JELLICOE’S FLAGSHIP
MORE WORK FOR IRON DUKE. The battleship Iron Duke, Lord Jellicoe’s flagship during the war, and now gunnery ship at Portland, is not to be scrapped, as was planned under the Washington Treaty, but is to be converted into a boys’ training ship at Devonport, England. The Iron Duke is the last of her class, and survives the fate of her three sister ships of the Third Battle Squadron, Benbow, Marlborough and Emperor of India, which have gone to the shipbreakers. It is stated that Iron Duke will go to Ro.syth next month to have her guns and side armour removed, and will return to Devonport in November to begin a new lease of life as a non-fighting unit. She is now commanded by Captain E. C. Boyle, V.C., who, when commanding a submarine during the war, dived under the Turkish mines at the Dardanelles and torpedoed several enemy ships.
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Southland Times, Issue 21430, 26 June 1931, Page 2
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152JELLICOE’S FLAGSHIP Southland Times, Issue 21430, 26 June 1931, Page 2
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