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margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Normal_displacement" class="mw-redirect" title="Normal displacement">Normal</a>: 13,270 to 13,745 <a href="/wiki/Long_ton" title="Long ton">long tons</a> (13,483 to 13,966 <a href="/wiki/Tonne" title="Tonne">t</a>)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Full_load" class="mw-redirect" title="Full load">Full load</a>: 14,900 to 15,200 long tons (15,100 to 15,400 t)</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>432 ft (132 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>75 ft 6 in (23.01 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draught</td><td>25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)</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;">18,000 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Indicated_horsepower" title="Horsepower">ihp</a> (13,000 kW)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">24 × <a href="/wiki/Belleville_boiler" class="mw-redirect" title="Belleville boiler">Belleville</a> <a href="/wiki/Water-tube_boilers" class="mw-redirect" title="Water-tube boilers">water-tube 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 × <a href="/wiki/Marine_steam_engine#Triple_or_multiple_expansion" title="Marine steam engine">triple-expansion steam engines</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × shafts</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>6,070 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nmi</a> (11,240 km; 6,990 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Complement</td><td>720</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;">4 × <a href="/wiki/BL_12_inch_Mk_IX_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="BL 12 inch Mk IX naval gun">12-inch (305 mm) 40-caliber Mk IX guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">12 × <a href="/wiki/BL_6-inch_Mk_VII_naval_gun" title="BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun">6-inch (152 mm) 45-calibre guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">10 × <a href="/wiki/QF_12-pounder_12_cwt_naval_gun" title="QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun">12-pounder guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">6 × <a href="/wiki/QF_3-pounder_Hotchkiss" title="QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss">3-pounder guns</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">4 × <a href="/wiki/British_18_inch_torpedo" class="mw-redirect" title="British 18 inch torpedo">18-inch (457 mm) torpedo tubes</a> (submerged)</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>: 7 in (178 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Bulkhead_(partition)" title="Bulkhead (partition)">Bulkheads</a>: 11–7 in (279–178 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Deck_(ship)" title="Deck (ship)">Decks</a>: 2–1 in (51–25 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Gun_turret" title="Gun turret">Turrets</a>: 10–8 in (254–203 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Barbettes" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbettes">Barbettes</a>: 11–4 in (279–102 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Casemates" class="mw-redirect" title="Casemates">Casemates</a>: 6 in (152 mm)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Conning_tower" title="Conning tower">Conning tower</a>: 12 in (305 mm)</li> </ul></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The <b><i>Duncan</i> class</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Ship_class" title="Ship class">class</a> of six <a href="/wiki/Pre-dreadnought" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-dreadnought">pre-dreadnought</a> <a href="/wiki/Battleship" title="Battleship">battleships</a> built for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> in the early 1900s. The six ships—<a href="/wiki/HMS_Duncan_(1901)" title="HMS Duncan (1901)">HMS <i>Duncan</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Albemarle_(1901)" title="HMS Albemarle (1901)">HMS <i>Albemarle</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Cornwallis_(1901)" title="HMS Cornwallis (1901)">HMS <i>Cornwallis</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Exmouth_(1901)" title="HMS Exmouth (1901)">HMS <i>Exmouth</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Montagu_(1901)" title="HMS Montagu (1901)">HMS <i>Montagu</i></a>, and <a href="/wiki/HMS_Russell_(1901)" title="HMS Russell (1901)">HMS <i>Russell</i></a>—were ordered in response to Russian naval building, specifically the fast second-class battleships of the <a href="/wiki/Peresvet-class_battleship" title="Peresvet-class battleship"><i>Peresvet</i> class</a>, which they were specifically to counter. The foremost design consideration was a high top speed to match the rumoured (and incorrect) top speed of 19 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (35 km/h; 22 mph) of the Russian ships while maintaining the same battery of 12-inch (300 mm) guns and keeping <a href="/wiki/Displacement_(ship)" title="Displacement (ship)">displacement</a> from growing. This forced significant compromises in armour protection, though the ships adopted a revised system of protection for the bow, which was copied in other designs like the <a href="/wiki/London-class_battleship" title="London-class battleship"><i>London</i> class</a>. </p><p>All members of the class served in the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Fleet" title="Mediterranean Fleet">Mediterranean Fleet</a> after completion, thereafter joining the <a href="/wiki/Home_Fleet" title="Home Fleet">Home</a>, <a href="/wiki/Channel_Fleet" title="Channel Fleet">Channel</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Fleet_(United_Kingdom)" title="Atlantic Fleet (United Kingdom)">Atlantic Fleets</a> over the next ten years. In 1906, <i>Montagu</i> was wrecked off <a href="/wiki/Lundy_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Lundy Island">Lundy Island</a> and could not be salvaged. The period passed largely uneventfully for the other members of the class. Following the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> in August 1914, the ships were sent to reinforce the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Fleet" title="Grand Fleet">Grand Fleet</a>, where they were used on the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Patrol" title="Northern Patrol">Northern Patrol</a> to help blockade Germany. In November, <i>Russell</i> and <i>Exmouth</i> bombarded <a href="/wiki/Zeebrugge" title="Zeebrugge">Zeebrugge</a>, but otherwise the <i>Duncan</i>s saw no action in the first months of the war. </p><p><i>Cornwallis</i> participated in the <a href="/wiki/Dardanelles_campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Dardanelles campaign">Dardanelles campaign</a> beginning in early 1915, and most of the other members of the class joined her there over the course of the year. <i>Duncan</i> instead served in the Atlantic and later in the <a href="/wiki/Adriatic_Sea" title="Adriatic Sea">Adriatic Sea</a> and <i>Albemarle</i> remained with the Grand Fleet and later went to <a href="/wiki/Murmansk" title="Murmansk">Murmansk</a>, Russia, to guard the port. <i>Russell</i> and <i>Cornwallis</i> were sunk by German <a href="/wiki/U-boat" title="U-boat">U-boats</a> in April 1916 and January 1917, respectively. The three surviving members of the class saw little activity in the final two years of the war, though <i>Duncan</i> and <i>Exmouth</i> were involved in the Allied intervention in Greece. All three ships were ultimately sold for <a href="/wiki/Scrap" title="Scrap">scrap</a> in the immediate post-war reduction in naval strength and were <a href="/wiki/Broken_up" class="mw-redirect" title="Broken up">broken up</a> in 1920. