RN Battleships: Pre-Dreadnoughts

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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship HMS Centurion,Portsmouth in 1894.
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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship HMS Lord Nelson 1908/9.
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Lord Nelson Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship HMS Agamemnon pictured c1910 and re-gunning her 'A' turret 12 inch main armament at Malta in June 1915.
Launched in 1906 at William Beardmore & Company Shipyards,Dalmuir near Glasgow and completed in 1908. She was the Royal Navy's second-to-last Pre-Dreadnought Battleship to be built, followed by her sister ship, Lord Nelson. She was assigned to the Channel Fleet when the First World War began in 1914.She was transferred to the Mediterranean Sea with Lord Nelson in early 1915 to participate in the Dardanelles Campaign. She made a number of bombardments against Turkish fortifications and in support of British and ANZAC troops. Agamemnon remained in the Mediterranean after the conclusion of that campaign to prevent the German Battlecruiser SMS Goeben and Light Cruiser Breslau from breaking out into the Mediterranean. Agamemnon shot down the German Zeppelin LZ85 during a bombing mission over Salonica in 1916. On October 30th 1918, the Ottoman Empire signed the Armistice of Mudros on board her while she was anchored at Lemnos in the Northern Aegean Sea. She was converted to a radio-controlled Target Ship following her return to the United Kingdom in March 1919 and began service in 1921. Agamemnon was replaced by Centurion at the end of 1926 and sold for scrap in January 1927, the last Pre-Dreadnought in service with the Royal Navy.
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Second Class Pre-Dreadnought Battleship HMS Renown seen on her return from India in 1906.
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Lord Nelson played a significant role in the evacuation of the Russian Royal family rom Crimea in the year after the Bolshevik Revolution...initially it was Marlborough but then Nelson arrived and as senior ship played an executive role in dividing up the different relations between the ships and later, their destinations….
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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship HMS Lord Nelson seen c1908.Built at Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Company Shipyards,Jarrow on the Tyne and commissioned in 1908.She was the Royal Navy's last Pre-Dreadnought. The ship was flagship of the Channel Fleet when the First World War began in 1914.She was transferred to the Mediterranean Sea in early 1915 to participate in the Dardanelles Campaign. She remained there, becoming flagship of the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron, which was later redesignated the Aegean Squadron. After the Ottoman surrender in 1918 the ship moved to the Black Sea where she remained as flagship before returning to the United Kingdom in May 1919. Lord Nelson was placed into reserve upon her arrival and sold for scrap in June 1920.
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Here is a very similar view of LORD NELSON on a dry day, welcoming poo-baahs aboard! :) DFO
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HMS INFLEXIBLE at Malta.
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Lead Ship,Pre-Dreadnought Battleship HMS Centurion pictured c1895.
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A 12" barrel gets replaced at Malta in WW1 on AGAMEMNON; worn out firing at the Turks! :o DFO
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