Swiftsure Class Battleships Class Overview


Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Swiftsure
Armstrong Elswick Works Ltd.
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England

Jan. 12, 1903
June 1904
Fate
Sold for scrap June 18, 1920.
Name
Builder
Launched
Commissioned
Triumph
Vickers Ltd.
Barrow-in-Furness, England

Jan. 15, 1903
June 1904
Fate
Sunk May 25, 1915 by U-21 (torpedo).

Location: Aegean Sea off Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey.

79 crewmen killed, 627 survivors.