HMS Colossus (1882)


HMS Colossus, painted in 1891, Malta?
Career
Builder: Portsmouth Dockyard
Laid down: 6 June 1879
Launched: 21 March 1882
Commissioned: 31 October 1886
Fate: Sold 1908 and broken up
General characteristics
Class and type: Colossus class second-class battleship
Displacement: 9,420 tons
Length: 325 ft (99 m) pp
Beam: 68 ft (21 m)
Draught: 25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)
Propulsion: 2 shaft Maudslay engine 7,488ihp
Speed: 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h)
Complement: 396
Armament: 4 × BL 12-inch (304.8 mm) guns
5 × BL 6-inch (152.4 mm) guns
4 × 6pdr QF
2 × 14-inch torpedo tubes
Armour: Citadel: 18 in–14 in
Bulkheads: 16 in–13 in
Turrets: 16 in faces, 14 in sides and rear

The second HMS Colossus was a Colossus class second-class British battleship, launched in 1882 and commissioned in 1886. She had a displacement of 9,520 tons, and an armament of 4 × 12-inch breechloaders, 5 × 6-inch guns and had a respectable speed of 15.5 knots. She served in the Mediterranean Fleet, from her commission in 1886 to 1893 when she then became a Coastguard ship. In 1895 she was part of the 1st Reserve Squadron. In 1901 she was placed in Reserve, before becoming a tender to Excellent in 1904. Colossus was put up for sale in 1906, finally being broken up in 1908. Her sister-ship Edinburgh was broken up in 1910.

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