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• Light Cruiser
  A '''Light Cruiser''' is a small, fast, sea-going vessel with some small degree of armour protection. It was a maturation of what had formerly been ...iser|List of light cruisers]], or, more loosely, [[:Category:Small Cruiser|small cruisers]]
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• 14-in Torpedo Dropping Gear (UK)
  ...r''' was an assembly for dropping torpedoes into the water abreast a small vessel. It could be used with the following torpedoes, which each required a small hole to be added to admit a steadying pin from the gear abaft the afterbody
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• H.M.S. Vanguard (1870)
  ...oss of visibility, ''Iron Duke'' rammed ''Vanguard'' after a small sailing vessel's appearance required ''Vanguard'' to slow and turn to port into the path o ...dia.org/wiki/HMS_Vanguard_(1870) Wikipedia].</ref>|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=vessel lost under his command}}
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• H.M.S. Staunch (1867)
  |chain=Small Fry,Gunboats ...by late March, 1868. 79 feet long by 25 feet in the beam, she was a wide vessel, drawing 6 feet and displacing 150 tons to carry a single 12.5 ton Armstron
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• Trainer
  ...on the target. When this is done, he has trained the mount correctly. In small geared mountings, he may endeavour to work his controls to continuously neg ...on an unsafe bearing or when the line of fire was endangered by a friendly vessel. He was equipped with a switch he could throw to break the firing circuits
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• Time-of-Flight
  ...ojectile's flight by hitting a vessel before it reaches the water is quite small.
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• Charles Hester
  ...orders in writing; most of these I considered unnecessary in such a small vessel. The officers believed that Lieut. Hester set a C.P.O. to see that they ca I do not recommend this officer for command of a large vessel, and vessel he commands should be under the immediate eye of the Senior Officer, R.N.''
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• H.M.S. E 16 (1914)
  ...d by a screen of a torpedo boat, a small sloop, 4 trawlers, several tugs & small craft, on 22/12/15. The attack was very ably carried out & Lt. Cdr Duff-Du ...{TNA|ADM 196/50/190.|D7604602}} f. 269.</ref>{{KindellROH2|p. 267}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=killed when ship lost under his command}}
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• 18-in Mark VII Torpedo (UK)
  ...tified threads throughout, B_{<small>2</small>} generators and air vessel pressures increased to 2,200 psi to deliver 29 knots to 7,00 yards.{{ARTS19 Introduced in 1914, these combined some additional small improvements to those of the VII**.{{ARTS1914|p. 8}}
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• H.M.S. Kinsha (1900)
  |chain=Small Fry,Gunboats ...OWShips-WW1-11-HMS_Kinsha.htm Ship's Log].</ref>|end=30 April, 1921|succBy=Vessel Sold}}
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• William Peak Savage
  ...yal Naval Reserve]]. He appeared to be the object of blame in a number of small misfortunes. ...mmand of {{UK-Banchory}}. Once again, Savage was faulted for damaging the vessel as she navigated near foul ground at night. Savage was demobilised on 24 O
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• Kenneth James Duff-Dunbar
  ...d by a screen of a torpedo boat, a small sloop, 4 trawlers, several tugs & small craft, on 22/12/15. The attack was very ably carried out & Lt. Cdr Duff-Du .../50/190.|D7604602}} f. 269.</ref>{{KindellROH2|p. 267}}|Succeeded by<br>'''Vessel Lost'''}}
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• Charles Herbert Lightoller
  ...the Channel, an impressive achievement for the small 58 foot long, 26 GRT vessel. ...ADM 240/54/205.|}} f. 205.</ref>{{HepperLosses|p. 126}}|Succeeded by<br>'''Vessel Lost'''}}
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• Ralph Laurence Dodge
  ...tails of his service, though he did serve on {{US-Eagle11|f=t}} while that vessel was fitting out in early 1919. Other sources indicate he briefly commanded
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• H.M.S. Perdita (1910)
  '''H.M.S. ''Perdita''''' was a small civil vessel that saw service in the [[Royal Navy]] as a minelayer. She displaced a mer
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• Jesse Robert Pearce
  ...and was judged as "very capable" and "most suitable in command of a small vessel."<ref>Pearce Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 240/55/67.|}} f. 67.</ref>
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• United States Navy
  ...not a single vessel of war that could keep the seas against a first-class vessel of any important power. Such a condition ought not longer to continue. Th ...ica built over 260 "four piper" destroyers as it fell into war, but only a small handful of these saw action in World War I. A few recent coal-burning batt
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• Charles Thomas Keigwin
  ...iving an adverse report in connection with the loss of small arms from the vessel in early 1917.<ref>Keigwin Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 240/53/155.|}} f. 155
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• Committee on Designs of Ship of War
  ...idered “unexceptional” when, despite desperate attempts to prevent it, the vessel capsized and rapidly sank with the loss of 473 lives including that of her ...to a corresponding extent, and that her stability proved to be dangerously small, combined with an area of sail, under those circumstances, excessive. The c
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• H.M.S. E 14 (1914)
  ...was vigorously hunted and could not maintain contact. On May 1 she sank a small gunboat with a torpedo and failed to sink a larger target due to a torpedo ..., 1918{{UKNavalOpsV|pp. 90-1}}|note=killed by shellfire as she sank|succBy=Vessel Lost}}
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