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  • ...l Civil Lord was added in 1912. Quorum for the Board was two members, and it issued its directives through the [[Permanent Secretary to the Board of Adm ...y became the Royal Navy's main fleet. The Channel Fleet was absorbed into it in 1909, and the Atlantic Fleet in 1912.
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  • ...1871 to 1918. Commanded by Prussian army officers between 1872 and 1888, it was initially built up to serve as a strong coast-defence force. When Wilh ...1871, the German Empire was proclaimed at Versailles on 18 January, 1871. It was formed of the Prussia-dominated North German Confederation and a host o
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  • ...ping capability, but with the main mast just forward of the second funnel, it was frequently inundated with smoke and proved nearly useless in bad weathe In 1909, it was decided that ships of this class were to carry 10 heater torpedoes, dis
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  • In 1909, it was decided that these ships should carry 10 heater torpedoes, distributed In 1913, it was approved as part of a general reallocation of 18-in torpedoes, to repla
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  • ...en the opportunity arose.{{AWO1913|470 of 22 Aug, 1913}} In October 1913, it was decided that the mountings should also have buzzer for their firing cir As of 1920, it appears that these dreadnoughts and earlier ones did not receive such equip
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  • ...periscope but to alter the position of the index for the deflection dial. It was through use of the deflection handwheel that the periscope would attain ..., the advance in smooth control of large Royal Navy guns was captured when it was noted that ''Orion'''s gunlayers were "able to follow a roll of 12 degr
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  • ...ches from 16 feet and 10.5 inches above waterline to 3 feet 4 inches below it, extending between the fore and aft barbettes ...equire the sightsetter to follow a motion of the deflection index to apply it as was required by the system used in {{UK-1Orion}}.
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  • ...it is quite a serious matter. We are raising all main deck coamings, but it is a big job & meanwhile there is 6 inches of water or more constantly on t ...* mountings except in {{UK-Benbow}}, which had Mark III* mountings (though it is possible that later these were updated and all mountings acquired a seco
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  • ...underline|secret}}, and neither the design as a whole nor any features of it should be mentioned, either {{double underline|inside}} or {{double underli <blockquote>It is proposed that the 3 Canadian ships, the Malay, and the 5 ships of this y
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  • ...hand-following gear to facilitate in transmission of range cuts, and when it was considered as an addition around 1917, space concerns were causing issu Around 1918, the envisioned rangefinder outfit generally resembled this, but it would take some time to institute:{{Burt1986|pp. 276-7, 282}}
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  • The four turrets were labelled "A", and "X", on the centre line and "P" to port and "Q" to starboard.{{UKManGun1907I|p. 1}} ...degrees. Sight lines are 11 inches above the bore, and 11.8 inches aside it.
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  • In 1909, it was decided that ships of this class were to carry 10 heater torpedoes. Th In 1913, it was approved, as part of a general reallocation of 18-in torpedoes, to repl
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  • By mid-1918, it was approved to fit [[Pattern 333X Navyphones|Pattern 3331 Navyphones]] wit ...angefinder in the forward top dismally situated abaft the forward funnel. It proved untenable, and was moved to a newly added armoured hood atop the con
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  • In 1917, it was approved that capital ships of [[H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906)‎|''Dreadno ...positions. Local C.O.S.es at the transmitting positions to select between port and starboard and a [[Evershed Bearing Indicator#Selector Switch|selector s
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  • ...draught of water will not exceed 22½ feet this is vital for Baltic work. It's on the Baltic necessity that we will carry these ships through in the Cab ...you, this was very early in the war, when it was popularly believed that it was only going to last six months. "He has agreed to our building light cr
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  • |1020 || Dropping Gear, port<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1891'', p. 59.</ref> || for 14- ...''Torpedo Drill Book, 1905'', p. 217. </ref> || supersedes Pattern 1335, it hold the instruments as well as batteries
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  • ...12-inch gun machinery started for the "Lord Nelson" class and appropriated it to the "Dreadnought," the date of the orders have therefore become intercha ...sguise, including a young Virginia Woolf and her Bloomsbury Group friends; it became known as the [[Dreadnought hoax|''Dreadnought'' hoax]]. Cole had pic
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  • ..., and many doors and watertight hatches were open to facilitate movement. It was claimed that all openings had been shut before flooding reached them.<r The port engine room was flooded, along with the port auxiliary M/C, water tight compartments below and outside these rooms, and
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  • ...23 March. Throughout the following year the battleship led her squadron as it watched over American interest In the Far East, visiting principal ports of ...circumnavigated the globe receiving warm and enthusiastic welcomes at each port of call. As the famous voyage got underway from Hampton Roads 16 December,
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  • ...t rangefinder for the admiral's use on the bridge. When, late in the war, it was desired to provide an effective additional 9-foot instrument for torped ...ted by a pair of ''tripod-mounted directors''{{DirectorH|p. 143}} situated port and starboard high on her forward superstructure{{DirectorH|p. 91}}.
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  • ...Queen Elizabeth class and Revenge class battleships were being completed. It was then suggested that the 12-inch (305 mm) guns and barbettes of the obso ...915)|H.M.S. ''Prince Rupert'']] was built at William Hamilton & Company of Port Glasgow and another at Scotts' shipyard at Greenock. This left the monitor
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  • ...g out in Clydebank, and it was observed that she had a more elegant plan. It was mimicked for ''Inflexible'' and ''Indomitable''.{{JohnstonClydebankBatt ...ve also had a [[Type 3 Wireless Set|Type 3 Battleship Auxiliary set]], but it was to be replaced by a [[Type 10 Wireless Set|Type 10 Cruiser Auxiliary se
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  • ...g out in Clydebank, and it was observed that she had a more elegant plan. It was mimicked for ''Inflexible'' and ''Indomitable''.{{JohnstonClydebankBatt ...'s East Asia Squadron. One day after the British battlecruisers arrived at Port Stanley on 7 December, 1914, the German squadron arrived to discover they'd
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  • ...sly. This electric gear remained in the ''Invincible'' for some time, but it always gave trouble, and luckily, just before the War, orders were given th ...'s force arrived in the Falkland Islands, the battlecruisers anchoring off Port William to draw provisions and coal. The next morning smoke was sighted, a
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  • ...d interdict and German vessels attempting to break out into the Atlantic. It served as the main anchorage for the British Grand Fleet for most of the [[ ...His position was "similar to that of admiral Superintendent of a dockyard port."<ref>Grand Fleet Orders. "106. Fleet base at Scapa Flow, Orkneys and She
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  • As of 1901, while serving as a Port Guard ship,. she was slated to receive a [[Wireless Telegraphy Apparatus Ma ...went to Portsmouth to have the wireless installed. It was estimated that it would take several weeks, and the Admiral became unhappy at the idea of bei
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  • ...casemated on the first deck proved of little use in practical sea states. It was decided, on ''Hannibal'' and ''Magnificent'' to remove the eight casema In early 1905, it was approved that the 6-in guns in ''Majestics'' and later battleships shou
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  • ...inspected were found to be defective and were withdrawn from their ships. It was deemed that the sleeves were contracting near the muzzle, generally aft ...{{DE-U21}} passed straight through the heavy mesh and hit her amidships. It was followed by another one and within seven minutes ''Majestic'', betrayin
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  • ...casemated on the first deck proved of little use in practical sea states. It was decided to remove the eight casemate guns, plate their ports over and m In early 1905, it was approved that the 6-in Q.F. guns in ''Majestics'' and later battleships
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  • ...orce as it awaited the arrival of Sturdee's battlecruisers and anchored in Port Stanley. She fired the first shots of the [[Battle of the Falkland Islands
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  • ...delivery of important castings, her launch was delayed until March, 1898. It had been hoped that she could be launched in February and ''Irresistible'' ...degree, ''Goliath'' finally departed for China on 30 May, arriving at the port of [[Weihaiwei]] on 18 June, in time for the [[Boxer Rebellion]].
