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  • ...dare send out battleships to tow ''Audacious'' in because of the apparent submarine threat. Meanwhile the White Star liner ''Olympic'' arrived on the scene.<r ...ce four destroyers came in sight - the sun had appeared and coming towards us at full speed they really made a wonderful picture.' One of the destroyers
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  • ...urvivors of Norwegian barque ''Nordhav'' which had been sunk by the German Submarine ''{{DE-U117}}''. The survivors were landed in Boston. ...e next twenty years. One of many accomplishments was the raising of sunken submarine ''Squalus'' off the New Hampshire coast. On 6 November, 1941 she was rename
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  • ...y and Navy observers to witness the experimental bombings of the ex-German submarine {{DE-U117}}. Proceeding thence back to New York, the battleship there broke ...Battleship Division 7 when Vice Admiral McDonald transferred his flag to {{US-Wyoming}} and Rear Admiral Josiah S. McKean broke his flag on board as comm
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  • ...odernization. The veteran battleship received better armor, "blister" anti=submarine protection, better machinery, and tripod masts during this extensive overha {{CatShipDreadnought|US}}
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  • ...d War II, when she discovered and fired upon and sank a Japanese miniature submarine as it attempted to infiltrate Pearl Harbor on 7 December, 1941. <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Ward''" nat="US">
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  • ...and had many irons in the fire in and outside the Admiralty and barked at us if papers came to him which were merely routine but papers would not go thr ...In 1913 he produced the first draft of a paper, ‘The oil engine and the submarine’, predicting that submarines would make the traditional command of the se
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  • ...ing funds for such an unknown quantity. He minuted on 26 October that the submarine had "a very limited sphere of usefulness", and suggested that they be used ...e too heavily as it must first be in the dark, nor until experience points us in the direction in which we should work.<ref name=20Jan01>Kerr Memorandum.
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  • ...mous vessels of the [[Spanish-American War]], the {{US-Olympia}} and the {{US-Oregon}}. An 1892 description of the yards stated that between 1200 and 150 ...ther or not that was true, he certainly benefited from the collapse of the US Shipbuilding combine.
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  • |{{US-Iroquois|f=p}}||sloop||12 Apr, 1859||Wrecked 26 Aug, 1910 |{{US-Lackawanna|f=p}}||screw sloop||9 Aug, 1862||Sold 30 Jul, 1887
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  • ...k by collision heads but the cost proved prohibitive.<ref>Dash. ''British Submarine Policy''. p. 185.</ref> ...and Lord Morley noted, "Sir A. Wilsonstrikes me, and I think the others of us, as much the best-balanced sort of man, to say nothing of his having proved
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  • ...'' was in Pensacola, Florida, accommodating crews of three [[Haddock Class Submarine (1913)|"K" class submarines]].{{USNavalEstimatesVolII1916|pp. 1553-4}} {{CatShipMonitor|US}}
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  • .... However, we were doing our best with the tools the Government had given us to work with …" After "many vexatious delays," Evans writes, the American ...river to the Narrows, near Rosebank, Staten Island, N. Y., for work on the submarine net in company with three tugs, Hudson, W. J. Conway, and Lizzie D., and Na
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  • ...for six [[Plunger Class Submarine (1901)|A class]] and three [[Viper Class Submarine (1906)|B class submarines]].{{USNavalEstimatesVolII1916|p. 1553}} ...erff|appt=5 October, 1908{{USOfficerReg1909|p. 14}}|note=also commanding {{US-Monterey}}}}
