HMS Nelson (28)

HMS Nelson was the name ship of the two Nelson class battleships built for the Royal Navy in the 1920s, the first battleships designed to meet the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. Armstrong Whitworth laid her down at its Low Walker shipyard on 28 December 1922 and launched her on 3 September 1925, and she was commissioned on 15 August 1927. Two sets of Brown-Curtis geared steam turbines and eight Admiralty boilers gave her a top speed of 23.6 knots on trials, and her main armament was 16 inch guns. She spent her peacetime career with the Atlantic and Home Fleets, usually as flagship, and in the Second World War she escorted convoys, supported the Torch, Sicily and Normandy operations and was mined and torpedoed along the way. She was used as a bomb target in 1948 and scrapped from 1949.