Not the first war in which the Germans could claim to have sunk Warspite. She was badly damaged at Jutland, taking 15 hits and temporarily losing her steering. She almost foundered on the way home.
A beautiful ship, and a tough one, too, she probably saw more surface combat than any other dreadnought.
During the Battle of Calabria (July 9, 1940), she achieved the longest hit on a moving target in history, shelling the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare from a range of over 26,000 yards. Heavily damaged off Italy by three German FX-1400 guided missiles on September 16, 1943, she barely made it back to port. Temporarily repaired, she returned to action as a bombardment monitor, shelling the Normandy defenses and several French ports before finally being put in reserve.
After the war, there was a strong movement to preserve her as a museum ship, but the British Admiralty refused to listen to these pleas and she was sold for scrap in 1947. A sad end to such a gallant ship.