HMS Prince of Wales (1902)
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| Name: | HMS Prince of Wales |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 20 March 1901 |
| Launched: | 25 March 1902 |
| Commissioned: | March 1904 |
| Refit: | September 1906 Portsmouth |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 21 September 1921 |
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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: | 25 ft 4 in (7.7 m) |
| 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: | 747 |
| 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 4 × 18 in submerged torpedo tubes |
| Armour: | 9 in belt 12 in barbettes 10 in gun houses 2.5-1 in decks |
HMS Prince of Wales (1902) was a London class battleship, a sub-class of the Formidable-class battleships of the British Royal Navy. HMS Prince of Wales (1902) was the sixth of seven ships of the Royal Navy that have had the name HMS Prince of Wales.
Prince of Wales was the last British battleship to be built with water tube Belleville boilers, which had service problems. Her near identical sister ship HMS Queen was fitted with Babcock and Wilcox cylindrical boilers.
The ship was launched on 25 March 1902 from Chatham Dockyard. Augustus Agar, V.C. served time on her as a cadet in her pre-war days.
In World War I, HMS Prince of Wales was one of the four battleships transporting the 3rd Brigade, Australian Army, during the 1915 landing at Anzac Cove. During this time her Commander (second-in-command) was Kenneth Dewar, later a controversial figure in the navy.
HMS Prince of Wales was sold for break-up and scrap on 21 September 1921.
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