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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1904, but then whisked away to command the despatch vessel {{UK-1Surprise}} on 6 February, 1905, to remain in her until superseded on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

...K-Lilac|f=t}} struck a mine on 18 August, 1915, Preston helped salvage the vessel.<ref>Preston Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/44/79.|D7576588}} f. 79.</ref> Preston was appointed an Additional Member of the Third Class, or Companion, in the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order of the

I <small>HAVE</small> the honour to inform you that "Inflexible" left Scapa Flow at 9 p.m. on Tu ...class, and some direct hits were considered to have been obtained on this vessel. At 6.30 p.m., the "{{UK-Invincible}}" blew up, apparently owing to being

===I<small>NTRODUCTION</small>.=== T<small>HE</small> Board of Admiralty desire to present to Parliament (and through Parliament

...d with 15.2-inch guns. The [[Renown Class Battlecruiser (1916)|''Renown'' Class]] battle cruisers were judged to be insufficient for fleet needs owing to t ...M 196/53/137.|D7605548}} f. 136.</ref>|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=killed when vessel destroyed}}

...d fresh. For the present the patrols to prevent contraband passing are of small importance.<ref>Admiralty to C-in-C Grand Fleet. 11 December, 1914. Sent ...ee available dreadnoughts of the [[Orion Class Battleship (1910)|''Orion'' Class]]. {{UK-Thunderer|f=p}} was missing because she was undergoing a refit.{{UK

...ruiser (1917)|''Ceres'' class]]. Her name was so variously spelled that a small article was written in Warship 2012 to resolve the name as ''Curacoa''.<ref ...p|1199}}|end=2 October, 1942{{UBAllyWarship|1199}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=vessel lost under his command}}

...iendly compromises: the [[Second Class Cruiser|Second Class]] and [[Third Class Cruiser]]s. ...vessels hitherto designated as Scouts, Protected Cruisers Second and Third Class, and Unarmoured Cruiser, would be designated as "Light Cruisers."<ref>The N

...or the Tercentenary in July, 1908.<br><small>Library and Archives Canada.</small>]] ...n armoured cruisers admits of a smaller programme in vessels of the latter class.<br>The more correct information available at the Admiralty will naturally

2nd Class certificate in Naval Gunnery. Passing certificate, 1st Class, for a Navigating Lieutenant.

In order to avoid exaggerating the importance of any class of war-ship and to truly exhibit the functions it is called upon to perform ...ssor. As an example, the ''Vernon'' frigate may be compared with the third-class cruiser ''Pearl'' of nearly the same displacement.

...as one of seven ships of the [[Boadicea Class Cruiser (1908)|''Boadicea'' class]]. ...gun, salvaged from her wreck.<br><small>In the collection of Tony Lovell.</small>]]

{{pad|25px}}I<small>n</small> compliance with your signal of to-day, 2nd June, I have the honour to repo 23. At 4.51 p.m. passed one of our "L" class destroyers picking up survivors from scattered wreckage of a big ship. She

certain of the vessel's identity. :Ships were occasionally struck by shrapnel and small pieces

...ate 1942, he was made Inspector of Merchant Ship Gunnery and as Adviser on Small Ships' Gunnery. A series of similar appointments followed before he was re ...ustin Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/46.}} f. 78.</ref>|Succeeded by<br>'''Vessel Decommissioned'''}}

'''H.M.S. ''Fairy''''' was one of forty [["C" Class Destroyer (1896)|"C" class destroyers]] built for the [[Royal Navy]] &mdash; a "30 knotter". ...ld in 1897 were 11' 2" long of galvanized iron. They each contained 1,356 small steel tubes of 1.33 and 1.25" out diameter, variously. The eight furnaces

:(19). <u>Small collision mats.</u> ::The small collision mats made in the ship (size 6ft

...numeric designation of the [[Cricket Class Torpedo Boat (1906)|''Cricket'' class coastal destroyers of 1906]]) was constructed by [[John I. Thornycroft & Co ...There was some variety to their particulars, but we treat them as a common class with sub-types.

...he [[Iron Duke Class Battleship (1912)|''Iron Duke'']] and [[King George V Class Battleship (1911)|''King George V'']] classes, as well as {{UK-Thunderer|f= Introduced in 1914, these featured rectified threads throughout, air vessel pressures of 2,350 psi for 10,750 yard range and two other improvements.{{A

...H.M.S. ''E 14''''' was one of fifty-seven [["E" Class Submarine (1912)|"E" class submarines]] completed in Britain before and during the [[Great War]]. ...was vigorously hunted and could not maintain contact. On May 1 she sank a small gunboat with a torpedo and failed to sink a larger target due to a torpedo

...H.M.S. ''E 16''''' was one of fifty-seven [["E" Class Submarine (1912)|"E" class submarines]] completed in Britain before and during the [[Great War]]. ...d by a screen of a torpedo boat, a small sloop, 4 trawlers, several tugs & small craft, on 22/12/15. The attack was very ably carried out & Lt. Cdr Duff-Du

...'H.M.S. ''H 48''''' was one of forty-four [["H" Class Submarine (1915)|"H" class submarines]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in the 1910s. ''H 48'' collided with the fishing vessel ''Junita'' in 1920.

...''' was one of 24 submarines of the [[U 93 Class Submarine (1916)|''U 93'' class]]. Alloted to the United States after the Armistice, she was briefly commi ...leg of her homeward voyage, the submarine encountered a Norwegian sailing vessel laden with timber for English mines. Once again, she scorned the use of a t

The '''Ant Class Gunboats''' were "flatiron" vessels designed by George Rendel of [[Armstron The four vessels launched in 1879 are usually listed as a separate class, but were identical except for their date of completion.{{LyonWinfieldSteam

A Stoker First Class from {{UK-Tipperary}} was picked up by the {{UK-Dublin|f=t}} in the night. :The vessel kept afloat for some time after this, going down

not consider I ought to hamper myself with a disabled vessel in :8. About midnight, G.M.T., a large vessel, which appeared to

possibly from the battleships of the " König " class, which heavy object, possibly a submarine or a sunken vessel.

...s first lieutenant on 16 December &ndash; his first appointment to a small vessel. He remained in her until being appointed in command of the {{UK-Bullfinch On 8 August, 1931 Hughes was appointed in command of the "B" class destroyer {{UK-Boadicea}}, vice [[Eric John Shelley|Eric J. Shelley]]. In

...ection of the tactical unit. .It was possible to fix the unit at a certain small number of ships—three or four—and then, according to the size of the fl ...erences of helm angle, but so far as experiment has yet gone, these are so small that they are of no practical importance.

...m. He obtained third class certificates in Navigation and Gunnery, second class in Seamanship, Torpedoes, and Engineering, and failed the voluntary portion ...November, 1911 and confirmed in the rank two days later. His first small vessel service started on 31 December 1911 with an appointment to the {{UK-Savage|

...class though she was different enough to merit treatment here as a unique vessel.