ISBN: | 978-5-5120-4557-2 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Duke of York (pennant number 17) was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy. Laid down in May 1937, the ship was constructed by John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 4 November 1941, subsequently seeing service during the Second World War.