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• Audacious Class Ironclad (1869)
  Four '''''Audacious'' Class Ironclads''' were completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1870 and 1871. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Swiftsure Class Ironclad (1870)
  Two '''''Swiftsure'' Class Ironclads''' were completed for the [[Royal Navy]] in 1872 and 1873. {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Preussen Class Ironclad (1873)
  Three '''''Preussen'' class ironclad turret ships''' were completed for the [[Imperial German Navy]] in 1876-187 {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Sachsen Class Ironclad (1877)
  Four '''''Sachsen'' class ironclads''' were completed for the [[Imperial German Navy]] between 1878 a {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Kaiser Class Ironclad (1874)
  Two '''''Kaiser'' class armored frigates''' were completed for the [[Imperial German Navy]] in 1875 {| class="wikitable collapsible" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="margin:
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• Provence Class Ironclad (1863)
  Ten '''''Provence'' class ironclads''' were completed for the [[French Navy]] during the second half {| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" border=2 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 styl
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• H.M.S. Ajax (1912)
  ...was one of four [[King George V Class Battleship (1911)|''King George V'' class battleships]] completed in 1912-13. ...' in the [[Battle of the River Plate]], as well as [[H.M.S. Ajax (1880)|an ironclad battleship launched in 1880]].
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• S.M.S. Bayern (1915)
  .... ''Bayern''''' was one of two [[Bayern Class Battleship (1915)|''Bayern'' class battleships]] completed for the [[Imperial German Navy]] during the Great W There was also an [[S.M.S. Bayern (1878)|ironclad completed in the early 1880s]] by the same name.
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• S.M.S. Sachsen (1916)
  ...r ships started as part of the [[Bayern Class Battleship (1915)|''Bayern'' class]], '''''Sachsen''''' was broken up before completion. There was also an [[S.M.S. Sachsen (1877)|ironclad completed in the early 1880s]] by the same name.
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• Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage
  As Captain of the ironclad {{UK-2Achilles}} he was described by ''Vanity Fair'' caricaturist 'Spy' (Si When a muzzle-loading gun aboard the ironclad {{UK-1Thunderer}} exploded in January 1879 during gunnery practice, Heneage
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• John Arbuthnot Fisher, First Baron Fisher
  ...and, as I told you last mail, I had the satisfaction of getting a <u>first-class</u> certificate. Well, I came on board the ''Chesapeake'' and handed in my ...iki/HMS_Furious_(1850) H.M.S. 'Furious']; this officer obtained high first class certificates in seamanship and gunnery, and has now passed in navigation un
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• John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellicoe
  ...e was ordered back to Britain. From 2 to 31 March he was appointed to the ironclad ''Achilles'', and 1 April he was appointed Commander in the ''Sans Pareil's ...uisers, the [[H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906)|''Dreadnought'']] and [[Invincible Class Battlecruiser (1907)|''Invincibles'']], respectively. After playing a key
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• William Thomas Sampson
  ..."torpedoes") off Charleston, South Carolina. He survived the loss of that ironclad on 15 January, 1865, when she struck a torpedo, exploded, and sank with a l
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• Chatham Royal Dockyard
  |{{UK-1Bellerophon|f=p}}||central battery ironclad||26 May, 1865||Sold 1922 |{{UK-1Hercules|f=p}}||central battery ironclad||10 Feb, 1868||Sold 1932
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• Archibald Peile Stoddart
  ...unnery Training School)|H.M.S. ''Excellent'']], where he obtained a Second Class with 515 marks. On 26 March, 1881, he was appointed to the corvette {{UK-Br ...rt Course in Gunnery, in which he obtained First Class marks, and a Second Class Torpedo certificate. He was appointed to the corvette {{UK-2Diamond}} on th
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• Alexander Edward Bethell
  Bethell was born in London. He joined the central ironclad battery ship [[H.M.S. Hercules (1868)|''Hercules'']] as a Sub-Lieutenant on ...1 (1882? 1883?) until May 1885, spending his last month commanding second-class torpedo boats.<ref>Service chits in Bethell I/1/3 at Liddell Hart Centre fo
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• George Astley Callaghan
  ...as a {{NavCadRN}}. He left ''Britannia'' on 16 April, 1877, with a Second Class Certificate and obtained six months' sea time. He was appointed to the ironclad ''Caledonia'' on 17 April and to the battleship ''Lord Warden'' on 26 May.
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• Hugh Evan-Thomas
  ...On 22 March, 1882 Evan-Thomas was promoted Acting {{SubRN}} with a First-Class pass in Seamanship<ref name=Record105/> and at Corfu he left ''Bacchante'' ...1884, having attained second class passes in torpedo, gunnery and a first class pass in pilotage.<ref name=Record105/>
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• Charles Carter Drury
  On 2 April, 1889 Drury assumed command of the old central battery ironclad, ''Bellerophon'', flagship of the North American station. He paid her off ...the King's birthday, Drury was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, in the Military Division of the Most Honourable Order
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• Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
  |{{UK-1Swiftsure|f=p}}||central battery ironclad||15 Jun, 1870||Sold 1908 |{{UK-1Triumph|f=p}}||central battery ironclad||27 Sep, 1870||Sold 1921
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• Charles William de la Poer Beresford, First Baron Beresford
  ...He was transferred in July, 1863 to the ''Defence'', a new wooden hulled ironclad which he later described as "a slovenly, unhandy tin kettle" <ref>Beresford ...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
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• Edward Percy Ashe
  ...ral (Royal Navy)|Rear-Admiral]] '''Edward Percy Ashe''', M.V.O. <small>4th Class</small>, Royal Navy, Retired (8 April, 1852 &ndash; 5 July, 1914) was an of At the end of 1904, Ashe commanded the ironclad [[H.M.S. Monarch (1868)|''Simoom'']], late ''Monarch'', on her journey home
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• H.M.S. Camperdown (1885)
  ...Camperdown''''' was one of six [[Admiral Class Battleship (1882)|"Admiral" class battleships]]. When completed, she was the longest ironclad ship built at Portsmouth, being five feet longer than the {{UK-1Colossus}}.
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• Pembroke Royal Dockyard
  |{{UK-1IronDuke|f=p}}||central battery ironclad||1 Mar, 1870||Sold 1906 |{{UK-1Iris|f=p}}||second class protected cruiser||12 Apr, 1877|| 1905
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• Battleship
  ...derwent a variety of name changes over the era and the preceding decades: ironclad, turret ship, battleship, dreadnought. * [[:Category:Battleship Class|List of battleship classes (loosely defined)]]
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• Jellicoe:Background and Early Life
  ...out first of his term of thirty-nine boys<ref name=Jellicoe14/> with first-class certificates in each subject for which he gained nine months' time of servi After a short period of leave, on 10 July, 1877 Jellicoe joined the ironclad [[H.M.S. Agincourt (1865)|''Agincourt'']], [[John Edmund Commerell|Sir John
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