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HMS Warspite was one of five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships built for the Royal Navy during the early 1910s. Completed during the First World War in 1915, she was assigned to the Grand Fleet and participated in the Battle of Jutland .
HMS Warspite (1807) was a 76-gun third rate launched in 1807, razeed in 1840 and paid off in 1846. Lent to The Marine Society in 1862, she became a training ship until destroyed by fire in 1876. HMS Warspite (1884) was an Imperieuse -class first-class armoured cruiser launched in 1884 and scrapped in 1905.
HMS Warspite was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched in 1807.She served in the Napoleonic Wars and was decommissioned in 1815. She was re-rated as a 76-gun ship in 1817 and then circumnavigated the world from 1826 to 1827, visiting Australia.
The Royal Navy considered it imperative, for morale and strategic purposes, to defeat the Germans in Narvik, so Vice Admiral William Whitworth was sent with the battleship HMS Warspite and nine destroyers; four Tribal-class (HMS Bedouin, Cossack, Punjabi, and Eskimo) and five others (HMS Kimberley, Hero, Icarus, Forester and Foxhound ...
The vessel, standing guard overnight under HMS Warspite ' s bow at Prussia Cove, Cornwall, was holed in the engine room, towed off and eventually drifted ashore at Long Rock, a few miles to the west. [46] [47]
As a further deception, Admiral Cunningham made a surreptitious exit after dark from a golf club in Alexandria to avoid being seen boarding his flagship, the battleship HMS Warspite. He had made a point of arriving at the club the same afternoon with his suitcase as if for an overnight stay, and spent some time on the golf course within sight ...
Just before the battle, a Fairey Swordfish float-plane was launched from Warspite, with the crew ordered to reconnoitre for German ships and to bomb any targets of opportunity. The aircraft was carrying two 250-pound (110 kg) high explosive bombs, two 100-pound (45 kg) anti-submarine bombs and eight 40-pound (18 kg) anti-personnel bombs.
From "One day later, on 13 April, a Swordfish launched by catapult from HMS Warspite flew up Ofot Fjord towards Narvik, and spotted seven German destroyers for the Warspite's guns; all the destroyers were sunk or so badly damaged that they were scuttled. The same aircraft, L9767, flown by PO FC Rice, Lt Cdr WLM Brown and L/A MG Pacey later that ...