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Design">Design</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Duncan-class_battleship&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Design"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Peresvet1901.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Peresvet1901.jpg/220px-Peresvet1901.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="135" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Peresvet1901.jpg/330px-Peresvet1901.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Peresvet1901.jpg/440px-Peresvet1901.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1107" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Russian_battleship_Peresvet" title="Russian battleship Peresvet"><i>Peresvet</i></a>, the Russian battleship the <i>Duncan</i>s were ordered to counter</figcaption></figure> <p>The six ships of the <i>Duncan</i> class were ordered in response to Russian <a href="/wiki/Peresvet-class_battleship" title="Peresvet-class battleship"><i>Peresvet</i>-class battleships</a> that began construction in the mid-1890s. At the time, the British mistakenly believed the Russian vessels were capable of a top speed of 19 <a href="/wiki/Knot_(unit)" title="Knot (unit)">knots</a> (35 km/h; 22 mph) (though they were not that fast in service), so the <a href="/wiki/Director_of_Naval_Construction" title="Director of Naval Construction">Director of Naval Construction</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Henry_White" title="William Henry White">William Henry White</a>, set about designing a British response. His initial proposals were completed by February 1898, but the <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Admiralty" title="Board of Admiralty">Board of Admiralty</a> decided that more work would be required on the new ships, and so modified versions of the preceding <a href="/wiki/Formidable-class_battleship" title="Formidable-class battleship"><i>Formidable</i> class</a> would be ordered in the meantime. These ships incorporated some of the aspects of White's design, namely the revised armour protection layout in the bow, which abandoned the heavy transverse <a href="/wiki/Bulkhead_(partition)" title="Bulkhead (partition)">bulkhead</a> that connected both ends of the <a href="/wiki/Armoured_belt" class="mw-redirect" title="Armoured belt">armoured belt</a> in favour of continuing the side armour all the way to the <a href="/wiki/Stem_(ship)" title="Stem (ship)">stem</a>, albeit at reduced thickness; these became the five <a href="/wiki/London-class_battleship" title="London-class battleship"><i>London</i>-class battleships</a>. White then returned to working on the design for the response to <i>Peresvet</i>, completing a revised version on 14 June 1898.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt227_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt227-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To achieve the desired speed of 19 knots while keeping <a href="/wiki/Displacement_(ship)" title="Displacement (ship)">displacement</a> about 1,000 <a href="/wiki/Tonne" title="Tonne">tonnes</a> (980 <a href="/wiki/Long_ton" title="Long ton">long tons</a>) less than the <i>Formidable</i>s and retaining the same battery of four <a href="/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth_12_inch_/40_naval_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Armstrong Whitworth 12 inch /40 naval gun">12-inch (305 mm) guns</a> carried by earlier British battleships, White was forced to make significant reductions, particularly in terms of armour protection. As such, they represented an evolution of the smaller <a href="/wiki/Canopus-class_battleship" title="Canopus-class battleship"><i>Canopus</i> class</a>, rather than a direct development of the <i>Formidable</i> or <i>London</i> types. The <i>Duncan</i> class was about a thousand tons heavier than the <i>Canopus</i> class, and with that increase in displacement, they acquired more powerful guns, heavier armour, and an improvement in top speed by one to two knots. Despite these improvements, the <i>Duncan</i>s proved to be disappointments in service, owing to their reduced defensive characteristics, which rendered them inferior to the true first class battleships to which they were inevitably compared. Nevertheless, they were still markedly superior to the <i>Peresvets</i> they had been built to counter, and they were some of the fastest battleships in service at the time they were built.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt227–229_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt227–229-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Minor revisions to the dimensions were made between June and September, when the finalised design was approved, with tenders for shipyard contracts being sent out the following month. Public pressure over the 1898 programme—the first three <i>London</i>s that were supposedly slower than the <i>Peresvet</i>s—led to the passage of a Special Supplementary Programme that allocated funding for the first four <i>Duncan</i>s, all of which were laid down in 1899. Two more were added under the 1899 programme.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt227–228_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt227–228-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_characteristics_and_machinery">General characteristics and machinery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Duncan-class_battleship&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: General characteristics and machinery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Duncan_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Duncan_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg/220px-Duncan_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Duncan_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg/330px-Duncan_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Duncan_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg/440px-Duncan_class_diagrams_Brasseys_1915.