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Class	Pennant Number	Name	Keel Laid	Launched	First Commissioned	Builder	Last De- Commissioned	Fate
Pre-Dreadnoughts
Sans Pareil	Sans Pareil	21 Apr 1885	9 May 1887	8 Jul 1891	Thames	1907?	Scrapped, 1907.
Sans Pareil	Victoria	23 Apr 1885	9 Apr 1887	19 Mar 1890	Elswick	22 Jun 1893	Sunk in collision with HMS Camperdown, 22 Jun 1893.
Trafalgar	Nile	8 Apr 1886	27 Mar 1888	30 Jun 1891	Pembroke	1911?	Scrapped, 1912
Trafalgar	Trafalgar	18 Jan 1886	20 Sep 1887	2 Apr 1890	Portsmouth	1911?	Scrapped, 1911.
Royal Sovereign	Empress of India	9 Jul 1889	7 May 1891	4 Sep 1893	Pembroke	1911?	Target ship, sunk Nov 1913.
	Ramilles	11 Aug 1890	1 Mar 1892	17 Oct 1893	Thomsons	Aug 1911?	Scrapped, 1913.
	Repulse	1 Jan 1890	27 Feb 1892	21 Apr 1894	Pembroke	Aug 1910?	Scrapped, 1911.
	Resolution	14 Jun 1890	28 May 1892	5 Dec 1893	Palmers	Aug 1911?	Scrapped, 1914.
	Revenge	12 Feb 1891	3 Nov 1892	22 Mar 1894	Palmers	Feb 1919?	Scrapped, 1919.
	Royal Oak	29 May 1890	5 Nov 1892	14 Jan 1896?	Lairds	Aug 1913?	Scrapped, 1914.
	Royal Sovereign	30 Jul 1889	26 Feb 1891	31 May 1892	Portsmouth	1913?	Scrapped, 1913.
Hood	Hood	12 Aug 1889	30 Jul 1891	1 Jun 1893	Chatham	Mar 1911?	Sunk as block ship, 1914.
Centurion	Barfleur	12 Oct 1890	10 Aug 1892	Jul 1894	Chatham	Scrapped, 1910.
Centurion	Centurion	30 Mar 1890	3 Aug 1892	14 Feb 1894	Portsmouth	Scrapped, 1910.
Renown	Renown	Feb 1893	8 May 1895	Jun 1897	Pembroke	Scrapped, 1914.
Majestic	Majestic	Feb 1894	31 Jan 1895	12 Dec 1895	Portsmouth	War loss: Torpedoed by U.21, 27 May 1915.
	Magnificent	18 Dec 1893	19 Dec 1894	12 Dec 1895	Chatham	Scrapped, 1921.
	Hannibal	1 May 1894	28 Apr 1896	10 May 1898	Pembroke	Scrapped, 1920.
	Prince George	10 Sep 1894	22 Aug 1895	26 Jun 1896	Portsmouth	Scrapped, 1921.
	Victorious	28 May 1894	19 Oct 1895	4 Nov 1896	Chatham	Scrapped, 1923.
	Jupiter	26 Apr 1894	18 Nov 1895	8 Jun 1897	Clydebank	Scrapped, 1919?
	Mars	2 Jun 1894	30 Mar 1896	8 Jun 1897	Lairds	Scrapped, 1921.
	Caesar	25 Mar 1895	2 Sep 1896	13 Jan 1898	Portsmouth	Scrapped, 1921.
	Illustrious	11 Mar 1895	2 Sep 1896	May 1898	Chatham	Scrapped, 1920.
Canopus	Canopus	4 Jan 1897	12 Oct 1897	5 Dec 1899	Portsmouth	Scrapped, 1920.
	Glory	1 Dec 1896	11 Mar 1899	Nov 1900	Lairds	Scrapped, 1922.
	Albion	3 Dec 1896	21 Jun 1898	Jun 1900	Thames	Scrapped 1919.
	Goliath	4 Jan 1897	23 Mar 1898	27 Mar 1900	Chatham	War losss: Torpedoed by Turkish PTB, 13 May 1915
	Ocean	15 Feb 1897	5 Jul 1898	Feb 1900	Devonport	War loss: Sunk by mine and gunfire, 18 Mar 1915.
	Vengeance	23 Aug 1898	24 Jul 1899	Apr 1902	Vickers	Scrapped, 1921.
Formidable	Formidable	21 Mar 1898	17 Nov 1898	10 Oct 1901	Portsmouth	War loss: Torpedoed by U.24, 1 Jan 1915
	Irresistible	11 Apr 1898	15 Dec 1898	4 Feb 1902	Chatham	War loss: Sunk by mine and gunfire, 18 Mar 1915
