HMS Camperdown

Type:
Battleship
Class:
Builder:
Portsmouth Dockyard
Portsmouth, England
Pennant Number:
N/A
Ordered:
N/A
Launched:
November 24, 1885
Keel Laid:
December 18, 1882
Commissioned:
July 18, 1889
   
Fate:
Sold July 11, 1911 to George Cohen & Sons, London and scrapped at Swansea, Wales.


Dimensions, machinery and performance
Length:
330'
Engines:
2 three cylinder inverted compound by Maudslay
Beam:
68' 6"
Boilers:
10 cylindrical (coal fired)
Draft:
27'
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
10,600 std.
HP:
7,500 normal / 11,500 forced
Speed:
15.7 knots normal / 17.5 knots forced
Crew:
530
Range:
5,000 NM @ 10 knots


Armament As Built
Number Carried
Type
Arrangement
Maximum Range / Ceiling
4
13.5"/30 (343mm)
2 twin mounts
12,620 yards @ 13.5° (7.1 miles)
1,230 lb. shell
6
6"/40 (152mm)
single mounts
10,000 yards @ 15° (5.6 miles)
100 lb. HE shell
12
2.244"/40 (57mm)
6 pounder
single mounts
8,700 yards @ 45° (4.5 miles)
6 lb. HE shell
Armament notes
Sources indicate that Camperdown also carried up to ten 3 pounders and 5 torpedo launchers.


History:
June 22, 1893:
Rammed and sank HMS Victoria off Tripoli, Libya.


Builder's Data
Page published Feb. 23, 2007