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  • #REDIRECT [[Royal Navy]]
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  • The '''Royal Navy''' is the official name of the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[navy]]. Its history g }},p. 35</ref> The official Royal Navy website mentions earlier events, but defines the first period of the Navy a
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  • | title = The Oxford illustrated history of the Royal Navy
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  • (British) [[Royal Navy]] [[jargon]] for [[chocolate]]; the chocolate need not contain [[nut (botan
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  • Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Royal Navy]]. Needs checking by a human.
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  • Operations by the [[Royal Navy]], [[French Navy]] and fledgling [[United States Navy]] during the [[Americ
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  • #REDIRECT [[Royal Navy]]
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  • *[http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/history/ships/hms-furious-1917/ HMS Glorious, Royal Navy page]
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  • ...mod.uk/operations-and-support/submarine-service/ballistic-submarines-ssbn/ Royal Navy] page on Vanguard-class
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  • Major naval engagement between the German and [[Royal Navy|Royal Navies]] in the [[First World War]]; largest naval battle in history
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  • A Royal Navy officer and Pacific explorer.
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  • [[Royal Navy]] 106-gun first-rate launched in 1820
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  • [[Royal Navy]] WWII [[Battle-class]] [[destroyer]] launched in 1944
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  • [[Trafalgar-class battleship]] launched in 1887 by the [[Royal Navy]
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  • [[Trafalgar-class battleship]] launched in 1887 by the [[Royal Navy]]
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  • [[Audacious-class]] [[aircraft carrier]] of the [[Royal Navy]]; scrapped in 1980
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  • Town-class light [[cruiser]] of the [[Royal Navy]]; served 1937-1964
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  • First [[Royal Navy]] [[attack submarine]] of the [[Trafalgar-class]]; launched 1981; decommiss
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  • The naval aviation component of the [[Royal Navy]]
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  • ...oinclude>A type of [[Submarine|submarine]] currently in service with the [[Royal Navy]]
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  • His (Her) Majesty's Ship, the prefix for [[Royal Navy]] warships
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  • The Royal Navy Brig that Charles Darwin sailed to the Galapagos on.
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  • British admiral (1841-1920), considered the creator of the industrialized [[Royal Navy]]
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  • (British) [[Royal Navy]] [[jargon]] for [[chocolate]]; the chocolate need not contain [[nut (botan
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  • ...include>A type of British [[Submarine|attack submarine]] operated by the [[Royal Navy]].
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  • <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>Among the earliest purpose-built [[Royal Navy]] ships, ordered by King [[Henry VIII]]; preserved, as a wreck, in Portsmou
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  • [[Royal Navy]] 74-gun [[ship of the line]], retired from sea duty in 1818 and scrapped i
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  • <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>[[Destroyer]] of the [[Royal Navy]]'s [[Type 42-class]], sunk by an [[Exocet]] missile in the [[Falklands War
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  • [[Invincible-class]] [[aircraft carrier]] of the Royal Navy; slightly larger than her sisters; operates [[helicopter]]s and [[STOVL]] a
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  • The first [[Royal Navy]] steam-propelled, [[armored warship]], a revolutionary advance in technolo
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  • [[Royal Navy]] 65,000 ton [[aircraft carrier]] of the [[Queen Elizabeth (carrier)-class]
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  • Distinguished officer of the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[Napoleonic Wars]], who set a standard for both real-world an
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  • An American warship that fought against elements of the Royal Navy on Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
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  • <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>[[Royal Navy]] medium [[aircraft carrier]], entering service in 1938, and amassing a dis
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  • ...atio Hornblower]], a fictional [[frigate (sail)|frigate captain]] in the [[Royal Navy]]; U.S. title ''Beat to Quarters''
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  • Launched as [[Royal Navy]] 110-gun first-rate launched in 1841; converted to screw propulsion in 18
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  • The HMS Wager was a [[warship]] in the [[Royal Navy]], wrecked in Southern [[Chile]] in the 18th Century.
