H.M.S. Monarch firing her 13.5 inch guns.

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Originally scanned from: GWS - The Great War: The Standard History of the All Europe Conflict (volume four) edited by H. W. Wilson and J. A. Hammerton (Amalgamated Press, London 1915)

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