HMS Benbow (1913)
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HMS Benbow was the third of four Iron Duke-class battleships of the Royal Navy, the third ship to be named in honour of Admiral John Benbow. Ordered in the 1911 building programme, the ship was laid d
Benbow in the line of battle
Benbow experimenting with a kite balloon in 1916
Benbow in Scapa Flow in May 1917
The 4th Battle Squadron in 1915; the closest vessel is either Benbow or Emperor of India
Battleship
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A battleship was a heavily armored large warship with a main battery consisting of large guns, designed to serve as a capital ship. From their advent in the late 1880s, battleships were among the larg
HMS Benbow (1913)
…HMS Benbow was the third of four Iron Duke-class battleships of the Royal Navy, the third ship to be named in honour of Admiral John Benbow. Ordered in the 1911 building programme, the ship was laid down at the…
USS Iowa firing a broadside
Napoléon (1850), the world's first steam-powered battleship
Gloire (1859), the first ocean-going ironclad warship
The German Brandenburg, which carried six heavy guns, rather than the standard four