HMS Thunderer was the fourth and last Orion-class dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her career...
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HMS Thunderer : HMS Thunderer (1760) was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1760. Battle honour: 'Achille 1761'. She was wrecked in 1780. HMS Thunderer (1783)...
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The four Orion-class dreadnought battleships, HMS Orion, HMS Monarch, HMS Conqueror, and HMS Thunderer, were the first British super-dreadnoughts. The...
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in 1913, shortly after the launch of the Dreadnought Battleship HMS Thunderer (1911). Heading eastward from the Tower of London lie six and a half mile...
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Lion-class battleship (redirect from HMS Thunderer (1939))
contract for Conqueror was awarded on 15 August to John Brown, and that of Thunderer was scheduled for 15 November for Fairfield. After the start of the Second...
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1900 was posted in lieu of a lieutenant to the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Revenge, stationed in the Fleet Reserve at Chatham Dockyard. During the Russo-Japanese...
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Dreadnought presents an espionage adventure around the construction of HMS Thunderer (1911) and the development of a new naval Fire-control system. Poison in...
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Battle Squadron (BS) on 1 May. The ship, together with her sister ships Thunderer and Orion, participated in the Parliamentary Naval Review on 9 July at...
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HMS Conqueror was the third of four Orion-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her career...
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RMS Olympic (redirect from SS Olympic (1911))
mishap occurred on her fifth voyage on 20 September 1911, when she collided with the British cruiser HMS Hawke. The collision took place as Olympic and Hawke...
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and Thunderer on 'B' and 'X' turrets and Monarch had one on 'B'. A high-angle rangefinder was fitted in the forward superstructure by 1921. Thunderer had...
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RNLI, Sheringham lifeboat, 1904, HMS Nautilus, Royal Navy, 1910, later named HMS Grampus HMS Thunderer, Royal Navy, 1911 Employees at the Thames Ironworks...
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3°33′36″N 104°28′42″E / 3.56000°N 104.47833°E / 3.56000; 104.47833 HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that...
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HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic)
and was received by several other ships in the area, among them HMS Scourge and HMS Heroic, but Britannic heard nothing in reply. Unknown to either Bartlett...
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battleships Thunderer and Orion and the predreadnought battleship King Edward VII, and finally the four dreadnoughts Neptune, King George V, Thunderer, and Vanguard...
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taught to play by William Herschel. In 1778 he became a midshipman on HMS Thunderer, aboard which he contracted the fever from which he died. The register...
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Philip Howard Colomb (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Ryder in China; and finally he was appointed, in 1880, to command HMS Thunderer in the Mediterranean. The next year he was appointed captain of the steam...
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comparative gunnery trials with Thunderer to evaluate the effectiveness of the latter's gunnery director. Thunderer decisively outshot Orion, although...
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HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. She differed from the other ships...
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HMS King George V was the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her...
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a US Navy cruiser. Seaplanes and seaplane tender support ships, such as HMS Engadine, followed. The development of flat top vessels produced the first...
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incidents 2 Jan: HMS Thunderer 16 Jan: USS Constitution 27 Jan: USS Supply 4 Feb: HMS Duke of Wellington Feb: HMS Active Feb: Republic 10 Mar: HMS Thetis 21...
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William Cornwallis (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
promoted into the newly commissioned third-rate HMS Thunderer. In July 1761, Cornwallis was with Thunderer and two other line-of-battle ships blockading...
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Titanic (redirect from HMS Titanic)
a piece of wood fell on him. Titanic was launched at 12:15 pm on 31 May 1911 in the presence of Lord Pirrie, J. Pierpont Morgan, J. Bruce Ismay and 100...
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Arthur Leveson HMS Orion (flagship): Capt Oliver Backhouse HMS Monarch: Capt George Borrett HMS Conqueror: Capt Hugh Tothill HMS Thunderer: Capt James Fergusson...
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HMS Erin was a dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, originally ordered by the Ottoman government from the British Vickers Company. The ship was to...
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Utopia 15 Sep: Comus 26 Oct: Britannic 2 Nov: HMS Malabar 4 Nov: Djemnah Nov: HMS Thunderer 18 Dec: HMS Cleopatra 21 Dec: Mona Dec: Mona's Isle Unk: Fusō...
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James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Gambier to commander on 9 March 1778 and gave him command of the bomb ship HMS Thunder, which was promptly dismasted and surrendered to the French. He was taken...
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USS Constitution (section HMS Cyane and HMS Levant)
she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned...
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Arthur Wakefield (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Fire to the White House". History Geek. Retrieved 19 July 2024. Davis, P. "HMS Rhadamanthus (1832)". The Victorian Royal Navy. Retrieved 20 July 2024. "London...
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