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  • ...the ships, but on the page for the [[:Category:Ship Class|ship class]] the vessel belongs to. You can click on the name of the class of the ship in the foot ...re-Dreadnought") and general types those specific types conform to (e.g., "Small Cruiser", "Capital Ship"). This scheme helps soften the Balkanization of c
    5,258 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:06, 22 February 2019
  • ...saved the money. Certainly the proverbial little cherub was looking after us marvellously. This electric gear remained in the ''Invincible'' for some t ...ational Maritime Museum contain two letters, the second of which has three small photographs. The signatures are not very legible, and it is a bit of a my
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  • ...d Fisher, 1916.<br><small>Portrait: © National Portrait Gallery, London.</small>]] ...British Navy by an Indian merchant at a cost of 84,000. It was the day of small things and of sailing-ships.<ref>Fisher. ''Records''. pp. 11-12.</ref></b
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  • ...t]] {{SIR}} '''Frederick William Richards''', G.C.B., D.C.L. (<small>OXON</small>), F.R.G.S., Royal Navy (30 November, 1833 &ndash; 28 September, 1912) was ...le-sloop ''Vixen'' on the China station. He brought home and paid off this vessel in 1861. From March 1862 to January 1866 he commanded the ''Dart'', a gunb
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  • If you find omissions, please contact us. ...scribing the length of a ship. This term refers to the maximum length of a vessel from the two points on the hull most distant from each other, measured perp
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  • ...ced at their examinations; and during the last six months of their service us Midshipmen it must contain the working of the Observations as given in Shee :4. If he has served in a Steam-Vessel, an acquaintance with the different parts and working of the Steam-Engine.
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  • ...that the ''Vanguard'' is still remembered. I have great affection for the vessel for I started my career on her using antiquated diving equipment for which ...e boiler. As the result of part of a propellor blade having broken off the vessel had a certain rythm when doing her best six knots - I can only describe it
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  • ...Frederic C. Dreyer, 1936.<br><small>© National Portrait Gallery, London.</small>]] ...rofessor of Mathematics at Cambridge, where he had also been a coach, told us that we were being taught in three months by Professor [[Carlton John Lambe
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  • We know from what contemporary writers, especially naval officers, have told us how naturally the midshipman became the prey of everyone in authority over ...ooden monsters had become utterly obsolete for fighting purposes, and this vessel, having had her machinery removed and with her new name of ''Britannia'', b
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  • S<small>IR</small>, I<small>N</small> compliance with your orders, I have the honour to forward the following re
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  • ===I<small>NTRODUCTION</small>.=== T<small>HE</small> Board of Admiralty desire to present to Parliament (and through Parliament
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  • ...which part of the scene is lost, this is termed an error of deficiency. A small thumb knob usually hidden under a sliding panel is used to adjust the halvi panic and shoot at us. &nbsp;However,&nbsp;they use handguns --
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  • D<small>ESPATCHES</small> of which the following are Copies, have been received from the Commander-i On 5th June I received a requisition from H.M. Consul at Tientsin for a vessel to protect Pei-tai-ho (a watering-place a few miles south of Shan-hai-kuan)
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  • ...or the Tercentenary in July, 1908.<br><small>Library and Archives Canada.</small>]] ...class of vessel.<br>A strong programme of destroyers and a moderate one of small cruisers will also be necessary but our present superiority in armoured cru
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  • Naval Manoeuvres, 1903, Small album of photos taken on board HMS EMPRESS OF INDIA and KING ALFRED. ...orbett in the Dreadnought Era" by Peter Marsh Stanford, reprinted from the US Naval Institute Proceedings, January, 1951.
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  • ...h this speed cannot be maintained, besides which the supply of coal is too small to allow of its maintenance for more than a short time, under any circumsta ...ime the invention of the locomotive torpedo by Mr. Whitehead, has rendered small vessels capable of inflicting serious, if not fatal, injury on large ones.
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  • {{pad|25px}}I<small>n</small> compliance with your signal of to-day, 2nd June, I have the honour to repo 24. At 4.54 p.m. ceased fire pro tern., our Battle Cruisers blanking us on the Port side.
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  • ahead and steering towards us (W.N.W.), and engaged with all moving in the same direction with us. The First Light
    26 KB (4,210 words) - 13:13, 31 May 2017
  • :(19). <u>Small collision mats.</u> ::The small collision mats made in the ship (size 6ft
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  • ...eadnought era is an underwater missile that propels itself toward a target vessel in the water where it will detonate to cause ruinous damage by loss of buoy ...and prompted odd variations such as torpedoes swimming on tethers beneath small pontoons.
    41 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 19:11, 8 December 2020

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