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	HMS Monmouth (1901) Information
		The sixth HMS Monmouth of the British Royal Navy was the name ship of her class of armoured cruiser of 9,800 tons displacement.
		Built in 1901, with her heaviest guns being fourteen 6-inch quick-firers, she had a weak armament for an armoured cruiser.
		A short while later, drifting and on fire, Monmouth was sunk by the newly arrived SMS Nürnberg, seventy-five 10.5-cm (4.1-inch) shells being fired from the German light cruiser at close range.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/HMS_Monmouth_(1901) (307 words)

	HMS Monmouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fifth Monmouth was a fifth-rate launched as Horspar at Plymouth in 1828, renamed Monmouth in 1868, and finally sold in 1902 after seeing use as a chapel at Devonport.
		The sixth Monmouth was the name-ship of her class of armoured cruisers of 9,800 tons displacement.
		The seventh and current Monmouth is a Type 23 frigate, built at Yarrow Shipbuilders on the river Clyde, and launched on 23 November 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Monmouth (316 words)

	HMS Monmouth
		The sixth HMS Monmouth was the name-ship of the Monmouth-class of armoured cruiser of 9,800 tons displacement, of the British Royal Navy.
		Built in 1901, with her heaviest gun being four 6-inch quick-firers.
		The seventh and current HMS Monmouth is a Type 23 Duke-class frigate, built at Yarrow Shipbuilders on the river Clyde, and launched on 23 November 1991.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hm/HMS_Monmouth.html (115 words)

	History : HMS Monmouth : Type 23 Frigates : Surface Fleet : Operations and Support : Royal Navy
		The sixth Monmouth was a First Class armoured cruiser built on the Clyde in 1901 who saw service with the Home Fleet before being transferred to the China Station in 1906, returning to the UK in 1913.
		The current HMS MONMOUTH the 7th ship to bear the name is a Type 23 'Duke Class' Frigate and was built at Yarrow Shipbuilders on the Clyde and launched by Lady Eaton on the 23rd November 1991.
		Monmouth was soundly defeated, fled and was captured and beheaded at Tower Hill on 15 July.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server/show/nav.1386 (559 words)

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		And the smallest gun by which the Monmouth is likely to be attacked is the 5.5-in., which will pierce her belt and casemates at over 3000 yds.
		Monmouth was launched on November 13, 1901 and commissioned on December 2, 1903.
		Monmouth was therefore reluctantly left to her fate, and when last seen was bravely facing the oncoming enemy.
	www.steelnavy.com /CombrigMonmouth.htm (5326 words)

	Monmouth Class Armoured Cruiser
		Cruisers in the class were HMS Monmouth, HMS Bedford, HMS Berwick, HMS Cornwall, HMS Cumberland, HMS Donegal, HMS Essex, HMS Kent, HMS Lancaster and HMS Suffolk.
		HMS Monmouth which was sunk by the German Navy near the coast of Chili during world war one.
		Stokers Feeding the Furnace of HMS Kent While Chasing and Sinking the Nurnberg by B S Bagdatopulos (P) On December 8th 1914, a German Squadron was defeated by a British Squadron off the Falkland Islands.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /monmouth_class.htm (4704 words)

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	HMS Monmouth (1901) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sixth HMS Monmouth of the British Royal Navy was the name ship of a class of armoured cruisers of 9,800 tons displacement.
		Built in 1901, with her heaviest guns being fourteen 6 inch quick-firers, she had a weak armament for an armoured cruiser.
		A short while later, drifting and on fire, Monmouth was sunk by the newly arrived light cruiser SMS Nürnberg, seventy-five 10.5 cm (4.1 inch) shells being fired from the German cruiser at close range.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Monmouth_(1901) (369 words)

	Cheltonians Uncommemorated in Cheltenham
		Born in Cheltenham in 1886 and residing in the town at the 1901 Census.
		Served as a Clerk (commissioned officer) in the Royal Navy and was killed in action at sea on 1st November 1914 during the Battle of Coronel whilst serving on HMS Monmouth, aged 19.
		He was born in the district of Southwell, Nottinghamshire in 1895 and was the son of the Rev William Berry and Mrs Frances Augusta Garnsey Cardew of Perlethorpe Parsonage, Newark, Notts.
	www.remembering.org.uk /uncommemorated.htm (10203 words)

	HMS Kent
		HMS Kent, armoured cruiser of the Monmouth Class, launched 6th March 1901 and served in the China Station 1906 -1913.
		At the outbreak of World War One she was sent to the Falklands and took part in the Battle of the Falklands, 8th December 1914, sinking the German light cruiser, Nurnberg.
		HMS Kent returned in May 1915 and was sent to Vladivostok in January 1919 to support American and Japanese operations against the Bolshevik Red Army.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_kent.htm (552 words)

