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    HMS Irresistible—the fourth British Royal Navy ship of the name—was a Formidable-class pre-dreadnought battleship. The Formidable-class ships were developments...
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  • 1894. HMS Irresistible (1898) was a Formidable-class battleship launched in 1898 and sunk by a mine in 1915 in Gallipoli, Turkey. HMS Irresistible was to...
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    HMS Ocean was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Ocean and her sister...
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    respectively. HMS Albion was laid down by Thames Iron Works at Leamouth, London on 3 December 1896. Tragedy struck when she was launched on 21 June 1898; after...
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    the port of Gibraltar, until relieved as such by newly commissioned HMS Irresistible in February 1902. She left the Mediterranean station headquarters at...
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  • HMS Irresistible (1898), HMS Ocean (1898) and HMS Inflexible (1907) were struck by the mines in the gulf. Among these, both Bouvet and Irresistible were...
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    landing area for the Gallipoli invasion and HMS Ocean sank in Morto Bay after failing to save HMS Irresistible. Morto bay is known for several military activities...
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    battleships intended for overseas duties: the two Centurion-class battleships and HMS Renown. The nine Majestic-class battleships followed as refinements of White's...
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    Shore of Lake Superior, an inland sea in central North America. Built in 1898, America sank in Washington Harbor off the shore of Isle Royale in 1928,...
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    sometimes included in the Formidable class. Formidable, Irresistible, and Implacable were built between 1898 and 1901 at the Portsmouth, Chatham, and Devonport...
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    International Navigation Company, by a board appointed on 12 March 1898; and commissioned on 20 April 1898 for Spanish–American War service, Captain Charles D. Sigsbee...
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    HMS Hood was a modified Royal Sovereign-class pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1890s. She differed from the other ships...
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    attended between 1898 and 1900. He then joined the Royal Navy and was in October 1902 posted as a midshipman to the battleship HMS Irresistible serving in the...
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    H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened...
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  • Classification Standards on 21 March 1898, she was classified as a torpedo boat destroyer. Launched on 14 December 1898, she was completed on 1 February 1899...
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    the battleship HMS Trafalgar as the flagship of the second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet. From February 1897 to December 1898, Revenge served...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Canopus (1897)
    HMS Canopus was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and the lead ship of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Canopus and...
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    in Greek waters when she visited Astakos in the Ionian Sea with HMS Irresistible and HMS Pioneer. On 18 April 1903, King Edward VII was hosted aboard Bulwark...
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    estate and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard as Mayflower, on 24 March 1898. Mayflower joined Admiral William T. Sampson's squadron at Key West, Florida...
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    shell or torpedo. Subsequently, two British pre-dreadnoughts, Ocean and Irresistible, were sunk and the battlecruiser Inflexible was damaged by the same minefield...
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    (25 and 51 mm) thick, respectively. HMS Vengeance was laid down by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness on 23 August 1898 and launched on 25 July 1899. Her completion...
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  • Shushiro Fujimoto 8 March 1898 – 29 March 1898 (pre-commissioning) Lieutenant Commander Ichiro Ishida 19 May 1898 – 28 October 1898 (pre-commissioning) Lieutenant...
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    the Southern Pacific Company on 6 April 1898. The ship was renamed and commissioned at New York on 14 April 1898, Commander Willard H. Brownson in command...
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    surrender off Valparaiso after an unequal contest with the frigates HMS Phoebe and HMS Cherub and only when his ship was too disabled to offer any resistance...
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  • York City route with a stop in Spain. In the Spanish–American War during 1898, Spain used Neustria to bring back Spanish troops from Cuba. According to...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Monongahela (1862)
    Naval Academy Practice Ship. Making annual cruises each year except for 1898, when the war with Spain intervened, the ship conducted her last Academy...
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    ill-fated invasion which sank HMS Irresistible, HMS Ocean and the French battleship Bouvet, and left the British battlecruiser HMS Inflexible badly damaged...
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    Science. Retrieved February 18, 2022. "Submarine goes down, in collision with HMS Hazard". The Daily News. No. 20, 562. London. 3 February 1912. p. 1. Retrieved...
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    and she was laid down at the Nikolayev Admiralty Shipyard on 10 October 1898. She was named in honour of Prince Grigory Potemkin, a Russian soldier and...
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    Philadelphia Record. 19 May 1898. p. 6. "Reserves Coal a Steamer". The Philadelphia Record. 19 June 1898. p. 2. "USS Arctic (1898)". Online Library of Selected...
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