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  • The '''''Courageous'' class''' of warship consisted of two vessels, variously described as battle cruis {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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  • ...n chose to specialise in a variety of areas dealing with innovations: from ship design to electricity to submarines (he conducted the first Royal Navy tria On 1 January, 1916, he was appointed an Additional Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, in the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order
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  • The only member of her class, she was the first all-big-gun battleship to be laid down, launched, and co ...Vickers had "taken the 12-inch gun machinery started for the "Lord Nelson" class and appropriated it to the "Dreadnought," the date of the orders have there
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  • The '''''Abercrombie''''' class of monitors were the first modern variants of that type to be adopted for t {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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  • Six '''''Siegfried'' class coast defence ships''' were completed for the German Navy in the 1890s. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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  • Four '''''Brandenburg'' Class Battleships''' were completed for the [[Imperial German Navy]] in the 1890s {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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  • ...rge V''''' was one of four [[H.M.S. King George V (1911)|''King George V'' class battleships]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] shortly before the war. ...teration could be copied for ''Ajax'', ''Audacious'' and the ''Iron Duke'' class.<ref>Letter in D'Eyncourt Papers at the National Maritime Museum's Caird Li
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  • ...rmed part of the [[King George V Class Battleship (1911)|''King George V'' class]]. She saw constant service throughout the [[First World War]] and during .... After many years in this duty she ended up as a decoy and anti-aircraft ship during the Mediterranean campaign of the Second World War. Towards the end
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  • ...lossus''''' was one of two [[Colossus Class Battleship (1910)|''Colossus'' class battleships]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1911. ...8 August, 1911, by Captain [[Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair|Dudley R. S. de Chair]] for service in the Second Division of the {{HomeFleet}}.<ref>"The N
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  • ...ne''''' was a battleship of the [[Royal Navy]], and the only member of her class. She was laid down at [[Portsmouth Royal Dockyard]] in 1909, launched the ..."Neptune" carried out 11th March 1912 at Tetuan." Docket in {{UK-Lion}}'s ship's cover. SC 251. Brass Foundry Out-Station, National Maritime Museum.</re
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  • ...Temeraire''''' was a [[Bellerophon Class Battleship (1907)|''Bellerophon'' class battleship]] of the British [[Royal Navy]] built at [[Devonport Royal Docky The ship was one of seven which tested [[Willis and Robinson Electric Revolution Tel
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  • ''Kearsarge'', the lead ship of her class of battleships, was the first ship of the [[United States Navy]] to be named, by act of Congress, in honor of ...rwegian barque ''Nordhav'' which had been sunk by the German Submarine ''{{DE-U117}}''. The survivors were landed in Boston.
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  • ...'Kentucky''''', (BB-6) a [[Kearsarge Class Battleship (1898)|''Kearsarge'' class]] pre-dreadnought of the [[United States Navy]] was launched 24 March, 1898 ...Roosevelt as a unit in the 2d Squadron. After calling at Trinidad and Rio de Janeiro, the warships passed in order through the Straits of Magellan to vi
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  • .... Tuesday, 16 January, 1912. Issue '''39796''', col B, p. 13.</ref> The ship was launched on 12 October on a sunny Saturday before a crowd estimated to The ship re-commissioned at Portsmouth 24 October, 1923.{{NLApr25|p. 248}}
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  • The ship was commissioned at Portsmouth on 20 September 1927.{{NLFeb29|p. 261}} In July 1914, the ship was appropriated 42-foot motor launch No. 248, though the boat was not yet
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  • ...etary to the First Lord]], [[Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair|Dudley R. S. de Chair]]; Sir James Marshall, Director of Dockyards; [[George Le Clerc Egert ...declined to admit his involvement with the incident in his history of the ship.
