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    1914, the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915, and the Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft in April 1916. These operations culminated in the Battle...
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    (N17) 56° 43'N, 6° 33'E, North Sea 10 April 1940 Sunk by German Q-Ship Schiff 40/Schürbek HMS Sterlet (2S) 58° 55'N, 10° 10'E, Skagrerrak 18 April 1940...
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    traffic appeared at the port in 1964, with the SS Yarmouth Castle, recently purchased by Yarmouth Cruise Lines from the Chadade Steamship Company. The...
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    Firearms in American History. Boston: C.W. Sawyer. online at Hathi Trust Schiff, Stacy (2006). A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of...
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    1927 and scrapped at Rosyth in 1929. "SMS" stands for "Seiner Majestät Schiff", or "His Majesty's Ship" in German. The Indefatigable-class ships displaced...
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    raider Kormoran during World War II. "SMS" stands for "Seiner Majestät Schiff", or "His Majesty's Ship" in German. In Imperial German Navy gun nomenclature...
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    All ships of the Imperial Navy bore the title SMS, for Seiner Majestät Schiff (His Majesty's Ship). The Imperial Navy achieved some important operational...
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  • out from Kiel on a mission to bombard the British East-coast towns of Yarmouth and Lowestoft, with the torpedo boats of the 6th and 9th Torpedo Boat Flotillas...
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    Shipbreaking Company beginning in 1931. "SMS" stands for "Seiner Majestät Schiff ", or "His Majesty's Ship" in German. The measurements used here and elsewhere...
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    North Sea. There, she escorted the main German fleet during the raid on Yarmouth in November and the raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby in December...
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