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    HMS Sharpshooter was an R-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during World War I. Launched on 27 February 1917, the ship joined the Harwich...
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  • been named Sharpshooter (or Sharp Shooter). HMS Sharpshooter (1805) was a 12-gun brig launched in 1805. She was sold in 1816. HMS Sharpshooter (1846) was...
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  • a 16-gun brig-sloop HMS Seagull (1889), a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat converted to a minesweeper HMS Seagull (J85), a Halcyon-class minesweeper...
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    HMS Spanker was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1889, converted to a minesweeper in 1909 and sold for breaking...
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    Kinugawa Line, opened in Nikkō, Japan. Born: Huelet Benner, American sharpshooter, gold medalist at the 1952 Summer Olympics, in Paragould, Arkansas (d...
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    HMS Seagull was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat of the British Royal Navy. She was built at Chatham Dockyard from 1888–1891. She was converted to...
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    HMS Taurus was an R-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy during World War I. Ordered from Thornycroft in 1915 and launched in 1917, the vessel...
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  • HMS Gossamer was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat of the British Royal Navy. She was built at Sheerness Dockyard from 1889–1891. She was converted...
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  • The Royal Navy introduced the QF 4.7-inch in HMS Sharpshooter in 1889, and the QF 6-inch MK 1 in HMS Royal Sovereign, launched 1891. Other navies followed...
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    (cancelled 1849) Cossack (cancelled 1849) Sharpshooter class (iron half-sister to wooden Rifleman) HMS Sharpshooter Teazer class (wooden-hulled half-sisters...
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    Thornycroft and Yarrow in 1892, and then were trialled in the gunboat Sharpshooter. However, an attempt to specify similar boilers for new cruisers in 1894...
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    HMS Torrent was a Royal Navy R-class destroyer constructed and then operational in the First World War. She was sunk, with most of her crew in 1917. On...
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    shipbuilder: HMS Daring and HMS Decoy from John I. Thornycroft & Company, HMS Havock and HMS Hornet from Yarrows, and HMS Ferret and HMS Lynx from Laird...
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  • HMS Speedwell was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat of the British Royal Navy. She was built at Devonport Dockyard from 188–1890. She was converted...
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  • HMS Skipjack was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat of the British Royal Navy. She was built at Chatham Dockyard from 1888–1891. She was converted to...
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    Ostend. As part of this action, Satyr, along with sister ships Taurus, Sharpshooter and Torrent, sank the German destroyer S20. After the war, the ship served...
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    torpedo gunboat classes followed, including the Grasshopper class, the Sharpshooter class, the Alarm class and the Dryad class – all built for the Royal...
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  • the Sharpshooter-class and the five torpedo-gunboats of the Dryad-class. The Alarms were slightly modified versions of the previous Sharpshooter-class...
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    The first R class were a class of 62 destroyers built between 1916 and 1917 for the Royal Navy. They were an improvement, specifically in the area of fuel...
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    the Sharpshooter-class and the five torpedo-gunboats of the Dryad-class. The Alarms were slightly modified versions of the previous Sharpshooter-class...
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  • Wellington aircraft bombed the units of 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), British 7th Armoured Division and the British 3rd Hussars during a...
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    (9 May 1864), shortly before being shot in the head by a Confederate sharpshooter "That is true glory. I will hear no more.": 35–36  — Josiah Quincy III...
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    "Deployments - 1979". Sharpshooter - Military Aviation Journal. Retrieved 10 April 2020. "Deployments - 1985". Sharpshooter - Military Aviation Journal...
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    minesweepers was made difficult by fog; HMS Britomart and Salamander were stuck in the Kola Inlet but Sharpshooter sailed, followed a while later by Hazard...
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    ammunition. Unable to locate Sydney, the pilot ditched near the destroyer HMS Sharpshooter. The Australian cruiser was present at the surrender of the German...
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    next five years, and also included the last two torpedo-gunboats of the Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat and the five torpedo-gunboats of the Dryad-class...
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  • generally displayed on the ship's hull, though not on destroyer leaders such as HMS Montrose pennant D1. In May–June 1940 the Royal Navy was in the process of...
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    Plumridge sailed in the Navy Division, which included HMS Leopard, HMS Valorous, HMS Vulture and HMS Odin, to the Gulf of Bothnia with the task of destroying...
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    1913. The Royal Navy acquired the unfinished ship in 1917, converting her into the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle. The third ship, Cochrane, was a Fletcher-class...
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    of Ypres, 1917 Coldstream Guard members of the Guards Parachute Platoon, 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment Guardsman using the Sharpshooter Weapon System...
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