HMS Queen (1902)

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Career
Name:	HMS Queen
Builder:	Devonport Dockyard
Laid down:	12 March 1901
Launched:	8 March 1902
Commissioned:	March 1904
Fate:	Sold for breaking up 4 November 1920
General characteristics
Displacement:	15,000 tons (approx)
Length:	431 ft 9 in (131.6 m)
Beam:	75 ft (23 m)
Draught:	25 ft 4 in (7.7 m)
Propulsion:	Cylindrical boilers 2 x vertical triple expansion engines 2 shafts 15,500 ihp (11.6 megawatts)
Speed:	18.0 knots (33 km/h)
Range:	5,500 nautical miles (approx) at 10 knots (18 km/h)
Complement:	747
Armament:	four Mk IX 12 in guns twelve Mk VII 6 in guns sixteen 12 pounder (5.4 kg) guns six 3 pounder (1.4 kg) guns two machine guns four 18 in submerged torpedo tubes
Armour:	9 in belt 12 in barbettes 10 in casements 2.5 to 1 in decks
Notes:	the four 12 in guns were removed when she was broken up and used by the Italian Navy

HMS Queen was a London class battleship, a sub-class of the Formidable class battleships of the British Royal Navy, and the fifth to bear the name.

Due to service problems with the water tube Belleville boilers the original plans were changed during construction, and HMS Queen was fitted with Babcock and Wilcox cylindrical boilers instead. Her nearly identical sister ship HMS Prince of Wales was fitted with the problematic water tube Belleville boilers.

Ernest Henry Cooper (1891–1970), in the uniform of HMS Queen. Stoker aboard HMS Queen (5 June 1914 – 18 March 1919) and present aboard her at the Gallipoli landings.

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