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|laid=23 May, 1902{{Conways1860|p. 38}}
|fate=Sold
|pend=41 (1914)<br>54 (Jan 1918)<br>41 (Apr 1918)<br>N.90 (Jun 1918){{DittColl|p. 31}}
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'''H.M.S. ''Dominion''''' was one of eight [[King Edward VII Class Battleship (1903)|''King Edward VII'' class battleships]].  She entered service in 1905 and spent most of her service in the Great War with a shifting roster of her sisters in the {{UK-BS|3}}.

==Service==
As part of the Channel Fleet, ''Dominion'' started a refit in Portsmouth on 7 April 1908.  She was to have magazine cooling equipment fitted, which was supposed to take 10 weeks.<ref>Report from Charles Beresford dated 18 April 1908 in ''Naval Policy - Strategy - Tactics: Miscellaneous papers from Private Office received by record office'' at {{TNA|ADM 116/942}}, unnumbered folio halfway within series.  pp. 1-2.</ref>

She commenced an annual refit on 4 May, 1912 and finished it on 22 September, 1912.{{CN}}

''Dominion'' was assigned to the {{UK-BS|3}} upon its creation in May, 1912.

She recommissioned at Chatham on 15 October 1912.<ref>''The Navy List'' (July, 1913).  p. 302.</ref>

She remained with 3BS until becoming the last pre-dreadnought to be detached in April, 1918.<ref>See [[Third Battle Squadron (Royal Navy)]] for details on her service in 3BS.</ref> She became an accommodation ship in Chatham-Sheerness that same month.{{SMNLApr18|pp. 13,19}}  She kept laying out the welcome until April, 1919.{{SMNLApr19|p. 21}}  In May, she fell off the Navy List.{{SMNLMay19|p. 24}}

==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 given:
*{{CaptRN}} [[John Locke Marx|John L. Marx]], 17 August 1905.<ref>Marx Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 856.</ref>
*Captain [[Charles Edmund Kingsmill|Charles E. Kingsmill]], 14 March, 1906.<ref>Kingsmill Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}}  f. 755.</ref>
*Captain Arthur T. Stuart, May 1907.{{MackieRNW}}
*Captain [[John Michael de Robeck, First Baronet|John M. de Robeck]], 25 January, 1908.<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 301.</ref>
*Captain [[Morgan Singer]], 25 January 1910.<ref>Singer Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 220.</ref>
*Captain [[Joseph Ridgway Bridson|Joseph R. Bridson]], 1 June, 1912.<ref>Bridson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/20.}}  f. 273.</ref>
*Captain [[Henry Lancelot Mawbey|Henry L. Mawbey]], 7 February, 1914.<ref>''The Navy List'' (December, 1914).  p. 304.</ref>
*Captain [[Adolphus Huddlestone Williamson|Adolphus H. Williamson]], 11 April, 1917.<ref>Williamson Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}}  f. 22.</ref>
*Captain [[Arthur Gordon Smith|Arthur G. Smith]], December 1917.{{MackieRNW}}

==See Also==
{{WP|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dominion_(1903)}}

==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
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