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  • ...casemated on the first deck proved of little use in practical sea states. It was decided to remove the eight casemate guns, plate their ports over and m ...s at which rapid fire would be most suitable (about 4,000 yards here), and it sped the firing cycle, as a return to firing elevation usually happened mor
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  • ...casemated on the first deck proved of little use in practical sea states. It was decided to remove the eight casemate guns, plate their ports over and m .... The sight line was 52.75 inches above the bore, and 48.6 inches abreast it. There was no temperature corrector or a "C" corrector.
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  • ...casemated on the first deck proved of little use in practical sea states. It was decided to remove the eight casemate guns, plate their ports over and m ...lined as unnecessary. The foremost starboard casemate gun and the aftmost port gun's left scopes were wooded at about 7 degrees from the centerline. An a
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  • ...ercy Scott]], captain of ''Excellent'' considered this too slow. In 1902, it had been determined that an acceptable time for flooding the 12-in magazine ...one hour 11 minutes would have been required were it in use. Fromt this, it was determined that the following alterations were required to make all mag
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  • The turrets on each side were numbered 1-3, fore to aft, qualified by "port" or "starboard".<ref>''Manual of Gunnery in H.M. Fleet (Volume I), 1907'', In 1909, it was decided that ships of this class were to carry 10 heater torpedoes, dis
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  • ...on 4 August, 1914 after the German ships had bombarded the French Algerian port of Phillipeville. ...ve also had a [[Type 3 Wireless Set|Type 3 Battleship Auxiliary set]], but it was to be replaced by a [[Type 10 Wireless Set|Type 10 Cruiser Auxiliary se
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  • ...1913. Issue '''40337''', col C, p. 10.</ref> On the 27th she arrived at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.<ref>"News in Brief" (News in Brief). ''The Times''. T ...[[Battle of Jutland]], the right gun in "Q" turret had a 30 foot crack in it, but was fired nonetheless.<ref>At {{TNA|ADM 137/1645.}} pp. 41, 95.</ref>
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  • ...the higher ratings are excellent and gradually making themselves felt, but it takes time.<ref>Beatty to Hamilton. Letter of 17 February, 1915. Hamilton ...hip. Shall we gain by swapping horses while crossing the stream? I doubt it.<ref>Diary entry of 7 March, 1915. Duff Papers. National Maritime Museum.
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  • ...ertainly not strong enough to carry a gun like that. Every time she fired it was like a snowstorm in my cabin, only instead of snowflakes sheared rivet- ...len's 200 kw reciprocating steam generators and one 175 kw oil-fired one. It is possible that another 200 kw steam generator was added to the design or
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  • It is often stated that the seven turrets were named after days of the week ra ...t Mark IV]]. A control key on the transmitter allowed it to indicate when it was controlling the remote rangefinder or not.{{ARTS1917|p. 208. (C.I.O. 45
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  • ...nutes (which may have effectively been 2.5 degrees for mechanical reasons; it equalled .195 degrees at 10,000 yards). By 1916, it was intended that she should receive O.O.Q. [[Open Director Sight]]s capabl
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  • ...r with the after {{CT}}, depending on a change-over switch in the {{TS}}. It also had direct communication with the lower conning tower. Voice-pipes of ...type, colour coded by broadside. Turning these handles could connect the port transmitter to the starboard guns or vice-versa, tie the guns to any contro
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  • ...elevation were also sent and no mention is made of how range was used (if it were) for convergence.<ref>ADM 186/240, p. 9.</ref> Perhaps the elevation ...s noted. The spotting position seemed flimsy and the Royal Navy suspected it would have been prone to vibration.<ref>ADM 186/240, p. 7.</ref>
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  • ...am power and the guns elevated by hand. Two of the turrets were mounted to port and two to starboard. ...an athwartship belt 14 inches thick. These atwartship belts along with the port and starboard water line belts formed the vertical bulkheads of the armoure
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  • ...wept away all opposition for the construction of the [[Panama Canal]], for it was then made clear that the country could not afford to take two months to ...on account of the Boxer Rebellion, she departed 23 June for that northern port; and, on the 28th, while steaming through the Straits of Pechili, she groun
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  • Arriving in Havana on 25 January, ''Maine'' anchored in the center of the port; she remained on vigilant watch, allowed no liberty, and took extra precaut ...ude that set off the forward magazine, completing destruction of the ship. It has never been determined who placed the explosive, responsibility for the
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  • ...''King George V'' class'']]. Two of these were located in turrets, though it had been approved before the war that all ships of [[Lion Class Battlecruis ...damage and numerous casualties, she coaled and ammunitioned upon reaching port and was ready for sea in just two hours.<ref>Account of R.M.L.I. Private Wi
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  • ...[[John Brown & Company]]. The keel was laid on 6 March, the same day that it was announced in ''The Times'' that the name of the ship would be ''Queen M ...ay have had a [[Type 3 Wireless Set|Type 3 Battleship Auxiliary set]], but it was to be replaced by a [[Type 10 Wireless Set|Type 10 Cruiser Auxiliary se
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  • ...tions of modern naval warfare has been considered and forecasted as far as it was possible? ...ve done before I went to the Admiralty, but I have never seriously thought it out.</blockquote>
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  • ...ed for Trinidad on 17 March, arriving there five days later or a three-day port visit. She then returned to Guantanamo Bay on 29 March or a brief period, s ...eship carried the United States consul-at-large, Leland E. Morris, to that port before sailing for New York on 15 June. Proceeding via Gibraltar, ''Arizona
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  • ...ged to have committed an "error of judgement." A story from this time has it that Beatty damaged the engines of the ship in order to return to Malta as ...not one that inspires a great deal of confidence, this is private, unless it be Prince Louis, and his national or birth qualifications are against him."
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  • ...pedo director whose various bars could be locked down with a target ship. It would be used after a trial run on the torpedo attack trainer and illustrat |''Dido'' (2) || Dover (2)|| Port Edgar (2) || Lyness (2)
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  • ...ng from port or starboard (as the instrument always depicts an attack from port). ...proposed movement of the attacker to reach his preferred firing position. It pivoted from the position pointer and was graduated in "DISTANT TO RUN IN T
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  • ...d on it and the model "target fleet" being about 25 feet from each other. It was to be a casual affair "very easily made in the ship." ...t this scale, and a torpedo director would be mounted on the toy ship. If it is desired to practice for trainable tubes, the director could also be allo
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  • ...m firing range to be read off directly. A disc labelled 0 to 180 degrees, port and starboard was added and a pointer on the speed and course of enemy bar. ...to a deflection sight, c1917.{{ARTS1917|p. 26, Plate 14}}<br>In this form, it may have been called a T.D.S. Mark III. ]]
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  • ....S. ''Newcastle'']], which took him to such foreign destinations as China, Port Stanley, Rio de Janeiro, South Africa and St. Helena over three years. He ...Malta Fever on 22 June when the fleet prepared to anchor off the Lebanese port of Tripoli. There were two columns of warships, one led by Tryon, the othe
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  • ...d the effectiveness of U-boats against merchant ships, Scheer decided that it would be better to employ his long range U-boats in co-operation with his s ...for six days because some of the battleships developed condenser problems. It was expected that Admiral Sir [[John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellico
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  • ...extended until then. The "Battenberg Question," as Leiningen referred to it in a letter to Dacres, was finally settled. ...epartment, is there; it requires enlarging and strengthening and above all it requires someone at its head of sufficient power and influence."<ref>Cookri
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  • In 1872 it was decided to reinstitute the office of Second Naval Lord, and to remove t ...aval Staff''',<ref>Order in Council of 23 October, 1917.</ref> which title it remains today.<ref>''The Navy Directory 2019''. pp. 4-6.</ref>
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  • ...Navy|Kaiserliche Marine]] on 8 December, 1914 near the Falkland Islands. It came a little over a month after the defeat of the British [[British South ...e event of the enemy's light cruisers separating or trying to escape, make it their business to deal with them: … The battle-cruisers will seek out the
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  • | 6.00. || Deployed to port. Cruisers above mentioned under heavy fire, being straddled frequently. Th ...nt followed. She was seen to be hit many times. She eventually turned to port.
