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Pagrindiniai terminai ir frazės
able seamen administration Admiral Admiralty afloat appointed armoured armoured cruisers Atalanta batteries Board of Admiralty boilers boys Brassey brigade brigs British Captain Childers Coast Volunteers Coastguard colonies commission Committee considerable corps cost crews cruise cruisers dockyards drill ship duties efficiency employed engineers England enrolled estimates expenditure experience favour First-class fishermen fleet force foreign Frederick Grey French Navy give Goschen Government gunboats gunnery guns harbour important increase instruction ironclads large number lieutenants Lord Lord Clarence Paget Majesty's Majesty's ships maritime ment mercantile marine merchant service Naval Artillery Volunteers naval officers Naval Volunteers navigating necessary number of seamen officer-instructor opinion ordinary seamen organisation Parliament petty officers pilotage ports practical present proposed question repairs Royal Naval Artillery Royal Naval Reserve sailing ships seagoing seamanship shipbuilding squadron stations steam steamers tion tonnage tons torpedo training ships unarmoured United States Navy vessels
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