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  • ...M.S. ''Terror''''' was one of two [[Erebus Class Monitor (1916)|''Erebus'' class monitors]] launched in 1916 for the [[Royal Navy]]. In 1924, she replaced the battlecruiser {{UK-Tiger}} as Turret Drill Ship at Portsmouth, having undergone a refit at a cost that had been projected t
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  • ...>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Raglan'' (1915)|fate2={{DE-Breslau}} and {{DE-Goeben}}{{DittColl|p. 102}} ...required either in the Grand Fleet or on patrol duties, so a new class of ship, with a shallow draught for inshore work and a requisite small number of bi
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  • {{Footer Odin Class Coast Defence Ship (1894)}} {{CatShipCoastDefenceShip|DE}}
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  • {{Footer Siegfried Class Coast Defence Ship (1889)}} {{CatShipCoastDefenceShip|DE}}
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  • {{Footer Siegfried Class Coast Defence Ship (1889)}} {{CatShipCoastDefenceShip|DE}}
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  • ''Hagen'' had Krupp steel armour, whereas the other five units in her class had the older compound armour. {{Footer Siegfried Class Coast Defence Ship (1889)}}
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  • {{Footer Siegfried Class Coast Defence Ship (1889)}} {{CatShipCoastDefenceShip|DE}}
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  • {{Footer Siegfried Class Coast Defence Ship (1889)}} {{CatShipCoastDefenceShip|DE}}
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  • The ship was one of seven which tested [[Willis and Robinson Electric Revolution Tel In July 1914, the ship was appropriated 42-foot motor launch No. 261, though the boat was not yet
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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 ...went to superintend these gun trials, I was especially warned that if the ship failed to get through them a sum of about half a million pounds would be lo
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  • The five pre-dreadnoughts of the '''''Braunschweig'' class''' were completed between 1904 and 1906. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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  • ...dbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=S.M.S. ''Hessen'' (1903)|fate2=to target ship {{Footer Braunschweig Class Battleship (1902)}}
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  • Germany completed five '''''Deutschland'' Class Battleships''' between 1906 and 1908. They were her last pre-dreadnought s {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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  • ...g/wiki/SMS_Pommern German Wikipedia].</ref>|end=October, 1908<ref>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Pommern German Wikipedia].</ref>|precBy=New Command} ...g/wiki/SMS_Pommern German Wikipedia].</ref>|end=January, 1910<ref>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Pommern German Wikipedia].</ref>}}
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  • ...one of eight [[Royal Sovereign Class Battleship (1891)|''Royal Sovereign''-class battleships]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1893-94. She was expende As of 1901, while serving as a Port Guard ship,. she was slated to receive a [[Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus Mark II|"1 to
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  • ...one of eight [[Royal Sovereign Class Battleship (1891)|''Royal Sovereign'' class pre-dreadnoughts]] completed in 1893-94. In 1915, her name was changed to In the [[Annual Manoeuvres of 1901]] the ship was part of Fleet "B", loosely representing the British side.
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  • '''H.M.S. ''Cæsar''''' was a [[Majestic Class Battleship (1894)|''Majestic'' class]] battleship of the [[Royal Navy]], launched in 1896 and sold for scrap in ...our times sequentially, starting with the tube loaded and the bar out, the ship's crew was able to do this in 5 minutes, 45 seconds. The best time was ach
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  • ...'' was a battleship of the [[Majestic Class Battleship (1894)|''Majestic'' class]], launched in 1895, and sold for scrap in 1920. She was the fourth warshi ...tic'' class battleships]] and two [[Cressy Class Cruiser (1899)|''Cressy'' class cruisers]] being sent there to be demobilised on the 25th. Her crew was to
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  • .... ''Magnificent''''' was a [[Majestic Class Battleship (1894)|''Majestic'' class]] battleship of the British [[Royal Navy]], launched in 1894 and sold for s ...ard Wells]], [[Commander-in-Chief at the Nore]]; Captain [[Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford|Lord Charles Beresford]], Captain
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  • ...fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Majestic'' (1895)|fate2=by {{DE-U21}} off Helles ..., and the lead ship of the [[Majestic Class Battleship (1894)|''Majestic'' class]]. She served as the flagship of the [[Channel Squadron (Royal Navy)|Chann
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  • ...British battleship of the [[Majestic Class Battleship (1894)|''Majestic'' class]], launched in 1896 and sold for scrap in 1921. In 1910, ''Mars'' was the best gunnery ship of the 27 tested in the [[Home Fleet]]'s Third Division (and cruisers), sco
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  • ...British battleship of the [[Majestic Class Battleship (1894)|''Majestic'' class]], launched in 1895 and sold for scrap in 1921. She was the fourth ship of the [[Royal Navy]] to bear the name.