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  • ...'HMS Ark Royal'' (1938)''', was a 22,000-ton [[aircraft carrier]] of the [[Royal Navy]], built at Birkenhead, England, was completed in November 1938.<ref>{{cita
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  • {{rpl|Nutty (Royal Navy)}}
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  • In the [[Royal Navy]], the historic ship name ''Invincible'' was used for the seventh time in c | title = Aircraft Carriers of the Royal Navy
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  • ==Royal Navy==
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  • ...s''' is a type of British [[Submarine|attack submarine]] operated by the [[Royal Navy]]. The Swiftsure-class is in the process of being withdrawn to make way fo | publisher = [[Royal Navy]]
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  • <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>[[Royal Navy]] destroyer that, while herself sinking, rammed and critically damaged a mu
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  • ...Austen]]'s fifth brother, her immediately oldest sibling, he entered the [[Royal Navy]] at a young age, was made a [[Post Captain]] in his twenties, and retired
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  • The first nuclear-powered [[submarine]] of the [[Royal Navy]]; actually a hybrid of the stern of a U.S. [[Skipjack-class]] submarine wi
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  • A WWII [[Royal Navy]] [[corvette]] used as an [[ocean escort]], derived from a whaling vessel,
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  • Celebrated author [[Jane Austen]]'s youngest brother, entered the [[Royal Navy]], like his brother [[Frank Austen|Frank]], was made a [[Post Captain]] in
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  • * The [[Royal Navy]]
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  • * [[HMS Ashanti]], the name of two Royal Navy warships
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  • '''HMS ''Hood''''' was a [[Royal Navy]] [[Admiral-class]] [[battlecruiser]] that exploded and sank on 24 May 1941
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  • ...''' is [[Canada]]'s [[Navy]]. Founded in 1910, the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[Royal Navy]] provided a few vessels, and some officers, to help guide the new service. The Navy purchased four former Royal Navy submarines, which have been plagued with problems, and have seen very littl
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  • A '''Q-ship''' was an armed merchant vessel used principally by the [[Royal Navy]] during [[World War I]]. Its armament was concealed and so it served as a
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  • {{r|Royal Navy}}
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  • ...miral|admiral of the fleet]], considered to be the builder of the modern [[Royal Navy]].<ref name=Massey>{{citation ...02</ref> He was [[First Sea Lord]], or senior professional officer of the Royal Navy twice, in 1904-1910 and 1914-1915.
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  • A novel in the [[Horatio Hornblower]] series about a talented [[Royal Navy]] officer, as a new [[captain (naval)|captain]], moving from an extremely v
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  • ...al landing]] is preferred. Variants are used by the [[Royal Air Force]], [[Royal Navy]], and [[United States Marine Corps]].
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  • | title = The Oxford illustrated history of the Royal Navy
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  • * A Post-Imperial Power? Britain and the [[Royal Navy]], Spring 2005, http://www.fpri.org/orbis/4902/black.postimperialroyalnavy.
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  • ...sions being replaced in the the Italian Navy, the U.K. Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, and the United States Marine Corps.
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  • ...t.<ref name="telegraph1">{{cite news |last1=Corfield |first1=Gareth |title=Royal Navy gets sandbox warship to test sea drones and robot submarines |url=https://w ...rement amounted to less than £7 million.<ref name="NL1">{{cite news |title=Royal Navy takes delivery of new experimental vessel |url=https://www.navylookout.com/
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  • ...combat fleet anywhere in the world. Even with the great tradition of the [[Royal Navy]], the 1982 [[Falklands War]] was a surprise when Britain fought the larges ...r, the world's largest and most capable. While much smaller, the British [[Royal Navy]] consistently demonstrates excellent capabilities. With much smaller budge
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  • ==Royal Navy== ...Officer Cadet]]. Although not commissioned, midshipmen are officers in the Royal Navy, and rank immediately below [[Second Lieutenant]]s in the [[British Army]]
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  • ...variant of "chief petty officer". Warrant officer titles may be, as in the Royal Navy, the highest rank of petty officer, or, as in the U.S. Navy, a technical sp
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  • ...anding ships''' are a new class of amphibious warfare ships of the British Royal Navy.<ref name=RFA-Bay>{{citation | | author = Royal Navy
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  • ...South Atlantic commerce raider in [[World War II]] until it encountered [[Royal Navy]] vessels off South America. Badly damaged in the [[Battle of the River Pla ...under treaty limits. Its main guns were 11", heavier than those used by [[Royal Navy]] cruisers but not of battleship calibre. The ship had an extended cruising
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  • ...for a ship or other military platform much superior to competitors. The [[Royal Navy]] has had numerous ships designated ''HMS Dreadnought'', the best-known bei
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  • Conducted by the [[Royal Navy]], the '''Torndern Raid''', also known as '''Operation F.7''', was the firs
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  • ...tropos''' is a novel in the series, by C.S. Forester, about a fictitious [[Royal Navy]] around the turn of the 19th century, [[Horatio Hornblower]]. Hornblower i ...completes the difficult assignment, to the satisfaction of the head of the Royal Navy, Admiral the Right Honorable Earl St. Vincent. The Admiral presents the yo
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  • | publisher = Naval Intelligence Division, [[Royal Navy]] With much of the [[Royal Navy]] in pursuit, ''Bismarck'' was eventually rendered unmaneuverable, and sunk
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  • ...amming would be needed to stop most of the invasion troops, as long as the Royal Navy was operational.
