Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The British Royal Navy built a series of pre-dreadnought battleships as part of a naval expansion programme that began with the Naval Defence Act 1889.These ships were characterised by a main battery of four heavy guns—typically 12-inch (305 mm) guns—in two twin mounts, a secondary armament that usually comprised 4.7-to-6-inch (120 to 150 mm) guns, and a high freeboard.
HMS Royal Sovereign (1891) was the first pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. Pre-dreadnought battleships were sea-going battleships built from the mid- to late- 1880s to the early 1900s. Their designs were conceived before the appearance of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 and their classification as "pre-dreadnought" is retrospectively applied.
HMS Britannia was a King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy.She was named after Britannia, the Latin name of Great Britain under Roman rule. The ship was built by Portsmouth Dockyard between 1904 and 1906.
For lists of battleships of the Royal Navy see: List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy; List of ironclads of the Royal Navy; List of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy; List of dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy; List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy
HMS Lord Nelson was a Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1906 and completed in 1908. She was the Royal Navy's last pre-dreadnought. The ship was flagship of the Channel Fleet when the First World War began in 1914.
The list of battleships includes all battleships built between 1859 and 1946, listed alphabetically. The boundary between ironclads and the first battleships, the so-called ' pre-dreadnought battleship ', is not obvious, as the characteristics of the pre-dreadnought evolved in the period from 1875 to 1895.
HMS Majestic was a Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy.Commissioned in 1895, she was the largest pre-dreadnought launched at the time. She served with the Channel Fleet until 1904, following which she was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet.
Because the Brits were so keen on battleships, we've split the British list into post- and pre-Dreadnought lists for size concerns.This list comprises the pre-dreadnought type battleships built for the Royal Navy, beginning with the Royal Sovereigns of 1889, commonly called the originators of the pre-dreadnought as a standardized type.