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HMS Nelson (pennant number: 28) was the name ship of her class of two battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1920s. They were the first battleships built to meet the limitations of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
The Nelson class was a class of two battleships (Nelson and Rodney) of the British Royal Navy, built shortly after, and under the terms of, the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. They were the only British battleships built between the Revenge class , ordered in 1913, and the King George V class , ordered in 1936.
HMS Nelson (1814) was a 120-gun first rate launched in 1814. She was converted to screw propulsion and rearmed to 90 guns in 1860, and was handed over to the government of the Colony of Victoria, Australia, in 1867. She was sold in 1898 as a storage hulk, and later used as a coal hulk, and was scrapped in 1928. HMS Nelson (1876) was a Nelson ...
The launch of the Nelson at Woolwich, 4 July 1814, by Luke Clennell. HMS Nelson was a 126-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 4 July 1814 at Woolwich Dockyard, [1] but then laid up incomplete at Portsmouth until 1854, when work began with a view to commissioning her for service in the Crimean War, but this ended before much work had been done, and the ship returned ...
HMS Victory. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is the name given to the portion of the base which is open to the public; it plays host to: [24] The raised wreck of the Tudor carrack Mary Rose viewable in a new (2013) Mary Rose Museum building. HMS Victory, Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, which (whilst still being in commission) is also open to the ...
The Nelson-class ships were designed as enlarged and improved versions of HMS Shannon to counter the threat of enemy armoured ships encountered abroad. The ships had a length between perpendiculars of 280 feet (85.3 m), a beam of 60 feet (18.3 m) and a deep draught of 25 feet 9 inches (7.8 m).
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September [O.S. 18 September] 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a Royal Navy officer whose inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He ...
HMS Nelson (28) R. HMS Rodney (29) This page was last edited on 5 April 2013, at 18:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...