HMS Superb (1907)

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Career (UK)

Name:	HMS Superb
Ordered:	1906
Builder:	Armstrong Whitworth
Laid down:	6 February 1907
Launched:	7 November 1907
Commissioned:	29 May 1909
Decommissioned:	26 March 1920
Fate:	Sold for scrap 1922
General characteristics
Class and type:	Bellerophon class battleship
Displacement:	18,596 tons
Length:	526 ft (160 m)
Beam:	82 ft 6 in (25.1 m)
Draught:	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion:	4 shafts; Parsons steam turbines 18 boilers; 29,000 hp
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h)
Range:	3,970 nautical miles (7,350 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) (coal only)
Complement:	840
Armament:	10 × 12 inch (305 mm) 16 × 4 inch (102 mm) 4 × 3-pounder (47 mm) 3 × 18 inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Superb.

HMS Superb (1907) was a Bellerophon-class battleship of the Royal Navy.

Her construction was substantially delayed by labour disputes. She was commissioned for service with 1st Battle Squadron, Home Fleet where she remained until being transferred to 4th Battle Squadron in 1915. She was flagship of the 3rd Division, with Iron Duke (flagship), Royal Oak and Canada, and 11th ship in line, at the Battle of Jutland, during which she fired 54 12 in shells and received no damage.

In 1918, she was detached with HMS Temeraire to the Mediterranean, becoming flagship of the British Eastern Mediterranean Squadron and later flagship of the British Naval Forces in the Black Sea. Returning home in 1919, she was paid off into the Nore Reserve. She was paid off into the Disposal list in 1920 and was used as a gunnery and aerial-attack target until sold for breakup in 1922.