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| align="center" colspan="2"|'''H.M.S. ''Defence'''''
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| <ref>Dittmar; Colledge.  ''British Warships: 1914-1919''.  p. 44.</ref>
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| Laid down:
 
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| Launched:
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| Commissioned:
| 9 February, 1909
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| Sold:
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|Fate:
| Lost at Jutland
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|Struck:
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| Displacement:
| 16,100 tons (full load)
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| Length:
| 490 feet (p.p.) 519 feet (o.a.)
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| Beam:
| 75 feet 6 inches
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| Draught:
| 25 feet
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| Propulsion:
| 2 sets of 4 cylinder triple expansion engines
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| Speed:
| 23 knots
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| Range:
| 8,150 miles at 10 knots
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| Complement:
| 755
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| Armament:
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*4 × B.L. 9.2 in/45 Mk X (30.5 cm) guns on six single Mk V mountings
*10 × 7.5 in/50 Mk II or Mk V guns on single Mk II mountings
*16 × 12 pdr guns
*5 × 18 in (45 cm) Whitehead torpedoes
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==Career==
==Career==

Revision as of 21:03, 23 September 2012

H.M.S. Defence (1907)
Pendant Number: 05 (1914)[1]
Builder: Pembroke Royal Dockyard[2]
Ordered: 1904-05 Programme[3]
Laid down: 22 Feb, 1905[4]
Launched: 24 Apr, 1907[5]
Commissioned: 9 Feb, 1909[6]
Sunk: 5 Jul, 1918[7]
Fate: at Battle of Jutland


Career

Defence commissioned at Devonport on 9 February, 1909, for service in the Fifth Cruiser Squadron at the Nore.[8]

Captains

Dates of appointment given:

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  2. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 73.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 73.
  5. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 73.
  7. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 44.
  8. ↑ "Naval and Military Intelligence" (Official Appointments and Notices). The Times. Wednesday, 10 February, 1909. Issue 38879, col C, p. 11.
  9. ↑ Dampier Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 497.
  10. ↑ The Navy List (April, 1914). p. 300b.
  11. ↑ The Navy List (October, 1915). p. 393h.

Bibliography

  • Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
  • Gray, Randal (editor) (1985). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).


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