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HMS Lord Nelson was a Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1906 and completed in 1908. She was the Royal Navy's last pre-dreadnought. The ship was flagship of the Channel Fleet when the First World War began in 1914. Lord Nelson was transferred to the Mediterranean Sea in early 1915 to participate in the Dardanelles Campaign ...
The Lord Nelson class consisted of a pair of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the twentieth century. Although they were the last British pre-dreadnoughts, both were completed and commissioned well over a year after HMS Dreadnought had entered service in late 1906.
Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Lord Nelson, after the Vice-admiral Horatio Nelson, victor of the Battle of Trafalgar: HMS Lord Nelson (1800) was a storeship purchased in 1800 and sold in 1807. HMS Lord Nelson (1906) was a Lord Nelson-class battleship launched in 1906. She was sold in 1920 and was resold in 1921.
The British Royal Navy built a series of pre-dreadnought battleships as part of a naval expansion programme that began with the Naval Defence Act 1889.These ships were characterised by a main battery of four heavy guns—typically 12-inch (305 mm) guns—in two twin mounts, a secondary armament that usually comprised 4.7-to-6-inch (120 to 150 mm) guns, and a high freeboard.
HMS Lord Nelson (1906) was a Lord Nelson-class battleship launched in 1906. She was scrapped in 1922. STS Lord Nelson, a sail training ship launched in 1986 and used by the British Jubilee Sailing Trust; Hired armed cutter Lord Nelson: any one of three hired naval cutters
HMS Agamemnon was one of two Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleships launched in 1906 and completed in 1908. She was the Royal Navy's second-to-last pre-dreadnought battleship to be built, followed by her sister ship, Lord Nelson. She was assigned to the Channel Fleet when the First World War began in 1914.
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 London (1899) HMS Lord Nelson (1906) Lord Nelson-class battleship; M. HMS Magnificent (1894) HMS Majestic (1895) Majestic-class battleship; HMS Malaya; HMS ...