Det togs sommaren 1985 utanfr-dvarande Sovjet hamnen i Liepaja i vad som var r nu Lettland. Bob Dyan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 315. We then see the fight itself, which he wins in a short match. She was decommissioned on 4 August 1999 and expended as a target in August 2004. Two more shopping malls were built on the Sun Deck in separate spaces previously used for first-class cabins and engineers' quarters. We then drifted whilst the ship bore down on us at speed, making several passes. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, 134. The international situation led to her being escorted by the battlecruiser HMS Hood. At 140ft (43m) this took up a lot of room inside the ship. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water, 383. Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister, 118. Fourteen of the class were built in total, with production divided into three batches. Part of. They are the entire motive power in this evolution. May 1936, and won the Blue Riband that August; she lost the title to SS Normandie in 1937, and recaptured it in 1938, holding it until 1952 when it was taken by the new SS United States. In the English Channel off the Isle of Wight, the Invincible-class aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal with families embarked for the day, seen from aboard HMS Boxer, a Type 22 Batch 2 anti-submarine warfare frigate. By 1982, the quoted unit cost of a Type 22 had risen to 127m. The $23 million apportioned for repairs ran out in 2018, with 19 out of the 27 urgent projects identified by a 2015 marine survey completed as of September 2019. Post-Cold War, the class was found to be too large and expensive to run in an era of considerably-constrained budgets and they were all disposed of much earlier than had been originally planned. On the bow can be seen her single-barrel 57mm Bofors gun, which has rails for 103mm rocket flare launchers. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more. Each of the 16 Norwegian-built Hugins was 36.5m long, 6.2m in the beam and had a draught of 1.6m. Jack Wrather, a local millionaire, had fallen in love with the ship because he and his wife, Bonita Granville, had fond memories of sailing on it numerous times. Kubrick and Singer used daylight-loading Eyemo cameras that took 100-foot spools of 35mm black-and-white film to shoot the fight, with Kubrick shooting hand-held (often from below) and Singer's camera on a tripod. ), conducting hot-weather trials, in the early summer of 1986, under the command of Captain William C McKnight. Propulsion2 shafts driven by Parsons Single Reduction Geared Steam Turbines with steam supplied by 2 Foster Wheeler oil fired boilers. The Type 22 Broadsword class is a class of frigate built for the Royal Navy. HMS Boxer was the first of the Batch 2 Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy. Visible low on the bow forward of the gun are four nine-barrel Elma ASW-600 multiple grenade launchers. Taglia: 23 mm (circa 3/4 pollici) di diametro. HMS Collingwood vs HMS Sultan during the annual boxing event at Gosport. The ship had many air-conditioned public rooms. By 1980, it had become apparent that the existing system was not working. From 1983 to 1993, Howard Hughes' plane H-4 Hercules was located in a large dome nearby. To: THE VICE ADMIRAL COMMANDING, EIGHTEEN CRUISER SQUADRON. October 1967, and sailed to the port of Long Beach, California, where she remains permanently moored. The Construction and Naming of RMS Queen Mary. History Boxer was constructed at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, launched 13 August 1993, and commissioned 11 February 1995. Den Hugins var 150 ton, 35 knop guidad-missil patrullbtar som kan bra upp till sex Penguin surface-to-surface missiler (Svenska RB-12s). HMS Boxer carried the writer/comedian Spike Milligan from North Africa to Italy when he served with the 56th Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery.