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Sir Edward Codrington was a British admiral. He was born in 1770 and died in 1851. He entered the navy in 1783, and commanded the Orion at the Battle of Trafalgar, winning a gold medal for his services, and served in the second war with America, 1814. As commander of the Allied Mediterranean Fleet in 1827 he defeated the Turkish and Egyptian navies at Navarino and secured the evacuation of the Morea in 1828. From 1832 to 1837 he was member of parliament for Devonport.
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Leslie Hore-Belisha was an English barrister and politician. He was born in 1893 at Devonport and died in 1957. After serving in the Great War he became a journalist, working in London, before in 1923 being called to the Bar as Liberal MP for Devonport. In 1934, as Minister of Transport he gave his name to the 'Belisha' beacons at pedestrian road crossings and inaugurated the driving test for motorists. From 1937 to 1940 he was Secretary of State for War carrying out controversial modernisations of the armed forces, converting the British Army from a small force of volunteers into a huge conscripted force. After the Second World War he lost his seat during the July 1945 elections.
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott was an English explorer. He was born in 1868 near Devonport, Devon and died in 1912. He commanded the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901 to 1904 which explored the Ross Sea and discovered King Edward VII land. Later he was beaten to the South Pole by Roald Amundsen and died on the return journey as a result of poor weather and disease.
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Sir William Francis Butler was an Irish soldier and writer. He was born in 1838 and died in 1910. He joined the army in 1858, reached the rank of major in 1874, having previously served in the Red River Expedition; accompanied the Ashantee expedition, of 1874; and in 1879 acted as staff-officer in Natal. He served in Egypt in 1892, held important commands under Lord Wolseley in the Soudan in 1884-1885; from 1890 until 1893 was in command at Alexandria; attained the rank of major-general in 1892 and subsequently held commands at Aldershot and at Dover.
From 1898 to 1899 he was commander-in-chief of the forces in the Cape Colony, but came home before the outbreak of war. He was then put in command of the western district, with head-quarters at Devonport. He retired from the army in 1905. His chief works are: The Great Lone Land, The Wild North Land (both dealing with experiences in Northern Canada); and biographies of Charles George Gordon ('Chinese Gordon'), Sir Charles Napier, and Sir George Colley. He was knighted in 1886. In 1877 he married Miss Elizabeth Thompson, who had by this time become well known as a painter.
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Samuel Phelps was an English actor. He was born in 1804 at Devonport and died in 1878. He made his debut playing Shylock at London in 1837. Along with Thomas Greenwood and Mrs Warner he opened a small theatre at Sadler' s Wells in 1844, and for nearly twenty years successfully appeared there. His aim was to produce all Shakespeare's plays, and he actually did present thirty-four of them. He was an excellent all-round actor, primarily plying tragedy, but excellent as a comedian also.
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HMS Aberdeen was a British Aberdeen Class escort sloop of 990 tons displacement built at the Devonport Dockyard and launched in 1936. She was armed with four 4-inch anti-aircraft guns and nine smaller guns. Two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers provided a top speed of 16.5 knots and she carried a complement of 100.
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HMS Danae was a British Leander Class frigate of 2500 tons displacement built by the HM Dockyard at Devonport and launched in 1965. She was armed with four Aerospatiale Exocet MM38 surface-to-surface missiles; three quad Seacat missile launchers; two 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and six 324 mm Mk 32 torpedo tubes arranged in two triples . She carried a Wasp helicopter and carried a complement of 223. In 1982 she sailed to the Falkland Islands as an escort to HMS Illustrious, during the Falklands War. In 1991 she was transferred to Ecuador and renamed Moran Verde.
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HMS Fleetwood was a British Aberdeen Class escort sloop of 990 tons displacement built at the Devonport Dockyard and launched in 1936. She was armed with four 4-inch anti-aircraft guns and nine smaller guns. Two Admiralty 3-drum type boilers provided a top speed of 16.5 knots and she carried a complement of 100.
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HMS Herald was a British surveying vessel of 1320 tons displacement launched in 1918 as the Merry Hampton before being converted during 1922 and 1923 at Devonport. HMS Herald had a top speed of 17 knots and carried a complement of 132. Armaments consisted of one 3-pdr gun.
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H 29 was a British H Class submarine of 410 tons displacement launched in 1918 and sunk in dock at Devonport in 1926. She was armed with one machine-gun and four 21-inch bow torpedo tubes and carried a complement of 22. Two sets of Vickers Diesel engines provided a top speed of 13 knots surfaced and 10.5 knots submerged.
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