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D'Eyncourt resigned from the
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relation to the hull), the opinion has been expressed that d'Eyncourt created some of the most elegant and eye-pleasing warships ever designed, the prime example being the battle cruiser
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and suppressing the enemy machine guns that had caused heavy casualties in the first six months of the First World War. The machine that was eventually developed was given the name "
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D'Eyncourt received a number of awards and honours: in 1913, elected to the
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Eustace Henry William Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet
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Grave of
Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt (central cross) in
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Presidents of the
Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers
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A Shipbuilder's Yarn; The Record of a Naval
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Janet Watson Finlay (married 1898, Anderston, Scotland)
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888:(Abridged). 1992; Macmillan Publishing Company.
802:Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society
27:British naval architect and engineer (1868–1951)
611:"Large light cruisers", later aircraft carriers
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271:asked him to be Chairman of the
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36:Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt
347:Battleships and battlecruisers
197:Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.
154:Director of Naval Construction
115:Director of Naval Construction
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489:Champion
480:Calliope
472:Caroline
457:Arethusa
437:Cruisers
389:, later
376:, later
318:cruisers
293:Hailsham
156:for the
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951:in 1921
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756:Baronet
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663:J class
627:Furious
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573:Diomede
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409:Renown
380:Canada
315:-class
238:Career
178:Barnet
129:Awards
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821:JSTOR
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649:Scott
557:Danae
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