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  • ...Navy (31 July, 1849 – 7 October, 1930) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] in the period leading up to the [[First World War]]. May was promoted to the rank of {{LieutRN}} from the Royal Yacht on 7 September, 1871.{{Gaz|23775|3933|12 September, 1871}}
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  • ...vy]] from 1905 to 1912, when it was absorbed into the [[Home Fleets (Royal Navy)|Home Fleets]], and from 1919 to 1932, when it was renamed the Home Fleet. ...tus and title of a Commander in Chief.<ref>Published as a Command Paper: ''Navy: Distribution and Mobilization of the Fleet''. Cd. 2335. p. 2.</ref> Lor
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  • ...Light Cruiser Squadron''' was a formation of light cruisers in the [[Royal Navy]]. Founded in early 1915, it was one of 3-4 such squadrons tasked with scr ...roster would apply until at least X.{{SMNLMay19|p. 21 and Supplements and Navy Lists through }}
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  • ...e flying career during the [[First World War]], before transferring to the Royal Air Force. .... 8; Issue 35281.</ref> He joined his first ship as a [[Midshipman (Royal Navy)|Midshipman]] in 1898. He served in the {{UK-Pomone|f=t}} during the Somal
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  • The '''Seventh Battle Squadron''' was a [[Royal Navy]] battle squadron composed of second-rate British warships mobilised during ...Flag Commander, and his navigating officer were all on the staff of the [[Royal Naval War College]].<ref>"Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appoin
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  • ...June, 1898 &ndash; ) served in the [[Royal Naval Reserve]] and the [[Royal Navy]]. ...-Alcantara|f=tp}} on 29 February, 1916. He was transferred into the Royal Navy as a {{MidRN}} as a result of his service, granted seniority of that date.<
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  • ...vy (6 January, 1886 &ndash; 4 October, 1922) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[First World War]], where he served as [[Flag Lieutenant]] to ...retary to William Gladstone. In 1894 he was appointed Deputy Master of the Royal Mint.{{ToL|New Commissioner of Customs|25 December, 1884, p. 10.}}{{ToL|New
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  • ...s data is reflected in the pages for the [[:Category:Royal Navy Formations|formations]] described. ...ruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|2nd]] & [[Third Light Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)|3rd L.C.S.]] & {{UK-1Fearless}} & 20 destroyers.
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  • ...the five battlecruisers of the High Seas Fleet's [[Scouting Group (German Navy)|Scouting Group]]. The British battlecruisers, while being the most battle ...osition and prevailing environmental conditions dealt the various fighting formations at different phases of the battle a different hand of cards. [[John Brooks
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  • ...he nation provided a natural choke-point to contain the [[Austro-Hungarian Navy]] in the [[Adriatic Sea]]. ...vy, the [[Regia Marina]] as well as those of France and Britain maintained formations of ships to assist in this mission, often based at [[Brindisi]].
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  • ...uiser (1914)|''Caroline'' class light cruisers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] early in the Great War. ...us Service."<ref>Citations for formation changes are on the pages of those formations.</ref>
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  • ...tle Fleet (Royal Navy)|Battle Fleet]], but then moved to join other L.C.S. formations in screening the [[Battle Cruiser Force]].
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  • The '''Eighth Battle Squadron''' was a battle squadron of the [[Royal Navy]] at the beginning of the [[First World War]]. ...for the Grand Fleet, whose contents are found on articles for the various formations. The Fleet flagship was noted as being {{UK-1Neptune}}, which was not part
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  • The '''Harwich Force''' was a [[Royal Navy]] command during the [[First World War]], based on the East Anglian port of ..." an administrative name it would sporadically bear for some time in the ''Navy Lists''.{{SMNLSep14|p. 6}}
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  • The '''Fifth Light Cruiser Squadron''' was a [[Royal Navy]] formation during the [[First World War]]. ...L.C.S. were re-designated as the new [[First Light Cruiser Squadron (Royal Navy)#May, 1919|First Light Cruiser Squadron]], supporting the new [[Atlantic Fl
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  • ...d correspondence about books. Agreements and letters, "Drake and the Tudor Navy" and agreements, 1900 and 1916 relating to "Successors of Drake", with cons ...Review", 1901-4, by Corbett, "Colonel Wilks and Napoleon, Education in the Navy, I, II and III, Found wanting, The Little Englander, The One-Eyed Commissio
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  • The Royal Navy tinkered with these instruments until 1922 and expressed dismay at their co ...e eventually allocated, primarily to flag officers commanding capital ship formations. It seems possible that it was being evaluated as a possible replacement f
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  • ...yer Flotilla''' was a formation of [[Destroyer|destroyers]] of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...a, the Portsmouth Flotilla was the largest of all the Navy's torpedo craft formations, comprising a mixture of early destroyers (both 27 and 30-knotters) and "[[
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  • ...yer Flotilla''' was a formation of [[Destroyer|destroyers]] of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...0}}. It ceased to exist in April, 1917, its ships being doled out to other formations.
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  • ...yer Flotilla''' was a formation of [[Destroyer|destroyers]] of the [[Royal Navy]] instituted in mid-December, 1914. It fought as part of the [[Harwich For The flotilla appears in ''The Navy List'' for the first time, under Commodore (T) in flagship cruiser {{UK-1Ar
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