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• Walter Hugh Charles Samuel Thring
  ...17 January, 1949) served in the [[Royal Navy]] and the [[Royal Australian Navy]]. ...1890 he was appointed to the ''Warspite'' on the [[Pacific Station (Royal Navy)|Pacific Station]]. He served in her until being appointed to the ''Champio
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• R.U.S.I. Papers at the National Maritime Museum
  List of Royal United Service Institution Naval Manuscripts in the possession of the National Mar ...p; a dialogue between volunteers, containing account of ship's complement, officers, duties of crew, etc, 1742.
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• Percy Moreton Scott, First Baronet
  ...18 October, 1924) was a forceful and creative naval officer of the [[Royal Navy]] in the period leading up to the [[First World War]]. It is particularly ...his wife, Laura Kezia Snelling. He obtained a nomination for the [[Royal Navy]] and went to study at [[Eastman's Royal Naval Academy]], Southsea. He ent
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• Cecil Burney, First Baronet
  ...yal Navy (15 May, 1858 &ndash; 5 June, 1929) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[First World War]]. ...in French.<ref>Luard Committee. p. 31. Q. 806-807.</ref> He entered the Navy as a Naval Cadet in the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''
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• U.S.S. Amphitrite (1883)
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• User:Simon Harley/Archives
  ...pply of Captain King-Hall's Naval War Game to the Fleet.<br>Docket: United States. Duties of Naval Strategic Board.<br>Docket: Naval Tactics. || 1900 | ADM 1/8328 || Gunnery in the Royal Navy: Conference at the Admiralty. || Courtesy of Mr. Stephen McLaughlin. || 191
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• Boxer Rebellion Despatches (Royal Navy)
  ....M.S. "Orlando "; 25 marines, Wei-hai-wei detachment; making a total of 79 officers and men at Peking, and 104 seamen and marines at Tientsin. ...ich I acquiesced, and at 4 p.m. the same day our first meeting took place, officers of seven nations besides our own being present. The proceedings were marke
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• Noel Papers at the National Maritime Museum
  ...concerning boat exercises, to be added to the General Signal Book. Sent to officers commanding ships of the Detached Squadron by Noel from the battleship HMS N ...ls, and the use of single flags in conjunction with other general signals (flag 'T' rules), 1899-1903. Also printed signal orders issued by Noel in China,
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• Martin Article on the Admiralty
  ...be more endangered than by extinguishing this sentiment of devotion in the Navy. ...ives from the Commander-in-Chief. The men of the highest reputation in the Navy have held, and their opinion is obviously just, that the especial duty of t
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• Frederic Charles Dreyer
  ...re of Convoys, liason officer with the British Army, Inspector of Merchant Navy Gunnery and finally as Chief of Air Services at the Admiralty. ...eyer had come thirty-third, with 1,199 marks.<ref>"Cadetships in the Royal Navy" (News). ''The Times''. Thursday, 2 July, 1891. Issue '''33366''', col C
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• Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford
  ...r John Fisher]], descended into a bitter feud which threatened to tear the navy in half in the early years of the Twentieth Century. ...a, India, and the Falkland Islands. On 1 November, 1872, he was appointed Flag Lieutenant to Sir Henry Keppel, [[Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth]].
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• McKenna Papers at Churchill Archives Centre
  ...Sir Frederic Fisher (3); Rear-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe [Controller of the Navy] on payment for Arthur Pollen's gunnery system. 1 file. Aug 1908-Nov 1910. ...s [Director of Naval Construction] on building battleships for the Chilean Navy; James Porter [Director-General, Medical Department] on care of the Fleet S
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• Jellicoe Papers at the British Library
  ...the MS. by Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, G.B.E., K.C.B., Jellicoe's Flag Captain at Jutland, 29 Apr. 1939. According to the preface (p. vii) to the 1. ff. 1-76b. ''Admiralty Committee on the use of Oil Fuel in the Navy: Vol. I, Departmental and other Reports and Minutes of Evidence . . . and I
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• A Direct Train of Cordite
  ...immediate vicinity of a magazine. There is also the belief, held by many officers, that the turret magazines are placed under the shell rooms and next to the ...& DNO <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes (Royal Navy)|Director of Naval Ordnance]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> will be asked to report on
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• The Dreadnought Project:Primary Documents
  | TNA||ADM 1/8328 || Gunnery in the Royal Navy: Conference at the Admiralty. || || 1911-1912||0||SH | TNA||ADM 1/8488/103 || Appointment of Escort Flag Officers. Provision of Escort ships and Breech loading guns for special Merchant ves
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• User:Simon Harley/Library
  ...h H.M. Grand Fleet: December 1914–February 1919''. London: Junior Army and Navy Stores, Limited. #Arthur, Max (2005). ''Forgotten Voices of the Royal Navy''. London: Hodder. ISBN 0340838140.
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