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  • In a non-nuclear environment, the [[Royal Navy]] and [[United States Navy]] have delivered a number of attacks with [[BGM-
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  • ...ral]] '''Horatio, Viscount Nelson''', was a distinguished officer of the [[Royal Navy]]. He was a key commander in the [[Napoleonic Wars]], killed in action at t There had long been, in the [[Royal Navy]], documents and publications called ''Fighting Instructions''. <ref>{{cita
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  • ...gun, two-deck [[ship-of-the-line]] (''[[A Ship of the Line]]'', [[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]]) ...f-the-line]] (''[[The Commodore]]'', ''[[Lord Hornblower]]'', [[Commodore (Royal Navy)|Commodore]], first class)
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  • The (UK) [[Royal Navy]] uses the term "Yeoman of Signals" is a signalling/tactical communications
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  • '''HMS ''Wager''''' was a vessel in the [[Royal Navy]].<ref name=SesWager2006>
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  • '''Type 45 destroyers''', under development by the [[Royal Navy]], are among the world's most advanced warships; they will replace the [[Ty ...ed, initially, with the Lynx HMA.8, but can carry aircraft as large as the Royal Navy Merlin. They have a bow-mounted medium-frequency sonar, but neither dippin
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  • ...e served as an apprentice to a firm of shipowners at Whitby and joined the Royal Navy in 1755. During the [[Seven Years’ War]] he charted in detail the [[Saint
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  • ...ations far from bases, such as the [[Falklands War]] as conducted by the [[Royal Navy]], which calls it '''replenishment at sea (RAS)'''.
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  • ...Forester wrote about [[Horatio Hornblower]], a fictional officer in the [[Royal Navy]]. It is not first in the chronology of Hornblower's career, but follows '' ...quadron commander being the man he considers her unworthy new husband. The Royal Navy continues to recognize his ability there, promoting him to a larger and mor
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  • ...the actual deficiency, introduced the use of giving [[citrus]] juices to [[Royal Navy]] sailors. The colloquial term, "limey", for a British sailor comes from hi
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  • ...1786) was an English vice-admiral who had a distinguished career in the [[Royal Navy]],<ref name=SesWager2006> ...iral in 1775 and vice-admiral in 1778, Byron was commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy's [[West Indies Squadron]] in 1778 and 1779. In this capacity he attempted
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  • |event='''1850&ndash;1851''': [[Horatio T. Austin]] in four-ship [[Royal Navy]] expedition |event='''1852&ndash;1854''': Sir [[Edward Belcher]] in a five-ship [[Royal Navy]] expedition
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  • ''Bismarck'' eluded the [[Royal Navy]] pursuers until a coded radio message from Lütjens to the navy was interc
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  • * Syrett, David. ''The Royal Navy in European Waters during the American Revolution.'' (1998). 213 pp. [http: * Syrett, David. ''The Royal Navy in American Waters, 1775-1783.'' (1989). 250 pp.
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  • ...nal Forces that support them, as well as Joint elements that work with the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force."<ref name=BAStructure>{{citation
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  • ...83. There are currently 7 Trafalgar-class submarines in service with the [[Royal Navy]].
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  • ...fectively, by the [[Imperial Japanese Navy]]. They were also used by the [[Royal Navy]] for special missions including an underwater attack on the battleship ''[
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  • On the night of 11-12 November 1940, the [[Royal Navy]] launched a carrier-based night attack, '''Operation Judgement''', better | publisher = [[Royal Navy]]}}</ref>
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  • ...rld: an anatomy of the Georgian navy. William Collins. 1986</ref>. Many Royal Navy ships still carry rum, although this is now largely more for ceremonial pur
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  • ...l vessels, the boatswains are in the "deck division". By tradition in the Royal Navy, unless there is explicit designation of another individual, the senior boa
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  • ...referred to a drink made with water and rum, which was introduced into the Royal Navy by British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon on August 21, 1740. Vernon himself ha
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  • '''HMS Beagle''' was the [[Royal Navy]] Brig on which [[Charles Darwin]] sailed to the Galapagos.
