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Friday 7 December 2018

British battleship HMS Warspite off Sumatra, Dutch East Indies 1942


National Archive, The Hague, Netherlands. Original source

According to the description was on the background the Dutch destroyer Hr.Ms. Van Galen visible.

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