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margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/23px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/35px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Flag_of_Chile.svg/46px-Flag_of_Chile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Chilean_Navy" title="Chilean Navy">Chilean Navy</a> (intended)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Preceded by</td><td><a href="/wiki/King_Edward_VII-class_battleship" title="King Edward VII-class battleship"><i>King Edward VII</i> class</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Succeeded by</td><td><a href="/wiki/Lord_Nelson-class_battleship" title="Lord Nelson-class battleship"><i>Lord Nelson</i> class</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Built</td><td>1902–1904</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">In commission</td><td>1904–1917</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Completed</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Lost</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Scrapped</td><td>1</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Type</td><td><a href="/wiki/Pre-dreadnought_battleship" title="Pre-dreadnought battleship">Pre-dreadnought battleship</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Displacement</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">12,175 long tons (12,370 t) (normal load)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">13,840 long tons (14,060 t) (<a href="/wiki/Full-load_displacement" class="mw-redirect" title="Full-load displacement">deep load</a>)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>475 ft 3 in (144.9 m) (<a href="/wiki/Length_overall" title="Length overall">o/a</a>)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>71 ft 1 in (21.7 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draught</td><td>27 ft 4 in (8.3 m) (deep)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Installed power</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">12,500 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Indicated_horsepower" title="Horsepower">ihp</a> (9,300 kW)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">12 × <a href="/wiki/Yarrow_boiler" title="Yarrow boiler">Yarrow boilers</a></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × Shafts</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × <a href="/wiki/Marine_steam_engine#Triple_or_multiple_expansion" title="Marine steam engine">Triple-expansion steam engines</a></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td>19 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (35 km/h; 22 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Range</td><td>6,210 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nmi</a> (11,500 km; 7,150 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Crew</td><td>803 (1914)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × twin <a href="/wiki/Vickers_10-inch_/45_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Vickers 10-inch /45 naval gun">10-inch (254 mm)</a> guns</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">14 × single <a href="/wiki/BL_7.5_inch_Mk_II_-_V_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="BL 7.5 inch Mk II - V naval gun">7.5 in (191 mm)</a> guns</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">14 × single 14 pdr <a href="/wiki/QF_14_pounder_naval_gun_Mk_I_%26_II_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="QF 14 pounder naval gun Mk I & II naval gun">(3 in (76 mm))</a> guns</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 × single 6 pdr <a href="/wiki/QF_6-pounder_Hotchkiss" title="QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss">(2.2 in (57 mm))</a> guns</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × single <a href="/wiki/British_18_inch_torpedo" class="mw-redirect" title="British 18 inch torpedo">18 in (450 mm)</a> <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_tube" title="Torpedo tube">torpedo tubes</a></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armour</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Belt_armor" title="Belt armor">Belt</a>: 3–7 in (76–178 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Bulkhead_(partition)" title="Bulkhead (partition)">Bulkheads</a>: 2–6 in (51–152 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Deck_(ship)" title="Deck (ship)">Decks</a>: 1–3 in (25–76 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Conning_tower" title="Conning tower">Conning tower</a>: 11 in (279 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Gun_turret" title="Gun turret">Turrets</a>: 8–10 in (203–254 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Barbette" title="Barbette">Barbettes</a>: 2–10 in (51–254 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Casemate" title="Casemate">Casemates</a>: 7 in (178 mm)</li> </ul></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The <b><i>Swiftsure</i> class</b> was a group of two <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Pre-dreadnought_battleship" title="Pre-dreadnought battleship">pre-dreadnought battleships</a>. Originally ordered by Chile as the <b><i>Constitución</i> class</b> during a period of high tension with Argentina, they were intended to defeat a pair of <a href="/wiki/Armoured_cruiser" class="mw-redirect" title="Armoured cruiser">armoured cruisers</a> ordered by the latter country and were optimized for this role. This meant that they were smaller and more lightly armed than most battleships of the time. They were purchased by the United Kingdom in 1903 prior to their completion to prevent their purchase by the Russian Empire as tensions were rising between them and the Japanese Empire, a British ally. Completed the following year, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Swiftsure_(1903)" title="HMS Swiftsure (1903)"><i>Swiftsure</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/HMS_Triumph_(1903)" title="HMS Triumph (1903)"><i>Triumph</i></a> had roughly similar careers for the first decade of their service careers. They were initially assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Home_Fleet" title="Home Fleet">Home Fleet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Channel_Fleet" title="Channel Fleet">Channel Fleets</a> before being transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Fleet" title="Mediterranean Fleet">Mediterranean Fleet</a> in 1909. Both ships rejoined the Home Fleet in 1912 and were transferred abroad in 1913, <i>Swiftsure</i> to the <a href="/wiki/East_Indies_Station" title="East Indies Station">East Indies Station</a> as its <a href="/wiki/Flagship" title="Flagship">flagship</a>, and <i>Triumph</i> to the <a href="/wiki/China_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="China Station">China Station</a>. </p><p>After the beginning of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> in August 1914, <i>Swiftsure</i> escorted troop convoys in the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Ocean" title="Indian Ocean">Indian Ocean</a> until she was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Suez_Canal" title="Suez Canal">Suez Canal</a> Patrol in December. After defending the Canal in early 1915 from <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman</a> attacks, the ship was then transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Dardanelles" title="Dardanelles">Dardanelles</a> in February and saw action in the <a href="/wiki/Naval_operations_in_the_Dardanelles_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign">Dardanelles Campaign</a> bombarding Ottoman fortifications. <i>Triumph</i> participated in the hunt for the German <a href="/wiki/East_Asia_Squadron" title="East Asia Squadron">East Asia Squadron</a> of <a href="/wiki/Maximilian_Graf_von_Spee" class="mw-redirect" title="Maximilian Graf von Spee">Maximilian Graf von Spee</a> and in the campaign against the German colony at <a href="/wiki/Qingdao" title="Qingdao">Qingdao</a>, China. The ship was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> in early 1915 to participate in the Dardanelles Campaign. She was torpedoed and sunk off <a href="/wiki/Gaba_Tepe" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaba Tepe">Gaba Tepe</a> by the German <a href="/wiki/Submarine" title="Submarine">submarine</a> <a href="/wiki/SM_U-21_(Germany)" title="SM U-21 (Germany)"><i>U-21</i></a> on 25 May 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-b274_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b274-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Swiftsure</i> was assigned to convoy escort duties in the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic</a> from early 1916 until she was <a href="/wiki/Ship_decommissioning" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship decommissioning">paid off</a> in April 1917 to provide crews for <a href="/wiki/Anti-submarine_warfare" title="Anti-submarine warfare">anti-submarine</a> vessels. In mid-1918, the ship was disarmed and stripped in order to be used as a <a href="/wiki/Blockship" title="Blockship">blockship</a> during a proposed second raid on <a href="/wiki/Ostend" title="Ostend">Ostend</a>. <i>Swiftsure</i> was sold for <a href="/wiki/Ship_breaking" title="Ship breaking">scrap</a> in 1920. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design_and_description">Design and description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Design and description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Background">Background</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Argentine%E2%80%93Chilean_naval_arms_race" title="Argentine–Chilean naval arms race">Argentine–Chilean naval arms race</a></div> <p>In late 1901, <a href="/wiki/Chile" title="Chile">Chile</a> and <a href="/wiki/Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a> were on the brink of war, and Chile was concerned about its navy's ability to counter the <a href="/wiki/Armoured_cruiser" class="mw-redirect" title="Armoured cruiser">armoured cruisers</a> <a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Kasuga" title="Japanese cruiser Kasuga"><i>Rivadavia</i></a> and <a href="/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Nisshin" title="Japanese cruiser Nisshin"><i>Mariano Moreno</i></a>, which Argentina had ordered from <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> earlier that year. <a href="/wiki/Edward_James_Reed" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward James Reed">Sir Edward Reed</a>, chief designer for <a href="/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth" title="Armstrong Whitworth">Armstrong Whitworth</a>, was in Chile for health reasons at the time, and met with <a href="/wiki/Chilean_Navy" title="Chilean Navy">Chilean Navy</a> officials to discuss the idea of purchasing or building two battleships with high speed and a powerful armament on a low displacement. Purchase of existing ships was not a practical option, so the Chileans asked Reed to design the ships for construction in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. Chile ordered the ships, to be named <i>Constitución</i> and <i>Libertad</i>, in 1901, <i>Constitución</i> from <a href="/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth" title="Armstrong Whitworth">Armstrong Whitworth</a> at <a href="/wiki/Elswick,_Tyne_and_Wear" class="mw-redirect" title="Elswick, Tyne and Wear">Elswick</a> and <i>Libertad</i> from <a href="/wiki/Vickers" title="Vickers">Vickers</a> at <a href="/wiki/Barrow-in-Furness" title="Barrow-in-Furness">Barrow-in-Furness</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Swiftsure_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Swiftsure_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg/300px-Swiftsure_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Swiftsure_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg/450px-Swiftsure_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Swiftsure_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg/600px-Swiftsure_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="768" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Right elevation and deck plan as depicted in Brassey's Naval Annual 1915</div></figcaption></figure> <p>The ships were considered second-class battleships, lightly constructed, armed, and armoured by British standards; <i>Swiftsure</i>, in fact, suffered from structural weakness while in service and required hull strengthening, although <i>Triumph</i> did not have such problems. Chile had required the ships to fit into the <a href="/wiki/Graving_dock" class="mw-redirect" title="Graving dock">graving dock</a> at <a href="/wiki/Talcahuano" title="Talcahuano">Talcahuano</a>, so they had to be longer and narrower for their displacement than ships built to British standards. Details in mast and anchor arrangements as well as the arrangement of magazines and shell-handling rooms also were different from British standards.<sup id="cite_ref-b262_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b262-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As part of the <a href="/wiki/Pacts_of_May" title="Pacts of May">Pacts of May</a>, which ended the near-war tensions between Argentina and Chile, Argentina sold its two armored cruisers, <i>Rivadavia</i> and <i>Moreno</i>, that were under construction in Italy to Japan. <i>Constitución</i> and <i>Libertad</i> were put up for sale in early 1903. While the United Kingdom was not entirely interested in the ships, international politics took precedence: when the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> made an offer for the ships, the British grew concerned that they could be used against their <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Japanese_Alliance" title="Anglo-Japanese Alliance">new ally</a> Japan. To prevent this, the British purchased both Chilean battleships on 3 December 1903 for £2,432,000.<sup id="cite_ref-b2_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Their purchase by the <a href="/wiki/British_Admiralty" class="mw-redirect" title="British Admiralty">Admiralty</a> was organised by the London firm of <a href="/wiki/Antony_Gibbs_%26_Sons" title="Antony Gibbs & Sons">Antony Gibbs & Sons</a>, a partnership run by <a href="/wiki/Alban_Gibbs,_2nd_Baron_Aldenham" title="Alban Gibbs, 2nd Baron Aldenham">Alban Gibbs</a> and his younger brother <a href="/wiki/Vicary_Gibbs_(St_Albans_MP)" title="Vicary Gibbs (St Albans MP)">Vicary Gibbs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hansard-resign_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hansard-resign-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both were <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">Members of Parliament</a> (MPs), and their role in the transaction meant that they were disqualified from the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a>, under an old law which debarred MPs from accepting contracts from <a href="/wiki/The_Crown" title="The Crown">the Crown</a>. This triggered two by-elections, in which Alban was <a href="/wiki/City_of_London_by-election,_1904" class="mw-redirect" title="City of London by-election, 1904">re-elected unopposed</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but Vicary <a href="/wiki/St_Albans_by-election,_1904" class="mw-redirect" title="St Albans by-election, 1904">lost his