT Empire Windrush
HMT Empire Windrush, formerly the German liner Monte Rosa, was a British troopship whose 1948 voyage from the Caribbean marked the symbolic start of post-war Caribbean migration to Britain.
HMV
HMV is a British chain of music, film, and pop-culture stores founded in 1921 on Oxford Street, twice in administration, now owned by Canadian Doug Putman's Sunrise Records with about 119 UK shops.
HMV Model 102 portable gramophone
The HMV Model 102 is a wind-up, suitcase-style portable gramophone made by the Gramophone Company of Hayes, England, produced from 1929 or 1931 until 1960.
HMW glutenin
HMW glutenin (high-molecular-weight glutenin subunits, HMW-GS) are wheat endosperm storage proteins encoded by Glu-1 loci that form gluten's disulfide-bonded elastic backbone; minor in mass but key determinants of dough strength and breadmaking quality.
HMX
HMX, also known as octogen or cyclotetramethylenetetranitramine, is a manmade nitramine high explosive discovered in 1941 and used in nuclear devices, plastic explosives, and rocket fuels.
HMX-1
HMX-1, Marine Helicopter Squadron One, the "Nighthawks," is the USMC squadron at Quantico flying the President as Marine One since 1957, sole provider since 1976, and the Corps' assault-support helicopter test unit transitioning to the VH-92A.
HMY Britannia
HMY Britannia, also known as the Royal Yacht Britannia, was the British Royal Yacht serving Queen Elizabeth II for 44 years until its decommissioning in 1997.
HN Lib
HN Lib (HN Librae, HIP 71253, Gliese 555) is a nearby M4.0 V red dwarf 6.24 pc away in Libra, hosting the 2023 radial-velocity planet HN Lib b, a 5.46 Earth-mass habitable-zone sub-Neptune, plus candidate HN Lib c.
HN Peg
HN Peg (HD 206860) is a nearby, magnetically active G-type star in Pegasus, 59 light-years away, with a directly imaged brown dwarf companion, HN Peg B.
HNA Aviation
HNA Aviation (海航航空集团) is the aviation group of China's HNA Group, centered on Hainan Airlines, headquartered in Haikou and reorganized under Liaoning Fangda Group in 2022.
HNA Group
HNA Group was a Chinese conglomerate that grew from Hainan Airlines into a debt-fueled global acquirer before collapsing into the world's third-biggest bankruptcy reorganization in 2022.
HNA Hotel Group (海航酒店集团)
HNA Hotel Group (海航酒店集团) is a set of related Chinese hotel investment and management companies within the HNA conglomerate, with its main platform founded in 1997 in Beijing.
Hnat Khotkevych
Hnat Khotkevych (Ukrainian: Гнат Хоткевич), writing also as Hnat Halaida, was a Ukrainian writer, composer, and bandurist born in Kharkiv in 1877 and executed by the Soviet NKVD in 1938.
HNC study
HNC study: clinical research on head and neck cancer, chiefly rehabilitation and survivorship trials such as RPC, CaRe, GRRAND-F, and NUTRI-HAB, targeting dysphagia, lymphedema, and quality of life.
Hndrxx
Hndrxx (HNDRXX) is Future's sixth studio album, released February 2017 on Epic one week after FUTURE. A soulful R&B-trap pivot with The Weeknd and Rihanna, it made Future the first solo artist with back-to-back Billboard 200 No. 1 debuts.