Orion-class
An item reported that the Dutch tugs Zwarte Zee and Witte Zee departed on 15 February from Devonport, England were now at Queensborough towing the British battleship Orion (1) which was to be broken up.
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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 consisting of the Orion, Monarch, Conqueror and Thunderer preceded by the Colossus-class and succeeded by the King George V-class.
2. Result of the Washington Naval Conference between November 1921-February 1922 signed by USA, England, Japan, Italy and France to limit the building of battleships, battle cruisers and aircraft carriers and to limit the possession of such capital ships by stopping completion of breaking up already existing.
