World of warships bellerophon review11/5/2023 ![]() ![]() To the right of the painting at the head of line A is the world’s first dreadnought battleship, HMS DREADNOUGHT herself. The Royal Yacht is flanked on either side by torpedo boat destroyers as she proceeds through the lines of assembled warships. In the centre of the painting is HM Yacht VICTORIA & ALBERT (Rear Admiral Sir Colin Keppel KCVO CB DSO ADC, In Command of His Majesty’s Yachts) wearing the Standard of HM The King who was accompanied by HM The Queen and TRHs The Prince and Princess of Wales. Despite being the last major maritime nation in the world to adopt the submarine, by the time of this review the Royal Navy was leading the world in the development of this weapon.įrank Wood’s watercolour shows the scene on the day of the review. At Spithead that afternoon there were in total 27 battleships and dreadnought cruisers, 16 armoured cruisers, 8 protected cruisers, 48 destroyers and 42 submarines indicating the high value finally placed by the Admiralty on this new type of warship, the submarine. ![]() This was to be the first review at which battle cruisers (then known as dreadnought cruisers’) made their appearance, the original ship of the type, INDOMITABLE, having in the previous year made her record run to Canada and back with HM The King embarked. As the combined fleets approached Spithead the ships divided up into 6 lines to take up their anchor berths. Under the superintendence of the Commander-in-Chief Portsmouth, Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe KCB, the two divisions of the Home Fleet and Atlantic Fleet arrived in the Solent on the afternoon of 31 July 1909 to take part in the Royal review that was held on the following Saturday.
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