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="925" /></a><figcaption>Right elevation and deck plan as depicted in <i>Brassey's Naval Annual 1915</i></figcaption></figure> <p>The <i>Duncan</i>-class ships were 432 feet (132 m) <a href="/wiki/Length_overall" title="Length overall">long overall</a>, with a <a href="/wiki/Beam_(nautical)" title="Beam (nautical)">beam</a> of 75 ft 6 in (23.01 m) and a <a href="/wiki/Draft_(hull)" title="Draft (hull)">draft</a> of 25 ft 9 in (7.85 m). The <i>Duncan</i>-class battleships displaced 13,270 to 13,745 long tons (13,483 to 13,966 t) <a href="/wiki/Normal_displacement" class="mw-redirect" title="Normal displacement">normally</a> and up to 14,900 to 15,200 long tons (15,100 to 15,400 t) <a href="/wiki/Full_load" class="mw-redirect" title="Full load">fully loaded</a>. They had two pole masts fitted with <a href="/wiki/Fighting_top" class="mw-redirect" title="Fighting top">fighting tops</a>; each top carried a <a href="/wiki/Searchlight" title="Searchlight">searchlight</a>, and four additional searchlights were mounted on the forward and aft <a href="/wiki/Bridge_(nautical)" title="Bridge (nautical)">bridges</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ships' hulls were divided with longitudinal bulkheads that should have allowed for counter-flooding to offset underwater damage, but the equipment necessary to quickly flood a compartment was insufficient, as was typical in many British pre-dreadnought designs. The decision to adopt longitudinal bulkheads was made in large part to keep <a href="/wiki/Secondary_stability" title="Secondary stability">reserve stability</a> low, since that made the ships more stable gun platforms.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt236_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt236-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Their crew numbered 720 officers and <a href="/wiki/Naval_rating" title="Naval rating">ratings</a>, though this varied over the course of their careers; in 1904, <i>Russell</i> had a crew of 736, and while serving as a <a href="/wiki/Flagship" title="Flagship">flagship</a> that same year, <i>Exmouth</i> had a crew of 762. During the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a> in 1915, <i>Russell</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s crew had grown to 781. The ships were fitted with Type 1 <a href="/wiki/Wireless_telegraphy" title="Wireless telegraphy">wireless telegraphy</a> sets, with the exception of <i>Exmouth</i>, which received Type 2 sets. The remainder of the class had their Type 1s replaced with Type 2 sets later in their career, except for <i>Montagu</i>, which had already been wrecked by that time. <i>Cornwallis</i> and <i>Russell</i> eventually received Type 3 wireless transmitters. The ships carried a number of small boats that varied over the course of their careers, including a variety of steam and sail <a href="/wiki/Pinnace_(ship%27s_boat)" title="Pinnace (ship's boat)">pinnaces</a>, steam <a href="/wiki/Launch_(boat)" title="Launch (boat)">launches</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cutter_(boat)" title="Cutter (boat)">cutters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Whaler" title="Whaler">whalers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Captain%27s_gig" class="mw-redirect" title="Captain's gig">gigs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dinghy" title="Dinghy">dinghies</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Raft" title="Raft">rafts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt232–233_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt232–233-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Duncan</i>-class ships were powered by a pair of 4-cylinder <a href="/wiki/Triple-expansion_engine" class="mw-redirect" title="Triple-expansion engine">triple-expansion engines</a> that drove two inward-turning, four-bladed <a href="/wiki/Propeller" title="Propeller">screws</a>. Steam was provided by twenty-four <a href="/wiki/Belleville_boiler" class="mw-redirect" title="Belleville boiler">Belleville boilers</a>. The boilers were divided into four <a href="/wiki/Fire_room" title="Fire room">boiler rooms</a>, two of which contained eight boilers each and the other two with four boilers per room; they were trunked into two closely spaced <a href="/wiki/Funnel_(ship)" title="Funnel (ship)">funnels</a> located <a href="/wiki/Amidships" class="mw-redirect" title="Amidships">amidships</a>. The <i>Duncan</i>-class ships had a top speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) from 18,000 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Indicated_horsepower" title="Horsepower">indicated horsepower</a> (13,000 kW), though on speed trials their maximum speed ranged from 18.6 to 19.4 knots (34.4 to 35.9 km/h; 21.4 to 22.3 mph), with power slightly exceeding the design figure.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt236_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt236-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At a cruising speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph), the ship could steam for 6,070 <a href="/wiki/Nautical_mile" title="Nautical mile">nautical miles</a> (11,240 km; 6,990 mi).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt232_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt232-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<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=Duncan-class_battleship&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Armament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gun_Shop_in_Armstrong_Works_LOC_ggbain_00178.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Gun_Shop_in_Armstrong_Works_LOC_ggbain_00178.jpg/220px-Gun_Shop_in_Armstrong_Works_LOC_ggbain_00178.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Gun_Shop_in_Armstrong_Works_LOC_ggbain_00178.jpg/330px-Gun_Shop_in_Armstrong_Works_LOC_ggbain_00178.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Gun_Shop_in_Armstrong_Works_LOC_ggbain_00178.jpg/440px-Gun_Shop_in_Armstrong_Works_LOC_ggbain_00178.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="892" /></a><figcaption>The two turrets for <i>Cornwallis</i> under construction</figcaption></figure> <p>The <i>Duncan</i>s had four 12-inch 40-calibre guns mounted in twin-<a href="/wiki/Gun_turret" title="Gun turret">gun turrets</a> fore and aft. These were the same guns and mountings carried aboard the <i>Formidable</i> and <i>London</i> classes, although their <a href="/wiki/Barbette" title="Barbette">barbettes</a> were reduced in diameter as a weight-saving measure. To account for the slightly narrower barbettes, the gun houses also had to be reduced in size, though the guns were carried in the same BVI-type mountings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt229,_231_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt229,_231-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mounts had a range of elevation from -5 degrees to of 13.5 degrees, and required the guns to return to 4.5 degrees to be loaded. The guns had a muzzle velocity of 2,562 to 2,573 feet per second (781 to 784 m/s), and they were capable of penetrating 12 inches of Krupp armour at a range of 4,800 yards (4,400 m). At their maximum elevation, the guns had a range of 15,300 yards (14,000 m).