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Royal Navy Ships: 19 September 2019 - HMS Dreadnought
Royal Mail issued a set of 8 stamps paying tribute to the Royal Navy by featuring eight ships from its illustrious history including the Mary Rose launched in 1511 and the most recently commissioned ship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, which was launched in 2014.£1.35 HMS Dreadnought: Launched on 10th February 1906, the ship’s revolutionary ‘big gun’ design rendered all other warships obsolete and dominated the First World War era. Powered by Parsons Turbines she was two and a half knots faster than her rivals and carried twice the firepower of earlier battleships. At the start of the First World War, HMS Dreadnought was despatched to Scapa Flow as flagship of the Fourth Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet and in March 1915 she became the only battleship to sink a submarine in the First World War.
About the painting: painted by H. J. Morgan and used with the permission of The Trustees of the Royal Navy Trophy Fund.
Stamp: £1.55 showing HMS Dreadnought at sea
Postcard: Benham Silk postcard showing a warship of the First World War.
Postmark: Royal Navy Ships Porstmouth, illustrated with an anchor on the day of issue
