HMS Dreadnought

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Dreadnought (Class Overview)
Builder:
Portsmouth Dockyard
Portsmouth, England
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
1905
Commissioned:
December 3, 1906
Keel Laid:
October 2, 1905
Paid Off:
March 31, 1920
Launched:
February 10, 1906

Stricken:


N/A
Fate:
Sold May 1921 to T. W. Ward and scrapped at Inverness, Scotland in 1923.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
527'
Engines:
4 Parsons direct drive steam turbines by Vickers
Beam:
82' 1"
Boilers:
18 Babcock & Wilcox (coal fired)
Draft:
26' 6"
Shafts:
4
Displacement:
18,120 std. / 20,730 full
SHP:
23,000
Speed:
21 knots
Crew:
862
Range:
5,000 NM @ 19 knots / 6,600 NM @ 10 knots


Armament as built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
10
12"/45 (305mm)
Mk X

5 twin turrets
20,435 yards @ 16° (11.6 miles)
with a 850 lb. armor piercing shell
8
3"/45 (76mm) QF
Single mounts
10,900 yards @ 45° (6.1 miles)
with a 12.5 lb. HE shell

5
18" (455mm)
torpedo tubes
4 broadside
1 stern
all submerged
800 yards @ 26.5 knots (.4 mile)
118 lb. wet gun-cotton warhead


Combat Victories
Date
Name
Type
Tons
Nationality
Notes
Mar. 18, 1915
U-29
Submarine
685
Germany
Sunk by ramming


Notes
Building cost £1,785,683


Page published Jan. 29, 2007