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  • ...edbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Formidable'' (1898)|fate2=by {{DE-U24}} off Portland{{Conways1860|p. 36}} ...s the lead ship of the [[Formidable Class Battleship (1898)|''Formidable'' Class]] of [[battleship]] and the third of four with the name H.M.S. ''Formidable
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  • ...s|Edward M. Phillpotts]], acting Flag Captain to Admiral [[Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford|Lord Charles Beresford]]. In May, 1905, Captain [[Osmond de Beauvoir Brock|Osmond de B. Brock]] was appointed in command. Paid off in March, 1907, ''Bulwark''
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  • ...''Exmouth''''' was one of six [[Duncan Class Battleship (1901)|''Duncan'' class pre-dreadnought battleships]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1903 and ...is found in the notes for the [[Duncan Class Battleship (1901)|''Duncan'' class]].{{DreyerSeaHeritage|p. 47}}
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  • ...' was the first of six battleships of [[Duncan Class Battleship (1901)|her class]] to be commissioned in the [[Royal Navy]]. ...ptain [[William Bowden-Smith]] until she was sunk by a minefield laid by {{DE-U73}} off Malta in April, 1916. The {{UK-Nasturtium|f=t}} and the hired ya
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  • ...one of eight [[King Edward VII Class Battleship (1903)|''King Edward VII'' class battleships]].  She entered service in 1905 and spent most of her service ...vy)]] for details on her service in 3BS.</ref> She became an accommodation ship in Chatham-Sheerness that same month.{{SMNLApr18|pp. 13,19}} She kept layi
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  • ...VII''''' was the name ship of a [[King Edward VII Class Battleship (1903)|class of eight]] late pre-dreadnought battleships. Her service until her loss in :''One takes the loss of the ‘King Edward’ very calmly; that class aren’t of much importance now''
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  • ...of three battlecruisers in [[Indefatigable Class Battlecruiser (1909)|her class]]. She would be lost to a magazine explosion at the [[Battle of Jutland]] ...'' and ''Bogatyr''. At five minutes to four, Lady Loreburn christened the ship with a bottle of Australian wine. She then severed a ceremonial cord and t
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  • ...''Renown''''' was the lead ship in her [[Renown Class Battlecruiser (1916)|class]] of "large light cruisers", which were essentially [[Battlecruiser|battlec ...ure|rank={{CommRN}}|name=Edward Glyn de Styrap Jukes Hughes|nick=Edward G. de S. Jukes Hughes|appt=21 December, 1922<ref>Jukes Hughes Service Record. {{
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  • ...incourt''''' was a dreadnought battle built in England for Brazil as ''Rio de Janeiro'' featuring seven twin 12-in turrets on her centre line. She was r ...aunched on 22 January, 1913 by Mme. Huet de Bacellar, wife of Admiral Huet de Bacellar, the Chief of the Brazilian Naval Commission. The Brazilian Minis
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  • Germany's four '''''Nassau'' Class Battleships''' were completed in 1909 and 1910, and were her first "Dreadno {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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  • ....S. ''König Albert''''' was a [[Kaiser Class Battleship (1911)|''Kaiser'' Class]] battleship built in Germany prior to the [[First World War]] and which se ''König Albert'' was the final ship of five which comprised the Kaiser class. It was the only vessel of the Imperial Fleet to be given the name ''König
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  • ...by Princess Therese, daughter of the Prince Regent of Bavaria for whom the ship was named. In attendance at the Germania yards in Kiel were the Kaiser Wil {{Footer Kaiser Class Battleship (1911)}}
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  • Four '''''Bayern'' class super-dreadnoughts''' were planned for the [[Imperial German Navy]] but onl {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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  • ...S. ''Baden''''' was one of two [[Bayern Class Battleship (1915)|''Bayern'' class battleships]] completed for the [[Imperial German Navy]] during the Great W A ship's bell from ''Baden'' is in the possession of the Imperial War Museum, Cata
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  • ...r ships started as part of the [[Bayern Class Battleship (1915)|''Bayern'' class]], '''''Sachsen''''' was broken up before completion. The ship was never completed, and thus never had a captain.
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  • ...r ships started as part of the [[Bayern Class Battleship (1915)|''Bayern'' class]], ''Württemberg'' was broken up before completion. The ship was never completed, and thus never had a captain.
