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King Edward VII Launches H.M.S. Dreadnought (1906)
 

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King Edward VII, with officials on the platform, performs the ceremony of breaking a bottle against the hull. The battleship HMS Dreadnought goes down the slipway, which is later overrun by jubilant workmen.