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    HMS Swiftsure, originally known as Constitución, was the lead ship of the Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleships. The ship was ordered by the Chilean...
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  • named Swiftsure since 1573, including: English ship Swiftsure (1573), a galleon, renamed Speedwell and rebuilt in 1607, and lost in 1624. HMS Swiftsure (1621)...
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    entered service with the Royal Navy, Constitución as Swiftsure and Libertad as HMS Triumph. The Swiftsure-class ships had an overall length of 475 feet 3 inches...
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  • renamed HMS Indus IV in 1912, and HMS Algiers in 1915. She was sold in 1921. HMS Triumph (1903) was a Swiftsure-class battleship launched in 1903 and sunk...
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    HMS Triumph was a broadside ironclad battleship of the Victorian era, the sister-ship of HMS Swiftsure. These two ships comprise the Swiftsure class of...
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    HMS Triumph, originally known as Libertad, was the second of the two Swiftsure-class pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy. The ship was ordered...
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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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    HMS A8 was an early Royal Navy submarine. She was a member of Group Two of the 1903 British A-class of submarines. Like the other members of her class...
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    HMS Canopus was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and the lead ship of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Canopus and...
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    HMS M33 is an M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy. Built in 1915, she saw active service in the Mediterranean during the First World War and in Russia...
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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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    Spanish navy and named Tornado Constitución (1903) Swiftsure-class battleship 12,175 HMS Swiftsure (1903) Armstrong Whitworth Purchased by UK as part...
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    HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship afloat...
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    HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior...
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    HMS Hazard. Together they made up the "First Submarine Flotilla", commanded by Captain Reginald Bacon. Holland 1 suffered an explosion 3 March 1903 that...
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    HMS Caroline is a decommissioned C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that was the lead ship of her sub-class. Completed in 1914, she saw combat service...
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    she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned...
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    due to be finalised in 2035. HMS Churchill HMS Dreadnought HMS Resolution HMS Repulse HMS Renown HMS Revenge HMS Swiftsure The Royal Navy's two Queen Elizabeth-class...
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    HMS Unicorn is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was...
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  • Constitución (1903) - Confiscated by Britain 1903, renamed HMS Swiftsure, sold for breaking up 1920 Libertad (1903) - Confiscated by Britain 1903, renamed HMS Triumph...
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    for the Chilean Navy—what became the Swiftsure class—were purchased after the Chileans placed them for sale in 1903. A final class of two ships, designed...
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    HMS Gannet is a Royal Navy Doterel-class screw sloop-of-war launched on 31 August 1878. It became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then...
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    that they were building for Chile. Britain took the ship over in 1903 as HMS Swiftsure, and the guns were designated BL 10 inch Mk VI in UK service. These...
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    Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station, with his flag in the armoured ship HMS Swiftsure, in December 1881. On 27 October 1884, he was promoted to vice-admiral...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Goliath (1898)
    HMS Goliath was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Goliath and her...
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    submarine Riachuelo – Preserved at the Navy Cultural Centre in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil HMS Swiftsure – Laid up in Rosyth Dockyard, United Kingdom See here for every U-class...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles Doughty-Wylie
    Bell-Davies (later a VC recipient, then a lieutenant on the battleship HMS Swiftsure) met him at the time and gives an account in his autobiography Sailor...
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    was then placed on half-pay. Cradock became captain of the battleship HMS Swiftsure on 17 July 1906 and was relieved on 6 August 1908, publishing his last...
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    Constitución in 1903 to avoid the risk of the ship being acquired by Russia. Constitución became HMS Swiftsure in British service. Swiftsure was decommissioned...
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    as overseas cruisers and the British had responded with ships like HMS Swiftsure of 1870. The Russian ship General-Admiral, laid down in 1870 and completed...
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