HMS Temeraire (1907)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | 1906 |
| Built: | HM Dockyard, Devonport |
| Laid down: | January 1, 1907 |
| Launched: | August 24, 1907 |
| Commissioned: | May 01, 1909 |
| Decommissioned: | 1921 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, December 7, 1921 |
| Struck: | - |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 18,800 tons |
| Length: | 527 ft (160.6 m) |
| Beam: | 82 ft 5 in (25.1 m) |
| Draught: | 27 ft 2 in (8.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Parsons steam turbines 18 x Yarrow boilers driving 4 shafts creating 23,000 hp |
| Speed: | 21.55 kt (Trials) |
| Range: | 5,600 NM at 10 kt |
| Complement: | 733 |
| Armament: | 10 × 12 in, 11 × 4 in guns, 4 × 3 pdr guns, 2 × 4 in AA guns, 2 × 3 in AA guns, 2 × 18 in torpedo tubes (submerged) |
| Aircraft: | none |
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HMS Temeraire was a Bellerophon-class battleship in the Royal Navy built at the Royal Dockyard, Devonport.
She was ordered under the 1906 Naval Estimates at the cost of £1,641,114. Although not externally much different from predecessor HMS Dreadnought, internally she and others of the Bellerophon-class were much improved internally, with better sub-division of bulkheads against torpedo attack. A heavier secondary armament was believed to be capable of fighting off torpedo boat attacks.
[edit] World War 1
For the majority of the war Temeraire was a member of the 4th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet. On a sweep of the North Sea on 18 March 1915 she unsuccessfully attempted to ram U-29 which had just attacked HMS Neptune. During the summer of that year she refitted at HM Dockyard, Devonport.
At the Battle of Jutland Temeraire, under the command of Captain E.V. Underhill, fired 54 12 in shells and received no damage. In October 1918 she was detached to the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron under the overall command of Vice-Admiral Gough-Calthrope.
[edit] Post War
With the end of hostilities Temeraire was converted to a cadet training ship (seagoing). With the other members of her class she was regarded as obsolete and decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1921.
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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 |
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