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- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth53:19Carrier aviation was another wartime transitionNotable Point
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- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat48:19Why Violet Friend was politically too ambitiousQ&A
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- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain15:28Pigeons, chickens, and dogs entered military systemsNotable Point
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- Bruships 55: New Books1:05:12The Old Gang's trench-breaking TOG tanksChapter
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- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:33:00Destroyer: why a gravity weapon needs its own power sourceNotable Point
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