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  • ...h Battle Squadron (Royal Navy)|5th Battle Squadron]] had come down to join us in the Forth in their place. It was the first time the 5th B.S. had come o ...8,500. Our first salvo missed for deflection, second salvo was over. The submarine screen of destroyers on our engaged bow were causing great interference wit
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  • ...but the 1913 ''Flotilla Signal Manual'', p. 29 indicates this hoist means "Submarine in sight".</ref> and engines stopped. At 6.35 altered course by 9 Pdt. to ...ns to fire on the German torpedo craft when they were seen turning towards us; the Officer of the turret claims a hit on one of them, as his shell burst
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  • ...y be nullified now by the subsequent advent of the destroyer. However, let us first review the Chino-Japanese operations at Wei-hai-Wei. ...to bear in mind the sort of attack, or what is likely to be the attack on us, may not be on similar lines to that which the Chinese met. I do not think
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  • ...rofessor of Mathematics at Cambridge, where he had also been a coach, told us that we were being taught in three months by Professor [[Carlton John Lambe On 18 December, 1916, Dreyer was appointed Assistant Director of the new Anti-Submarine Division of the [[Admiralty War Staff]].<ref>{{TNA|ADM 196/44.|}} Register
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  • ...be summed up in a few words by saying that he speeded things up and saved us some 5 or 6 years. ...kill the very difficult task of writing the Life of Lord Fisher and giving us a picture of this extraordinary man and the demoniacal energy, inspired by
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  • I think it is a lesson to us in future that we ought to her guns and fired a torpedo from her submarine
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  • ...n a fleet action, especially since they possess an actual superiority over us in these particular weapons. ...force the enemy's cruisers to action at a speed which would interfere with submarine tactics.
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  • ...and smoke, except the flashes of her guns, but a few projectiles fell near us and burst, making splashes about 20 feet high. ...nd {{UK-PrincessRoyal}} from five or six guns. Several shot fell ahead of us, a few short, and one passed between the fore top and fore bridge, being cl
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  • ...the cruisers {{UK-Aboukir}} and {{UK-Hogue}} she was torpedoed by a German submarine. My life has been spared in a most miraculous way. ...board side of the ''Aboukir'', while we stood by on the port side, both of us a good distance off.
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  • .... On 31st, May, I had the Morning watch 0400 - 0800 in the starboard Anti-Submarine Control shelter, facing out on the starboard bow just abaft the Conning Tow ...I put on my warmer clothes, lammy, sweater etc. for the Dog Watches in the Submarine Control Shelter and went to the Gun Room to tea where the wonderful old Mal
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  • <br>{{UK-1Liverpool}} & {{UK-Yarmouth}} arrived. reported Submarine sighted off Fair Is<ref>Not certain of reading of the last two words.</ref> <br>Trawler Hawke reported sinking a German submarine off Peterhead[.] Destroyer {{UK-Unity}} coming into harbour with crew consi
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  • |{{US-SaraThompson|f=p}}||oiler||1888||Sold 9 Aug, 1934 |{{US-NewOrleans|f=p}}||protected cruiser||4 Dec, 1896||Sold 11 Feb, 1930
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  • ...in view of the very cordial personal relations which have existed between us throughout. ...oblems with which you were confronted, and literally put a new face on the submarine warfare.
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  • ...from Copenhagen, 5 Nov 1917, on Danish patrols; papers on German 'Ruthless Submarine Warfare' 12-27 Jan 1917 and other papers. First Sea Lord, 1919-27: Capital ship versus submarine, papers on the building policy of the navy, 6 Dec 1920-20 Jan 1921.
