The Cricket class and following classes of coastal destroyers were a series of small torpedo boat destroyers (TBDs) intended to complement the Royal Navy's...
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The Tribal or F class was a class of destroyers built for the Royal Navy. Twelve ships were built between 1905 and 1908 and all saw service during World...
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The destroyers needed sufficient range to operate across the North Sea in the event of a confrontation with Germany, which rendered the Cricket-class coastal...
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This is a list of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, organised chronologically by entry into service. In 1913, the surviving members...
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The Type 45 destroyer, also known as the D or Daring class, is a class of six guided-missile destroyers built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy in the...
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1906 to 1908 were originally rated as coastal destroyers and will be found under Cricket-class destroyers, while later torpedo boats introduced during...
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The Thornycroft type leader or Shakespeare class were a class of five destroyer leaders designed by John I. Thornycroft & Company and built by them at...
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"Chrząszcz" or "Cricket", a poem by Jan Brzechwa Cricket, a character in Fire on the Mountain (1988 novel) Cricket-class coastal destroyer, a 1906 class of Royal...
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The Hawthorn M (or Mansfield) Class were a class of two destroyers built for the Royal Navy under the pre-war 1913-14 Programme for World War I service...
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HMS Maori (1909), a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, sunk in 1915 HMS Maori (F24), a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, launched 1936 and sunk 1942 TEV Maori...
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Grasshopper was to have been the name of a Cricket-class coastal destroyer (later downgraded to first-class torpedo boat), but before launch in 1907 she...
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borne the name HMS Cricket, after the cricket, an insect native to Britain: HMS Cricket (1906) was a Cricket-class coastal destroyer, launched in 1906...
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national cricket team represents Australia in men's international cricket. Along with England, it is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, playing...
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1915 it consisted of 11 Tribal-class destroyers, 13 other destroyers capable of 30 knots, and 4 Cricket-class destroyers along with HMS Attentive, the...
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Border–Gavaskar Trophy (redirect from Indian cricket tour of Australia, 2003)
The Border–Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) is an International Test cricket trophy played between India and Australia. The series is named after distinguished former...
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Guyanese cricketer who plays for Guyana in first-class cricket and for the West Indies in international cricket. He is a right-arm fast bowler. He made his...
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HMS TB 9 (originally named HMS Grasshopper) was a Cricket-class coastal destroyer or torpedo-boat of the British Royal Navy. TB 9 was built by the shipbuilder...
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Alan Ross (category Cricket writers)
stock quickly rose when he revealed a talent which matched his passion for cricket. With a hint of the debonair style that was to characterise his life, Ross...
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HMS TB 12 (originally named HMS Moth) was a Cricket-class coastal destroyer or torpedo-boat of the British Royal Navy. TB 12 was built by the shipbuilder...
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diesel-electric class built by Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Company Destroyer leader, a large naval vessel capable of leading a flotilla Dimensionless...
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Pakistan national cricket team has represented Pakistan in international cricket since 1952. It is controlled by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the...
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David Hookes (category Australian cricket captains)
Australian domestic cricket, most notably in his role as captain of South Australia (SA). Wisden called him "a first-class destroyer of second-rate bowling"...
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Nelson (28), a British battleship Nelson-class battleship USS Nelson (DD-623), an American Gleaves-class destroyer HMS Nelson, a stone frigate that partly...
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the Guided missile destroyer, INS Mumbai (D62).He has commanded the Veer-class missile vessel INS Vinash (K47) and the Kora-class corvette INS Kirch (P62)...
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Conflict-class destroyer (1895) TB 114-class torpedo boat (1903-1905) River-class destroyer (1905) Cricket-class coastal destroyer (1906-1908) Tribal-class destroyer...
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stationed in British India, Johnson played two first-class cricket matches for the Europeans cricket team in 1893. Promoted to captain on 31 December 1909...
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Westminster Dog Show, nicknamed Stump USS Stump (DD-978), a Spruance-class destroyer A coastal landform which forms when a stack (geology) is eroded Stump...
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Launceston and Hobart. To date this season he has made 1,400 runs in first-class cricket, and requires another 200 to equal the record he established last season...
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HMAS Waterhen (D22) (category V and W-class destroyers of the Royal Navy)
HMAS Waterhen (D22/I22) was a W-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy (as HMS Waterhen (G28/D22)) and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built during...
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Gerald Harrison (category Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers)
first-class cricketer and an officer in the Royal Navy. He served in the navy from 1898 to 1936, rising to the rank of rear admiral. In first-class cricket...
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