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143 relations: Angle of list, Anti-torpedo bulge, Armored cruiser, Artillery battery, Austro-Hungarian Navy, Édouard Pottier, Barbette, Barracks ship, Battleship, Beam (nautical), Belgium, Belt armor, BL 13.5-inch Mk I – IV naval gun, Blockade, British 18-inch torpedo, Briton Ferry, Bulkhead (partition), Captain (Royal Navy), Cartridge (firearms), Ceremonial ship launching, Chania, Channel Fleet, Chatham Dockyard, Chatham, Kent, Compound armour, Compound steam engine, Conning tower, Cordite, Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra, Cretan Muslims, Cretan State, Crete, Deck (ship), Destroyer, Displacement (ship), Dover, Dover Patrol, Draft (boiler), Draft (hull), Dreadnought, Dry dock, Dunkirk, Edhem Pasha, Edward VII, Flag of Greece, Flagship, Flanders, Fleet review, Flying Squadron (United Kingdom), France, ... Expand index (93 more) »
- Royal Sovereign-class battleships
Angle of list
The angle of list is the degree to which a vessel heels (leans or tilts) to either port or starboard at equilibrium—with no external forces acting upon it.
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Anti-torpedo bulge
The anti-torpedo bulge (also known as an anti-torpedo blister) is a form of defence against naval torpedoes occasionally employed in warship construction in the period between the First and Second World Wars.
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Armored cruiser
The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Artillery battery
In military organizations, an artillery battery is a unit or multiple systems of artillery, mortar systems, rocket artillery, multiple rocket launchers, surface-to-surface missiles, ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, etc., so grouped to facilitate better battlefield communication and command and control, as well as to provide dispersion for its constituent gunnery crews and their systems.
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Austro-Hungarian Navy
The Austro-Hungarian Navy or Imperial and Royal War Navy (kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short k.u.k. Kriegsmarine, Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet) was the naval force of Austria-Hungary.
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Édouard Pottier
Édouard Pottier (6 July 1839 – 3 August 1903) was a French admiral.
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Barbette
Barbettes are several types of gun emplacement in terrestrial fortifications or on naval ships.
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Barracks ship
A barracks ship or barracks barge or berthing barge, or in civilian use accommodation vessel or accommodation ship, is a ship or a non-self-propelled barge containing a superstructure of a type suitable for use as a temporary barracks for sailors or other military personnel.
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Battleship
A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ships with the most intense firepower.
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Beam (nautical)
The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point.
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Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
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Belt armor
Belt armor is a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships, typically on battleships, battlecruisers and cruisers, and aircraft carriers.
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BL 13.5-inch Mk I – IV naval gun
The BL 13.5 inch naval gun Mk I ("67-ton gun") was Britain's first successful large breechloading naval gun, initially designed in the early 1880s and eventually deployed in the late 1880s.
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Blockade
A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force.
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British 18-inch torpedo
There have been a number of 18-inch (45cm) torpedoes in service with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.
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Briton Ferry
Briton Ferry (Llansawel) is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
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Bulkhead (partition)
A bulkhead is an upright wall within the hull of a ship, within the fuselage of an airplane, or a car.
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Captain (Royal Navy)
Captain (Capt) is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy.
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Cartridge (firearms)
A cartridge, also known as a round, is a type of pre-assembled firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shot, or slug), a propellant substance (smokeless powder, black powder substitute, or black powder) and an ignition device (primer) within a metallic, paper, or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of a breechloading gun, for convenient transportation and handling during shooting.
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Ceremonial ship launching
Ceremonial ship launching involves the performance of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water.
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Chania
Chania (Χανιά), also sometimes romanized as Hania, is a city in Greece and the capital of the Chania regional unit.
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Channel Fleet
The Channel Fleet and originally known as the Channel Squadron was the Royal Navy formation of warships that defended the waters of the English Channel from 1854 to 1909 and 1914 to 1915.
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Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.
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Chatham, Kent
Chatham is a town located within the Medway unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Kent, England.
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Compound armour
Compound armour was a type of armour used on warships in the 1880s, developed in response to the emergence of armor-piercing shells and the continual need for reliable protection with the increasing size in naval ordnance.
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Compound steam engine
A compound steam engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages.
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Conning tower
A conning tower is a raised platform on a ship or submarine, often armoured, from which an officer in charge can conn (conduct or control) the vessel, controlling movements of the ship by giving orders to those responsible for the ship's engine, rudder, lines, and ground tackle.
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Cordite
Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in Britain since 1889 to replace black powder as a military firearm propellant.
