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relation to the hull), the opinion has been expressed that d'Eyncourt created some of the most elegant and eye-pleasing warships ever designed, the prime example being the battle cruiser
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and suppressing the enemy machine guns that had caused heavy casualties in the first six months of the First World War. The machine that was eventually developed was given the name "
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Several very large capital ship designs, both battleships and battlecruisers, rendered inadmissible under the
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Eustace Henry William Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet
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Grave of
Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt (central cross) in
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Presidents of the
Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers
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A Shipbuilder's Yarn; The Record of a Naval
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Janet Watson Finlay (married 1898, Anderston, Scotland)
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In his battlecruisers, "large light cruisers" and the
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877:(Abridged). 1992; Macmillan Publishing Company.
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791:Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society
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244:Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
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282:Hailsham
145:for the
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118:Awards
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