The ship's usefulness did not end with the Dardanelles campaign. Her Black Sea flagship service included the April 1919 evacuation of Grand Dukes Nicholas and Peter of Russia to Genoa. By this stage aircraft and submarines had joined battleships as central features of naval warfare, showing how much the strategic environment had changed during Lord Nelson's career. Sold for scrap in 1920, she passed through more than one buyer before being towed to Germany and broken up there in 1922.
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Black Sea service and an unusual end
Lord Nelson continued as a Black Sea flagship after the armistice, helped evacuate Russian grand dukes, and ultimately reached Germany for scrapping in 1922.