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    HMS Ajax was the third of four King George V-class dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. After commissioning in 1913, she...
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  • named HMS Ajax after the Greek hero Ajax: HMS Ajax (1767) was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1767 and sold in 1785. HMS Ajax (1798)...
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    the destroyers were in fact light cruisers (HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles) in addition to the heavy cruiser HMS Exeter. His ship outgunned all his opponents...
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    HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. She was built at Devonport...
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    2nd Battle Squadron (category Military units and formations established in 1912)
    was constituted as follows: HMS King George V HMS Ajax HMS Audacious HMS Centurion HMS Conqueror HMS Monarch HMS Orion HMS Thunderer As an element in the...
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    1926. The King George V-class battleships, HMS King George V, HMS Centurion, HMS Audacious, and HMS Ajax, were larger variants of the preceding Orion-class...
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    Duncan Lewin (category 1912 births)
    Edgar Duncan Goodenough Lewin in Farnham, Surrey on 9 August 1912. Lewin, a pilot on HMS Ajax during the Battle of the River Plate where he reported on the...
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    HMHS Britannic (redirect from HMS Britannic)
    and was received by several other ships in the area, among them HMS Scourge and HMS Heroic, but Britannic heard nothing in reply. Unknown to either Bartlett...
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    March 1890, he transferred to the battleship HMS Ajax later that year. He joined the training brig HMS Pilot at Portsmouth in March 1892 and, having...
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    HMS A3 was an A-class submarine built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She sank in 1912. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed...
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    brought her back to South America, first departing from Genoa on 15 January 1912 for Naples and Buenos Aires. In 1913 Hamburg America Line bought the Ligure...
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    Wade–Giles: Fei Hung; lit. 'Flying Swan'); however, the Nationalist revolution in 1912–13 resulted in the Chinese government cancelling the purchase. New York Shipbuilding...
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  • completed in August 1904 under the name Spir but was renamed Bøilefos in 1912 and Ajax in 1915. The ship was 70.6 metres (231 ft 8 in) long, with a beam of...
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    "Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved 22 April 2022 – via British...
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  • into a self-contained community which was named after the British warship HMS Ajax. After the plant shut down in 1945, its site was used as a war surplus...
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    J. Tynan, renamed F-1 on 17 November 1911, and commissioned on 19 June 1912. Assigned to the First Submarine Group, Pacific Torpedo Flotilla, F-1 operated...
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    passengers, and converted in 1912 into a whaling factory ship. She was built as Runic, renamed Tampican in 1895, Imo in 1912 and Guvernøren (The Governor)...
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    Poncelet (Q141) Archimède (Q142) Fresnel (Q143) Monge (Q144) Achille (Q147) Ajax (Q148) Actéon (Q149) Achéron (Q150) Argo (Q151) Prométhée (Q153) Persée (Q154)...
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    to the Cunard Line on 12 December 1911, and began service on 20 January 1912. She was the first Cunard ship of that name. She was torpedoed and sunk on...
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  • Cruiser – HMS Argonaut Association". Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Badsworth, escort destroyer". www.naval-history.net. Retrieved 14 August 2021. "HMS Beaufort...
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  • collaborationist Government of Vichy France. The town of Ajax, Ontario is named for HMS Ajax, which fought in the Battle of the River Plate in the Second...
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  • ship SS Exodus, carrying 4,515 immigrants, was intercepted by the cruiser HMS Ajax and a flotilla of destroyers. She was rammed and boarded but the immigrants...
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    USS F-3 (category 1912 ships)
    17 November 1911, launched on 6 January 1912 sponsored by Mrs. M. F. Backus, and commissioned on 5 August 1912. F-3 completed her trials in the Puget Sound...
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    Secretary of Defense (22 May 1949); his suicide note, a quotation from the play Ajax by Sophocles "I would give anything just to have written this." — Richard...
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  • American general John McNeil Boyd (1812–1861), Royal Navy captain of HMS Ajax, died in the "Boyd disaster" 1861 John Boyd (photographer) (1865–1941)...
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    1910, launched in January 1911, and commissioned into the Navy in September 1912. Arkansas was armed with a main battery of twelve 12-inch (305 mm) guns and...
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    HMS Orion was the lead ship of her class of four dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. She spent the bulk of her career...
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    HMS Attack was an Acheron-class destroyer built in 1911, which served during the First World War and was sunk in 1917 in the Mediterranean by a German...
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  • HMS Wolverine was a Beagle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy launched on 15 January 1910. She was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. Wolverine was...
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    Elizabeth II British Admiral HMS Dreadnought HMS Invincible HMS Sheffield HMS Ocean Winston Churchill HMS Indomitable Princess Diana HMS Vanguard Queen Elizabeth...
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