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...he world's first all-big-gun [[battleship]], [[H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906)|''Dreadnought'']], concentrated the fleet in home waters, and reorganised the training an ...and had many irons in the fire in and outside the Admiralty and barked at us if papers came to him which were merely routine but papers would not go thr

...ver, the dreadnought {{DE-Konig|f=p}} was also in the dockyard and the new dreadnought {{DE-Baden|f=p}}, the first German ship with 15-inch guns, was still workin ...et got to sea first, the chance of a meeting in waters not unfavourable to us was remote; our object was to try to get to sea before or shortly after the

...invasion, whilst Captain Heathcoat Grant had deliberately beached the pre-dreadnought battleship {{UK-Canopus|f=p}} on mud to protect the harbour. A signal stati ...r Krieg zur See, 1914-1918'', says that Spee expected to meet only the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS ''Canopus'', the {{UK-Carnarvon|f=t}}, and possibly the armo

...mous vessels of the [[Spanish-American War]], the {{US-Olympia}} and the {{US-Oregon}}. An 1892 description of the yards stated that between 1200 and 150 ...ther or not that was true, he certainly benefited from the collapse of the US Shipbuilding combine.

|{{US-Iroquois|f=p}}||sloop||12 Apr, 1859||Wrecked 26 Aug, 1910 |{{US-Lackawanna|f=p}}||screw sloop||9 Aug, 1862||Sold 30 Jul, 1887

...principles or actual working of the instruments.<ref>Quoted in Brooks. ''Dreadnought Gunnery''. p. 105.</ref></blockquote> ...and Lord Morley noted, "Sir A. Wilsonstrikes me, and I think the others of us, as much the best-balanced sort of man, to say nothing of his having proved

He was appointed Captain of {{UK-Dreadnought|f=y}} on 28 March, 1911.<ref>Fremantle Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} ...ly, and has the 2nd Class of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan, and the US of America Distinguished Service Medal; awarded Beaufort Testimonial, 1888;

...Secretary to the [[First Lord of the Admiralty]]. He commanded the new [[dreadnought]] [[battleship]] [[H.M.S. Bellerophon (1907)|''Bellerophon'']] from 1908 to ...05/> He was invited to the launch of [[H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906)|H.M.S. ''Dreadnought'']] on 10 February, 1906 but was unable to attend due to illness. As Priva

...uisers, two light cruisers, eight destroyers and three submarines. The pre-dreadnought battleship {{UK-Triumph}} had been in reserve at the start of the war, but ''Cormoran'' entered the US territory of Guam on 14 December 1914 with her coal bunkers almost empty. S

...l Sovereign (1915)|''Royal Sovereign'']] and [[H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906)|''Dreadnought'']], with the Attached cruisers, 4th Light Cruiser squadron and Destroyers ...ns to fire on the German torpedo craft when they were seen turning towards us; the Officer of the turret claims a hit on one of them, as his shell burst

...rofessor of Mathematics at Cambridge, where he had also been a coach, told us that we were being taught in three months by Professor [[Carlton John Lambe ...ve.{{DreyerSeaHeritage|p. 57}} According to his service record, he left ''Dreadnought'' on 15 April and was attached to ''Excellent'' as an additional Gunnery Of

...be summed up in a few words by saying that he speeded things up and saved us some 5 or 6 years. ...kill the very difficult task of writing the Life of Lord Fisher and giving us a picture of this extraordinary man and the demoniacal energy, inspired by

...ecause love of England home and beauty comes first. But speak my Lord let us hear your voice in the Grand Fleet for we wish to hear it and when as I hop ...t none of us in the Grand Fleet ever saw a unit of that Army, but those of us who had a knowledge of the facts fell in with the idea and left to the popu

...and Fleet]] deployed. This placed her at the very head of the twenty-four dreadnought battleships of the [[Grand Fleet]] after the main action was joined. :We were, of course, up all night watching the fireworks going on astern of us &mdash; our destroyers & the German Fleet.

...bility, it was some wretched enemy Light Cruisers that would easily escape us. ...o any German ship that should be so unfortunate as to come within range of us.

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<blockquote>He ruled us - one other sub-lieut., a clerk, & 7 midshipmen, as a benevolent autocrat, ...On 19 January, 1910, he was appointed to ''Vivid'' for command of the new dreadnought battleship [[H.M.S. Collingwood (1908)|''Collingwood'']],<ref>Pakenham Serv