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Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra
The coronation of Edward VII and his wife, Alexandra, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 9 August 1902.
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Cretan Muslims
The Cretan Muslims or Cretan Turks (Τουρκοκρητικοί or Τουρκοκρήτες, Tourkokritikí or Tourkokrítes; Giritli, Girit Türkleri, or Giritli Türkler; أتراك كريت) were the Muslim inhabitants of the island of Crete.
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Cretan State
The Cretan State (Kritiki Politeia; Girid Devleti) was established in 1898, following the intervention by the Great Powers (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia) on the island of Crete.
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Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
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Deck (ship)
A deck is a permanent covering over a compartment or a hull of a ship.
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Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats.
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Displacement (ship)
The displacement or displacement tonnage of a ship is its weight.
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Dover
Dover is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England.
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Dover Patrol
The Dover Patrol and later known as the Dover Patrol Force was a Royal Navy command of the First World War, notable for its involvement in the Zeebrugge Raid on 22 April 1918.
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Draft (boiler)
In a water boiler, draft is the difference between atmospheric pressure and the pressure existing in the furnace or flue gas passage.
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Draft (hull)
The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.
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Dreadnought
The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century.
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Dry dock
A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform.
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Dunkirk
Dunkirk (Dunkerque, Duunkerke, Duinkerke or Duinkerken) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.
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Edhem Pasha
Edhem Pasha (Ethem Paşa; 1844–1909) was an Ottoman field marshal and leading figure in the propagation of the Ottoman military doctrine.
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Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
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Flag of Greece
The national flag of Greece, popularly referred to as the "turquoise and white one" (Γαλανόλευκη, Galanólefki) or the "azure and white" (Κυανόλευκη, Kyanólefki), is officially recognised by Greece as one of its national symbols and has 5 equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white.
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Flagship
A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag.
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Flanders
Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen) is the Dutch-speaking northern portion of Belgium and one of the communities, regions and language areas of Belgium.
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Fleet review
A fleet review or naval review is an event where a gathering of ships from a particular navy is paraded and reviewed by an incumbent head of state and/or other official civilian and military dignitaries.
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Flying Squadron (United Kingdom)
The Flying Squadron was a Royal Navy squadron formed at least three times.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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Frederic Fisher
Admiral Sir Frederic William Fisher KCVO (5 October 1851 – 23 December 1943) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
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French cruiser Bugeaud
Bugeaud was a protected cruiser of the French Navy built in the 1890s, the second of three ships of the class.
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French Navy
The French Navy (lit), informally La Royale, is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of France.
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Gale
A gale is a strong wind; the word is typically used as a descriptor in nautical contexts.
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Gerard Noel (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Gerard Henry Uctred Noel, (5 March 1845 – 23 May 1918) was a Royal Navy officer.
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Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
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Gunboat
A gunboat is a naval watercraft designed for the express purpose of carrying one or more guns to bombard coastal targets, as opposed to those military craft designed for naval warfare, or for ferrying troops or supplies.
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Hansard
Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.
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Heraklion
Heraklion or Herakleion (Ηράκλειο), sometimes Iraklion, is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit.
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High commissioner
High commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.
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His Majesty's Coastguard
His Majesty's Coastguard (HMCG) is the section of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency responsible, through the Secretary of State for Transport to Parliament, for the initiation and co-ordination of all maritime search and rescue (SAR) within the UK Maritime Search and Rescue Region.
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HMNB Portsmouth
His Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport).
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HMS Alexandra
HMS Alexandra was a central battery ironclad of the Victorian Royal Navy, whose seagoing career was from 1877 to 1900. HMS Revenge (1892) and HMS Alexandra are Victorian-era battleships of the United Kingdom.
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HMS Colossus (1882)
The fourth HMS Colossus was a ''Colossus'' class second-class British battleship, launched in 1882 and commissioned in 1886. HMS Revenge (1892) and HMS Colossus (1882) are Victorian-era battleships of the United Kingdom.
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HMS Excellent (shore establishment)
HMS Excellent is a Royal Navy "stone frigate" (shore establishment) sited on Whale Island near Portsmouth in Hampshire.
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HMS Revenge (06)
HMS Revenge was the lead ship of five super-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy during the First World War in the mid-1910s. HMS Revenge (1892) and HMS Revenge (06) are world War I battleships of the United Kingdom.
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Home Fleet
The Home Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy that operated from the United Kingdom's territorial waters from 1902 with intervals until 1967.
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Hotchkiss gun
The Hotchkiss gun can refer to different products of the Hotchkiss arms company starting in the late 19th century.
