HMS Britannia (1904)

Career

Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	10 December 1904
Commissioned:
Fate:	Torpedoed and sunk, 9 November 1918
Struck:
General characteristics
Displacement:	normal 16,350 tons, full draft 17,500 tons
Length:	453 feet 6 inches (138 m)
Beam:	78 feet (23.7 m)
Draught:	26 feet 9 inches (8.2 m)
Propulsion:	Coal fired (with oil sprayers) water tube boilers, Two 4-cylinder vertical compound expansion stream engines, 2 screws, 18,000 hp (13.4 MW)
Speed:	18 knots (33 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	777
Armament:	four 12 inch guns (2 main turrets), four 9.2 inch guns (4 secondary turrets), ten 6 inch guns, five 18 inch torpedo tubes (4 broadside, one stern), fourteen 12 pounder guns, fourteen 3 pounder guns, two Maxim guns
Armour:	9 inch belt amidships, 12 inch barbettes, 9 inch main turrets, 7 inch secondary turrets. 2 inch armoured deck

The sixth HMS Britannia of the British Royal Navy was a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the King Edward VII class, launched in 1904. She became the last Royal Navy vessel to be sunk during World War I when she was torpedoed off Cape Trafalgar by UB 50 on 9 November 1918, only two days before the Armistice was signed.