- World War Two
- Royal Navy
- Queen Elizabeth-class battleship
- 8 Mar 1915 ~ 1 Feb 1945
- Battles of Narvik [9 Apr ~ 8 Jun 1940] - Her Swordfish float-plane sank u-boat U-64 with 250 lb bombs. HMS Warspite sank Z13 Erich Koellner and damaged Z17 Diether von Roeder & Z12 Erich Giese.
- Battle of Calabria [9 Jul 1940]
- Battle of Crete [20 May ~ 1 Jun 1941] - suffered severe damage from German air attacks on 22 May 1941 & required six months of repairs in the United States.
- Indian Ocean raid [31 Mar ~ 10 Apr 1942] ~ HMS Dorsetshire & HMS Cornwall were sunk.
- refit in the UK [May 1943]
- Operation Husky (Allied invasion of Sicily) [9 Jul ~ 17 Aug 1943]
- Invasion of Italy [3~17 Sep 1943] - HMS Warspite was damaged by German guided bomb, Fritz X on 16 Sep 1943
- Repair in the UK till Normandy landings [6 Jun 1944]
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