HMS Erin
Videos
HMS Erin was a dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, originally ordered by the Ottoman government from the British Vickers Company. The ship was to have been named Reşadiye when she entered servic
Erin in the Moray Firth, August 1915
Erin in a floating drydock, about 1918
Erin and Centurion (right) conducting gunnery training in Scapa Flow, May 1917
Erin making a smoke screen, as seen from a kite balloon
Iron Duke-class battleship
Videos
The Iron Duke class was a group of four dreadnought battleships built for the British Royal Navy before the First World War. The class comprised four ships: Iron Duke, Marlborough, Benbow, and Emperor
HMS Erin
…following year. The design of the Reşadiye class was based on the King George V class, but employed the six-inch (152 mm) secondary armament of the later Iron Duke class. Erin had an overall length of 559 feet 6 inches (170.54 m), a beam of 91 feet 7 inches (27.9 m) and a draught of 28 feet 5 inches (8.7 m). She displaced…
Emperor of India off Jaffa in 1920
Rear (X and Y) turrets of HMS Emperor of India
Starboard secondary battery of HMS Marlborough
Benbow in the line of battle