SEA VETERAN IS TRAINING SHIP.—The 34,000-ton H.M.S. Nelson, now retired from battle service, is the flagship of the Training Battleship Spiadron. commanded by Rear-Admiral 11. Hickling, D.S.O., Rear-Admiral, Training Battleships, Home Fleet. Launched in 1925 and completed at a cost of £7,500,000, the Nelson has had a distinguished career. She ended her war service in the Far East in 1945. Her post-war duties are to give training in seamanship, gunnery and torpedoes for special service ratings, who will form half of the peace-time naval strength. Four hundred men at a time will receive training in her. Pieture shows: H.M.S. Nelson (“Nellie” to the Royal Navy), at anchor in Torbay, Devon.

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 October 1946, Page 6

SEA VETERAN IS TRAINING SHIP.—The 34,000-ton H.M.S. Nelson, now retired from battle service, is the flagship of the Training Battleship Spiadron. commanded by Rear-Admiral 11. Hickling, D.S.O., Rear-Admiral, Training Battleships, Home Fleet. Launched in 1925 and completed at a cost of £7,500,000, the Nelson has had a distinguished career. She ended her war service in the Far East in 1945. Her post-war duties are to give training in seamanship, gunnery and torpedoes for special service ratings, who will form half of the peace-time naval strength. Four hundred men at a time will receive training in her. Pieture shows: H.M.S. Nelson (“Nellie” to the Royal Navy), at anchor in Torbay, Devon.