Birkenhead (disambiguation)
- Birkenhead (disambiguation)
Places
*The most famous Birkenhead is a town on the Wirral peninsula in Northwest England.
*Birkenhead, a suburb in North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand.
*Birkenhead, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide
*Birkenhead Point, a point in Sydney, Australia
*Birkenhead Point Factory Outlet Centre, a shopping centre in Sydney, Australia
*Birkenhead Rock near Gansbaai, Western Cape, South Africa, on which HMS Birkenhead was wrecked.
*Birkenhead Lake, the Birkenhead River and Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada, as well as the nearby community of Birken. All of these derive their own names from the naming of Mount Birkenhead by HBC explorer Alexander Caulfield Anderson, who had a cousin who drowned in the HMS Birkenhead sinking.
Ships
* The first "Birkenhead" was an iron-hulled troopship launched in 1845 and notably wrecked in 1852 with the loss of 450 lives.
* The second "Birkenhead" was a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1915, in action at Jutland, and sold 1921.
People
*F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, Lord Chancellor 1919–22, etc.
*Subsequent earls, see Earl of Birkenhead
Other
*The Birkenhead Drill refers to a famous incident during the sinking of the ship HMS Birkenhead.
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