HMS Venerable (1899)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Venerable |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 2 January 1899 |
| Launched: | 2 November 1899 |
| Commissioned: | 12 November 1902 |
| Refit: | October–December 1915 at Gibraltar |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 4 June 1920 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Formidable class battleship |
| Displacement: | 15,000 tons (approx) |
| Length: | 431 ft 9 in (131 m) |
| Beam: | 75 ft (23 m) |
| Draught: | 25 ft 4 in |
| Propulsion: | Water tube boilers, 2 x vertical triple expansion engines, 2 shafts, 15,500 ihp (11.6 MW) |
| Speed: | 18.0 knots (33 km/h) |
| Range: | 5,500 nautical miles (approx) at 10 knots (18 km/h) |
| Complement: | 760 |
| Armament: | 4 × Mk IX 12 in guns 12 × Mk VII 6 in guns 16 × 12 pounder (5.4 kg) guns 6 × 3 pounder (1.4 kg) guns 2 × machine guns 4 × 18 in submerged torpedo tubes |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Venerable.
HMS Venerable (1899) was a London class battleship, a sub-class of the Formidable class battleship, and the third to bear the name serving in the British Royal Navy.
Completed on 12 November 1902, her initial service was as second Flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet. In October 1909 Venerable saw service with Atlantic Fleet after a refit. In May 1912 she was paid off into reserve until the start of World War I when she was transferred to Dover.
In May 1915 Venerable was sent to the Dardanelles for the Battle of Gallipoli, but only spent a short time there before being attached to the Italian fleet at Taranto as a depot ship. In 1918 she returned to United Kingdom and spent more time as a depot ship. In June 1920 she was sold for breaking up.
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