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- <div name=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Tiger'' (1913)|fate2=to Ward, Inverkeithing{{DittColl|p. 35}} ...n Stafford|Edward S. Fitzherbert]], Captain Superintendent, Contract Built Ships, Clyde District, was present on behalf of the Admiralty.<ref>"The Launch of31 KB (4,874 words) - 10:53, 25 March 2024
- ...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 and34 KB (5,086 words) - 12:42, 17 November 2023
- ...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 f13 KB (2,033 words) - 15:07, 20 November 2021
- ...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.33 KB (5,722 words) - 14:21, 13 November 2012
- ...un Range|gun range]]. The few ships to receive it were completed too late to see wartime service. ...'''Mark I* Dreyer Table as it may have appeared in 1918, front'''<br>It is unknown if any were actually configured with the Standard Bearing Plot depicted her4 KB (666 words) - 14:47, 10 March 2016
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- ...ce the squadron intercepted 12,979 ships at sea while 2,039 ships reported to a port of examination. 642 evaded the blockade. The losses incurred were The ''Supplement to the Monthly Navy List'' shows a strength of six older [[Edgar Class Cruiser45 KB (5,700 words) - 19:55, 1 April 2021
- ...Seventh Cruiser Squadron''', also known as '''Cruiser Force C''' from 1914 to 1915, was a cruiser formation of the [[Royal Navy]]. Hogue has been added to 1912's roster, from unknown prior assignment.<ref>Albert Francis Barclay Bridges papers at The Caird Li7 KB (887 words) - 10:51, 12 March 2021
- ...iculed in the historiography—Steiner and Neilson, for example, refer to “the glaring incompetence of the navy”<ref>Ibid.</ref>—but has re | <center>ACTION TO BE TAKEN IN THE EVENT OF INTERVENTION IN A EUROPEAN WAR.</center>77 KB (12,869 words) - 04:30, 14 September 2023
- ...t receive news of the battle favourably, a fact substantially attributable to the lofty expectations they'd developed for a force as expensive as the Gra ...n warranted, at least in initial accounts, as continuing efforts were made to discover and enumerate true injuries inflicted upon the enemy.7 KB (1,122 words) - 18:05, 1 September 2022
- On 24 March 1893, Wintour was appointed to ''Seaflower'' for navigating duties. For seven years, his naval command wo Wintour was promoted to the rank of {{LieutRN}} on 30 June, 1894.<ref>Wintour Service Record. {{TN10 KB (1,407 words) - 12:51, 7 April 2022
- ...ntrolPlate14.jpg|thumb|400px| [[Torpedo Director Pattern 2391a]] converted to a T.D.S. Mark III.<ref>''Handbook of Torpedo Control, 1916'', p. 26, Plate ...al Report of the Torpedo School, 1918'', Plate 109.</ref><br>Handles added to alter setting shown in blue.]]9 KB (1,505 words) - 09:47, 12 March 2018
- ...nport, where its roster of destroyers grew to enormous levels, reaching 50 ships in July, 1918. ...rs) and "[[Cricket Class Torpedo Boat (1906)|Coastals]]". It was assigned to the Third Division of the Home Fleet.{{NLApr10|p. 269''a''}}67 KB (8,359 words) - 11:47, 30 April 2023
- ...t year resulted in shots that were 79%, 82% and 80% likely to be dangerous to the enemy.{{ARTS1916|p. 87}} ...rs) and "[[Cricket Class Torpedo Boat (1906)|Coastals]]". It was assigned to the Third Division of the Home Fleet.{{NLApr10|p. 269''a''}}86 KB (10,624 words) - 11:48, 30 April 2023
- ...lotilla were, along with the destroyers of several early classes, approved to receive "alarm circuits".{{ARTS1917|p. 232}} ...the Test Mobilisation.{{AWO1914|109 of 10 July, 1914}} These vessels were to long comprise the bulk of this formation.50 KB (6,326 words) - 13:11, 21 December 2021
- ...royers]] of the [[Royal Navy]]. The flotilla changed composition often as ships were damaged, retired or transferred. ...Wireless Systems#Destroyer Set|Destroyer W/T Sets]], part of an initiative to equip 26 destroyers in three patrol flotillas.{{ARTS1912|Wireless Appendix,110 KB (13,715 words) - 11:49, 30 April 2023
- ...e 104 torpedo test runs in the first half of that year proved 91% probable to endanger the enemy.{{ARTS1916|p. 87}} ...ay be incorrectly identified as a member of the flotilla, that photo seems to show:{{March|caption Photo 20/1}}42 KB (5,345 words) - 11:51, 30 April 2023
- ...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]], f60 KB (10,001 words) - 20:36, 28 May 2022
- .../small> compliance with your signal of to-day, 2nd June, I have the honour to report as follows on the action of 31st May 1916. All times shown in this r ...erman Fleet. By 3.45 p.m. hands were closed up at their quarters and ready to open fire.18 KB (3,003 words) - 10:25, 11 May 2017
- ...ports of his own {{UK-1Falmouth}}, as well as {{UK-Birkenhead}}, promising to supply data from {{UK-Chester}} later, presumably because she'd been so bad ...as represented in the battle by four light cruisers, with another detached to screen the {{UK-BCS|3}}. {{UK-Engadine|f=t}} operated in a detached manner26 KB (4,210 words) - 13:13, 31 May 2017