	Implacable	13 Jul 1898	11 Mar 1899	10 Sep 1901	Devonport	Scrapped 1921
London	Bulwark	20 Mar 1899	18 Oct 1899	18 Mar 1902	Devonport	Destroyed by internal explosion, 26 Nov 1914
	London	8 Dec 1898	21 Dec 1899	7 Jun 1902	Portsmouth	Scrapped 1920.
	Venerable	2 Jan 1899	2 Nov 1899	12 Nov 1902	Chatham	Scrapped?
	Queen	12 Mar 1902	8 Mar 1902	7 Apr 1904	Devonport	Scrapped 1920.
	Prince of Wales	20 Mar 1901	25 Mar 1902	18 May 1904	Chatham	Scrapped 1920.
Duncan	Duncan	10 Jul 1899	21 Mar 1901	3 Oct 1903	Thames	Scrapped 1920
	Cornwallis	19 Jul 1899	13 Jul 1901	Feb 1904	Thames	War loss: Torpedoed by U.32, 9 Jan 1917
	Exmouth	10 Aug 1899	31 Aug 1901	Jun 1903	Lairds	Scrapped 1920
	Russell	11 Mar 191899	19 Feb 1901	Feb 1903	Palmers	War loss: Struck mine, 27 Apr 1916
	Albermarle	8 Jan 1900	5 Mar 1901	Nov 1903	Chatham	Scrapped 1920
	Montagu	23 Nov 1899	5 Mar 1901	Oct 1903	Devonport	Wrecked (ran aground in fog), 30 May 1906
King Edward VII	King Edward VII	8 Mar 1902	23 Jul 1903	7 Feb 1905	Devonport	War loss: Struck mine, 6 Jan 1916
	Dominion	23 May 1902	25 Aug 1903	5 Aug 1905	Vickers	Scrapped 1921
	Commonwealth	17 Jun 1902	13 May 1903	9 Apr 1905	Fairfield	Scrapped 1921
	Hindustan	25 Oct 1902	19 Dec 1903	22 Aug 1905	Clydebank	Scrapped 1921
	New Zealand (Zealandia)	9 Feb 1903	4 Feb 1904	11 Jul 1905	Portsmouth	Scrapped 1921
	Africa	27 Jan 1904	20 May 1905	Nov 1906	Chatham	Scrapped 1920
	Britannia	4 Feb 1904	10 Dec 1904	Oct 1906	Portsmouth	War loss: Torpedoed by UB.50, 9 Nov 1918
	Hibernia	6 Jan 1904	17 Jun 1905	2 Jan 1907	Devonport	Scrapped 1921
Constitution	Swiftsure	26 Feb 1902	12 Jan 1903	Jun 1904	Elswick	Scrapped 1920.
Constitution	Triumph	26 Feb 1902	15 Jan 1903	Jun 1904	Elswick	War loss: Torpedoed Apr 1916.
Lord Nelson	Lord Nelson	18 May 1905	4 Sep 1906	Dec1908	Palmers	Scrapped
Lord Nelson	Agamenon	15 May 1905	23 Jun 1906	25 Jun 1908	Beardmore	Scrapped
Dreadnoughts
Dreadnought	Dreadnought	2 Oct 1905	10 Feb 1906	3 Dec 1906	Portsmouth	Feb 1919	Scrapped 1921-23
Bellerophon	Bellerophon	3 Dec 1906	27 Jul 1907	20 Feb 1909	Portsmouth	1919	Scrapped
	Superb	6 Feb 1907	7 Nov 1907	9 Jun 1909	Armstrong	1919	Scrapped 1922-23
	Temeraire	1 Jan 1907	24 8 1907	15 May 1909	Devonport	Training ship, 1919. Scrapped 1922-23.
Collingwood	Collingwood	3 Fen 1907	7 Nov 1908	19 Apr 1910	Devonport	Scrapped 1922-23
	St. Vincent	30 Dec 1907	10 Sep 1908	3 May 1909	Portsmouth	Scrapped 1922
	Vanguard	2 Apr 1908	22 Feb 1909	1 Mar 1910	Vickers	Destroyed by internal explosion, 9 Jul 1917
Neptune	Neptune	19 Jan 1909	30 Sep 1909	11 Nov 1911	Portsmouth	Scrapped 1923
Colossus	Colossus	6 Jul 1909	9 Apr 1910	8 Aug 1911	Scotts	Scrapped 1922.
Colossus	Hercules	30 Jul 1909	10 May 1910	31 Jul 1911	Palmers	Scrapped 1920
Orion	Orion	29 Nov 1909	20 Aug 1910	2 Jan 1912	Devonport	Scrapped 1923
	Conqueror	5 Apr 1910	1 May 1911	25 Feb 1913	Beardmore	Scrapped 1923