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman57–58_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman57–58-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ships also mounted a <a href="/wiki/Secondary_armament" title="Secondary armament">secondary battery</a> of twelve 6-inch (152 mm) 45-calibre guns mounted in <a href="/wiki/Casemate" title="Casemate">casemates</a>, the same battery carried by earlier British battleships. The casemates were <a href="/wiki/Sponson" title="Sponson">sponsoned</a> further out from the sides of the hull, however, to improve their firing arcs while reducing blast effects on the hull when the guns fired ahead or astern. The designers considered moving two of the guns per side to the upper deck to improve their fighting capabilities in heavy seas, but decided that such an arrangement would hamper ammunition movement from the magazines.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt231,_233_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt231,_233-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The guns had a muzzle velocity of 2,536 ft/s (773 m/s). These guns could penetrate six inches of Krupp armour at 2,500 yards (2,300 m). Maximum elevation was 14 degrees, which allowed the guns to engage targets out to 12,000 yards (11,000 m).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman79–81_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman79–81-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For defence against <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_boat" title="Torpedo boat">torpedo boats</a>, they carried ten 12-pounder guns and six 3-pounder guns. As was customary for battleships of the period, they were also equipped with four <a href="/wiki/British_18_inch_torpedo" class="mw-redirect" title="British 18 inch torpedo">18-inch (457 mm) torpedo</a> tubes submerged in the <a href="/wiki/Hull_(watercraft)" title="Hull (watercraft)">hull</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1915, the five surviving ships received two 3-inch (76 mm) <a href="/wiki/Anti-aircraft_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-aircraft gun">anti-aircraft guns</a>. <i>Albemarle</i>, <i>Duncan</i>, and probably <i>Exmouth</i> had theirs installed on their aft <a href="/wiki/Superstructure" title="Superstructure">superstructure</a>, while <i>Russell</i> had hers mounted on her <a href="/wiki/Quarterdeck" title="Quarterdeck">quarterdeck</a> and <i>Cornwallis</i> had her guns placed atop their forwardmost casemates. Between 1916 and 1917, <i>Albemarle</i> had her casemate guns removed, with four of the 6-inch guns being relocated to the 12-pounder battery and two of those guns being removed to make room. The 6-inch guns were placed in shielded pivot mounts. In 1917–1918, <i>Albemarle</i> had the rest of her 12-pounders removed altogether.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt242_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt242-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<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=Duncan-class_battleship&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Armour"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Duncan</i> class adopted the basic armour layout of the <i>Formidable</i> class, but with significant revision to the forward armour scheme and with significantly thinner levels of protection. Earlier battleship designs had employed a partial armoured belt that terminated abreast of both of the main battery turrets; the ends of the belt were connected by way of transverse bulkheads to create a central citadel that protected the ships' magazines and propulsion machinery spaces. This arrangement left the bow and stern unprotected, and thus highly vulnerable to enemy fire. White was concerned that the unprotected bow could be flooded by even light gunfire, which would reduce speed and maneuverability. Since the <i>Duncan</i>s were intended to serve as fast battleships, White decided to reduce the risk of this kind of damage by discarding the forward transverse bulkhead in favor of a complete belt. The main portion of the belt was 7 inches (178 mm) thick and extended to just forward of the fore turret, thereafter being gradually reduced to 5 in (127 mm), then 4 in (102 mm), then to 3 in (76 mm), and finally to 2 in (51 mm) close to the stem. The aft end of the ship retained the traditional transverse bulkhead, which was also 7 in thick. Abaft of the bulkhead, the hull was protected by a <a href="/wiki/Strake" title="Strake">strake</a> of 1-inch (25 mm) thick side armour.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt234–235_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt234–235-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Horizontal protection consisted of a pair of armoured decks that covered the ships' vitals. The main deck ran from the stem to the aft bulkhead and was connected to the top of the belt; it was 1 to 2 in thick, with the thicker armour over the central portion of the ship and the thinner steel over the bow. The second deck, at middle deck level, was 1 in thick and covered just the central citadel, sloping down on the sides to the belt. The voids created between the decks and behind the belt were used to store coal, which had the added benefit of increasing the strength of the side protection layout. The bow and stern had a curved armour deck below the waterline that extended from the barbettes to either end of the hull, which was 1 to 2 in thick. The ships' main battery turrets faces and sides were 8 in (203 mm) thick, with 10 in (254 mm) rears and 2–3 in roofs. The turrets sat atop barbettes that were 11 in (279 mm) on the outer face above the belt and 7 in thick behind the belt; their inner faces were reduced to 10 and 4 inches thick, respectively. The casemate battery was protected with 6 in (152 mm) of armour plate, and their ammunition hoists received 2 in of armour protection. The ships' forward <a href="/wiki/Conning_tower" title="Conning tower">conning towers</a> had 10–12 in sides and their aft conning towers had 3 in sides.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt235–236_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt235–236-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<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=Duncan-class_battleship&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Ships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HMS_Cornwallis_launching_1901_Flickr_4313590700_84f85dd065_o.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/HMS_Cornwallis_launching_1901_Flickr_4313590700_84f85dd065_o.jpg/220px-HMS_Cornwallis_launching_1901_Flickr_4313590700_84f85dd065_o.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/HMS_Cornwallis_launching_1901_Flickr_4313590700_84f85dd065_o.jpg/330px-HMS_Cornwallis_launching_1901_Flickr_4313590700_84f85dd065_o.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/HMS_Cornwallis_launching_1901_Flickr_4313590700_84f85dd065_o.jpg/440px-HMS_Cornwallis_launching_1901_Flickr_4313590700_84f85dd065_o.