seat</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although they were designed to Chilean rather than British requirements and required some modifications during construction after their purchase, no major changes were needed to the design to render them suitable for British service. Both were completed in June 1904 and entered service with the Royal Navy, <i>Constitución</i> as <a href="/wiki/HMS_Swiftsure_(1903)" title="HMS Swiftsure (1903)"><i>Swiftsure</i></a> and <i>Libertad</i> as <a href="/wiki/HMS_Triumph_(1903)" title="HMS Triumph (1903)">HMS <i>Triumph</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_characteristics">General characteristics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: General characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Swiftsure</i>-class ships had an <a href="/wiki/Length_overall" title="Length overall">overall length</a> of 475 feet 3 inches (144.9 m), a <a href="/wiki/Beam_(nautical)" title="Beam (nautical)">beam</a> of 71 feet 1 inch (21.7 m),<sup id="cite_ref-b2_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a <a href="/wiki/Draft_(hull)" title="Draft (hull)">draught</a> of 28 feet 6 inches (8.7 m) at <a href="/wiki/Deep_load" class="mw-redirect" title="Deep load">deep load</a>. They displaced 12,175 long tons (12,370 t) at normal load and 13,840 long tons (14,060 t) at deep load. The ships were some 375 long tons (381 t) overweight compared to their designed displacement which increased their draught and reduced their <a href="/wiki/Freeboard_(nautical)" title="Freeboard (nautical)">freeboard</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1914, the crew numbered 803 officers and ratings.<sup id="cite_ref-b2_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Swiftsure</i>s were quite manoeuvrable as a result of their balanced <a href="/wiki/Rudder" title="Rudder">rudder</a> and a hull form optimized to make the rudder more effective.<sup id="cite_ref-fighting39_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fighting39-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were the last British battleships to enter service with bow crests and were also the last to enter service equipped with ventilation cowls.<sup id="cite_ref-b274_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b274-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Propulsion">Propulsion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Propulsion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The ships were powered by two four-cylinder inverted <a href="/wiki/Marine_steam_engine#Triple_or_multiple_expansion" title="Marine steam engine">vertical triple-expansion steam engines</a>, each driving a single propeller. A dozen <a href="/wiki/Yarrow_boiler" title="Yarrow boiler">Yarrow boilers</a> provided steam to the engines at a working pressure of 280 <a href="/wiki/Pound_per_square_inch" title="Pound per square inch">psi</a> (1,931 <a href="/wiki/Pascal_(unit)" title="Pascal (unit)">kPa</a>; 20 <a href="/wiki/Kilogram-force" title="Kilogram-force">kgf/cm<sup>2</sup></a>). The engines produced a total of 12,500 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Indicated_horsepower" title="Horsepower">indicated horsepower</a> (9,300 kW) which was intended to allow the ships to reach a speed of 19.5 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph). The engines proved to be more powerful than anticipated and both ships exceeded 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) during <a href="/wiki/Sea_trial" title="Sea trial">sea trials</a>. This made them the fastest battleships in the Royal Navy at the time of their completion, although their sustained speed in service was slightly slower than that of the older <a href="/wiki/Duncan-class_battleship" title="Duncan-class battleship"><i>Duncan</i> class</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They carried a maximum of 2,048 long tons (2,081 t) of coal, enough to steam 6,210 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nautical miles</a> (11,500 km; 7,150 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).<sup id="cite_ref-b2_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In service they proved to be more economical than first thought with an estimated range of 12,000 nautical miles (22,000 km; 14,000 mi) at 10 knots.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Armament">Armament</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Armament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Neither ship's armament was of a standard Royal Navy type—they had been designed to meet the requirements of the Chilean Navy and each ship was armed by its respective builder, although performance was identical. They were the first British battleships since <a href="/wiki/HMS_Renown_(1895)" title="HMS Renown (1895)"><i>Renown</i></a> of 1895 to mount a main battery of <a href="/wiki/Vickers_10-inch_/45_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Vickers 10-inch /45 naval gun">10-inch (254 mm) guns</a> and the last to do so. The ships mounted slightly different types of 45-<a href="/wiki/Caliber_(artillery)" title="Caliber (artillery)">calibre</a> 10-inch guns, each ship using guns designed by its builder. They followed the standard British practice of the time of mounting the main battery in two twin turrets, one forward and one aft. The Royal Navy believed that the 10-inch guns were too light to be effective against modern battleships; they could penetrate the armour of the latest <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> and Russian battleships, but not that of the better-armoured <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> battleships.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The guns had minor differences in construction, but they both fired 500-pound (227 kg) projectiles at a <a href="/wiki/Muzzle_velocity" title="Muzzle velocity">muzzle velocity</a> of 2,656 ft/s (810 m/s); this provided a maximum range of 14,800 yards (13,500 m) at the gun's maximum elevation of 13.5°. The firing cycle of the Mk VI guns used on <i>Swiftsure</i> was claimed to be 15 seconds while that of the Mk VII guns on <i>Triumph</i> was 20–25 seconds.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each gun was provided with 90 shells per gun.<sup id="cite_ref-b2_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HMS_Swiftsure_LOC_ggbain_16800.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/HMS_Swiftsure_LOC_ggbain_16800.jpg/220px-HMS_Swiftsure_LOC_ggbain_16800.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/HMS_Swiftsure_LOC_ggbain_16800.jpg/330px-HMS_Swiftsure_LOC_ggbain_16800.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/HMS_Swiftsure_LOC_ggbain_16800.jpg/440px-HMS_Swiftsure_LOC_ggbain_16800.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3300" data-file-height="1980" /></a><figcaption><i>Swiftsure</i> at anchor</figcaption></figure> <p>They had a powerful secondary battery, being the only British battleships to mount 50-calibre <a href="/wiki/BL_7.5_inch_Mk_II_%E2%80%93_V_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="BL 7.5 inch Mk II – V naval gun">7.5-inch guns</a>; these were of a different type than the 7.5-inch guns mounted on later British cruisers. Ten of the guns were mounted in a central <a href="/wiki/Artillery_battery#Naval_usage" title="Artillery battery">battery</a> on the main deck, where they were criticized for taking up too much deck space; the other four were in <a href="/wiki/Casemate" title="Casemate">casemates</a> abreast the fore- and <a href="/wiki/Mainmast" class="mw-redirect" title="Mainmast">mainmasts</a> on the upper deck.