HMS Owl
HMS Owl has been used by the British Royal Navy as the name of one ship and one shore establishment:
- HMS Owl (1913), an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1913 and scrapped in 1921.[1]
- HMS Owl (shore establishment) was the name assigned to RAF Fearn when it was taken over as a torpedo training school by the Royal Navy on 1 August 1942.[2] The base closed in July 1946.[3]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- ^ "HMS Owl". Tain Museum. Archived from the original on 23 March 2009. Retrieved 29 April 2009.
- ^ "Fearn". ControlTowers.co.uk. Retrieved 29 April 2009.
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