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Return ordered,
showing the losses of ships of the Royal Navy during the period 4th day of August, 1914, to 11th day of November, 1918, distinguishing battleships, cruisers, light cruisers, torpedo gunboats, coast defence ships, monitors, sloops, river gunboats, flotilla leaders, torpedo-boat destroyers, torpedo boats, submarines, coastal motor boats, armed merchant cruisers, minelayers, aircraft carriers, and armed boarding steamers: to show, as far as is known, name, class, displacement, date of launch, date of completion. and date, place, and method of loss:
And showing the losses of auxiliary ships of the Royal Navy during the period 4th day of August" 1914, to 11th day of November, 1918, distinguishing hospital ships, store carriers, minesweepers, auxiliary patrol paddlers, mine-carriers, fleet messengers, commissioned escort ships, miscellaneous craft, colliers, oilers, special service ships, tugs, yachts, and other auxiliary
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craft; to show, as far as is known, name, class, gross tonnage, whether or not commissioned, and date, place, and method of loss."—[Lieut.-Colonel Burgoyne.]