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  • ...ent when the real work would begin. Broke away at noon & Pakenham rushing us about to no particular end. In the afternoon it came on thick so we crawle ...y & Russia certain & its [sic] only a question of days now for the rest of us to be dragged in. The rest to Goodwood and I to the Vernon where practical
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  • ...fore being torpedoed by the submarine {{DE-UC25}} &ndash; a rare case of a submarine participating effectively in what must be considered a tactical sea battle. ...d with {{UK-B7}}, {{UK-B8}} and {{UK-B9}} joining from the [[Mediterranean Submarine Flotilla]]. {{UK-Dartmouth}} has joined as a seventh light cruiser, and a
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  • ...ted form if your original plan of coming to the Admiralty to deal with the submarine menace, could have been carried into effect. They really are inevitable; a
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  • ...three other German battleships that were engaged.<br><br>Finally, a German submarine was rammed and sunk.<ref>"Great Naval Battle" (News). ''The Times''. Satu ...final and there would have been no German Fleet left, whatever happened to us. But that can't be helped. It is ludicrous for the Germans to claim a vic
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  • ...t of the vessels themselves, and although the almost universal adoption of submarine weapons in all ships may bring about a change in this respect, yet the incr ...ardley-Wilmot, R.N.'s, useful work on "The Development of Navies," reminds us that speed and offensive power may be neutralised by defensive armour, comb
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  • 24. At 4.54 p.m. ceased fire pro tern., our Battle Cruisers blanking us on the Port side. ...all out " at 25 knots, but the enemy still appeared to be keeping up with us.
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  • ...ar throughout ship, it seemed as though we had struck something. Astern of us four funnelled cruisers ({{UK-Shannon}} ? ). ...hit the same object. She also reported that all three cruisers sighted a submarine breaking surface to port at 8.29 and sending a warning by W/T.{{UKJutlandOD
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  • * The US Navy's 1945 Submarine Design, by Norman Friedman * HMS ''Terpsichore'': A Type 16 Fast Anti-Submarine Frigate of 1953, by John Lambert
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  • ...edbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Barracuda''''' was one of three [[Barracuda Class Submarine (1924)|''Barracuda'' Class submarines]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]]. <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Barracuda''" nat=US>
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  • ...me=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Bass''''' was one of three [[Barracuda Class Submarine (1924)|''Barracuda'' Class submarines]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]]. <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Bass''" nat=US>
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  • ...=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Bonita''''' was one of three [[Barracuda Class Submarine (1924)|''Barracuda'' Class submarines]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]]. <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Bonita''" nat=US>
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  • | {{US-Barracuda}} | {{US-Bass}}
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  • |{{US-1Hector|f=p}}||Collier||6 Jun, 1883||Sold 10 Oct, 1899 |{{US-Yosemite|f=p}}||submarine tender||22 Jan, 1894||Mercantile 10 Jun, 1912
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  • ...[[United States Navy]]. Momsen would become famous for his innovations in submarine rescue techniques and hardware, and most of all for rescuing the crew of th * Maas, Peter (2001). ''The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History''. New York: Perennial.
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  • {{Footer U 57 Class Submarine (1916)}} cat=Submarine
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  • {{Footer UB III Type Submarine (1917)}} cat=Submarine
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  • ...r>{{ShipCareer|fullname=S.M.S. ''U 58'' (1916)|fate2=by {{US-Fanning}} & {{US-Nicholson}} ...:career>'''S.M.S. ''U 58''''' was one of 12 submarines of the [[U 57 Class Submarine (1916)|U 57 class]].
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  • ...career>'''S.M.S. ''U 111''''' was one of 24 submarines of the [[U 93 Class Submarine (1916)|''U 93'' class]]. Alloted to the United States after the Armistice, ...ed her first target, the 2,346-ton British steamer S.S. ''Boscastle''. The submarine made a surface torpedo attack and sank the ship with a single torpedo. ''Bo
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  • ...me=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=S.M.S. ''UB 65'' (1917)|fate2=by {{US-L2}} ...was one of 96 submarines of the [[UB III Type Submarine (1917)|UB III Type Submarine (1917) class]].
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  • disengaged side of the German B.C. line, took us under heavy T.B.D.s were detached from the H.S. Fleet and, closing us
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  • to close and form Submarine Screen, she was unable to get up, :The 1st Flotilla was formed in No. 3 Submarine Screen on
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  • :The first six boats were detailed as submarine screen for ::A torpedo from a submarine went under " {{UK-Landrail}} "
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  • diately returned by us, " {{UK-Lion}} " and "{{UK-PrincessRoyal}} " thought a torpedo had hit us, but this was not so, however ;
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