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adventures-of-the-blackgang: HMS King Edward VII (1903) in early 1907 Scanned from Burt, R. A. British Battleships 1889-1904. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1988 – HMS King Edward VII, named after King Edward VII, was the lead ship of her class of Royal Navy pre-dreadnought battleships. Laid down at Devonport Dockyard on 8 March 1902. She was launched by King Edward VII on 23 July 1903. Completed in February 1905, and was made obsolete in less than two years by the commissioning of the revolutionary battleship Dreadnought at the end of 1906 and the large numbers of the new dreadnought battleships that commissioned in succeeding years. The King Edward VII-class battleships were known as “The Wobbly Eight”. Mined off Cape Wrath, 6 January 1916; she capsized and sank nine hours after the explosion. more »

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HMS King Edward VII (1903) in early 1907

Scanned from Burt, R. A. British Battleships 1889-1904. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1988 – HMS King Edward VII, named after King Edward VII, was the lead ship of her class of Royal Navy pre-dreadnought battleships. Laid down at Devonport Dockyard on 8 March 1902. She was launched by King Edward VII on 23 July 1903. Completed in February 1905, and was made obsolete in less than two years by the commissioning of the revolutionary battleship Dreadnought at the end of 1906 and the large numbers of the new dreadnought battleships that commissioned in succeeding years. The King Edward VII-class battleships were known as “The Wobbly Eight”. Mined off Cape Wrath, 6 January 1916; she capsized and sank nine hours after the explosion.

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