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  2. List of early warships of the English navy - Wikipedia

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    The interregnum between the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the Restoration of royal authority in 1660 saw the full emergence of the ship-of-the-line and its employment during the first Anglo-Dutch War. During this period the English navy technically became first the Commonwealth Navy, later the Protectorate Navy and subsequently the ...

  3. Maritime history of England - Wikipedia

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    The Armada consisted of about 130 warships and converted merchant ships. After forcing its way up the English Channel, being attacked by the English fleet of about 200 vessels, it anchored off the coast at Gravelines waiting for the army. A fire ship attack drove the Spanish ships from their safe anchorage. The Armada was blown north up the ...

  4. Category : World War I naval ships of the United Kingdom

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    Pages in category "World War I naval ships of the United Kingdom" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. HMS Warrior (1860) - Wikipedia

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    HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate [Note 1] built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire.

  6. Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    In 1707, the Scottish navy was united with the English Royal Navy. On Scottish men-of-war, the cross of St Andrew was replaced with the Union Jack. On English ships, the red, white, or blue ensigns had the St George's Cross of England removed from the canton, and the combined crosses of the Union flag put in its place. [37]

  7. Naval warfare of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Naval warfare in World War I was mainly characterised by blockade. The Allied powers, with their larger fleets and surrounding position, largely succeeded in their blockade of Germany and the other Central Powers, whilst the efforts of the Central Powers to break that blockade, or to establish an effective counter blockade with submarines and commerce raiders, were eventually unsuccessful.

  8. List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.

  9. HMS Victoria (1859) - Wikipedia

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    With a displacement of 4126 31 ⁄ 94 tons burthen she was the world's second largest wooden battleship after her sister ship HMS Howe. [1] She was also the world's second largest warship until the completion of HMS Warrior, Britain's first ironclad battleship, in 1861. Victoria's hull was 79.2 metres (260 feet) long and 18.3 metres (60 feet) wide.

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