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A more serious problem was that they were mounted low in the ship—only about 10 feet (3 m) above water at deep load—and were unusable at high speed or in heavy weather as they dipped their muzzles in the sea when rolling more than 14°.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two types of guns differed slightly in construction, but had identical performance. They fired 200-pound (91 kg) projectiles at a <a href="/wiki/Muzzle_velocity" title="Muzzle velocity">muzzle velocity</a> of 2,781 ft/s (848 m/s) at a rate of four rounds per minutes. At their maximum elevation of 15° they had a maximum range of about 14,000 yards (13,000 m).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ships carried 150 rounds per gun.<sup id="cite_ref-b2_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Defence against torpedo boats was provided by fourteen <a href="/wiki/List_of_British_ordnance_terms#QF" class="mw-redirect" title="List of British ordnance terms">QF (quick-firing)</a> <a href="/wiki/QF_14_pounder_naval_gun_Mk_I_%26_II_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="QF 14 pounder naval gun Mk I & II naval gun">14-pounder Mk I</a> or Mk II guns firing 14-pound (6.4 kg) shells, but the guns were modified to use the standard 12.5-pound (5.7 kg) shell used by the <a href="/wiki/QF_12_pounder_12_cwt_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun">QF 12 pounder 18 cwt</a><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> gun in British service.<sup id="cite_ref-b2_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They fired 3-inch (76 mm), 12.5-lb projectiles at a <a href="/wiki/Muzzle_velocity" title="Muzzle velocity">muzzle velocity</a> of 2,548 ft/s (777 m/s). Their maximum range and rate of fire is unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 200 rounds per gun were carried by each ship.<sup id="cite_ref-b2_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ships were also equipped with a pair of <a href="/wiki/British_18_inch_torpedo" class="mw-redirect" title="British 18 inch torpedo">17.7 in (450 mm)</a> submerged <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_tube" title="Torpedo tube">torpedo tubes</a>, one on each <a href="/wiki/Broadside_(naval)" title="Broadside (naval)">broadside</a>. They were provided with nine <a href="/wiki/Torpedo" title="Torpedo">torpedoes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-b2_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Armour">Armour</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Armour"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Swiftsure</i>s<span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span> armour scheme was roughly comparable to that of the <i>Duncan</i> class. The <a href="/wiki/Waterline" title="Waterline">waterline</a> <a href="/wiki/Armor_belt" class="mw-redirect" title="Armor belt">main belt</a> was composed of <a href="/wiki/Krupp_armour" title="Krupp armour">Krupp cemented armour</a> (KCA) 7 inches (178 mm) thick. It was 8 feet (2.4 m) high of which 5 feet 3 inches (1.6 m) was below the waterline at normal load. Fore and aft of the 2–6-inch (51–152 mm) oblique <a href="/wiki/Bulkhead_(partition)" title="Bulkhead (partition)">bulkheads</a> that connected the belt armour to the <a href="/wiki/Barbette" title="Barbette">barbettes</a>, the belt continued, but was reduced in thickness. It was six inches thick abreast the barbettes, but was reduced to two inches fore and aft of the barbettes. It continued forward to the bow and supported the ship's spur-type <a href="/wiki/Naval_ram" title="Naval ram">ram</a>. It continued aft to the steering gear compartment and terminated in a 3-inch (76 mm) transverse bulkhead. The upper strake of 7-inch armour covered the ship's side between the rear of the barbettes up to the level of the upper deck. The upper deck casemates were also protected by 7-inch faces and sides, but were enclosed by rear 3-inch plates. The 7.5-inch guns on the main deck were separated by 1-inch (25 mm) screens with .5 inches (12.7 mm) plating protecting the <a href="/wiki/Funnel_(ship)" title="Funnel (ship)">funnel</a> uptakes to their rear. A longitudinal 1-inch bulkhead divided the <a href="/wiki/Artillery_battery#Naval_usage" title="Artillery battery">battery</a> down its centreline.<sup id="cite_ref-b1_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b1-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The turret faces were 9 inches (229 mm) thick and their sides and rear were 8 inches (203 mm) thick. Their roofs were two inches thick and the sighting hood protecting the gunners was 1.5 inches (38 mm) thick. Above the upper deck the barbettes were 10 inches (254 mm) thick on their faces and eight inches on the rear. Below this level they thinned to three and two inches respectively. The conning tower was protected by 11 inches (279 mm) of armour on its face and eight inches on its rear. The <a href="/wiki/Deck_(ship)" title="Deck (ship)">deck</a> armour inside the central citadel ranged from 1 to 1.5 inches in thickness. Outside the citadel, the lower deck was three inches thick and sloped to meet the lower side of the belt armour. Naval historian R. A. Burt assessed the greatest weakness of their armour scheme as the reduction in the thickness of the barbette armour below the upper deck. He believed that this made the ships' <a href="/wiki/Magazine_(artillery)" title="Magazine (artillery)">magazines</a> vulnerable to oblique hits near the barbettes.<sup id="cite_ref-b1_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b1-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ships">Ships</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Ships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>Construction data </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Ship </th> <th scope="col">Builder </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Laid_down" class="mw-redirect" title="Laid down">Laid down</a> </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_ship_launching" title="Ceremonial ship launching">Launched</a> </th> <th scope="col">Completed </th> <th scope="col">Fate </th> <th scope="col">Cost (excluding armament) </th></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Swiftsure_(1903)" title="HMS Swiftsure (1903)"><i>Swiftsure</i></a><br />(ex-<i>Constitución</i>) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth" title="Armstrong Whitworth">Armstrong Whitworth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elswick,_Tyne_and_Wear" class="mw-redirect" title="Elswick, Tyne and Wear">Elswick</a><sup id="cite_ref-p6_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p6-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">26 February 1902<sup id="cite_ref-p6_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p6-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">12 January 1903<sup id="cite_ref-p6_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p6-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">June 1904<sup id="cite_ref-p6_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p6-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Sold for <a href="/wiki/Ship_breaking" title="Ship breaking">scrap</a>, 18 June 1920<sup id="cite_ref-b5_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b5-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center"><a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">£</a>846,596<sup id="cite_ref-b2_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Triumph_(1903)" title="HMS Triumph (1903)"><i>Triumph</i></a><br />(ex-<i>Libertad</i>) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vickers" title="Vickers">Vickers, Sons & Maxim</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barrow-in-Furness" title="Barrow-in-Furness">Barrow-in-Furness</a><sup