HMS Albemarle (1901)
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| Career |  |
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| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 8 January 1900 |
| Launched: | 5 March 1901 |
| Commissioned: | 12 November 1903. |
| Status: | Sold for scrapping, 19 November 1919; Scrapped, 1922 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 14000 tons normal |
| Length: | 432 ft |
| Beam: | 75 ft 7 in |
| Draught: | 22 ft 7 in |
| Propulsion: | Water tube boilers, 2 × vertical triple expansion engines, 2 shafts, 18,000 ihp |
| Speed: | 19 kt |
| Complement: | 720 |
| Armament: | Main guns - 4 × 12" (2 × 2) Secondary guns - 12 × 6" |
| Armour: | Belt: 7" Deck: 2.5" |
HMS Albemarle was a pre-Dreadnought Duncan-class battleship of the Royal Navy, named after George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle.
She was laid down on 8 January 1900 at Chatham Dockyard, launched on 5 March 1901, and commissioned on 12 November 1903.
Her initial service was in the Mediterranean Sea, then she transferred to the Channel Fleet in January 1905. In January 1907 she was transferred again, this time to the Atlantic Fleet as Second Flagship. She paid off into reserve at Portsmouth and from 1910 to 1913 was used for gunnery training, again at Portsmouth.
On the outbreak of World War I she was recommissioned and joined the Grand Fleet. Apart from a short spell with the Channel Fleet she was there until January 1916 when she was allocated to Archangel (near Murmansk) as an ice breaker. That autumn she came back to the United Kingdom and after a refit served as accommodation ship at Devonport Dockyard.
She was sold out of service in November 1919 and broken up.
See HMS Albemarle for other ships of this name.
