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Sunday 11 September 2016

British battleships Valiant and Warspite sent with marines towards Ireland according to the Dutch newspaper Leeuwarder courant dated 4 June 1920

Queen Elizabeth-class

An item dated London, England 3rd reported that the British battleships Valiant (1) and Warspite (2) were complete fitted [and taken marines on board] and would depart from Devonport, England towards Queenstown, Ireland.

Notes
1. Of the Queen Elizabeth, Malaya, Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya and the in 1914 cancelled Agincourt. Preceded by the Iron Duke-class and succeeded by the Revenge-class. Pennant 02. Laid down at Fairfield, Clydebank, Scotland on 31 January 1913, launched on 4 November 1914, completed in February 1916, commissioned on 13 January 1916, modernized 1929-1930 and March 1937-November 1939, decommissioned in July 1945 and sold to be broken up on 19 March 1948 by Arnott Young at Cairnryan, Scotland in 1948.
2. Of the Queen Elizabeth-class. Pennant 03. Laid down at the HMD Dockyard Devonport, England on 31 October 1912, launched on 26 November 1913, commissioned on 8 March 1915, modernized in 1924 and March 1934-March 1937, decommissioned on 1 February 1945,while underway to be broken up run aground at Prussian Cove around 19 April 1947. Efforts to salvage her in 1950 were not successful and after she was finally beached off St. Michael’s Mount {Marazion, England] and there broken up.