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  • .... ''Moltke''''' was the lead ship of a [[Moltke Class Battlecruiser (1910)|class]] of [[battlecruiser]] of the [[Imperial German Navy]]. {{Footer Moltke Class Battlecruiser (1910)}}
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  • |nat=DE ...ed version of the preceding [[Moltke Class Battlecruiser (1910)|''Moltke'' class]] ships, boasting an additional foredeck offering enhanced seakeeping and r
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  • ...ive to the preceding [[République Class Battleship (1902)|''République'' class]]. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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  • ...ruiser ''[[Cristóbal Colón (1896)|Cristobal Colon]]'', forcing the enemy ship to retire into the inner harbor of Santiago. The battleship remained on pat ...Squadron. From 27 May to 30 August, 1904, the warship served as a training ship for [[United States Naval Academy]] midshipmen off New England and then ent
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  • ...t was to become one of the most historic voyages ever undertaken by a Navy ship. Both ships coaled and departed on the 21st for Rio de Janeiro, keeping their guns manned all the while for a Spanish torpedo boat
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  • ...]] battleship of the [[Connecticut Class Battleship (1904)|''Connecticut'' Class]] in the [[United States Navy]]. ...eet. During the circumnavigation, ''Louisiana'' visited Port-of-Spain; Rio de Janeiro; Junta Arenas and Valparaiso, Chile; Callao, Peru; San Diego and Sa
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  • The nineteen '''"M" Class Monitors''' were launched in 1915. Fourteen of them had a 9.2-in gun, and {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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  • ...redbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''M.24'' (1915)|fate2=as target ship ...''Satoe''''', was a coastal monitor of the [[M Class Monitor (1915)|''M'' Class]]. Built in 1915 in answer to the growing need for heavily armed, shallow-
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  • |builder=[[Arsenal de Brest]] The Ship was a 42 gun battleship from 1911 to 1937.
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  • ...d as part of the [[British Adoption of the Director#Early Orders|seventeen ship order]] to receive a director, but installation seemed delayed for a consid ...d-type director aft, as described on the [[Lion_Class_Battlecruiser_(1910)|class page]]. ''Princess Royal'''s system was available by September, 1918, but
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  • ...operated out of Norfolk throughout the war, serving as a gunnery training ship and patrolling the waters of the eastern seaboard from the Virginia Capes t ...ion on 12 December to rendezvous with the transport George Washington, the ship carrying President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference. ''Arizona'
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  • ...ning to New York received President Pessoa of Brazil for the voyage to Rio de Janeiro. Departing 6 July with her escort, the battleship arrived Rio 17 Ju ...ny more years of useful naval service. After completion 9 October 1934 the ship conducted shakedown in the Caribbean before returning to her home port, San
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  • ...was a highly accomplished officer, though he found little favour with the ship's company …"<ref>Fremantle. ''My Naval Career''. p. 68.</ref> ...on of the King's visit to Malta Slade was appointed a Member of the Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.) on 21 April, 1903.{{Gaz|27560|3525|2
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  • ...ttle interest in the Service outside his immediate functions, and when our ship was at Malta distinguished himself as a member of the naval polo team.<ref> ...d to have said, "What &mdash; court martial my David? I'll buy them a new ship."<ref>Quoted in Roskill. p. 41.</ref> The story is supported by [[Arthur M
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  • ...was an officer of the 78th Regiment of Foot (Highlanders) serving as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Ceylon. In 1841 he decided to leave the army, and ...on's own niece, and she asked Sir William for me, and, curiously, my first ship of war was the ''Victory'', Nelson's flagship.<ref>Quoted in Mackay. p. 4.
