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Two Fifteen-Inch Monitors Ordered

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

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1915

John Arbuthnot FisherJanuary 1915

London · Warfare / World War, 1st

The Admiralty orders two additional large monitors armed with fifteen-inch guns as Fisher's shallow-water programme expands.

Names involved

John Arbuthnot Fisher

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