Re: All I would like to know is.....
One of HMS Ocean's predecessors was a Canopus class battleship. Entered service in 1900 - obsolete by 1905!
And then there was the Cressy class, much the same. Except they were pressed back into service in WWI to form the livebait squadron, a nickname that proved prophetic. Not the RN's finest hour (a number of relatives lost in that event)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
