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Photo # NH 89154:  HMS Erin in a North Sea harbor, with a kite balloon moored aft, 1918

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-- SHIPS of the BRITISH NAVY --

HMS Erin (Battleship, 1914-1922)

HMS Erin, a 22,780-ton battleship, was built at Barrow-in-Furness, England. She was laid down in August 1911 to the order of the Turkish Navy and launched in September 1913 as Reshadieh. The ship was nearly complete when the outbreak of World War I in early August 1914 prompted the British Government to seize her for addition to the Royal Navy. Renamed Erin, she joined the Grand Fleet in September 1914 and served for the next four years in the North Sea. She took part in the Battle of Jutland in late May 1916, emerging undamaged and with no casulaties among her crew. In 1919, after the fighting had ended, Erin was placed in reserve. She was sold for scrapping in late 1922.

This page features all the views we have concerning the British battleship Erin of 1914.


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Photo #: NH 89154

HMS Erin
(British Battleship, 1914)

Underway in a North Sea harbor, with a kite balloon moored aft, 1918.

Collection of Lieutenant Commander P.W. Yeatman, USN (Retired).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 540 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41762

HMS Erin
(British Battleship, 1914)

In a floating drydock, circa 1918.
Location may be Invergordon, Scotland. In the left foreground are several old warships employed as barracks and for other stationary support duties. The one furthest right may be HMS Algiers (formerly HMS Triumph of 1873). That at the far left, with two smokestacks closely spaced side-by-side, may be HMS Mars of 1897.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 


HMS Erin is seen the background of the following photographs of other ships:

Photo #: NH 41763

HMS Agincourt
(British Battleship, 1914)

Operating at sea in 1918, with all fourteen of her twelve-inch guns trained out to port.
She is following astern of HMS Erin, which is completing a turn to starboard. Several other battleships are visible in the distance.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 465 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 89131

HMS Agincourt
(British Battleship, 1914) --
nearest to the camera

With other Grand Fleet battleships in Scapa Flow, 1918.
HMS Erin is the next ship. The other three are, in no order: HMS King George V, HMS Centurian and HMS Ajax.
Note the kite balloon over one of the more distant battleships.

Collection of Lieutenant Commander P.W. Yeatman, USN (Retired).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 51KB; 740 x 540 pixels

 


If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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