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="976" /></a><figcaption>Launch of <i>Cornwallis</i>, 17 July 1901</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption>Construction data </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Name </th> <th scope="col">Builder<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Laid_down" class="mw-redirect" title="Laid down">Laid down</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_ship_launching" title="Ceremonial ship launching">Launched</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col">Completed<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Albemarle_(1901)" title="HMS Albemarle (1901)"><i>Albemarle</i></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chatham_Dockyard" title="Chatham Dockyard">Chatham Dockyard</a> </td> <td>8 January 1900 </td> <td>5 March 1901 </td> <td>November 1903 </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Cornwallis_(1901)" title="HMS Cornwallis (1901)"><i>Cornwallis</i></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Thames_Ironworks_and_Shipbuilding_Company" title="Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company">Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company</a> </td> <td>19 July 1899 </td> <td>13 July 1901 </td> <td>February 1904 </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Duncan_(1901)" title="HMS Duncan (1901)"><i>Duncan</i></a> </td> <td>Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company </td> <td>10 July 1899 </td> <td>21 March 1901 </td> <td>October 1903 </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Exmouth_(1901)" title="HMS Exmouth (1901)"><i>Exmouth</i></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Laird_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Laird Brothers">Laird Brothers</a> </td> <td>10 August 1899 </td> <td>31 August 1901 </td> <td>May 1903 </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Montagu_(1901)" title="HMS Montagu (1901)"><i>Montagu</i></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/HMNB_Devonport" title="HMNB Devonport">Devonport Dockyard</a> </td> <td>23 November 1899 </td> <td>5 March 1901 </td> <td>October 1903 </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row"><a href="/wiki/HMS_Russell_(1901)" title="HMS Russell (1901)"><i>Russell</i></a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Palmers_Shipbuilding_and_Iron_Company" title="Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company">Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company</a> </td> <td>11 March 1899 </td> <td>19 February 1901 </td> <td>February 1903 </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=Duncan-class_battleship&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Service history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HMS_Montagu_wreck.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/HMS_Montagu_wreck.png/220px-HMS_Montagu_wreck.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/HMS_Montagu_wreck.png/330px-HMS_Montagu_wreck.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/HMS_Montagu_wreck.png/440px-HMS_Montagu_wreck.png 2x" data-file-width="573" data-file-height="419" /></a><figcaption><i>Montagu</i> after having run aground in 1906</figcaption></figure> <p>From their commissioning in 1903–1904, all six ships served with the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Fleet" title="Mediterranean Fleet">Mediterranean Fleet</a>, though their tenure in the unit was relatively short lived, with all of the vessels being reassigned to the <a href="/wiki/Channel_Fleet" title="Channel Fleet">Channel Fleet</a> in 1905. <i>Exmouth</i> and <i>Russell</i> had already left the Mediterranean Fleet by that point, doing a brief stint in the <a href="/wiki/Home_Fleet" title="Home Fleet">Home Fleet</a> in 1904 before joining their sisters in the Channel Fleet. On 30 May 1906, <i>Montagu</i> ran aground on <a href="/wiki/Lundy_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Lundy Island">Lundy Island</a>. After lengthy attempts to repair and refloat the ship failed, she was abandoned and broken up in situ. The five surviving ships moved to the <a href="/wiki/British_Atlantic_Fleet" class="mw-redirect" title="British Atlantic Fleet">Atlantic Fleet</a> in 1907, though <i>Duncan</i> and <i>Exmouth</i> left for another tour with the Mediterranean Fleet in 1908.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt242–247_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt242–247-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Cornwallis</i> and <i>Russell</i> joined them there the following year. In July 1908, <i>Russell</i>, <i>Albemarle</i>, <i>Duncan</i>, and <i>Exmouth</i> visited Canada during the Quebec Tercentenary.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE"The_Tercentenary_Celebrations"445_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE"The_Tercentenary_Celebrations"445-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Albemarle</i> remained in the Atlantic until 1910, when she was reassigned to the Home Fleet. The other four ships joined her there in 1912, and together they formed first the <a href="/wiki/4th_Battle_Squadron" title="4th Battle Squadron">4th Battle Squadron</a> and later the <a href="/wiki/6th_Battle_Squadron" title="6th Battle Squadron">6th Battle Squadron</a>. They remained in the 6th Squadron until the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt242–247_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt242–247-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tir_du_vaisseau_anglais_Cornwallis_sur_Gallipoli_en_1915.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Tir_du_vaisseau_anglais_Cornwallis_sur_Gallipoli_en_1915.jpg/220px-Tir_du_vaisseau_anglais_Cornwallis_sur_Gallipoli_en_1915.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Tir_du_vaisseau_anglais_Cornwallis_sur_Gallipoli_en_1915.jpg/330px-Tir_du_vaisseau_anglais_Cornwallis_sur_Gallipoli_en_1915.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Tir_du_vaisseau_anglais_Cornwallis_sur_Gallipoli_en_1915.jpg/440px-Tir_du_vaisseau_anglais_Cornwallis_sur_Gallipoli_en_1915.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2424" data-file-height="1350" /></a><figcaption><i>Cornwallis</i> firing during operations off the Dardanelles</figcaption></figure> <p>With the onset of hostilities, Admiral <a href="/wiki/John_Jellicoe,_1st_Earl_Jellicoe" title="John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe">John Jellicoe</a>, the commander of the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Fleet" title="Grand Fleet">Grand Fleet</a>, requested that the 6th Squadron ships be sent to strengthen the main British fleet in accordance with pre-war plans. The five <i>Duncan</i>s were used to reinforce the <a href="/wiki/Cruiser" title="Cruiser">cruisers</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Patrol" title="Northern Patrol">Northern Patrol</a>, maintaining the distant blockade of Germany. While serving with the Grand Fleet, the ships were assigned to the <a href="/wiki/3rd_Battle_Squadron" title="3rd Battle Squadron">3rd Battle Squadron</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt245_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt245-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECorbett_192039–40,_75,_214,_254_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECorbett_192039–40,_75,_214,_254-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJellicoe93_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJellicoe93-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 2 November, they were transferred to the Channel Fleet owing to increased German naval activity in the southern <a href="/wiki/North_Sea" title="North Sea">North Sea</a>; there, they