• Stephen Wentworth Roskill (1 August 1903 – 4 November 1982) was a senior career officer of the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War and, after...
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    killed and 22 wounded. The Royal Navy lost 28 cruisers according to Stephen Roskill, and 34 including Commonwealth/Dominion ships, according to the Naval-History...
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    1093/ref:odnb/34937. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Stephen Roskill: "Royal Navy - Britische Seekriegsgeschichte 1939-1945", page 403 Vat...
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    country—specifically, on the island of Meedhoo in the far north of the atoll. Stephen Roskill; The War at Sea Vol II (1954) HMSO (ISBN none) p25 Britain's Secret...
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    during this time. Post-war, the official Royal Navy history - by Capt. Stephen Roskill - concluded, "The Germans never came so near to disrupting communications...
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    though Prien purportedly was unenthusiastic about being used that way. Stephen Roskill wrote, "It is now known that this operation was planned with great...
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    in the Far East during the 1920s and 1930s. By 1937, according to Stephen Roskill, "the concept of the 'Main Fleet to Singapore' had, perhaps through...
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    18-month delay (which would have meant no new RN battleships until 1942). Stephen Roskill noted that the London Naval Treaty stipulated a 14-inch maximum gun...
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