The Ships of Brawling Battleships Steel: Great Britain Battleship Erin

Laid down on December 6, 1911, launched on September 3, 1913 and commissioned on August 22, 1914, Erin carried a main armament of ten 13.5 inch main guns mounted two per turret; two centerline superfiring forward, two centerline superfiring aft and one centerline amidships that could fire to both sides. Originally laid down as the Reshadije ex-Reshad V for Turkey in Britain, the British government confiscated the ship shortly before delivery and commissioned the ship as the Erin. She was the only ship of her battleship class and was powered by turbines with coal-fired boilers. The 13.5 inch guns made her a "super-dreadnought" in the terminology of the day. The Erin name commemorated Ireland, the least-happy portion of Great Britain, and was used for the first time by the Royal Navy. Spending the entire war with the Grand Fleet, Erin took part in the Battle of Jutland on May 31, 1916. Placed in reserve in 1919, she was disarmed for the Washington Naval Agreement and sold to the breakers on December 19, 1922.

See other battleships: Yavuz Sultan Selim, Canada, Agincourt