Three ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Iron Duke after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, nicknamed the "Iron Duke". The name is also a pun, as the first ship so named was an ironclad.
HMS Iron Duke (1870) was a battleship launched in 1870, paid off in 1893, converted to as a coal hulk, and sold 1906 for scrap
HMS Iron Duke (1912) was the name-ship of a class of battleships, launched in 1912 and sold in 1946 for scrap. She is most famous for being the fleet flagship at the Battle of Jutland.
HMS Iron Duke (F234) is a Type 23 frigate launched in 1991
British Royal Navy have been named HMSIronDuke after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, nicknamed the "IronDuke". The name is also a pun, as the...
being commonly known as the Duke class. The first Type 23, HMS Norfolk, was commissioned in 1989, and the sixteenth, HMS St Albans was commissioned in...
collision with HMSIronDuke in 1875. HMS Vanguard (1909) was a St Vincent-class battleship launched in 1909 and sunk in an explosion in 1917. HMS Vanguard (23)...
established on Omaha Beach. The four IronDuke-class battleships, HMSIronDuke, HMS Marlborough, HMS Benbow, and HMS Emperor of India, were the third line...
Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, Dreyer was made flag captain of HMSIronDuke, serving at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Dreyer moved to the Admiralty...
minehunter HMS Sandown, he became commanding officer of the frigate HMSIronDuke in 2000 and HMS Lancaster in 2001. He went on to be a staff officer in the Directorate...
steamer renamed Duke of Wellington during the Second World War for service as a Landing Ship, Infantry HMS Wellington HMSIronDuke This article includes...
British High Commissioner to Turkey, with his flag in the battleship HMSIronDuke, in July 1919. He was created a baronet on 29 December 1919 and promoted...
transferred to HMS Bulwark in 2011 and HMS Ocean in June 2015, then to HMS Albion in 2018. Finally, the flag reverted to an aircraft carrier when HMS Queen Elizabeth...
"Tin Duck" – HMSIronDuke "Three-Quarter Mile Island" – USS Enterprise (CVN-65) (a pun on Three Mile Island) "The Toothless Terror" – HMS Scylla "Toasted...
to captain, he was given command of HMSIronDuke in 1939. He also served in World War II and was commanding HMS Devonshire, a heavy cruiser, on 21 November...
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