The Gunnery Division was a Directorate of the Admiralty Naval Staff of the Royal Navy responsible for the tactical use of naval weapons and the training...
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this article is by Harley Simon, Lovell Tony, (2017), Gunnery and Torpedo Division (Royal Navy), dreadnoughtproject.org, http://www.dreadnoughtproject...
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The New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy also known as the New Zealand Station was formed in 1921 and remained in existence until 1941. It was the precursor...
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undertake gunnery training in a drill-ship for one month every year. After initial shore training, officers embarked in larger ships of the Royal Navy's fleet...
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The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's...
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United States Navy and Royal Navy, such as Commander Paul Shulman of the U.S. Navy, and Commanders Solomon and Allen Burk of the Royal Navy. These, however...
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who would undertake annual training in gunnery with the Navy and be called out for service in the fleet by royal proclamation in time of war. By 1862 there...
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This is a list of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. In 1907, before the revolution in design brought about by HMS Dreadnought...
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Royal Navy ranks, rates, and uniforms of the 18th and 19th centuries were the original effort of the Royal Navy to create standardized rank and insignia...
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(2014). Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery. Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 9781473853089. Mackie, Colin. (2011). "Royal Navy Senior Appointments from 1865". gulabin...
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The Royal Indian Navy mutiny or revolt, also called the 1946 Naval Uprising, is a failed insurrection of Indian naval ratings, soldiers, police personnel...
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The Torpedo Division originally called the Gunnery and Torpedo Division was a naval staff organisation of the British Admiralty Naval Staff established...
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The Spanish Navy or officially, the Armada, is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world....
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The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) was the air arm of the Royal Navy, under the direction of the Admiralty's Air Department, and existed formally from...
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HMNB Devonport (redirect from Royal Navy Devonport)
for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Portsmouth) and is the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Royal Navy. The largest...
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The Royal Navy Medical Service (RNMS), also termed the Royal Naval Medical Service and branded as Navy Healthcare, is the branch of the Royal Navy responsible...
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oldest active rank in Great Britain's Royal Navy, and its origins can be traced back to the year 1040. The Royal Navy's last official boatswain, Commander...
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Frederic Charles Dreyer (category Royal Navy admirals)
KCB (8 January 1878 – 11 December 1956) was an officer of the Royal Navy. A gunnery expert, he developed a fire control system for British warships...
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The history of the Royal Navy reached an important juncture in 1707, when the Act of Union merged the kingdoms of England and Scotland into the Kingdom...
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the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came...
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McClintock joined the Royal Navy in 1887. He held the rank of lieutenant when in June 1902 he was posted to serve as 1st and gunnery lieutenant on the protected...
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Rosyth Dockyard (redirect from Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth)
undertook refitting of Royal Navy surface vessels and submarines. Before its privatisation in the 1990s it was formerly the Royal Naval Dockyard Rosyth...
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Department was abolished. During World War I the NID was responsible for the Royal Navy's highly successful cryptographic efforts, Room 40. The interception and...
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This is a list of shore establishments (or stone frigates) of the Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve. Portsmouth establishments HMNB Clyde RNAS Culdrose...
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The Royal Navy was an important component of the Allied forces during the Second World War and made a significant contribution to the victory over the...
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Flotilla leader (category Destroyers of the United States Navy)
In the Royal Navy, the flotilla leader and commanding officer were known as Captain (D). In the Royal Navy, flotilla leaders and divisional leaders could...
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ended with limited damage to the area. After gunnery bombardment, Ghazi was deployed against the Indian Navy's Western Naval Command at Bombay on 22 September...
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current command flags of the Royal Navy. Rank flags to denote the commander-in-chief of the English fleet and later Royal Navy were used from as early as...
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Peter Hill-Norton (category Royal Navy admirals of the fleet)
February 1915 – 16 May 2004) was a senior Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Second World War as gunnery officer in a cruiser operating on the Western...
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two new directorates, the Gunnery Division and the Torpedo Division. In June 1918 the new Naval Artillery and Torpedoes Division was established in-order...
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