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    HMS Swift was a unique destroyer leader designed and built for the Royal Navy prior to World War I, another product of Admiral "Jackie" Fisher's relentless...
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  • HMS Swift has been the name of numerous ships of the Royal Navy: This list may be incomplete. HMS Swift (1697) was a 10-gun ship that was launched 1697...
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  • Fantasque-class destroyer (large destroyers) Type 1936A destroyer HMS Swift (1907) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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  • Cruiser – HMS Argonaut Association". Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Badsworth, escort destroyer". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Beaufort...
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    HMS Ghurka was a Tribal-class destroyer built in 1907 for the Royal Navy. She served as part of the Dover Patrol during the First World War, playing a...
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    HMS Hawke, launched in 1891 from Chatham Dockyard, was the seventh Royal Navy warship to be named Hawke. She was an Edgar-class protected cruiser. After...
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    remained above water. Three British warships including the destroyer HMS Swift, as well as the ocean liner Cassandra, aided the stricken ship and helped...
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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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    in the future. An important development came with the construction of HMS Swift in 1884, later redesignated TB 81. This was a large (137 ton) torpedo...
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    attacked and sank the nearby aircraft carrier HMS Glorious with its escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. Devonshire did not rebroadcast the enemy...
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    The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest...
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    fourth-rate HMS Ruby, before transferring to the third-rate HMS Monmouth. Promoted to lieutenant on 17 March 1716, he was assigned to the fourth-rate HMS Hampshire...
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    Titanic (redirect from HMS Titanic)
    RMS Majestic of 1890 and RMS Adriatic of 1907. RMS Oceanic first departed from a new home port in June 1907 along with the Teutonic, Majestic, and the...
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    Lake Ontario October 7, 1804 Fisk was transporting a prisoner on board the HMS Speedy when the ship sank during a fierce storm Constable Timothy C. Pomeroy...
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    Tahiti HMS Cochrane (1905) HMS Commonwealth (1905) RMS Empress of Britain (1906) RMS Empress of Ireland (1906) SS Volturno (1906) HMS Indomitable (1907) SS...
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    carrier HMS Formidable, the battleships HMS Warspite and HMS Barham, the cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Dido, HMS Orion, and HMAS Perth, the submarine HMS Rover...
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    Theater in multiple productions staged from May through June 1894, including H.M.S. Pinafore (as Dick Deadeye), Cox and Box, The Mikado (as Poo-Bah), and Humphrey...
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  • Mottoes in South African Universities". "Home". sggs.co.za. Naval History: HMS Venetia (D 53) – V & W-class Destroyer Additional references Adeleye, Gabriel...
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    a return to oil-firing. Pioneered by the Tribal class of 1905 and HMS Swift of 1907, using oil enabled a more efficient design, leading to a smaller vessel...
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    light cruiser Sendai-class light cruiser Agano-class light cruiser Swift – prototype (1907) Faulknor-class leader (1915) Marksman-class leader (1915) Parker-class...
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    Local. Retrieved 23 March 2021. Swift, Nicki (2015-10-26). "Famous People Who Said Strange Things Before Death". NickiSwift.com. Retrieved 2021-03-25. "Medal...
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    Muir and Houston of Glasgow, Scotland, and was rated at 650 hp (480 kW). In 1907, Regina was built in Dumbarton, Scotland by A. McMillian & Son with the yard...
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    survey in HMS Bulldog for the laying of a submarine telegraph cable in the North Atlantic. Captain: Francis Leopold McClintock (1819–1907) Naturalist:...
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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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    Singapore At sea 10 December Japanese torpedo craft sink British HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse Battle of Jitra 11–13 December Japan pushes back British...
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    naval arms race began. Despite the vast sums spent by Tirpitz, the launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 gave the British a technological advantage. Ultimately...
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    return to oil-firing as pioneered in the Tribal or F class of 1905 and HMS Swift of 1907. The Admiralty provided general specifications, but each shipyard...
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    179°46′E / 62.383°N 179.767°E / 62.383; 179.767; the whaling bark Jirah Swift, of New Bedford, is burned; the whaling ship Milo is bonded for $46,000;...
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  • 8003 Kelvin 1987 RJ William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Lord Kelin; 1824–1907), Scots-Irish physicist JPL · 8003 8005 Albinadubois 1988 MJ Albina du Boisrouvray...
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    Off Toward point. HMS Adept, tug, 17 March 1942, grounded and sank, Sanda Island. HMS Vandal, 24 February 1943, Sunk in an accident. HMS Dasher (D37), 27...
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