HMS Warrior (1905)
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| Class and type: | Duke of Edinburgh class armoured cruiser |
| Name: | HMS Warrior |
| Ordered: | 1903-04 Naval Programme |
| Builder: | Pembroke Dock |
| Launched: | 25 November 1905 |
| Commissioned: | 12 December 1906 |
| Reclassified: | Depot ship 1914 |
| Fate: | Sunk at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916 |
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| Tons burthen: | 13,550 tons |
| Length: | 480 ft (150 m) between perpendiculars 505.3ft (154m) overall |
| Beam: | 73.5 ft (22.4 m) |
| Draught: | 27.5 ft (8.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 19 Yarrow boilers Twin 4-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines two screws 23,500hp (17.5MW) |
| Speed: | 23 knots |
| Range: | 10,000 nautical miles (19,000 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 712 (standard) 800+ (wartime) |
| Armament: | 6 × 9in guns 4 × 7.5in guns 24 × 3pdr guns 3 × 18in torpedo tubes, submerged |
| Armour: | 6in (152mm) belt 7in (178mm) barbette 8in (203mm) maximum over turret faces |
HMS Warrior' was a Duke of Edinburgh class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was built several years before the outbreak of the First World War.
She was launched on 25 November 1905 at Pembroke Dockyard and completed on 12 December 1906. On completion, she served in the Home Fleet until 1913, when she was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet. She was involved in the pursuit of Goeben and Breslau at the outbreak of the war.
Warrior joined the Grand Fleet in December 1914. At the Battle of Jutland, she was part of the ill-fated 1st Cruiser Squadron under Rear Admiral Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot. Three of the four ships in the squadron were sunk during the battle, including Warrior. On 31 May, starting at 18:05, she came under fire from the German battlecruisers while attacking German light cruisers. She was initially badly damaged by gunfire, and had her engine room wrecked and flooded. She was taken in tow by the seaplane tender HMS Engadine who took off her surviving crew of 743. She was abandoned in a rising sea at 08:25 on June 1 when her upper deck was only 4 feet (1.2 m) above the water, and subsequently foundered.
[edit] References
- Robert Gardiner, ed., Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906 - 1921, (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1985)
- R.A. Burt, Warships Illustrated Number 12, British Cruisers of World War I, (Arms and Armour Press, London, 1987)
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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