id="cite_ref-p6_22-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p6-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">26 February 1902<sup id="cite_ref-p6_22-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p6-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">15 January 1903<sup id="cite_ref-p6_22-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p6-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">June 1904<sup id="cite_ref-p6_22-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p6-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Sunk by <a href="/wiki/SM_U-21_(Germany)" title="SM U-21 (Germany)"><i>U-21</i></a>, 25 July 1915<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td align="center">£847,520<sup id="cite_ref-b2_4-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b2-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Service_history">Service history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Service history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Swiftsure"><i>Swiftsure</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Swiftsure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Swiftsure</i> was commissioned on 21 June 1904 for service in the Home Fleet and the Channel Fleet until 1908. She collided with <i>Triumph</i> 3 June 1905 and suffered damage to her propellers, <a href="/wiki/Sternwalk" title="Sternwalk">sternwalk</a> and aft hull. The ship was refitted at <a href="/wiki/Chatham_Dockyard" title="Chatham Dockyard">Chatham Dockyard</a> in June–July 1906. <i>Swiftsure</i> was briefly placed in <a href="/wiki/Reserve_fleet" title="Reserve fleet">reserve</a> from 7 October 1908 to 6 April 1909 when she was recommissioned for service with the Mediterranean Fleet. The ship was reassigned to Home Fleet on 8 May 1912 until she was given a lengthy refit from September 1912 to March 1913. <i>Swiftsure</i> was recommissioned on 26 March and assigned as the flagship of the East Indies Station.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During World War I, the ship escorted Indian troops from <a href="/wiki/Bombay" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombay">Bombay</a> to <a href="/wiki/Aden" title="Aden">Aden</a> from September–November 1914. She was then transferred to the Suez Canal Patrol on 1 December to help defend the Canal. From 27 January to 4 February 1915, the ship helped to defend the Canal during the <a href="/wiki/First_Suez_Offensive" class="mw-redirect" title="First Suez Offensive">First Suez Offensive</a> by Ottoman forces. <i>Swiftsure</i> was then transferred to the Dardanelles on 28 February and saw action in the Dardanelles Campaign bombarding Ottoman fortifications. She was assigned to the <a href="/wiki/9th_Cruiser_Squadron" title="9th Cruiser Squadron">9th Cruiser Squadron</a> for escort duties in the Atlantic in February 1916. On 11 April 1917, the ship arrived at Chatham where she was paid off and placed in reserve to provide crews for anti-submarine vessels. <i>Swiftsure</i> was refitted in mid-1917 and was used as an <a href="/wiki/Accommodation_ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Accommodation ship">accommodation ship</a> from February 1918. Later that year, the ship was disarmed and stripped in order to be used as a blockship during a proposed second raid on Ostend. The war ended, however, before this was carried out and she was briefly used as a <a href="/wiki/Target_ship" title="Target ship">target ship</a> before she was listed for sale in March 1920. <i>Swiftsure</i> was sold for scrap on 18 June 1920 to the Stanlee Shipbreaking Company.<sup id="cite_ref-b274_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b274-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Triumph"><i>Triumph</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Triumph"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Much like <i>Swiftsure</i>, <i>Triumph</i> was commissioned on 21 June 1904 and was initially assigned to the Home Fleet, later the Channel Fleet, until 1909. On 17 September 1904 the ship was struck by <a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Siren&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SS Siren (page does not exist)">SS <i>Siren</i></a> off <a href="/wiki/Pembroke_Dock" title="Pembroke Dock">Pembroke Dock</a> and was only slightly damaged. The following year, she accidentally struck her <a href="/wiki/Sister_ship" title="Sister ship">sister ship</a> and sustained damage to her bow. <i>Triumph</i> received a brief refit at Chatham Dockyard in October 1908 and was transferred to the Mediterranean Fleet on 26 April 1909. The ship returned to the Home Fleet in May 1912. She was transferred to the China Station on 28 August 1913 and was placed in reserve at <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> until mobilized in August 1914 at the beginning of World War I.<sup id="cite_ref-b5_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b5-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Triumph</i> participated in the hunt for the German <a href="/wiki/East_Asia_Squadron" title="East Asia Squadron">East Asia Squadron</a> and in the campaign against the German colony at <a href="/wiki/Qingdao" title="Qingdao">Qingdao</a>, China until November when she began a refit at Hong Kong. The ship departed on 12 January 1915 to participate in the Dardanelles Campaign. She was torpedoed and sunk off Gaba Tepe by the German submarine <a href="/wiki/SM_U-21_(Germany)" title="SM U-21 (Germany)"><i>U-21</i></a> while bombarding Ottoman fortifications in the Dardanelles on 25 May 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-b274_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-b274-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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</ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Footnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-b274-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-b274_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b274_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b274_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b274_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, pp. 275–276</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, pp. 259, 261</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-b262-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-b262_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, pp. 262, 264</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-b2-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-b2_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b2_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b2_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b2_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b2_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b2_4-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b2_4-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b2_4-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b2_4-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b2_4-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b2_4-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, p. 262</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scheina, pp. 49–52, 298–299, 349.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hansard-resign-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-hansard-resign_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1904/feb/02/new-writs#column_74">"New Writs"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Hansard" title="Hansard">Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)</a></i>. House of Commons. 