HMS Implacable (1899)
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 HMS Implacable |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Ship of the line |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | July 13, 1898 |
| Launch | March 11, 1899 |
| Commissioning | September 10, 1901 |
| Whereabouts | Sold for demolition November 8, 1921 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
14,600 tn.l. , Max. 16,105 tn.l. |
| length |
Lpp. 125.3 m (411 ft); |
| width |
22.9 m (75 ft) |
| Draft |
8.2 m (26.75 ft) |
| crew |
780 men (peace) |
| drive | |
| speed |
18 kn , |
| Range |
5550 nm at 10 kn |
| Armament |
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| Fuel supply |
?? t coal |
| Belt armor |
up to 231 mm (9 in) |
| deck |
25–76 mm (1–3 in) |
| Armored bulkheads |
231–305 mm (9–12 in) |
| Towers |
203-254 mm (8-10 in) |
| Barbeds |
305 mm (12 in) |
| Casemates |
152 mm (6 in) |
| Command tower |
360 mm (14 in) |
HMS Implacable was a battleship of the Formidable-class of the British Royal Navy , which the First World War took part.
History of construction and use
The HMS Implacable ran on March 11, 1899 as the third ship of Formidable class in Devonport from the pile and was found in September 1901 in service. The cost of construction was just over £ 1.1 million . The main armament of the battleship consisted of four 12- inch (304 mm) type Mk IX guns in two twin turrets and twelve 6-inch (152 mm) type Mk VII guns in side casemates . The crew consisted of 780 men. The eight Formidable-class ships together formed a tactical group. Due to the construction of the dreadnoughts , the Implacable and its sister ships were technically obsolete as early as 1907 - six years after their commissioning.
Operations in peace
The HMS Implacable was commissioned in Devonport on September 10, 1901 as the first ship of the class for the Mediterranean fleet . By 1904, all eight ships of the class were used there. During its service time in the Mediterranean , the Implacable was overhauled in Malta in 1902, 1903 to 1904 and 1904 to 1905 . On July 12, 1905, a boiler explosion occurred on her, killing two people; another boiler explosion without fatalities occurred on August 16, 1906. In 1908, the ship was again overhauled at Chatham Dockyard , after which she remained in her home waters.
War effort
The HMS Implacable was initially part of the "5th Battle Squadron" (5th battle squadron) of the Canal Fleet . In October 1914 she was assigned to the " Dover Patrol" and with this gave the British Expeditionary Force in Belgium artillery support against the German troops. She was one of the units of the squadron that practiced off Portland at the end of the year , with the HMS Formidable sunk by a German submarine on January 1, 1915.
In March 1915, the Implacable was relocated to the Dardanelles as the last of the six remaining sister ships . In the unsuccessful breakthrough attempt on March 18, in which the sister ship Irresistible sank, she had not yet reached Malta. She took part in the following battles for Gallipoli and supported the landing at Cape Helles on April 25, 1915 with her artillery .
On May 22nd, the ship was assigned to the Adriatic Sea to reinforce its new ally, the Italian Navy . In November 1915 she briefly participated as part of the "3rd Detached Squadron" in front of Saloniki in the sea blockade of Greece and was then transferred to the Suez Canal in the same month , where she was part of the "Suez Canal Patrol" until April 1916.
An overhaul in Plymouth was followed by another deployment in the Mediterranean, where the Implacable was in front of Athens when King Constantine I of Greece was forced to abdicate by the Allies on June 11, 1917 and was part of the British-French threat against the pro-German monarch. In July she was the last British liner in service in the Mediterranean, but was already on the march back home in Gibraltar.
After a short service in the "Northern Patrol", she was decommissioned to free crews for fighting submarines . From March 1918 the liner was used again as a depot ship and was then sold for scrapping on November 8, 1921 after its final decommissioning.
See also
literature
- RA Burt: British Battleships 1889-1904 . Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 1988.
