HMS Victorious (1895)
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| Career |  |
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| Class and type: | Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Name: | HMS Victorious |
| Ordered: | 1893-1894 Naval Estimates |
| Builder: | Chatham Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 28 May 1894 |
| Launched: | 19 October 1895 |
| Commissioned: | November 1896 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 14,890 tons normal 16,060 tons deep |
| Length: | 421 ft (128 m) overall 390 ft (120 m) between perpendiculars |
| Beam: | 75 ft (23 m) |
| Draught: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 sets 3-cylinder vertical inverted triple expansion engines, 10,319 ihp (7,695 kW) 8 cylindrical boilers, 155 lb (70 kg). pressure, 4 furnaces each 2 shafts, two 4-bladed propellers - 17 ft (5 m). diameter |
| Speed: | 16.92 knots natural draft (trials) 18.7 knots (34.6 km/h) forced draft |
| Capacity: | 2000 tons coal, 400 tons oil |
| Complement: | 670 |
| Armament: | 4 × 12 in/35 (305 mm) breech loading rifles (2 × 2) 12 × 6 in/40 (152 mm) (12 × 1) 16 × 12 pdr (16 × 1) 12 × 2 pounder (1.5 inch, 907 g) (12 × 1) 2 × 12 pdr boat guns 2 Maxim machine guns 5 × 18 in torpedo tubes (1 above water, 4 submerged) |
| Armour: | belt: 9 in; bulkheads: 12-14 in; deck: 2½ - 4 in; gunhouses: 10 in; conning tower: 14 in; barbettes: 14 in |
HMS Victorious was one of nine Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleships, that had an armament of 4 × 12-inch (305 mm) guns and 12 × 6-inch (152 mm) guns. She was built at Chatham Dockyard. She had a displacement of 14,900 tons with a length of 421 feet (128 m). The Majestics were a template for many successor pre-dreadnought classes.
Victorious served in the Mediterranean Fleet in early 1898 and from 1900 to 1903. During the mid-1898 to mid-1900 time frame, she served on the China Station. After these duty stations, she was transferred to the Channel Fleet. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the Antarctic explorer, served as her Captain, acting as Flag Captain to Rear-Admiral Egerton, aboard her for a period from 1906. She never saw combat service in the First World War.
In 1915, the main guns of Magnificent, Hannibal, Mars, and Victorious were removed for use in the General Wolfe-class monitors. Victorious become a dockyard repair ship in March 1916, and was renamed Indus II in 1920. She was sold on 19 December 1922 for scrapping in 1923.
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[edit] References
Dittmar F.J and Colledge J.J. "British Warships 1914-1919, Ian Allen, London, 1972. ISBN 0-7110-0380-7
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