British Fleet - 4th Battle Squadron - Firing a 13.5 salvo

Photograph from the deck of the HMS Marlborough of one of the other Iron-Duke Class Battleships of the British Mediterranean Fleet (one of the HMS Emperor of India, the HMS Iron Duke or the HMS Benbow) - part of the 4th Battle Squadron - on Manoeuvres in the Black Sea - firing a 13.5 inch round salvo. At Gallipoli - Dardanelles Peninsula, Turkey. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Built at Devonport Royal Dockyard between January 1912 and June 1914 and entered service just prior to First World War. Assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet after the war, Marlborough took part in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War (in the Black Sea 1919-20). She was also involved in the Greco-Turkish War

13.5 Dardanelles Duke Class Duke-class Exercises Fires Gallipoli Inch Manoeuvres Marlborough Salvo

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