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  • ...the Netherlands ([[Enforcer-class]]), Singapore [[Endurance-class]], the [[Royal Navy]] ([[Albion-class]]), and the [[United States Navy]] ([[San Antonio-class]]
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  • Nelson was blinded in one eye earlier in his [[Royal Navy]] career.<ref name=Phrases/>
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  • ...as A. "Strategic Command and Control for Maneuver Warfare: Creation of the Royal Navy's "War Room" System, 1905-1915," ''The Journal of Military History'' 69#2 A ...etsuro. "The Quest for Reach: The Development of Long-Range Gunnery in the Royal Navy, 1901–1912," in Stephen D. Chiabotti, ed., ''Military Transformation in t
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  • ...port facility taking over the entire island. Today, under the command of a Royal Navy Commander, Great Britain maintains a presence on the Island, with the Headq
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  • ...nblower''' is novel by [[C.S Forester]] about a fictional officer in the [[Royal Navy]], during the [[Napoleonic Wars]].
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  • In the Royal Navy and U.S. Navy, respectively, the Type 23-class and Oliver Hazard Perry-clas
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  • The '''Royal Navy''' is the official name of the [[United Kingdom]]'s [[navy]]. Its history g }},p. 35</ref> The official Royal Navy website mentions earlier events, but defines the first period of the Navy a
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  • {{r|HMS Trafalgar (S107)|''HMS Trafalgar'' (S107)}} First [[Royal Navy]] submarine of the [[Trafalgar-class]]; decommissioned 2009
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  • The second ship to bear the name in the [[Royal Navy]], '''HMS Sheffield (D80)''' was a [[Type 42-class]] [[destroyer]], sunk by
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  • ...r-flung empire. Among these reforms was the deputizing of the [[Royal Navy|Royal Navy’s]] Sea Officers to help enforce customs in colonial ports.
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  • ..., Kirkcudbright, [[Scotland]]. From a young age he dreamed of joining the Royal Navy, and at the age of 13 he sailed out of the British port of Whitehaven on th ...s of Scarborough''. The action stuck out as an embarrassing defeat for the Royal Navy, who suffered the capture of two of her vessels in her own home waters, but
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  • ...ips; this resulted in the almost complete disappearance of scurvy from the Royal Navy. ...ssay on the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen in the Royal Navy'', which threw light on the poor living conditions and diet of seamen.
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  • | publisher = Royal Navy}}</ref> She was built between 1509 and 1511, served until an accident sank ...iron carriage guns and 52 smaller anti-personnel guns. <ref name=BBC/> The Royal Navy rates her as having 20 heavy guns and 60 light guns.<ref name=RN/>
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  • ...nce it was unclear if the conflict would spread beyond Korea. Joining a [[Royal Navy]] unit of the carrier ''[[HMS Triumph]]'', a heavy cruiser and two destroye
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  • ...allistic missile submarine|ballistic missile submarine]] operated by the [[Royal Navy]] with the designation Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear (SSBN). There are
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  • ...al Marines of the United Kingdom were formed in 1664 and are a part of the Royal Navy.
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  • ...e a modest beginning to indigenise stores for old ships inherited from the Royal Navy. Accordingly a Technical Cell at Naval Dockyard, Bombay was created in 1950
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  • led by ringleader [[Fletcher Christian]], anticipated that the [[Royal Navy]] would send out an expedition to capture the mutineers. ...[[HMAV Bounty|HMAV ''Bounty'']] and find a less-settled island, where the Royal Navy would be unable to find them.