2 February 1904. col. 74–75.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=New+Writs&rft.btitle=Parliamentary+Debates+%28Hansard%29&rft.pages=col.-74-75&rft.pub=House+of+Commons&rft.date=1904-02-02&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.parliament.uk%2Fhistoric-hansard%2Fcommons%2F1904%2Ffeb%2F02%2Fnew-writs%23column_74&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwiftsure-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Craig, p. 11</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Craig, p. 297</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, pp. 259, 261–262</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Parkes, pp. 436, 438</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-fighting39-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-fighting39_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 39</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, pp. 271–272</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Parkes, p. 439</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, pp. 264, 266</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Friedman, pp. 66–67</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, pp. 267–268</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Parkes, p. 438</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Friedman, pp. 77–78</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Friedman, p. 111</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-b1-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-b1_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b1_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, pp. 269–271</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-p6-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-p6_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-p6_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-p6_22-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-p6_22-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-p6_22-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-p6_22-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-p6_22-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-p6_22-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Parkes, p. 436</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-b5-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-b5_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-b5_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, p. 275</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, p. 276</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burt, p. 274</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swiftsure-class_battleship&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBurt1988" class="citation book cs1">Burt, R. A. (1988). <i>British Battleships 1889–1904</i>. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87021-061-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-87021-061-0"><bdi>0-87021-061-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Battleships+1889%E2%80%931904&rft.place=Annapolis%2C+Maryland&rft.pub=Naval+Institute+Press&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=0-87021-061-0&rft.aulast=Burt&rft.aufirst=R.+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwiftsure-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChesneauKolesnik1979" class="citation book cs1">Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2"><i>Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905</i></a></span>. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8317-0302-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-8317-0302-4"><bdi>0-8317-0302-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Conway%27s+All+the+World%27s+Fighting+Ships+1860%E2%80%931905&rft.place=Greenwich%2C+UK&rft.pub=Conway+Maritime+Press&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=0-8317-0302-4&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fconwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwiftsure-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCraig1989" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/F._W._S._Craig" title="F. W. S. Craig">Craig, F. W. S.</a> (1989) [1977]. <i>British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885</i> (2nd ed.). Chichester, UK: Parliamentary Research Services. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-900178-26-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-900178-26-4"><bdi>0-900178-26-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Parliamentary+Election+Results+1832%E2%80%931885&rft.place=Chichester%2C+UK&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Parliamentary+Research+Services&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=0-900178-26-4&rft.aulast=Craig&rft.aufirst=F.+W.+S.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwiftsure-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFriedman2011" class="citation book cs1">Friedman, Norman (2011). <i>Naval Weapons of World War One</i>. Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84832-100-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84832-100-7"><bdi>978-1-84832-100-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Naval+Weapons+of+World+War+One&rft.place=Barnsley%2C+South+Yorkshire%2C+UK&rft.pub=Seaforth&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-1-84832-100-7&rft.aulast=Friedman&rft.aufirst=Norman&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwiftsure-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFParkes1990" class="citation book cs1">Parkes, Oscar (1990). <i>British Battleships</i> (reprint of the 1957 ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-55750-075-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-55750-075-4"><bdi>1-55750-075-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Battleships&rft.place=Annapolis%2C+Maryland&rft.edition=reprint+of+the+1957&rft.pub=Naval+Institute+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=1-55750-075-4&rft.aulast=Parkes&rft.aufirst=Oscar&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwiftsure-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFScheina1987" class="citation book cs1">Scheina, Robert (1987). <i>Latin America: A Naval History, 1810–1987</i>. 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carrier">Seaplane carriers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Empress_(1914)" title="HMS Empress (1914)"><i>Empress</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Riviera" title="HMS Riviera"><i>Riviera</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Engadine_(1911)" title="HMS Engadine (1911)"><i>Engadine</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(1914)" title="HMS Ark Royal (1914)"><i>Ark Royal</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Ben-my-Chree" title="HMS Ben-my-Chree"><i>Ben-my-Chree</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Campania_(1914)" title="HMS Campania (1914)"><i>Campania</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Raven_II" title="HMS Raven II"><i>Raven II</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Anne_(1915)" title="HMS Anne (1915)"><i>Anne</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Vindex_(1915)" title="HMS Vindex (1915)"><i>Vindex</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TSS_Manxman_(1904)" title="TSS Manxman (1904)"><i>Manxman</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Furious_(47)" title="HMS Furious (47)"><i>Furious</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>M</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Pegasus_(1917)" title="HMS Pegasus (1917)"><i>Pegasus</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Nairana_(1917)" title="HMS Nairana (1917)"><i>Nairana</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Argus_(I49)" title="HMS Argus (I49)"><i>Argus</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Vindictive_(1918)" title="HMS Vindictive (1918)"><i>Vindictive</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>V</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Dreadnought" title="Dreadnought">Dreadnought battleships</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)" title="HMS Dreadnought (1906)"><i>Dreadnought</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellerophon-class_battleship" title="Bellerophon-class battleship"><i>Bellerophon</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Vincent-class_battleship" title="St Vincent-class battleship"><i>St Vincent</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Neptune_(1909)" title="HMS Neptune (1909)"><i>Neptune</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colossus-class_battleship_(1910)" title="Colossus-class battleship (1910)"><i>Colossus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orion-class_battleship" title="Orion-class battleship"><i>Orion</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_George_V-class_battleship_(1911)" title="King George V-class battleship (1911)"><i>King George V</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Erin" title="HMS Erin"><i>Erin</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Agincourt_(1913)" title="HMS Agincourt (1913)"><i>Agincourt</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iron_Duke-class_battleship" title="Iron Duke-class battleship"><i>Iron Duke</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chilean_battleship_Almirante_Latorre" title="Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre"><i>Canada</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_battleship" title="Queen Elizabeth-class battleship"><i>Queen Elizabeth</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revenge-class_battleship" title="Revenge-class battleship"><i>Revenge</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Pre-dreadnought_battleship" title="Pre-dreadnought battleship">Pre-dreadnought battleships</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Sovereign-class_battleship" title="Royal Sovereign-class battleship"><i>Royal Sovereign</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Majestic-class_battleship" title="Majestic-class battleship"><i>Majestic</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canopus-class_battleship" title="Canopus-class battleship"><i>Canopus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Formidable-class_battleship" title="Formidable-class battleship"><i>Formidable</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London-class_battleship" title="London-class battleship"><i>London</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duncan-class_battleship" title="Duncan-class battleship"><i>Duncan</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Edward_VII-class_battleship" title="King Edward VII-class battleship"><i>King Edward VII</i></a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Swiftsure</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Nelson-class_battleship" title="Lord Nelson-class battleship"><i>Lord Nelson</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Battlecruiser" title="Battlecruiser">Battlecruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Invincible-class_battlecruiser" title="Invincible-class battlecruiser"><i>Invincible</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indefatigable-class_battlecruiser" title="Indefatigable-class battlecruiser"><i>Indefatigable</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lion-class_battlecruiser" title="Lion-class battlecruiser"><i>Lion</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Queen_Mary" title="HMS Queen Mary"><i>Queen Mary</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Tiger_(1913)" title="HMS Tiger (1913)"><i>Tiger</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renown-class_battlecruiser" title="Renown-class battlecruiser"><i>Renown</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Courageous-class_battlecruiser" title="Courageous-class battlecruiser"><i>Courageous</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiral-class_battlecruiser" title="Admiral-class battlecruiser">Admiral</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Armored_cruiser" title="Armored cruiser">Armoured cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cressy-class_cruiser" title="Cressy-class cruiser"><i>Cressy</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drake-class_cruiser" title="Drake-class cruiser"><i>Drake</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monmouth-class_cruiser" title="Monmouth-class cruiser"><i>Monmouth</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devonshire-class_cruiser_(1903)" title="Devonshire-class cruiser (1903)"><i>Devonshire</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Edinburgh-class_cruiser" title="Duke of Edinburgh-class cruiser"><i>Duke of Edinburgh</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warrior-class_cruiser" title="Warrior-class cruiser"><i>Warrior</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minotaur-class_cruiser_(1906)" title="Minotaur-class cruiser (1906)"><i>Minotaur</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Heavy_cruiser" title="Heavy cruiser">Heavy cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hawkins-class_cruiser" title="Hawkins-class cruiser"><i>Hawkins</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Light_cruiser" title="Light cruiser">Light cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Town-class_cruiser_(1910)" title="Town-class cruiser (1910)">Town</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arethusa-class_cruiser_(1913)" title="Arethusa-class cruiser (1913)"><i>Arethusa</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-class_cruiser" title="C-class cruiser">C</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danae-class_cruiser" title="Danae-class cruiser"><i>Danae</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emerald-class_cruiser" title="Emerald-class cruiser"><i>Emerald</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>A</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Protected_cruiser" title="Protected cruiser">Protected cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo-class_cruiser" title="Apollo-class cruiser"><i>Apollo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astraea-class_cruiser" title="Astraea-class cruiser"><i>Astraea</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eclipse-class_cruiser" title="Eclipse-class cruiser"><i>Eclipse</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blake-class_cruiser" title="Blake-class cruiser"><i>Blake</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pearl-class_cruiser" title="Pearl-class cruiser"><i>Pearl</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar-class_cruiser" title="Edgar-class cruiser"><i>Edgar</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powerful-class_cruiser" title="Powerful-class cruiser"><i>Powerful</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diadem-class_cruiser" title="Diadem-class cruiser"><i>Diadem</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arrogant-class_cruiser" title="Arrogant-class cruiser"><i>Arrogant</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pelorus-class_cruiser" title="Pelorus-class cruiser"><i>Pelorus</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highflyer-class_cruiser" title="Highflyer-class