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    The Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD), also known as the Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapon Development and colloquially known as...
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    nuclear weapons with the introduction of the first of the Resolution-class submarines armed with the Polaris missile. Following the conclusion of the collapse...
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    Channel Fleet (category Fleets of the Royal Navy)
    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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  • Cecil Hampshire's "The Royal Navy Since 1945" writes that [U]nder the system of Home Service, General Service, and Foreign Service commissions which was introduced...
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    Grand Fleet (category Fleets of the Royal Navy)
    The Grand Fleet was the main battlefleet of the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was established in August 1914 and disbanded in April 1919. Its...
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    weapons delivery systems. Between 1940 and 1996, the U.S. federal government spent at least US$11.7 trillion in present-day terms on nuclear weapons,...
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    Mulberry harbours (category Military logistics of World War II)
    (working at the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development) who devised the "Swiss roll" which consisted of a floating roadway made of waterproofed...
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  • of coolness inherent in the Happy Days character Fonzie. During World War II, scientists working for the British Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development...
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  • Fairlie Mortar (category World War II naval weapons of the United Kingdom)
    based on Thornycroft's First World War mortar. The Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (the Wheezers and Dodgers) were advocating the multiple...
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    Operation Pluto (category Military logistics of World War II)
    Admiralty's Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development was placed in command of Operation Pluto. By VE-Day his command would consist of several ships...
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    Home Fleet (category Fleets of the Royal Navy)
    carriers armed with nuclear weapons led to the creation of a separate Striking Fleet Atlantic, directly responsible to the commander of the U.S. Navy's Atlantic...
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    The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom that was responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. Historically, its titular...
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  • of Churchill's war-winning Wizards, including atomic scientists, aeronautical engineers and the scientists of the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons...
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  • DMWD may refer to: Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development, a British Admiralty department during World War II DMWD (gene), a human gene protein...
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    a collective responsibility for providing strategic direction to the department, managing performance and ensuring that defence delivers the required...
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    Development. In 1958 the two were re-united as divisions of the Weapons Department, under the Director General of Weapons (Director General, Weapons from...
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    Set in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea, located near Eastbourne, it follows a well-meaning platoon of men ineligible for active service...
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    Britannia Royal Naval College (category Training establishments of the Royal Navy)
    academy of the United Kingdom and the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy. It is located on a hill overlooking the port of Dartmouth...
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    sector development, and at the same time 'forming the centrepiece of the Freeport’s Innovation Hotbed'. Proposed developments include expansion of Oceansgate...
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    an atomic weapons research laboratory). Most of the 18th-century buildings were demolished, with the exception of the Storekeeper's House of 1719, which...
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    Rosyth Dockyard (category Ports and harbours of Scotland)
    design and development, 1906-1922. Barnsley: Seaforth Pub. ISBN 978-1-84832-085-7. "Completed acquisition by Babcock International Group plc of Devonport...
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    Royal Observatory, Greenwich (category History of the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
    telescope in honour of the celebrated inventor of the Newtonian reflecting telescope. Some two decades of development led to the commissioning of the Isaac Newton...
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    work of the several departments of the Admiralty. This responsibility did not always coincide with control of staff and the head of a department might...
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    Brean Down (category Headlands of Somerset)
    outpost of the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD). It was commissioned as HMS Birnbeck, and was used for secret weapons development and...
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    Atlantic Fleet (United Kingdom) (category Fleets of the Royal Navy)
    The Atlantic Fleet was a naval fleet of the Royal Navy. It existed for two periods; 1909 until 1914, and then 1919 until 1932. On 14 December 1904 the...
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  • the war, he joined the Department of Miscellaneous Weapons Development where he photographed new weapons being deployed as part of their assessment. Most...
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    always a permanent member of the board until the Admiralty Department was established as an official government department in 1709 with the First Lord...
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    Physician-General of the Navy; as such he had charge of the navy medical department and reported directly to the Board of Admiralty. The title of his post was...
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    Preventive Squadron, was a squadron of the Royal Navy whose goal was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa. Formed in 1808...
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    Royal Naval Academy (category Military academies of the United Kingdom)
    experience in the dockyard and at sea. Graduates of the Academy could earn two years of sea time as part of their studies, and would be able to take the lieutenant's...
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