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| | Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Iron Duke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | She was named in honor of the Duke of Wellington, hero of the Napoleonic Wars. |
 | | On May 30, 1916, British intelligence learned that the German fleet was sailing from Wilhelmshaven, and that evening Iron Duke sailed from Scapa Flow at the head of a powerful force comprising twenty-four dreadnoughts, three battlecruisers, twelve light cruisers, eight armored cruisers, five flotilla leaders, forty-six destroyers, and a minelayer. |
 | | Transferred to the Second Battle Squadron in November 1916, Iron Duke was sent to the Mediterranean in 1919 and was briefly assigned to the Black Sea during the Russian Civil War. |
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