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 |
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Crew: |
862 |
Range: |
5,000 NM @ 19 knots / 6,600 NM @ 10 knots |
Armament as built |
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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 |
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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 |