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  • ...First Baron Hood|Sir Arthur W. A. Hood]], she was constructed as a turret ship, the last of its type to be built for the Royal Navy. She was sunk as a bl ...iterranean Station]] from 1893 to 1900, before a brief spell as port guard ship at Pembroke, following which she returned to the Mediterranean until Decemb
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  • ...important one, as the loss in 1870 of the {{UK-Captain}}, a sailing turret ship of special design, had caused great anxiety as to the stability of such ves ...of the Queen's birthday he was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, in the Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) on 24 May, 1881.{{G
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  • ...y. Thus requalified, on 5 January, 1884, he was appointed to the barbette ship {{UK-Temeraire|y=1876}} in the Mediterranean<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/39}}. f. 11 ...) the battleship [[H.M.S. Triumph (1870)|''Triumph'']] for service as flag ship on the [[Pacific Station (Royal Navy)|Pacific Station]]. The Commander-in-
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  • ...</ref> He was appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 July, 1877. He left on 24 July, 1879, ...emyss. p. 33.</ref> On 12 October he was appointed to the torpedo depôt ship [[H.M.S. Hecla (1878)|''Hecla'']] in the Mediterranean. He was promoted t
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  • ...examination and passed into the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] as a naval cadet on 15 July, 1872.<ref>Bacon. ''Earl Jell ...], which took him to such foreign destinations as China, Port Stanley, Rio de Janeiro, South Africa and St. Helena over three years. He proved himself i
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  • ..., 1869. He was entitled to a First Class Certificate in Study and a First Class Certificate in Seamanship, obtaining 1,629/2,000 marks and 783/1,000 marks ...' to qualify in Torpedo Duties. He passed on 21 March, 1883, with a First Class certificate, and on 2 April was appointed to join ''Vernon'' as a Staff Off
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  • The operation had to be postponed because repairs to the battlecruiser {{DE-Seydlitz|f=p}}, damaged by a mine in the [[Second Raid on Yarmouth]], took ...in the dockyard and the new dreadnought {{DE-Baden|f=p}}, the first German ship with 15-inch guns, was still working up.{{MarderFDSFII| p. 437}}
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  • ...a proficiency in classical learning unusual at his early age. In his first ship, the ''Conway'', he is said, probably with some exaggeration, to have acted ...he was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companion, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.) on 2 June.{{
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  • In 1908, the ship was one of just nine equipped with the [["C" Tune Gear]], capable of transm {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=John de Mestre Hutchison|nick=John de M. Hutchison|appt=8 May, 1907<ref>Hutchison Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/
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  • The ship completed to full complement at Devonport on 18 June, 1907.{{NLJan08|p. 291 ...ervice Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 128.</ref>|end=25 January, 1908<ref>de Robeck Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 128.</ref>}}
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  • ...the incident, which is somewhat unusual. That same month, command of the ship was being turned over from Captain [[Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe|The Ho ...in Plymouth Sound, £500 of public money was found to be missing from the ship. A forensic inquiry into her books was so extensive that she was unable to
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  • ...er|armoured cruisers]] of the [[Monmouth Class Cruiser (1901)|''Monmouth'' class]] completed between 1903 and 1904. {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Cunningham Robert de Clare Foot|nick=Cunningham R. de C. Foot|appt=25 August, 1913<ref>Foot Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}
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  • ...er|armoured cruisers]] of the [[Monmouth Class Cruiser (1901)|''Monmouth'' Class]] completed between 1903 and 1904. ...rvice Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 657.</ref>|end=11 November, 1907<ref>de Horsey Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}} f. 657.</ref>}}
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  • ...vy]] [[Admiral|admiral]] known for his victory in the [[Battle of Santiago de Cuba]] during the [[Spanish-American War]]. ...tates Naval Academy]] on 24 September, 1857. After graduating first in his class four years later, he served as an instructor at the Academy. In 1864, he be
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  • {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford|nick=The Rt. Hon. Lord Charles Ber |'''Ship'''||'''Type'''||'''Launched'''||'''Fate'''
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  • ...on 25 January, 1878, joined the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth, as a Colonial Cadet.<ref>Gaunt Service Recor ...for examinations which had just resulted in April in the award of a First Class certificate with 537 marks. Gaunt would subsequently be appointed to join
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  • ...on 31 December, 1883, and reappointed to the ''Flirt'' from that date. The ship paid off on 29 February, 1884, and he went on a month's full pay leave. ...rt Course in Gunnery, in which he obtained First Class marks, and a Second Class Torpedo certificate. He was appointed to the corvette {{UK-2Diamond}} on th
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  • ...24 August, 1881, and on 19 December, 1882, he was appointed to her sister-ship ''Audacious''. On 25 July, 1884, he was appointed to the battleship ''Sult He was appointed a Member of the Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.) dated 1 October, 1908.{{Gaz|28184|729
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  • ...line of Anglo-Irish families. He entered the [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] as a naval cadet on 15 January, 1875<ref name=Record83>Mad ...of the King's visit to Ireland Madden was appointed a Member of the Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.) on 11 August, 1903.{{Gaz|27586|5058|1
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  • Kiddle was appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 July, 1879.<ref>ADM 196/42. f. 382.</r <blockquote>There was a general mess, about 40 officers, the ship was filthy, the Captain was mad, there was no poop or forecastle. The juni
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