British Mediterranean Fleet Sports Day - Prize Giving
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British Mediterranean Fleet Sports Day - Prize Giving
British Mediterranean Fleet Sports Day - Prize Giving at the Ben-Marl Stadium, rigged up by the crews of the HMS Benbow and the HMS Marlborough of the 4th Battle Squadron. Admiral Sir Osmond de Beauvoir Brock, GCB, KCMG, KCVO ) " spins a bender" - nautical parlance which means " telling a tale" ! HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Built at Devonport Royal Dockyard between January 1912 and June 1914 and entered service just prior to First World War. Assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet after the war, Marlborough took part in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War (in the Black Sea 191920). She was also involved in the Greco-Turkish War. Date: 1923
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