Angus HER - NO72NE0003 - HMS ARGYLL, BELL ROCK, NORTH SEA

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NameHMS ARGYLL, BELL ROCK, NORTH SEA
NRHE Card No.NO72NE8002
NRHE Numlink 121118
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. NULL
Site Form Wreck Site
Site Condition Unknown
Details The dispersed remains of the cruiser HMS Argyll lie in 6m depth of water to the W of the Bell Rock. She was stranded on the Bell Rock, West of the lighthouse, on 28th October 1915. The guns and propellers have been removed. This armoured cruiser of the six-strong Devonshire class was built by Scott's at Greenock, being launched in March 1904 and completed in 1905. She served (with other members of the class) in the Third Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet and saw action at the Battle of the Heligoland Bight before being wrecked off Eastern Scotland in October 1915.
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