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28:A painting showing SMS
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700:, wife of
686:Seearsenal
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596:Škoda guns
318:Škoda guns
267:Complement
230:2 × Shafts
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139:Scrapped
101:Launched
77:May 1892
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452:Cattaro
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415:Monarch
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387:of the
380:Monarch
217:boilers
195:Draught
156:Monarch
82:Builder
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42:History
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337:Armour
179:Length
158:-class
141:, 1921
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749:Italy
741:Spain
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246:17.5
243:Speed
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