Queen- Elizabeth-class
An item reported that Sinn Fein (10 attacked with success except for one the navy station at Queenstown and 5 coast guard posts. The deputy secretary for Ireland stated that the signal station of Malinbad was damaged and the lighthouse of Hook Had and other posts attacked. The battleships Valiant (2) and Warspite (3) arrived at Devonport, England to embark there marines and stores. A government transport disembarked 100 soldiers at Bantzy, Ireland, just like other places troops were landed. The admiralty denied that the navy station at Queenstown was attacked but said that 2 coast posts were attacked and burnt down and the explosives stolen and that two lighthouses were attacked.
Notes
1. Irish republican political party founded on 28 November 1905.
2. 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.
3. 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.
