page_title: 6th Battle Squadron
section_title: August 1914
hierarchical_section_title: 6th Battle Squadron / History / First World War / August 1914
caption_attribution_description: English: HMS Lord Nelson (1906) during trials in 1908
context_page_description: The 6th Battle Squadron was a squadron of the British Royal Navy consisting of Battleships serving in the Grand Fleet and existed from 1913 to 1917.
context_section_description: In August 1914, the 6th Battle Squadron was based at Portland and comprised a number of the older pre-dreadnought battleships it was then assigned to the Second Fleet  these included:
  HMS Lord Nelson
  HMS Agamemnon
  HMS Russell
  HMS Albemarle
  HMS Cornwallis
  HMS Duncan
  HMS Exmouth
  HMS Vengeance
  HMS Lord Nelson and Agamemnon transferred to the  5th Battle Squadron in late 1914. HMS Revenge briefly joined the squadron in 1915, before the squadron was broken up. Most of the ships were sent to the Mediterranean.
caption: HMS Lord Nelson
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