HMS Hindustan (1903)
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| Career |  |
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| Ordered: | 1902/03 Estimates |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Laid down: | 25 October 1902 |
| Launched: | 19 December 1903 |
| Commissioned: | July 1905 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up, 9 May 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Standard 16,350 tons (as built) |
| Length: | 453 ft 8 in (138.3 m) |
| Beam: | 78 ft (24 m) |
| Draught: | 25 ft 6 in (7.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Coal fired (with oil sprayers) water tube boilers, two 4-cylinder vertical compound expansion stream engines, 2 screws, 18,000 hp |
| Speed: | 18.5 knots |
| Range: | 2,000 NM at top speed |
| Complement: | 777 |
| Armament: | 4 × 12 in guns, 4 × 9.2 in guns, 10 × 6 in guns, 12 × 12 pdr guns, 5 × 18 in torpedo tubes (submerged) |
| Armour: | Belt amidships: 9 inch Barbettes: 12 in, Main turrets: 12 in, Secondary turrets: 7 inch Armoured deck: 2 inch |
HMS Hindustan was an 18-gun twin-screw pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy King Edward VII class. Like all ships of the class (apart from HMS King Edward VII) she was named after an important part of the British Empire, namely the Indian Empire.
Launched at Clydebank in 1903, HMS Hindustan and her sister ships formed the 3rd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet at the outbreak of World War I. In November 1914, she was detached to reinforce the Channel Fleet then returned to Grand Fleet. On 29 April 1916, the 3rd Battle Squadron transferred to Sheerness under the Nore Command.
During February-May 1918 HMS Hindustan was the depot ship for Zeebrugge and Ostend raids. In May 1918, she accidentally collided with destroyer HMS Wrestler and was paid off into reserve on 15 May 1918, then sold to Messrs Ward on 9 May 1921 for scrap, arriving in Belfast on 14 October 1923.
[edit] References
- Dittmar, F. J. & Colledge, J. J., "British Warships 1914-1919", (Ian Allen, London, 1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7
- 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
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