HMS London (1899)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS London |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 8 December 1898 |
| Launched: | 21 September 1899 |
| Commissioned: | June 1902 |
| Refit: | October 1915 at Gibraltar |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 4 June 1920 |
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| Class and type: | Formidable class battleship |
| Displacement: | 15,000 tons (approx) |
| Length: | 431 ft 9 in (131 m) |
| Beam: | 75 ft (23 m) |
| Draught: | 27 ft 5 in |
| Propulsion: | Water tube boilers, 2 x vertical triple expansion engines, 2 shafts, 15,500 ihp (11.6 MW) |
| Speed: | 18.0 knots (33 km/h) |
| Range: | 5,500 nautical miles (approx) at 10 knots (18 km/h) |
| Complement: | 760 |
| Armament: | 4 × Mk IX 12 in guns 12 × Mk VII 6 in guns 16 × 12 pounder (5.4 kg) guns 6 × 3 pounder (1.4 kg) guns 2 × machine guns 4 × 18 in submerged torpedo tubes |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS London.
HMS London (1899) was a Formidable class battleship in the British Royal Navy. She differed from the previous three ships to be built of this class: HMS Formidable, HMS Irresistible, and HMS Implacable, by having thinner deck armour. The reduction in weight resulted in a shallower draught[citation needed]. This change in specification was carried through to subsequently built ships of the class, effectively leading to the formation of a sub-class known as the London class.
London took part in the Dardanelles Campaign and was later converted to a minelayer. She was eventually sold for scrap in 1920.
[edit] References
- 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
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