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• Ship Collisions
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• Fourth D.F. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland
  ...the battle and sustained heavy losses in the night action, losing 5 of 19 ships when it met elements of the [[High Sea Fleet]] unexpectedly at short range. * {{UK-Tipperary}}, Flotilla leader (lost), Captain (D) [[Charles John Wintour]]
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• Charles Algernon Parsons
  ...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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• H.M.S. Tiger (1913)
  <div name=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Tiger'' (1913)|fate2=to Ward, Inverkeithing{{DittColl|p. 35}} |nat=UK
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• A Direct Train of Cordite
  ...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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• Invention and the Navy (Article)
  ...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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• Down Report
  ...of reports by {{LCommRN}} [[Richard Thornton Down]] following a 1917 trip to Washington, D.C.. He and his American hosts exchanged information and obse With minimal formatting changes to suit the Wiki medium, the contents of what were actually two separate repor
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• Henry Bradwardine Jackson
  ...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
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