Thursday, January 15, 2009


HMS Trafalgar, steel armoured battleship of the Hamilton Programme. Launched 20th September 1887, at Portsmouth Dockyard and completed for sea in 1890. HMS Trafalgar cost about £900,000 to build and was modernised internally in 1905. She went into reserve fleet at Devonport from March 1907-09 and served as a turret and torpedo drill ship and then joined the 4th Division of Home Fleet, finally scrapped 9th April 1911.

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