HMS Audacious
HMS Audacious was the fourth and last King George V-class dreadnought battleship built for the Royal Navy in the early 1910s. After completion in 1913, she spent her brief career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets. The ship was sunk by a German naval mine off the northern coast of County Donegal, Ireland, on 27 October 1914 during the First World War. Audacious slowly flooded and finally sank after the British were unable to tow her to shore, which allowed all of her crew to be rescued. However, a petty officer on a nearby cruiser was killed by shrapnel when Audacious subsequently exploded. Even though American tourists aboard one of the rescuing ships photographed and filmed the sinking battleship, the Admiralty embargoed news of her loss in Britain to prevent the Germans from taking advantage of the weakened Grand Fleet.
HMS Audacious seen as completed in 1913. 
HMS Audacious seen at Malta. 
HMS Audacious seen during World War 1 
HMS Audacious seen during World War 1 
HMS Audacious Sinking 
HMS Audacious Sinking, With Crew Being Taken Off 
HMS Audacious Sinking, With Crew Being Taken Off 
HMS Audacious Sinking, With Crew Being Taken Off 
Liverpool (left) and Fury (centre), in combination with Olympic, try to take Audacious in tow (View from Olympic)
