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Queen Elizabeth battle ships

SPOTLIGHT NAVAL HERITAGE

Ordered in the immediate run-up to World War I, the five Queen Elizabeth class battleships rank among the most successful Royal Navy capital ships ever to see service. Introducing larger calibre 15-inch guns and the use of oil fuelling into British battleship design, they

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