St. Vincent class
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| St. Vincent- class | |
.png) HMS Vanguard |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Battleship |
| units | 3 |
| Shipyard | |
| Order | 1907 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
19,560 ts design |
| length |
163.3 m |
| width |
25.6 m |
| Draft |
8.7 m |
| crew |
758 |
| drive | |
| speed |
21 kn |
| Range |
6900 nm at 10 kn, 4250 nm at 18.7 kn |
| Armament |
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Armor Side armor Upper armored deck Lower armored deck Barbettes Gun turrets Command tower Underwater protection Armored transverse bulkheads Torpedo bulkheads |
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The St. Vincent-class was a British class of battleships before and in the First World War . The St. Vincent class included the HMS Collingwood , the HMS St. Vincent, and the HMS Vanguard .
history
The three ships of the St. Vincent class were approved as successors to the Bellerophon class in 1907 . The ships had many similarities with their predecessors, only the caliber length of the heavy artillery had been increased. The arrangement of another armored transverse bulkhead in the forecastle was also new. All three ships belonged to the Home Fleet and the Grand Fleet . Except for the Vanguard , which sank after an ammunition explosion in 1917, they were scrapped under the provisions of the Washington Naval Agreement of February 6, 1922.
draft
As with the Dreadnought and the Bellerophon -class, the 12-inch guns of the main armament were set up in five twin turrets, three of which stood in the center line and two were arranged as wing turrets. The number of anti-torpedo boat guns was initially 20, but was reduced to 12 in the course of the war. From 1917, the ships carried an anti-aircraft gun each of the caliber 3 inches (76 mm) and 4 inches (102 mm).
Ships of the class
- The HMS Collingwood was launched on November 7, 1908 in Dockyard Devonport . The commissioning took place on April 19, 1910. During World War I it belonged to the Grand Fleet and took part in the Battle of the Skagerrak . From October 1919 she served as an artillery training ship, from 1921 she was a ship for the cadet training ship HMS Colossus . In December 1922 she was sold for demolition and broken up.
- The HMS St. Vincent was launched on December 30, 1907 in Portsmouth Dockyard . The commissioning took place on May 3, 1909. In the First World War it belonged to the Grand Fleet and took part in the Battle of the Skagerrak. From 1919 she served as a training ship. On December 1, 1921, it was sold for demolition and then scrapped.
- The HMS Vanguard was launched on February 22, 1909 at the Vickers shipyard in Barrow. In the First World War she belonged to the Grand Fleet and took part in the Battle of the Skagerrak. On July 9, 1917, she sank after an explosion of the ammunition chambers in Scapa Flow (843 dead, 2 survivors).
literature
- Siegfried Breyer: Battleships and battle cruisers 1905–1970. J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-88199-474-2 .
