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...or the British [[Royal Navy]] in the early 1890s under the [[Naval Defence Act]] of 1889. The ships of the class were armed with four 13.5-inch arranged order=Naval Defence Act of 1889{{Conways1860|p. 32}}

|order=Naval Defence Act of 1889{{Conways1860|p. 32}} |launch=7 May, 1891<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). ''The Times'

|order=Naval Defence Act of 1889{{Conways1860|p. 32}} ...r|nick=William H. Baker-Baker|appt=18 July, 1904{{ToL|Appointments for the Naval Manoeuvres|Saturday, Jul 09, 1904; pg. 12; Issue 37442}}|end=|note=as Flag

|order=Naval Defence Act of 1889{{Conways1860|p. 32}}

|order=Naval Defence Act of 1889{{Conways1860|p. 32}} ...e]], wife of the [[Director of Naval Construction (Royal Navy)|Director of Naval Construction]]. In attendance were Sir C. M. Palmer, Admiral [[Richard Duc

|order=Naval Defence Act of 1889{{Conways1860|p. 32}} ...rry Tremenheere Grenfell|nick=Harry T. Grenfell|appt=6 November, 1896<ref>"Naval & Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). ''The Times'

|order=Naval Defence Act of 1889{{Conways1860|p. 32}} ...in|name=Ernest Gillbe Barton|nick=Ernest G. Barton|appt=15 July, 1905<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). ''The Time

|order=Naval Defence Act of 1889{{Conways1860|p. 32}} ...on 8 June, 1897, {{CaptRN}} [[Edward Henry Meggs Davis]] in command.<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). ''The Time

...be swiftly and decisively retrieved. For these and similar other reasons a Naval War Staff does not require to be designed on the scale or in the same form ...ts action, applied continuously to the scientific and speculative study of naval strategy and preparation. It is to be an instrument capable of formulating

|order=Naval Defence Act of 1889{{Conways1860|p. 32}} ...the terms of the [[Naval Defence Act 1889]]. At the behest of the [[First Naval Lord]], [[Arthur William Acland Hood, First Baron Hood|Sir Arthur W. A. Hoo

==Early Life & Naval Career== ...an of Killala. After education at the Naval School, New Cross, he became a naval cadet in 1848. He served for several years on the Australian station and wa

...laced eighteenth out of the successful batch of forty-six candidates.<ref>"Naval Cadetships" (News). ''The Times''. Saturday, 30 June, 1877. Issue '''289 ...e course of study for the rank of {{LieutRN}}, divided between the [[Royal Naval College, Greenwich]], and ''Excellent''. His spare time was spent at his m

...Sandwich, by his wife, Frances Agnes Malone. He was educated at the Royal Naval School, Camberwell, and entered the royal navy in 1843, proceeding in the V In 1878 he became [[Director of Naval Ordnance (Royal Navy)|Director of Naval Ordnance]]. On 6 April, 1880, he was appointed Senior Officer on the [[Coa

The '''Battle of the Falkland Islands''' was a naval engagement fought between elements of the [[Royal Navy]] and the [[Imperial ...t Spee had defeated a British squadron at Coronel. They had formed a local defence force in case of invasion, whilst Captain Heathcoat Grant had deliberately

...from the Navy he was elected to the Vere Harmsworth Chair of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge, and was then elected Master of Down ...fusing an Assistant to the D.N.O. with the office of Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes or Assistant Director of Torpedoes.<ref>''Mahan is n

...ayed an extremely important part in the Navy's long-term plans to maintain naval superiority in Home waters and in the Mediterranean. The bill was ultimate ==Text of the Naval Aid Bill==

...appointed to [[H.M.S. Rodney (1833)|H.M.S. ''Rodney'']] and embarked on a naval mission to Japan under Commander Richard Tracey which helped to lay the fou ...February, attached himself during the advance to the right half battery, Naval Brigade, in the place of Lieutenant [[Frank Massie Royds|Royds]], R.N., mor

...February, 1913) was a prolific British warship designer and [[Director of Naval Construction]] at the [[Admiralty]]. ...school of naval architecture at South Kensington to undergo a training in naval architecture, higher mathematics, physics, and chemistry; and in 1867 he pa

...(Gunnery Training School)|''Excellent'']] for examinations at the [[Royal Naval College, Greenwich]]. In March, 1883 he passed the College with a Third Cl ...Sudan field force, being chosen by the Governor-General of the Red Sea to act as his Aide-de-Camp.

...avy. 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 in ...June, 1887}} At Portsmouth it fell to his lot in 1889 to command at the naval review, and to receive the German emperor, Kasier Willhelm II, who afterwar