[3]. The funnel was offset to the starboard side to provide clear deck and could carry 13-off 30ton tanks, 27-off 3ton lorries and 193 troops. However when company representatives asked the king's permission to name the ocean liner after Britain's 'Greatest Queen', he said his wife, Mary of Teck, would be delighted. Wikinews (0 entries) edit. The Boxer was one of three 27 knot destroyers ordered from Thornycroft as part of the 1893-94 programme . Det togs sommaren 1985 av den d sovjetiska hamnen i Liepaya i vad som nu r Lettland. Command of Enterprise devolved to Lieutenant Edward McCall, while Lieutenant David McGrery had assumed command of the battered Boxer. The initial system had a range of 300m and was upgraded to reach a range of 500m. HMS BRAVE , on 31 July 1990 at Devonport, Plymouth. After six hours of maneuvering, the ship battle commenced. In 2017 a report on the ship's condition was issued. As it was expected to have a high speed even when laden for the assault (about 18 kt) it could not have a shallow draught. The Batch II Type 22s were 146.5m long, a stretch of 15.3m compared with the earlier Batch Is. The plans eventually fell through; in 1992 Disney gave up the lease on the ship to focus on building what would become Disney California Adventure Park. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Lyre of Orpheus/Abattoir Blues, 400. Legend has it that Cunard intended to name the ship Victoria, in keeping with company tradition of giving its ships names ending in 'ia'. Bodryy was decommissioned in 1997. She was one of only two Batch 2s (the other being Beaver) fitted with the lower-height hangar of the Batch 1s, so she could only accommodate Lynx helicopters. In honour of his over forty years of dedication to W6RO and Queen Mary, in November 2007 the Queen Mary Wireless Room was renamed as the Nate Brightman Radio Room. I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You- Aretha Franklin, 483. The Queen Mary achieved 32.84 knots on her acceptance trials in early 1936. Surface warfare requirements were met by the provision of four Exocet SSM launchers, the standard RN fit at that time. enwiki HMS Boxer (F92) fawiki () fiwiki HMS Boxer (F92) slwiki HMS Boxer (F92) Wikibooks (0 entries) edit. In summer 2007, Queen Mary's lease was sold to a group named 'Save the Queen', managed by Hostmark Hospitality Group. Alla tre besttningsmedlemmar r mn, men lngre n brittisk standard levande blonda hr av tv av dem frn brjan ledde ngra omkring mig att undra om svenskarna arbetar vid havet med kvinnor. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973), 44. In 1934 the new liner was launched by Queen Mary as RMS Queen Mary. From the 25th.30th. Monterad p fren var en 57mm pistol, som delvis kan ses framfr bron ovan. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat, 359. The three Mk Is were thereafter converted into Fighter Direction Ships in which role they participated in the Normandy landings. Class . Type 22 Frigates - HMS Cambletown (F86) & Cumberland (F85), HMS BOXER Flight 376 (Elwood) with Yellow Veil Mar 88. HMS Boxer Heavy Knit Scarf One size (165 x 20cm)Comes with regiment logo embroidered on.Luxurious, heavy weight knitted scarf in classic style.100% PolyAcrylic Original price 16.50 - Original price 16.50 During 1996 and 1997 she was leader of the 1st Frigate Squadron. By 4:00 p.m., Boxer was a complete wreck, all of her braces and rigging shot away, her main topmast and topgallant mast hanging over the side, fore and main masts virtually . In December it was announced that the City was reviewing the finances of Urban Commons to determine whether the City of Long Beach had 'received all revenues owed.'. On September 5th 1813, USS Enterprise sighted HMS Boxer off Pemaquid Point, Maine. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (1969), 53. Aha Shake Heartbreak - Kings of Leon, 440. The B&W image reminds me a lot of photographs from earlier generations doing exactly the same thing aboard earlier warships. Workers found that the funnels were significantly degraded, and they were replaced with replicas. This in turn meant that an extra long bow ramp had to be added. Furthermore, her interior design, while mostly Art Deco, seemed restrained and conservative when compared to the ultramodern French liner. Huginsna kom fram till oss, gav oss en gng och gick in i sovjetiska territorialvatten. 0460/017. HMS Boxer, pennant F121, was built as a Landing Ship, Tank (LST) at Harland and Wolff. Many offers were submitted, and the bid of $3.45m/1.2m from Long Beach, California beat the Japanese scrap merchants. She was probably taking a break from work-up, having commissioned into the RN the previous year. The Streets - Original Pirate Material, 155. Detta r en bild att titta p aktern P157 Mjlner, en Hugin-klassificerar fjrrstyrd robot patrullbt. The ship had a short service history with the Royal Navy before being captured by the 16-gun USS "Enterprise", near Portland, Maine in September of the following year. Under the command of Captain John Treasure Jones, who had been her captain since 1965, she sailed from Southampton for the last time on the 31st. She has