HMS Rooke
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Ship
- HMS Rooke was a Thornycroft-type flotilla leader launched in 1920. She was renamed HMS Broke in 1921, and served until foundering under tow in 1942 after being damaged during Operation Terminal.
Shore establishments
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- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". was the naval base at Gibraltar. It was commissioned in 1946, succeeding Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., and operating until becoming a Joint Service Base in 1990. This was paid off in 1996.
See also
- Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., which was a Royal Navy Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". captured by two French privateers in 1808.
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