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<div name=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Lord Nelson'' (1906)|fate2=Scrapped
|comm=Oct, 1908{{BurtBritishBattleships1889|p. 319}}
|comm=1 Dec, 1908{{BurtBritishBattleships1889|p. 331}}
|fatedate=4 Jun, 1920{{DittColl|p. 31}}
|order=1904-05 Estimates{{Conways1860|p. 40}}
|name=Lord Nelson
|launch=4 Sep, 1906{{DittColl|p. 31}}
|builder=[[Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company]], Jarrow{{DittColl|p. 31}}
|laid=18 May, 1905{{Conways1860|p. 40}}
|fate=Sold
|pend=14 (1914)<br>82 (Jan-Apr 1918){{DittColl|p. 31}}
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>
'''H.M.S. ''Lord Nelson''''' was one of two [[pre-Dreadnought]] battleships in [[Lord Nelson Class Battleship (1906)|her class]], and though designed before the transformative {{UK-Dreadnought}}, she was completed after her, in late 1908.

==Service==
Paid off at the Nore on 23 May, 1919.{{NLJan21|p. 802}}

==Radio==
At the end of 1909, she was to receive one of eleven [[British_Wireless_Systems#Short_Distance_Set|Short Distance Radio Sets]], to be installed at her next refit behind armour near the fore bridge, intended to supplant flag signaling.{{ARTS1909|Wireless Appendix, p. 25}}  In mid-1913, this gear was redesignated as '''Type 3'''.{{AWO1913|306 of 20 June, 1913}}

==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of H.M.S. ''Lord Nelson''">
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Keith Arbuthnot, Fourth Baronet|nick=Sir Robert K. Arbuthnot, Bart.|appt=9 September, 1907{{NLOct08|p. 342}}|precBy=New Command|end=31 January, 1910<ref>Arbuthnot Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 202.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Sackville Hamilton Carden|nick=Sackville H. Carden|appt=23 January, 1908<ref>Carden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.|D7578800}}  f. 186.</ref>|ass=27 January, 1908<ref>Carden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.|D7578800}}  f. 186.</ref>|end=4 February, 1908<ref>Carden Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.|D7578800}}  f. 186.</ref>|note=lent from {{UK-Agamemnon}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson|nick=Douglas R. L. Nicholson|appt=31 January, 1910<ref>Nicholson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 457.</ref>|end=31 March, 1910<ref>Nicholson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 457.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Alfred Ernest Albert Grant|nick=Alfred E. A. Grant|appt=31 March, 1910<ref>Grant Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.|}} f. 31.</ref>{{NLApr11|p. 341}}|end=21 November, 1911<ref>Grant Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.|}} f. 31.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Edmund Hyde Smith|nick=Edmund H. Smith|appt=21 November, 1911<ref>Smith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 295.</ref>|end=16 June, 1913<ref>Smith Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 295.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Rowland Nugent|nick=Rowland Nugent|appt=16 June, 1913<ref>Nugent Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 469.</ref>|end=30 April, 1914<ref>Nugent Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 469.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=John William Leopold McClintock|nick=John W. L. McClintock|appt=30 April, 1914{{NLOct15|p. 395''o''}}<ref>McClintock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 459.</ref>|end=19 July, 1916<ref>McClintock Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 459.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Robert Nesham Bax|nick=Robert N. Bax|appt=June, 1916{{NLDec16|p. 395''x''}}<ref>Bax Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/133.|D7576592}} f. 133.</ref>|end=28 February, 1918<ref>Bax Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/133.|D7576592}} f. 133.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Leonard Laurence Peel Willan|nick=Leonard L. P. Willan|appt=28 February, 1918<ref>Willan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/322.|D7576615}} f. 322.</ref>{{NLFeb19|pp. 834-5}}|end=May, 1919<ref>Willan Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/44/322.|D7576615}} f. 322.</ref>|note=and as Flag Captain to R/A Lambert}}
{{Tenure|rank=Acting Captain|name=Edward Owen Cochrane|nick=Edward O. Cochrane|appt=November, 1918<ref>Cochrane Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 147.</ref>|end=9 May, 1919<ref>Cochrane Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/46.|}} f. 147.</ref>|succBy=Vessel Decommissioned}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>

==See Also==
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Lord_Nelson_(1906)}}
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==Footnotes==
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