HMS King Edward VII
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HMS King Edward VII, named after King Edward VII, was the lead ship of her class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the British Royal Navy. Armed with a battery of four 12-inch and four 9.2 in g
HMS King Edward VII underway
King Edward VII passing New Brighton
Painting of King Edward VII underway
Cape Wrath
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Cape Wrath is a cape in the Durness parish of the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It is the most north-westerly point in mainland Great Britain.
HMS King Edward VII
…to Belfast, where she was scheduled to undergo a refit. At 10:47, she struck a mine that had been laid by the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Möwe off Cape Wrath five days before. Möwe had slipped past British patrols and laid 252 mines under cover of darkness and a snow storm. The explosion occurred under the…
Cape Wrath from the sea
Former Lloyds signal station, Cape Wrath
Cliffs at Cape Wrath
Stack Clò Kearvaig and Kearvaig beach