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HMS Rodney was one of two Nelson-class battleships built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1920s. The ship entered service in 1928, and spent her peacetime career with the Atlantic and Home Fleets , sometimes serving as a flagship when her sister ship , Nelson , was being refitted.
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Description: Nine 16-inch guns of HMS Rodney firing a salvo. Photo: Charles E. Brown Date: 1936: Source: Scan from Burgess, Malcolm William (1936) Warships To-day, London: Oxford University Press, pp. facing page. 97
At the climax of the battle Rodney, in conjunction with King George V, closed on Bismarck to bombard her at short range. Rodney ' s main guns were credited with an estimated 100 to 130 hits, contributing greatly to Bismarck ' s final destruction. Nelson and Rodney participated in the bombardment of targets in northern France during and after D-Day.
HMS Rodney (1833) was a 90-gun second rate launched in 1833, converted to screw propulsion and rearmed with 70 guns in 1860, and broken up in 1884. HMS Rodney (1884) was an Admiral-class battleship launched in 1884 and sold in 1909. HMS Rodney (1916) was to have been an Admiral-class battlecruiser. She was ordered in April 1916, but ...
HMS Ramillies (1915, Revenge class, 33,500 tons, main armament: eight 15-inch guns). HMS Rodney (1925, Nelson -class, 38,000 tons, main armament: nine 16-inch guns). USS Texas , western Omaha Beach ( New York class , 27,000 tons, main armament: ten 14-inch guns, Flagship of Rear Admiral Carleton F. Bryant ) primarily in support of the US 1st ...
Residents of New England and those with British ties are once again in a scuffle. This time, the debate continues over whether a shipwreck found off the coast of Rhode Island is really the HMS ...
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