RN Battleships: Nelson Class

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Lead Ship, Battleship HMS Nelson pictured berthing at Portsmouth in April 1929.
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Inboard profile original blueprint of Nelson Class Battleship HMS Rodney (1925). The plan has been stamped, signed and dated by Cammell Laird's Principal Ship Overseer (March 20th 1928) and a representative of the Ship Drawing Office (February 1st 1925.).
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Lead Ship, Battleship HMS Nelson pictured in 1933.
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Torpedo Room aboard Nelson Class Battleship HMS Rodney in 1940.
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Lead Ship, Battleship HMS Nelson pictured aground on Hamilton Bank when departing HMNB Portsmouth on January 11th 1934.
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Nelson Class Battleship HMS Rodney pictured conducting gunnery practice, during the RNs transit between Mers El Kébir and Gibraltar with Force H in April 1943.
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Lead Ship, Battleship HMS Nelson pictured at Gibraltar c1941.
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16 inch shell handling aboard Lead Ship, Battleship HMS Nelson c1943.
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Nelson Class Battleship sisters HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson...Firing trials revealed that the blast of 'A' and 'B' turrets on forward bearings caused damage to many weather-deck fittings and conditions on the mess-decks became very uncomfortable. There was a longstanding rumour that the ships could not fire a full broadside without risk of structural damage. This was disproved during the action against the German battleship Bismarck, where Rodney fired upwards of 40 broadsides (380 shells) without major structural damage except to deck planking and upper deck fittings, although damage to sickbay fittings, partition bulkheads, toilet bowls and plumbing in the forecastle was extensive. Virtually every light bulb in the forward section was shattered also. When 'X' turret was fired 30 degrees abaft the beam and elevation of 40 degrees, considerable damage occurred to the two vertically stacked rows of bridge windows. As a result, the guns of "X" turret were usually prohibited from firing abaft of the beam at high elevations during peacetime practice firing. Fitting tempered glass in the bridge windows was tried, but gun blast still shattered some of them and filled the bridge with flying debris. The design of the Captain's bridge was altered on Nelson circa 1930-33 to reduce the window area and enclose the upper portion of the previous two rows of glass. A great deal of effort was expended in correcting this problem, and fitting of protective ledges below the new smaller windows proved successful. A new enclosed Admiral's bridge with its requisite reduced windows was built on top of the Captain's bridge and the forward signalling lamps were moved up one level and towards the aft of the bridge. The Admiral's bridge on Rodney remained stepped back somewhat from the forward edge of the tower, but the Captain's bridge had the same reduced area of glass that Nelson now had, with larger ledges. Blast was also a problem elsewhere; D.K. Brown tells of a test firing that was suspended when DNC observer H.S. Pengelly, who was beneath the foredeck, reported a bright red flash after firing all guns in "A" turret. This was later discovered to be caused by concussion of the observers' eyeballs.
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Lead Ship, Battleship HMS Nelson in the 1930's.
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