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  • <div name=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Tiger'' (1913)|fate2=to Ward, Inverkeithing{{DittColl|p. 35}} ...n Stafford|Edward S. Fitzherbert]], Captain Superintendent, Contract Built Ships, Clyde District, was present on behalf of the Admiralty.<ref>"The Launch of
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  • ...Lord]] from 1915 to 1916 during the [[First World War]] and being promoted to the rank of {{FleetRN}} in 1919. ...was born on 21 January, 1855, at Rectory House, Darfield, South Yorkshire, to Mr. Henry Jackson of Cudworth, a relatively well-off linen manufacturer and
    34 KB (5,086 words) - 12:42, 17 November 2023
  • ...ntered Trinity College, Dublin, where he spent two years before proceeding to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1873. There was then no engineering school ...to a number of stages, so that only comparatively moderate velocities have to be dealt with, still forms the basis of all efficient turbine design. The f
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  • ...eutenant [[Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve|R.N.V.R.]] in that ship from 1915 to 1919: he and Lieut.-Commander Elliott earned their O.B.E.s for improvements ...ast but not least, to examine the nature of invention and its relationship to design.
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  • ...un Range|gun range]]. The few ships to receive it were completed too late to see wartime service. ...'''Mark I* Dreyer Table as it may have appeared in 1918, front'''<br>It is unknown if any were actually configured with the Standard Bearing Plot depicted her
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  • ...ce the squadron intercepted 12,979 ships at sea while 2,039 ships reported to a port of examination. 642 evaded the blockade. The losses incurred were The ''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'' shows a strength of six older [[Edgar Class Cruiser
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  • ...Seventh Cruiser Squadron''', also known as '''Cruiser Force C''' from 1914 to 1915, was a cruiser formation of the [[Royal Navy]]. Hogue has been added to 1912's roster, from unknown prior assignment.<ref>Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Li
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  • ...iculed in the historiography&mdash;Steiner and Neilson, for example, refer to “the glaring incompetence of the navy”<ref>Ibid.</ref>&mdash;but has re | <center>ACTION TO BE TAKEN IN THE EVENT OF INTERVENTION IN A EUROPEAN WAR.</center>
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  • ...t receive news of the battle favourably, a fact substantially attributable to the lofty expectations they'd developed for a force as expensive as the Gra ...n warranted, at least in initial accounts, as continuing efforts were made to discover and enumerate true injuries inflicted upon the enemy.
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  • On 24 March 1893, Wintour was appointed to ''Seaflower'' for navigating duties. For seven years, his naval command wo Wintour was promoted to the rank of {{LieutRN}} on 30 June, 1894.<ref>Wintour Service Record. {{TN
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  • ...ntrolPlate14.jpg|thumb|400px| [[Torpedo Director Pattern 2391a]] converted to a T.D.S. Mark III.<ref>''Handbook of Torpedo Control, 1916'', p. 26, Plate ...al Report of the Torpedo School, 1918'', Plate 109.</ref><br>Handles added to alter setting shown in blue.]]
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  • ...nport, where its roster of destroyers grew to enormous levels, reaching 50 ships in July, 1918. ...rs) and "[[Cricket Class Torpedo Boat (1906)|Coastals]]". It was assigned to the Third Division of the Home Fleet.{{NLApr10|p. 269''a''}}
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  • ...t year resulted in shots that were 79%, 82% and 80% likely to be dangerous to the enemy.{{ARTS1916|p. 87}} ...rs) and "[[Cricket Class Torpedo Boat (1906)|Coastals]]". It was assigned to the Third Division of the Home Fleet.{{NLApr10|p. 269''a''}}
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  • ...lotilla were, along with the destroyers of several early classes, approved to receive "alarm circuits".{{ARTS1917|p. 232}} ...the Test Mobilisation.{{AWO1914|109 of 10 July, 1914}} These vessels were to long comprise the bulk of this formation.
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  • ...royers]] of the [[Royal Navy]]. The flotilla changed composition often as ships were damaged, retired or transferred. ...Wireless Systems#Destroyer Set|Destroyer W/T Sets]], part of an initiative to equip 26 destroyers in three patrol flotillas.{{ARTS1912|Wireless Appendix,
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  • ...e 104 torpedo test runs in the first half of that year proved 91% probable to endanger the enemy.{{ARTS1916|p. 87}} ...ay be incorrectly identified as a member of the flotilla, that photo seems to show:{{March|caption Photo 20/1}}
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  • ...iedman. ''Fighting the Great War at Sea''. pp. 164, 378.</ref> In order to try and rectify this state of affairs, I have transcribed all the relevant ...Earl Beatty|Sir David Beatty]], sent a letter to the [[Permanent Secretary to the Board of Admiralty]], [[William Graham Greene|Sir W. Graham Greene]], f
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  • .../small> compliance with your signal of to-day, 2nd June, I have the honour to report as follows on the action of 31st May 1916. All times shown in this r ...erman Fleet. By 3.45 p.m. hands were closed up at their quarters and ready to open fire.
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  • ...ports of his own {{UK-1Falmouth}}, as well as {{UK-Birkenhead}}, promising to supply data from {{UK-Chester}} later, presumably because she'd been so bad ...as represented in the battle by four light cruisers, with another detached to screen the {{UK-BCS|3}}. {{UK-Engadine|f=t}} operated in a detached manner
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