HMS Britannia (1904)
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| Name: | HMS Britannia |
| Ordered: | 1903/04 Estimates |
| Laid down: | 4 February 1904 |
| Launched: | 10 December 1904 |
| Commissioned: | September 1906 |
| Fate: | Torpedoed and sunk, 9 November 1918 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | King Edward VII class battleship |
| Displacement: | 16,350 tons (standard) 17,500 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 453 ft 6 in (138.2 m) |
| Beam: | 78 ft (24 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft 9 in (8.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | Coal fired (with oil sprayers) water tube boilers Two 4-cylinder vertical compound expansion stream engines 2 screws, 18,000 hp (13 MW) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h) |
| Complement: | 777 |
| Armament: | 4 × 12 in (305 mm) guns (2 main turrets) 4 × 9.2 in (234 mm) guns (4 secondary turrets) 10 × 6 in (152 mm) guns 5 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes (4 broadside, one stern) 14 × 12 pounder guns 14 × 3 pounder guns 2 x Maxim machine guns |
| Armour: | 9 in (229 mm) belt amidships 12 in (305 mm) barbettes 9 in (229 mm) main turrets 7 in (178 mm) secondary turrets 2 in (51 mm) armoured deck |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Britannia.
The sixth HMS Britannia of the British Royal Navy was a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the King Edward VII class, launched in 1904. Like all ships of the class (apart from HMS King Edward VII) she was named after an important part of the British Empire, namely Great Britain.
She became the last Royal Navy vessel to be sunk during World War I when she was torpedoed off Cape Trafalgar by UB 50 on 9 November 1918, only two days before the Armistice was signed.
[edit] References
- Pears, Randolph. (1979). British Battleships 1892-1957: The great days of the fleets. G. Cave Associates. ISBN 978-0906223147
- Roger Chesneau and Eugene M. Kolesnik, ed., Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1979), ISBN 0-85177-133-5
- Dittmar, F. J. & Colledge, J. J., "British Warships 1914-1919", (Ian Allen, London, 1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7
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