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Humphrys, Tennant and Dykes
Humphrys, Tennant and Dykes (later named Humphrys, Tennant and Co.) was a British engineering company based in Deptford, London, England.
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Imperial German Navy
The Imperial German Navy or the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) was the navy of the German Empire, which existed between 1871 and 1919.
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Imperial Russian Navy
The Imperial Russian Navy operated as the navy of the Russian Tsardom and later the Russian Empire from 1696 to 1917.
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International Squadron (Cretan intervention, 1897–1898)
The International Squadron was a naval squadron formed by a number of Great Powers in early 1897, just before the outbreak of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, to intervene in a native Greek rebellion on Crete against rule by the Ottoman Empire.
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Ironclad warship
An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.
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Isle of Portland
The Isle of Portland is a tied island, long by wide, in the English Channel.
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Isles of Scilly
The Isles of Scilly (label, Enesek Syllan, or Enesow Syllan) are a small archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Italian ironclad Francesco Morosini
Francesco Morosini was an ironclad battleship built in the 1880s and 1890s for the Italian Regia Marina (Royal Navy).
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Izzeddin Fortress
The Izzeddin Fortress (Φρούριο Ιτζεδδίν; Izzeddin means "Glory of the Faith") is an Ottoman fortress in Souda Bay, Crete, near the village of Kalami, best known for its role as a prison for political prisoners in 20th-century Greece.
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Jameson Raid
The Jameson Raid (Afrikaans: Jameson-inval,, 29 December 1895 – 2 January 1896) was a botched raid against the South African Republic (commonly known as the Transvaal) carried out by British colonial administrator Leander Starr Jameson, under the employment of Cecil Rhodes.
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Jarrow
Jarrow is a town in South Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.
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Keel laying
Laying the keel or laying down is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction.
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Kruger telegram
The Kruger telegram was a message sent by Kaiser Wilhelm II to Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic, on 3 January 1896.
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Length between perpendiculars
Length between perpendiculars (often abbreviated as p/p, p.p., pp, LPP, LBP or Length BPP) is the length of a ship along the summer load line from the forward surface of the stem, or main bow perpendicular member, to the after surface of the sternpost, or main stern perpendicular member.
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Length overall
Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline.
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Magazine (artillery)
A magazine is an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored.
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Marines
Marines (or naval infantry) are soldiers who primarily operate in littoral zones, both on land and at sea.
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Mediterranean Fleet
The British Mediterranean Fleet, also known as the Mediterranean Station, was a formation of the Royal Navy.
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Milos
Milos or Melos (Mílos,; Mêlos) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete.
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Motherbank
The Motherbank is a shallow sandbar off the northeast coast of the Isle of Wight in England.
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Naval rating
In a military navy, a rate or rating, and sometimes known as a bluejacket in the United States, is a junior enlisted sailor who is below the military rank of warrant officer.
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Nieuwpoort, Belgium
Nieuwpoort (Nieuwpôort; Nieuport) is a city and municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, in the province of West Flanders.
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Nikolai Skrydlov
Nikolai Illarionovich Skrydlov (Николай Илларионович Скрыдлов), (1 April 1844 – 4 October 1918) was an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited, often referred to simply as "Palmers", was a British shipbuilding company.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city and unitary authority in Hampshire, England.
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Pound sterling
Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories.
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Pre-dreadnought battleship
Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built from the mid- to late- 1880s to the early 1900s.
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Prince George of Greece and Denmark
Prince George of Greece and Denmark (Γεώργιος; 24 June 1869 – 25 November 1957) was the second son and child of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinovna of Russia, and is remembered chiefly for having once saved the life of his cousin the future Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II in 1891 during their visit to Japan together.
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Protected cruiser
Protected cruisers, a type of cruising warship of the late 19th century, gained their description because an armoured deck offered protection for vital machine-spaces from fragments caused by shells exploding above them.
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QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss
The QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss or in French use Canon Hotchkiss à tir rapide de 47 mm were a family of long-lived light naval guns introduced in 1886 to defend against new, small and fast vessels such as torpedo boats and later submarines.
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QF 6-inch naval gun
The QF 6-inch 40 calibre naval gun (Quick-Firing) was used by many United Kingdom-built warships around the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century.
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Quick-firing gun
A quick-firing or rapid-firing gun is an artillery piece, typically a gun or howitzer, that has several characteristics which taken together mean the weapon can fire at a fast rate.
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Rear admiral
Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies.
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Rear admiral (Royal Navy)
Rear admiral (RAdm) is a flag officer rank of the Royal Navy.
