HMS Vengeance (1899)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 1897 Programme |
| Builder: | Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness |
| Laid down: | 23 August 1898 |
| Launched: | 25 July 1899 |
| Fate: | Sold 1 December 1921 for breaking up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Canopus class battleship |
| Displacement: | 12,950 tons |
| Length: | 431 ft (131 m) |
| Beam: | 74 ft (23 m) |
| Draught: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shafts, water tube boilers, vertical triple expansion steam engines, 15,400 ihp |
| Speed: | 18 kt |
| Complement: | 750 |
| Armament: | 4 × 12 in (305 mm) guns 12 × 6 in (152 mm) guns 10 × 3 in (76 mm) guns 4 × 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tubes (underwater) |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Vengeance.
HMS Vengeance was a Royal Navy battleship of the Canopus class. She was the only ship in the class to be armoured with Krupp armour, rather than Harvey steel.
She displaced nearly 13,000 tons and was armed with four 12-inch guns, with a secondary array of twelve 6-inch guns. She was 400 feet long and had a full complement of around 740 officers and men.
Vengeance spent much of her early career in China Station, before returning to Home Waters in 1905. Prior to the outbreak of World War I, she formed part of 6th Battle Squadron based at Portland. During the war, she saw active service in the Dardanelles.
She was sold in 1921 and scrapped.
[edit] References
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- 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
