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| name = Bear

!style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[image:rnensign.png|RN Ensign]]

| fossil_range = Early [[Miocene]] - Recent

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| image = Kodiak_Brown_Bear.jpg

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| image_caption = ''Kodiak [[Brown Bear]]''

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| regnum = [[Animal]]ia

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| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]

|[[15 January]] [[1970]]

| classis = [[Mammal]]ia

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| ordo = [[Carnivora]]

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|[[10 June]]subordo = [[1971Caniformia]]

| familia = '''Ursidae'''

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| familia_authority = [[Johann Fischer von Waldheim|G. Fischer de Waldheim]], 1817

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| subdivision_ranks = Genera

|[[16 February]] [[1975]]

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''[[Ailuropoda]]''<br />

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''[[Helarctos]]''<br />

|Sunk by Argentine air attack on [[4 May]] [[1982]] during [[Falklands War]]

''[[Melursus]]''<br />

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''[[Ursus (genus)|Ursus]]''<br />

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''[[Tremarctos]]''<br />

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''[[Arctodus]]'' (extinct)

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|4,820 tonnes

A '''bear''' is a large [[mammal]] in the family '''Ursidae''' of the order [[Carnivora]]. The adjective "'''''ursine'''''" is used to describe things of a bear-like nature. The [[English collective nouns|collective noun]] for a group of them is a ''sleuth''.

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|Length:

|125 m (410 ft)

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|Beam:

|14.3 m (47 ft)

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|Draught:

|5.8 m

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|Propulsion:

|4 [[Rolls-Royce plc|Rolls-Royce]] (2 [[Olympus TM3B|Olympus]] and 2 Tyne) producing 36 MW COGAG (Combined Gas and Gas) arrangement

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|Speed:

|30 knots (56 km/h)

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|Range:

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|Complement:

|287

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|Armament:

|Sea Dart missiles<br>114 mm (4.5 in) Mk 8 gun

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|Aircraft:

|[[Westland Lynx|Lynx]] HAS1

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'''HMS ''Sheffield'' (D80)''' was the second [[Royal Navy]] ship to bear the name Sheffield, after the city of [[Sheffield]] in [[Yorkshire]]. She was a [[Type 42 destroyer]] laid down by [[Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering]] at Barrow-in-Furness on [[15 January]] [[1970]], launched on [[10 June]] [[1971]] and commissioned on [[16 February]] [[1975]]. The ship was part of the Task Force sent to the Falkland Islands during the [[Falklands War]]. She was struck by an [[Exocet]] cruise missile fired by an Argentine aircraft during on [[May 4]], [[1982]]. While the ship was sinking, her crew, waiting to be rescued, sang "[[Always Look on the Bright Side of Life]]" from [[Monty Python]]'s [[Life of Brian]].

==Etymology==

The burnt out hulk was taken in tow by the Rothesay Class Frigate [[HMS Yarmouth (F101)|''Yarmouth'']] but sank on [[10 May]] [[1982]], the first Royal Navy vessel sunk in action for almost forty years. Twenty-one of her crew died during the attack and the wreck is a designated [[war grave]].

Modern English "''bear''" derives from [[Old English]] "''bera''", which itself derives from [[Proto-Germanic]] "''*beron''" meaning "''the brown one''". (Compare [[Swedish language|Scandinavian]] "''björn''", [[Dutch language|Dutch]] "''beer''" and [[German language|German]] "''Bär''" all meaning "''bear''").

Both [[Greek language|Greek]] ("''arktos''") and [[Latin]] ("''ursus''") have retained the [[Proto-Indo-European]] root word for "bear" ("''*rtko''") but it was ritually replaced in the northern branches of the [[Indo-European languages]] (The [[Germanic languages|Germanic]], [[Baltic languages|Baltic]], [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] and [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] branches) because of the hunters' [[taboo]] on the names of wild animals. For example the [[Irish language|Irish]] word for "''bear''" translated means "''the good calf''", in [[Welsh language|Welsh]] it translates as "''honey-pig''", in [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]] it means "''the licker''" and [[Russian language|Russian]] "''медведь''" literally means "''one who leads to honey''".

See [[HMS Sheffield|HMS ''Sheffield'']] for other ships of the same name.

==ExternalPhysical linksattributes==

*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/4/newsid_2504000/2504155.stm BBC article about the sinking]

Common characteristics of bears include a short tail, acute senses of smell and hearing, five non

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