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Regia Marina
The paren) (RM) or Royal Italian Navy was the navy of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) from 1861 to 1946. In 1946, with the birth of the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), the Regia Marina changed its name to Marina Militare ("Military Navy").
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Reserve fleet
A reserve fleet is a collection of naval vessels of all types that are fully equipped for service but are not currently needed; they are partially or fully decommissioned.
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Robert Harris (Royal Navy officer, 1843–1926)
Admiral Sir Robert Hastings Penruddock Harris KCB, KCMG (12 October 1843 – 25 August 1926) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope Station.
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Royal Marines
The Royal Marines, also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, and provide a company strength unit to the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG).
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Royal Sovereign-class battleship
The Royal Sovereign class was a group of eight pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. HMS Revenge (1892) and Royal Sovereign-class battleship are Royal Sovereign-class battleships, Victorian-era battleships of the United Kingdom and world War I battleships of the United Kingdom.
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Russian battleship Imperator Aleksandr II
Imperator Aleksandr II (Император Александр II) was a Russian battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1880s.
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Russian cruiser Gerzog Edinburgski
Gerzog Edinburgski (Герцог Эдинбургский) was an armoured cruiser of the built for the Imperial Russian Navy.
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Scotch marine boiler
A "Scotch" marine boiler (or simply Scotch boiler) is a design of steam boiler best known for its use on ships.
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Seakeeping
Seakeeping ability or seaworthiness is a measure of how well-suited a watercraft is to conditions when underway.
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Second-in-command
Second-in-command (2i/c or 2IC) is a title denoting that the holder of the title is the second-highest authority within a certain organisation.
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Secondary armament
Secondary armaments are smaller, faster-firing weapons that are typically effective at a shorter range than the main (heavy) weapons on military systems, including battleship- and cruiser-type warships, tanks/armored personnel carriers, and rarely other systems.
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Ship breaking
Ship breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship scrapping, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships either as a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction of raw materials, chiefly scrap.
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Ship commissioning
Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning.
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Shipyard
A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired.
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Siege
A siege (lit) is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or by well-prepared assault.
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Souda Bay
Souda Bay (Κόλπος Σούδας) is a bay and natural harbour near the town of Souda on the northwest coast of the Greek island of Crete.
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South African Republic
The South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, abbreviated ZAR; Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek), also known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer republic in Southern Africa which existed from 1852 to 1902, when it was annexed into the British Empire as a result of the Second Boer War.
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Spithead
Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point in Hampshire, England.
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Squall
A squall is a sudden, sharp increase in wind speed lasting minutes, as opposed to a wind gust, which lasts for only seconds.
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Strake
On a vessel's hull, a strake is a longitudinal course of planking or plating which runs from the boat's stempost (at the bows) to the sternpost or transom (at the rear).
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Submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
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Superstructure
A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline.
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Suzerainty
Suzerainty includes the rights and obligations of a person, state, or other polity which controls the foreign policy and relations of a tributary state but allows the tributary state internal autonomy.
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Swansea
Swansea (Abertawe) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales.
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Thos. W. Ward
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Top (sailing ship)
The top on a traditional square rigged ship is the platform at the upper end of each (lower) mast.
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Torpedo boat
A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle.
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Torpedo gunboat
In late 19th-century naval terminology, torpedo gunboats were a form of gunboat armed with torpedoes and designed for hunting and destroying smaller torpedo boats.
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Torpedo tube
A torpedo tube is a cylindrical device for launching torpedoes.
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Training ship
A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors.
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Tugboat
A tugboat or tug is a marine vessel that manoeuvres other vessels by pushing or pulling them, with direct contact or a tow line.
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Tyne and Wear
Tyne and Wear is a ceremonial county in North East England.
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Waterline
The waterline is the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water.
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Westende
Westende is a town in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of West Flanders.
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Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
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Wireless telegraphy
Wireless telegraphy or radiotelegraphy is transmission of text messages by radio waves, analogous to electrical telegraphy using cables.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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Yacht
A yacht is a sail- or motor-propelled watercraft used for pleasure, cruising, or racing.
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6th Battle Squadron
The 6th Battle Squadron was a squadron of the British Royal Navy consisting of Battleships serving in the Grand Fleet and existed from 1913 to 1917.
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See also
Royal Sovereign-class battleships
- HMS Empress of India
- HMS Hood (1891)
- HMS Ramillies (1892)
- HMS Repulse (1892)
- HMS Resolution (1892)
- HMS Revenge (1892)
- HMS Royal Oak (1892)
- HMS Royal Sovereign (1891)
- Royal Sovereign-class battleship
References
Also known as HMS Redoubtable (1892).