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    HMS Princess Irene was a 5,394 GRT ocean liner which was built in 1914 by William Denny and Brothers Ltd, Dumbarton, Scotland for the Canadian Pacific...
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  • accounts describe two distinct explosions. On 27 May 1915, the minelayer HMS Princess Irene suffered a blast. Wreckage was thrown up to 20 miles (30 km), a collier...
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  • SS Princess Irene (1914), Canadian Pacific Steamships liner which served as HMS Princess Irene during WWI This article includes a list of ships with the same or...
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  • Mosquito Fleet Irene-class cruiser, of the German Imperial Navy SMS Irene, a German protected cruiser in service from 1887 to 1921 HMS Princess Irene MV Eirini...
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    Henry Oliver ordered HMS Louis and HMS Laverock to escort Lusitania, and took the further precaution of sending the Q-ship HMS Lyons to patrol Liverpool...
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    1914 HMS Bulwark exploded while moored at Kethole Reach near Sheerness, killing 741 men with only 12 survivors. The following year HMS Princess Irene exploded...
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    Royal Norfolk Regiment Leading-Seaman John Davison (1889–1915), HMS Princess Irene Corporal Ernest R. Wooltorton (1888–1915), 2nd Battalion, Royal Norfolk...
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    submarines. Despite a severe shortage of destroyers, Admiral Henry Oliver ordered HMS Louis and Laverock to escort Lusitania, and took the further precaution of...
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    forces stationed at Edéa in German Cameroon. The British ocean liner HMS Princess Irene was launched by William Denny and Brothers in Dumbarton, Scotland...
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    HMS Majestic was a Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. Commissioned in 1895, she was the largest pre-dreadnought launched at...
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  • 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins. 1915 – HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives...
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  • the Titanic and Great Disasters of the Sea. Eekelers, Dirk; Lettens, Jan. "HMS Coronation (north part) [+1691]". wrecksite. Retrieved 15 May 2021. "Harwich...
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    could leave Britain she was commandeered for war service and became HMS Princess Irene, and was used as a minelayer. After several trips she was back in...
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    HMS Goliath was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Goliath and her...
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    HMS Triumph, originally known as Libertad, was the second of the two Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy. The ship was ordered...
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    (1994). A Naval History of World War I. London: Routledge. p. 386. "The HMS Bulwark Explosion". Disasters in Medway. 2009. Archived from the original...
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    complement of 1,600 soldiers, when she was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS E14. The ship was damaged but did not sink, and was assisted back to Istanbul...
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    SM UB-3, Peleng-i Derya 24 May: Turbine 25 May: HMS Triumph 27 May: HMS Majestic, HMS Princess Irene 29 May: T47, T51 31 May: Merion Other incidents 1...
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    Mary lost her husband in an explosion which destroyed the minelayer HMS Princess Irene on 27 May 1915. Undeterred, McCudden made a formal application to...
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    and converted to serve as a decoy resembling the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Tiger. In May 1915, while posing as Tiger in the Aegean Sea, Merion was sunk...
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    British minelayer HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank while loading mines off Sheerness with the loss of 352 lives. British battleship HMS Majestic was torpedoed...
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    Hoboken and New York. In March 1919 Princess Matoika and Rijndam raced each other from Saint-Nazaire to Newport News. Princess Matoika was the swifter ship,...
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    on 1 May, Gulflight was challenged by two British patrol vessels, HMS Iago and HMS Filey, which queried her destination. The patrol ships had been searching...
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  • SM UB-3, Peleng-i Derya 24 May: Turbine 25 May: HMS Triumph 27 May: HMS Majestic, HMS Princess Irene 29 May: T47, T51 31 May: Merion Other incidents 1...
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  • HMS Maori was one of five ships of the third batch of Tribal-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the twentieth century. Completed...
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    Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia (Russian: Ирина Александровна; 15 July [O.S. 3 July] 1895 – 26 February 1970) was the only daughter and eldest child...
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    SM UB-3, Peleng-i Derya 24 May: Turbine 25 May: HMS Triumph 27 May: HMS Majestic, HMS Princess Irene 29 May: T47, T51 31 May: Merion Other incidents 1...
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    SM UB-3, Peleng-i Derya 24 May: Turbine 25 May: HMS Triumph 27 May: HMS Majestic, HMS Princess Irene 29 May: T47, T51 31 May: Merion Other incidents 1...
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    Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Θεοδώρα; 30 May 1906 – 16 October 1969) was a Greek and Danish princess by birth and Margravine of Baden...
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    Peleng-i Derya was an Ottoman gunboat that was torpedoed by HMS E11 in shallow water off Istanbul, Ottoman Empire on 23 May 1915. Peleng-i Derya was laid...
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