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  • ====Britain and Royal Navy==== * Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. "A Matter of Timing: The Royal Navy and the Tactics of Decisive Battle, 1912–1916," ''Journal of Military His
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  • ...rts, and although his work provided strategic warning to the crown and the Royal Navy, contrary winds prevented tactical warning.<ref>{{citation
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  • A much more formal system was principally used by the [[Royal Navy]]. <ref>{{citation
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  • ...rations not associated with [[amphibious warfare]] were conducted by the [[Royal Navy]]. The U.S. Sixth Fleet, however, became prominent in the Cold War, as well
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  • ..., although implemented by several countries, is most associated with the [[Royal Navy]], where Admiral [[John Arbuthnot Fisher|"Jacky" Fisher]], was its champion ...bing. ''Scharnhorst'' sank in the [[Battle of North Cape]], fighting the [[Royal Navy]] battleship [[HMS Duke of York (1940)|HMS ''Duke of York'')]] , on 26 Dece
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  • ...ualified for ship command from those who are technical specialists. In the Royal Navy, the command track has been the "seaman" branch. The United States Navy cal
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  • * Schurman, Donald M. ''The Education of a Navy'' (1965), on British Royal Navy
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  • ...Okinawa]], and [[Korea]], and exercises off [[Borneo]] with ships of the [[Royal Navy]] and [[Royal New Zealand Navy]]. She returned to [[Long Beach, California
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  • A [[Royal Navy]] series of [[destroyer]]s optimized for [[anti-air warfare]], built in the
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  • '''HMS Prince of Wales''' was a [[Royal Navy]] battleship of the [[King George V-class]], whose entire operational life
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  • A [[special operations]] party of the [[Royal Navy]], led by Sublieutenant John Godwin, was imprisoned there after being captu
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  • ...rctic negatively affected penguins' habits. With the help of the British [[Royal Navy]]'s [[ice patrol]] vessel ''[[HMS Endurance]]'' and its pair of [[Lynx heli
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  • ...gnificance before the 20th century, major powers were dependent on it; the Royal Navy had begun to convert its warships from coal to oil few, and needed oil to c
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  • ...tory and fleet operations to examine the organizational superiority of the Royal Navy, especially in contrast with the French navy. He argues the British were be ...e transformed into popular uprisings and insurgency. Ultimately, Britain's Royal Navy, despite a string of naval victories, was unable to counter Napoleon's hege
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  • As a courtesy to the United Kingdom, a member of the [[Royal Navy]] is assigned to the ship's crew at all times. Her current captain is [[Com
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  • ...nst Japan''. 4 vols. London: H.M.S.O., 1957-1965. Highly detailed official Royal Navy history.
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  • ...onstrations, to be bought by the Austrian Navy in 1869 and the (British) [[Royal Navy]] in 1870.
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  • In 1692 [[William III]] established a [[Royal Navy|naval]] dockyard on the Hamoaze (the lower part of the River Tamar, after i
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  • ...sed for historical inaccuracy; the actual capture of the Enigma was by the Royal Navy, from U 110, and was not so much a planned mission as a case of an officer
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  • ...t not catapulted. To be used by the Italian Navy, U.K. Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, United States Marine Corps; will replace assorted versions of the Harrier
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  • ...The [[Royal Australian Navy (RAN)]] was under the command of the British [[Royal Navy]], and scored an early and significant victory when it destroyed the German
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  • In 1936, the [[Royal Navy]] began providing their own forecasts and the Met Office no longer provides
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  • ...812]] was fought successfully defending the city from an attack from the [[Royal Navy]], on January 8, 1815.<ref name=AmericanBattlefieldTrustNoLa/>
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  • ...12 about 6,000 seamen were impressed and taken against their will into the Royal Navy.<ref> Hickey (1989) p. 11</ref> The proposed [[Monroe-Pinkney Treaty]] (180 ...ff four "deserters", of whom three were Americans thereby pressed into the Royal Navy. The American public was outraged by the incident, and many called for war
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  • ...It was recovered in 1970 and relaunched in 2005 as a maritime museum. The Royal Navy soon adopted screw propellers in place of paddle wheels. Finally came the
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  • ...ansports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. The Royal Navy was so powerful it blockaded the American coast and moved the British army ...e War of 1812, there has been a special bond between the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy, with considerable technology exchange. The USN, however, probably was more
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  • ===(British) Royal Navy=== Perhaps the most important role SIGINT played for the Royal Navy, and the merchant ships it protected, was in the Battle of the Atlantic. By
