The Cricket class and following classes of coastal destroyers were a series of small torpedo boat destroyers (TBDs) intended to complement the Royal Navy's...
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(1988 novel) Cricket-class destroyer, a 1906 class of Royal Navy coastal destroyers HMS Cricket (1906), lead ship of the class HMS Cricket (1915), a gunboat...
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The Tribal or F class was a class of destroyers built for the Royal Navy. Twelve ships were built between 1905 and 1908 and all saw service during World...
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The destroyers needed sufficient range to operate across the North Sea in the event of a confrontation with Germany, which rendered the Cricket-class coastal...
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The Type 45 destroyer, also known as the D or Daring class, is a class of six guided-missile destroyers built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy in the...
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This is a list of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, organised chronologically by entry into service. In 1913, the surviving members...
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The Thornycroft type leader or Shakespeare class were a class of five destroyer leaders designed by John I. Thornycroft & Company and built by them at...
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The Hawthorn M (or Mansfield) Class were a class of two destroyers built for the Royal Navy under the pre-war 1913-14 Programme for World War I service...
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1906 to 1908 were originally rated as coastal destroyers and will be found under Cricket-class destroyers, while later torpedo boats introduced during...
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1915 it consisted of 11 Tribal-class destroyers, 13 other destroyers capable of 30 knots, and 4 Cricket-class destroyers along with HMS Attentive, the...
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borne the name HMS Cricket, after the cricket, an insect native to Britain: HMS Cricket (1906) was a Cricket-class coastal destroyer, launched in 1906...
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HMS Maori (1909), a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, sunk in 1915 HMS Maori (F24), a Royal Navy Tribal-class destroyer, launched 1936 and sunk 1942 TEV Maori...
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Tide") was the sixth vessel to be commissioned in the 19-vessel Kagerō-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late-1930s under the Circle...
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HMAS Waterhen (D22) (category V and W-class destroyers of the Royal Navy)
HMAS Waterhen (D22/I22) was a W-class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy (as HMS Waterhen (G28/D22)) and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built during...
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Grasshopper was to have been the name of a Cricket-class coastal destroyer (later downgraded to first-class torpedo boat), but before launch in 1907 she...
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HMS TB 12 (originally named HMS Moth) was a Cricket-class coastal destroyer or torpedo-boat of the British Royal Navy. TB 12 was built by the shipbuilder...
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national cricket team represents Pakistan in international cricket. It is controlled by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), the governing body for cricket in...
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Minegumo (峯雲, Summit Cloud) was the eighth of ten Asashio-class destroyers built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the mid-1930s under the Circle Two Supplementary...
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Chevalier Paul was one of six Vauquelin-class large destroyers (contre-torpilleurs) built for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) during the 1930s. The...
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John Manners (cricketer) (category Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers)
German submarine U-1274 in April 1945 while commanding the destroyer HMS Viceroy. As a first-class cricketer, Manners was a hard-hitting right-handed batsman...
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HMS TB 9 (originally named HMS Grasshopper) was a Cricket-class coastal destroyer or torpedo-boat of the British Royal Navy. TB 9 was built by the shipbuilder...
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San Keikaku). The Kagerō-class destroyers were outwardly almost identical to the preceding light cruiser-sized Asashio class, with improvements made by...
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men's national cricket team represents Australia in international cricket. Along with England, it is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, playing...
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Guyanese cricketer who plays for Guyana in first-class cricket and for the West Indies in international cricket. He is a right-arm fast bowler. He made his...
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the Guided missile destroyer, INS Mumbai (D62).He has commanded the Veer-class missile vessel INS Vinash (K47) and the Kora-class corvette INS Kirch (P62)...
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right-arm fast bowler, he played first-class cricket between 1920 and 1928 and also represented the Egypt national cricket team. Born in South Mimms in 1898...
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Sidney Boucher (section Cricket career)
He played first-class cricket for Royal Navy Cricket Club between 1923 and 1929 as well as playing one match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1922. Boucher...
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Conflict-class destroyer (1895) TB 114-class torpedo boat (1903-1905) River-class destroyer (1905) Cricket-class coastal destroyer (1906-1908) Tribal-class destroyer...
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USS William B. Preston (category Clemson-class destroyers)
B. Preston (DD-344/AVP-20/AVD-7) was a United States Navy Clemson-class destroyer in commission from 1920 to 1934. After conversion into a seaplane tender...
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Launceston and Hobart. To date this season he has made 1,400 runs in first-class cricket, and requires another 200 to equal the record he established last season...
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