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  • :''Vice-Admirals''.—To be retired so soon as five years have elapsed since their last " Se ...l be allowed to hold an appointment or appointments that may be defined by us to be " Shore Employment" for more than five consecutive years, or, in the
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  • ...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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  • ...d them to him. It would for one thing lead to his getting far afield from us which is wrong & in thick weather might be almost disastrous. I am still p
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  • ...saved the money. Certainly the proverbial little cherub was looking after us marvellously. This electric gear remained in the ''Invincible'' for some t
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  • ...James|William M. James]], who noted in his memoirs that Bentinck was "with us for a few weeks."<ref>James. ''The Sky was Always Blue''. p. 86.</ref>
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  • ...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 {{CatShipDreadnought|US}}
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  • ..., when Admiral [[Henry Thomas Mayo|Henry T. Mayo]] shifted his flag from {{US-Wyoming}} to ''Pennsylvania''. In January 1917, ''Pennsylvania'' steamed f ...ranklin K. Lane, and Senator Champ Clark, and then put to sea. At 10:00 {{US-Oklahoma}} was sighted with ''George Washington'' flying the President's fl
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  • ...name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Crowninshield''" nat="US"> {{CatShipDestroyer|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
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  • ..., "The matter of submarine boats cannot be ignored and must be taken up by us. Our first want is a design."<ref>Kerr Minute of 22 May, 1900. The Nation ...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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  • ...humourous. I remember his delight in feeding the birds when he stayed with us at Chillingham, and his complaint, one morning, on going out-doors after br
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  • ...et got to sea first, the chance of a meeting in waters not unfavourable to us was remote; our object was to try to get to sea before or shortly after the
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  • ...made the identification, it came as a great shock to them. There had been US newspaper reports that Invincible had been sent south, but Spee was unaware
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  • ...ion that was necessary for the problem which at the moment was confronting us.<br>However, Churchill would not be moved, and Asquith yielded to him.<ref>
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  • ...fine silhouette for the enemy, as some of our ships on the reverse side of us were clearly visible against the bright sunlit sky.
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  • ...efore we could fire had to check fire owing to " Iron Duke " again masking us. By the time we had cleared, enemy had disappeared in the smoke. She was
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  • <blockquote>Commander L, arrived from England and joined us at Zanzibar. He was an enormously fat man and joined with only the two top
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  • ...the ordinary course of events. He laughed at the armed guard and assured us that he hadn't a scratch on his whole body, and that he merely – as he pu
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  • ...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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  • ...of a naval officer's career. Many months before it came to an end most of us were longing to finish it and get away to a seagoing life with all its anti
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  • ...Of the ship's Naval Instructor Oliver recalled, "He never tried to teach us."<ref>Oliver. '''I'''. f. 6.</ref> He was rated Midshipman on 31 January
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  • ...ly, and has the 2nd Class of the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan, and the US of America Distinguished Service Medal; awarded Beaufort Testimonial, 1888;
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  • ...ld cock bird. Sea lions were sighted and many seal, and for a time both of us forgot our troubles."<ref>Grant. "H.M.S. ''Canopus'', August, 1914, to Marc ...fitting resting-place for men of our race&mdash;his body is separated from us by half the world, and he and his gallant comrades lie far from the pleasan
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  • ...which is more than those confounded politicians do so perhaps he will suit us quite well. He had rather an ordeal the other night&mdash;poor man when he
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  • ...ised of the four dreadnoughts of the US Navy's [[Battleship Division Nine (US Navy)|Battleship Division Nine]], increasing to five dreadnoughts in Januar
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  • ...rnet Joseph Wolseley|Lord Wolseley]] having reported that Boardman "helped us in fitting out our boats, in working them over the worst cataracts in the N
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  • ...d a first-rate seaman and disciplinarian to go on with, and though he kept us all in terrific order he was none the less very popular."<ref>Fortescue. '
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  • ...fresh sign of the neighbourly relations existing between Great Britain and us, and a manifestation which cannot but render our relations still more cordi
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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 ...my opened fire. The first salvo I saw drop was quite 2,000 yards short of us, and did not seem to have a very small spread. 3.50 ''Lion'' opened fire,
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  • ...ak the spirit of the young officers, and we found that once he had subdued us to his particular form of discipline we were able to satisfy him, while he ...prejudices against smoking in any form, and against spirits. He once gave us a lecture which ended up, "A gentleman may be excused an occasional cigar,
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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 ...nch|Sir Wilfred French]], Sir Vaughan Monroe and Sir William Andrewes, and Vice-Admirals Sir James Pipon and [[Richard Bell Davies|Sir Richard Bell Davies]]. He wa
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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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  • ...n a fleet action, especially since they possess an actual superiority over us in these particular weapons. ...ay from an advancing fleet, I should assume that the intention was to lead us over mines and submarines, and should decline to be so drawn.