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  • ...cord. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/193.|}} f. 208.</ref> This was an unusual feat, as it was decidedly rare that such inventive initiatives survived even their firs ...ain de Bartolomé caught hold of the silver cup, flung it straight out the port[hole], and we had seven days' scrubbing that mess.<ref>McKee. pp. 49-50.
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  • ...the [[Home Fleets (Royal Navy)|Home Fleets]], and from 1919 to 1932, when it was renamed the Home Fleet. ...y to reinforce either the Channel Fleet or the Mediterranean. To this end it was decreed in early 1905 that the Atlantic Fleet would hold combined manœ
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  • ...e that "In accepting your very flattering offer I need not assure you that it will be my earnest endeavour to carry out the important duties to the best ...part of an attacker intent on landing troops at an unfortified east coast port. The larger defending Blue Force was commanded by [[Prince Louis of Batten
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  • ...the Commander, too - and he went up to him, pulled out the dicky and threw it away over the side. No more dickies!<ref name=Humble23>Quoted in Humble. <blockquote>One day we'd sighted something about 50 miles off; and when it was reported Sir Robert said "Why do you take this lying down - he doesn't
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  • ...lantic Fleet]], and, renamed the [[Home Fleets (Royal Navy)|Home Fleets]], it was the primary British fleet facing the Germans when war began in 1914. F ...d that such manœuvres should take place three times a year along with the Port Guard ships. In December, where possible within the existing training arra
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  • ..., with urgent demands at the moment for naval force elsewhere, did not do; it sent Cradock orders to search and protect trade, with the ships then under He at once pointed out that this addition was of no use, as it reduced the speed of his squadron to twelve knots, and so made the first pa
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  • ...one of eight children and although the family owned three estates in Wales it "may have not have been accompanied by commensurate wealth".<ref name=Gordo ...rsy, the use of the corvette {{UK-Bacchante}} was eventually approved, and it was agreed that in spite of the danger still inherent in long sea voyages,
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  • ...were forced to ditch in the North Sea after the engine suddenly cut out. It was a sobering reminder of how hazardous the business of sea flying could b ...seaplane carrier, and attended by two slower ships as escorts. Based on [[Port Said]], he ranged the coasts of Palestine, Syria, and Arabia, sometimes bom
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  • ...rved through most of the [[Spanish-American War]] on blockade duty off the port of Manzanillo until the end of July, 1898, even though he was named [[Execu ...of battle cruisers, and supported the development of U.S. naval aviation. It was also during his tenure that naval aviation found a permanent home in Pe
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  • ...ts with the Gunner's Mate on watch to send a man down and let me know when it was 3.30 p.m. We lay down and had quite a comfortable sleep, having nothing ...wards came the order to load all cages. As soon as the cages were loaded, it was reported to the Transmitting Station, and then came the order to load;
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  • ...rs before, though family arrangements had hitherto prevented his occupying it. Hornby meantime went with his kinsman, Lord Stanley, for a tour in India; ...ts on this are particularly interesting, as there can be little doubt that it was this practice which first led to his own profound studies of the subjec
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  • ...t) and a return visit to Port Royal (12 to 20 August), interspersing these port visits with operations out of Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. Early in t ...at Key West, drilling naval militia, for six months, departing the Florida port on 10 June for a succession of ports, Brunswick, Savannah, and Southport, u
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  • ...samurai did not like that, and on more than one occasion he put an end to it by blows." Tōgō also surprised these young Englishmen by graduating seco ...Hampshire'', leaving in February and staying seventy days at sea without a port call until reaching Melbourne, eating only salted meat and ship's biscuits.
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  • ...have selected an Officer who more thoroughly fills the position as I think it should be filled as Chief of Staff than Captain Sturdee. He is simply a de ...at [[Battle of Coronel|Coronel]] on 1 November, 1914." This disaster made it urgently necessary to deal with Admiral von Spee's German cruisers; and, wh
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  • ...ar Admiral at Alexandria, to provide liaison services between the Egyptian port authority and the Fleet, working from [[H.M.S. Maidstone (1937)|H.M.S. ''Ma
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  • ...f 1812 and the first of a British naval squadron since the Battle of Grand Port in 1810. ...withdraw its ships from Chinese and Japanese waters and hand it Tsingtao. It declared war eight days later. A naval blockade of Tsingtao by a largely Ja
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  • ...}}, Admirals tended to be given command of ocean-going fleets and the home port commands. ...ficer, after they had served one year in the rank of Admiral, and provided it didn't conflict with the other regulations.<ref>Ibid.</ref>
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  • ...ticeably better than [[Voicepipe]]s, the former requiring no shouting, but it is fully realised that Voicepipes possess the great advantage of reliabilit At 6.14 p.m.—Formed line of battle to port by equal speed Pendant. Co. S.E. by E. ''Iron Duke'' being "straddled" at
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  • ...ll the magazine and shell-room parties and reached to the mess deck, where it burnt some of the ship's company. The magazine doors being shut, however, 11. At 5.56 <small>P.M.</small> the battle-fleet was in sight on the port bow. Altered course to N.E. by E., and at 6.4 <small>P.M.</small> to east,
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  • ...o enter each Naval Cadet as a Supernumerary on board the Flag Ship at that port, from the date of the Candidate passing the required Examination (pending a As Drawing will prove a most useful qualification for Naval Officers, it is recommended that Candidates for the Service should be instructed therein
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  • ...smoke took some time to clear, by which time no one was looking her way. It was reported that between the first hit and the second she fired a salvo. ...the enemy. They were about 2 miles nearer the enemy and heavily engaged. It could be seen that the {{UK-Lion}} had been hit, as smoke was coming from a
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  • ...h Battle Squadron]] had come down to join us in the Forth in their place. It was the first time the 5th B.S. had come out with the battle cruisers from ...''Hindenburg'', was there). Their bearing was approximately north, on our port bow; the weather was misty in patches, the visibility varying from 12 to 6
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  • ...mall>P.M.</small> that they had altered course to north. The situation as it developed was reported by visual signal from time to time to the ships unde ...es were observed to fall all round her; she then turned about 14 points to port, a salvo struck her and a large flame was seen to burst from her quarter de
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  • ...the watertight door to the lower bunker 100-111, and the bulkhead to which it is secured, which had parted. I then telephoned orders to draw fires in "A ...ard beam and bow. Course was immediately altered to starboard and then to port; two torpedoes passed ahead and one astern of the ship.
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  • | 6.17p.m. || —Shots falling round ship. Deployed to port, S.E. by E. ...battleship line. "Revenge" on seeing "Marlborough" struck, hauled out to port about a cable, and my belief is, struck and sunk the submarine.
