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HMS Exmouth |
Type: |
Battleship |
Class: |
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Builder: |
Cammell Laird Ltd. Birkenhead, England |
Pennant Number: |
N/A |
Ordered: |
N/A |
Launched: |
August 31, 1901 |
Keel Laid: |
August 10, 1899 |
Commissioned: |
June 1903 |
Fate: |
Sold Feb. 15, 1920 and scrapped.
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Dimensions, machinery and performance |
Length: |
429' |
Engines: |
2 four cylinder vertically inverted triple expansion |
Beam: |
75' 6" |
Boilers: |
24 Belleville water tube type |
Draft: |
27 (max) |
Shafts: |
2 |
Displacement: |
14,000 std |
SHP: |
18,000 |
Speed: |
19 knots |
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Crew: |
750 |
Range: |
7,200 NM @ 10 knots |
Armament As Built |
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Number Carried
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Type
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Arrangement |
Maximum Range / Ceiling |
4 |
12"/40 (305mm) Mk IX |
twin turrets |
26,500 yards @ 30° (15 miles) with a 850 lb. armor piercing shell |
12 |
6"/45 (152mm) BL |
single mounts |
17,870 yards @ 20° (10.1 miles) with a 112 lb. HE shell |
12 |
3"/40 (76.2MM) QF |
single mounts |
11,750 yards @ 40° (6.6 miles) with a 12.9 lb. HE shell |
4 |
18" (450mm) torpedo tubes |
all submerged |
800 yards @ 26.5 knots 118 lb. wet gun-cotton warhead |
Builder's Data |
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Page published Nov. 25, 2007 |