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• George Alexander Ballard
  ...pher Cradock]]. He entered the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] on 15 January, 1875, and left on 21 December, 1876. He la ...ey|Ottley's]] for the position of Secretary of the [[Committee of Imperial Defence]] in succession to Sir George Clarke in case Ottley was not approved. Also
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• Robert Keith Arbuthnot, Fourth Baronet
  ...A, p. 14.</ref> He entered the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth on 15 July, 1877 and left on 24 July, 1879. ...which Sir Robert went to as well. So he came down early to get off to the ship. He found the Admiral's barge waiting there, and said "The Admiral's still
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• First Sloop Flotilla (Royal Navy)
  ...gn=center colspan=6 | '''Under [[Coast of Ireland|Vice-Admiral Commanding, Coast of Ireland]]''' ...gn=center colspan=6 | '''Under [[Coast of Ireland|Vice-Admiral Commanding, Coast of Ireland]]'''
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• Christopher George Francis Maurice Cradock
  ...ond Highlanders. Christopher Cradock entered [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] on 15 January, 1875 which he left with Third Class passes. ...no wonder with a scratch squadron such as he had, most of the neighbouring coast and ports full of German spies, the Pacific Ocean open to them, and all the
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• John Edmund Commerell
  ...nnant in the ''Rattlesnake'', was appointed commander-in-chief on the west coast of Africa. ...ng the Navy. He was thus largely instrumental in bringing about the Naval Defence Act of 1889, though he was not then in parliament, having resigned his seat
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• Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby
  ..., and was thus present at all the operations in the Archipelago and on the coast of Syria in 1839 and 1840. ...hristopher Wyvill (1792–1863), for two years' slaver-hunting on the east coast of Africa. In the summer of 1846 he was sent to the Cape in command of a pr
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• Battle of Coronel
  ...War I naval '''Battle of Coronel''' took place on 1 November, 1914 off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. German [[Kaiserliche Marine]] f ...tao on 31 July. Another light cruiser, {{DE-Leipzig|f=p}}, was on the west coast of Mexico, protecting German interests there during the Mexican Revolution.
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• Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford
  ...ted {{MidRN}} on 21 June, 1862. He was transferred in July, 1863 to the ''Defence'', a new wooden hulled ironclad which he later described as "a slovenly, un ...o the rescue of Charles William Wilson in the ''Safieh'', when he kept his ship steadily engaged under heavy fire while his engineer, Benbow, repaired her
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• Astley Cooper Key
  ..., far above high-water mark. When the sea returned to its usual level, the ship was dry to within a few feet of her stern-post, and imbedded in the sand to ...a C.B. In 1857 he went out to China in command of the screw line-of-battle ship ''Sanspareil'', in which he was at once sent with a detachment of marines t
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• H.M.S. Iron Duke at the Battle of Jutland
  .... ''Iron Duke'']] during the Action with the German High Sea Fleet off the Coast of Jutland on the 31st May 1916. ...Duke'', which was not hit by the Enemy's fire, no strain was thrown on the Ship's personnel or organization and consequently, I am not specially mentioning
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• John Michael de Robeck, First Baronet
  ...pers, Churchill Archives Centre, DRBK 3/1.''Regulations, &c. Her Majesty's Ship "Britannia."'' p. 31.</ref> He was appointed to his first ship, the {{UK-1Shannon|f=t}}, Captain [[William Burley Grant|William B. Grant]]
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• Account of Prince Albert at the Battle of Jutland
  ...into the mist. By this time it was too dark to fire and we went to Night Defence stations. The 4" guns were manned to repel destroyer attacks. Our 12" fir ...several times. That is some of the shots in a salvo falling short of the ship and others over.
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• Diary of Alec S. Tempest
  ...Elizabeth (1913)|Queen E.]] & {{UK-Warspite}}, Calibrated 13.5" guns each ship firing 8 rounds <br>Hands at action stations sighted Reef horns light vessel off coast of Heligoland. {{UK-Medusa}} in collision with {{UK-Laverock}} & badly dam
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• Martin Article on the Admiralty
  ...reme need, will hold the same relation to them as the owners of a derelict ship hold to exacting volunteer salvors. Besides the inefficiency and eventual e ...The arsenals of France confront at short distances the vital parts of our coast, and flank the English and Irish Channels. This fact, and the knowledge of
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• A Statement of Admiralty Policy
  ...ine-room Watches, so as to relieve the more highly trained officers of the ship from the routine duty of Engine-room Watch-keeping. ...ce of 8½d. a day will be paid to Warrant Officers, Seamen, and Marines on ship's books who are away on leave beyond 48 hours. This privilege or its equiva
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• Battle of Dogger Bank
  ...ied to intercept a German raiding force sent overnight to bombard the east coast of England. ...had been moved there from Cromarty after the German raid on the north east coast on 16 December 1914 so that they could respond more quickly to future attac
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• Beatty Papers at the National Maritime Museum
  ...-Chief 1916-19: 'C-in-C's (Commander-in-Chief's) Private Record' detailing ship movements Dec 1916-Sep 1917. First Sea Lord, 1919-27: papers relating to Imperial Defence, 3 Mar 1919-26 May 1926, including intelligence summaries, papers on the po
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• Monarch Class Battleship (1895)
  | colspan=6 align=left|<small>Citations for this data available on individual ship pages</small> type=coast defence battleship
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• Account of Morgan Singer of the Great War
  ...rd in August announced that the Admlty would be responsible for the Aerial defence of the U.K.; as only 2 ships had A.A. guns mounted at the time this meant d ...Churchill decided in November to build monitors for operations on Belgian Coast &c. taking the guns from old Battleships & cruisers, American sources & a c
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• South Carolina Class Battleship (1908)
  | colspan=6 align=left|<small>Citations for this data available on individual ship pages</small> ...secondary gun battery, twenty-two 3-inch guns, was intended only for self-defence against torpedo attack by light craft. However, with the rapid contemporary
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