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    HMS Renown was a second-class predreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. Intended to command cruiser squadrons operating on...
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  • HMS Empress of India in 1890 and launched in 1891. HMS Renown (1895) was a unique battleship launched in 1895 and sold for scrap in 1914. HMS Renown was...
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    HMS Terrible was the second and last of the Powerful-class protected cruisers built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the 1890s. She served on the China Station...
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    Sarawak from 1841 to 1946,[citation needed] he commanded the battle cruiser HMS Renown during the Second World War. Brooke was born at Boddington House, Byfield...
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  • battleship HMS Victoria (1887), with cylinders of 43, 62 and 96 inches producing 12,000 ihp. Higher-pressure engines were fitted to the ironclads HMS Renown (1895)...
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    school ship. Defiance was a development of the Renown class. The second pair of Renowns, HMS Atlas and HMS Anson, had a modified, finer stern run. Defiance...
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    steam two-deckers. The class consisted of HMS Duncan and HMS Gibraltar. The Bulwark class had identical hulls. HMS Gibraltar was the last wooden steam line-of-battleship...
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    intended for overseas duties: the two Centurion-class battleships and HMS Renown. The nine Majestic-class battleships followed as refinements of White's...
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  • HMS Britannia as a naval cadet in 1895. After being made chief naval cadet in 1896 he was sent to the Australia station as a midshipsman on board HMS...
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    commissioned, they were the most numerous class of battleships. The nine ships, HMS Majestic, Caesar, Hannibal, Illustrious, Jupiter, Magnificent, Mars, Prince...
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    Africa. Fisher retained his flagship from the North American Squadron, HMS Renown, rather than choosing a more powerful but slower traditional battleship...
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    Navy of the North Germany Confederacy (which included Prussia) bought HMS Renown from Britain in 1870 for use as a gunnery training ship. "The canon-obusier...
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    government for the first time. Mountbatten was posted to the battlecruiser HMS Renown in March 1920 and accompanied Edward, Prince of Wales, on a royal tour...
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    HMS Empress of India was one of seven Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the 1890s. The ship was commissioned...
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    wounded in the legs when shrapnel hit the bridge. He assumed command of HMS Renown in 1943. He took part in the Normandy landings and served on the staff...
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  • Cruiser – HMS Argonaut Association". Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Badsworth, escort destroyer". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Beaufort...
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    (1893) HMS Venus (1895) HMS Diana (1895) HMS Highflyer (1898) HMS Hermes (1898) HMS Cressy (1899) HMS Aboukir (1900) HMS Good Hope (1901) HMS Bedford...
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    battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought, had such an effect when launched in 1906 that similar battleships...
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    appointments to HMS Brittania, HMS Garnet, HMS Inflexible, HMS Foxhound, HMS Melita, HMS President, HMS Pembroke, HMS Leander, HMS Hood, HMS Leviathan, HMS Bachante...
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    Sep: Perth 19 Oct: Cheviot 26 Oct: Ada and Ethel 29 Oct: Vernon c. Dec: Renown Other incidents 13 Jan: Arizona 13 Jan: Britannic 10 May: Great Eastern...
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    became a private ship in the fleet, relieved as flagship by the battleship HMS Renown, but in January 1900 she became the flagship of Rear Admiral Lord Charles...
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  • battle of Salamis. On 18 June 1799, HMS Emerald captured her and she was brought into Royal Navy service as HMS Salamine. She served briefly in the Mediterranean...
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    trained, veteran and patriotic army far larger than that which had won renown in the years before 1814. So threatening were the symptoms, that the royalists...
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    between bottom cleanings. Their crews numbered 620 officers and ratings in 1895 and 600 after they were rebuilt in the early years of the 20th century. The...
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    in the 16th century. The church was restored during the 19th century by renown architect Sir Charles Nicholson. The manor house, known as South Shoebury...
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    words in order to help you feel at peace. This is a reference to Bagamoyo's renown as a town of porters in the nineteenth century. The mediaeval settlement...
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    rear wheels from September 1949. In 1950, the Vanguard and the Triumph Renown were the first cars to be fitted with a Laycock de Normanville overdrive...
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    become a preeminent figure in British horticulture and had also earned great renown as a freelance garden designer; his works included the pioneering public...
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  • characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895. As they can be considered as reduced versions of battleships, coastal defence...
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    off Norway, the two ships engaged the battlecruiser HMS Renown and sank the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious— in the engagement with Glorious, Scharnhorst...
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