Nassau-class battleship
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The Nassau class was a group of four dreadnought battleships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the early 1900s. The class comprised Nassau, the lead ship, Westfalen, Rheinland, and Posen. All
SMS Rheinland in 1910
Deutschland, the initial basis of the Nassau design
Nassau with some of her boats alongside
Westfalen underway, showing the arrangement of the main, secondary, and tertiary batteries
Lord Nelson-class battleship
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The Lord Nelson class consisted of a pair of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the twentieth century. Although they were the last British pre-dreadnoughts, bo
Nassau-class battleship
…built in response to the British Dreadnought, their design traces its origin to 1903; they were in fact a response to Dreadnought's predecessors of the Lord Nelson class. The Nassaus adopted a main battery of twelve 28 cm (11 in) guns in six twin-gun turrets in an unusual hexagonal arrangement. Unlike many other…
Lord Nelson
Agamemnon has her main guns replaced at Malta, May–June 1915
Agamemnon's 3-pounder Hotchkiss gun on a high-angle mount on the quarterdeck
Agamemnon fires her 9.2-inch guns at Ottoman forts at Sedd el Bahr, 4 March 1915