HMS Valiant was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship of the Royal Navy built at the Fairfield shipyards, Govan in Glasgow and launched in November 1914. She was completed in February 1916.
Photographed following her 1929-30 refit. She is carrying a Fairey III-F floatplane on her fantail catapult.
Photographed in late 1939, following modernization.
HMS Valiant leads the line as the Italian fleet steams into Malta, under the terms of the Italian Armistice.
Operating with other capital ships of the British Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean area, 12 May 1944. HMS Valiant is in the right distance.