	Monarch	1 Apr 1910	30 Mar 1911	6 Apr 1912	Armstrong	Sunk as target 20 Jan 1925
	Thunderer	13 Apr 1910	2 Feb 1911	15 Jun 1912	Thames	Cadet ship 1920-26. Scrapped 1927
Erin	Erin	6 Dec 1911	3 Sep 1913	22 Aug 1914	Vickers	Scrapped 1923
Agincourt	Agincourt	25 Sep 1911	22 Jan 1913	20 Aug 1914	Armstrong, Newcastle	Scrapped 1922-24
Almirante Lattore	Canada (originally and later Almirante Lattore)	27 Nov 1911	27 Nov 1913	30 Sep 1915	Armstrong	Returned to Chilean ownership Apr 1920. Scrapped 1959
Almirante Lattore	India (formerly Almirante Cochrane)	22 Jan 1913	8 Jun 1918	13 Apr 1920	Armstrong, Newcastle	Completed as carrier HMS Eagle. War Loss: Sunk by U-73 11 Aug 1942
King George V	King George V	16 Jan 1911	9 Oct 1911	16 Nov 1912	Portsmouth	Scrapped 1927
	Centurion	16 Jan 1911	18 Nov 1911	22 May 1913	Devonport	Scuttled Jun 1944 off Normandy
	Audacious	23 Mar 1911	14 Sep 1912	21 Oct 1913	Cammell, Birkenhead	War loss: Struck mine 27 Oct 1914.
	Ajax	27 Feb 1911	21 Mar 1912	31 Oct 1913	Scotts	Scrapped 1927
Iron Duke	Iron Duke	12 Jan 1912	12 Oct 1912	10 Mar 1914	Portsmouth	Converted to gunnery training ship 1931-32. Scrapped 1946
	Benbow	30 May 1912	12 Nov 1913	7 Oct 1914	Beardmore	Scrapped 1931
	Emperor of India	31 May 1912	27 Nov 1913	12 Oct 1914	Vickers	Scrapped 1931-32
	Marlborough	25 Jan 1912	24 Oct 1912	2 Jun 1914	Devonport	Scrapped 1932
Queen Elizabeth	I-00	Queen Elizabeth	27 Oct 1912	16 Oct 1913	19 Jan 1915	Portsmouth	Scrapped 1948
	I-01	Valiant	31 Jan 1913	4 Nov 1914	19 Feb 1916	Fairfield	Scrapped 1948
	I-03	Warspite	31 Oct 1912	26 Nov 1913	19 Mar 1915	Devonport	Mar 1946	Broke tow and ran aground 23 Apr 1947, scrapped to 1956
	I-04	Barham	24 Feb 1913	31 Oct 1914	19 Oct 1915	J. Brown	War loss: Sunk 25 Nov 1941 by U-331
	I-01	Malaya	20 Oct 1913	18 Mar 1915	19 Feb 1916	Armstrong, Newcastle	Scrapped
	Agincourt	-	-	-	Devonport	Cancelled
Royal Oak	I-08	Royal Oak	15 Jan 1914	17 Nov 1914	1 May 1916	Devonport	War loss: Sunk by U-47 at Scapa Flow 14 October 1939
	I-05	Royal Sovereign	15 Jan 1914	29 Apr 1915	1 May 16	Portsmouth	Scrapped
	I-07	Ramilles	12 Nov 1913	12 Sep 1916	1 Nov 1917	C-L	Scrapped
	I-06	Revenge	22 Dec 1913	29 May 15	1 Mar 1916	Vickers	Scrapped
	I-09	Resolution	29 Nov 1913	14 Jan 1915	30 Dec 1916	Palmers	Scrapped
	Repulse	-	-	-	Palmers	Re-ordered as battlecruiser
	Renown	-	-	-	Fairfield	Re-ordered as battlecruiser
	Resistance	-	-	-	-	Cancelled.
N3	St. Andrew(?)	-	-	-	-	Cancelled Feb 1922 by Washington Treaty
	St. George(?)	-	-	-	-
	St. David(?)	-	-	-	-
	St. Patrick(?)	-	-	-	-
Nelson	I-28	Nelson	28 Dec 1922	2 Sep 1925	10 Sep 1927	Armstrong, Newcastle	Scrapped
Nelson	I-29	Rodney	28 Dec 1922	17 Dec 1925	10 Nov 1927	C-L	Scrapped
King George V	I-41	King George V	2 Jan 1937	21 Feb 1939	11 Dec 1940	Vickers	Scrapped
