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• Henry Coey Kane
  ...Navy, Retired (15 December, 1843 &ndash; 30 January, 1917) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. Kane was promoted to the rank of {{LieutRN}} with seniority of 31 August, 1864.<ref>Kane Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36/1849.|}} f. 741.
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• Arthur Cavenagh Leveson
  ...R.G.S., Royal Navy (27 January, 1868 &ndash; 26 June, 1929) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. Arthur Cavenagh Leveson was born on 27 January, 1868, in Kingston, the son of Mr. Edward J. Leveson, an East Indies Merchant, and Mary Leveson. He enter
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• Wion de Malpas Egerton
  Egerton was promoted to the rank of {{LieutRN}} on 15 April, 1900.<ref>Egerton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/4 Egerton was promoted to the rank of {{CommRN}} on 30 June, 1912.{{NLMar13|p. 24}}
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• Harold Owen Reinold
  ...V.O., Royal Navy (18 October, 1877 &ndash; 4 January, 1962) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. Born in Greenwich, Reinold gained ten months time on passing out of {{UK-1Britannia}}. He was first appointed, additional, to ''Narcissus'' in
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• George Alexander Ballard
  ...', C.B., Retired (7 March, 1862 &ndash; 15 September, 1948) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[First World War]] and a historian. ...ollege, Greenwich]] with ten others from Burney's, six of whom passed, one of whom was [[Christopher George Francis Maurice Cradock|Christopher Cradock]]
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• Geoffrey Layton
  Layton was promoted to the rank of {{LieutRN}} on 30 November, 1905.<ref>Layton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196 ...f submarines. On New Year's Day, 1909, he moved to {{UK-Vulcan}} for more of the same.<ref>Layton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/49/134.|D7604233}} f. ?
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• Lionel George Preston
  ...ficer of the [[Royal Navy]]. He would come to be the head of minesweeping operations in 1917. He was confirmed in the rank of Sub-Lieutenant dated 14 October, 1894.{{Gaz|26681|6252|19 November, 1895}}
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• Herbert William Richmond
  ...Naval History at the University of Cambridge, and was then elected Master of Downing College, which position he held until his death. ...rbert had first developed an interest in joining the navy when, at the age of ten, he had visited Portsmouth. He attended St Mark's School, near Windsor
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• Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe
  ....R.G.S., Royal Navy (10 August, 1850 &ndash; 1 March, 1911) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. Curzon-Howe was born the youngest of thirteen children of Richard Curzon-Howe, First Earl Howe.
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• Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, First Baronet
  ...the Fleet Sir Doveton Sturdee, as a Rear-Admiral.<br><small>Photo: Library of Congress.</small>]] ...rce in South American waters, thus avenging the British defeat at [[Battle of Coronel|Coronel]].
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• Roger John Brownlow Keyes, First Baron Keyes
  ...-Brownlow-Keyes-1st-Baron-Keyes, NPG x168736.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Admiral of the Fleet Keys as a Rear-Admiral, 1918.<br><small>Portrait: © National Por ...e]] and [[Ostend Raid]]s in 1918, and for his service as Chief of Combined Operations in 1940&ndash;1941.
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• Harold Thomas Coulthard Walker
  ...ter that year and the Admiralty chastised Walker for the mishap on account of "not acting with sufficient promptitude."<ref>Walker Service Record. {{TNA Walker was promoted to the rank of {{LieutRN}} on 30 April, 1913.<ref>Walker Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/53
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• Jutland:Preliminaries
  ...lian lives, some of them American. This severely reduced the effectiveness of U-boats against merchant ships, Scheer decided that it would be better to e .... was planned for 17 May but had to be postponed for six days because some of the battleships developed condenser problems. It was expected that Admiral
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• H.M.S. Vanguard (1909)
  '''H.M.S. ''Vanguard''''' (ex-''Rodney'') was one of three [[St. Vincent Class Battleship (1908)|''St. Vincent'' class battleshi Vickers won the contract for the construction of ''Vanguard'' with a tender of £628,000 for the hull and machinery. The unsuccessful tenders were: John
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• Dick Papers at the National Maritime Museum
  A list of the papers of Rear-Admiral [[Royer Mylius Dick]] in the possession of the National Maritime Museum, London. ...nd magazine cuttings relating to Dick's early career, including the Battle of the Falklands.
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• Battle of the Falkland Islands
  ...dron effectively annihilated by a powerful British force under the command of [[Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee]] especially assembled to avenge the lo ...mmander-in-Chief, South Atlantic and South Pacific. The Northern boundary of his station was Latitude 5° North, bounded to the East and West by the Cap
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• Concentration
  '''Concentration''' is the practice and method of having more than a single ship fire upon the same target. Although the pra ...ipment during the war allowed fire to be joined with ever-diminishing loss of effectiveness due to mutual interference and confusion.
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• 114th Meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defence
  ...15) been re-examined by Morgan-Owen, who concluded that “the naval portion of his [Wilson’s] strategy &hellip; was far more credible than has hitherto ...Right Hon. D. L<small>LOYD</small> G<small>EORGE</small>, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer.</p>
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• Hugh Justin Tweedie
  ...K.C.B., Royal Navy (5 April, 1877 &ndash; 20 August, 1951) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...Royal Navy]] held on 25 November, 1890, Tweedie placed joint thirtieth out of fifty-seven successful candidates, with 1,254 marks.<ref>"Cadetships in the
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• Churchill Memorandum on a War Staff for the Royal Navy
  ...by [[Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill]] soon after becoming [[First Lord of the Admiralty]].<ref>Churchill. ''Companion Volume II Part 3 1911-1914''. ...quire to be designed on the scale or in the same form as the General Staff of the Army.
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