H.M.S. Illustrious (1896)
From The Dreadnought Project
H.M.S. Illustrious | |
Career | Details |
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Pendant Number: | P.97 (April, 1918) |
Builder: | Chatham Royal Dockyard |
Ordered: | 1893 |
Laid down: | 11 March, 1895 |
Launched: | 17 September, 1896 |
Commissioned: | 10 May, 1898 |
Sold: | 18 June, 1920 |
Fate: | Scrapped in 1922 |
General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 14,560 - 14,890 tons (normal) 15,730 - 16,060 tons (fully loaded) |
Length: | 390 feet |
Beam: | 75 feet |
Draught: | 26 feet 4 inches - 27 feet 6 inches |
Propulsion: | 2 Shaft Triple Expansion, 4,000 shp. 4 Yarrow boilers |
Speed: | 16.1 knots |
Range: | 4,700 miles at 10 knots |
Complement: | 673 |
Armament: |
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Illustrious commissioned at Chatham on 10 May, 1898, Captain Sir Richard Poore in command.[1]
On 26 June, 1911, while coaling at Spithead, a coal explosion took place which injured a Chief Stoker and two stokers, who were taken to Haslar Naval Hospital with burns.[2]
Commanding Officers
Dates of appointment given:
- Captain John Edmund Drummond, 31 October, 1914.[3]
Footnotes
Bibliography
- Dittmar, F.J.; Colledge, J.J. (1972). British Warships 1914–1919. London: Ian Allan.
- Parkes, O.B.E., Ass.I.N.A., Dr. Oscar (1990). British Battleships 1860–1950. London: Pen & Sword Ltd. ISBN 0850526043. (on Bookfinder.com).
- Preston, Antony (1972). Battleships of World War I. New York, NY: Galahad Books. ISBN 0883653001.