HMS Cornwallis (1901)
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Builder: | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company |
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Launched: | 13 July 1901 |
Status: | Sunk by U-32 9 January 1917 |
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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.