The Iron Duke class was a group of four dreadnought battleships built for the British Royal Navy before the First World War. The class comprised four ships:...
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HMS Iron Duke was a dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class, named in honour of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington...
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Iron Duke-class battleships and the battlecruiser HMS Tiger were being ordered and preliminary design work had begun on the new class of battleships scheduled...
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mulberry harbor established on Omaha Beach. The four Iron Duke-class battleships, HMS Iron Duke, HMS Marlborough, HMS Benbow, and HMS Emperor of India...
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HMS Benbow (1885) was an Admiral-class battleship launched in 1885 and scrapped in 1909. HMS Benbow (1913) was an Iron Duke-class battleship launched in 1913. She...
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HMS Marlborough (1912) (category Iron Duke-class battleships)
HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. She was built at Devonport...
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ironclad. HMS Iron Duke (1870) was a battleship launched in 1870, paid off in 1893, converted to as a coal hulk, and sold 1906 for scrap HMS Iron Duke (1912)...
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on her way to being broken up 1924. HMS Marlborough (1912), an Iron Duke-class battleship built 1912; fought in the Battle of Jutland 1916; decommissioned...
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HMS Emperor of India (category Iron Duke-class battleships)
HMS Emperor of India was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy. She was originally to have been named Delhi but was renamed before she...
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politician HMS Iron Duke, any of several British Royal Navy ships HMS Iron Duke (1870), a battleship sold for scrap in 1906 HMS Iron Duke (1912), the fleet...
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HMS Benbow (1913) (category Iron Duke-class battleships)
HMS Benbow was the third of four Iron Duke-class battleships of the Royal Navy, the third ship to be named in honour of Admiral John Benbow. Ordered in...
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The Revenge class, sometimes referred to as the Royal Sovereign class or the R class, consisted of five Dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy...
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HMS Iron Duke was the last of four Audacious-class central battery ironclads built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s. Completed in 1871, the ship was...
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The Almirante Latorre class consisted of two super-dreadnought battleships designed by the British company Armstrong Whitworth for the Chilean Navy. They...
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standardized by the British Royal Sovereign class, which are usually referred to as the first "pre-dreadnought battleships". These ships carried an armament that...
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The Bellerophon-class battleship was a group of three dreadnought battleships that were built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century...
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A fast battleship was a battleship which in concept emphasised speed without undue compromise of either armor or armament. Most of the early World War...
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Audacious-class ironclad battleships were designed by Sir Edward Reed at the request of the Board of Admiralty to serve as second-class battleships on distant...
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usually defined as the British Royal Sovereign class or Majestic class. Dreadnoughts and fast battleships are also included. Earlier armored capital ships...
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concentric design symbolically representing technological development from the Iron Age, through the Industrial Revolution and the Electronic Age to the Internet...
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liner Montezuma, acquired by the RFA in 1915 as a dummy battleship to imitate HMS Iron Duke, and named Abadol. She was renamed Oakleaf in 1917 and was...
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Orion-class battleships: Mark V(L) King George V-class battleships of 1911: Mark V(H) Iron Duke-class battleships: Mark V(H) HMS Erin, a battleship: Mark...
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HMS Neptune (1909) (redirect from Neptune class battleship)
dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century, the sole ship of her class. She was the first British battleship to be...
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Type 23 frigate (redirect from Duke class frigate)
officially the "Duke" class, and includes such famous names as HMS Iron Duke (which had been the name of the battleship HMS Iron Duke, Admiral Jellicoe's...
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Audacious-class ironclad battleship launched in 1869 and sunk in a collision with HMS Iron Duke in 1875. HMS Vanguard (1909) was a St Vincent-class battleship launched...
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HMS Vanguard (1870) (category Victorian-era battleships of the United Kingdom)
HMS Vanguard of the British Royal Navy was an Audacious-class central battery ironclad battleship, by Edward Reed launched in 1870. In 1875, the ship was...
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The Reşadiye class was a group of two dreadnought battleships ordered by the Ottoman Empire from Britain in the 1910s. The design for the ships was based...
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Erich Bey (category Recipients of the clasp to the Iron Cross, 2nd class)
superior Royal Navy force that included the battleship HMS Warspite. Bey was awarded with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 9 May 1940. The next day he...
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SMS König (category König-class battleships)
SMS König was the first of four König-class dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. König (English:...
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Secondary armament (redirect from Battleship secondary armament)
although the primary justification for mounting a 6-inch battery (in the Iron Duke class) remained fighting against the increasingly large torpedo boats and...
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