some 1,400 compartments and 15 lifts. This is in my sweet spot. In 2016 Urban Commons, a real estate company, assumed the lease of the Queen Mary. This led to a very interesting week in the Baltic, running up the coastline of what was then the Soviet Union, observing various nautical and aerial activities (see my Warsaw Pact album). In its place, an amateur radio room was created one deck above the original radio reception room, with some of the discarded original radio equipment used for display purposes. A post-war feature of the ship, the first-class cinema, was removed for kitchen space for the new Promenade Deck dining venues. Captain James Lawrence was mortally wounded in the clash between frigates USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon . She was sunk in a collision on 8 February 1918. Varje Hugin var 36,5 lnga, 6,2 i balken och hade ett utkast till 1,6. This claim is refuted by the liner's then-Staff Captain Harry Grattidge, who records that the Queen Mary's Captain, Gordon Illingsworth, immediately ordered the accompanying destroyers to look for survivors within moments of the Curacoa's sinking. Within the decade, Cousteau's museum had closed due to low ticket sales and the deaths of many of the fish that were housed in the museum. Launched in December 1942 and commissioned the following April, she saw service as part of the Allied invasion of Italy. Notes on design from Harland and Wolff site. During the war the Queen Mary carried British Prime Minister Winston Churchill across the Atlantic for meetings with fellow Allied forces officials on several occasions. Constructed as a schooner in Maryland in 1799, the victorious American was rebuilt as a brig prior to the war. as the platform for the agonisingly drawn-out trials for the new Operations Room computer system, CACS 1, (Computer-Assisted Command System 1), which Ferranti were having immense trouble getting to work. Infantry Division to join the Allied forces in Europe. Date: 18th APRIL 1940 No. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Live! The Rolling Stone - Beggars Banquet (1968), 96. Launched on 18 February 1980, and commissioned on 8 April 1983, she is the sixth ship to bear the name. Naval Armed Guard Service in World War II. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (2004), 91. Reflecting lessons learned in the Falklands, the weapons fit was changed, becoming more optimised to a general warfare role. Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood, 213. Station Hospital on board at the time, wrote in a letter that at one point: It was calculated later that the ship had rolled 52 degrees, and would have capsized had she rolled another 3 degrees. Although her hull number is obscured in the image, she was the USS McCandless (FF-1084). The ship had anchored off Bangor by 18:00 on the 18th and sailed to Larne on the 20th for what was described as experimental loading. She had the same beam, of 6.1m and an increased draught of 6.4m. The United States Navy brig USS Enterprise, commanded by Lieutenant William Burrows, defeated the Royal Navy gun-brig HMS Boxer, led by Commander Samuel Blyth. Powered by four gas turbines in a COGAG arrangement, they could reach 32 kts. Intressant sina dieselmotorer var regummerade, har tidigare anvnts i Plejad klass torpedbtar. Following Queen Mary's permanent docking in California, claims were made that the ship was haunted. In 1998, the city of Long Beach extended the QSDI lease to 66 years. In total, some 80 ships and submarines from the Soviets Northern, Baltic, and Black Sea fleets were reported to be involved in the exercise. Scanned from a negative, this is the middle of three images I have now posted of this demonstration. HMNZS Resolution is the tenth naval vessel to carry this name. Street apartment in Greenwich Village, goes to early mass, and eats lunch at his favourite restaurant. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children, 182. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II,[2] was placed in reserve in 1956, and scrapped at Barrow-in-Furness in 1958. Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle - Bill Callahan, 453. How can there be no Richard Thompson, no Fairport Convention, and no Pentangle? The unit cost of the last Type 12Ms had been about 10m; Type 21s cost around 20m each; when the first Type 22s were ordered, unit costs were estimated at 30m though, by the time that the first ship (HMS Broadsword) commissioned in 1979, inflation had driven this figure up to 68m, which was far higher than the cost of the contemporary Type 42s (HMS Glasgow, also commissioned in 1979, cost 40m). They were manned by a crew of three officers and 19 men. I remember watching the Boxing Day horse racing dressed in Tee shirt and shorts. https://www.st-george-squadron.com/sgs/wiki/index.php?title=HMS_Boxer&oldid=9881. Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991), 28. At 4 P.M., he starts preparations for the fight. Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis (1969), 52. Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today, 374. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced, 146. Of the two lower ropes attached to the traveller, the one on the left is the inhaul, which is used by us to pull the traveller back to us after the transfer is completed, either to stow the rig or to commence another transfer. List of aircraft of the Malaysian Armed Forces, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Amphibious warfare vessels of the Royal Navy, World War II naval ships of the United Kingdom, Navigating and Direction Officers Association, Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, 13 Churchill Infantry tanks, 27 vehicles, 193 men. By 1965, the entire Cunard fleet was operating at a loss. In late August 1939, the Queen Mary was on a return run from New York to Southampton. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natty Dread, 142. May 1971 the Queen Mary opened her doors to tourists. Romania has acquired and modernized two of the Batch 2 ships, while a third was purchased by Chile. Varje Hugin var 36,5 lnga, 6,2 i balken och hade ett utkast till 1,6. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986), 5. A group of three Hugins cruised past us whilst we loitered off the port. On the 2nd. HMS Boxer was an Ardent-class destroyer which served with the Royal Navy, launched on 28 November 1894. Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go, 183. David Bowie - Station To Station (1976), 54. July 1943, Queen Mary carried 15,740 soldiers and 943 crew (total 16,683), a standing record for the most passengers ever transported on one vessel. The future machinery arrangement would be COGAG (Combined Gas turbine And Gas turbine). [citation needed] She was one of only two Batch 2s (the other being Beaver) fitted with the lower-height hangar of the batch 1s, so she could only accommodate Lynx . Fitted for firefighting and with salvage pumps but not with towing winches. A new company, Queen's Seaport Development, Inc. (QSDI), was established in 1995 to control the real estate adjacent to the vessel. September 1934. [3] She is the sixth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, and was named for the original HMS Boxer, which had been captured from the British during the War of 1812. A superb damage-control effort (just) ensured that she did not sink. In March 1940, Queen Mary and Normandie were joined in New York by Queen Mary's new sister ship the Queen Elizabeth, fresh from her secret dash from Clydebank. Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. The Queen Mary is now permanently moored as a tourist attraction, hotel, museum and event facility in Long Beach. In the Second World War conversion, the Queen Mary's hull, superstructure, and funnels were painted navy grey. The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth were the largest and fastest troopships involved in the war, often carrying as many as 15,000 men in a single voyage, and often travelling out of convoy and without escort. Please improve this article by adding a reference. By 8 P.M., he is waiting in his dressing room at Laurel Gardens in Newark, New Jersey, for the fight to begin. HMS Brave was the third of the Type 22 Batch 2 frigates of the Royal Navy. Missy Elliott - Miss ESo Addictive, 180. Whether you On coming out of refit in 1990, with a clean bottom she achieved close to 34 knots (63km/h; 39mph). Just . She is seen here in the Atlantic off the Gibraltar Straits, with a full weapons and sensors fit (except for Exocets! There are two foreign-exchange officers in the picture - the helicopter's observer was on loan from the Royal Australian Navy, and there's also a US Navy Midshipman on a short exchange - I did a similar thing in the other direction a few years earlier. Luckily we missed any real cyclone damage in Auckland. Brave and later ships had hangars enlarged to accommodate EH-101 Merlin helicopter. In his 1979 autobiography, 'For the Record', Morley wrote that he was placed at table with Sir Percy Bates, chairman of the Cunard Line. December 1992, the Queen Mary closed her doors to tourists and visitors. List of ships with the same or similar names, Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Boxer&oldid=1136272928, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 29 January 2023, at 15:37. Also on R deck, the first-class Turkish bath complex, the 1930's equivalent to a spa, was removed. an instant before he was killed in the first shots of the battle. February 1993, RMS Foundation Inc. signed a five-year lease with the city of Long Beach to act as the operators of the property. . Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen, 438. Well, on the 26th. wet. Their high speed and zigzag courses made it virtually impossible for U-boats to catch them. Nottingham (D91), is a Batch 2 Type 42 destroyer of the Royal Navy, named after the City of Nottingham, England. After two days of planning, authorities conducted an impressive state funeral for the two commanders, and they rest side by side in Portland Mains Eastern Cemetery. This unit was delivered to the Indian Navy in September that year as the lead vessel in the four-boat Shishumar-class. She cost some 160 million to build and spent most of her first commission (1985-1987) as a trials ship, achieving various firsts in her weapons and communications fit. 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In 2004, Queen Mary and Stargazer Productions added Tibbies Great American Cabaret to the space previously occupied by the ship's bank and wireless telegraph room. May 1936, she was commanded by Sir Edgar Britten, who had been the master-designate for Cunard White Star whilst the ship was under construction at the John Brown shipyard. De bemannade med tre officerare och 19 mn. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (1965), 65. Visually, the Type 12 lineage in the Type 22 design is less than obvious, though there are said to be similarities in the underwater hull form. They were built in three batches giving rise to three sub-classes, the first Broadsword of four ships, the second Boxer of six ships and the third and final, Cornwall of four ships. December 1971 Jacques Cousteau's Museum of the Sea opened, with only a quarter of the planned exhibits completed. Two RBU-1000 ASW rocket launchers were initally mounted aft, but later removed, presumably because of topweight problems. Pribonic stated that the neglect of the Queen Mary had grown worse under the management of Urban Commons, and concluded that: "Without an immediate and very significant, condition of the ship will likely soon be. A key skill in this activity is ensuring the gap between the ships remains as steady as possible during the transfer. Nancy and Lee - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, 427. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (1991), 19. Talking Heads - Remain In Light (1980), 55. OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, 187. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. September. Varje Hugin var 36,5 lnga, 6,2 i balken och hade ett utkast till 1,6. Completion ultimately took 3 12 years and cost 3,500,000, then equal to 17.5 million US dollars, and equivalent to $334,460,000 in 2019. Fried told the Guardian in 2018: Fried, a childhood friend of Kubrick, later wrote the score for the director's 'Paths of Glory' (1957) and three other films. Mounted on the bow was a 57mm gun. June 1936. Frvnansvrt var deras dieselmotorer retreads, som har tagits frn de tidigare torpedobtarna i Plejad-klassen. HMS Boxer je (bilo) ime ve vojakih plovil Kraljeve vojne mornarice: HMS Boxer (1797) HMS Boxer (1812) HMS Boxer (1837) HMS Boxer (1846) HMS Boxer (1855) HMS Boxer (1868) HMS Boxer (1894) HMS Boxer (1941) HMS Boxer (F92) Portal Vojatvo ; Besedilo se sme prosto uporabljati . HMS Boxer (F121) was an LST that served during the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II. Mjlner had a fuller load of at least 15 depth-charges. Skenorna fastspnd p vardera sidan av pistolen vore fr 103mm raket flare utskjutningsanordningar. Launched on 18 February 1980, and commissioned on 8 April 1983, she was the sixth ship to bear the name. In August 2019, Edward Pribonic, the engineer responsible for inspecting the Queen Mary on behalf of the City of Long Beach, issued a report stating that the ship was in the worst condition he had seen in his 25 years on the job. