HMS Merlin

Fourteen ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Merlin, after Merlin, the wizard in Arthurian legend (the shore establishment RNAS Donibristle, like the other Naval Air Stations in Scotland, was named after the sea bird):

Citations

  1. Hepper (1994), p.4.
  2. 1 2 Hepper (1994), p.53.
  3. Demerliac (1996), p.71, #447.
  4. Hepper (1994), p.50.

References

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