HMS Queen Elizabeth, Naval Prints and Naval Art Paintings
of Royal Navy Battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, published by Cranston Fine Arts, the Naval Art Company.
HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH HMS Queen Elizabeth was built at Portsmouth and Re
-Engined at
Fairfield and launched on the 16th October 1913. She was the sister ship
to HMS Warspite, Valiant, Barham, and Malaya. HMS Queen Elizabeth
was the only ship of the class to have a full compliment of sixteen
6-inch guns, She was the only ship of the class not be be involved during
the Battle of Jutland. But her first world war service included being part
of the Dardanelle's campaign. She bombarded the forts on the Narrows in
the support of the Gallipoli landings between February 25th and May 14th
1915. She fired a total of 86 15-inch shells and 71 6-inch shells. The
short supply of 15-inch shells and a direct order from the Admiralty not
to ware out her guns. After the battle of Jutland (she was in refit at the
time,). She became the flagship of the Home Fleet in February 1917.HMS
Queen Elizabeth had to major refits between the Wars. At the start
of World War two she was in the middle of her second refit, being
reconstructed at Portsmouth, due to the chance of enemy bombing she was
moved to Rosyth. Being completed and ready for service in May 1941. HMS
Queen Elizabeth was transferred to The Mediterranean fleet. It was
at Alexandria, along with her sister ship HMS Valiant that both ships were
mined by Italian Frogmen. HMS Queen Elizabeth sank in shallow water,
Raised and Temporarily repaired. But due to the serious damage she had
sustained she was transferred to the US Navy Yard in Norfolk. being
repaired there between September 1942 till 1st June 1943.
Queen Elizabeth Noticeboard
