HMS Superb (1907)

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Career

Ordered:	1906
Built:	Armstrong, Elswick
Laid down:	February 6, 1907
Launched:	November 7, 1907
Commissioned:	May 29, 1909
Decommissioned:	March 26, 1920
Fate:	Sold for scrap 1922
General Characteristics
Displacement:	18,596 tons
Length:	526 ft
Beam:	82 ft 6 in
Draught:	30 ft 11 7/8 in
Propulsion:	4 shafts; Parsons Turbines; 18 boilers; 23,000 shp
Speed:	21 knots
Range:	3,970 nautical miles at 10 kt (coal only)
Complement:	840
Armament:	10 × 12 inches (305 mm); 16 × 4 inch (102 mm); 4 × 3 pdr (47 mm); 3 × 18 in (457 mm) Torpedo Tubes
Aircraft:	None

HMS Superb (1907) was a Bellerophon-class battleship of the Royal Navy.

Her construction was substantially delayed by labor disputes. She was commissioned for service with 1st Division Home Fleet where she remained until being transferred to 4th Battle Squadron in 1915. She was flagship of the 3rd Division battlefleet, with Iron Duke (flagship), Royal Oak and Canada, and 11th ship in line, at the Battle of Jutland, during which she fired 54 12 in shells and received no damage. In 1918, she was detached with HMS Temeraire to the Mediterranean, becoming flagship of the British Eastern Mediterranean Squadron and later flagship of the British Naval Forces in the Black Sea. Returning home in 1919, she was paid off into the Nore Reserve. She was paid off into the Disposal list in 1920 and was used as a gunnery and aerial-attack target until sold for breakup in 1922.

See HMS Superb for other ships with the same name.

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Bellerophon-class battleship
Bellerophon \| *Superb* \| Temeraire

Preceded by HMS Dreadnought	Succeeded by St. Vincent class
List of battleships of the Royal Navy