HMS Exmouth (1901)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Laird, Birkenhead |
| Laid down: | 10 August 1899 |
| Launched: | 31 August 1901 |
| Fate: | Sold 15 January 1920 and broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 14000 tons normal |
| Length: | 432 ft (132 m) |
| Beam: | 75 ft 7 in (23.0 m) |
| Draught: | 22 ft 7 in (6.9 m) |
| 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) Torpedotubes-4×18" Otherweapons-12×12 pdrQF Countermeasures-None |
| Armour: |
Belt: 7" Barbettes:11" Turrets:10" |
HMS Exmouth was a Duncan class battleship of the Royal Navy. She was designed, like her sister ships, with a shallow draught to allow passage through the Suez canal and a 12 inch main armament.
In 1904 she became the flagship of Sir Arthur Wilson in the Home and then the Channel Fleet. During World War One she bombarded Zeebrugge, which was used by German U boats on passage from their base at Bruges. The action was highly successful.
[edit] References
- Pears, Randolph. (1979). British Battleships 1892-1957: The great days of the fleets. G. Cave Associates. ISBN 978-0906223147
- Roger Chesneau and Eugene M. Kolesnik, ed., Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1979), ISBN 0-85177-133-5
- Dittmar, F. J. & Colledge, J. J., "British Warships 1914-1919", (Ian Allen, London, 1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7