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  • '''Horatio Hornblower''' is a fictional officer in the [[Royal Navy]], created by [[C.S. Forester]], apparently drawn, in part, on [[Horatio Ne
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  • ...ly at the same time when oil became a critical world commodity; when the [[Royal Navy]] made every other [[battleship]] in the world obsolete with ''[[HMS Dreadn
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  • ...fficials refused entry to the vessel, and to [[HMS Spey|HMS ''Spey'']] a [[Royal Navy]] vessel also participating in those joint exercises. Observers attributed
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  • ...fic basis for the cause of scurvy was by a ship's surgeon in the British [[Royal Navy]], [[James Lind]]. While at sea in May 1747, Lind provided some crewmembers
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  • ...; Steenkirk, in August 1692; and Neerwinden (or Landen), in July 1693. The Royal Navy's victory over the French fleet at [[Battle of La Hogue|La Hogue]] (May 169
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  • ...the family, [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]] ordered that the [[Royal Navy]] vessel, [[HMS Calypso (D61)|HMS ''Calypso'']], evacuate the family, and P In 1952, the Duke was given the rank and titles [[Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)|Admiral of the Fleet]], [[Field Marshal (UK)|Field Marshal]], and [[Marsha
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  • ...national slave trade was illegal after about 1815, enforced by the British Royal Navy. However, overland slave trading continued into the twentieth century, with
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  • ...] who commanded the ''[[KMS Bismarck]]'' on its final voyage against the [[Royal Navy]], had been doing exercises, in the UK, with [[USS Winston S. Churchill (DD
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  • * Schurman, Donald M. ''The Education of a Navy'' (1965), on British Royal Navy
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  • ...ansports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. The Royal Navy was so powerful it blockaded the American coast and moved the British army ...with 226 guns. It was the French navy that was decisive, by defeating the Royal Navy off Yorktown in October 1781 it forced the surrender of besieged General Ch
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  • ...in negotiating an end to the [[impressment]] of American sailors into the Royal Navy, which later became one of the key issues that led to the [[War of 1812]]. ...he concession on the West Indies trade. In addition, reports Perkins, the Royal Navy treated American commerce with "relative leniency" during the wars, and man
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  • [[Royal Navy]] Admiral [[John Jellicoe]], commanding the British Grand Fleet, received r
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  • ...f 1942. The ''Caroline'' was a U.S. ship in Canadian waters, sunk by the Royal Navy because it was believed to be supporting rebels. The criteria, to give the
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  • ...built and financed by British interests and operated by the British (using Royal Navy officers on leave) and ran between Confederate-controlled ports and the neu ...rs, equivalent to about $2.5 billion in 2006 dollars). The pay was high: a Royal Navy officer on leave might earn several thousand dollars (in gold) in salary an
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  • ...hat the rate of working was extremely slow by British standards, while the Royal Navy interpreters were particularly critical of the poor standard of grammar and
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  • ...less powder made of [[nitrocellulose]] (gun-cotton). Four years later, the Royal Navy began using smokeless powder made from a nitroglycerine base. Both these co
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  • In the mid 1990s, both the [[United States Navy]] and the [[Royal Navy]] developed [[amphibious transport dock]]s which took on this unique amphib
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  • * Schurman, Donald M. ''The Education of a Navy'' (1965), on British Royal Navy
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  • ...execution was not immediate, the principles of the Order were applied to a Royal Navy team, led by Sublieutenant John Godwin, was imprisoned at [[Sachsenhausen C
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  • ...orts, which arrived shortly after an Axis air raid, were fired on by the [[Royal Navy]]; 33 were shot down and 37 damaged, resulting in 318 casualties to [[fratr
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  • ...to be American citizens; if they had been born in the British Empire, the Royal Navy considered them still British, seized them and put them in their navy.
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  • ...ntive. The ''Caroline'' was a U.S. ship in Canadian waters, sunk by the [[Royal Navy]] because it was believed to be supporting rebels. The criteria, to give th
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  • ...favored Congress. Yet it was an isolated island, easily controlled by the Royal Navy from its powerful base in Halifax. Protests were put down, and the people
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  • ...ctBioElizabethRussell/> While he was able to secure employment with the [[Royal Navy]] in [[Harwich]], the ''Dictionary'' reported ''"Elizabeth grew up with lit
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  • ...The [[Royal Australian Navy (RAN)]] was under the command of the British [[Royal Navy]], and scored an early and significant victory when it destroyed the German
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  • ...te. Elsewhere, the British were normally only in control through Army and Royal Navy activity.
