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Sunday, 16 April 2017

British battleship HMS Orion starting with trials according to the Dutch newspaper Bataviaasch nieuwsblad dated 12 September 1911

Orion-class

An item reported that world’s largest battleship the British HMS Orion left Portsmouth, England to execute her trials.(1)

Note
1. Of the Orion-class. Laid down at the Portsmouth Dockyard on 29 November 1909, launched on 20 August 1910, sea trials begun in September 1911, commissioned on 2 January 1912, seagoing gunnery training ship stationed at Portland since June 1921, paid off on 12 April 1922, decided to dispose her as a result of the Washington Treaty, sold to shipbreakers firm Cox and Danks on 19 December 1922 and broken up at Upnor in February 1923.