cruiser"><i>Highflyer</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Challenger-class_cruiser" title="Challenger-class cruiser"><i>Challenger</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Topaze-class_cruiser" title="Topaze-class cruiser"><i>Topaze</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Scout_cruiser" title="Scout cruiser">Scout cruisers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adventure-class_cruiser" title="Adventure-class cruiser"><i>Adventure</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forward-class_cruiser" title="Forward-class cruiser"><i>Forward</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pathfinder-class_cruiser" title="Pathfinder-class cruiser"><i>Pathfinder</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sentinel-class_cruiser" title="Sentinel-class cruiser"><i>Sentinel</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boadicea-class_cruiser" title="Boadicea-class cruiser"><i>Boadicea</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blonde-class_cruiser" title="Blonde-class cruiser"><i>Blonde</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Active-class_cruiser" title="Active-class cruiser"><i>Active</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Flotilla_leader" title="Flotilla leader">Destroyer flotilla leaders</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Swift_(1907)" title="HMS Swift (1907)"><i>Swift</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faulknor-class_flotilla_leader" title="Faulknor-class flotilla leader"><i>Faulknor</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marksman-class_flotilla_leader" title="Marksman-class flotilla leader"><i>Marksman</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parker-class_flotilla_leader" title="Parker-class flotilla leader"><i>Parker</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornycroft_type_destroyer_leader" title="Thornycroft type destroyer leader">Thornycroft (or <i>Shakespeare</i>)</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiralty_type_flotilla_leader" title="Admiralty type flotilla leader">Admiralty (or <i>Scott</i>)</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">Destroyers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/A-class_destroyer_(1913)" title="A-class destroyer (1913)">A</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B-class_destroyer_(1913)" title="B-class destroyer (1913)">B</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-class_destroyer_(1913)" title="C-class destroyer (1913)">C</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D-class_destroyer_(1913)" title="D-class destroyer (1913)">D</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/River-class_destroyer_(1903)" title="River-class destroyer (1903)">E</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tribal-class_destroyer_(1905)" title="Tribal-class destroyer (1905)">F</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beagle-class_destroyer" title="Beagle-class destroyer">G</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acorn-class_destroyer" title="Acorn-class destroyer">H</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acheron-class_destroyer" title="Acheron-class destroyer">I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acasta-class_destroyer" title="Acasta-class destroyer">K</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laforey-class_destroyer_(1913)" title="Laforey-class destroyer (1913)">L</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Admiralty_M-class_destroyer" title="Admiralty M-class destroyer">Admiralty M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawthorn_M-class_destroyer" title="Hawthorn M-class destroyer">Hawthorn M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornycroft_M-class_destroyer" title="Thornycroft M-class destroyer">Thornycroft M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarrow_M-class_destroyer" title="Yarrow M-class destroyer">Yarrow M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarrow_Later_M-class_destroyer" title="Yarrow Later M-class destroyer">Yarrow Later M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medea-class_destroyer" title="Medea-class destroyer">Medea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Arno_(1915)" title="HMS Arno (1915)"><i>Arno</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R-class_destroyer_(1916)" title="R-class destroyer (1916)">R</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S-class_destroyer_(1917)" title="S-class destroyer (1917)">S</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Talisman-class_destroyer" title="Talisman-class destroyer"><i>Talisman</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V_and_W-class_destroyer" title="V and W-class destroyer">V and W</a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>C</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Torpedo_boat" title="Torpedo boat">Torpedo boats</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/HMS_TB_81_(1885)" title="HMS TB 81 (1885)"><i>TB 81</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>S</sup></span></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=TB_98-class_torpedo_boat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TB 98-class torpedo boat (page does not exist)"><i>TB 98</i></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=TB_109-class_torpedo_boat&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="TB 109-class torpedo boat (page does not exist)"><i>TB 109</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TB_114-class_torpedo_boat" title="TB 114-class torpedo boat"><i>TB 114</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cricket-class_destroyer" title="Cricket-class destroyer"><i>Cricket</i></a><span style="padding-left:0.12em;"><sup>G</sup></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Monitor_(warship)" title="Monitor (warship)">Monitors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marshal_Ney-class_monitor" title="Marshal Ney-class monitor"><i>Marshal Ney</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abercrombie-class_monitor" title="Abercrombie-class monitor"><i>Abercrombie</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Clive-class_monitor" title="Lord Clive-class monitor"><i>Lord Clive</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humber-class_monitor" title="Humber-class monitor"><i>Humber</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gorgon-class_monitor" title="Gorgon-class monitor"><i>Gorgon</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M15-class_monitor" title="M15-class monitor"><i>M15</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M29-class_monitor" title="M29-class monitor"><i>M29</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erebus-class_monitor" title="Erebus-class monitor"><i>Erebus</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Minesweeper" title="Minesweeper">Minesweepers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Racecourse-class_minesweeper" title="Racecourse-class minesweeper">Racecourse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunt-class_minesweeper_(1916)" title="Hunt-class minesweeper (1916)">Hunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dance-class_minesweeper" title="Dance-class minesweeper">Dance</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Gunboat" title="Gunboat">Gunboats</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fly-class_gunboat" title="Fly-class gunboat">Fly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Insect-class_gunboat" title="Insect-class gunboat">Insect</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;text-align:left;"><a 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