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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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) was...
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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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War. The class comprised four ships: Iron Duke, Marlborough, Benbow, and Emperor of India. Launched from October 1912 to November 1913, this was the third...
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established on Omaha Beach. The four Iron Duke-class battleships, HMS Iron Duke, HMS Marlborough, HMS Benbow, and HMS Emperor of India, were the third line...
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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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1904; sank 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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Somerset Gough-Calthorpe hosted Kurd Ahmet Izzet Pasha on board HMS Iron Duke (1912) in preparation for the allied operation in Izmir. He died of a heart...
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at [1] Media related to HMS Acasta (ship, 1912) at Wikimedia Commons Imperial War Museum: Lives of the First World War: HMS Acasta at the Battle of Jutland...
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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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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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October 1911, the ships of the 1911–1912 Naval Programme, the four Iron Duke-class battleships and the battlecruiser HMS Tiger were being ordered and preliminary...
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enemy submarine menace. He was appointed captain of the battleship HMS Iron Duke on 2 January 1919, the ship soon to join the Mediterranean Fleet. There...
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Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's...
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Excellent and Vivid (1915–1916). He then served aboard HMS Devonshire (1916–1917) and HMS Iron Duke (1917–1919). On 17 July 1918 at St John's, Edinburgh...
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War in July 1914, Callaghan set sail in his flagship, the battleship HMS Iron Duke, for his war station at Scapa Flow. There he met his successor-designate...
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until March 1929, serving on HMS Iron Duke and later on the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet (renamed the Home Fleet in 1932), HMS Nelson. He served on the...
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Tallinn), and was appointed CB in 1920 for that service. He was captain of HMS Iron Duke from 1921 to 1923. He was appointed Commandant of the Royal Naval College...
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June 1915, he became Captain of the Fleet to Sir John Jellicoe in HMS Iron Duke (1912) with the rank of commodore 1st class. He was granted a special Good...
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HMS Unicorn is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was...
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offer to join Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, as a lieutenant on board HMS Sultan. In addition to acting as the Duke's equerry, Louis continued his...
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Lieutenant-Commander on 15 August 1912. After the British entry into World War I, Nicholson served on HMS Iron Duke on 4 August 1914 and served in the...
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1st Battle Squadron (category Military units and formations established in 1912)
of HMS King George V, HMS Howe, HMS Duke of York and HMS Anson at various times. Commanders were as follows: Vice-Admiral Sir Stanley Colville (1912–14)...
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still...
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battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth in June 1923, Flag Captain to the Flag Officer Commanding the 3rd Battle Squadron in the battleship HMS Iron Duke in October...
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of 1911: Mark V(H) Iron Duke-class battleships: Mark V(H) HMS Erin, a battleship: Mark VI(H) Lion-class battlecruisers: Mark V(L) HMS Queen Mary, a battlecruiser:...
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14 November 1916 as a midshipman, and served aboard the battleship HMS Iron Duke in the Home Fleet. On 18 February 1919 he was promoted to the acting...
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British High Commissioner to Turkey, with his flag in the battleship HMS Iron Duke, in July 1919. He was created a baronet on 29 December 1919 and promoted...
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HM Signal School, before being appointed, despite his lowly rank, to HMS Iron Duke in the spring of 1922 as fleet signal officer of the Mediterranean Fleet...
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HMS Bellerophon was the lead ship of her class of three dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She...
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