HMS Irresistible—the fourth British Royal Navy ship of the name—was a Formidable-class pre-dreadnought battleship. The Formidable-class ships were developments...
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1894. HMS Irresistible (1898) was a Formidable-class battleship launched in 1898 and sunk by a mine in 1915 in Gallipoli, Turkey. HMS Irresistible was to...
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HMS Ocean was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the British Royal Navy and a member of the Canopus class. Intended for service in Asia, Ocean and her sister...
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respectively. HMS Albion was laid down by Thames Iron Works at Leamouth, London on 3 December 1896. Tragedy struck when she was launched on 21 June 1898; after...
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HMS Irresistible (1898), HMS Ocean (1898) and HMS Inflexible (1907) were struck by the mines in the gulf. Among these, both Bouvet and Irresistible were...
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the port of Gibraltar, until relieved as such by newly commissioned HMS Irresistible in February 1902. She left the Mediterranean station headquarters at...
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sometimes included in the Formidable class. Formidable, Irresistible, and Implacable were built between 1898 and 1901 at the Portsmouth, Chatham, and Devonport...
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landing area for the Gallipoli invasion and HMS Ocean sank in Morto Bay after failing to save HMS Irresistible. Morto bay is known for several military activities...
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battleships intended for overseas duties: the two Centurion-class battleships and HMS Renown. The nine Majestic-class battleships followed as refinements of White's...
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International Navigation Company, by a board appointed on 12 March 1898; and commissioned on 20 April 1898 for Spanish–American War service, Captain Charles D. Sigsbee...
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