	I-53	Prince of Wales	2 Jan 1937	3 May 39	31 Mar 1941	C-L	War loss: Sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers 10 Dec 1941
	I-17	Duke of York	5 May 37	28 Feb 1940	4 Nov 1941	J. Brown	Scrapped
	I-72	Anson	20 Jul 1937	24 Feb 1940	22 Jun 1942	Swan Hunter	Scrapped
	I-32	Howe	1 Jun 1937	9 Apr 1940	29 Aug 1942	Fairfield	Scrapped
Lion	I-27	Lion	4 Jul 1939	-	-	Armstrong, Newcastle	Construction stopped Oct 1939. Cancelled 27 Mar 1944.
	I-36	Temeraire	1 Jun 1939	-	-	C-L	Construction stopped Oct 1939. Cancelled 27 Mar 1944.
	I-49	Thunderer	-	-	-	J. Brown	-	Construction stopped Oct 1939. Cancelled 1941
	I-45	Conqureror	-	-	-	Fairfield	-	Construction stopped Oct 1939. Cancelled 1941
Vanguard	I-23	Vanguard	2 Oct 1941	30 Nov 1944	25 Apr 1946	J. Brown	Scrapped
Battlecruisers
Invincible	Invincible	2 Apr 1906	13 Apr 1907	20 Mar 1909	Elswick	War loss: Exploded after being hit by gunfire from Lützow, 31 May 1916
	Indomitable	1 Mar 1906	16 Mar 1907	25 Jun 1908	Fairfield	31 Mar 1920	Scrapped 1923
	Inflexible	5 Feb 1906	26 Jun 1907	20 Oct 1908	Clydebank	31 Mar 1920	Scrapped 1923
Indefatigable	Indefatigable	23 Feb 1909	28 Oct 1909	24 Feb 1911	Devonport	War loss: Exploded after being hit by gunfire from von der Tann, 31 May 1916
	Australia	23 Jun 1910	25 Oct 1911	6/??/1913	J. Brown	Sunk to comply with Washington Treaty, 1924
	New Zealand	20 Jun 1910	1 Jul 1911	11/??/1912	Fairfield	Scrapped
Lion	Lion	29 Nov 1909	6 Aug 1910	4 Jun 1912	Devonport	Scrapped
	Queen Mary	6 Mar 1911	20 Mar 1912	1/??/1913?	Palmers	War loss: Exploded after being hit by gunfire from Seydlitz and Derfflinger, 31 May 1916
	Princess Royal	2 May 1910	29 Apr 1911	14 Nov 1912	Vickers	Scrapped
Tiger	Tiger	20 Jun 1912	15 Dec 1913	3 Oct 1914	J. Brown	Mar 1931	Scrapped 1932
Tiger	Leopard	Cancelled
Repulse	Repulse	25 Jan 1915	8 Jan 1916	18 Aug 1916	J. Brown	War loss: Sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers 10 Dec 1941
Repulse	Renown	25 Jan 1915	4 Mar 1916	20 Sep 1916	Fairfield	Scrapped
Courageous	Courageous	28 Mar 1915	5 Feb 1916	30 Jan 1917	Elswick	Converted to carrier 1928. War loss: Sunk by U-29, 17 Sep 1939.
Courageous	Glorious	1 May 1915	20 Apr 1916	1/??/1917	Harland & Wolff	Converted to carrier 1930. War loss: Sunk by gunfire from Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, 8 Jun 1940.
Furious	Furious	6/??/1915	15 Aug 1916	7/??/1917	Elswick	1944	Converted to carrier 1918. Scrapped
Incomparable	Incomparable	-	-	-	-	-	Project cancelled 1915
Hood	Hood	1 Sep 1916	22 Aug 1918	1 Mar 1920	J. Brown	War loss: Exploded during engagement with Bismarck, 24 May 1941
	Rodney	-	-	-	Fairfield	-	Cancelled 1917
	Anson	-	-	-	Armstrong, Whitworth
	Howe	-	-	-	C-L
G3	Invincible(?)	-	-	-	Swan Hunter	-	Cancelled Feb 1922 by Washington Treaty
	Inflexible(?)	-	-	-	Beardmore
	Indomitable(?)	-	-	-	Fairfield
	Indefatigable(?)	-	-	-	J. Brown,