reconstituted the 6th Squadron on 14 November. <i>Russell</i> and <i>Exmouth</i> bombarded German-occupied <a href="/wiki/Zeebrugge" title="Zeebrugge">Zeebrugge</a>, which was being used as an advance naval base for <a href="/wiki/U-boat" title="U-boat">U-boats</a>, in late November, though they inflicted little damage and the Germans quickly resumed operations there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECorbett_19219–10,_12–13,_19_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECorbett_19219–10,_12–13,_19-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ships were used to guard the southern British coast against German attacks through the end of the year, and in the first half of 1915, the 6th Squadron was gradually dispersed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt242–247_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt242–247-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Cornwallis</i> was the first to leave, in January 1915, when she was sent to join the <a href="/wiki/Dardanelles_campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Dardanelles campaign">Dardanelles campaign</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>. She participated in numerous attacks on the coastal fortresses guarding the <a href="/wiki/Dardanelles" title="Dardanelles">Dardanelles</a>, all of which failed to break through, leading to the <a href="/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallipoli Campaign">Gallipoli Campaign</a>, which <i>Cornwallis</i> also supported.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECorbett_1921144–377_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECorbett_1921144–377-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Albemarle</i> was recalled to the Grand Fleet for further duty on the Northern Patrol in April. In May, <i>Exmouth</i> was also sent to reinforce the Dardanelles squadron. Fitted with heavy anti-torpedo nets, she was the only battleship stationed forward at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kephalo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kephalo (page does not exist)">Kephalo</a> just outside the straits, owing to the increased threat of German U-boats in the area. <i>Duncan</i> was reassigned to the <a href="/wiki/Cape_Finisterre" title="Cape Finisterre">Finisterre</a>-<a href="/wiki/Azores" title="Azores">Azores</a>-<a href="/wiki/Madeira" title="Madeira">Madeira</a> Station in July 1915, thereafter joining the Italian fleet in the <a href="/wiki/Adriatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Adriatic">Adriatic</a>, where she saw little activity. <i>Russell</i> was transferred to the Dardanelles campaign in November 1915; <i>Albemarle</i> was to have gone at the same time, but she was badly damaged in a storm and was unable to make the voyage. <i>Russell</i> saw little activity there, apart from supporting the evacuation of <a href="/wiki/Cape_Helles" title="Cape Helles">Cape Helles</a> in January 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt243–247_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt243–247-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston9_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston9-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECorbett_192324,_37,_248–252,_260_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECorbett_192324,_37,_248–252,_260-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Albemarle</i> remained with the Grand Fleet through January 1916, when she was assigned as a <a href="/wiki/Guard_ship" title="Guard ship">guard ship</a> for the Russian port of <a href="/wiki/Murmansk" title="Murmansk">Murmansk</a>. While cruising off <a href="/wiki/Malta" title="Malta">Malta</a> on 27 April 1916, <i>Russell</i> struck a pair of <a href="/wiki/Naval_mine" title="Naval mine">naval mines</a> that had been laid by the U-boat <a href="/wiki/SM_U-73" title="SM U-73"><i>U-73</i></a>. She quickly caught fire, exploded, and then capsized and sank with the loss of 125 of her crew. <i>Cornwallis</i> met a similar fate on 9 January 1917, when she was torpedoed and sunk by <a href="/wiki/SM_U-32_(Germany)" title="SM U-32 (Germany)"><i>U-32</i></a>, though she remained afloat long enough for most of her crew to be evacuated by escorting <a href="/wiki/Destroyer" title="Destroyer">destroyers</a>; only fifteen men were killed in the sinking.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt246_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt246-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Exmouth</i> and <i>Duncan</i> were stationed in <a href="/wiki/Salonika" class="mw-redirect" title="Salonika">Salonika</a>, Greece, during the Allied intervention in the <i><a href="/wiki/Noemvriana" title="Noemvriana">Noemvriana</a></i> coup in 1916. Both ships sent men ashore as part of the intervention.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt243–247_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt243–247-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston383_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston383-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Albemarle</i> returned to Britain in September 1916 and was laid up for the rest of her existence. She, <i>Exmouth</i>, and <i>Duncan</i> survived the war and all three were eventually broken up for scrap in 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt243–247_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt243–247-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<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=Duncan-class_battleship&action=edit&section=7" 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 .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt227-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt227_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, p. 227.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt227–229-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt227–229_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, pp. 227–229.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt227–228-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt227–228_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, pp. 227–228.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELyon_&_Roberts37_4-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFLyon_&_Roberts">Lyon & Roberts</a>, p. 37.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt236-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt236_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt236_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, p. 236.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt232–233-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt232–233_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, pp. 232–233.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt232-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt232_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, p. 232.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt229,_231-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt229,_231_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, pp. 229, 231.