H.M.S. Warspite (1884)

H.M.S. Warspite
Career	Details
Built By:	Chatham Royal Dockyard
Laid down:	25 October, 1881
Floated Out:	29 January, 1884
Commissioned:	20 June, 1888
Sold:	8 November, 1921
Fate:	Scrapped
Struck:	1923
General Characteristics
Displacement:	8,500 tons
Length:	315 feet
Beam:	62 feet
Draught:	27 feet 3 inches
Propulsion:	4 sets inverted compound engines 8,000 i.h.p. 10,000 i.h.p. (Forced Draught)
Speed:	16.7 knots (Forced Draught)
Range:	5,500 miles at 10 knots
Complement:	555
Armament:	4 × B.L. 9.2-inch 24 ton guns on single mountings. 10 × 6-inch B.L. guns 4 × Q.F. 6-pdr (1.4 kg) [1.85"/50 (47 mm)] in single mounts 2 × 4in B.L. Mark VII (10.2 cm) guns on 60° H.A. Mk II mountings 6 × 18 in (45 cm) torpedo tubes above-water

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• CaptainHedworth Meux, 4 February, 1890, as Flag Captain to Rear-Admiral Charles F. Hotham, on the Pacific Station.
• CaptainThomas Philip Walker,

Bibliography

• Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
• Parkes, O.B.E., Ass.I.N.A., Dr. Oscar (1990). British Battleships 1860–1950. London: Pen & Sword Ltd. ISBN 0850526043. (on Bookfinder.com).