HMS Irresistible—the fourth British Royal Navy ship of the name—was a Formidable-class pre-dreadnought battleship. The Formidable-class ships were developments...
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1894. HMS Irresistible (1898) was a Formidable-class battleship launched in 1898 and sunk by a mine in 1915 in Gallipoli, Turkey. HMS Irresistible was to...
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54″N 26°17′59.24″E / 40.0165389°N 26.2997889°E / 40.0165389; 26.2997889 HMS Ocean was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member...
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respectively. HMS Albion was laid down by Thames Iron Works at Leamouth, London on 3 December 1896. Tragedy struck when she was launched on 21 June 1898; after...
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the port of Gibraltar, until relieved as such by newly commissioned HMS Irresistible in February 1902. She left the Mediterranean station headquarters at...
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HMS Irresistible (1898), HMS Ocean (1898) and HMS Inflexible (1907) were struck by the mines in the gulf. Among these, both Bouvet and Irresistible were...
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sometimes included in the Formidable class. Formidable, Irresistible, and Implacable were built between 1898 and 1901 at the Portsmouth, Chatham, and Devonport...
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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 Canopus was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and the lead ship of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Canopus and...
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battleships intended for overseas duties: the two Centurion-class battleships and HMS Renown. The nine Majestic-class battleships followed as refinements of White's...
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International Navigation Company, by a board appointed on 12 March 1898; and commissioned on 20 April 1898 for Spanish–American War service, Captain Charles D. Sigsbee...
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attended between 1898 and 1900. He then joined the Royal Navy and was in October 1902 posted as a midshipman to the battleship HMS Irresistible serving in the...
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H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened...
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landing area for the Gallipoli invasion and HMS Ocean sank in Morto Bay after failing to save HMS Irresistible. Morto bay is known for several military activities...
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Classification Standards on 21 March 1898, she was classified as a torpedo boat destroyer. Launched on 14 December 1898, she was completed on 1 February 1899...
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estate and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard as Mayflower, on 24 March 1898. Mayflower joined Admiral William T. Sampson's squadron at Key West, Florida...
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the battleship HMS Trafalgar as the flagship of the second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet. From February 1897 to December 1898, Revenge served...
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shell or torpedo. Subsequently, two British pre-dreadnoughts, Ocean and Irresistible, were sunk and the battlecruiser Inflexible was damaged by the same minefield...
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Ice Boat No. 3 (redirect from USS Arctic (1898))
Philadelphia Record. 19 May 1898. p. 6. "Reserves Coal a Steamer". The Philadelphia Record. 19 June 1898. p. 2. "USS Arctic (1898)". Online Library of Selected...
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in Greek waters when she visited Astakos in the Ionian Sea with HMS Irresistible and HMS Pioneer. On 18 April 1903, King Edward VII was hosted aboard Bulwark...
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Shore of Lake Superior, an inland sea in central North America. Built in 1898, America sank in Washington Harbor off the shore of Isle Royale in 1928,...
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(25 and 51 mm) thick, respectively. HMS Vengeance was laid down by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness on 23 August 1898 and launched on 25 July 1899. Her completion...
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the Southern Pacific Company on 6 April 1898. The ship was renamed and commissioned at New York on 14 April 1898, Commander Willard H. Brownson in command...
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appointments to HMS Brittania, HMS Garnet, HMS Inflexible, HMS Foxhound, HMS Melita, HMS President, HMS Pembroke, HMS Leander, HMS Hood, HMS Leviathan, HMS Bachante...
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Shushiro Fujimoto 8 March 1898 – 29 March 1898 (pre-commissioning) Lieutenant Commander Ichiro Ishida 19 May 1898 – 28 October 1898 (pre-commissioning) Lieutenant...
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Naval Academy Practice Ship. Making annual cruises each year except for 1898, when the war with Spain intervened, the ship conducted her last Academy...
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and she was laid down at the Nikolayev Admiralty Shipyard on 10 October 1898. She was named in honour of Prince Grigory Potemkin, a Russian soldier and...
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Cleopatra at the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1781. From 1782 he commanded HMS Irresistible. He was elected Member of Parliament for Perth burghs in 1790 but gave...
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surrender off Valparaiso after an unequal contest with the frigates HMS Phoebe and HMS Cherub and only when his ship was too disabled to offer any resistance...
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HMS Cornwallis was a Duncan-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. Built to counter a group of fast Russian battleships, Cornwallis and her...
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