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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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  • ...B. Kiddle]], later remembered Tottenham as "a sour pessimist who disliked us all and his appointment. Luckily a few months saw him promoted and he left
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  • ...re earlier than we did at the enemy as he closed us after his turn towards us at about 6.56 p.m.
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  • ...then turn away from them instead of towards them, was sickening They gave us our chance & we weren't allowed to take it."<ref>Diary entry for 4 May, 191
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  • ...to be coming through her forecastle deck. They eventually passed ahead of us and disappeared in the mist. " {{UK-Lion}} " was seen to be straddled once ...fficers thought she sank, but I find she was seen later by ships astern of us. About this time the Navigating Officer states he saw another large German
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  • ...inflict heavy damage on the enemy even under conditions most difficult for us and most favourable to him. At the same time these conditions have shown we
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  • ...ctile, striking short, ricochetted and burst on striking the water between us and "Colossus." (Some apparently medium calibre projectiles were falling s
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  • <br>3.0 PM Zeppelins sighted off our port beam, following us about 30 miles astern xxxxxxx. <br>4.30. Altered course 16 points just in time to prevent us from striking enemy mines. 8 were exploded in area whilst we were there. 3
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  • ...t a glimpse of them in a few seconds when H.M.S. New Zealand got astern of us. It was when H.M.S. ''New Zealand'' & ''Indefatigable'' had taken station ...he firing of the Enemy got hotter as time went and soon they began hitting us. Shells were all over the place and splinters by thousands were flying all
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  • ...ted on for extending the periods for which ships were hired? Would he have us forget the shameful violation of contract in the supply of preserved meats; Let us now consider the means and positions of private yards for fitting out and f
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  • ...which took place he was not responsible. When he came only about three of us were in uniform, within two months we all were. He vastly increased our nu ...ys concise, conversationalist. One aspect of his verbiage - which many of us would be glad to share - is the gift of being able to make a speech, and a
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  • | align= left | {{US-NewYork}} | align= left | {{US-Texas}}
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  • {{AdmRN}} {{SIR}} '''Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller''', K.C.B., D.S.M.(US) Royal Navy (22 May, 1874 &ndash; 1 February, 1942) was an officer of the [
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  • <blockquote>He ruled us - one other sub-lieut., a clerk, & 7 midshipmen, as a benevolent autocrat,
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  • ...Petropavlovsk}}. In 1901, he was thanked for his report on the American {{US-Kentucky|f=t}}.<ref>Lowther-Crofton Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43/316.|D
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  • ...possibly to get the enemy light cruisers between us. Anyway, if he wished us to turn, the searchlight would have done it in a moment. It was not until
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  • ...us in line, had failed to take station astern of us and was lying between us and the enemy.<ref>''Recollections of the Battle of Jutland''. Lieutenant-
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  • ...rips into the surrounding country. During our stay there the news reached us of the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife at S ...ckly and smoothly, personal feeling cannot count now only what is best for us all, you should consult with him frankly.<ref>''Jellicoe Papers''. p. 42.<
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  • ...oes not suffice to say, "Well, we never expected them to fight downwind of us!"
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  • being employed against us. The attack was ...about this time, probably owing to the fire of a field piece from ahead of us, and so had to be abandoned, the maxims only being saved.
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  • ...in view of the very cordial personal relations which have existed between us throughout. ...ed officer, we therefore decided to request you, if you saw fit, to inform us of the reasons which had caused this step to be taken.</blockquote>
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  • Others including French and US officers: Brent, C H, Bishop (1862-1929), letter 14 Nov 1918. Others including French and US officers: British Legion, The Officers Association, letters 12 Oct-3 Nov 19
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  • ..., a "vy startling promotion," as he was twenty-first out of the twenty-two Vice-Admirals on the Active List in order of seniority, and he had also been seriously co ...han valuable assistance to support me in the very big work there is before us.<ref>Callaghan to Jellicoe. Letter of 9 December, 1911. Jellicoe Papers.
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  • ...fitness for the position. My inclination - in common with that of most of us - is for seagoing, as compared to Admiralty work, but as you are good enoug
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  • Perhaps King and Broadley are showing us there were more than one man in this post at times.
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  • ...ttacking his cruisers of all kinds wherever found.<br>This is what bothers us: and surely we should also make it bother them.<ref>''Winston S. Churchill. ...; indeed, I consider it to be a false move on his part and advantageous to us, since it reduces the speed of his battle-cruisers to that of the attached
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  • ...tably attach to this policy. It will not, I am afraid be agreeable to the Vice-Admirals who are now in command of the 2nd and 4th Battle Squadrons. But we should
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  • ...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 In conclusion, let us recognise that supremacy at sea in the neighbourhood of our own country is
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  • ...ld propose to Your Majesty, in order to effect the changes which appear to Us so manifestly imperative:— ...e graciously pleased to sanction the following propositions, and authorise Us to carry the several arrangements herein contemplated into operation from t
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  • As regards the case of the "Seydlitz", mentioned in paragraph 6 of Vice-Admirals's letter, it was the custom in German turrets (to go by report on "Goeben") ...s it is difficult not to conclude that the Germans have the advantage over us in either fuzes, explosives, or ship construction.<ref>No.2791/H.F.1187. of
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  • ...ar throughout ship, it seemed as though we had struck something. Astern of us four funnelled cruisers ({{UK-Shannon}} ? ).
