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Guard ship

A guard ship is a warship stationed at some port or harbour to act as a guard, and in former times in the Royal Navy to receive the men impressed for service.



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Hector-class ironclad

Hector was assigned as Queen Victoria's guard ship nearly every summer during this period when the Queen and her family, were in residence in Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

ICGS Rajdhwaj

ICGS Rajdhwaj (ICGS refers to Indian Coast Guard Ship) is a Rajshree-class inshore patrol vessel (IPV), and the last in the series of eight IPVs designed and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders Engineers, Kolkata for the Indian Coast Guard.

Naval Station Sangley Point

The Coast Guard Air Station and the Coast Guard Ship Nettle played a vital role in search-and-rescue operations and in the maintenance of remote long-range aid-to navigation (LORAN) stations located throughout the Philippines.