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They were rotated among several ships and refurbished in their intervals ashore. The 8 guns removed from Courageous and Glorious went, as well as to Warspite, also to Malaya, Renown and the monitor Roberts. 170 doesn't seem extreme under the conditions. These are essentially logs, with one page for each gun, giving details of allocations, rounds fired etc. I guns ordered, of which 184 were completed, manufactured by six different works.