HMS Warrior (1905)

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Career

Ordered:	1903-04 Naval Programme
Laid down:
Launched:	25 November 1905
Commissioned:	12 December 1906
Fate:	Sunk at the Battle of Jutland 31 May 1916
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	13,550 tons
Length:	480 ft (146.3 m) between perpendiculars 505.3 ft (154 m) overall
Beam:	73.5 ft (22.4 m)
Draught:	27.5 ft (8.4 m)
Propulsion:	19 Yarrow boilers Twin 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines two screws 23,500 ihp (17.5 MW)
Speed:	23 knots
Range:
Complement:	712 (standard), 800+ (wartime)
Armament	6 × 9.2 in (234 mm) (6 × 1) 4 × 7.5 in (178 mm) (4 × 1) 26 × 3 pdr (26 × 1) 3 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes, submerged
Armor:	6 inch (152 mm) belt 7 inch (178 mm) barbette 8 inch (203 mm) maximum over turret faces
Motto:

HMS Warrior, the name ship of her class of 4 armoured cruisers of the Royal Navy, was built several years before the outbreak of the First World War.

She was launched on 25 November 1905 at Pembroke Dockyard and completed on 12 December 1906. On completion, she served in the Home Fleet until 1913, when she was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet. She was involved in the pursuit of Goeben and Breslau at the outbreak of the war.

Warrior joined the Grand Fleet in December 1914. At the Battle of Jutland, she was part of the ill-fated 1st Cruiser Squadron under Rear Admiral Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot. Three of the four ships in the squadron were sunk during the battle, including Warrior. On 31 May, starting at 1805, she came under fire from the German battlecruisers while attacking German light cruisers. She was initially badly damaged by gunfire, and had her engine room wrecked and flooded. She was and taken in tow by the seaplane tender HMS Engadine who took off her surviving crew of 743. She was abandoned in a rising sea at 08:25 on June 1 when her upper deck was only 4 feet (1.2 m) above the water, and subsequently foundered.

See HMS Warrior for other ships of this name.

[edit] References

Robert Gardiner, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906 - 1921, (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1985)
R.A. Burt, Warships Illustrated Number 12, British Cruisers of World War I, (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1987)