	HMS Roxburgh
		The HMS Roxburgh, was a Devonshire Class cruisers of the Royal Navy.
		HMS Anselm and the HMS Margha, formed part of a small convoy, which sailed from Boston Harbor out past Fort Strong on the morning of July 31, 1918.
		Alexander Burnett was born in Scotland, and was in the British Royal Navy, serving on the HMS Roxburgh, which, is known from the pictures he sent to his son and wife in 1907 and 1910 from the Roxburgh.
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	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (1-A)
		Actinauts were torpedoes propelled by self-contained power and steered on or beneath the water by a distant operator through the medium of a ray or electric current without the intervention of wires.
		During the invasion of Norway in 1940 it was rammed by the British destroyer HMS Glowworm, which sank as a result.
		HMS Alexandra was a British second-class battleship launched in 1875 and named after Alexandra, then Princess of Wales.
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	History: June 22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His first post as a lieutenant was serving aboard the sloop HMS Martin, on patrol duties in the English Channel.
		The Fame was one of the vessels participating in the British victory in the Battle of the Saintes in 1782.
		The British battleship HMS Victoria, flagship of the Mediterranean fleet, collides with the HMS Camperdown and sinks with the loss of 359 lives.
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	Ship's from the Age of Sail database listing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HMS Bee is one of the supply schooner, together with HMS Mosquito and HMS Wasp, that were stationed at the Penetanguishene Naval base from 1817 to 1831.
		HMS feversham took part in a battle off Toulon with the combined French and Spanish fleet on the 17th of February 1740.
		She was captured and taken as a prize in October 1762 by the 60-gun HMS Panther and the 28-gun frigate Argo.
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	FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES: On This Day ... Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Furthermore, the elderly battleship HMS Canopus, which had been deliberately run aground by her captain to act as a harbour defence ship, opened fire, scoring a direct hit on Gneisenau with her first salvo.
		Ordinary Seaman Carless of HMS Caledon was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for continuing to man his gun and tend to the wounded despite being himself mortally wounded.
		At Oran, the sloops HMS Walney and HMS Hartland ran the gauntlet of shore batteries in an attempt to land an assault party in the harbour.
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	1st Canadian Troop Convoy
		Rear-Admiral Phipps-Hornby was in command of the North American Squadron with his flag in the battleship HMS Glory.
		Rear-Admiral Wemyss, in command of the 12th Cruiser Squadron, HM Ships Charybdis (flag), Talbot, Eclipse and Diana, was orderd to act as escort for the troop convoy.
		HMS Majestic from the 7th Battle Squadron was ordered to reinforce the escort.
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	Armoured Cruisers - WW1 Naval Combat
		HMS Endymion like most of the Edgar class started the war as part of the 10th Cruiser Squadron which was tasked with enforcing the northern blockade on Germany.
		HMS Monmouth, Bedford, Donegal, Berwick, Kent, Cumberland, Cornwall, Essex, Suffolk, Lancaster Laid down 1899-1901, completed 1903-1904.
		She was one of the many armoured cruisers sunk during the war with many of the rest relegated to secondary tasks by the end, the type being superseded by the battlecruiser.
	worldwar1.co.uk /armoured.htm (341 words)

	HMS Monmouth - The Coronel Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The County (or Monmouth) class were built to increase the size of the fleet in response to other countries stepping up their warship production.
		HMS Monmouth was initially commissioned into the home fleet but later transferred.
		Sunk by gunfire on 1st November 1914 by the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau off the Chilean Coast during the battle of Coronel, the entire crew was lost.
	www.coronel.org.uk /monmouth.php (107 words)

	tidbitsofhistory
		HMS was visited by members of Belvidere's historic society during open house and we provided them with a copy of Dr. Elizabeth Nuxoll's report on Mary (Polly) Croxall, Robert Morris's illegitimate daughter, who lived in Belvidere.
		She presented HMS with a copy of the newly completed seventh volume of The Papers of Robert Morris, and her talk gave the audience a sense of how Morris administered the treasury with a keen appreciation of the marketplace and the managerial shills and instincts of a shrewd entrepreneur.
		HMS does have information from people who observed a large, walk-in fireplace in the "kitchen wing" before it was demolished.
	www.scenicoutlook.com /morrisville/tidbitsofhistory.htm (12176 words)

	Royal Naval and Commonwealth Navies Ship List - Cruisers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The design was similar to the Monmouth class except that the twin 6 inch (153 mm) turrets were replaced with 7.5 inch (190 mm) single turrets.
		HMS Hawke - famed for hitting the RMS Olympic, served and was lost during WW1
		She was the last Royal Navy ironclad to be built which had a propeller that could be hoisted out of the water to reduce drag when she was under sail, and the first to have an armoured deck.
	www.royal-navy.org /shiplist/content/category/2/21/16 (314 words)

