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...not a single vessel of war that could keep the seas against a first-class vessel of any important power. Such a condition ought not longer to continue. Th ...ica built over 260 "four piper" destroyers as it fell into war, but only a small handful of these saw action in World War I. A few recent coal-burning batt

...as a Rear-Admiral, 1920.<br><small>© National Portrait Gallery, London.</small>]] ...dora|f=t}} on 10 June, 1904, but then whisked away to command the despatch vessel {{UK-1Surprise}} on 6 February, 1905, to remain in her until superseded on

...rmed part of the [[King George V Class Battleship (1911)|''King George V'' class]]. She saw constant service throughout the [[First World War]] and during ...-commissioned at Portsmouth on 1 June, 1933 for continued work as a target vessel.{{NLOct35|p. 222}}

...new class of ship, with a shallow draught for inshore work and a requisite small number of big guns was specified. ...name Robert E. Lee in February, 1915 - the names of the four ships of the class being American Civil War Generals to reflect the guns background. The monit

...Royal Navy]], the lead ship of [[Invincible Class Battlecruiser (1907)|her class]] of three, and the first battlecruiser to be built by any country. After ...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

...902 and 1904. They are sometime considered a subclass of the [[Formidable Class Battleship (1898)|''Formidables'']]. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:

...S. ''Baden''''' was one of two [[Bayern Class Battleship (1915)|''Bayern'' class battleships]] completed for the [[Imperial German Navy]] during the Great W ...y of machine tools. Nothing comparable was found in the <u>Baden</u>. Such small workshops as there were equipped only with benches and vices. I do not reco

...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

...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

...er|armoured cruisers]] of the [[Monmouth Class Cruiser (1901)|''Monmouth'' Class]] completed between 1903 and 1904. ...ortunity on the passage to conduct a full-power test and drew ahead of her small formation. At about 4.50am on the 21st she ran hard aground on the Samaran

{| class="wikitable" border="1" ...trike underwater debris (or debris that was awash), as judged by nicks and small damage to propellors and skegs. Other ships just report sounds of scraping

...newly organized electrical department. In those days electric dynamos were small machines driven usually at 1000 to 1500 revolutions per minute by a belt fr ...of C. A. Parsons & Co. He bought back his patent rights, and established a small works at Heaton on a site about 2 miles from the centre of Newcastle upon T

...ed in the Sea of Azoff. A few days later, on 11 October, he landed with a small party, made a hazardous march inland, and set fire to a large store of fora ...am Rickard, Quartermaster, and George Milestone, A.B. Having hauled their small boat across the Spit of Arabat, they traversed the Sivash to the Crimean sh

...les Beresford in 1896.<br><small>Photograph: ''Navy & Army Illustrated.''</small>]] ...are only equalled by his daring". He was appointed a Member of the Third Class, or Companion, in the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the

...r, being an Admiral or Commander in Chief, and each Commodore of the First Class being a Commander in Chief, is to be allowed to nominate ''two'' Naval Cade :4. If he has served in a Steam-Vessel, an acquaintance with the different parts and working of the Steam-Engine.

I <small>HAVE</small> the honour to report that at 6.54 p.m. on the 31st May, the ship was struc ...opened fire on battleship of [[König Class Battleship (1913)|''Markgraf'' class]], one point before the starboard beam, distant 10,200 yards, steering sout

...Frederic C. Dreyer, 1936.<br><small>© National Portrait Gallery, London.</small>]] ...in April he received a First Class in Gunnery with 543 and in May a First Class in Torpedo with 184 marks.<ref>ADM 196/44. f. 353.</ref> On 27 May 1898,

B<small>E</small> pleased to inform the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that in accorda ...pected turn of speed for at any rate a short period. The "Queen Elizabeth" class are nominally 20-knot vessels. The official Quarterly Return of British and

...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 ...er was that she was one of the famous ships built at Bombay, and, like her class in that region, was largely constructed of teak.

S<small>IR</small>, I<small>N</small> compliance with your orders, I have the honour to forward the following re