An item reported that the British Admiralty decided that during her annual overhaul the anti torpedo boat 10,5cm guns of the HMS Orion were to be mounted in casemates. Same was to be done for her sister ships while on new ships the anti torpedo boat battery always was mounted in casemates.(1)
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1. Building ordered under 1909 Naval Estimates. Laid down at the Portsmouth Dockyard on 29 November 1909, launched on 20 August 1910, seatrials in September 1910. commissioned on 2 January 1912, decommissioned 1922, as flagship part of the Reserve Fleet at Portsmouth since 3 October 1919, seagoing gunnery training ship at Portland since June 1921, decommissioned on 12 April 1922, to be disposed under the Washington Treaty terms, sold to Cox and Danks Shipbreaking Company on 19 December 1921 and broken up at Upnor, England since February 1923. Building costs 1.892.823 pond sterling and she caused the bankruptcy of the shipyard which built her. Of the Orion-class.
