HMS Victorious (1895)

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Career

Ordered:	1893-1894 Naval Estimates
Builder:	Chatham Dockyard
Laid down:	28 May 1894
Launched:	19 October 1895
Commissioned:	November 1896
Status:	Scrapped 1923
General Characteristics
Displacement:	14,890 tons normal 16,060 tons deep
Length:	421 ft overall (128.3 m) 390 ft (118.9 m) between perpendiculars
Beam:	75 ft (22.9 m)
Draught:	27 ft (8.2 m)
Propulsion:	2 sets 3-cylinder vertical inverted triple expansion engines, 10,319 ihp 8 cylindrical boilers, 155 lb. pressure, 4 furnaces each 2 shafts, two 4-bladed propellers - 17 ft. diameter
Speed:	16.92 knots natural draft (trials) 18.7 knots forced draft
Capacity:	2000 tons coal, 400 tons oil
Complement:	670
Armament:	4 × 12 in/35 (305 mm) breech loading rifles (2 × 2) 12 × 6 in/40 (152 mm) (12 × 1) 16 × 12 pdr (16 × 1) 12 × 2 pounder (1.5 inch, 907 g) (12 × 1) 2 × 12 pdr boat guns 2 Maxim machine guns 5 × 18 in torpedo tubes (1 above water, 4 submerged)
Armour:	belt: 9 in; bulkheads: 12-14 in; deck: 2½ - 4 in; gunhouses: 10 in; conning tower: 14 in; barbettes: 14 in

The third ship to be named HMS Victorious had the most quiet of careers. She was one of nine Majestic-class pre-Dreadnought battleships, that had an armament of 4 × 12 inch guns and 12 × 6 inch guns. She was built at Chatham Dockyard. She had a displacement of 14,900 tons with a length of 421 feet. The Majestic's were a template for many successor pre-dreadnought classes.

Victorious had her obligatory service in the Mediterranean Fleet in early 1898 and from 1900 to 1903. During the mid-1898 to mid-1900 time frame, she served on the China Station. After these duty stations, she was transferred to in the Channel Fleet. She never saw combat service in World War I, becoming a dockyard repair ship until her eventual scrapping in 1923.

See HMS Victorious for other ships of the name.