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman57–58-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman57–58_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFriedman">Friedman</a>, pp. 57–58.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt231,_233-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt231,_233_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, pp. 231, 233.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFriedman79–81-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFriedman79–81_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFriedman">Friedman</a>, pp. 79–81.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt242-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt242_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, p. 242.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt234–235-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt234–235_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, pp. 234–235.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt235–236-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt235–236_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, pp. 235–236.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt242–247-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt242–247_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt242–247_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt242–247_15-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, pp. 242–247.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE"The_Tercentenary_Celebrations"445-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE"The_Tercentenary_Celebrations"445_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREF"The_Tercentenary_Celebrations"">"The Tercentenary Celebrations"</a>, p. 445.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt245-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt245_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, p. 245.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECorbett_192039–40,_75,_214,_254-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECorbett_192039–40,_75,_214,_254_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCorbett_1920">Corbett 1920</a>, pp. 39–40, 75, 214, 254.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEJellicoe93-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEJellicoe93_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFJellicoe">Jellicoe</a>, p. 93.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECorbett_19219–10,_12–13,_19-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECorbett_19219–10,_12–13,_19_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCorbett_1921">Corbett 1921</a>, pp. 9–10, 12–13, 19.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECorbett_1921144–377-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECorbett_1921144–377_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCorbett_1921">Corbett 1921</a>, pp. 144–377.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt243–247-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt243–247_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt243–247_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt243–247_22-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, pp. 243–247.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston9-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston9_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPreston">Preston</a>, p. 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECorbett_192324,_37,_248–252,_260-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECorbett_192324,_37,_248–252,_260_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCorbett_1923">Corbett 1923</a>, pp. 24, 37, 248–252, 260.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurt246-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurt246_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurt">Burt</a>, p. 246.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreston383-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreston383_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPreston">Preston</a>, p. 383.</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=Duncan-class_battleship&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><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 id="CITEREFBurt" class="citation book cs1">Burt, R. A. (2013) [1988]. <i>British Battleships 1889–1904</i>. Barnsley: Seaforth Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84832-173-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84832-173-1"><bdi>978-1-84832-173-1</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=Barnsley&rft.pub=Seaforth+Publishing&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-1-84832-173-1&rft.aulast=Burt&rft.aufirst=R.+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCorbett_1920" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Julian_Corbett" title="Julian Corbett">Corbett, Julian Stafford</a> (1920). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/navaloperations04corb"><i>Naval Operations: To The Battle of the Falklands, December 1914</i></a>. 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London: Longmans, Green & Co. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/174824081">174824081</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Naval+Operations%3A+The+Dardanelles+Campaign&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Longmans%2C+Green+%26+Co.&rft.date=1923&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F174824081&rft.aulast=Corbett&rft.aufirst=Julian+Stafford&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFriedman" class="citation book cs1">Friedman, Norman (2011). <i>Naval Weapons of World War One: Guns, Torpedoes, Mines and ASW Weapons of All Nations; An Illustrated Directory</i>. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. <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%3A+Guns%2C+Torpedoes%2C+Mines+and+ASW+Weapons+of+All+Nations%3B+An+Illustrated+Directory&rft.place=Annapolis&rft.pub=Naval+Institute+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-1-84832-100-7&rft.aulast=Friedman&rft.aufirst=Norman&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJellicoe" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Jellicoe,_1st_Earl_Jellicoe" title="John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe">Jellicoe, John</a> (1919). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/grandfleet19141900jell"><i>The Grand Fleet, 1914–1916: Its Creation, Development, and Work</i></a>. New York: George H. Doran Company. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/162593478">162593478</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Grand+Fleet%2C+1914%E2%80%931916%3A+Its+Creation%2C+Development%2C+and+Work&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=George+H.+Doran+Company&rft.date=1919&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F162593478&rft.aulast=Jellicoe&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgrandfleet19141900jell&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLyon_&_Roberts" class="citation book cs1">Lyon, David & Roberts, John (1979). "Great Britain and Empire Forces". In Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M. (eds.). <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: Conway Maritime Press. pp. 1–113. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-85177-133-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-85177-133-5"><bdi>978-0-85177-133-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Great+Britain+and+Empire+Forces&rft.btitle=Conway%27s+All+the+World%27s+Fighting+Ships+1860%E2%80%931905&rft.place=Greenwich&rft.pages=1-113&rft.pub=Conway+Maritime+Press&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=978-0-85177-133-5&rft.aulast=Lyon&rft.aufirst=David&rft.au=Roberts%2C+John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fconwaysallworlds0000unse_l2e2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPreston" class="citation book cs1">Preston, Antony (1985). "Great Britain and Empire Forces". In Gardiner, Robert & Gray, Randal (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/conwaysallworlds0000unse_z3o0"><i>Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921</i></a>. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. pp. 1–104. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87021-907-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87021-907-8"><bdi>978-0-87021-907-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Great+Britain+and+Empire+Forces&rft.btitle=Conway%27s+All+the+World%27s+Fighting+Ships+1906%E2%80%931921&rft.place=Annapolis&rft.pages=1-104&rft.pub=Naval+Institute+Press&rft.date=1985&rft.isbn=978-0-87021-907-8&rft.aulast=Preston&rft.aufirst=Antony&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fconwaysallworlds0000unse_z3o0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREF"The_Tercentenary_Celebrations"" class="citation journal cs1">"The Tercentenary Celebrations". <i>The Canada Gazette</i>. London: Charles Hunt: 445. 1908. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/47522100">47522100</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Canada+Gazette&rft.atitle=The+Tercentenary+Celebrations&rft.pages=445&rft.date=1908&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F47522100&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Duncan-class_battleship&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further reading"><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="CITEREFColledgeWarlow2006" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/J._J._Colledge" title="J. J. Colledge">Colledge, J. J.</a>; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. <i><a href="/wiki/Ships_of_the_Royal_Navy" title="Ships of the Royal Navy">Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy</a></i> (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-86176-281-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-86176-281-8"><bdi>978-1-86176-281-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Ships+of+the+Royal+Navy%3A+The+Complete+Record+of+all+Fighting+Ships+of+the+Royal+Navy&rft.place=London&rft.edition=Rev.&rft.pub=Chatham+Publishing&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-1-86176-281-8&rft.aulast=Colledge&rft.aufirst=J.+J.&rft.au=Warlow%2C+Ben&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDittmarColledge1972" class="citation book cs1">Dittmar, F. J. & Colledge, J. J. (1972). <i>British Warships 1914–1919</i>. London: Ian Allan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7110-0380-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7110-0380-4"><bdi>978-0-7110-0380-4</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+Warships+1914%E2%80%931919&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Ian+Allan&rft.date=1972&rft.isbn=978-0-7110-0380-4&rft.aulast=Dittmar&rft.aufirst=F.+J.&rft.au=Colledge%2C+J.+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGibbons1983" class="citation book cs1">Gibbons, Tony (1983). <i>The Complete Encyclopedia of Battleships and Battlecruisers: A Technical Directory of All the World's Capital Ships From 1860 to the Present Day</i>. London: Salamander Books Ltd. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-86101-142-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-86101-142-1"><bdi>978-0-86101-142-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Complete+Encyclopedia+of+Battleships+and+Battlecruisers%3A+A+Technical+Directory+of+All+the+World%27s+Capital+Ships+From+1860+to+the+Present+Day&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Salamander+Books+Ltd.&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=978-0-86101-142-1&rft.aulast=Gibbons&rft.aufirst=Tony&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-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) [1957]. <i>British Battleships</i>. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-55750-075-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-55750-075-5"><bdi>978-1-55750-075-5</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&rft.pub=Naval+Institute+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=978-1-55750-075-5&rft.aulast=Parkes&rft.aufirst=Oscar&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPears1979" class="citation book cs1">Pears, Randolph (1979). <i>British Battleships 1892–1957: The Great Days of the Fleets</i>. London: G. Cave Associates. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-906223-14-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-906223-14-7"><bdi>978-0-906223-14-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=British+Battleships+1892%E2%80%931957%3A+The+Great+Days+of+the+Fleets&rft.place=London&rft.pub=G.+Cave+Associates&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=978-0-906223-14-7&rft.aulast=Pears&rft.aufirst=Randolph&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADuncan-class+battleship" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Duncan-class_battleship&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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href="/wiki/HMS_Cornwallis_(1901)" title="HMS Cornwallis (1901)"><i>Cornwallis</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Duncan_(1901)" title="HMS Duncan (1901)"><i>Duncan</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Exmouth_(1901)" title="HMS Exmouth (1901)"><i>Exmouth</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Montagu_(1901)" title="HMS Montagu (1901)"><i>Montagu</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HMS_Russell_(1901)" title="HMS Russell (1901)"><i>Russell</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Preceded by: <a href="/wiki/London-class_battleship" title="London-class battleship"><i>London</i> class</a></li> <li>Followed by: <a href="/wiki/King_Edward_VII-class_battleship" title="King Edward VII-class battleship"><i>King Edward VII</i> class</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><div> <ul><li><a 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title="Seaplane 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 class="mw-selflink selflink"><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 href="/wiki/Swiftsure-class_battleship" title="Swiftsure-class battleship"><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" 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