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  • ...been widely held; and I venture to think that the number of those who hold it has increased of late, and especially since last June, when the country had It would be undue presumption on my part to evolve, as it were, from my inner consciousness, any opinions and theories as to the empl
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  • ...0}} On 2 March, 1901, Grenfell hoisted his flag in the {{UK-SansPareil}}, port guardship at Sheerness, as Second-in-Command of the [[Reserve Squadron (Roy ...red. He was found only some weeks later, locked in a drawer: the revenge, it was supposed, of one of the galley's crew whom he had scratched or bitten.<
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  • ...tacked by twelve boats. It was an intensely cold night, there was no moon, it was about 3 o'clock in the morning. The Japanese lost two boats and one or ...lar lines to that which the Chinese met. I do not think we can assume that it would
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  • ..., moving 4½ knots with the wind, two points abaft the starboard beam, the port gangway look-out reported a man overboard, who proved to be Thomas Hocken. ...al Victorian Order (C.V.O.) on 3 August.{{Gaz|28048|5390|6 August, 1907}} It was decided in November that his appointment would lapse after his term of
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  • ...etary to a Committee advising on the defence of the Medway. On 2 November it was confirmed that his secretarial service would "count as full service" in ...ion on rate of fire was solicited by the Admiralty. He replied, in part, "It is considered more important to have the ammunition provided and ready for
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  • ...esource displayed, we are sometimes told that the organization is not what it should be, and some remark is often made to the effect that the Germans are ...ubt will win the War and then spend years in trying to prove that she lost it."
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  • ...was a bright child, and after prepatory school was sent to Eton College. It is family tradition that at the age of sixteen Tryon informed his father of ...y that he might have been transferred to the hulk ''Imaum'', then lying at Port Royal.<ref>FitzGerald. p. 14.</ref> He took action to avoid this, as he e
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  • ...Fisher's, refused, writing that "Considering my present position, I think it would be inadvisable to name me as a witness before the Court."<ref>Milne t ...the Mediterranean Fleet to depart Malta for its summer cruise. The first port of call was Corfu.{{ToL|The British Fleet Abroad|Monday, Jun 15, 1914; pg.
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  • ...observed to be firing; it was then about eight miles away, slightly on our port bow, and steaming at great speed from left to right. Although the flashes ...number of destroyers, accompanied by the {{UK-1Arethusa}}, passed down our port hand, retiring from an invisible enemy who was pitching projectiles amongst
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  • 3. Range-taking and Spotting were difficult. It was very difficult to distinguish hits, but occasional bursts of smoke with ...sputterings round about there. It also damaged the deck, cutting through it and through the deck below into the Engineer's Workshop.
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  • ...ttle Cruisers and flashes of enemy's guns came into sight from just on the port bow to the starboard bow, crossing from right to left. Shortly after this, | Opened fire again on same ship. Another hit was observed, but mist made it impossible to be certain of fall of shot.
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  • ...attle fleet was engaged; range 17,000. Only a few salvoes were fired, but it is believed that she was straddled after the second salvo; the target was t ...-Valiant}}," but as we were apparently closing " {{UK-Malaya}} " I ordered Port 20°, and then the steering gear commenced to give trouble.
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  • ...about 5.45 p.m. first came into action with an enemy light cruiser on the port bow. Several torpedoes were seen coming towards the ship, but were avoided ...the Control Top from the fore bridge : "Your firing is very good, keep at it as quickly as you can, every shot is telling." This was the last order hea
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  • ...ockyard]] and ships not attached to other fleets. Command-in-Chief of the port command was usually vested in an {{AdmRN}} or a {{ViceRN}}.
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  • ...COMPILATION OF THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND AND THE REASON IT WAS NOT PUBLISHED The following bald statements of actual facts connected with what it is no exaggeration to describe as one of the worst scandals of modern times
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  • ...ncorrectly'' that the report gave their course as being to the Northward. It also states ''incorrectly'' that he immediately altered course to SSE. He ...s and the strongest portion of his force. He took no such steps, although it was ''then'' his intention shortly to alter course to SSE. (i.e., away from
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  • ...d, soon after "Stations" had been closed up, the enemy were sighted on the Port-bow. Shortly after the Captain ([[Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe|Capt. ...loyed and turned to starboard and as we turned one of the "Defence" class (it was H.M.S. "{{UK-Defence}}") steamed through the line on to the engaged sid
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  • ...ulfilled, for the first thing I noticed in the Abbey was its smell. And so it was when I joined the ''Britannia''. ...nt from that of any other ship or building, an indefinable something, call it spirit if you will, which puts you into instant touch with her long-past li
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  • '''How it Feels to a Clergyman to be Torpedoed on a Man-of-War''' is the account of C ...en back on the starboard side of the ''Aboukir'', while we stood by on the port side, both of us a good distance off.
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  • ...ng back on the Battle Fleet. As we were deploying, they seemed to turn to port. ...}" was observed to have a small fire nearly abreast her fore turret on the Port side, some white smoke appeared to be coming through her forecastle deck.
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  • ...S.O. B.C.F. reported that he was engaging the enemy (56.53 N., 5.40 E.) ; it was later ascertained that 5th B.S. were also engaging the enemy. (1550.) |valign=top| 6.26.||Altered course to port.
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  • ...ction remains clearly fixed in the memory, it is impossible to reconstruct it strategically or tactically, owing to the difficulty of seeing the enemy, a It is considered of great importance that in a squadron flagship, an Assistant
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  • It seems that he may have been the turret trainer, as he had a sighting port and no apparent direct duty while the ship was under director firing. ...director circuits. After that we got the order "A.P. Load". By this time it was just 4.0. The T.S. passed through "Right Gun's crews to tea for 10 min
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  • ...rse [''sic''] year of "Summer Time" and the Fleet had been ordered to keep it in harbour but to revert to G.M.T. at sea. "Valiant" however wanted none o ...ol shelter, facing out on the starboard bow just abaft the Conning Tower. It was a beautiful morning, flat calm sea and some light mist and the watch pa
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  • ...ockyard]] and ships not attached to other fleets. Command-in-Chief of the port command was usually vested in an {{AdmRN}}.
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  • ...casemated on the main deck proved of little use in practical sea states. It was decided to remove them, plate their ports over and move eight of them t ...were designated fore and aft, those to starboard "A" and "X" and those to port "B" and "Y".<ref>''Manual of Gunnery in H.M. Fleet (Volume I), 1907'', p. 2
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  • ...t. Vincent " was rear ship of the 5th Division, i.e., the next division to port of the starboard wing On forming line of battle to port, " St. Vincent," therefore, became the fifth ship from the rear. The weath
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  • ...id their duty thoroughly well and with a cool and cheerful demeanour which it was a pleasure to observe. Men, organisation, machinery and material in ge ...e enemy must have a knowledge of Vocabulary Signal Book Number 2, although it has only very recently been brought into use.
