Ship Identification???

[Surpmil]

Most of the photos in the album appear to have been taken in the 1920's and one of the places that my Grandmother did like visiting during that timeframe for her holidays, with her family, was Looe in Cornwall. Looe is only about 20 miles west of Plymouth and driving from Essex which they did, rather than take the train, would take them very close to Devonport.

Would the sun shades be up in home waters? One thing that the UK tends not to have a lot of is sun.

The video referred to flying-off platforms for a/c being added to two (after?) turrets, so presumably that would date the photo as being either before they were fitted, or after they were removed.

The video also mentioned two the Iron Dukes being in the Black Sea in 1919 to evacuate some of the forces aiding the White Russian armies. To get there they went through the Med of course, and now that I think of it, the video asserted at least two of the I.D. class were in the Mediterranean Fleet after WWI. A traveller would be most likely to encounter them at Malta or Alexandria I suppose.

They would have been cleared for action when off the Crimea dropping shells on the Reds.