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    HMS Ramillies (pennant number: 07) was one of five Revenge-class super-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. They...
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  • have been named HMS Ramillies after the Battle of Ramillies (23 May 1706): HMS Ramillies was 82-gun second rate launched in 1664 as HMS Royal Katherine...
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    British officer inspecting Greek troops and trenches. Great Offensive HMS Ramillies (07) HMS Royal Sovereign (05) Erdem, Nilüfer (2010). Yunan tarihçiliğinin...
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  • vessel destroyer USS Quincy (CA-71) US combat vessel heavy cruiser HMS Ramillies (07) UK combat vessel old battleship USS Raven (AM-55) US auxiliary minesweeper...
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    establishment HMS Imperieuse, while Revenge remained out of service. In January 1944, Royal Sovereign and Ramillies were also recalled; Ramillies was refitted...
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    put pressure on the outgunned British. The arrival of the battleship HMS Ramillies on the British side helped to even the odds, but she was too slow to...
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    flagship HMS Ramillies in the Mediterranean from 9 September 1901. Promoted to captain on 1 January 1903, ha was in July that year placed in command of HMS Hyacinth...
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    HMS Queen Elizabeth was the lead ship of her class of five dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s, and was often used as...
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    United Kingdom. In 1907, before the revolution in design brought about by HMS Dreadnought of 1906, the United Kingdom had 62 battleships in commission...
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    HMS Barham was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed in 1915, she was often used as...
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    Revenge-class battleships were ordered into the hunt: Revenge, from Halifax, and Ramillies, which was escorting Convoy HX 127. In all, six battleships and battlecruisers...
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    operated by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Ordered for the Royal Navy as HMS Phaeton, the cruiser was purchased by the Australian government and renamed...
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    HMS Liverpool, named after the port city of Liverpool in north-west England, was a Town-class cruiser of the Royal Navy in service from 1938 to 1952....
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    February, lookouts spotted convoy HX 106, escorted by the battleship Ramillies. Lütjens' orders prohibited him from engaging Allied capital ships, and...
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    possible unit to hunting down Bismarck. The old Revenge-class battleship HMS Ramillies was detached from convoy duty southeast of Greenland and ordered to...
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    they spotted a convoy, HX 106, but it was escorted by the battleship HMS Ramillies, armed with eight 38 cm (15 in) guns. The German ships therefore broke...
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    returned to the fleet immediately, followed shortly after by Resolution and Ramillies. Lion initially remained ready for sea duty despite the damaged turret...
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    HNoMS Svenner off Sword Beach but missing the British battleships HMS Warspite and Ramillies. After attacking, the German vessels turned away and fled east...
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    at about 15 years of age and served on various ships: HMS Venus, HMS Ramillies, HMS Raven, and HMS Lark. On 23 April 1778 Ball was commissioned a lieutenant...
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    Alexandria), comprised HMS Warspite (flagship, Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham) Valiant, Malaya and Ramillies, the aircraft carriers HMS Eagle and Illustrious...
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    captain to the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet in the battleship HMS Ramillies in January 1895 and flag captain to the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth...
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    of at least one capital ship. German intelligence had warned him that Ramillies and Revenge were based at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He estimated that they...
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    commanding officer of the gunnery school HMS Excellent in 1920 and commanding officer of the battleship HMS Ramillies in 1922. Mitchell's final appointments...
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    Thomas Hardy. British vessels included HMS Dispatch, HMS Terror, HMS Nimrod, HMS Pactolus, and HMS Ramillies. Hardy took the fleet to Block Island in...
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    carried out many 14-inch gun-firing exercises with British battleships HMS Ramillies and Rodney. The firing was done in conjunction with Royal Air Force...
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    forces unsuccessfully attempted to destroy the British ship of the line HMS Ramillies while it was lying at anchor in New London, Connecticut's harbor with...
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    battleship HMS Revenge in November 1897, and subsequently served in HMS Ramillies, the sloop HMS Cruiser and the reconnaissance vessel HMS Hawk. Abhakara...
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    – broken up 1820 Irresistible 74 (1782) – broken up 1806 Ramillies class (Slade) Ramillies 74 (1763) – fire 1782 Monarch 74 (1765) – broken up 1813 Magnificent...
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    British escort included the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, the battleship Ramillies, and the battlecruiser Renown; Italian aerial reconnaissance detected...
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    action of 9 August 1780. The British escort, comprising the 74-gun HMS Ramillies, under Captain Sir John Moutray, and the frigates Thetis and Southampton...
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