HMS Cornwallis (1901)

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HMS Cornwallis

Career Royal Navy Ensign
Builder: Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company
Laid down:
Launched: 13 July 1901
Status: Sunk by U-32 9 January 1917
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"
Torpedo tubes - 4 × 18"
Other weapons - 12 × 12 pdr QF

Countermeasures - None
Armour: Belt: 7"

Deck: 2.5"
Barbettes: 11"

Turrets: 10"

HMS Cornwallis was a pre-Dreadnought Duncan-class battleship of the Royal Navy. During World War I she took part in the Dardanelles Campaign. She was sunk in January 1917, after being hit by three torpedoes from German U-Boat U-32, commanded by Kurt Hartwig, off Malta, with the loss of fifteen lives.