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64 relations: Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, Anti-aircraft warfare, Anti-submarine warfare, Antwerp, Atlantic Ocean, Barclay Curle, Beam (nautical), Belgian Navy, Bow (watercraft), Bow, McLachlan and Company, Bridge (nautical), British campaign in the Baltic (1918–1919), British Newspaper Archive, Caen, Casablanca, Cephalonia, Cherbourg, Coal, Coastal trading vessel, Dispatch boat, Displacement (ship), Draft (hull), Dumbarton, Ferry, Flare (ship), Forecastle, Funnel (ship), Greenock, Greenock Dockyard Company, Gulf of Finland, Haulbowline, Hull (watercraft), Kriegsmarine, Length between perpendiculars, Length overall, Lloyd's of London, Lobnitz, Luftwaffe, Mast (sailing), Minesweeper, Minesweeping, Napier and Miller, Naval rating, Old Kilpatrick, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Prisoner of war, Propeller, Q-ship, QF 4-inch naval gun Mk IV, XII, XXII, QF 4.7-inch Mk I – IV naval gun, ... Expand index (14 more) »
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Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
The Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War consisted of a series of multi-national military expeditions that began in 1918.
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Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action" (NATO's definition).
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Anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in the older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms, to find, track, and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines.
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Antwerp
Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Barclay Curle
Seawind Barclay Curle is a British shipbuilding company.
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Beam (nautical)
The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point.
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Belgian Navy
The Belgian Navy, officially the Naval Component (Marinecomponent,; Composante marine,; Marinekomponente) of the Belgian Armed Forces, is the naval service of Belgium.
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Bow (watercraft)
The bow is the forward part of the hull of a ship or boat, the point that is usually most forward when the vessel is underway.
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Bow, McLachlan and Company
Bow, McLachlan and Company was a Scottish marine engineering and shipbuilding company that traded between 1872 and 1932.
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Bridge (nautical)
Sikuliaq'', docked in Ketchikan, Alaska Wheelhouse on a tugboat, topped with a flying bridge A bridge (also known as a command deck), or wheelhouse (also known as a pilothouse), is a room or platform of a ship or submarine from which the ship can be commanded.
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British campaign in the Baltic (1918–1919)
The British campaign in the Baltic 1918–1919 was a part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.
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British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitized archives of British and Irish newspapers.
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Caen
Caen (Kaem) is a commune inland from the northwestern coast of France.
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Casablanca
Casablanca (lit) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.
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Cephalonia
Kefalonia or Cephalonia (Κεφαλονιά), formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia (Κεφαλληνία), is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the 6th largest island in Greece after Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rhodes and Chios.
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Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a former commune and subprefecture located at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.
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Coastal trading vessel
Coastal trading vessels, also known as coasters or skoots, are shallow-hulled merchant ships used for transporting cargo along a coastline.
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Dispatch boat
Dispatch boats were small boats, and sometimes large ships, tasked to carry military dispatches from ship to ship or from ship to shore or, in some cases from shore to shore.
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Displacement (ship)
The displacement or displacement tonnage of a ship is its weight.
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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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Dumbarton
Dumbarton (Dumbairton, Dumbartoun or Dumbertan; Dùn Breatann or Dùn Breatainn, meaning 'fort of the Britons') is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary.
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Ferry
A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.
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Flare (ship)
Flare is the angle at which a ship's hull plate or planking departs from the vertical in an outward direction with increasing height.
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Forecastle
The forecastle (contracted as fo'c'sle or fo'c's'le) is the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or, historically, the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters.
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Funnel (ship)
A funnel is the smokestack or chimney on a ship used to expel boiler steam and smoke or engine exhaust.
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Greenock
Greenock (Greenock; Grianaig) is a town in Inverclyde, Scotland, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
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Greenock Dockyard Company
The Greenock Dockyard Company was a Scottish shipbuilding and ship repair firm located at Greenock, on the River Clyde.
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Gulf of Finland
The Gulf of Finland (Soome laht; Suomenlahti; p; Finska viken) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea.
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Haulbowline
Haulbowline (Inis Sionnach; Ál-boling) is an island in Cork Harbour off the coast of Ireland.
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Hull (watercraft)
A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, submarine, or flying boat.
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Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.
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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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Lloyd's of London
Lloyd's of London, generally known simply as Lloyd's, is an insurance and reinsurance market located in London, United Kingdom.
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Lobnitz
Lobnitz & Company was a Scottish shipbuilding company located at Renfrew on the River Clyde, west of the Renfrew Ferry crossing and east of the confluence with the River Cart.
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Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the Wehrmacht before and during World War II.
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Mast (sailing)
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.
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Minesweeper
A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines.
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Minesweeping
Minesweeping is the practice of removing explosive naval mines, usually by a specially designed ship called a minesweeper using various measures to either capture or detonate the mines, but sometimes also with an aircraft made for that purpose.
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Napier and Miller
Napier & Miller Ltd. (also Messrs Napier & Miller) were Scottish shipbuilders based at Old Kilpatrick, Glasgow, Scotland.
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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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Old Kilpatrick
Old Kilpatrick (Auld Kilpaitrick, Cille Phàdraig meaning "Patrick's church"), is a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
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Paisley, Renfrewshire
Paisley (Paisley; Pàislig) is a large town situated in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
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Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
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Propeller
A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.
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Q-ship
Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, decoy vessels, special service ships, or mystery ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks.
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QF 4-inch naval gun Mk IV, XII, XXII
The QF 4-inch gun Mk IVMk IV.
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QF 4.7-inch Mk I – IV naval gun
The QF 4.7-inch Gun Mks I, II, III, and IVMk I.
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Renfrew
Renfrew (Renfrew; Rinn Friù) is a town west of Glasgow in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
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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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Sheer (ship)
The sheer is a measure of longitudinal main deck curvature in naval architecture.
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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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Sloop-of-war
During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the British Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns.
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Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
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Submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
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Swan Hunter
Swan Hunter, formerly known as Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, is a shipbuilding design, engineering, and management company, based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England.
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U-boat
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.
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Wallsend
Wallsend is a town in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall.
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Whiteinch
Whiteinch (Innis Bhàn) is an area in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
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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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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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3-pounder gun
3-pounder gun, 3-pounder, 3-pdr or QF 3-pdr is an abbreviation typically referring to a gun which fired a projectile weighing approximately 3 pounds.
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See also
Azalea-class sloops
- Azalea-class sloop
- HMS Myrtle (1915)
- HMS Snowdrop (1915)
- SS Ardena (1915)
References
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