#hms nelson

[captainstoril]

ネルソン by こくぞう

[ltwilliammowett]

Launch of the HMS Nelson at Woolwich Dockyard, engraving by Luke Clennell (1814). Collection of the London Metropolitan Archives. von tormentor4555

[lonestarbattleship]

HMS Nelson, USS TEXAS (BB-35), and USS CALIFORNIA (BB-44) in Balboa, Panama.

This was before TEXAS's 10th canal crossing.

Photographed sometime between October 24 and 27, 1931.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 57842, NH 57843

[tpmmpt-1]

HMS Nelson

[redarmyscreaming]

CANT Z.501 Gabbiano Hms Nelson is a painting by Ray Agius

[casualazurlane]

HMS NELSON [X]

Artist:  かえで

[norris-history-corner]

Around 5.30am on 6th June 1944 the horizon off the Normandy beaches lit up as the vast armada of Allied ships began pounding the Atlantic Wall. Fortress Europe was about to have its door kicked in by the largest amphibious landing in history.

Many ships claim to have fired the first shots of D-Day. HMS Belfast, Orion, and Warspite are the most often quoted. The BBC at the time reported that HMS Nelson had fired the first shots. Nelson had the largest guns ever fitted to a British battleship and her sister is credited with killing the Bismarck. Her nine 16 inch guns were a force to be reckoned with and did put an end to a group of Tiger tanks in the follow up campaign.

Her crew were most impressed when they heard the news on the radio because, on that fateful day in 1944, HMS Nelson was in fact moored in Milford Haven on the South-West coast of Wales, some 270 miles away from the Normandy beaches.

Fake News, it seems, is not a new concept.

[hms-exeter]

A silhouette of HMS Nelson escorted by HMS Penn during speed trials.

May 1942

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