HMS Barfleur (1892)
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HMS Barfleur was the second and last of the Centurion-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1890s. Intended for service abroad, they exchanged heavy armour and a powerful a
Barfleur, 1895
Barfleur before 1898
Barfleur at anchor, after 1904
Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty was a Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Mahdist War and then the response to the Boxer Rebellion, he commanded the Battle Cruiser Flee
HMS Barfleur (1892)
…which joined other forces in storming the Taku forts on 16–17 June 1900 and in relieving the foreign legations at Tientsin on 13–14 July 1900. Commander David Beatty (the future First Sea Lord) was serving aboard Barfleur when he was wounded at Tientsin during operations ashore. In September, the battleship HMS…
Beatty in 1916
Captain David Beatty
Admiral Seymour returning to Tientsin with wounded men
HMS Lion, flagship of the battlecruiser squadron