HMS Caesar (1896)

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Career Royal Navy Ensign
Builder: HM Dockyard, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Laid down: 1895
Launched: 1896
Commissioned: December 1897
Status: Sold for scrapping, 1920; Scrapped, 1921
General Characteristics
Displacement: 14900 tons normal, 16000 tons full load
Length: 421 ft
Beam: 75 ft
Draught: 27 ft 6 in
Propulsion: Water tube boilers, 2 × vertical triple expansion engines, 2 shafts, 12,000 ihp
Speed: 17.5 kt
Capacity: 2000 tons coal
Complement: (Officers and Ratings) = 670
Armament: Main guns - 4 × 12" (2 × 2)

Secondary guns - 12 × 6" (12 × 1)
Torpedo tubes - 5 × 18" 4 submerged, 1 above water
Other weapons - 16 × 3" (16 × 1), 12 × 3 pdr (12 × 1)

Countermeasures - None
Armour: Belt: 9" Harvey armour

Deck: 2.5" - 3"
Barbettes: 10"

Turrets: 6"

HMS Caesar was a Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, named after the Roman military and political leader Julius Caesar. She was commissioned in December 1897.


Majestic-class battleship

Caesar | Hannibal | Illustrious | Jupiter | Magnificent | Majestic | Mars | Prince George | Victorious

List of battleships of the Royal Navy