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  • ahead and steering towards us (W.N.W.), and engaged with all moving in the same direction with us. The First Light
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  • ...formed us midshipmen that he hated all midshipmen, which boded no good for us and so it fell out.<ref>Kiddle. ''Naval Memories''. National Museum of th
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  • ...n the air. Shell room forward seemed still to be going up. The torpedo got us in our forward magazine and evidently sent this up, thereby killing everyon
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  • more than one ship firing at us it was impossible to avoid them
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  • ...r Order in Council to give effect to the following changes which appear to us to be necessary; That the future numbers of the under-mentioned ranks upon |Vice-Admirals
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  • ...he First World War including {{UK-Tiger|f=p}}, {{UK-Courageous|f=p}} and {{US-Texas|f=p}}.
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  • Photocopy of letter from Robert M. Thompson, US Navy, 4 Feb 1922.
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  • :They challenged us by the first two signs of the challenge of
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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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  • 8.30. Light cruisers engaged to the W.S.W. of us. " {{UK-Badger}} " round us ; however, by 7.15 the " Onslow " was in tow, steaming
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  • ::" {{UK-Lion}} " ordered us to go away, I turned 16 points 11.30. Fire was opened on us by a line of large ships
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  • ...rement until the number is reduced to ten, and the addition to the list of Vice-Admirals and Rear-Admirals to be in the proportion of one Vice-Admiral to every two |Admirals and Vice-Admirals
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  • ...' which sank ''U 32'' and that ''Basilisk'' in company with the American {{US-Lydonia|f=tp}} sank {{DE-UB70}} some 10 degrees further west, or more likel
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  • ...most humbly propose, that Your Majesty be graciously pleased to extend to us such power, anything in Your Majesty's said Order in Council notwithstandin
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  • ...our Navy; or that the bringing out of our Coastguard every year has given us an additional squadron, and very great efficiency? Why, in respect of drill
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  • His first command was the {{US-Drayton|f=t}}. He later commanded the {{US-1JacobJones|f=t}}, losing her to a torpedo on 6 December, 1917. {{CatPerson|US|1883|1960}}
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  • <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Peary''" nat="US"> {{CatShipDestroyer|US}}
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  • There was an earlier torpedo boat named {{US-1Shubrick|f=p}}. <div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Shubrick''" nat="US">
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  • | Vice-Admirals || 22 ...eave to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased to authorise us to increase the Lists of Chief Gunners, Chief Boatswains, Chief Carpenters,
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1853|1926}} {{CatRear|US}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1823|1884}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1857|1911}}
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1851|1921}}
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  • Correspondence from the Hydrographical Office of the US Navy Mar - Nov 1904, hydrographical notes from HMS FOXHOUND, HMS MELITA, HM ...cific Ocean dated Feb 1904 and published by the Hydrological Office of the US Navy.
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  • ...", when they go ashore for a "full-due." Sooner or later it has to come to us all. I am not all that ambitious so had no regrets. I have had a good innin
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  • ...d November's edition. Other editions within this span were unavailable to us}}
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  • Pamphlet: 'Our Great Peril if War overtakes us with our Fleet Deficient in Number, Structure, and Armament', Adm-Fleet Tho
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  • ...which, "had it gone off, would have smashed the {{UK-Lightfoot}} alongside us and ourselves to smithereens." He expressed reservations that these little
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  • * The United States: the {{US-Brooklyn|f=t}} with Rear-Admiral [[Joseph Nelson Miller]]
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  • Cutting from the 'Times' 16 Nov 1981 regarding the retirement of US Admiral [[Hyman G. Rickover]].
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  • {{CatPerson|US|1801|1870}} {{CatAdm|US}}
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  • ...e Director has not been developed to anything like the same extent as with us and until quite recently its importance had not really been full realized. ...at he is referring to Lt. Cdr. [[Donald Cameron Bingham]], additional in {{US-Pennsylvania|f=p}}.</ref> though of ability and of perhaps even brilliant o
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  • As our Allies appear not to have the intention of communicating to us what effect the examination of damages sustained will have on their constru
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  • ...he shot hoist was separate from the cartridge hoist, in this ship, as with us (the Austrian Navy), both hoists for one gun are combined in one trunk; and
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