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Saturday 30 January 2016

British battleship HMS Howe 1937-1958

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Of the King George V-class. Building ordered on 28 April 1937, laid down by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan area, Scotland on 1 June 1937, launched on 9 April 1940, completed on 31 March 1941, commissioned on 29 August 1942, decommissioned in 1950 and finally broken up at Inverkeithing, Scotland in 1958. Motto Utcumque placuerit deo.