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Royal Navy battleship HMS Bulwark was commissioned at Devonport, Plymouth on 18th March 1907. Meant to be the flagship for the Mediterranean Fleet, she became the flagship to the Home Fleet instead after being grounded and damaged requiring repairs. In August 1908, she joined the Channel Fleet and then Home Fleet, reduced to the Reserve in March 1910 but was recommissioned in 1912 to join the 5th Battle Squadron. From the outbreak of the Great War, she carried out Channel patrol duties and on the 26th November 1914 whilst loading ammunition at Sheerness, she was destroyed by a huge explosion, probably caused by black powder charges being mishandled. Only 12 men survived out of a complement of 750.
HMS Bulwark carried four 12-inch guns in pairs, twelve 6-inch suns singles, sixteen 12 pounder guns, two 12 pounder guns, six 3-pounder guns, two maxims and four torpedo tubes. Displacement was 15,000 tons, speed 18 knots.
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