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  • ...|| One of our cruiser squadrons, either First or Second, was observed on Port bow, engaging enemy, the latter being out of sight of "Neptune." ...rior" class was seen to be badly hit and set on fire; she passed across to Port quarter. Another cruiser, apparently "Defence," was observed to be hit, an
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  • ...p the {{UK-Lion}}, leading our Battle Cruisers, appeared to be on fire the port ...this she turned away from us and disappeared into the mist. By this time it was too dark to fire and we went to Night Defence stations. The 4" guns we
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  • It was purchased by the Museum in 1984 and contains some photographs and copie ...N}} Mitchel, Capt of {{UK-1Galatea}} president.<ref>The date of this makes it likely that the presiding officer was {{Com2RN}} [[Edwyn Sinclair Alexander
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  • It was on the afternoon of May 31<sup>st</sup> 1916 that I was having tea in t ...limpse of them in a few seconds when H.M.S. New Zealand got astern of us. It was when H.M.S. ''New Zealand'' & ''Indefatigable'' had taken station aster
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  • ...d for insuring a full consideration of the manifold and difficult problems it had to decide. In such a department as the Admiralty there must be distinct ...s official correspondence degenerates into wrangle, which, however amusing it may be at the home ports and on foreign stations, is wholly mischievous, be
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  • ...ing the Director on to the target, and fire could not be opened as soon as it ought to have been, the enemy could be seen from the Gun Control Tower and ...y ships coming into sight for a few seconds and then disappearing, I found it extremely hard to be certain that I was spotting on to the same ship as tha
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  • ...'Victoria'' but the droop increased to 2.5 inches after firing 12 rounds. It was later reconstructed. In firing trials on 17 October 1889 the other gun ...seven feet higher out of the water than would be normal as momentum drove it up onto the shoal. The ship's bottom was damaged, and three compartments f
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  • ...Minotaur," which entirely blocked our view to starboard most of the time, it was very seldom possible to see anything of the enemy beyond the flashes of ...Hampshire " or " Duke of Edinburgh." Firing ceased before 10.0 p.m., when it was nearly dark, and by 10 p.m. our Fleet had all turned to Course 8., spee
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  • ...fired at was enveloped in a high column of smoke and was not seen again ; it is presumed that she blew up. Fire was re-opened on the next cruiser, but the port side at a distance of about 20 ft. (the torpedo was going very slowly—app
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  • '''Granton, Edinburgh''' is a small port south of the [[Firth of Forth]]. It was a minor [[Royal Navy]] base in the [[Great War]], serving as the operat
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  • ...he release of crews from ships which would not be of value in war has made it possible to man Reserve ships with permanent crews, thereby largely increas ...ins of Ships and Admirals of Fleets. It was premature then to declare that it would be possible to do away completely with the distinction between the th
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  • ...much expense as the starting-point of a new route for south Ireland and a port of call for Atlantic steamers. Long-distance runs, the reduction of second- ...recommending the upper house to refuse to accept the budget of 1909 until it had been referred to the country. On 30 Nov. 1909 he concluded the debate o
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  • ...t young George should mix more than he had yet done with English boys; and it was with the view of making an Englishman of him that he was sent in August ...school, especially in reply. Though his rise in the school had been rapid, it was not till June 1848 that he achieved positive distinction by winning the
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  • ...Valley region of Portugal. Its notable stability in storage has long made it a favourite of the seafarers of Britain, in addition to its not being Frenc Fire control makes much more sense with a vintage port uncorked and ready. Ruby, late bottle vintage and tawny varieties offer le
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  • ...djacent divisions of the 32 comprising the [[Compass Rose|compass rose]]. It is therefore equal to 11.25 degrees (360 divided by 32). ...ve practical use in fire control (e.g., "Shift fire to target 2 points off port bow").
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  • ...damage caused by {{UK-Argus}} to motor launch M.L. 519 and lighter X134. It was deemed that he dispensed with the services of a pilot who had been sent ...enneth Macrorie|Arthur K. Macrorie]]'''|'''[[Port Edgar|Captain in Charge, Port Edgar]]'''<br>1 Nov, 1922<ref>Stirling Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/15
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  • In 1916, it was approved that the ships were to be given eight 200 kw dynamos at 220 vo * T.C.T. port and starboard: two 15ft [[F.X. 2]]s on [[M.V. 5]] mountings
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  • ...|relative bearing]] so that guns and/or searchlights could be trained upon it. Generally, the granularity of the bearings as read off the indicators was The Royal Navy found with experience that it was very difficult to ensure that all pertinent positions shared a common u
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  • ...greed because he assumed that the Grand Fleet would be in port coaling, as it had carried out a sweep of the North Sea on 19 January. ...ish had accurate intelligence on their movements, but did not suspect that it came from reading coded German signals. They believed instead that British
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  • In the early weeks of the Great War it was known to the British that the German [[High Sea Fleet]] was based in it ...his decision was entirely justified by the outcome of the battle. However, it required late changes to orders that were not received by Tyrwhitt and Keye
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  • ...as steering 90 degrees at 22 knots with the {{UK-LCS|6}} one mile to their port beam at 25 knots and the {{UK-LCS|1}} three miles astern. Ten destroyers s ...smoke. Napier was now at the edge of the British minefields and turned to port, considering that the situation was too uncertain to risk continuing. The
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  • In 1913, it was approved, as part of a general reallocation of 18-in torpedoes, to repl In 1916, it was approved that the ships of this class should be retrofitted with direct
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  • ...on each broadside were designated A1 and A2 on starboard and B1 and B2 to port.<ref>Turret designations from ''Manual of Gunnery in H.M. Fleet (Volume I), ...The 2850 fps dial was noted as having range errors exceeding 25 yards, as it employed the same cam cut for the 2750 fps dial. The 2750 fps dial would b
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  • ...hwest corner of Ireland. A minor British naval base in the [[Great War]], it is now called "Castletownbere".
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  • ...dee''' is situated on the east coast of Scotland, northeast of Edinburgh. It was a [[Royal Navy]] base in the [[Great War]].
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  • ...'Great Yarmouth''', was a minor [[Royal Navy]] base in the [[Great War]]. It and [[Harwich]] served as operational bases for [[Auxiliary Patrol Area X]] ...ing the war, being bombed by the Zeppelin ''L3'' on 19 January, 1915. The port was also bombarded by the German Navy on 24 April, 1916.
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  • The port city of '''Inverness''' is located on the East Coast of Scotland. It was a minor [[Royal Navy]] base in the [[Great War]].
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  • ...ne''' in northern Ireland was a [[Royal Navy]] base in the [[Great War]]. It supported operations in [[Auxiliary Patrol Area XVII]]. [[Charles Douglas Carpendale]] may have been in where Wilson is shown. It is not clear.
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  • ...et Company. For many years he acted as Superintendent of the Line at that Port. I spent a good deal of my spare time, as did my two brothers respectively :It is not therefore surprising that from my earliest days I never thought of a
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  • ...ll leave the Jade on Tuesday morning early and return on Wednesday night. It is apparent from our information that the battleships are very unlikely to It was to be intercepted at Dogger Bank on its return home by a British force
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  • Like Jutland, it was also indecisive, but even more so. ...bard the port of Sunderland, but the British fleet was sighted well before it had effected the interception of the German force, prompting Scheer to turn
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  • ...after bridge so the engine room could quickly reply to orders received by port and starboard [[Engine Room Telegraph|engine room telegraphs]] and the [[Re ...ative in 1908,<ref>''Torpedo Drill Book, 1908'', p. 190.</ref> but by 1912 it was being done in recent ships.{{TorpDB1912|p. 167}}
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  • ...the equipment was widely deployed for long except the order instruments. It was not until the Mark II family that the product line gained some maturity ...s used pointers on dials to display the data. By the Mark I era, however, it was seen as superiour for the range receiver to have the dials rotate insid
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  • ...cated underneath the digital bearing drums could be in either STARBOARD or PORT position (starboard was in the higher position, and so would be visible whe ...to be pushed in before would engage the drums inside. A spring would keep it out, otherwise. The degree handle was on the right side near the bottom, a
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  • ...er remains in a catch until such time as the transmitter changes the range it is signalling. A lever on the left of the receiver could be used to lock t ...instruments with the shutter were dubbed Pattern 3142A or 3142B. In 1919, it was decided that the shutter should be removed in units of future manufactu
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  • ...ARD/PORT shutter had a third face added to the bottom, which was blank and it had no blank/TRAIN shutter. I do not understand why this would be considere ...oved the need for a COS to have its own tell-tale indicator in cases where it was going to be placed adjacent to the transmitter anyway.
