Question: The site of the first construction of the King Edward VII-class Battleship is also known for being the sole facility for what service ?

text: King Edward VII-class battleship
Construction
King Edward VII , the first battleship laid down after the beginning of Edward VII 's reign , was named for the monarch ; the rest of the members of the class were named for the constituent parts of the British Empire , including the Commonwealth of Australia , the Dominion of Canada , Hindustan ( India ) , Britannia ( the Roman name for Great Britain ) , New Zealand , the Empire 's African colonies , and Hibernia ( the Roman name for Ireland ) . [ 18 ]
The King Edward VII class was a class of eight pre-dreadnought battleships launched by the Royal Navy between 1903 and 1905. The class comprised , the lead ship, , , , , , , and . They marked the first major development of the basic pre-dreadnought type that had been developed with the type of the mid-1890s, all of which had been designed by the Director of Naval Construction, William Henry White, with the primary innovation being the adoption of a heavy secondary battery of four guns to supplement the standard main battery of four guns. The King Edward VIIs were among the last pre-dreadnoughts built for the Royal Navy before the construction and launch of the revolutionary battleship HMS Dreadnought in 1906, which immediately rendered them obsolescent. The ships served with the Atlantic Fleet from 1905 to 1907, when they were transferred to the Channel Fleet, though this service lasted only until 1908-1909, when they were reassigned to the Home Fleet. During this period, King Edward VII served as fleet flagship as a result of a request from her namesake that she always serve as such. Africa and Hibernia were involved with experiments with seaplanes in 1912, and that year all members of the class were assigned to the 3rd Battle Squadron of the Home Fleet and were later sent to the Mediterranean Sea to respond to the First Balkan War. By the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the King Edward VIIs were sent to the Grand Fleet to support the Northern Patrol and to conduct sweeps in the North Sea for German warships, though they never saw combat. In January 1916, King Edward VII struck a German naval mine and sank, though her crew was safely evacuated. By mid-1916, the surviving ships were no longer suitable for front-line fleet service, and so they were dispersed to other tasks, including coastal defence with the Nore Command and for operations in the Gallipoli Campaign. Africa was sent to the Atlantic Patrol in 1917 and was later stricken with Spanish flu, and Britannia was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat two days before the end of the war, one of the last British warships to be sunk in the conflict. The surviving members of the class were all sold for scrap in the early 1920s.
Name Builder Laid down Launched Completed
King Edward VII Devonport Dockyard 8 March 1902 23 July 1903 February 1905
Commonwealth Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company 17 June 1902 13 May 1903 March 1905
Dominion Vickers 23 May 1902 25 August 1903 July 1905
Hindustan John Brown & Company 25 October 1902 19 December 1903 July 1905
Britannia Portsmouth Dockyard 4 February 1904 10 December 1904 September 1906
New Zealand Portsmouth Dockyard 9 February 1903 4 February 1904 July 1905
Africa Chatham Dockyard 27 January 1904 20 May 1905 November 1906
Hibernia Devonport Dockyard 6 January 1904 17 June 1905 January 1907