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It's a long way to tip our airy. It's a long way to tipare, it's a long way to go.

It's a long way to tip ariere to the sweetest girl I know.

Goodbye, Piccadilly, farewell left us where.

It's a long, long way to differ, but my heart right there.

On the eve of the First World War, the Royal Navy would build a class of ships that would go on to play key roles in not just one World War, but two.

They were seen as a revolutionary change to the design and construction of capital ships, the first to mount 15-inch guns, and the first battleships to match the speed of the battle cruisers.

But it seems unlikely that anybody involved with their creation would have believed that they

would go on to become valuable assets to the Royal Navy for the next three decades.

One of the five ships of the class would go on to receive the most battle honors of any ship

in the history of the Royal Navy. Jutland, 1916, Atlantic 1939, Narvik in 40, Norway 40, Calabria 40, Malta Convoys 41, Matapan, 41, Crete 41, Sicily 43, Salerno 43, Normandy 44, Volcarin 44, Biscay 44, and Mediterranean,

1940 to 1943.

The ship's name was the HMS Warspite, and this is her story.

During this long episode, we will discuss the entire life of the ship from the design of the

Queen Elizabeth class battleships that would be launched in 1915, through the First World War and

Jutland, into the great unknown of interwar years, the refits of the 1920s and 30s, and into

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