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1312:. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. Vol. III (reprint of the 1940 second ed.). London and Nashville, Tennessee: Imperial War Museum in association with the Battery Press.
1293:. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. Vol. II (reprint of the 1929 second ed.). London and Nashville, Tennessee: Imperial War Museum in association with the Battery Press.
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collided with the remainder of the wreck in 1962 and sank the next day. The wrecks of the two ships were demolished during the 1970s, but their remnants remain a popular dive site. Since June 2017,
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1454:. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents. Vol. V (reprint of the 1931 ed.). Nashville, Tennessee: Battery Press.
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529:Arrangement of Guns and Armour of H.M.S. “Drake.”
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1538:. Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK: Wessex Archaeology
1373:. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
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1331:. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth.
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1561:. Rathlin Island: Rathlin Island Books.
1144:. London: HMSO. 1913. p. 269b, 902.
736:. In October 1914, under the command of
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1274:. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press.
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299:QF 3-pounder (47 mm) Hotchkiss guns
287:BL 6-inch (152 mm) Mk VII guns
281:BL 9.2-inch (234 mm) Mk X guns
1701:List of cruisers of the Royal Navy
1130:. London: HMSO. 1912. p. 268.
1116:. London: HMSO. 1910. p. 303.
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1473:. New York: Hippocrene Books.
1348:Naval Weapons of World War One
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930:Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 69
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1142:The Navy List, July 1913
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157:General characteristics
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1935:UC-16
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1771:Drake
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