RN Battleships: Iron Duke Class Super Dreadnoughts 1912 on

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Iron Duke Class Battleship HMS Marlborough pictured in the Mediterranean, during the 1920s.
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Lead Ship,Battleship HMS Iron Duke pictured in the late 1930's,by this time she was being used as a Gunnery Training Ship.
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Iron Duke Class Dreadnought Battleships,HMS Iron Duke with HMS Benbow pictured from HMS Marlborough during the Greco-Turkish War,supporting the landings at Gemlik,Turkey on June 25th 1919.
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Lead Ship, Dreadnought Battleship HMS Iron Duke pictured c1914. She was built at Portsmouth Dockyard, and her keel laid in January 1912. Launched ten months later, she was commissioned into the Home Fleet in March 1914 as the fleet flagship. She was armed with a main battery of ten 13.5-inch guns and was capable of a top speed of 21.25 knots...Iron Duke served as the flagship of the Grand Fleet during the First World War, including at the Battle of Jutland. There, she inflicted significant damage on the German Battleship SMS König early in the main fleet action. In January 1917, she was relieved as fleet flagship. After the war, Iron Duke operated in the Mediterranean as the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. She participated in both the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War in the Black Sea and the Greco-Turkish War. She also assisted in the evacuation of refugees from Smyrna. In 1926, she was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, where she served as a Training Ship.
Iron Duke remained on active duty for only a few more years; in 1930, the London Naval Treaty specified that the four Iron Duke-Class Battleships be scrapped or otherwise demilitarised. Iron Duke was therefore converted into a Gunnery Training Ship; her armour and much of her armament was removed to render her unfit for combat. She served in this capacity until the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, when she was moored in Scapa Flow as a harbour defence ship. In October, she was badly damaged by German bombers and was run aground to avoid sinking. She continued to serve as an Anti-Aircraft platform for the duration of the war, and was eventually refloated and broken up for scrap in the late 1940s.
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Three deck views on EMP. OF INDIA............. :) DFO
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Gunners pictured cleaning the forward BL 13.5 inch/45 calibre Mk V guns on Iron Duke Class Super Dreadnought Battleship HMS Benbow during her Mediterranean deployment in 1919...Ordered in the 1911 building programme, she was laid down at William Beardmore & Company shipyards in May 1912, launched in November 1913, and completed in October 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. The four Iron Dukes were very similar to the preceding King George V class, with an improved secondary battery. She was armed with a main battery of ten 13.5-inch guns and twelve 6 inch secondary guns. She was capable of a top speed of 21.25 knots, and had a 12-inch thick armoured belt.
Benbow served in the Grand Fleet as the flagship of the 4th Battle Squadron during the war. She was present during the largest naval action of the war, the Battle of Jutland on 31st May – 1st June 1916, though she was not heavily engaged. She sortied twice more, in August 1916 and April 1918 in attempts to catch the German High Seas Fleet in another major battle, but neither produced any significant action. After the end of the war in 1918, Benbow and the rest of the 4th Squadron were reassigned to the Mediterranean Fleet. There, she took part in operations in the Black Sea in support of White Russians in the Russian Civil War until mid-1920, when the Mediterranean Fleet began supporting Greek forces during the Greco-Turkish War. In 1926, Benbow was reassigned to the Atlantic Fleet. She was decommissioned in 1929, placed on the sale list in September 1930, and sold for scrap the following year.
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Iron Duke Class Dreadnought Battleship HMS Benbow pictured on arrival at Malta c 1920.
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Iron Duke Class Dreadnought Battleship HMS Emperor of India pictured at Portland c1918.
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Admiralty as fitted 1912 blueprint of Dreadnought Battleship HMS Iron Duke, with Malta Dockyard stamped additions in red dated 1928.
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