• HMS Wear was a Palmer Type River Class Destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1903–1904 Naval Estimates. Named after the River Wear a river flowing...
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  • Navy have been named HMS Wear: HMS Wear (1905) was a River-class destroyer launched in 1905 and sold for scrap in 1919 HMS Wear (K230) was a River-class...
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    HMS Calliope is a training centre and 'stone frigate' of the Royal Naval Reserve, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. A Tyne-based division of the Royal...
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  • coaster in service with R H Hunt & Sons, Hull, 1947-52 HMS Ouse (1905), a River-class destroyer of 1905 Ouse Bridge (disambiguation) Oise a department in northern...
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    confirmed in 1905 that all future Royal Navy vessels were to be turbine-powered, and in 1906, the first turbine-powered battleship, the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought...
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    HMS Hood (pennant number 51) was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy (RN). Hood was the first of the planned four Admiral-class battlecruisers to be built...
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    Australia Station on 22 August 1904. She was sold for £1,900 in July 1905 at Portsmouth. "HMS Boomerang (1891)". tynebuiltships.co.uk. Retrieved 5 April 2017...
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    34.533; 35.833 HMS Victoria was the lead ship in her class of two battleships of the Royal Navy. On 22 June 1893, she collided with HMS Camperdown near...
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    HMS Minerva was an Eclipse-class protected cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s. The ship was laid down at Chatham Dockyard, Kent, on 4 December...
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    Navy (1904) HMS Wear Royal Navy (1905) HMS Whiting Royal Navy (1896) HMS Wryneck Royal Navy (1918) HMVS Cerberus Victorian Navy (1868) HMS General Wolfe...
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    HMS Baralong was a cargo steamship that was built in England in 1901, served in the Royal Navy as a Q-ship in the First World War, was sold into Japanese...
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    Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship HMS Dreadnought, to a fake delegation of Abyssinian royals. The hoax drew attention...
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    Work began on her construction in May 1905. The Royal Navy began the design of HMS Dreadnought in January 1905, and she was laid down in October of the...
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    HMS President (formerly HMS Saxifrage) is a retired Flower-class Q-ship that was launched in 1918. She was renamed HMS President in 1922 and moored permanently...
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    Guardian Unlimited A. J. West's "Our Navy": Wreath laying on HMS Victory, October 1905 Archived 31 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine BBC Battlefield...
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    rafts "before striking out to swim as the vessel went down under his feet." HMS Rifleman rescued a number of survivors and armed trawlers towed the bulk...
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    River-class vessel, HMS Clyde, was decommissioned, with the Batch 2 HMS Forth taking over duties as the Falkland Islands patrol ship. HMS Protector is a dedicated...
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    Major General Nathanael Greene, it hit where the British were weakest to wear down their forces. Washington led victories against the British at Trenton...
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    April 1904. She was sold for £1875 in July 1905 at Portsmouth. Winfield (2004), p. 305. Bastock 1988, p. 105. "HMS Karakatta at the Index of 19th Century...
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    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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    transport for the United States Navy in World War I. She was launched in 1905 as Amerika by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for the Hamburg America Line of...
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  • of the battleship HMS Ocean after she struck a mine in the Dardanelles. She arrived at Skyros on 14 April 1915 with HMS Wear and HMS Kennet. Upon the arrival...
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    lately commanding HMS Caesar which accompanied the King of Norway from Norway to Denmark in November 1905 is allowed to accept and wear the Grand Cross...
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    Reserve. HMS President HMS Scotia HMS Cambria HMS Dalriada HMS Flying Fox HMS Calliope HMS Eaglet HMS Vivid HMS Sherwood HMS King Alfred HMS Forward HMS Hibernia...
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    torpedo fired by the British destroyer HMS Petard. Though taking on water, Seydlitz maintained speed. The destroyer HMS Nestor, under the command of Captain...
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    command of the battleship HMS Illustrious, also serving in the Mediterranean. On 9 March 1900 he was appointed flag captain to HMS Vivid, flagship and yacht...
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    HMS Revenge was one of seven Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1890s. She spent much of her early...
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    four frigates, and two fire-ships commanded by Admiral Augustus Keppel, in HMS Victory, which sailed from Spithead on 9 July. The French fleet had thirty-two...
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    HMS Niobe was a ship of the Diadem class of protected cruisers in the Royal Navy. She served in the Boer War and was then given to Canada as the second...
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    the beginning of the 19th century. The Nagasaki Harbour Incident involving HMS Phaeton in 1808, and other subsequent incidents in the following decades...
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