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness- Smashing Pumpkins, 480. On my second visit, I was astonished to discover it was a model of the eighth ship in the Royal Navy to bear the name Boxer, first in its class of Landing Ships, Tank, Mark I, having enjoyed some 14 months serving in the ninth ship to bear that name, the first in class of the Batch II Type 22s (see elsewhere in my stream!). On the 5th. When the Queen Mary was bought by Long Beach, the new owners decided not to preserve her as an ocean liner. Iggy And The Stooges - Raw Power (1973), 81. Numerous units, such as the one seen above, were operated as patrol boats. Brave was decommissioned on 23 March 1999 and was expended as a target in August 2004 during high-seas missile and torpedo firings by HMS Sceptre and HMS Argyll. All the watchers are looking at HMS Ark Royal which has just passed close by. As a result, the ship was open only on weekends. Mysing avgicks frn tjnste- i 1995 efter bara 15 rs aktiv tjnst. The light was all wrong for this shot and it's taken a bit of rescuing, hence the grain, but I couldn't resist it at the time. In 2005, QSDI sought Chapter 11 protection due to a rent credit dispute with the city. Naval Anecdotes Relating to HMS Leopard Versus USS Chesapeake, 24 June 1807. I took this photo before the ship drove away. I saw a listing on the internet of the NME top 500 and it's set out below. The Captain, a former classmate of mine, was not aboard but was having dinner with the harbourmaster. Still the crew would not trade her for any other and though a loser in most engagements she has managed to live up to her name. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, 212. The Grisha III that had been shepherding us away from the exercise presumably felt under pressure and called for assistance. That was until the 88th minute, when Luke Berry's long-range strike fizzed into the bottom corner to split the points at Kenilworth Road.. Cartier had played some bit parts in movies before he appeared in 'Day of the Fight', and afterwards continued to appear occasionally in movies up until 1971, but he was most successful playing mild-mannered Private Claude Dillingham in the sitcom 'The Phil Silvers Show' for the 1955-1956 season. February 24, 2023. The dome was later repurposed as a sound stage for film and television. Seven ships of the earlier batches have been sold for further service with Brazil, Romania and Chile, two have been sunk as targets and the other sold for scrapping. PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, 141. Two years later, with all 400 rooms finished, PSA brought in Hyatt Hotels to manage the hotel, which operated from 1974 to 1980 as the Queen Mary Hyatt Hotel. On coming out of refit in 1990, with a clean bottom she achieved close to 34 knots. The ships were fitted with the 4.5" (114m) gun, primarily for NGS (Naval Gunfire Support for land forces). Through the late 1980's and early 1990's the Queen Mary struggled financially. They revealed plans to extensively renovate the liner over the next year, and to redevelop the adjacent 45 acres of parking with a boutique hotel, restaurants, a marina, an amphitheatre, jogging trails, bike paths and possibly a huge Ferris wheel, all at a cost of up to $250 million. Like the ship's company image earlier this week, this is scanned from a (somewhat smaller) print. It was intended to be capable of tracking up to 500 targets, including those detected by radar, sonar and electronic support measures (ESM). De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising, 121. Organize, control, distribute and measure all of your digital content. The second-class pool was removed and its space initially used for office space, while the first-class swimming pool was open for viewing by hotel guests and visitors. The problem was the amount of room it took up inside. The Smiths at #1? The grenades could be fired in patterns of nine, 18, 27 or 36 grenades in a salvo and could be used in very shallow water (less than 10m depth, presumably for use against midget submarines). A postcard that was printed and published by J. Salmon Ltd. of Sevenoaks. The LST HMS Boxer was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, being launched in December 1942. Mounted on the bow was a 57mm gun, which can be partially seen forward of the bridge above. The second-class lounges were expanded to the sides of the ship and used for banqueting. HMS Boxer (1894) was an A class destroyer that was a record breaker in her early career, and that served with the Portsmouth local Defence Flotilla during the First World War, before being lost in a collision in 1918. The copyright is the Royal Navy's, but the photo was taken by me. 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