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Emergency 612-Vessel Programme Launched

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1914

John Arbuthnot Fisher3 November 1914

London · Warfare / World War, 1st

Fisher presides over an emergency building programme totalling 612 vessels for expanded wartime naval operations.

Names involved

John Arbuthnot Fisher

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