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5 Pounds - Elizabeth II H.M.S. Warspite, 4th Portrait Silver Proof
| Issuer | Alderney |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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HMS Warspite earned more battle honours than any other warship in Royal Navy history — fifteen in total, spanning Jutland in 1916 through to the Normandy landings in 1944. She was struck by more enemy fire than arguably any other British capital ship of the twentieth century and kept returning to service, earning the nickname "The Grand Old Lady." Her end was ignominious: sold for scrap in 1947, she broke her tow lines in a storm and beached herself in Prussia Cove, Cornwall, as if refusing to go quietly.