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  • | {{US-Illinois}} | {{US-Alabama}}
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  • ...ly indicates a relatively weak relationship at the short range shots. Let us ignore the Royal Navy's best published thinking on the matter and work with
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  • ...ned the previous night. Upon learning this, at 17:00 Jellicoe ordered the pre-dreadnought battleship {{UK-1Exmouth}} out to attempt to tow ''Audacious'' in. In case ...ce four destroyers came in sight - the sun had appeared and coming towards us at full speed they really made a wonderful picture.' One of the destroyers
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  • |type=pre-dreadnought |nat=US
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  • | {{US-Kearsarge}} | {{US-Kentucky}}
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  • ...y''''', (BB-6) a [[Kearsarge Class Battleship (1898)|''Kearsarge'' class]] pre-dreadnought of the [[United States Navy]] was launched 24 March, 1898 by Newport News S ...ff Provincetown, embarked marines from {{US-Maine}}, {{US-Missouri}} and {{US-Kearsarge}} and landed them at Havana 1 October to protect American interes
    9 KB (1,265 words) - 19:25, 30 January 2022
  • ...obtained a great deal of information on the class's particulars, offering us a fairly detailed understanding of her equipment and methods of their use, type=pre-dreadnought
    7 KB (1,091 words) - 11:17, 9 June 2013
  • | {{US-Indiana}} | {{US-Massachusetts}}
    2 KB (240 words) - 13:23, 5 November 2014
  • ...d the destroyers ''Furor'' and ''Pluton''. As the vessels headed west, the US vessels headed in the same direction keeping abreast of the fleeing ships. The combined efforts of the US ships sank or forced aground all of the vessels of the Spanish squadron and
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  • |type=pre-dreadnought |nat=US
    7 KB (1,066 words) - 21:27, 28 March 2022
  • |type=pre-dreadnought |nat=US
    6 KB (873 words) - 19:25, 30 January 2022
  • | {{US-Maine}} | {{US-Missouri}}
    3 KB (320 words) - 17:29, 9 December 2014
  • | {{US-Virginia}} | {{US-Nebraska}}
    5 KB (544 words) - 10:22, 27 April 2018
  • | {{US-Connecticut}} | {{US-Louisiana}}
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  • '''U.S.S. ''Louisiana''''' (BB-19) was a [[pre-dreadnought]] battleship of the [[Connecticut Class Battleship (1904)|''Connecticut'' C {{CatShipPreDreadnought|US}}
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  • | {{US-1Mississippi}} | {{US-1Idaho}}
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  • ...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
    48 KB (7,708 words) - 14:56, 27 June 2022
  • ..., "The matter of submarine boats cannot be ignored and must be taken up by us. Our first want is a design."<ref>Kerr Minute of 22 May, 1900. The Nation ...e too heavily as it must first be in the dark, nor until experience points us in the direction in which we should work.<ref name=20Jan01>Kerr Memorandum.
    13 KB (2,071 words) - 17:14, 30 October 2022
  • ...humourous. I remember his delight in feeding the birds when he stayed with us at Chillingham, and his complaint, one morning, on going out-doors after br
    16 KB (2,629 words) - 21:12, 8 March 2023
  • ...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
    15 KB (2,495 words) - 18:27, 11 March 2022
  • ...e of 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 ...''Der 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
    24 KB (3,729 words) - 14:25, 10 October 2020
  • ...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.
    9 KB (1,193 words) - 13:42, 26 April 2018
  • |{{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
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  • ...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
    47 KB (7,656 words) - 12:42, 17 November 2023
  • ...ld cock bird. Sea lions were sighted and many seal, and for a time both of us forgot our troubles."<ref>Grant. "H.M.S. ''Canopus'', August, 1914, to Marc ...fitting resting-place for men of our race&mdash;his body is separated from us by half the world, and he and his gallant comrades lie far from the pleasan
    30 KB (4,814 words) - 18:35, 6 April 2022
  • ...d cruisers, 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
    29 KB (4,664 words) - 12:30, 10 June 2022
  • ...rnet Joseph Wolseley|Lord Wolseley]] having reported that Boardman "helped us in fitting out our boats, in working them over the worst cataracts in the N
    7 KB (1,091 words) - 18:11, 6 April 2022
  • ...d a first-rate seaman and disciplinarian to go on with, and though he kept us all in terrific order he was none the less very popular."<ref>Fortescue. '
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  • ...Navy, identified us immediately as a bunch of amateurs and decided to show us how it was done. When moored up, he was dressed up to the corsellette stage ...wide area. We kept quiet about this episode and hoped nobody would connect us with it.
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  • ...ak the spirit of the young officers, and we found that once he had subdued us to his particular form of discipline we were able to satisfy him, while he ...prejudices against smoking in any form, and against spirits. He once gave us a lecture which ended up, "A gentleman may be excused an occasional cigar,
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  • ...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
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  • We know from what contemporary writers, especially naval officers, have told us how naturally the midshipman became the prey of everyone in authority over ...instructional officers consisted of a navigating commander, R.N., to teach us practical navigation, four naval instructors, R.N., and several civilian in
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  • ...Petropavlovsk}}. In 1901, he was thanked for his report on the American {{US-Kentucky|f=t}}.<ref>Lowther-Crofton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/316.|D
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  • |{{US-SaraThompson|f=p}}||oiler||1888||Sold 9 Aug, 1934 |{{US-NewOrleans|f=p}}||protected cruiser||4 Dec, 1896||Sold 11 Feb, 1930
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  • ...han valuable assistance to support me in the very big work there is before us.<ref>Callaghan to Jellicoe. Letter of 9 December, 1911. Jellicoe Papers.
