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• Courageous Class Battlecruiser (1916)
  The '''''Courageous'' class''' of warship consisted of two vessels, variously described as battle cruis {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• British Adoption of Radio Communication
  ...Signals were successfully conveyed over sixty miles, as long as only one ship was sending at a time.<ref>"The Navy." ''The Times'' (London, England), Sa ...ks of doubled antenna wires were allowing {{UK-Canopus}}, ''Hector'' and {{UK-Jaseur}} to reliably converse across twelve miles. Wireless telegraphy now
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• H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906)
  |nat=UK The only member of her class, she was the first all-big-gun battleship to be laid down, launched, and co
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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}} ...arship is a trade off between speed, firepower and protection. The British capital ships at Jutland had heavier guns than the Germans, but the German ships we
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• H.M.S. Furious (1916)
  |nat=UK ...Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44.}} f. 486.</ref>|note=ship is a gunnery training ship}}
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• Barr and Stroud Rangefinders
  ...me, the number and base length of the instruments offered for each capital ship grew and grew, and the ships regarded as platforms for rangefinders grew do ...Cut|range cuts]] recorded on the devices were communicated throughout the ship.
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• The Battle Cruiser in the Royal Navy
  ...ose intended to act as look-out ships, observing that it is possible first-class or battle-cruisers may be attached to fleets to play the part assigned by L ...heir new big cruisers are really Battle-ships in disguise, and our new 1st class cruisers ought to be designed accordingly.<ref>Fisher to Selborne. Letter
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• Warship (Journal)
  * Washington's Cherrytrees: The Evolution of the British 1921-22 Capital Ships (Part 1 of 4), by N J M Campbell * Classic Ship Models: Number 1 The USS Wilkes-Barre, by Lawrence Sowinski
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• Frederic Charles Dreyer
  ...July 1891 was appointed to the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth.{{DreyerSeaHeritage|p. 25}} Out of the sixty ...ifle practice Dreyer was recognised as a potential marksman and joined the ship's rifle team. At a rifle meeting in March 1895 he competed against a numbe
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• H.M.S. Agincourt (1913)
  |nat=UK ...iral [[David Richard Beatty, First Earl Beatty|Sir David Beatty]], whose {{UK-BCS|1}} had been weakened by the need to hunt down the German East Asia Squ
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• Invention and the Navy (Article)
  ...served as a Lieutenant [[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 ...he dry dock - in any of H.M. Dockyards of a hundred years earlier, just as ship's companies of those earlier days could have sailed and fought ships of a c
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• Down Report
  * Average arrangement and numbers of personnel in each capital ship * Difficulty of fighting ship from Conning Tower owing to restricted view
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• Henry Bradwardine Jackson
  ..., 1869. He was entitled to a First Class Certificate in Study and a First Class Certificate in Seamanship, obtaining 1,629/2,000 marks and 783/1,000 marks ...Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2007 [http://0-www.oxforddnb.com.wam.leeds.ac.uk/view/article/34134, accessed 10 Sept 2012]</ref>
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