HMS Dreadnought (1879)
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 The HMS Dreadnought 1875 |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Tower ship |
| Shipyard |
Pembroke Dockyard |
| Keel laying | September 10, 1870 |
| Launch | March 8, 1875 |
| Commissioning | February 15, 1879 |
| Removed from ship register | 1908 |
| Whereabouts | scrapped from July 14, 1908 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
10,886 ts |
| length |
L pp = 97.54 m |
| width |
19.46 m |
| height |
Freeboard: |
| Draft |
8.08 m |
| crew |
369 men |
| drive |
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| speed |
14.52 kn (test drive) |
| Range |
5650 nm at 10 kn |
| Armament |
1884-1894 additionally: from 1894 onwards:
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| Bunker quantity |
normal: 1200 tons of coal |
| Armor | |
The ironclad HMS Dreadnought was a tower ship and was built at the Pembroke Naval Shipyard in Pembroke Dock , Wales from 1870 to 1879 .
history
construction
The first keel-laying took place on September 10, 1870 under the name Fury . A short time later, the work on the slipway was stopped again, because on September 7th the tank frigate Captain , which was also designed as a tower ship, capsized due to insufficient stability. The plans for the ship were then revised. After this revision, a second keel-laying took place in 1872 under the name Dreadnought . The Dreadnought was launched on March 8, 1875, and on October 9, 1876, the ship arrived in Portsmouth , where it was completed. The HMS Dreadnought entered service on February 15, 1879. The construction costs amounted to £ 401,395 for the hull and a further £ 107,000 for the machinery, a total of £ 619,739 .
period of service
The HMS Dreadnought was initially placed in reserve with torpedo protection and was not used until 1884 - first service trip to the Mediterranean on October 14, 1884, where it remained until 1894, after which it was relocated to Chatham in September 1894 for modernization. From March 1895 to March 1897 she served as a coast guard ship in Bantry , Ireland . From 1897 to 1899 the ship was again fundamentally overhauled and partially modernized in Chatham and served 1900-1901 as a second-class battleship. Then she was anchored as a tender in Devonport from July 1902. In 1905 it was transferred to the reserve. After its retirement in 1908, the Dreadnought was sold for 23,000 pounds and was finally abandoned in Barrow-in-Furness on July 14, 1908 .
Armament and armor
The armament consisted of four 12.5 inch muzzle loading guns in two rotatable turrets, as well as from 1884 an additional ten Nordenfelt machine cannons, which in turn were replaced by six 6-pounders and ten 3-pounders in 1894 .
The belt armor was 35.6 cm, lined to 8 "thick, with 15" - 18 "rear wood reinforcement. Citadel, command tower and gun turrets were also provided with armor up to 35.6 cm (two-ply towers 2 × 7 inches, also backed with wood), the decks 5.1 to 7.6 cm, the transverse bulkheads up to 34.3 cm thick.
Remarks
- ↑ L pp = length between perpendiculars or length between perpendiculars: distance between the axis of the rudder stock and the trailing edge of the leading edge in the construction waterline.
- ↑ MLR = Muzzle loaded rifle ( smooth barrel - muzzle loader )
- ↑ QF is the abbreviation for "quick fire" and means that the grenade and cartridge were connected, which shortened the loading time.
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The HMS Captain was viewed on the Miramar Ship Index on May 27, 2009
- ^ RA Burt: British Battleships 1889-1904 , Arms & Armor Press, London 1988, p. 15
- ↑ [2] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The HMS Dreadnought on Miramar Ship Index (English, paid) viewed May 27, 2009
literature
- Oscar Parkes: British Battleships 1860-1950 , Cooper, London 2nd edition 1966, pp 207-211.
- RA Burt: British Battleships 1889-1904 , Arms & Armor Press, London 1988, pp. 14-15.
- Robert Gardiner (Ed.): Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905 , p. 24 (arranged by: John Roberts).
- Richard Ellis, Ben Warlow: The Royal Navy at Malta, Vol. I: The Victorian Era 1865–1906, Maritime Books, Liskeard 1989, p. 45.
- Kizu Tohru: History of British Battleships , Kaijinsha, Tokyo 1990, p. 10.
- Alfred Dudszus, Alfred Köpcke: The big book of ship types . Weltbild Verlag (licensed edition by transpress, Berlin), Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-831-7 .
