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    HMS Gloucester was a Town-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. The ship was initially assigned to the...
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  • launched in 1812 and sold 1884. HMS Gloucester (1909) was a Town-class light cruiser in service from 1909 to 1921. HMS Gloucester (C62) was a Town-class cruiser...
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    HMS Indefatigable was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the 20th Century. When the...
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    Gloucester (/ˈɡlɒstər/ GLOST-ər) is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It sits on Cape Ann and is a part of Massachusetts's North Shore...
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  • storage tanks sited to the south of Gloucester. In 1937 the canal was navigated by the submarines HMS H33 and HMS H49. The canal was nationalized in 1948...
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    HMS Foxhound was a Beagle-class (or G-class) destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The Beagles were coal-fuelled ships, designed for a speed of 27 kn (31 mph;...
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  • HMS Beagle was one of sixteen destroyers ordered under the 1908–09 Naval Estimates from John Brown & Company of Clydebank. Named for the English hunting...
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    Indies Station HMS Gloucester, HMS Liverpool, HMS Manchester; 1945 British Pacific Fleet HMS Swiftsure, HMS Argonaut, HMS Black Prince, HMS Euryalus, HMNZS...
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    renamed HMS Ganges II on 25 April 1908. HMS Caroline was renamed HMS Ganges that month as her replacement. In 1909 the Signal School was established and...
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    selected as secondary armament for the battlecruisers HMS Hood and HMS Furious and the aircraft carrier HMS Hermes. The 12-pounder 76 mm (3.0 in) anti-aircraft...
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    HMS Cressy, and in 1910 he became captain of the new light cruiser HMS Gloucester. In 1912, Cowan became Assistant to John de Robeck, who was then Admiral...
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  • Zealand HMS Renown Battleships: HMS Commonwealth HMS Valiant HMS Howe Cruisers: HMS Liverpool Norfolk Destroyers: HMS Cameleon HMS Comet HMS Goldfinch HMS Maori...
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    entrance examination in July 1858, and was appointed as a naval cadet in HMS Euryalus at the age of 14. In July 1860, while on this ship, Alfred paid...
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    HMS Indomitable was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war....
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  • USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian. 1822 – Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi...
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    Scotland in 1909 to operate a passenger service between London and Australia (via the Suez Canal). Her maiden voyage was 25 June 1909. By 1913 Orsova...
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    battleships of her type, she was completed after the Royal Navy battleship HMS Dreadnought, and as such she was outclassed before she was even commissioned...
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    HMS Inflexible was one of three Invincible-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I and had an active career during the war. She...
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    SS Vigilancia (category 1909 fires)
    May, a day late. By 1909 Vigilancia's ports of call included Guantánamo, Manzanillo, and Santiago. At 11:55 hrs on 25 July 1909 she reached New York...
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    on the training ship HMS Cumberland in the West Indies and on the east coast of Canada. He was rated as a midshipman aboard HMS Collingwood on 15 September...
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    HMS Illustrious was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers built for the Royal Navy before World War II. Her first assignment after completion...
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  • HMS Salopian was a motor ship that was built in 1926 as the passenger ship Shropshire. She belonged to Bibby Line, which ran passenger and cargo services...
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    the Italian states. In 1797, he distinguished himself while in command of HMS Captain at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. Shortly after that battle, Nelson...
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    one missing and another being intercepted by the British destroyer HMS Gloucester. After Indiana was stricken in 1962, the four Iowa-class ships were...
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  • service in four hours. On 7 November 1915 at 2:27 a.m., the British battleship HMS Albemarle suffered severe damage during a storm in the Pentland Firth when...
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    Illustrious, the heavy cruisers HMS Berwick and York, the light cruisers HMS Gloucester and Glasgow, and the destroyers HMS Hyperion, Ilex, Hasty and Havelock...
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    effective. The versatility of the carrier was demonstrated in November 1940 when HMS Illustrious launched a long-range strike on the Italian fleet at their base...
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    outside of the navy and Fisher ultimately announced his resignation in late 1909, although the bulk of his policies were retained. The King was intimately...
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    raised to the peerage as Baron Stowell, of Stowell Park in the County of Gloucester, taking his title from the name of his estate. After a life of judicial...
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    Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, vol. I (reprint in 6 volumes ed.), Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 12 "Orderly Book of the 66th (Berkshire)...
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