HMS New Zealand (1904)
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| Class and type: | King Edward VII class battleship |
| Name: | HMS New Zealand |
| Ordered: | 1902/03 Estimates |
| Builder: | Portsmouth Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 9 February 1903 |
| Launched: | 4 February 1904 |
| Commissioned: | July 1905 |
| Renamed: | Renamed Zealandia on 1 December 1911 |
| Fate: | Sold for breaking up, 8 November 1921 |
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| Displacement: | 16,350 tons standard (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 kt |
| Range: | 2,000 nmi at 18.5 kt |
| Complement: | 777 |
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HMS New Zealand was a King Edward VII class battleship of the Royal Navy. Like all ships of the class (apart from HMS King Edward VII) she was named after an important part of the British Empire, namely New Zealand.
She was ordered under the 1902/03 Naval Estimates and built at Portsmouth Dockyard. She was laid down on 9 February 1903, launched a year later on 4 February 1904 and commissioned in July 1905 at a cost of £1,424,643.
She was renamed HMS Zealandia on 1 November 1911, to free up her name for the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand. She served as part of the 3rd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet during the First World War. She was initially used to support cruisers on the Northern Patrol. On 10 September 1914 she rammed a German submarine in the North Sea. She was in the Eastern Mediterranean between December 1915 and January 1916, before undergoing a refit at Portsmouth between February and March 1916. She rejoined the Grand Fleet on 26 March and on 29 April, was moved to Sheerness as part of the Nore Command. The period between December 1916 and June 1917 was spent under refit at Chatham Dockyard, and another refit was carried out at Portsmouth between January and September 1918 to convert her into a gunnery training ship.
In September 1918 she was paid off, and she was sold for scrap on 8 November 1921. She was broken up in Germany.
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- Careers of the King Edward VII class
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