Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,971 pages of information and 246,452 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

HMS Britannia

From Graces Guide
1837. An earlier ship that carried the name HMS Britannia, a 120-gun first rate ship of the line launched in 1820. She was a training ship after 1859, and broken up in 1869.

The sixth HMS Britannia was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the King Edward VII class.

1906 commissioned in September

1918 On 9 November, she was torpedoed by a German submarine off Cape Trafalgar and sank with the loss of 50 men. She was the last Royal Navy ship to be sunk in the war.

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  • HMS Britannia [1]