Battleship seldom had a chance to fire their guns in action; many of them never did. The Warspite was an exception. At Jutland, fighting with a sister ship of the Queen Elisabeth class in the fifth Battle Squadron she was the most heavily engaged British battleship, receiving 13 hits by heavy shells. In the Second World War her services were outstanding, beginning with the Norwegian campaign in 1940, where she sank eight destroyers in the confined waters of the fjiord near Narvik. Later that year as Admiral Cunningham's flagship in the Mediterranean, she took a major part in the bombardment of Capuzzo, Valona, Bardia and Tripoli, and at the Battle of Matapan in 1941 . Damaged by a bomb off Crete in the same year, she joined the Eastern Fleet after repairs in America, but was recalled in time to support the landings in Italy, where her fire proved to be unusually accurate and effective, until she was badly damaged by German glider bomb at Salerno. Just before this disaster she has the honour of leading the surrendered Italian battle fleet into Malta. After only temporary repairs, the Warspite formed part of the bombardment force in supporting of the D-Day and the Walcheren landings in November 1944. During this time she fired over 1500 rounds of 15 inch cell. It was the last service of the "Old Lady". This wartime photograph was taken when she was serving in the Far East; in the back ground is the Dutch cruiser Jacob van Heemskerk.