Key to builders:
Armstrong	Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Elswick
Armstrong	Sir W.G. Armstrong, Newcastle
Beardmore	W. Beardmore & Co. Glasgow
J. Brown	John Brown & Co., Clydebank
Cammell-Laird	Cammell-Laird, Birkenhead
Chatham	Chatham Dockyard
Devonport	Devonport Dockyard
Fairfield	Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Govan, Glasgow
Harland & Wolff	Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Palmers	Palmers, Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Greenock
Portsmouth	Portsmouth Dockyard
Scotts	Scotts Shipbuilding & Ironworks, Greenock
Swan-Hunter	Swan Hunter, Newcastle
Thames	Thames Iron Works, Blackwall (Bankrupt 1912)
Vickers	Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness

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Note on pennant numbers:

British pennant numbers were generally not permanently assigned to a particular ship and may change periodically, unlike those assigned to ships of the US Navy. The only reference that lists these pennant numbers is Sigfried Breyer's Battleships and Battlecruisers 1905-1970, pg 128. The pennant numbers given apply only to the period of World War II. These pennant numbers were not painted on the ships. Jane's Fighting Ships of World War II contradicts some of these pennant number assignments.

British name prefixes
Since time immemorial, British warship names have been prefixed with 'HMS', which stands for His Majesty's Ship or Her Majesty's Ship, depending on whether a king or queen is currently reigning.

Royal Navy Battleship Chronology

22 Jun 1893.HMS Victoria sunk by collision with HMS Camperdown.
10 Feb 1906: HMS Dreadnought launched.
25 Jan 1910: Jackie Fisher retires from the Royal Navy.

August 1914-November 11 1918: World War I. Victory for Great Britain.

28 Aug 1914: Battle of Heligoland Bight. British light forces supported by battlecruisers HMS Lion, HMS Princess Royal, HMS Queen Mary,
1914: Jackie Fisher becomes First Sea Lord.
8 Dec 1914: Battle of the Falklands: British battlecruisers HMS Invincible and HMS Inflexible sink German cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau
24 January 1915: Battle of Dogger Bank. First battle between Dreadnought type warships. Battlecruisers HMS Lion, HMS Tiger, HMS Princess Royal, HMS New Zealand, and HMS Indomitable intercept a German raiding force that includes three battlecruisers. The German armored cruiser SMS Blücher is sunk, but communication errors allow the German battlecruisers to escape. The British flagship, HMS Lion, is seriously damaged.
19 Feb 1915-1916: Dardanelles (Gallipoli) campaign.
- 19 Feb 1915:The Gallipoli campaign opens with the bombardment of the Turkish fortifications guarding the Dardanelles by British and French battleships, mostly obsolete pre-dreadnoughts.
- 18 Mar 1915: The battleship force attempts to force the straights, but mines and Turkish artillery sink three old battleships, HMS Ocean, HMS Irresistible, and French pre-dreadnought Bouvet, and badly damaged several others. The fleet is forced to withdraw. Ironically had the attack been quickly resumed it almost certainly would have succeeded, for the Turks had run out of ammunition.
- 25 Apr 1915: The British staged an amphibious invasion with the objective of neutralizing the now rearmed Turkish fortifications. Many older battleships are used for shore bombardment.
- 25 May 1915: First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill is forced to resign due to the heavy losses in the Dardanelles campaign.
31 May - 1 Jun 1916: Battle of Jutland. This was the largest naval battle to date, and the second largest of all time. It was the largest battleship action ever. The British lose more ships than they sink: three battlecruisers, HMS Invincible, HMS Inflexible, and HMS Queen Mary while sinking only the battlecruiser SMS Lützow and the pre-dreadnought SMS Pommern. The Germans claim a tactical victory, but the battle is a strategic victory for the Royal Navy, which forced the High Seas Fleet had to retreat, and maintained their blockade of Germany.
1918: German Navy mutinies
11 November 1918: Armistace signed.