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  • ...ttacking his cruisers of all kinds wherever found.<br>This is what bothers us: and surely we should also make it bother them.<ref>''Winston S. Churchill. ...; indeed, I consider it to be a false move on his part and advantageous to us, since it reduces the speed of his battle-cruisers to that of the attached
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  • | {{US-SouthCarolina}} | {{US-Michigan}}
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  • ...ardley-Wilmot, R.N.'s, useful work on "The Development of Navies," reminds us that speed and offensive power may be neutralised by defensive armour, comb In conclusion, let us recognise that supremacy at sea in the neighbourhood of our own country is
    38 KB (6,359 words) - 03:31, 26 February 2014
  • ...s it is difficult not to conclude that the Germans have the advantage over us in either fuzes, explosives, or ship construction.<ref>No.2791/H.F.1187. of ...miral [[John Bridges Eustace|John B. Eustace]] as Second-in-Command of the pre-dreadnought {{UK-BS|3}} in 1916, had written to Jackson, "His sea experience is small &
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  • *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8aH-M3PzM0 US Navy Fire Control in WW2.] (Youtube video in 7 parts.)
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  • * The US Navy's 1945 Submarine Design, by Norman Friedman * CVLs: The US ''Independence'' Class, by Norman Friedman
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  • |{{US-Harvard|f=p}}||armed merchant cruiser||15 Mar, 1888||Returned 2 Sep, 1898 |{{US-Yale|f=p}}||armed merchant cruiser||23 Oct, 1888||Returned 2 Sep, 1898
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  • S.S.E. Cruiser kept pressing us to port and to have put us 5' to east of our original
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  • Thus science continues to present to us more and more frequently its practical side; and thus every branch of human ...parted, but we are anxious to point out the possible result which seems to us well worthy of being kept in view.
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  • Passing, then, altogether from the historical aspect of the subject, let us sketch out the nature of the problem presented to the modern naval tacticia ...when the change demanded is made. If there were sufficient data to enable us to choose the weapon with certainty, the path of the tactician would be cle
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  • |{{US-1Yosemite|f=p}}||auxiliary cruiser||16 Mar, 1892||Scuttled 15 Nov, 1900 |{{US-Yankee|f=p}}||auxiliary cruiser||14 Jun, 1892||Wrecked 23 Sep, 1908
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  • |{{US-1Washington|f=p}}||armoured cruiser||18 Mar, 1905||Sold 1946 |{{US-Kansas|f=p}}||pre-dreadnought||12 Aug, 1905||Sold 1923
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  • |{{US-1Perry|f=p}}||destroyer||27 Oct, 1900|| |{{US-1Lawrence|f=p}}||destroyer||7 Nov, 1900||
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  • |{{US-Stranger|f=p}}||armed yacht||1880||Collision 30 Sep, 1915 |{{US-Terror|f=p}}||monitor||24 Mar, 1883||Sold 10 Mar, 1921
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  • |{{US-Machias|f=p}}||gunboat||8 Dec, 1891||Sold 29 Oct, 1920 |{{US-Castine|f=p}}||gunboat||11 May, 1892||Sold 5 Aug, 1921
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  • |{{US-Powhatan|f=p}}||side-wheel frigate||14 Feb, 1850||Sold 30 Jul, 1887 |{{US-Constellation|f=p}}||sailing sloop-of-war||26 Aug, 1854||Preserved 7 Aug, 1
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  • |{{US-1Rowan|f=p}}||torpedo boat||8 Apr, 1898||Sold 3 Jun, 1918 |{{US-Nebraska|f=p}}||pre-dreadnought||7 Oct, 1904||Sold 30 Nov, 1923
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  • <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''New Jersey''" nat="US"> ...{USOfficerReg1913|p. 10}}{{USOfficerReg1914|p. 12}}|note=also Captain of {{US-NorthCarolina}}}}
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  • <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Vermont''" nat="US"> {{CatShipPreDreadnought|US}}
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  • <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Idaho''" nat="US"> {{CatShipPreDreadnought|US}}
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  • ...name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''New Hampshire''" nat="US"> {{CatShipPreDreadnought|US}}
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  • <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Mississippi''" nat="US"> {{CatShipPreDreadnought|US}}
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  • <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Connecticut''" nat="US"> {{CatShipPreDreadnought|US}}
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  • <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Virginia''" nat="US"> {{CatShipPreDreadnought|US}}
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  • <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Georgia''" nat="US"> {{CatShipPreDreadnought|US}}
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  • |nat=US {{CatClassSloop|US}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1823|1899}} {{CatCommodore|US}}
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  • |{{US-1Somers|f=p}}||torpedo boat||1897||Sold 19 Jul, 1920 |{{DE-KaiserBarbarossa|f=p}}||pre-dreadnought||Apr, 1900||Broken up 1920
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  • {{CatPrivateShipBuilder|US}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1805|1877}} {{CatRear|US}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1809|1890}} {{CatRear|US}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1810|1877}} {{CatRear|US}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1809|1870}} {{CatRear|US}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1809|1879}} {{CatRear|US}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1799|1867}} {{CatRear|US}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1802|1871}} {{CatCommo|US}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1811|1893}} {{CatRear|US}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1807|1877}} {{CatRear|US}}
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  • Pre-dreadnought ships have not been considered. ...e Director has not been developed to anything like the same extent as with us and until quite recently its importance had not really been full realized.
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