HMS Monarch was the second of four Orion-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her career assigned...
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second rate, broken up 1866. HMS Monarch (1868), ironclad masted turret ship, sold and broken up 1905. HMS Monarch (1911), Orion-class battleship, served...
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1921. The four Orion-class dreadnought battleships, HMS Orion, HMS Monarch, HMS Conqueror, and HMS Thunderer, were the first British super-dreadnoughts...
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battleship. She was renamed HMS Monarch in 1910, prior to her launch in 1911. Captained by Lord Stanley. HMS King George V (1911) was a King George V-class...
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when the monarch is female) is a ship prefix used for commissioned units of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). This prefix is derived from HMS (Her/His...
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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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UK King George V School, Hong Kong HMS King George V (1911), a battleship King George V-class battleship (1911) HMS King George V (41), a battleship King...
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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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HMS Bolebroke HMS Border HMS Calpe HMS Eridge HMS Exmoor HMS Farndale HMS Grove HMS Hambledon HMS Heythrop HMS Hursley HMS Holderness Tribal-class destroyer HMS Somali...
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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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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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It is also the location where HMS Royal George sank in 1782 with the loss of more than 800 lives. In the operetta H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan...
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George V (category 20th-century British monarchs)
joined the cadet training ship HMS Britannia at Dartmouth, Devon. For three years from 1879, the princes served on HMS Bacchante, accompanied by Dalton...
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Royal Navy. He then joined the frigate HMS Raleigh in the Mediterranean as a midshipman, followed by HMS Monarch, the first turret ship, from November...
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HMS Orion 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 career...
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Arthur Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Order of the Bath on 20 May 1871, he became captain of the turret ship HMS Monarch in the Channel Squadron in June 1874. Promoted to rear admiral on 22...
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HMS Princess Royal was the second of two Lion-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before the First World War. Designed in response to the Moltke-class...
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Towards the end of 1778, he was appointed to HMS Suffolk, from which he was almost immediately moved into HMS Monarch. In January 1779, he sat as a member of...
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legislative, and judicial branches of the province's government. The Canadian monarch—since 8 September 2022, King Charles III—is represented and his duties...
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as Baron Stamfordham, of Stamfordham in the County of Northumberland, in 1911. Lord Stamfordham one of those who supported the King's decision to adopt...
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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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HMS Vanguard was a British fast battleship built during the Second World War and commissioned after the war ended. She was the largest and fastest of...
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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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Sandringham, Norfolk (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
location of Sandringham House and its estate, a private residence of British monarchs since Edward VII, who used it as a holiday home. Near to the house is the...
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1876 he returned to the Mediterranean, commanding HMS Monarch. In July 1877 he transferred to HMS Temeraire and took part in the 1878 passage of the...
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Haakon VII (category 20th-century Norwegian monarchs)
to the throne as Haakon VII, becoming the first independent Norwegian monarch since Olaf II in 1387. As king, Haakon gained much sympathy from the Norwegian...
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decorations and honorary appointments, both during and before his time as monarch of the United Kingdom and the dominions. 3 June 1865 – 24 May 1892: His...
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appointed to the staff of the gunnery school HMS Excellent in May 1884. He joined the turret ship HMS Monarch as gunnery officer in September 1885 and was...
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Justicia) Lancashire HMS Lord Clive Maloja HMS M30 HMS M31 HMS M33 Nomadic Olympic Orduna Pakeha HMS Raglan Regina HMS Sir Thomas Picton HMS Terror Themistocles...
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HMS A1 was the Royal Navy's first British-designed submarine, and their first to suffer fatal casualties. She was the lead ship of the first British A-class...
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