HMS Prince of Wales (1902)

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HMS Prince of Wales (1902)

Career
Ordered:
Builders:	Chatham Dockyard
Keel laid down:	20 March 1901
Launched:	25 March 1902
Commissioned:	March 1904
Refit:	September 1906 Portsmouth
Fate:	Sold for scrap 21 September 1921
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	15,000 tons (approx)
Length:	431 ft 9 in (131 m)
Beam:	75 ft (23 m)
Draught:	25 ft 4 in
Propulsion:	Water tube boilers, 2 x vertical triple expansion engines, 2 shafts, 15,500 ihp (11.6 megawatts)
Speed:	18.0 knots (33 km/h)
Range:	5,500 nautical miles (approx) at 10 knots (18 km/h)
Complement:	747
Armament:	four Mk IX 12 in guns twelve Mk VII 6 in guns sixteen 12 pounder (5.4 kg) guns six 3 pounder (1.4 kg) guns four 18 in submerged torpedo tubes
Armour:	9in belt, 12in barbettes, 10in gun houses, 2.5-1in decks
Aircraft:	None
Motto:

HMS Prince of Wales (1902) was a London class battleship, a sub-class of the Formidable-class battleships of the British Royal Navy. HMS Prince of Wales (1902) was the sixth of seven ships of the Royal Navy that have had the name HMS Prince of Wales.

Prince of Wales was the last British battleship to be built with water tube Belleville boilers, which had service problems. Her near identical sister ship HMS Queen (1902) was fitted with Babcock and Wilcox cylindrical boilers.

The ship was launched on 25 March 1902 from Chatham Dockyard. Augustus Agar, V.C. served time on her as a cadet in her pre-war days.

In World War I, HMS Prince of Wales was one of the four battleships transporting the 3rd Brigade, Australian Army, during the 1915 landing at Anzac Cove.

HMS Prince of Wales was sold for break-up and scrap on 21 September 1921.