HMS,NELSON?

[Seoras]

I have just bought a lovely old book,'The Sea And It's Story' from a second hand bookshop.I am posting this picture for two reasons.
1. Someone may have had an ancestor on board and so like a copy.
2.The picture is titled HMS.Nelson and described as a first class battleship.On looking up this ship,I found she was built in 1925 and scrapped in 1949.Here lies the problem,this book was published in 1910 and this can only be the HMS.Nelson built in 1876 and sold in 1910,the same year as the book was published.This Nelson is described in a list of Royal Navy ships as a Nelson class armoured cruiser.So is the colour plate wrongly titled?
 

[km1971]

Here is a picture of the Nelson class according to Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HMS_Nelson_(AWM_302451).jpg

Your picture is lacking the sails, a mast and the bowsprit, so one of them appears to be wrong. Unless you can find that it went in for a major re-design.

Ken

[t mo]

if you look at this site www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk and look up battleships then look for hms lord nelson that is the ship in the colour plate , as it says in seoras post section 2 ,hms nelson and described as a a first class BATTLESHIP , there are several pics and even some of the crew as well .
trevor

[Seoras]

Excellent t mo,that is definately the same one.HMS.Lord Nelson built 1908 and sold in 1920.There is even a photo of her leading the fleet as on this painting.Thank you.

George.

[Uplands]

This is the HMS Nelson built in 1925 and scrapped in 1949.

Bob.