HMS Cornwallis (1901)
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| Career |  |
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| Builder: | Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down: | 19 July 1899 |
| Launched: | 13 July 1901 |
| Fate: | Sunk by U-32 9 January 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 14000 tons normal |
| Length: | 432 ft (132 m) |
| Beam: | 75 ft 7 in (23.0 m) |
| Draught: | 22 ft 7 in (6.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | Water tube boilers, 2 × vertical triple expansion engines, 2 shafts, 18,000 ihp |
| Speed: | 19 kt |
| Complement: | 720 |
| Armament: |
Main guns - 4 × 12" (2 × 2) Torpedotubes-4×18" Otherweapons-12×12 pdrQF Countermeasures-None |
| Armour: |
Belt: 7" Barbettes:11" Turrets:10" |
For other ships of the same name, see HMS Cornwallis.
HMS Cornwallis was a pre-Dreadnought Duncan-class battleship of the Royal Navy. During World War I she took part in the Dardanelles Campaign. She was sunk in January 1917, after being hit by three torpedoes from German U-Boat U-32, commanded by Kurt Hartwig, off Malta, with the loss of fifteen lives.
[edit] References
- Pears, Randolph. (1979). British Battleships 1892-1957: The great days of the fleets. G. Cave Associates. ISBN 978-0906223147
- Roger Chesneau and Eugene M. Kolesnik, ed., Conway's All The Worlds Fighting Ships, 1860-1905, (Conway Maritime Press, London, 1979), ISBN 0-85177-133-5
- Dittmar, F. J. & Colledge, J. J., "British Warships 1914-1919", (Ian Allen, London, 1972), ISBN 0-7110-0380-7
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