History of the British Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson of the Nelson Class, shown in photographs and paintings supplied by contributors to battleships-cruisers.co.uk. 

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Displacement 33,900 tons.  Speed 23 Knots   range (at 16 Knots 7,000 miles)

Armament: Nine 16- inch guns in three turrets of three  guns.  Twelve  6 - inch guns in pairs six 4.7 inch anti aircraft guns in singles. Twenty four 2 pounder AA guns and twelve machine guns (after 1944 this was changed to forty Four 2 pdr. AA Guns) Two torpedo Tubes and two aircraft.

Compliment 1330 to 1558

HMS Nelson, 1938.

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HMS Nelson, c1934.

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HMS Nelson, 1938.

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HMS Nelson, c.1935.

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HMS Nelson, c.1935.

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HMS Nelson, with HMS Battler and HMS Eclipse, August 1943.

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HMS Nelson at Malta, September 1943.

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HMS Nelson, c.1931.

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HMS Nelson, 1938.

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HMS Nelson, May 1935.

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HMS Nelson, with Supermarine Seagull V, May 1935.

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HMS Nelson, c.1935.

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HMS Nelson c.1935.

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HMS Nelson, 1938.

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Officers of HMS Nelson.

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HMS Nelson circa 1926

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HMS Nelson

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HMS Nelson.

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HMS Nelson.

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HMS Nelson

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HMS Nelson.

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HMS Nelson Foc'sle Looking Aft circa 1925

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HMS Nelson Foc'sle Looking Forrard circa1925

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The Chapel of St. Nicholas HMS Nelson circa 1925

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HMS Nelson while serving with the Atlantic Fleet

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HMS Nelson completes a turn.

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HMS Nelson 

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HMS Nelson

A bow view of one of the Royal Navy's greatest ships of the time.

HMS Nelson, April 1939.

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Stoker mechanic James Morris and shipmates from HMS Nelson.

Contributed by Denise Morris.

HMS Nelson.  Photo sent in by John Faulkner.

HMS Nelson in the Panama Canal.  Image submitted by Gary Fletcher

HMS Nelson

HMS Nelson

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© Ian Butler

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