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ENGLAND AND RUSSIA

... the list forwarded to the Admiralty was as follows :-Thalia, steel corvette, 8 guns; Iron Duke, double screw ironclad, 14 guns; Hotspur, Hecate, and Prince Albert, iron armour-plated turret ships, each carrying 4 guns; Royalist, screw composite corvette ...

Published: Wednesday 25 March 1885
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 826 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ENGLAND AND RUSSIA

... considered. The names of the ships indicated are the Iron Duke, double-screw iron shi6, armour-plated, 3,787 tons 800 horse powerwith a bosuplemnent of 493 officers and men; Hotspuri,4 double-screw iron armour-plated turret ship ram, 2,637 tons, 600 horse ...

Published: Monday 30 March 1885
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2594 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE CHANNEL FLEET

... each ship's rofls was as follows :-Miuotaur, 35 de- grees each way; Agi;ncurt, 32 degrees; Iron Duke, 25 degrees ; Sultan, 19J degrees. The Agincourb and Iron Duke parted company off Capt Finistorr6 to await the arrival of the Monarch, but the Minotaur ...

Published: Thursday 23 December 1886
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1709 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

FLINT-LOCK AND PERCUSSION CAP

... departynents that every great soldier who had won his spurs in the Peninmilar War, in- clhdiug, among many others, the Iron Duke and Sir Cbailes James Napier, wrote absurd platitudes against the new-fangled substitute for the glori- ous weapon with ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1881
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 533 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES IN MILFORD HAVEN

... juplnu the Trts. under a h.eavy fire, fio2m wht% Z;V or three gunboats cane uip and took a po9itvn one on eacah side ,f the Iron Duke. Adaral ?? tcmporary flagship, was almost abrea..t A the Stack Rock Fort, and apparently t:ose to one retsaim o. the shattered ...

Published: Thursday 19 August 1886
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1116 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE EVOLUTIONARY SQUADRON

... 3Minotaur, flag ship. 17 guns; iron ship, armour pla ted. 'Hercules, 14 gun,, armour plated (flag ship of the Vice Admiral). Agineourt, , 1 gunt, armour plated (llag ship of the Rear Admiral). Sultan, 12 guns, armour pla-d. Iron Duke, 14l guns, arniour plated ...

Published: Friday 12 June 1885
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 559 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SUMMARY OF NEWS

... D'Dermott of the Local Government Board. The Channel Squadron, consisting of the Mino- 9 taur, Agincourt, Monarch, and Iron Duke, with O torpedo boats Nos 23 and 24, which were to have left Queenstown last Monday, are still detained O there owing to ...

Published: Thursday 22 July 1886
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 624 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE EVOLUTIONARY FLEET

... between some Marines and boatmen (a row wvhich was in fact carried on half on sea and half on shore) two Marines from the Iron Duke sustained injuries. One of them got a blow of an oar on the head, and he wcis for some time unconscious. Had the dis- pute ...

Published: Tuesday 23 June 1885
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 673 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ENGLAND AND RUSSIA

... the Iron Duke alongside Keyhuam is Basin. One hundred seamen from the Achilles were brought into the harbour by a steam tug, 8 and commenced to reeve tile running gear of the 0 ship. Good progress -as made, and it is expected 0 that the Iron Duke will ...

Published: Tuesday 31 March 1885
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1397 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

WAR PREPARATIONS

... owing to the heavy weather. She will be removed, howNv- I ever to-day, and triakls of her engines, as -well as thosc of the Iron Duke, are fied for next week. The Wiliaia Joliffe. tug. wv.aw taken ant of- har Iour Aveszerravi. bit hler slix ?? trial could ...

Published: Monday 27 April 1885
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 666 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

RUSSIA AND ENGLAND

... t clock,, as al' thlt is to be d,~ue to them3 is to in- : s spect their undor water fittings. Iu the Ifter- e fl1,om the Iron Duke and Hotspur, both oi whici g u' int'l finiel coalinir, were docked at Ke\l 15it' 'd 1 t! s .'riutenden'e of£ Mr. Hand, ? ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1885
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1565 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES

... her out of action. ?? rthe rest of the fleet was passing the Minotaur, the Agiacourt being head, followed by the Sultan, .Iron Duke, anld Mosuarch. 'The vesselsl dropped l anobor at the margin of the advanoed Mine Field and a rush was made to the guns in ...

Published: Tuesday 17 August 1886
Newspaper: Freeman's Journal
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 755 | Page: 5 | Tags: News