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• First Destroyer Flotilla (Royal Navy)
  ...yer Flotilla''' was a formation of [[Destroyer|destroyers]] of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...leet]] alongside the similarly equipped [[Second Destroyer Flotilla (Royal Navy)|Second]] and {{UK-DF|3}}s.{{NLJun06|pp. 269, 270''a''}}
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• The Loss of the Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue
  ...d [[H.M.S. Hogue (1900)|''Hogue'']], were torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine {{DE-U9}} in the North Sea. The ships, part of the {{UK-CS|7}} (also known ...and men were killed. As a direct consequence, large ships of the [[Royal Navy]] were ordered to leave torpedoed and mined consorts to their fate to avoid
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• Lewis Bayly
  ...vy (28 September, 1857 – 16 May, 1938) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...a great-great-nephew of Admiral Sir Richard Keats. He entered the [[Royal Navy]] as a Navigating Cadet on 15 July, 1870, and was appointed to the {{UK-1Br
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• Nore Local Defence Flotilla
  ...s a formation of [[Destroyer|destroyers]] and torpedo boats of the [[Royal Navy]]. {{UK-Vulture}} has joined, and a submarine flotilla has been attached. It is now comprised of an eponymous destroyer
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• Home Fleet (Royal Navy)
  ...Fleet (Royal Navy)|Atlantic Fleet]], and, renamed the [[Home Fleets (Royal Navy)|Home Fleets]], it was the primary British fleet facing the Germans when wa ...the principal naval force in home waters was the [[Channel Squadron (Royal Navy)|Channel Squadron]]. The other main naval force consisted of partially-man
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• The Defence of Harbours against Torpedo-Boat Attack
  ...red T. Jane]]. Major-General F.G. Slade, C.B., R.A., Inspector-General of Royal Garrison Artillery, in the Chair. ...s grave danger in a lack of definite co-operation between the Army and the Navy, and I think there can be no doubt that if the two forces fail to act in co
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• Diary of Alec S. Tempest
  ...o be useful. Its data is reflected in the pages for the [[:Category:Royal Navy Formations|formations]] described. ...ruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|2nd]] & [[Third Light Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|3rd L.C.S.]] & {{UK-1Fearless}} & 20 destroyers.
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• Lionel George Dawson
  ...1 September, 1885 – 3 September, 1968) was an officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. ...ng]], Dawson was a fair writer, if a bit enamoured of salty jargon. His ''Flotillas: A Hard-Lying Story'' is essential work that illuminates the nuances of des
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• Annual Manoeuvres of 1913
  The [[Royal Navy]]'s '''Annual Manoeuvres of 1913''' were a continuing chapter of Britain's The Manoeuvres were mainly designed to measure the Navy’s ability to prevent a hostile landing, protect trade, and to seek a deci
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• Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum
  [[First Battle Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|1st Battle Cruiser Squadron]] 1 Feb-9 Oct 1913. Papers relating to the command of the [[Second Battle Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|2nd Battle Cruiser Squadron]], [[Grand Fleet]] mobilisation, and armed tra
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• British Adoption of Radio Communication
  The Royal Navy first mentioned "promising" experiments in "Electric Signalling" in ''Defia By the time of the Great War, the Royal Navy had a patchy global network of shore stations able to offer a modicum of co
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• Austro-Hungarian Naval Attaché Report on the Battle of Jutland
  ...ovides an interesting, raw insight into the state of the [[Imperial German Navy]], even if some of the details turned out to be inaccurate. ...ion in English apparently made by the [[Naval Intelligence Division (Royal Navy)|Naval Intelligence Division]] in 1919 from a copy which was subsequently r
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• Battle of Dogger Bank
  ...{{DE-Blucher}}, the four light cruisers of the 2nd Scouting Group and two flotillas totalling of 18 torpedo boats would carry out a reconnaissance towards Dogg ...urprise light forces on patrol.'<ref>Committee of Imperial Defence. German Navy and Sources of Material. Dogger Bank Action, 1915. Translation of German A
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• Acheron Class Destroyer (1910)
  They were the last Royal Navy destroyers to use the 12-pdr gun, as it was deemed to possess insufficient ...-IronDuke}} and {{UK-1Firedrake}} and {{UK-Lurcher}} served with submarine flotillas in Harwich.{{March|p. 122}}
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• George John Scott Warrender, Seventh Baronet
  ...ut was forced through ill-health to relinquish command and retire from the Navy in December of that year, dying early in 1917 at the age of fifty-six. ...|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']] to study for his Lieutenancy examinations at the [[Royal Naval College, Greenwich]], which he passed on 26 May, 1880. He took three
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• Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet
  ...Rising to fleet command in the early 1900s, he was widely regarded as the Navy's preeminent tactician. He was promoted to {{FleetRN}} in 1907 and succeed ...1799–1845. Wilson attended Eton College from 1852 to 1855; he entered the navy in 1855, and was immediately employed on active service in the Black Sea du
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• On the Present Position of Cruisers in Naval Warfare
  ...f view, while previous papers from Sir Edward Reed, K.C.B., F.R.S., at the Royal United Service Institution, from Mr. [[William Henry White|W. H. White]], C ...ent unexampled position, but a naval officer, Captain Mahan, United States Navy, may, perhaps, claim to be the first who has set forth in a clear, terse, a
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