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poor Audacious, she barely got her engines broke in and then she was gone. Lost after barely a year, and one the very first capital ships lost, the admiralty covered up her loss until after the war, even though Olympic helped rescue survivors. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Audacious_(1912)

Great shot for its day and conditions

This would be Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson CMG, DSO & Bar, AFC (8 July 1883 – 5 February 1931) the British naval aviation pioneer. You can read more about him here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rumney_Samson

best shot

This beauty of a photograph (together with the one before) shows the very early Short S.41 Tractor Biplane which was completed in March 1912 as a landplane. It was later converted as a seaplane, with two central floats and three streamlined air-bags (!). Commander Samson used the machine in the Naval Review in 1912. Source: C.H. Barnes. Shorts aircraft since 1900, page 80. Cheers Kees

Richard Arthur Norton and Varese2002: Thank you! When we update the source record, we will add the expanded descriptive information.

looks like the same model as"

On Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Iron_Duke_(1912) The Iron Duke was the nickname of the Duke of Wellington.

Picture is from March 1914 (commisioning date) at the earliest.

this would be 1919 or later as the after 6 inch guns have been moved forward. I've noted it in the photo

Typo? The ship was almost completely disarmed in 1931, and scrapped 1948.

yeah fat fingered it