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    HMVS Cerberus (Her Majesty's Victorian Ship) is a breastwork monitor that served in the Victoria Naval Forces, the Commonwealth Naval Forces (CNF), and...
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  • naval base HMS Cerberus, Royal Navy ships HMVS Cerberus, an 1871 warship under various British Commonwealth aegises Operation Cerberus, German codename...
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  • HMAS Cerberus is the name given to a number of Royal Australian Navy ships and shore establishments, after the mythological Cerberus. HMVS Cerberus | HMAS...
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    class (1896) Odin Ägir Cerberus class (1870) Magdala Abyssinia (half-sister to Cerberus & Magdala) Cerberus class HMVS Cerberus Deodoro class (1898) ARM...
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  • have used the name for a number of ships and shore establishments: HMVS Cerberus was a breastwork monitor launched in 1868. She converted into a depot...
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    Wayback Machine "Department of the Environment and Water Resources: HMVS Cerberus". Archived from the original on 10 February 2007. "Welcome (Royal Australian...
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    was an armoured superstructure of moderate height (7 feet (2.1 m) in HMVS Cerberus), centrally placed on the ship and containing within its armoured circumference...
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    the Cat Empire song, "The Wine Song". Half Moon Bay is also home to HMVS Cerberus, the last surviving monitor warship in the world, which acts as a breakwater...
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    HMVS Cerberus in Half Moon Bay, Victoria, Australia (3 x Mk I & 1 x Mk II) Damaged Mk I gun No. 17 from HMVS Cerberus is on display at HMAS Cerberus Victoria...
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    poor reliability of their steam engines. The first of these ships was HMVS Cerberus, built between 1868 and 1870. She was later sunk and used as a breakwater...
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    pre-dreadnought battleships and the dreadnoughts. Reed designed the first ship (HMVS Cerberus) at the request of the Colony of Victoria; the India Office then ordered...
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    Victorian naval forces 1887. HMVS Cerberus website Additions to 1890 Manual for Victorian naval forces circa. 1895. HMVS Cerberus website I.V. Hogg & L.F....
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    15.8%. The HMVS Cerberus - A breakwater in Half Moon Bay formed by the sunken wreck of Australia's first ironclad warship, HMVS Cerberus Black Rock Clock...
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    for various foreign navies including Chile. 2 guns were mounted on HMVS Cerberus in 1897. In 1900 they were removed, mounted on field carriages and went...
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    Australian colonial navies : HMQS Paluma HMQS Gayundah HMCS Protector HMVS Victoria of 1884 HMVS Albert of 1884 Also on armed harbour vessels in Victoria : Gannet :...
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    Ammunition. Manual for Victorian Naval Forces 1887, pages 41 - 52 from HMVS Cerberus website 1 inch 4-barrel Nordenfelt Mk III Machine-Gun History, technical...
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    Victorian naval forces 1887. HMVS Cerberus website Victorian Naval Forces General Manual, 1890 from Friends of the Cerberus website Frame, No Pleasure Cruise...
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    broadside batteries, when they were commissioned in the early 1860s. HMVS Cerberus, the first breastwork monitor, was launched in 1868, followed in 1871...
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    be applied more thickly over a more limited height of exposed hull. HMVS Cerberus- harbour defence vessel at Melbourne, Australia HMS Magdala – harbour...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Flags of Victoria, Australia. Victoria at Flags of the World Flags flown by HMVS Cerberus Portals:  Heraldry  Victoria...
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  • high rank at the time. As Lieutenant, he was in charge of running the HMVS Cerberus when the Commander was not on board. Outside of his naval career in...
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    during the American Civil War's Battle of Hampton Roads. The monitor HMVS Cerberus was constructed during the late 1860s and arrived in Victoria in 1871...
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  • Broken up 1950s HMVS Nelson (1814, ex-HMS Nelson, transferred 1867 to Victoria) - Cut down to frigate, broken up 1928 HMVS Cerberus (1868) - Scuttled...
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  • HMAS Platypus, after the platypus: HMAS Platypus (1868), the former HMVS Cerberus. HMAS Platypus (1917), a submarine depot ship built for the Royal Navy...
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    Australian Lightweight Sharpie. In 1926 the nineteenth century warship HMVS Cerberus was scuttled to form a breakwater in front of the club and as a result...
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    ironclad Dingyuan was rebuilt in 2003 as a floating museum at Weihai. HMVS Cerberus, built 1867, has been partially sunk as a breakwater in Victoria, Australia...
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    Hogg & Thurston 1972, page 176 Manual for Victorian naval forces 1887. HMVS Cerberus website David Spethman, The Garrison Guns of Australia 1788-1962 page...
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    monitor wrecks in the world, the others being the Australian vessel HMVS Cerberus, and the Norwegian KNM Thor, which lies at about 25 feet (7.6 m) off...
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    Victoria, the Victorian colonial government ordered an ironclad ship, HMVS Cerberus and was gifted the composite steam-sail warship, Nelson. In 1884 several...
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    apart. 42 HMVS Cerberus (listing) Victoria 14 December 2005 37°58′03″S 145°00′28″E / 37.9675°S 145.0079°E / -37.9675; 145.0079 (HMVS Cerberus) 43 HMS...
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