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  • ...Royal Navy]], the lead ship of [[Invincible Class Battlecruiser (1907)|her class]] of three, and the first battlecruiser to be built by any country. After ...saved the money. Certainly the proverbial little cherub was looking after us marvellously. This electric gear remained in the ''Invincible'' for some t
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  • ...d Fisher, 1916.<br><small>Portrait: © National Portrait Gallery, London.</small>]] ...British Navy by an Indian merchant at a cost of 84,000. It was the day of small things and of sailing-ships.<ref>Fisher. ''Records''. pp. 11-12.</ref></b
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  • ...t]] {{SIR}} '''Frederick William Richards''', G.C.B., D.C.L. (<small>OXON</small>), F.R.G.S., Royal Navy (30 November, 1833 &ndash; 28 September, 1912) was ...le-sloop ''Vixen'' on the China station. He brought home and paid off this vessel in 1861. From March 1862 to January 1866 he commanded the ''Dart'', a gunb
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  • ...r, being an Admiral or Commander in Chief, and each Commodore of the First Class being a Commander in Chief, is to be allowed to nominate ''two'' Naval Cade ...ced at their examinations; and during the last six months of their service us Midshipmen it must contain the working of the Observations as given in Shee
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  • ...Frederic C. Dreyer, 1936.<br><small>© National Portrait Gallery, London.</small>]] ...in April he received a First Class in Gunnery with 543 and in May a First Class in Torpedo with 184 marks.<ref>ADM 196/44. f. 353.</ref> On 27 May 1898,
    48 KB (7,476 words) - 18:46, 6 April 2022
  • We know from what contemporary writers, especially naval officers, have told us how naturally the midshipman became the prey of everyone in authority over ...ooden monsters had become utterly obsolete for fighting purposes, and this vessel, having had her machinery removed and with her new name of ''Britannia'', b
    32 KB (5,848 words) - 12:09, 16 July 2018
  • S<small>IR</small>, I<small>N</small> compliance with your orders, I have the honour to forward the following re
    7 KB (1,082 words) - 14:39, 15 May 2018
  • ===I<small>NTRODUCTION</small>.=== T<small>HE</small> Board of Admiralty desire to present to Parliament (and through Parliament
    31 KB (5,211 words) - 16:38, 10 September 2009
  • ...or the Tercentenary in July, 1908.<br><small>Library and Archives Canada.</small>]] ...n armoured cruisers admits of a smaller programme in vessels of the latter class.<br>The more correct information available at the Admiralty will naturally
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  • In order to avoid exaggerating the importance of any class of war-ship and to truly exhibit the functions it is called upon to perform ...ssor. As an example, the ''Vernon'' frigate may be compared with the third-class cruiser ''Pearl'' of nearly the same displacement.
    38 KB (6,359 words) - 03:31, 26 February 2014
  • {{pad|25px}}I<small>n</small> compliance with your signal of to-day, 2nd June, I have the honour to repo 23. At 4.51 p.m. passed one of our "L" class destroyers picking up survivors from scattered wreckage of a big ship. She
    18 KB (3,003 words) - 10:25, 11 May 2017
  • ahead and steering towards us (W.N.W.), and engaged with all moving in the same direction with us. The First Light
    26 KB (4,210 words) - 13:13, 31 May 2017
  • :(19). <u>Small collision mats.</u> ::The small collision mats made in the ship (size 6ft
    30 KB (4,990 words) - 19:35, 4 November 2019
  • ...''' was one of 24 submarines of the [[U 93 Class Submarine (1916)|''U 93'' class]]. Alloted to the United States after the Armistice, she was briefly commi ...leg of her homeward voyage, the submarine encountered a Norwegian sailing vessel laden with timber for English mines. Once again, she scorned the use of a t
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  • A Stoker First Class from {{UK-Tipperary}} was picked up by the {{UK-Dublin|f=t}} in the night. :The vessel kept afloat for some time after this, going down
    57 KB (9,548 words) - 14:31, 29 April 2023
  • not consider I ought to hamper myself with a disabled vessel in :8. About midnight, G.M.T., a large vessel, which appeared to
    21 KB (3,358 words) - 19:14, 8 September 2018
  • diately returned by us, " {{UK-Lion}} " and "{{UK-PrincessRoyal}} " possibly from the battleships of the " König " class, which
    10 KB (1,661 words) - 14:40, 15 May 2018
  • Passing, then, altogether from the historical aspect of the subject, let us sketch out the nature of the problem presented to the modern naval tacticia ...when the change demanded is made. If there were sufficient data to enable us to choose the weapon with certainty, the path of the tactician would be cle
    33 KB (5,849 words) - 17:16, 15 August 2022
  • |nat=US ...class though she was different enough to merit treatment here as a unique vessel.
    4 KB (508 words) - 16:29, 28 April 2018
  • |nat=US ...nly 60'8" long and 30 tons displacement—would have qualified as a second-class torpedo boat.
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