HMS Royal Arthur was a first class cruiser of the Edgar class, previously named Centaur, but renamed in 1890 prior to launching. She served on the Australia...
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establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Royal Arthur, in reference to the legendary King Arthur: HMS Royal Arthur (1891) was an Edgar-class...
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Admiral Arthur Forbes (died 20 March 1891) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Queenstown. Forbes became commanding officer of the...
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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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Admiral Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington (c. 1648 – 13 April 1716) was a British Royal Navy officer, peer and politician. Dismissed by James II of...
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1864. HMS Centaur was to have been an Edgar-class armoured cruiser, but she was renamed HMS Royal Arthur in 1890, prior to her launch in 1891. HMS Centaur (1916)...
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Admiral Sir Arthur William Moore, GCB, GCVO, CMG (30 July 1847 – 3 April 1934) was a Royal Navy officer who became both Commander-in-Chief, China and Commander-in-Chief...
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HMS Excellent is a Royal Navy "stone frigate" (shore establishment) sited on Whale Island near Portsmouth in Hampshire. HMS Excellent is itself part of...
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Hunter (29 August 1737 – 13 March 1821) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who succeeded Arthur Phillip as the second Governor of New South Wales, serving...
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HMS Tamar (Chinese: 添馬艦) was the name for the British Royal Navy's base in Hong Kong from 1897 to 1997. It took its name from HMS Tamar, a ship that was...
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captain of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich until 19 September 1879, followed by a return to sea as captain of the steam corvette HMS Dido, replacing...
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HMS Apollo, the sixth ship of the Royal Navy to be named for the Greek god Apollo, was a second-class Apollo-class protected cruiser launched in 1891...
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successor, HMS Royal Arthur and in May 1906 to her successor, HMS Euryalus. In January 1907, Webb was promoted captain and joined the staff of the Royal Naval...
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Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 October 2010. Maxwell 1898, pp. 157–160. H.M.S. Pinafore in Full Score. p. v. Jacobs, Arthur (1986). Arthur Sullivan...
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(including submarines as well as one historic ship, HMS Victory) in the Royal Navy, plus 13 ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). There are also four Point-class...
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Seaman. HMS Bramble. (?–1891). Emile Josef Luzzani. WR Steward. HMS Bramble. (?–1891). Fred T Pierce. (?–1891). Leading Stoker, HMS Boxer (?), Royal Navy...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (category Royal Navy admirals of the fleet)
Fisher, joined the Royal Navy and reached the rank of admiral, and his youngest surviving sibling Philip became a navy lieutenant on HMS Atalanta before...
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Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (category 9th Queen's Royal Lancers officers)
him to work at all." In 1877, the two boys were sent to the Royal Navy's training ship, HMS Britannia. They began their studies there two months behind...
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September 1891. She was launched on 17 December 1892 and commissioned on 25 April 1893. Niger was the training ship for and tender to HMS Vernon. In...
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Dudley Pound (category Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order)
joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship HMS Britannia in January 1891 and was posted as a midshipman to the battleship HMS Royal Sovereign...
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HMNB Devonport (redirect from Devonport Royal Dockyard)
for naval personnel. The Royal Naval Barracks, dating from 1889, were first commissioned as HMS Vivid, before being renamed HMS Drake in 1934. Since the...
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Utopia and two rescue sailors from HMS Immortalité. "The Dead of the Utopia" (PDF). The New York Times. 20 March 1891. Retrieved 28 October 2010. Penguin...
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HMS Caroline is a decommissioned C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy that saw combat service in the First World War and served as an administrative...
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14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. His works include 24...
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1891. Serving as a Gunnery Lieutenant upon HMS Victoria in 1893, he survived the sinking of HMS Victoria on 22 June 1893 after she collided with HMS Camperdown...
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HMS Royalist was a Satellite-class composite screw sloop of the Royal Navy, built in 1883 and hulked as a depot ship in 1900. She was renamed Colleen...
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HMS Trincomalee is a Royal Navy Leda-class sailing frigate built shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. She is now restored as a museum ship afloat...
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Edgar-class cruiser (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
the Royal Navy under the Naval Defence Act of 1889. The class gave long service and all of the ships participated in the First World War. One, HMS Hawke...
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Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Rullion Rattray, KBE, CB, CIE (2 May 1891 – 10 August 1966) was a British naval officer who served in the Royal Indian Marine and...
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