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  • ...mall, fast, sea-going vessel with some small degree of armour protection. It was a maturation of what had formerly been regarded, as their name implies, In Admiralty Weekly Order 49 of 31 January, 1913, it was announced that henceforth all vessels hitherto designated as Scouts, Pr
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  • ...r''' was an assembly for dropping torpedoes into the water abreast a small vessel. The torpedo would start when it was released.
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  • It was hoped that these might deliver more than 41 knots, but depth-keeping is In its Mark VIII S.L. version, it achieved 29-31 knots to 5,500 yards and 40.5-41.5 to 3,00 yards.
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  • ...ojectile's flight by hitting a vessel before it reaches the water is quite small.
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  • ...on the target. When this is done, he has trained the mount correctly. In small geared mountings, he may endeavour to work his controls to continuously neg ...on an unsafe bearing or when the line of fire was endangered by a friendly vessel. He was equipped with a switch he could throw to break the firing circuits
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  • ...ation form (or a memo alluding to one) is included in his Service Record. It describes him as being temperate and of average ability, but has unusually ...orders in writing; most of these I considered unnecessary in such a small vessel. The officers believed that Lieut. Hester set a C.P.O. to see that they ca
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  • ...by its exertions in the [[Spanish-American War]], which in no way prepared it for the challenges of the [[Great War]], which its massive building program ...essity weak, and its negotiations are conducted with disadvantage, because it is not in condition to enforce the terms dictated by ts sense of right and
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  • ...idered “unexceptional” when, despite desperate attempts to prevent it, the vessel capsized and rapidly sank with the loss of 473 lives including that of her <blockquote>The Court, before separating, find it their duty to record the conviction they entertain the Captain was built in
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  • ...that, by dividing the expansion of steam into a number of pressure drops, it should be possible to run a turbine at a moderate speed and at the same tim ...of C. A. Parsons & Co. He bought back his patent rights, and established a small works at Heaton on a site about 2 miles from the centre of Newcastle upon T
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  • ...nt of the Type D that employed a smaller charge within the Type D shell so it could be used by craft unable to make the 15 knot speed judged a minimum to In 1915, it was envisioned that these would become the standard large and small charges. The first orders of the Type D were made in September 1915, and t
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  • ...ielded and employed. The damage they inflicted in the war was slight, but it presaged the impact this weapon system would carry into [[World War II]]. ...915.<br><small>The tail number suggests this may be the original No. 184.</small>]]
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  • Modern sources often treat her as a member of a three-vessel ''Active'' class, but we treat her as contemporary documents do, as one of ...gun, salvaged from her wreck.<br><small>In the collection of Tony Lovell.</small>]]
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  • ...new class of ship, with a shallow draught for inshore work and a requisite small number of big guns was specified. ...lehem Steel Company paid a call at the Admiralty to try to sell armaments. It transpired that he had eight 14-inch guns of the latest pattern which had b
    8 KB (1,285 words) - 21:58, 6 November 2019
  • S<small>IR</small>, I<small>N</small> compliance with your orders, I have the honour to forward the following re
    7 KB (1,082 words) - 18:39, 15 May 2018
  • ...y of machine tools. Nothing comparable was found in the <u>Baden</u>. Such small workshops as there were equipped only with benches and vices. I do not reco ...ry. Did any at any rate at all important component fail, a replacement for it was to hand.<ref>"Volume V: Part II. 'From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow'."
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  • ...obstructions. While it seems unlikely that all are due to the same cause, it seems certain that the reports describe only a handful of explosions or obj ...s I've noticed... some clearly different in time, but to give the sense of it. Times are as reported.
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  • ...or the Tercentenary in July, 1908.<br><small>Library and Archives Canada.</small>]] ...the second-in-command of a Channel Squadron, or Atlantic Fleet, as I think it was called at the time, were not heavy. Sir John was able to take, if not
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  • ...14/15 February, 1918. The raid was a success, and the Germans sank eight small ships and damaged several others. A clumsy, confused response failed to br ...amed [[Operation Hush]], but the land offensive did not go well enough for it to be carried out. By the end of 1917 too many German vessels had been tran
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  • It was developed in parallel with the [[21-in R.G.F. Mark I Torpedo|Mark I tor In mid-1920, it was ordered that Mark II and II* H.B. and S.L. torpedoes should be withdraw
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  • ...stroyers of 1906]]) was constructed by [[John I. Thornycroft & Company]]. It was armed with 14-in Whitehead torpedoes, displaced 32.5 tons and was 87 fe ...gn=left|<small>Citations for this data available on individual ship pages</small>
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