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  • ...name=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Vanguard'' (1909)|fate2=accident ...e pleased to commend [[Devonport Royal Dockyard]] for taking just 23 hours to clean and paint ''Vanguard'''s bottom and repair underwater defects between
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  • <blockquote>['''Q.'''] I suppose the question of how to organise and handle a fleet under convoy under the altered conditions of mo ...ever considered it myself; I do not know what they have done before I went to the Admiralty, but I have never seriously thought it out.</blockquote>
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  • ...y, starting with the tube loaded and the bar out, the ship's crew was able to do this in 7 minutes, 40 seconds.  The best time was achieved by {{UK-Cres ...funnels were painted red for the exercises. "present[ing] a vivid contrast to her grey hull."{{NMI|Monday, Jun 11, 1906; pg. 7; Issue 38043}}
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  • ...but he enjoyed almost universal respect because he would never ask anyone to perform a task he himself could not do. ...Arbuthnot was appointed to the ''Northumberland'', until he was appointed to the ''Amethyst'' on 21 March, off Brazil.
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  • ...d as being for the Battle Cruiser Force in January 1917 has enough context to be useful. Its data is reflected in the pages for the [[:Category:Royal Na ...ust, 1915, and then becomes more sparse in their flow. They carry through to 26 April, 1919.
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  • ...er in the next few days, making arrangements for a room in Jermyn Street & to live at the Club [Army and Navy]. ...ttleships were scrapped some years ago. We sent 8 4.7" guns and 24 Maxims to Antwerp with a naval contingent under Lieut-Comd<sup><u>r</u></sup> Littlej
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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
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  • ...rospective commissioning captain [[Lionel George Dawson|Lionel G. Dawson]] to assume these duties, at the risk of the builders, though he noted that the ...iring her to stop into Oban to have it replaced. On the same journey, she lost her aerials along with the main topmast in a storm, causing some concern at
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  • Early in her career, ''Thasher'' was observed to require 8-10 knots speed to steer reliably and she made a knot per 12 revolutions.{{NMI|Thursday, Oct 1 She arrived at Devonport on 9 April to be completed for sea.{{NMI|Saturday, Apr 10, 1897; pg. 15; Issue 35174}} S
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  • Collins Octavo Diary for 1906 belonging to Hubert Edward Dannreuther. Collins Octavo Diary for 1907 belonging to Hubert Edward Dannreuther.
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  • ...was dispatched to the scene, and ships dropped 11-pound indicator charges to encourage any survivors that help was at hand. ...before the war.{{ToL|British Naval Disaster|11 Jan. 1924, p. 10}}{{ToL|The Lost L24|12 Jan. 1924, p. 8}}
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  • ...esponsible''. Plowden was sent back to ''Ramillies'' upon his promotion to the rank of {{LieutRN}} on 31 March, 1903.<ref>Plowden Service Record. {{T ..., 1911. His experience commanding small ships did not seem to prepare him to please Captain [[Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt|Gaunt]], whose final evalu
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  • <div name=fredbot:ships> |Lost 30 Jun, 1940
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  • ...of reports by {{LCommRN}} [[Richard Thornton Down]] following a 1917 trip to Washington, D.C.. He and his American hosts exchanged information and obse With minimal formatting changes to suit the Wiki medium, the contents of what were actually two separate repor
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