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Nice shot.
The ship on the right is HMS Dreadnought.
The ship to the left of Dreadnought is probably a "Warrior" class armoured cruiser, or similar, with its 1st funnel hidden behind the fwd superstructure, as delivered with short funnels, and before the funnels were raised in this class - it could even be HMS Warrior, both she and Dreadnought entered service in 1906.
The other groups of ships in the background are more difficult.
The torpedo boat destroyers in the foreground seem to be one each of the 3- and 4-funnel "27 knotters", each of which were of various different types, from the various different builders engaged to construct them. In these times the shipbuilders worked more to a set of general specifications than to a specific design, so there were a lot of subtly-different torpedo boats in service.

If you are able to put a more detailed scan of this photo on the web site it might be possible to be more specific with the other ships.

Nice indeed, and great info Jon.

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