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| Career |
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| Builder: |
Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick |
| Laid down: |
February 26, 1902 |
| Launched: |
January 12, 1903 |
| Acquired: |
December 3, 1903 |
| Commissioned: |
1904 |
| Fate: |
Sold June 18, 1920 and broken up |
| General characteristics |
| Displacement: |
11,800 tons |
| Length: |
458 feet (139.6 m) waterline, 470 feet (143.3 m) overall |
| Beam: |
71 feet (21.64 m) |
| Draught: |
24.5 feet (7.47 m) |
| Propulsion: |
Triple expansion (4 cyl.) 2 screws, 14,000 ihp |
| Speed: |
20 knots |
| Complement: |
700 |
| Armament: |
- 4 × 10-inch (254.0 mm) guns (2 × 2)
- 14 × 7.5-inch (190.5 mm) guns (14 × 1)
- 14 × 3-inch (76.2 mm) QF 14-pdr guns (14 × 1)
- 2 × 18-inch (457.2 mm) torpedo tubes
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| Armour: |
Main belt 7 inches (177.8 mm) (amidships), 3 inches (76.2 mm) (ends), deck 3 inches (76.2 mm), turrets 10 inches (254.0 mm) |
HMS Swiftsure, launched 1903, was the lead ship of the Swiftsure class class of pre-Dreadnought battleships. She had one sister ship, Triumph. The two ships had been built for the Chilean Navy as Libertad and Constitucion, but were bought by the Admiralty after fears that they would, upon delivery to the Chilean Navy, be sold on to Russia. Swiftsure was launched in 1903 and completed the following year.
She served in the Mediterranean in World War I and was broken up in 1920.
See HMS Swiftsure for other ships of the same name.
[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