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  • ...s and at 18:15 the leading battleships of the Grand Fleet began turning to port, followed by their columns until [[line of battle]] was formed. Even as th ...It was the most wonderful moment in my naval life and I shall never forget it.<ref>Quoted in James. ''The Sky was Always Blue''. p. 97.</ref>
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  • ...spray is not made clear.{{AWO1914|790 of 9 Jan, 1914}} At the same time, it was worried that a rangefinder mounted aft had a forward arc of view obstru ...ould have their existing 4.5 foot rangefinder replaced by a 9-foot model. It is not clear if this applies to just the ''Blonde'' group ships or this ent
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  • ...there was some confusion as to how high the sides were in various units. It was mentioned that altering them to a height of 4 feet would allow a seated ...m. Three of the ships had hydraulic training added in 1914, but reports on it were mixed.{{UKTHVol4Part34|p. 16}}
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  • ...tween adjacent ships had proven a failure as there was no one to attend to it. An outline of abbreviated signals to be communicated by morse flag "signa |Mine on port bow||7 P
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  • ...there was some confusion as to how high the sides were in various units. It was mentioned that altering them to a height of 4 feet would allow a seated In 1918, it was ordered that these and ten other classes of light cruisers should recei
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  • In 1918, it was ordered that these and ten other classes of light cruisers should recei By June 1918, it was determined that the "Town" class cruisers would probably eventually car
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  • After Jutland, it was desired to double their torpedo armament, and each broadside got a seco ...ine'' class to place it aft, the charm of 6-in hitting power was such that it was decided that the ''Arethusa''s should receive a third 6-in aft (on the
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  • In 1916, it was stated that ""C" and "D" class light cruisers" have three 52.5 kw dynam ...-line {{TS}} board with two [[Pattern 3330 Navyphone]]s for the operator. It was connected to the 15 volt switchboard for power.{{ARTS1916|Plate 78}}{{A
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  • In 1916, it was stated that ""C" and "D" class light cruisers" have three 52.5 kw dynam ...') with a [[Pattern 3331 Navyphone|Pattern 3331]] in the C.T. connected to it.
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  • In 1916, it was stated that ""C" and "D" class light cruisers" have three 52.5 kw dynam In 1918, it was ordered that these and ten other classes of light cruisers should recei
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  • ...5 volts.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School', 1916', p. 120.</ref> It is unclear whether this outfit was still deemed sufficient for this later c * Fore bridge, port and starboard: two 12ft [[F.Q. 2]] on [[M.Q. 12]] mountings
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  • In 1916, it was stated that ""C" and "D" class light cruisers" have three 52.5 kw dynam In 1918, it was ordered that these and ten other classes of light cruisers should recei
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  • ...ransmit ranges. The arrangement of this equipment was not then known, but it was likely to resemble the "''Cardiff'' class".{{ARTS1918|p. 179 (A.L.G. 46 * Fore bridge, port and starboard: two 12ft [[F.Q. 2]] on [[M.Q. 12]] mountings
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  • ...ncy use.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School', 1916', p. 120.</ref> It is likely but not certain that this applied to this earlier class. By 1921, it was reported that all R.N. destroyer leaders mounted a 9ft [[F.Q. 2]] on an
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  • In January 1914, it was reported that a rangefinder mounted on the fore upper bridge may have b ...degrees and was graduated to just 12.5 degrees (7,900 yards full charge). It is likely that extended range strips were provided at some point to allow a
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  • '''Oban''' is a small port on the west coast of Scotland. It was a minor [[Royal Navy]] base in the [[Great War]].
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  • In February, 1884, it was reported that Barton had landed at Dutch House, [[Port Said]]. Captain Nicholson reported that Barton was with a landing detachme
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  • ...e squadron intercepted 12,979 ships at sea while 2,039 ships reported to a port of examination. 642 evaded the blockade. The losses incurred were nine ar ...en dropped from the Third Division for unknown reasons. They would rejoin it in March, 1916 under their new names, ''Champagne'' and ''Artois'', respect
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  • ...ich were generally suspended from floats to guard ships at anchor within a port. ...s regarded their cutter as being able to defeat any known net if it struck it at a speed over 5 knots.
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  • ...isposed of during the action cannot be ascertained with any certainty, but it must have been large.<ref>"Great Naval Battle" (News). ''The Times''. Sat ...dent of victory they would have tried to go on fighting instead of legging it for home.<ref>Quoted in Bacon. ''Earl Jellicoe''. p. 306.</ref></blockquo
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  • ...s instituted in the [[Royal Naval Barracks, Sheerness]] on 1 April, 1892. It came under the command of the Flag Captain to the Commander-in-Chief at the ...r the duties of Flag Captain at Sheerness to the commanding officer of the Port Guard Ship, but that the commanding officer of the gunnery school would con
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  • ...sition to this scheme on the part those responsible for manning the Fleet, it being pointed out that every man would be required for the Fleet in course ...& some of the 12" & 9.2" were sent to the Dardanelles & were useful where it was inadvisable to use battleships on account of the Submarine menace.
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  • ...stro-Hungarian naval forces contained and controlled in the Adriatic Sea. It was based at [[Taranto]]. It would be created in mid-1915 from four old battleships and light cruisers.
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  • ...is log was preserved with difficulty, not before a hose had been turned on it.<ref>Quoted in the ''Harper Record''. p. 24.</ref> It has been suggested by Andrew Gordon that the Rough Signal Log, far from bei
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  • ...l Navy]] command during the [[First World War]], based on the East Anglian port of Harwich. ...pril, 1914 as "Destroyer Flotillas of First Fleet," an administrative name it would sporadically bear for some time in the ''Navy Lists''.{{SMNLSep14|p.
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  • ...I|p. 29}} From 2 February, 1915 the cruisers of the Squadron were kept in port in view of the perceived submarine danger in their patrol area, held at rea ...st returning home she received signals via Gibraltar to proceed quickly to Port Said in Egypt on the [[East Indies Station]] and left Devonport on 11 July,
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  • ...to receive wireless telegraphy systems along with {{UK-SansPareil}}, then port guarship at Sheerness.<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence." ''The Times'' The conflict between Macdonald and Warleigh is noted. It seems likely that Macdonald ceded command of the ship to Warleigh, and rema
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  • ...sup>st</sup>. If the possibility of a successor to Jellicoe is considered it will be found that all those who have had experience of high command can be Lastly it would be impossible to give the Dardanelles operation a fair chance was he
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  • ...ented by Lieutenant [[Walter Odwin Hutton Lambert|Walter O. H. Lambert]]. It was not a [[Torpedo Director|torpedo director]], but a device to help judge ...t must be shipped on the Engaged side, a position having been prepared for it to ship on either side.
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  • ...the European situation was not altogether clear, and it was possible that it might become necessary for the question of giving armed support to the Fren ...outbreak of war, mobilising upon the same day as the French and Germans. It was further suggested that additional reinforcements, consisting of two or
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  • ...e early in the war, and no public report was made at all. What good would it do anyone to stoke the flames of panic? The clear, unprecedented enormity ...isposed of during the action cannot be ascertained with any certainty, but it must have been large.{{ToL|Great Naval Battle|Saturday, 3 June, 1916. Issu
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  • ...do Calculator'''{{HTC1916|Plate 23}}<br>The instrument indicates a turn to port of about 23 degrees is required to clear enemy torpedo threat.]] ...imilar [[Crace Enemy Torpedo Calculator]] in 1914-1916.{{ARTS1915|p. 60}} It was created by Lieutenant (T) [[Evan Campbell Bunbury|Evan C. Bunbury]].<re
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  • It was proposed in 1917 and was to be delivered in 3 types of increasing compl ...instruments until 1922 and expressed dismay at their complexity. In 1923, it was declared that they were abandoning the use of Renouf equipment.
