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• Destroyer
  ...from the small [[Torpedo Boat]]s of the 1800s who represented a threat to capital ships. Navies reacted to this threat by creating slightly larger vessels w ...[[Schichau-Werke]] and [[Germaniawerft]] in Germany, [[Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée|FCM]] and [[Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin-Normand|Norman
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• Kaiser Class Ironclad (1874)
  | colspan=6 align=left|<small>Citations for this data available on individual ship pages</small> | {{DE-1Kaiser}}
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• Otto Brauer
  He is not the same man as [[Otto Breuer]], who also commanded German capital ships in this period. ...tfitted for raiding in China. After a fairly eventful raiding career, this ship was interned in Newport News, Virginia on 11 March 1915 for overstaying her
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• Schichau-Werke
  ...pite a focus on smaller construction, the firm did build some of Germany's capital ships for the Great War. |'''Ship'''||'''Type'''||'''Launched'''||'''Fate'''
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• S.M.S. Baden (1915)
  A ship's bell from ''Baden'' is in the possession of the Imperial War Museum, Cata ...yhow on balance the <u>Baden</u> was markedly in advance of any comparable ship of the Royal Navy. Possibly the British Constructors and others, understand
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• Battlecruiser
  ....S. Invincible (1907)|H.M.S. ''Invincible'']] is usually seen as the first ship of the type, though her sister [[H.M.S. Inflexible (1907)|''Inflexible'']] ...t would not be needed by such a fast (and therefore, he felt, hard to hit) ship might give the Royal Navy a type which could lasso enemy cruisers on the hi
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• Renouf Torpedo Tactical Instrument
  ...a family of [[Torpedo Control]] instruments designed by Lt. Cdr. [[Edward de Faye Renouf]] of {{UK-Conqueror}} first described in the ''Annual Report of ...get ship, adjustable by a knob. The instrument always depicted the target ship steaming left to right across the bottom as indicated by an arrow.
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• H.M.S. Warspite (1913)
  ...etary to the First Lord]], [[Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair|Dudley R. S. de Chair]]; Sir James Marshall, Director of Dockyards; [[George Le Clerc Egert ...declined to admit his involvement with the incident in his history of the ship.
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• H.M.S. King George V (1911)
  ...ated as part of the [[British Adoption of the Director#Early Orders|twelve ship order]] to receive a director along the lines of that developed in [[H.M.S. In October 1914, the ship was to be given 8 Pattern 1582 Electric Radiators to warm cabins whose stov
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• H.M.S. Temeraire (1907)
  The ship was one of seven which tested [[Willis and Robinson Electric Revolution Tel In 1910, ''Temeraire'' was the best gunnery ship of the 15 tested of the Home Fleet's FIrst Division and {{UK-CS|1}}, scorin
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• Cecil Spencer Hickley
  ...ey, Royal Navy. He entered the training ship [[H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship)|''Britannia'']] on 15 July, 1878. <blockquote>Very active & zealous, capital Signal officer, good judgement, specially recommended for advancement. Has
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• H.M.S. Princess Royal (1911)
  ...n turrets, and fewer than five in total. As it had been approved that all capital ships should have one in each turret, more likely followed soon.{{UKTH23|p. ...d as part of the [[British Adoption of the Director#Early Orders|seventeen ship order]] to receive a director, but installation seemed delayed for a consid
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• D'Eyncourt Papers at the National Maritime Museum
  ...ith Ordnance department over contracts for electrical work and Royal Naval ship prices. ...his time at Armstrong Whitworth (Elswick) 1902-12: concerning Royal Naval Ship Design including plans, weights and trial results, of ships unsuccessfully
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• H.M.S. Neptune (1909)
  ..."Neptune" carried out 11th March 1912 at Tetuan." Docket in {{UK-Lion}}'s ship's cover. SC 251. Brass Foundry Out-Station, National Maritime Museum.</re ...the battle. She suffered no damage and contributed to fire against the {{DE-Wiesbaden|f=tp}}.
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• H.M.S. Centurion (1911)
  .... After many years in this duty she ended up as a decoy and anti-aircraft ship during the Mediterranean campaign of the Second World War. Towards the end The ship's machinery was constructed by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co.{{UKDockyardExpenseAcc
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• Battle of Heligoland Bight
  ...fensive plan were that it did not consider the possibility of an attack by capital ships and that the tides meant that large German ships could not pass over ...in support were {{DE-Stettin|f=p}}, {{DE-Frauenlob|f=p}} and the elderly {{DE-Hela|f=p}}.{{UKNavalOpsI| p. 101-2}}
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• Second Battle of Heligoland Bight
  ...s in order to evade a government order forbidding the construction of more capital ships. ...Admiral [[Franz Ritter von Hipper|Franz von Hipper]] had had to do with {{DE-Blucher|f=tp}} at the [[Battle of Dogger Bank]] in 1915.{{UKNavalOpsV|p.171
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• Jutland:Preliminaries
  The operation had to be postponed because repairs to the battlecruiser {{DE-Seydlitz|f=p}}, damaged by a mine in the [[Second Raid on Yarmouth]], took ...in the dockyard and the new dreadnought {{DE-Baden|f=p}}, the first German ship with 15-inch guns, was still working up.{{MarderFDSFII| p. 437}}
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• Percy Moreton Scott, First Baronet
  Scott was appointed to the screw ship-of-the-line {{UK-VictorEmanuel}} on 19 November, 1873, which served on the ...by devising and building land service mountings for 4.7-inch guns from his ship, which played a critical role in the defence of Ladysmith. He also provide
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• Lionel George Dawson
  ...{{UK-Majestic|f=t}}, flagship of the [[Channel Fleet]]. He served as Aide de Camp to Admiral [[Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Third Baronet|Wilson]] and received ...K-1Crusader|f=c}}. It was determined that he should have warned the other ship that he was coming alongside.<ref>Dawson Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/50.
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