HMS Valiant

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.

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  Photographed following her 1929-30 refit. She is carrying a Fairey III-F floatplane on her fantail catapult.
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  Photographed in late 1939, following modernization.
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  HMS Valiant leads the line as the Italian fleet steams into Malta, under the terms of the Italian Armistice.
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  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.