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• Dover Patrol
  ...ts primary mission was to monitor barriers and defences at the eastern end of the English Channel to prevent U-boats from gaining access to western areas It also harrassed German fortifications on the coast of occupied Belgium.
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• Sydney Stewart Hall
  ...oyal Navy, Retired (16 June, 1872 – 10 January, 1955) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...4 August, 1891. He was promoted to the rank of {{LieutRN}} with seniority of 14 August, 1892.{{Gaz|26356|7551|23 December, 1892}}
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• Louis Alexander Mountbatten, First Marquess of Milford Haven
  ...Haven, NPG x28756.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Admiral of the Fleet the Marquess of Milford Haven, as an Admiral.<br><small>Photograph: © National Portrait Ga ...., K.C.M.G., P.C. (24 May, 1854 &ndash; 11 September, 1921) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]].
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• Account of Morgan Singer of the Great War
  ...the war, and appointed [[Director of Naval Ordnance (Royal Navy)|Director of Naval Ordnance]] within the first month, staying in that post until April i ...or as D.N.O. Tudor being appointed 3^<u>rd</u> Sea Lord in place of Moore who was to go to sea. Accordingly I took over in the next few days,
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• Harper's Narrative
  ...oyte Harper|JOHN ERNEST TROYTE HARPER]] of "Ilam", Hawkhurst in the County of Kent, Vice-Admiral (retired), do Solemnly and Sincerely Declare— ...cial Record of the Battle of Jutland was prepared by me and is to the best of my belief a true statement in every respect.
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• Annual Manoeuvres of 1913
  ...ties of the fleet and personnel that had so rapidly matured alongside that of the emergent German threat. ...d have been an operation of a wholly different character from the approach of 15 well-controlled and unencumbered battleships.’<ref>Winston Churchill,
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• Frederic Charles Dreyer
  ...the British Army, Inspector of Merchant Navy Gunnery and finally as Chief of Air Services at the Admiralty. ...aining Ship)|''Britannia'']] at Dartmouth.{{DreyerSeaHeritage|p. 25}} Out of the sixty successful candidates for cadetships in the [[Royal Navy]] examin
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• Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax
  ...S.O., Royal Navy (22 August, 1880 &ndash; 16 October, 1967) was an officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. ...names of Ernle-Erle-Drax. Thenceforth he was usually known by the surname of Drax.
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• The Loss of the Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue
  ...padding-right: 10em; text-align: left; color: gray; ">At the commencement of a great war, with innumerable fresh problems confronting the belligerents, ...uiser Force C) of the [[Southern Force]], were under the temporary command of {{CaptRN}} [[John Edmund Drummond|John E. Drummond]]. Rear-Admiral [[Henry
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• Second L.C.S. (Royal Navy) at the Battle of Jutland
  ...rated in a screening role for the [[Battle Cruiser Fleet]] at the [[Battle of Jutland]]. ...luded his own report for ''Southampton'' with enclosures from the captains of the other three light cruisers in his formation.{{UKJutlandOD|pp.175-184}}
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• The Battle Cruiser in the Royal Navy
  ...r a story rich in nuance, varied in each telling, and couched in the voice of strained rationalisation. ...xtent that it would "justify attaching the name of battle-cruisers to many of them." Later in his talk, he made these remarks:
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• Percy Moreton Scott, First Baronet
  [[File:Sir-Percy-Moreton-Scott-1st-Bt-Men-of-the-Day-No-893-Gunnery, NPG D45188.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Admiral Percy M. S ...od leading up to the [[First World War]]. It is particularly in the field of naval gunnery, and the concurrent drive for accuracy, for which he is most-
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• Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet
  ...et Sir Arthur K. Wilson (seen as a Vice-Admiral).<br><small>Image: Library of Congress.</small>]] ...fused a Peerage and only succeeded to the Wilson Baronetcy after the death of his brother in 1919.
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• John Arbuthnot Fisher, First Baron Fisher
  [[File:Fisher, NPG x12902.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Admiral of the Fleet The Right Honourable Lord Fisher, 1916.<br><small>Portrait: © Na ...he history of the [[Royal Navy]]. He was actively involved in the service of the Navy for over sixty years, starting his career during the Crimean War a
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• Jellicoe Papers at the British Library
  ...Rushworth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellicoe|Earl Jellicoe]] in the possession of the British Library, London. ...e's drafts of an appendix (in three chapters) to a proposed second edition of The Grand Fleet are now Add. MS. 49040. See also Brit. Mus. Quart., xiii, 1
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• A Direct Train of Cordite
  ...ok at the historiography on the issue, and a brief examination of the fate of the then-[[Third Sea Lord]], Rear-Admiral (later Admiral Sir) [[Frederick C ...iam Graham Greene|Sir W. Graham Greene]], for the attention of the [[Board of Admiralty|Board]]:
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• Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, First Baron Wester Wemyss
  [[File:Wemyss Orpen.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Admiral of the Fleet Rosslyn Wemyss, First Baron Wester Wemyss, portrayed as an Admira ...during the [[First World War]], followed by his elevation to the position of [[First Sea Lord]] in 1917.
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