St. Vincent Class Battleships Class Overview


Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
St. Vincent
Devonport Dockyard
Plymouth, England

Sept. 10, 1908
May 3, 1909
Fate
Scrapped in 1922.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Collingwood
Devonport Dockyard
Plymouth, England

Nov. 7, 1908
Apr. 19, 1910
Fate
Sold to Cashmore Dec. 1922 and scrapped.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Vanguard
Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England

Feb. 22, 1909
Mar. 1, 1910
Fate
Sunk by internal explosion July 9, 1917.

Location: Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands.
(58.51.400N - 03.06.405W)

Over 800 crewmen killed (estimates range from 805 to 843), 2 survivors.
(Three men survived the disaster, but one died of his wounds.)