HMS Temeraire (1907)
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| Name: | HMS Temeraire |
| Ordered: | 1906 |
| Builder: | Devonport Dockyard |
| Laid down: | 1 January 1907 |
| Launched: | 24 August 1907 |
| Commissioned: | 1 May 1909 |
| Decommissioned: | 1921 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 7 December 1921 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bellerophon-class battleship |
| Displacement: | 18,800 long tons (19,100 t) (normal); 24,619 shp (18,358 kW) (full load) |
| Length: | 527 ft (161 m) |
| Beam: | 82 ft 5 in (25.12 m) |
| Draught: | 27 ft 8 in (8.43 m) |
| Installed power: | 24,619 shp (18,358 kW) (trials); 23,000 shp (17,000 kW) (service) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × Parsons steam turbines 18 × Yarrow boilers 4 × shafts |
| Speed: | 21 kn (24 mph; 39 km/h) (trials); 20.75 kn (23.88 mph; 38.43 km/h) (service) |
| Range: | 5,600 nmi (6,400 mi; 10,400 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) (coal only) |
| Capacity: | Coal: 900 tons (normal), 2,648 tons (maximum); Fuel Oil: 842 tons; "Patent Fuel": 170 tons |
| Complement: | 733 |
| Armament: | 10 × BL 12 in (300 mm)/45 cal Mk X guns 11 × BL 4 in (100 mm) Mk VII guns 2 × 4 in (100 mm) AA guns 2 × 3 in (76 mm) AA guns 4 × 3-pounder (47 mm (1.9 in)) guns 2 × submerged 18 in (460 mm) torpedo tubes |
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HMS Temeraire was a Bellerophon-class battleship in the Royal Navy built at the Royal Dockyard, Devonport.
She was ordered under the 1906 Naval Estimates at the cost of £1,641,114. Although not externally much different from predecessor Dreadnought, internally she and others of the Bellerophon-class were much improved, with better sub-division of bulkheads against torpedo attack. A heavier secondary armament was believed to be capable of fighting off torpedo boat attacks.
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[edit] World War I
For the majority of the war, Temeraire was a member of the 4th Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet. On a sweep of the North Sea on 18 March 1915, she unsuccessfully attempted to ram U-29 which had just attacked Neptune. During the summer of that year, she refitted at HM Dockyard, Devonport.
At the Battle of Jutland, Temeraire, under the command of Captain E.V. Underhill, fired 54 12 in (300 mm) shells and received no damage. In October 1918, she was detached to the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron under the overall command of Vice Admiral Gough-Calthrope.
[edit] Post war
With the end of hostilities, Temeraire was converted to a cadet training ship (seagoing). With the other members of her class, she was regarded as obsolete and was decommissioned and sold for scrap in 1921.
[edit] References
- Taylor, Michael J.H. (1990). Jane's Fighting Ships of World War I. Studio. ISBN 1-85170-378-0.
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