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  • ...e have 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 contin ...hat made the greatest contribution were the destroyers that bolstered anti-submarine patrols near Ireland.
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  • {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin: | {{Template:UK-Barham}}
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  • The '''''Courageous'' class''' of warship consisted of two vessels, variously described as battle cruis {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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  • {| border=1 class="wikitable sortable" ...of 2- June 1913, pattern number corrected in Order 362 of 11 July}}||in {{UK-Dreadnought}} and later
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  • ...} with seniority of 20 August, 1883. He was appointed in command of the {{UK-1TB33|f=t}} on 7 July 1887, for manoeuvres.<ref>"Naval & Military Intellige On 11 July, 1893, Bacon was appointed to {{UK-TB81}} for the annual manoeuvres.<ref>"The Naval Manœuvres". ''The Times'
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  • The '''''Abercrombie''''' class of monitors were the first modern variants of that type to be adopted for t {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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  • ...was one of four [[King George V Class Battleship (1911)|''King George V'' class]] battleships completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1912-13. She was lost to ...., where it met the {{UK-Liverpool|f=t}} with the targets. At 08:45 the {{UK-BS|2}} was steaming twenty miles N. ¼ E. of Tory Island in line ahead, ''A
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  • ...'') was one of three [[St. Vincent Class Battleship (1908)|''St. Vincent'' class battleships]], built at Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness. ...turret were removed. On 1 September, 1914 she fired on a suspected enemy submarine at [[Scapa Flow]] in a case of friendly fire.
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  • ...] of the British [[Royal Navy]], torpedoed in [[Scapa Flow]] by the German submarine ''U-47'' on 14 October, 1939. Launched in 1914 and completed in 1916, ''Ro .... ''Royal Oak'' was so newly placed into service that she fought in the {{UK-BS|4}}, a formation she was never listed under in the Navy List.
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  • ...turrets from four obsolete [[Majestic Class Battleship (1894)|''Majestic'' class]] [[pre-dreadnought]]s which had their 12"/35 calibre guns and mounts remov ...th long-range guns, the [[Abercrombie Class Monitor (1915)|''Abercrombie'' Class monitor]].
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  • ...s the lead ship of the [[Formidable Class Battleship (1898)|''Formidable'' Class]] of [[battleship]] and the third of four with the name H.M.S. ''Formidable ...nder William Chisholm-Batten|Alexander W. Chisholm-Batten]] paid off the {{UK-1Resolution}} on 9 October and he and his crew turned over to ''Formidable'
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  • |nat=UK ...iral [[David Richard Beatty, First Earl Beatty|Sir David Beatty]], whose {{UK-BCS|1}} had been weakened by the need to hunt down the German East Asia Squ
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  • ...Navy]] as a Navigating Cadet on 15 July, 1870, and was appointed to the {{UK-1Britannia|f=t}} at Dartmouth, and left on 18 July, 1872, after the customa ...ualify as a torpedo Lieutenant.{{NLJul84|p. 250}} He emerged with a first-class certificate in April, 1885, having been awarded a prize of £80.
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  • | {{UK-Vernon}} (2)|| {{UK-Defiance}}|| {{UK-Actaeon}} |{{UK-Caledon}}||{{UK-Carysfort}}||{{UK-Cardiff}}||{{UK-1Birmingham}}
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  • ...and, as I told you last mail, I had the satisfaction of getting a <u>first-class</u> certificate. Well, I came on board the ''Chesapeake'' and handed in my ...iki/HMS_Furious_(1850) H.M.S. 'Furious']; this officer obtained high first class certificates in seamanship and gunnery, and has now passed in navigation un
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  • ...of the Queen's birthday he was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, in the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order Kerr was appointed an Ordinary Member of the First Class, or Knight Grand Cross, in the Military Division of the Order of the Bath (
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  • {| class="wikitable" border="1" | {{UK-Revenge}} struck
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  • ...vy's three Home Ports. In the twentieth century it became the navy's main submarine dockyard. ...dbot:officeAdmSuper otitle="Admiral Superintendent, Chatham Dockyard" nat="UK">
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  • ...edo officer he served in several battleships, including two years in the {{UK-Majestic}}, flagship of the [[Channel Squadron (Royal Navy)|Channel Squadro ...o the Admiralty on the same day. On 24 March, 1909, he was appointed to {{UK-Dreadnought}} for temporary service on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief,
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  • ...the {{UK-1Swiftsure}}, flagship on the Pacific station, but moved to the {{UK-1Warspite}} in June 1890. Sueter suffered a gunshot wound to his right foo ...ars' service on the staff of the ''Vernon'' was appointed in 1899 to the {{UK-Jupiter|f=t}} for torpedo duties.
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