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  • ...obert. ''A British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans: The Memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827.'' (Gene A. Smith, ed.) Historical New
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  • ...ay, p.115 quote from Dec 1914</ref> Unable to challenge the more powerful Royal Navy on the surface, Tirpitz wanted to scare off merchant and passenger ships en ...d a long-term building program designed to make the fleet the equal of the Royal Navy by the mid 1920s. "Realism" was at work here; the admirals were Mahanians a
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  • At sea the powerful [[Royal Navy]] blockaded the long American coastline (allowing some exports from New Eng ...y in the [[Caribbean|West Indies]]. Although few in number compared to the Royal Navy, American Navy's heavy frigates prevailed in several one-on-one naval battl
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  • ...], losing most of their equipment. Even with these losses, however, the [[Royal Navy]], and to a lesser extent, the [[Royal Air Force]], could maintain local su ...hange basing rights for old U.S. [[destroyer]]s, further strengthening the Royal Navy. The Germans were not skilled in [[amphibious warfare]], and destroyers co
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  • ...Royal Navy. Henry is considered by some to be one of the founders of the Royal Navy, which went from 5 to 53 ships during his reign, largely as a result of his
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  • ...operation against France and an air operation against Britain to keep the Royal Navy at bay and keep the allies apart. The campaign was a dramatic success - the
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  • ..., decided that evacuation was the only option. During 23 and 24 May, the [[Royal Navy]] evacuated an estimated 4,365 servicemen from Boulogne.</p> ...ngdom could not survive if Germany gained control of the air, although the Royal Navy would at least provide some breathing space. It had been calculated that Ge
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  • ...marines, or a limited tactical strike. The second role is one in which the Royal Navy participates in the SIOP, in effect becoming non-distinct from the U.S. Nav The Royal Navy's contribution to the SIOP shows the power of the nuclear arsenal committed
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  • ...aixhans-design shell gun, but of much larger bore than the 30-pounder. The Royal Navy in 1839 adopted six patterns of 32-pound long guns, associating with them a ...oles's design. The Royal Navy began using turreted guns in 1864. Seagoing Royal Navy turret ships of the 1860s had masts and rigging, a protective forecastle, a
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  • ...ces by mistake. During World War two, submarine ''HMS Triton'' sank fellow Royal Navy submarine ''HMS Oxley'' and, in the 1982 Falklands War, ''HMS Cardiff'' sho
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  • ...ion was an essential part of his alliance with the Dutch. With most of the Royal Navy in Parliamentary hands, a Dutch fleet and a friendly port for arms traffic
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  • ...ce the main source of oil was the Middle East, however, the needs of the [[Royal Navy]] would dominate British policy in that region: the source of oil had to be | publisher = [[Royal Navy]]}}</ref>
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  • ...ruary 15. At sea it sank the Asian fleets of the [[Netherlands]] and the [[Royal Navy]], and threatened Ceylon and the east coast of India.
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  • ...e rebellion be suppressed. He sent two-thirds of his army, and half of the Royal Navy in "the largest projection of seaborne power ever attempted by a European p ...d they had failed and moved their army to Yorktown, Virginia, awaiting the Royal Navy to take it to New York. The British fleet did show up but was defeated by a
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  • ...''': Congress outlaws the international slave trade. U.S. Navy and British Royal Navy enforce the prohibition. Some 250,000 slaves were smuggled in anyway before
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  • ...approval of Congress, the President in September 1940, turned over to the Royal Navy fifty over-age American destroyers in an effort to make up for the ravages
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  • On April 10, 1940, the First Battle, CAPT Bernard Warburton-Lee of the Royal Navy took five small H-class (U.K. destroyer)|H-class destroyers against six Ger =====Royal Navy against ''IJN Haguro'' group=====
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  • ...wing year, and when he turned 18 in 1942 he was called up and joined the [[Royal Navy]] as a wireless operator. He returned to civilian life in 1946 with a prof
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  • ...] ''Ninfa''. On the trip back to Europe, the ''Ninfa'' was attacked by the Royal Navy, and Muir lost his left eye and cheek while fighting for his Spanish captor
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  • ...rsia by destroying Darius' shore bases for his fleet, and that the British Royal Navy won the war with Spain by defeating the Spanish Armada with sea power.
