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Saturday, 15 April 2017

New British battleship HMS Orion devalued the HSM Dreadnought according to the Dutch newspaper De Sumatra Post dated 15 September 1911

HMS Dreadnought

Orion-class


An item reported that the newest British battleship Orion of 22.680 ton reduced the HMS Dreadnought into a second class battleship.(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.