HMS Russell was a Duncan-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy commissioned in 1903. Built to counter a group of fast Russian battleships...
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broken up in 1865. HMS Russell (1901), launched in 1901, was a Duncan-class battleship, sunk in 1916 by a mine off Malta HMS Russell (F97), launched in...
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seaboard of Great Britain due to a naval arms race with Germany. HMS Russell (1901) In 1903 approval was given with an estimated cost of £3 million for...
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respectively. HMS Albemarle, named for George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, was laid down on 1 January 1900 at Chatham Dockyard, and launched on 5 March 1901, when...
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borne the name HMS Bedford, named initially after William Russell, created Duke of Bedford in May 1694 and not after the town of Bedford: HMS Bedford (1698)...
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referred to as pre-dreadnoughts. The commissioning and putting to sea of HMS Dreadnought, in part inspired by the results of the Battle of Tsushima in...
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respectively. HMS Duncan was laid down by Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Leamouth, on 10 July 1899, and launched on 21 March 1901. She left the...
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thick, respectively. HMS Exmouth was laid down by Laird Brothers at Birkenhead on 10 August 1899. She was floated out on 31 August 1901, when she was named...
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HMS Cornwallis was a Duncan-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. Built to counter a group of fast Russian battleships, Cornwallis and her...
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by U-73 35°54′N 14°36′E / 35.900°N 14.600°E / 35.900; 14.600 (HMS Russell (1901)) S 31 Kriegsmarine 10 May 1942 A German E-boat that was sunk by...
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body of Queen Victoria from Cowes to Portsmouth on 2 February 1901. On 1 October 1902, Russell was appointed Captain-Superintendent, Pembroke Dockyard, in...
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Duncan-class battleship (redirect from Duncan class battleship (1901))
in the early 1900s. The six ships—HMS Duncan, HMS Albemarle, HMS Cornwallis, HMS Exmouth, HMS Montagu, and HMS Russell—were ordered in response to Russian...
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HMS Birkenhead, also referred to as HM Troopship Birkenhead or Steam Frigate Birkenhead, was one of the first iron-hulled ships built for the Royal Navy...
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were in company with the 74-gun third rate ship of the line HMS Russell, and the fourth rate HMS Grampus. Three days later Albion and Sceptre separated from...
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Station, 1901–1904. HMS Fox, East Indies Station, 1901–1904. HMS Flora, Pacific Station, 1902–1905. HMS Glory, China Station, 1900–1904. HMS Grafton,...
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lieutenant on 12 November 1834. Until 1837 he served aboard HMS Astraea along with Lord Edward Russell, also later to become a Member of Parliament. On 15 January...
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HMS Minden was a Royal Navy 74-gun Ganges-class third-rate ship of the line, launched on 19 June 1810 from Bombay, India. She was named after the German...
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Arthur Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon (category 1901 deaths)
William Acland Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon, GCB (14 July 1824 – 16 November 1901) was an officer of the Royal Navy. As a junior officer he took part in the...
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required to operate undetected. Founded in 1901, the service made history in 1982 when, during the Falklands War, HMS Conqueror became the first nuclear-powered...
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Thomas and his son Oliver. It was completed in its first form in 1901. In 1907, Annie Russell-Cotes donated East Cliff Hall and its contents as a museum to...
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Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (category 1901 births)
film Viceroy's House (2017) Lucy Russell in series 2 of The Crown (2017) Encyclopedia. "Mountbatten, Edwina Ashley (1901-1960". Retrieved 10 July 2021....
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served on the following: HMS Russell; HMS Jupiter; HMS Revenge; HMS Gladiator; HMS Blake; HMS Juno; HMS Mersey; HMS Scout; HMS Haughty; and HMTB 87. de...
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HMS Venus (1895) HMS Diana (1895) HMS Highflyer (1898) HMS Hermes (1898) HMS Cressy (1899) HMS Aboukir (1900) HMS Good Hope (1901) HMS Bedford (1901)...
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1902 he was appointed flag captain of HMS Albion, second flagship on the China Station. He later commanded HMS Russell. He joined the staff of the Commander...
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1902, Noble was posted to the battleship HMS Hannibal serving in the Channel Fleet. He transferred to HMS Russell on her commission in February 1903. He...
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September 1879, together with Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore. Russell soon began seeing the orchestra leader Harry Braham and became...
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Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (redirect from Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans)
interrupted with a posting to HMS Majestic, where he first encountered then-Lieutenant Robert Falcon Scott. In July 1901, the British National Antarctic...
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battleships 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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King George V. He commissioned the newly built battleship HMS Implacable on 10 September 1901, and served as its captain for a year in the Mediterranean...
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Campaign. Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1901–1960), buried at sea from HMS Wakeful off the coast of Portsmouth. Naihekukui, Hawaiian...
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