	John Vaughan & HMAS Sydney- Part 1
		At the St Nazaire Ship Yard, under the 1901 Programme the Arquebus Class Destroyer Mousquet is launched on 7 August 1902 and her sister ship the Pistolet is launched on 29 May 1903.
		Nervous captains of British merchantmen must have felt a degree of comfort and security to see her steam towards them, until her true colours were seen as the ensign of the Kaiser’s Navy and a shot across the bows was swiftly followed by the signal to “Heave to at once”.
		the Leipzig is sunk by HMS Glasgow and Cornwall and HMS Kent sinks the Nurnburg.
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	eBay.co.uk - of hms, Postcards, Prints, Transportation items at low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		HMS DUKE OF YORK 9" x 6" Photo + data Royal Navy
		HMS PRINCE OF WALES 9" x 6" Photo + data - Royal Navy
		THE FORGOTEN VOYAGE OF HMS BACI by Robert Kline
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	Army and Navy Chaplains 1800 to
		Served in HMS Montagu 1903 and 1904, HMS Royal Sovereign 1904 and 1905, HMS New Zealand 1905 to 1907, HMS Egmont for Bighi Naval Hospital 1907 to 1910.
		On HMS Pembroke 1900, HMS Prince George 1900 - 1901, HMS Implacable 1901 to 1904, HMS Boscawen III 1904 and 1905, R.M.Dept Walmer 1905 to 1907, HMS Prince of Wales 1907 to 1910, HMS Jupiter 1910 and 1911.
		HM Dockyard and Hospital Hong Kong 1911 to 1914, HMS Indus 1914.
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	GENEALOGE: 18 today
		Margeret Eleanor Watkins was born 26 JUN 1852 in Llanvair Kilgeddin, Monmouth, England AHW BB.
		Mary Watkins was born ABT 1825 in Llanvair, Monmouth, England, and died 21 AUG 1900 in Morel Cottage Raglan.
		William Jones was born BEF JUN 1838 in Raglan, Monmouth, Wales.
	hughw36.blogspot.com /2006/11/18-today.html (5616 words)

	Canadian Pacific Line
		A Vancouver - Victoria service started in 1897 and in 1901 the ships and coastal services of the Canadian Pacific Navigation Co were acquired.
		Transatlantic passenger services commenced in 1903 when the fleet and North Atlantic interests of Elder Dempster & Co and their subsidiary Beaver Line were taken over and the following year, a regular service between Seattle and Victoria BC was inaugurated.
		1901 taken over with Canadian Pacific Navigation Co., 1901 collided with iceberg and sank in Lynn Canal; loss of 65 lives.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/lines/cp.html (3171 words)

	Antiquarian Books :: ILAB-LILA :: International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
		The author deals not only with the different classes of small yachts and sailing craft to be found around the coasts of the British Isles in the 19th century, but also the most curious and remarkable boats, canoes and sailing-vessels to be found in other countries.
		The author, Glynn Christian, is a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, the leader of the mutiny aboard HMS BOUNTY in 1789.
		Thisis the wartime diary of a young naval surgeon serving aboard the armoured cruiser HMS KENT during the Battle of the Falklands in 1914.
	www.ilab-lila.com /db/books768.html (10431 words)

	Frank Harry ALLEN
		HMS TEMERAIRE 9th May 1876 Renamed INDUS II in 1904, Renamed AKBAR in 1915.
		The Majestic was launched by Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, and was commissioned within two years of the laying of her keel.
		HMS VALIANT 1915 Queen Elizabeth Class super dreadnought.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /martinbuckley/frank_harry_allen.htm (516 words)

	British 6"/45 (15.2 cm) BL Mark VII and Mark VIII
		The Mark VII and VIII were constructed of inner A tube, A tube, partially wire wound, B tube and overlapping jacket.
		A total of 898 (one source says 901 guns) Mark VII and 27 Mark VIII guns were built with 3 Mark VIII being converted to the Mark VII style after the Monmouth class cruisers were scrapped.
		Note: During the Falklands Battle of 1914, these 6" (15.2 cm) guns on HMS Kent were reported to have been badly outranged by the much smaller German 10.5 cm (4.1") guns on SMS Nürnberg.
	www.navweaps.com /Weapons/WNBR_6-45_mk7.htm (1129 words)

	The Hallowes Genealogy - Page 4
		In February 1894 while a Midshipman in HMS Raleigh he served with the Naval Brigade at Bathurst, Gambia, during the punitive expedition against Fouli Silah, and received the GS Medal with the "Gambia" clasp.
		He served in HMS Achilles as Midshipman during the Egyptian War of 1882; later in the Hydrographic Dept. at the Admiralty.
		After her father died in 1901 she moved to Birkenhead to be near her mother, and was married from 33 Slatley Road "very quietly on account of (her sister) Florence's illness" by her brother in law Herbert Waddell.
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