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  • ...days were bad flying weather that grounded most flights. On those days the Royal Navy battleships could plow through the storms and sink the entire invasion flee
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  • British insults continued, especially the practice of using the Royal Navy to intercept unarmed American merchant ships and "[[impressment|impress]]"
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  • ...d to attempt an invasion because of her policy of reducing the size of the Royal Navy and withdrawing vessels from the South Atlantic, all in the interests of pr
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  • The fishing admirals ruled until 1729, when the Royal Navy sent in its officers to govern during the fishing season. ...men joining the Newfoundland Regiment for overseas duty, 1,966 joining the Royal Navy, 491 joined the Forestry Corps (which did lumberjack work at home), plus an
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  • ...ened young Franklin's resolve, so at the age of 14, his father secured a [[Royal Navy]] appointment on [[HMS Polyphemus|HMS ''Polyphemus'']]. Franklin was later * 1850&ndash;1851, [[Horatio T. Austin]] in four-ship [[Royal Navy]] expedition
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  • ...ened young Franklin's resolve, so at the age of 14, his father secured a [[Royal Navy]] appointment on [[HMS Polyphemus|HMS ''Polyphemus'']]. Franklin was later * 1850&ndash;1851, [[Horatio T. Austin]] in four-ship [[Royal Navy]] expedition
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  • [[Image:Trident II missile image.jpg|thumb|right|One of the [[Royal Navy]]'s Nuclear Submarines launches a [[Trident II]] Nuclear Missile.]] ...four Trident missile-armed submarines, while the [[Royal Marines]] are the Royal Navy's Light Infantry units for amphibious operations and for specialist reinfor
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  • ...fficer)|Ernest Taylor]], interrupted and asked him if he had forgotten the Royal Navy. Wedgwood countered that with:<ref>Shakespeare 2017, p. 266.</ref><ref name ...e First World War representing a naval town and an [[Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)|Admiral of the Fleet]] (though no longer on the [[active duty|active list]
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  • ...ustralia were all doomed for lack of a fleet capable of matching Britain's Royal Navy. Realizing the fiasco Napoleon liquidated the Haiti project, brought home t
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  • ...issue was solved by agreement that the U.S. Navy would cooperate with the Royal Navy to halt the African slave trade, which was illegal in both nations.<ref>Inf
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  • ...drivers of British policy came with the technological revolution in the [[Royal Navy]], as ship power plants changed from coal to oil. ''[[HMS Dreadnought (1905 ...ith grain supplies that could feed the [[British Army]], oil to fuel the [[Royal Navy]], and a key position on the land route to India. <ref>Wallach, pp. 154-156
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  • ...The [[Royal Australian Navy (RAN)]] was under the command of the British [[Royal Navy]], and scored an early and significant victory when it destroyed the German
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  • ...er planes between Britain and the Mediterranean war zones, and the British Royal Navy was receiving supply and repair assistance at American naval bases.
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  • ...New York (disambiguation)|New York]]. Water traffic was controlled by the Royal Navy, so Knox organized [[oxen|ox]] teams that hauled the heavy guns across the ...ish had to crush that symbol, and reassert the supremacy of the Crown. The Royal Navy blockaded the American coastline. Washington and his armies had to trudge o
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  • ...at got spotted, and then they had armed escorts that could fight back. The Royal Navy, however, wanted to hoard its destroyers to protect its battleships. It mad
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  • ...d to make any headway on land, and was effectively blockaded at sea by the Royal Navy. The British raided and burned Washington in 1814 and sent a large veteran
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  • ...e defeat of Germany, Churchill had told the Americans that he wanted the [[Royal Navy]] to play a prominent role in the defeat of Japan and the liberation of Bri
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  • ...g 181 people and injuring 455. British defences were divided between the [[Royal Navy]] and the [[British Army]] at first, before the Army took full control in F
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  • ...able of whom is probably Captain Colin Huntington RN (ret.), the cashiered Royal Navy captain who is the monomaniacally self-centered protagonist of the 1972 nov
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  • ...eously, the US Navy blockaded the coast line and provided Navy, Marine and Royal Navy tactical air sorties from two [[aircraft carrier]]s. Enemy forces had to hi ...nce it was unclear if the conflict would spread beyond Korea. Joining a [[Royal Navy]] unit of the carrier ''[[HMS Triumph]]'', a heavy cruiser and two destroye
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  • ...rship of Admiral [[Alfred von Tirpitz]], Germany had a good fleet, but the Royal Navy remained well ahead in sea power. The naval race heightened rivalries betwe ...n the First Lord of the Admiralty, or civilian head of the Royal Navy) the Royal Navy tried to force the narrows and shell Istanbul as a precursor to invasion of
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  • ...organized Americans, whose ports were immediately blockaded by the British Royal Navy. An attempted invasion of Canada was a total fiasco.
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  • After the loss of ''Bismarck'', admittedly requiring much of the Royal Navy in Atlantic waters, Hitler became enraged at the uselessness of large wars ...ed both local air supremacy, and sufficient air and naval forces to stop [[Royal Navy]] ships from interfering. In general, the German Army and Navy were dubiou
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  • ...er planes between Britain and the Mediterranean war zones, and the British Royal Navy was receiving supply and repair assistance at American naval bases.
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  • ...the [[slave trade]].<ref>[http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.3938 Royal Navy and the Slave Trade]</ref> Furthermore, between 1808 and 1860, the British
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  • ...testantism|Protestant]] England. Henry encouraged the development of the [[Royal Navy]] into a professional force.
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  • ...sed by a number of nations, has a variety of dipping sonars. The (British) Royal Navy version has Ferranti/Thomson-CSF sonar, while the Italian version uses the ...the first means for detecting submerged submarines, first installed by the Royal Navy in 1914, was the effect of their passage over an anti-submarine indicator
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