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HMS Dorsetshire

Index HMS Dorsetshire

Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Dorsetshire, after the traditional county of Dorsetshire. [1]

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

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Heavy cruiser

The heavy cruiser was a type of cruiser, a naval warship designed for long range and high speed, armed generally with naval guns of roughly 203mm calibre (8 inches in caliber) of whose design parameters were dictated by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Third-rate

In the rating system of the British Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dorsetshire

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