HMS Plucky was an Admiralty M-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during the First World War. The M class were an improvement on the previous...
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Royal Navy have been named HMS Plucky: HMS Plucky was a 212-ton steam tender purchased in 1856 and sold in 1858. HMS Plucky (1870) was a 196-ton iron-screw...
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Karee Siding; one man was killed. This episode was generally regarded as "plucky" but widely reported round the world as an example of the "over-confidence...
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HMS Mentor was a Hawthorn Leslie M-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. Built by the Tyneside shipbuilder Hawthorn Leslie between 1913 and 1915...
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2012-08-10. Retrieved 2019-09-04. Aurora "A Poignant Reminder from the Plucky Little Ship Aurora". Australian National Maritime Museum. 2017-06-20. Retrieved...
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Retrieved 5 February 2008. Huntford, p. 642. "A Poignant Remnant from the Plucky little Ship Aurora". Australian National Maritime Museum. 20 June 2017....
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HMS Milne was a Royal Navy Admiralty M-class destroyer. Milne was built by John Brown & Company from 1913 to 1914 and was completed in December that year...
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propulsion. Vixen (1865) Viper (1865) Waterwitch (1866) Staunch class (1867) Plucky class (1870) Ant class – Gadfly, Pincher, Griper and Tickler are sometimes...
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seventeen. Satow described Boyes as receiving the award "for conduct very plucky in one so young." Another VC winner at Shimonoseki was Thomas Pride, and...
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breaking up 9 May 1921. Plucky Scotts 21 April 1916 July 1916 Sold for breaking up 9 May 1921. Portia Scotts 10 August 1916 October 1916 Sold for breaking up...
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Opportune, Orford, Paladin, Patriot, Pellew, Penn, Peregrine, Peyton, Plover, Plucky, Pylades, Relentless, Sabre, Seafire, Seraph, Somme, Sparrowhawk, Splendid...
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comments from a visitor to the park in December 1914. At the end of July 1916 a newspaper article mentioned that there was a dog team of sixteen pulling...
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