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• U.S.S. Pennsylvania (1915)
  ...ted States Navy]] "super-dreadnought" battleships. She was the third Navy ship named for the state of Pennsylvania. ...oil rather than coal, and tankers could not be spared to carry additional fuel to Britain. In the light of this circumstance, only coal-burning battleshi
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• U.S.S. Newark (1890)
  |nat=US ...re and proceeded down the St. Lawrence River to Quebec, leaving the little ship there on 11 June and returning to Norfolk, where she arrived on 22 June. '
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• Harwich Force at the Battle of Jutland
  ::" {{UK-Lion}} " ordered us to go away, I turned 16 points 11.30. Fire was opened on us by a line of large ships
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• First L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland
  |valign=top|6.58|| Altered course South. Saw bow and stern of large ship submerged S 80 W on far side of Battle Fleet. |valign=top|8.12|| Passed large patch of oil fuel and wreckage, whaler, etc.
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• First D.F. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland
  smoke, the ship was turned about 32 points, and station taken 4.23. Salvo appeared to hit last ship in enemy's line.
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• U.S.S. Arizona (1915)
  ...rner, she had not been deployed to European waters owning to a scarcity of fuel oil in the British Isles-the base of other American battleships sent to aid ...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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• William Christopher Pakenham
  ...''Cruiser''. On 12 March, 1880 he was appointed to the Mediterranean flag ship {{UK-1Alexandra}}, in which he was senior midshipman, and on 21 October, 18 ...ton on account of [[George V|H.R.H. Prince George]] being appointed to the ship. Fremantle also wrote of Pakenham:
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• Jutland:Preliminaries
  ...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}} ...ial speeds of the ships. Welsh steam coal was superior to German coal as a fuel for ships and poor coal sometimes restricted the speed of German warships.{
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• Second L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland
  time practically in line with the rear ship of the 5th battle which were dropping all round the ship.
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• Thirteenth D.F. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland
  course, and when ship had been steadied after avoiding torpedoes, disengaged side of the German B.C. line, took us under heavy
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• Philip Wylie Dumas
  ...E, p. 8.</ref> He entered the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] on 15 July, 1881, and gained eleven months time on passing On 1 December, 1913 he was superseded as Joint Secretary of the Oil Fuel Commission by [[Sydney Stewart Hall]].<ref>Hall Service Record. {{TNA|ADM
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• Salvage of H.M.S. Vanguard
  ...ously been projected high into the air and landed some 150ft away from the ship burying itself breach down to a depth of 15ft. One gun turret complete with The above photograph shows the ship's propellor which was lying free of the ship which we lifted with the later vessel.
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• Tristan Dannreuther Papers at the National Maritime Museum
  ...o Tristan Dannreuther entitled "Navigating Officer's Report of Position of Ship at Noon" for HMS FOXHOUND (24 Mar 1893 - 20 Aug 1894) and HMS MELITA (7 Dec ...o Tristan Dannreuther entitled "Navigating Officer's Report of Position of Ship at Noon" for HMS FIREFLY (3 - 21 Oct 1894) and HMS MELITA (21 Mar 1895 - 12
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• Fourth D.F. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland
  :When abandoning the ship the Motor Boat was tried, the :6. At about 1040 a large explosion as of a Ship blowing up
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• John Arbuthnot Fisher, First Baron Fisher
  .... Having retired in 1910, he was then instrumental in the adoption of oil-fuel, and soon after the outbreak of the [[First World War]] in 1914 he returned ...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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• Alexander Milne Papers at the National Maritime Museum
  Pamphlet: 'On the Fighting Power of the Merchant Ship in Naval Warfare. [Read at the Eighteenth Session of the Institution of Nav ...gnetism at certain positions in Her Majesty's Iron-built and Armour-plated Ship 'Northumberland'', read 26 Mar 1868.
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