HMS Swiftsure (1903)
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| Builder: | Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick |
| Laid down: | March 1902 |
| Launched: | January 1903 |
| Commissioned: | 1904 |
| Status: | broken up 1920 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 11,800 tons |
| Length: | 458 ft (139.6 m) waterline, 470 ft (143.3 m) overall |
| Beam: | 71 ft (21.6 m) |
| Draught: | 24.5 ft (7.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | Triple expansion (4 cyl.) 2 screws, 14,000 ihp |
| Speed: | 20 knots |
| Complement: | 700 |
| Armament: | 4 × 10 in (2 × 2), 14 × 7.5 in (14 × 1), 14 × 14 pdr (14 × 1); 2 × 18 in torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | Main belt 7 in (amidships), 3 in (ends), deck 3 in, turrets 10 in |
HMS Swiftsure, launched 1903, was the lead ship of her class of pre-Dreadnought battleships. She had one sister ship, Triumph. The two ships had been built for the Chilean Navy as Libertad and Constitucion, but were bought by the Admiralty after fears that they would, upon delivery to the Chilean Navy, be sold on to Russia. Swiftsure was launched in 1903 and completed the following year.
She served in the Mediterranean in World War I and was broken up in 1920.
See HMS Swiftsure for other ships of the same name.
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