HMS Cornwallis (1901)
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| Career |  |
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| 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" |
| Armour: | Belt: 7" Deck: 2.5" |
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.
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