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  • They were the last Royal Navy destroyers to use the 12-pdr gun, as it was deemed to possess insufficient stopping power to disable and destroy en Turning performance was widely variable, as it had been with the preceding [[Acorn Class Destroyer (1910)|''Acorn'' class]
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  • It was ordered that these ships were to receive two [[Trident Electric Log]]s ...als". {{UK-1Acasta}}'s diameters were 861 yards to starboard and 1097 to port &mdash; nearly twice that of the ''Acheron'' class's Yarrow special {{UK-1F
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  • ...had the best tactical diameters of 382 yards to starboard and 457 yards to port, while ''Harpy'' was worst with 802 and 887 yards. The rudders were 55 squa ...ol system used in {{UK-Badger}} fitted to both fore and aft searchlights. It was noted that {{UK-1Beagle}}, {{UK-1Bulldog}} and {{UK-1Foxhound}} would r
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  • ...l model was for use in conning towers.{{ARTS1918|p. 165}} It appears that it was separate from the director or sight, and had a graduated disc that coul ...this was a new model was for use in conning towers with restricted arcs. It could serve the functions of the previous Marks but also show "the arcs bet
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  • ...the magnification of the Mark I's periscope was judged to be too weak and it was recommended that a new lens might resolve the issue. One periscope was The Mark III improved on the Mark II by further automating the calculator so it only required range and own ship's speed to be entered manually.{{HTC1916|p
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  • ...ed on a fixed stand on the fore bridge of a destroyer or a light cruiser. It was lettered and adapted to work in concert with a [[Torpedo Director Patte ...nd. Each would be delivered with two stands so it could be swapped between port and starboard rails. The destroyers, however, were eventually authorized t
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  • ...pairs in armoured control positions, peeking out the slot in the armour. It also had open sights.<ref>''Handbook of Torpedo Control, 1916'', p. 24, Pla ...ter moving with the telescope carrier, but able to be revolved relative to it by gearing indicated against all these scales.
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  • It was based on existing patents held by Engineer Lieutenant Commander [[A. S. ...iping, which placed some limitations on where the gauges could be placed. It proved highly reliable in nine months of service under all weather conditio
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  • ...a is not listed with the Channel Fleet, but as being based on Portsmouth. It is still twelve destroyers in commission with full crews, and a further twe Between April and October, 1910 until 1911, it included the [[Beagle Class Destroyer (1909)|''Beagle'' class destroyers]].
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  • ...Destroyer Flotilla''', composed of [[Nucleus Crew|nucleus crew]] vessels, it became the '''Third Destroyer Flotilla''' in April, 1910.<ref>"Naval and Mi ...''Konigen Luise'' on 5 August. {{UK-Amphion}} was sunk as she returned to port.{{March|p. 141}} Commodore (T) was in the {{UK-Amethyst|f=t}}.{{March|p. 1
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  • In 1916, it was comprised of [["M" Class Destroyer (1914)|''M'' class destroyers]] whos ...anged fire at just 2,000 yards and each fired a torpedo and turned away to port. {{UK-Castor}} lost her W/T and was unable to direct the flotilla to attac
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  • The new {{UK-Hoste|f=t}} has joined. It appears that {{UK-Champion}} and {{UK-Woolwich}} are no longer helping out ...ough}} and {{UK-Petard}} to the {{UK-DF|12}}, and {{UK-Pigeon}} would make it down to the {{UK-DF|2}} by December.
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  • It was formed after Jutland of a mix of modern "M" and "R" class destroyers. ...the Captain (D), as {{UK-Parker}} has been sent "temporarily" to her home port, The Nore.
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  • ...[[Dumaresq|dumaresq]] and [[Line of Sight Indicator]] to be duplicated to port and starboard pairs. The chart table jutted out from the bridge, and a dir ...oyers" have two 26.25 kw dynamos arranged in parallel.{{ARTS1916|p. 120}} It is likely that this applied to this class.
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  • ...Tenders (with the exception of the Harbour Ships and Tenders at Ascension, Port Royal, Hong Kong, and Rio Janeiro, and at such other Foreign Ports as We ma ...taché, shall count as full service for pay, half-pay, and retirement; but it shall not be deemed to be service for any other purpose.
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  • ...the world broadly during the war. On the night of 27-8 January, 1916 near Port San Nicolas, she captured the German ship ''Mazatlan'' which was then in th ...bells the Royal Navy offered for sale to officers and others interested. It commanded a price of between £3-£10 plus packing and shipping. Intereste
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  • ...port by Armstrong's Far Eastern representative on Russian warships sunk at Port Arthur 1905), Norway, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. ...ton 1924-35 mainly regarding D'Eyncourt's part in the negotiations to sell it 1934-5.
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  • ...a great war, with innumerable fresh problems confronting the belligerents, it is inevitable that mistakes will be made...</div> ...s posed to surface ships and acted accordingly. Others failed to recognise it.
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  • ...ight cruisers and the increasing strength of the enemy's wireless signals, it became evident that we were in close contact with some part of the German F ...range about 22,000 yards. Our Light Cruiser Squadrons were 6 points on our port bow, distant about 8,000 yards.
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  • ...uce]] was told to be more careful in future following a Court of Enquiry. It is not immediately clear how he was involved in this misadventure, as he ha ...196/43/291.|D7602621}} f. 319.</ref> ''Prosperine'' left the station for Port Said on 7 July.{{MoS|Tuesday, July 9, 1912, Issue 39946, p.7}}
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  • ...two rounds from each gun were C.P.C., followed by Lyddite common shells. It was reported that "[r]anges were difficult to take owing to mist, funnel & ...to end its run on the surface, running 20 yards to the side of the ship as it slowed. At this point, the enemy fleet was spotted to starboard with three
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  • ...ports of his own ''Galatea'', as well as ''Cordelia'' and ''Inconstant''. It appears that ''Phaeton'' had separately forwarded its own reply direct to B ...K-Invincible}}. The stern half appeared to sink while she was in sight of it.{{UKJutlandOD|p. 172}}
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  • yards on our port beam. at her, and it is believed that " {{UK-1Falmouth}}'s " torpedo hit, as
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  • ...ther than sounders seemed to offer an automatic record of communications. It further seems that the service is still trying to understand the theory tha ...was happening, the original Jackson gear was improved at ''Vernon'' until it seemed to gain parity to the Marconi system. These new sets from 1901 were
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  • ...et of war, she was flotilla leader in the {{UK-DF|4}}. In September 1914, it was decided that {{UK-1Aurora}} replace her and that she should serve as th ...66 yards to starboard and 660 yards on a tactical diameter of 677 yards to port. Her turbines could go from full ahead to full astern in 30 seconds, her h
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  • ...runs on a well-known IP address and processes logins from PlayerClients. It also manages a list of WorldServers that are online or at least defined, as ...Server. The WorldServer simulates the movement and interactions of ships, port structures, torpedoes, mines and shells and sends updates to each of its cl
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  • incredible value and merit to serious students of fighting ships. While it has in recent years moved to an annual format, it remains the "periodical" that deserves a space on your reference bookshelf
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  • ...gatch",<ref>This may be Dedeağaç, Turkey, on the Black Sea coast, though it seems quite distant and there is no mention of passing through the Dardanel ...1920, ''Tilbury'' departed Malta for Gibraltar. On 21 July, she left that port for England, arriving at Plymouth on the 24th and then leaving for Sheernes
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  • She was re-commissioned at Port Edgar on 27 September, 1923. By March 1925, she was operating with the {{U ...least early 1933.{{NLJan33|p. 286}} She remained with the flotilla after it transferred to the Home Fleet.{{NLJul34|p. 288}}
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  • Re-commissioned at Port Edgar on 27 September, 1923.{{NLFeb26|pp. 277-8}} ...d to Reserve at Chatham on 27 January, 1931.{{NLJul31|p. 276}} On 25 May, it was reported that she was to be one of ten destroyers from various reserves
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  • ...der, Lt. [[Henry Armstrong Binmore]] being unfamiliar with the unspecified port in which the collision occurred. He was superseded in command of the ship .../38.</ref>|note=vice Colvill; this seems to disagree with his SR as I read it}}
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  • ''Rowena'' was assigned to the {{UK-DF|15}} in October, 1916, as it was still building up to strength.{{SMNLOct16|p. 12}} ...er which a Portsmouth crew was to commission her and take her down to that port where her trials would be completed and she was then to be paid off into re
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  • to starboard ; " Abdiel " being of a mile on the port beam of the Commodore's ship—" {{UK-Calliope}} "—the port wing ship.
