HMS King Edward VII

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Career	RN Ensign
Ordered:	1903 naval programme
Laid down:
Launched:	23 July 1903 at Devonport Dockyard
Commissioned:
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Mined off Cape Wrath on 6 January 1916
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	normal 16,350 tons, full draft 17,500 tons
Length:	453 feet 6 inches (138 m)
Beam:	78 feet (23.7 m)
Draught:	26 feet 9 inches (8.2 m)
Propulsion:	Coal fired (with oil sprayers) water tube boilers, Two 4-cylinder vertical compound expansion stream engines, 2 screws, 18,000 hp
Speed:	18 knots
Range:
Complement:	777
Armament:	four 12 inch guns (2 main turrets), four 9.2 inch guns (4 secondary turrets), ten 6-inch guns, five 18 inch torpedo tubes (4 broadside, one stern), 14 12 pounder guns, fourteen 3 pounder guns, two maxim machine guns
Armour:	9 inch belt amidships, 12 inch barbettes, 9 inch main turrets, 7 inch secondary turrets. 2 inch armoured deck

HMS King Edward VII, named after King Edward VII, was the lead ship of the King Edward VII class of British Royal Navy battleships.

The ship was built at Devonport Dockyard and launched 23 July 1903.

HMS King Edward VII hit a mine off Cape Wrath and sank on 6 January 1916.