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HMS Ocean |
Type: |
Battleship |
Class: |
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Builder: |
Devonport Dockyard Plymouth, England |
Pennant Number: |
N/A |
Ordered: |
N/A |
Launched: |
July 5, 1898 |
Keel Laid: |
February 12, 1897 |
Commissioned: |
February 1900 |
Fate: |
Sunk Mar. 18, 1915 by a mine laid by the Turkish minelayer Nousret and gunfire from shore batteries. Location: Dardanelles Strait off Gallipoli, Turkey. Casualties unknown. *Was assisting HMS Irresistible which had hit a mine earlier. |
Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
418' |
Engines: |
2 Three cylinder vertical inverted triple expansion |
Beam: |
74' |
Boilers: |
20 Belleville (coal fired) |
Draft: |
26' 6" |
Shafts: |
2 |
Displacement: |
12,950 std. |
SHP: |
13,500 (design) |
Speed: |
18.25 knots (design) |
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Crew: |
750 |
Range: |
N/A |
Armament |
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Number Carried
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Type
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Arrangement |
Maximum Range / Ceiling |
4 |
12"/35 (305mm) Mk VIII |
2 twin turrets |
26,000 @ 30° (14.7 miles) with 875 lb. armor piercing shell |
12 |
6"/40 (152mm) |
single mounts |
10,000 yards @ 15° with 100 lb. HE shell |
10 |
3"/40 (76mm) 12 pounder QF |
single mounts |
11,750 yards @ 40° AA ceiling 19,000' @ 70° |
6 |
1.85"/40 (47mm) 3 pounder QF |
single mounts |
7,900 yards @ 45° AA ceiling 3,600 (effective) |
4 |
18" (450mm) torpedo tubes |
submerged |
800 yards @ 26.5 knots 118 lb. wet gun cotton warhead |
Builder's Data |
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Page published Feb. 24, 2007 |