14 Nov 1918: German fleet interned at the British naval base at Scapa Flow.

21 June 1919: The Grand Scuttle. The bulk of the German fleet, interned at the British naval base at Scapa Flow, scuttles itself in the (justified?) belief that their ships would be siezed by the British.

Washington Treaty

12 Nov 1921-6 Feb 1922 Washington Conference on naval arms limitation.
6 Feb 1922: The Washington Treaty signed. New battleship construction stopped, many old battleships scrapped.

1 September 1939-2 Sep 1945: World War II. Expensive victory for Great Britain.

14 Sep 1939: German U-47 sinks HMS Royal Oak at Scapa Flow.
17 Sep 1939: Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sink British carrier HMS Glorious.
December 1939: Battle of the River Platte: Graf Spee fights light cruisers HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles and heavy cruiser HMS Exeter, then retreats to Montevideo, Uruguay.
17 December 1939: Graf Spee scuttles near Montevideo, Uruguay, to avoid fighting a now-superior British force.
9 April 1940: HMS Renown engages German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The German battlecruisers retreat.
13 April 1940: Second Battle of Narvik: HMS Warspite and her accompanying destroyers sink a U-64 and eight German destroyers in the restricted waters of Vestfjord .
3 Jul 1940: Mers-el-Khebir: British battleships HMS Valiant and HMS Resolution and battlecruiser HMS Hood attack French battleships and battlecruisers in port to prevent their capture by the Germans. Provence and Dunkerque damaged, Bretagne sunk. Strasbourg escapes.
9 Jul 1940: Battle of Calabria: HMS Warspite, HMS Malaya and HMS Royal Sovereign fight Italian battleships Guilio Cesare and Conte di Cavour. Italian ships retreat.
24-25 Sep 1940: Battle of Dakar: Arguably the most justifiably forgotten battleship action ever. British battleships HMS Barham and HMS Resolution fail to seriously damage the Richelieu. Richelieu returns fire, slightly damaging HMS Barham and more seriously damaging herself.
March 1941: Battle of Cape Matapan: HMS Warspite, HMS Barham, HMS Valiant and several other ships fight Italian forces. Three Italian heavy cruisers, Zara, Pola and Fiume, are sunk, but the Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto escapes.
24 May 1941: Battle of the Denmark Strait: The German battleship Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen sink HMS Hood and damage HMS Prince of Wales. Bismarck is slightly, but signifiantly damaged by HMS Prince of Wales.
27 May 1941: German battleship Bismarck sunk by a combination of gunfire from battleships HMS King George V and HMS Rodney, torpedoes from HMS Dorsetshire, and Bismarck's own scuttling charges.
25 Nov 1941: HMS Barham sunk by U-331 in the Mediterranean.
10 December 1941:HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers near Singapore.
26 Dec 1943: Battle of the North Cape: Scharnhorst sunk by gunfire from battleship HMS Duke of York, heavy cruiser HMS Norfolk, and light cruiser HMS Belfast, and also by torpedoes from light cruiser HMS Jamaica
6 May 1945: Admiral Dönitz surrenders for Germany, ending the European part of World War II.
2 Sep 1945: Japanese surrender at Tokyo Bay, finally ending World War II. HMS King George V is present.

25 Apr 1946: HMS Vanguard, the last British battleship, is commissioned.
1960: HMS Vanguard, the last British battleship, is scrapped.

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