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    HMS Swift was a unique destroyer leader designed and built for the Royal Navy prior to World War I, another product of Admiral "Jackie" Fisher's relentless...
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  • HMS Swift has been the name of numerous ships of the Royal Navy: This list may be incomplete. HMS Swift (1697) was a 10-gun ship that was launched 1697...
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  • Fantasque-class destroyer (large destroyers) Type 1936A destroyer HMS Swift (1907) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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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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    HMS Ghurka was a Tribal-class destroyer built in 1907 for the Royal Navy. She served as part of the Dover Patrol during the First World War, playing a...
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    HMS Hawke, launched in 1891 from Chatham Dockyard, was the seventh Royal Navy warship to be named Hawke. She was an Edgar-class protected cruiser. After...
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    located at Sembawang, in the northern part of Singapore. The base motto is Swift and Resolute. Before Singapore's independence from the United Kingdom, it...
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    HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic)
    and was received by several other ships in the area, among them HMS Scourge and HMS Heroic, but Britannic heard nothing in reply. Unknown to either Bartlett...
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    in the future. An important development came with the construction of HMS Swift in 1884, later redesignated TB 81. This was a large (137 ton) torpedo...
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    remained above water. Three British warships including the destroyer HMS Swift, as well as the ocean liner Cassandra, aided the stricken ship and helped...
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    attacked and sank the nearby aircraft carrier HMS Glorious with its escorting destroyers HMS Acasta and HMS Ardent. Devonshire did not rebroadcast the enemy...
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    fourth-rate HMS Ruby, before transferring to the third-rate HMS Monmouth. Promoted to lieutenant on 17 March 1716, he was assigned to the fourth-rate HMS Hampshire...
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    The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest...
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    Titanic (redirect from HMS Titanic)
    RMS Majestic of 1890 and RMS Adriatic of 1907. RMS Oceanic first departed from a new home port in June 1907 along with the Teutonic, Majestic, and the...
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    Science. Retrieved February 18, 2022. "Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved...
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    Muir and Houston of Glasgow, Scotland, and was rated at 650 hp (480 kW). In 1907, Regina was built in Dumbarton, Scotland by A. McMillian & Son with the yard...
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    Tahiti HMS Cochrane (1905) HMS Commonwealth (1905) RMS Empress of Britain (1906) RMS Empress of Ireland (1906) SS Volturno (1906) HMS Indomitable (1907) SS...
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    steel-hulled American lake freighter in service between 1907 and 1918. She was built in 1907 by the Chicago Shipbuilding Company of South Chicago, Illinois...
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    Lake Ontario October 7, 1804 Fisk was transporting a prisoner on board the HMS Speedy when the ship sank during a fierce storm Constable Timothy C. Pomeroy...
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    return to oil-firing as pioneered in the Tribal or F class of 1905 and HMS Swift of 1907. The Admiralty provided general specifications, but each shipyard...
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  • Mottoes in South African Universities". "Home". sggs.co.za. Naval History: HMS Venetia (D 53) – V & W-class Destroyer Additional references Adeleye, Gabriel...
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    a return to oil-firing. Pioneered by the Tribal class of 1905 and HMS Swift of 1907, using oil enabled a more efficient design, leading to a smaller vessel...
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    HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. She differed from the other ships...
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    179°46′E / 62.383°N 179.767°E / 62.383; 179.767; the whaling bark Jirah Swift, of New Bedford, is burned; the whaling ship Milo is bonded for $46,000;...
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    light cruiser Sendai-class light cruiser Agano-class light cruiser Swift – prototype (1907) Faulknor-class leader (1915) Marksman-class leader (1915) Parker-class...
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    a return to oil-firing. Pioneered by the Tribal class of 1905 and HMS Swift of 1907, using oil enabled a more efficient design, leading to a smaller vessel...
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    naval arms race began. Despite the vast sums spent by Tirpitz, the launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 gave the British a technological advantage. Ultimately...
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    carrier HMS Formidable, the battleships HMS Warspite and HMS Barham, the cruisers HMS Ajax, HMS Dido, HMS Orion, and HMAS Perth, the submarine HMS Rover...
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    Navy return to oil-firing. Pioneered by the Tribal class of 1905 and HMS Swift of 1907, using oil enabled a more efficient design, leading to a smaller vessel...
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    [citation needed] In 1906 the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought launched a great naval race worldwide. Between 1907 and 1923, Newport News built six of the US...
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