An item referred to the magazine R.U.S.I. dated February 1938 reported that the original building costs of the British battleship HMS Warspite were 2.524.148 pound sterling. Since she was completed was 466.000 pound sterling spent in repairing. She was recently modernized, costs 2.362.000 pound sterling.(1)
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1. Of the Queen Elizabeth-class, building ordered in 1912, laid down on 31 October 1912, launched on 26 November 1913, commissioned on 8 march 1915, decommissioned on 1 February 1945, stricken in 1945, breaking up approved by the British Admiralty in June 1946, underway to be broken up was she heavily damaged beached off St, Michaels Mount in 1947 and since summer 1955 no longer seen.
