Career
Hampshire was initially assigned to the Channel Fleet after her commissioning in 1905. She spent 1911 in the Mediterranean, and was on the China Station between 1912 and 1914. She joined the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow to carry out patrol duties in 1915, and fought at the battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916.
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