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  • deployed to port, to South, and speed was reduced to 18 knots. badly short. It struck me that the enemy's morale was already
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  • ...o test the endurance of crew, fuel and stores while maintaining presence. It was found that she had the speed and manoeuvrability of a T.B., but with gr ...A|ADM 196/43/435.|D7602753}} f. 486.</ref>|note=and in command of Plymouth Port Flotilla}}
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  • ...accident in her engine room would require her to return to Plymouth on her port engines only and require her removal from the flotilla. A cascading series Her gyro hardware is still seemingly unique in that it is noted in her results of a flotilla exercise of July 1899, where she scor
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  • ...provided. Each shaft had eight thrust collars, and was 7" in diameter as it passed through. ...at a minimum pressure of 50 pounds. The rudder could travel to 35&deg; to port or starboard.
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  • ...ith her armament unshipped and her port engine cover removed. Given this, it is surprising to read that ''The Times'' reported that, subject to her exer
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  • ...psi pressure, 309.3 rpm and 1,853 hp starboard and 303.4 rpm and 1,685 hp port.{{NMI|Thursday, Aug 08, 1895; pg. 10; Issue 34650}} Despite the seemingly ...t 14, 1897; pg. 4; Issue 35334}} The Court Martial lasted three days, and it emerged that ''Lynx'' had been astern ''Thrasher'' by a cable length, and t
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  • ...a 4.7-in gun, and it required 32 revolutions to move the rudder from hard port to hard starboard. Vexingly, the action of this wheel was the opposite to
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  • battle fleet, and it became necessary to return to the rear of The action was very sharp while it lasted (about 15 minutes), and
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  • ...lla''' was a formation of [[Destroyer|destroyers]] of the [[Royal Navy]]. It was created very shortly before the end of the war and did not exist for mo ...tilla appears for the first time in the ''Navy List''.{{SMNLDec18|p. 11}} It is comprised entirely of expatriates from the {{UK-DF|6}}.{{SMNLNov18|p. 14
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  • ...ss the Dover Straits or cross channel shipping was possible. Bacon thought it unlikely that the Germans would attack the Straits because no troops were t ..., a sharp turning circle and a deliberate resemblance to submarines, which it was hoped would allow them to close on U-boats and sink them by gunfire or
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  • ...ing a depot ship and three submarines pared off of the {{UK-SF|7}}, though it may have existed as early as August, when {{RearRN}} [[Arthur Henry Christi The roster is comprised of ships taken from the Seventh Flotilla. It would, like the Seventh, operate initially in Home and Atlantic Waters.{{SM
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  • ...t on the engagement which took place on the 8th December 1914 in so far as it concerns H. M. Ship under my command. - ...d on board from the signal station at Sapper Hill behind the settlement at Port Stanley to the effect that two men o'war (one four funnelled, one two funne
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  • ...6 and a photograph of some officers from HMS INVINCIBLE who were lost when it sank. ...out on HMS CATHAY, 28 Jan - 7 Mar 1927 and the return on SS MONGOLIA from Port Melbourne to Wellington, 5 - 12 May 1920 and on the IONIC, 12 Mar - 20 Apr
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  • ...eir Tenders (with the exception of Harbour Ships and Tenders at Ascension, Port Royal, Hong Kong, and Rio de Janeiro, and at such other Foreign Ports as we And whereas we are of opinion that the above-recited clauses may render it unduly difficult for Captains who, as Lieutenants qualified in Harbour Ship
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  • It operated continuously through the end of the war, with its strength primari It also harrassed German fortifications on the coast of occupied Belgium.
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  • ...d on Yarmouth''' was a bombardment by German battlecruisers of the British port of Yarmouth on 3 November, 1914. ...heard, but ''D5'' struck a mine, probably a British one that was adrift as it was a long way from the course that the Germans had been taking. Only five
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  • It was the second time Yarmouth had been attacked from the sea. ...y|Royal Navy's]] [[Grand Fleet]], so should avoid having one forced on it. It should instead exert pressure to force the British to send out forces that
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  • ...ion showed a hole on the port bow and torn skin under the engine room, and it was proposed to patch her up for a second test.{{NMI|Tuesday, Oct 27, 1891;
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  • As the boat was being worked up for service, it was sometimes referred to as "No. 6 submarine", as she followed the five sm ...Berwick Castle'' sighted ''A 1'', apparently surfaced, four points off her port bow. ''A 1'' submerged shortly thereafter, and an slight turn by the ''Berw
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  • ...nd thought it obtained a hit with the improbably precise placement of "the Port forward hydroplane", but the enemy continued southward. On the 3rd, again
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  • ...to find himself beset with a faulty engine, proceeding then to the Russian port of Libau.{{ThompsonWarAtSea|p. 175}} ...n November for unspecified detached service in Home waters and in December it was clear that she was in Portsmouth, one of ten assorted submarines listed
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  • ...Sutton]], though it is not expressly indicated in his service record.{{ToL|Port News|Wednesday, March 10, 1926, Issue 44216, p.7}}
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  • ...or HM Dockyard Rosyth, one drawn on an Admiralty chart of the River Forth (Port Edgar to Carron River). With a cover letter from Colonel Simeon H. Exham, R ...ted 2 December 1905, explains that it was sent to Noel ‘in the hope that it may prove of interest’. With annotations and a separate sheet of notes ma
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  • ...er role as Captain (D)'s ship in March and April of 1919, and then resumed it "temporarily" until being detached "temporarily" in July, 1919.{{SMNLJul19| ...rvice Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/220.|D7603006}} f. 251.</ref>|note=and for Port Edgar Destroyer Flotilla from 9 December, 1917}}
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  • ...the United Kingdom's Home Ports, situated on the south coast of England. It is a man-made harbour lying north of the Isle of Portland and south of Weym There are also port cities in the United States named [[Portland, Maine]] and [[Portland, Orego
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  • ...assigned to ''U-164'' found the submarine in such atrocious condition that it was impossible to ready her for the Victory Bond drive—the ostensible rea
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  • ...and sustained heavy losses in the night action, losing 5 of 19 ships when it met elements of the [[High Sea Fleet]] unexpectedly at short range. only boat left, but sank as soon as it touched water.
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  • At 11.30 p.m. Being forced off course, to port, by one of our S.S.E. Cruiser kept pressing us to port and
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  • but as the Fleet still held their fire I could not attack, as it was to Port.
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  • and it is thought that at least two Enemy Destroyers were sunk. shaped a course two points to Port of our own Battle Cruisers
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  • It was organised as follows:{{UKNavalOpsIII|pp. 429-30}}{{UKJutlandOD|pp. 46-7 side, but as ships ahead did not open fire and it was considered
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  • It was organised as follows :::were on their port quarter 3-4 miles, and my division
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